Witold Pedrycz

Fuzzy modeling: fundamentals, design and challenges

Witold Pedrycz-Deparment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

Fuzzy modeling and fuzzy models have emerged as a novel paradigm firmly dwelled on the principles of computing with information granules– fuzzy sets.

Over the past decades we have witnessed a truly remarkable progress in this area. We have arrived at a wealth of fuzzy models, their design patterns, and ensuing applications. The objective of this tutorial is to offer the audience a comprehensive  exposure of the  fundamentals, methodology and design practices of fuzzy modeling. We discuss motivating factors behind fuzzy models, bring forward the underlying algorithmic setup and offeer a critical assessment of existing development methods by clearly identifying their advantages and possible limitations. The tutorial is selfcontained. As far as prerequisites are concerned, it is anticipated that the audience is familiar with the essentials of fuzzy sets.

Biography

Witold Pedrycz received the M.Sc. And Ph.D.D.Sci. All from the Silesian  University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. He is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University fo Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. His research interest encompasses a broad spectrum of Computational Intelligence, fuzzy controllers, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural netwoks, granular and relational computing, and Software Engineering. He has published numerous papers in these areas. He is also an autor of 12 research monographs. Witold Pedrycz has been a member of numerous program committees of IEEE conferences in this area of cybernetics, fuzzy sets and neurocomputing. He is a General Co-Chair of IEEE SMC 2009 hold in San Antonio, TX in  October 2009.

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sistems Man and Cybernetics-part A, Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Dr. Pedrycz is a recipient of the prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Society of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics and an IEEE Canada Silver Medal in Computer Engineering.

Hector Garcia-Molina

Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Stanford University

Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California.  He was the chairman of the Computer Science Department from January 2001 to December 2004.  From 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).  From August 1994 to December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford.  From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

His research interests include distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems.  He received a BS in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, México, in 1974.  From Stanford University, Stanford, California, he received in 1975 a MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science in 1979.

He holds an honorary PhD from ETH Zurich (2007). Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award; is a Venture Advisor for Onset Ventures, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle.

In 1995 he worked with Sergey Brin (Google Co-Founder) on a project called "COpyright Protection System" or COPS, as part of Stanford University's Computer Science  Department.

In 2007 García-Molina received an honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich for his outstanding work in computer science.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/people/hector.html

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Claudia Manfredi, Italy

Claudia Manfredi is with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Engineering, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy, where she has been working in the field of control systems and identification, linear and non linear system analysis. More recently, research activity concerns voice analysis under a biomedical perspective. Robust adaptive techniques for tracking signal and image parameters, in presence of abrupt changes and high noise levels are investigated, for voice modelling, classification and rehabilitation. Applications are relative to newborn infant cries, adult voices and singing voice.

Dr. Manfredi is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE), the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA), the Italian Biomedical Engineering Group (GNB), and the Editorial Board of Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal (Elsevier Ltd.). She organizes the series of International Workshops on Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications (MAVEBA), Firenze, Italy and will act as local chair for the Interspeech Conference, Firenze, Italy, 2011.

http://asp.det.unifi.it/md/index.php?module=subjects&func= viewpage&pageid=9

De-Shuang Huang

De-Shuang Huang was born on 11 January 1964. He received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees all in electronic engineering from the Institute of Electronic Engineering, Hefei, China, National Defense University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China (Advisor: Prof. Dejun Zhu) and Xidian University, Xian, China (Advisor: Prof. Zheng Bao, Academician), in 1986,1989 and 1993, respectively. During July 1993-July 1995, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China (Advisor: Prof. Erke Mao, Academician).

During July 1995-July 1997, He was a postdoctoral research fellow in National Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Advisor: Prof. Songde Ma). From August 1997 to March 2000, he worked in Beijing Institute of System Engineering, Beijing, China. In September 2000, he entered into Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM)/CAS as the Recipient of “Hundred Talents Program of CAS”. From August 21-Sepetember 21, 2003, he visited the George Washington University as visiting professor, Washington DC, USA；From April 20-July 20, 2006, he visited the Queen’s University of Belfast, as visiting professor, UK, and during the period, he also visited Heriot-Watt University , UK and the University of Birmingham, UK; From March 4-11, 2007, he visited the University of Ulsan, Korea; From October 26-November 26, 2007, he visited the Inha University, as visiting professor, Korea.

At present, he is the head of Intelligent Computing Lab/IIM/CAS, Professor and PhD Advisor in the University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei) , and Professor of Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

http://www.intelengine.cn/English/people/hds.htm

Raúl Monroy

Computer Science Department

Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Estado de México

Raúl Monroy obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 1998 from Edinburgh University, under the supervision of Prof. Alan Bundy. He has been in Computing at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Campus Estado de México, since 1985. In 1992 he was promoted to Assistant Professor and in 2000 he was promoted to Associate Professor. Since 1998 he is a member of the CONACYT-SNI National Research System, level II. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visitor to both the University of Edinburgh and the DFKI, Saarbrücken, on his sabbatical leave.

Dr. Monroy's research focuses on automating the application of theorem proving to formal methods of system development. He is also interested in issues of computer security. Currently, his research concerns: the discovery an application of general search control strategies for uncovering and correcting errors in either a system or its specification; the discovery of novel methods for anomaly detection in computer security; and motion planning.

Dr. Monroy has held 6 research grants from several funding agencies, including CONACYT (holder), the national research council,  BMBF (co-holder), DAAD, (co-holder), FRIDA (holder) and CONACyT-REDII (co-holder) and is the sole or joint author of over 30 published papers. He is programme co-chair for MICAI-2004, MICAI-2005  and MICAI-2009, and serves on the programme committee of various AI conferences. He has been Vice Presidente to the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence since 2008.

Boris Stilman

Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Denver, USA

Chairman & CEO, STILMAN Advanced Strategies, USA

Artificial Intelligence (AI):
General: Search, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, Games, Strategies, Concurrent Systems,Multiagent Systems, Accuracy and Complexity of AI Algorithms, Planning.
Specific: Linguistic Geometry (LG); Applications of LG to Defense Systems, Robotics, Scheduling, Manufacturing, Network Security, Computer Games.
Software Engineering:
Software Development Environments, Teamwork Support, Software Maintenance, Software Testing, High Assurance Systems, Software Re-engineering.
Formal Languages and Compilers:
Attribute Languages and Grammars, Controlled Grammars with applications to LG, Grammars' Accuracy and Efficiency, Integrated Language and CASE Environments.

http://www.stilman-strategies.com/bstilman/boris_papers/RESUME.pdf