Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ab23687; 22 Sep 94 21:54:34 EDT Received: from mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at by GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07860; 22 Sep 94 21:54:00 EDT Received: from (localhost.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [127.0.0.1]) by mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA01351 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 1994 03:53:44 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 03:53:44 +0200 From: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Message-Id: <199409230153.DAA01351@mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Errors-To: fuzzy-owner@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Reply-To: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Sender: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at To: mark.kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: GET LISTPROC WHOISWHOINFUZZY (1/1) [1/2] X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Boston University ListProcessor Archive LISTPROC, file whoiswhoinfuzzy. Part 1/1 (subpart 1/2), total size 120000 bytes: ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ "Who is Who in Fuzzy": this file can be obtained by sending a message to listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at with a body consisting of nothing but the command GET LISTPROC WHOISWHOINFUZZY or by retrieving it from here: ftp://mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/pub/mlowner/whoiswhoinfuzzy All updates and changes should be mailed, preferably in the format of other entries of this file, to the administrator of this file, Robert Fuller, e-mail: rfuller@finabo.abo.fi Last update: 940915 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Researchers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig Department for Medical Computer Sciences Medical School University of Vienna Waehringer Guertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Europe phone: +43-1-408 66 99/3 fax: +43-1-405 29 88 e-mail: kpa@AKH-Wien.ac.at is interested in: - fuzzy set theory in medicine - fuzzy control in medicine - objective determination of fuzzy sets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Juan Antonio Aguilar-Crespo Instituto de Ingeniera del Conocimiento Mdulo C-XVI, 4$ Planta, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Autnoma de Madrid Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain Phone +34 1 397 85 05, Fax +34 1 397 3972 E-mail: aguilar@emdcci11.bitnet, is interested in - Fuzzy logic applications in industrial plants, - Sensor fusion and validation by means of fuzzy logic techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Nesar Ahmad Dept of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016 E-mail: nahmad@ nahmad@ee.iitd.ernet.in Areas of Research Interest: - Self Organizing Fuzzy Control for Industrial Plants. - Fuzzy Qualitative Simulation for fault Daignosis. Remarks: Ph.D thesis title : "Real-Time Intelligent Distributed Control Systems" Employment: Working as Senior Scientific Officer -I (Equiv. to the rank of Assistant Professor) Future Plan: Looking for PDF position in the area of Real-Time Intelligent Control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marie N. Aimar Medical Computer Laboratory Dep. Inf. Med. (DIM) Universite de Bordeaux II 146 rue Leo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux Cedex phone : (+33) 57 - 57 - 17 - 59 fax : 56 - 99 - 13 - 60 e-mail : aimar@hippocrate.u-bordeaux2.fr Interests: - Comparison of conditional probabilities theory (Bayesian system), utility theory, social choice theory(Arrow) and fuzzy expert systems in Decision Making - Possibility theory, - Uncertainty in medical decision making, - Representation of fuzzy knowledge in medecine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rick Alan TRW Safety Systems 4051 North Higley Road Mesa, AZ 85205 Phone: (602) 396-1268 FAX: (602) 396-2108 e-mail: 70324.1625@compuserve.com is interested in: - Fuzzy Scheduling - Natural language - Philosophical issues ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Seyamack Amin Advanced Technology, IS&T, UHC MR# 6130, P.O.Box 1459 Minneapolis, MN 55440 E.Mail: sma@uhc.com Phone: 612-945-6542 Fax: 612-945-6502 Interests: o Fuzzy scheduling, reactive scheduling o Self-organizing control, rule learning in fuzzy environments o Fuzzy multi-criteria decision making o Neuro-fuzzy models ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Aminzadeh Unocal Science and Technology 5460 E. La Palma Anaheim Hills, CA 92817 USA Phone 714 693-6990 fax 714 693-5824 e-mail fred.aminzadeh@st.unocal.com - Fuzzy expert systems - Applications of fuzzy systems in the oil industry - Signal processing applications of fuzzy logic - Fuzzy clustering ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Bilal M. Ayyub Department of Civil Engineering University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA 301-405-1956 Tel 301-314-9320 Fax ba15@umail.umd.edu Interests: - Fuzzy control, safety, reliability, structures, construction, - civil engineering applications, - uncertainty modeling and analysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Babuska Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering Control Laboratory, Mekelweg 4, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31 15 786213 Fax: +31 15 626738 E-mail: r.babuska@et.tudelft.nl Interests: - Fuzzy control and fuzzy modeling - Neuro-fuzzy systems - Implementation aspects and fuzzy software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vivek V. Badami General Electric R&D Center KWD 208, P.O.Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301 USA phone: (518) 387-5392 FAX: (518) 377-3031 e-mail: badami@crd.ge.com is interested in: - Fuzzy logic for control - Neuro-fuzzy systems for control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Florinel Balteanu University of Pitesti, Electronics Department, Vasile Milea Sq. 0300 Pitesti, Romania Phone: +40 97 612610 ext. 221 Fax: +40 97 622289 Interests: - analog fuzzy logic hardware - fuzzy systems in nuclear engineering - application of fuzzy logic for fault-tolerant computing Remark: The actual address for correspondence is: Stanford University, CA 94305-4055 Phone: (415)723-3801 Fax: (415)725-7398 E-mail: balt@shasta.stanford.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jorge Muniz BARRETO Laboratory of Neurophysiology Faculty of Medicine Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) Av. Hippocrate 54 1200 Brussels BELGIUM Tel: 32.2.764.55.47 E-MAIL: jbarreto@nefy.ucl.ac.be Background: Electronic engineer, Rio de janeiro, (1960), M.Sc., Paris, (1964), D.Sc., Brussels, (1970). Interests: - fuzzy control applications - neural fuzzy control - fuzzy and neural network reasoning techniques in expert systems Biologically inspired solutions for the topics mentioned above. Note: interested in fuzzy concepts and applications since 1971. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Bastian LIFE (Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research) Siber Hegner Bldg. 4.Fl. 89-1 Yamashita-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, 231 Japan email: bastian@fuzzy.or.jp Interests: - Fuzzy modeling, - Fuzzy control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Josef Benedikt currently at Department of Environmental Planning, Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, A-2444 Seibersdorf, Austria phone: ++43-2254-80-2163 fax: ++43-2254-80-2118 e-mail: benedikt@zdvaxa.una.ac.at I am interested in - fuzzy pattern recognition, - FST and approximate reasoning techniques in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing, - environmental modelling under imprecision. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- De Baets Bernard, Research Assistant N.F.S.R. (Belgium) University of Gent Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Krijgslaan 281 (S9) 9000 Gent BELGIUM Phone : ++32-9-2644908 Fax : ++32-9-2644995 E-mail: Bernard.DeBaets@rug.ac.be Is interested in : - Fuzzy relational calculus (compositions, images, fuzzy relational equations,...) - Lattice-theoretic aspects of fuzzy set theory (L-fuzzy sets, ...) - Approximate reasoning techniques - Possibility theory and its applications - Development of "fuzzy" software - Fuzzy mathematical morphology ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elisabetta Binaghi IFCTR- National Research Council Milan Via Ampere 56, 20131 Milano Italy phone: 39-2-7064-3287, fax: 39-2-2663030, e-mail: betty@siamrsc1.siam.mi.cnr.it is interested in - Using fuzzy reasoning techniques for multisource data classification, - Neuro-fuzzy techniques for expert systems - Application areas: Remote Sensing, Medical Diagnosis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrea Bonarini Politecnico di Milano Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy, Phone +39 2 2399 3525, Fax +39 2 2399 3587 E-mail: bonarini@ipmel2.elet.polimi.it, is interested in - automatic learning of fuzzy rulebases by using evolutionary approaches (Genetic Algorithms, ...) (main application: mobile robots) - integration of fuzzy and traditional control systems (application: robotics) - fuzzy simulation (application: industrial plants, robotics) - uncertainty management (application: multi-model based diagnosis of industrial plants, car driver modeling, DSS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick BOSC IRISA/ENSSAT, 6 rue de Kerampont, BP 447, 22305 Lannion Cedex, France, is interested in - fuzzyness, imprecision and uncertainty in database systems, - flexible querying using fuzzy predicates, weakening mechanisms, ... - fuzzy aggregation operators, - fuzzy constraints in databases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hans-Heinrich Bothe Technical University Berlin Department of Electronics (EN3) Einsteinufer 17 D-10587 Berlin 10, Germany Phone: +49 (30) 314-23950 Fax: +49 (30) 314-22120 Email: hans@ife-lipps.ee.tu-berlin.de is interested in - neuro-fuzzy-genetic methods in pattern recognition, modeling and control Remarks: Our R&D-group consists of engineers, linguists and pedagogs. We model Visual Speech (i.e. visual articulation movements) in order to implement a computer animation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David I. Brubaker Huntington Advanced Technology 883 Santa Cruz Avenue - Suite 31 Menlo Park, CA 94025-4608 USA Phone: 415-325-7554, Fax: 415-325-9085 E-mail: brubaker@cup.portal.com is interested in - Fuzzy Engineering - applying fuzzy techniques to engineering solutions - Fuzzy control - Adaptive fuzzy systems - Automated and semi-automated design of fuzzy systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Foong Sew Bun Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge Singapore 0511. REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE. phone: +65-772-6590 fax: +65-778-2571 e-mail: sbfoong@iss.nus.sg Research interests in fuzzy: -- knowledge representation -- concept formation -- fuzzy control and scheduling -- fuzzy-neuro-genetic approach in soft computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rita De Caluwe Computer Science Laboratory, University of Ghent, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 9, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium, tel: +32/9/264.55.08 fax: +32/9/264.58.42 e-mail: rdc@egidius.rug.ac.be is interested in - fuzzy databases / fuzzy database modelling, - fuzzy information retrieval, - fuzzy data modelling (fuzzy hedges / modifiers, quantifiers and qualifiers), - fuzzy algorithms, - implementation aspects / fuzzy software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis M. de Campos Department of Computer Science and A.I. Universidad de Granada 18071-Granada, Spain Phone: +34.58.243199 Fax: +34.58.243317 e-mails: lci@robinson.ugr.es, lmcampos@ugr.es is interested in - Inference and learning of fuzzy rules - Fuzzy measures and integrals - Representation and use of uncertain knowledge (upper and lower probabilities, Depmster/Shafer, possibility, probability theories...) - Belief networks (learning, inference, propagation,...) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bart CAPPELLE Dept of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ghent Krijgslaan 281-S9 B-9000 Gent Belgium Tel: +32/9.264 56 47 Fax: +32/9 264 58 41 e-mail: BMC@AUTOCTRL.RUG.AC.BE I am interested in: - Fuzzy structural reliability theory - Possibility theory and its applications - L-fuzzy sets - Intelligent fuzzy reduction methods ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Christer Carlsson Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research Abo Akademi University DataCity A 3210 20520 Abo, Finland Phone +358-21-654 196 Fax +358-21-654 809 E-mail: ccarlsson@finabo.abo.fi - fuzzy multiple criteria decision making/optimization - fuzzy deciosion analysis - approximate reasoning - expert systems and fuzzy logic - fuzzy systems theory - fuzzy sets applications in management Active in fuzzy sets since 1974; founding member of IFSA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glauco A. de Paula Caurin Institut of Robotics Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule ETH Zuerich Leonhardstr. 27, 8092 - Zuerich, Switzerland Phone +41 1 256 25 29 Fax +41 1 252 02 76 E-mail: caurin@ifr.ethz.ch Interests: - Fuzzy decision making and Fuzzy control for legged robot-vehicles - Neuro-Fuzzy Control and applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Cheung Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, London, SW7 2BT. email: p.cheung@ic.ac.uk tel: +44-71-589-5111 x 5226 fax: +44-71-823-8125 Interests: - fuzzy reasoning for electronic designs - fuzzy logic for hand-writing recognition - fuzzy logic hardware architecture - learning in fuzzy logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Chiu Rockwell International Science Center 1049 Camino Dos Rios Thousand Oaks, California 91360, USA Phone: 805-373-4408 FAX: 805-373-4383 E-mail: slc@risc.rockwell.com Interests: - fuzzy control, - self-organizing control, rule learning, - fuzzy scheduling, - fuzzy development software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chao-Hsien Chu, Ph.D. Department of Management College of Business Iowa State University 300 Carver Hall Ames, Iowa 50011, USA phone: (515) 294-9693 fax: (515) 294-6060 e-mails: chu_c@iastate.edu is interested in - fuzzy mathematical programming / fuzzy modeling - fuzzy clustering - fuzzy ranking - neuro-fuzzy models for business/manufacturing applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fu-lai Chung Dept. of Electronic Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong. Office (852)-7887706 e-mail flchung@ee.cuhk.hk Areas of Interest : - fuzzy neural networks, - fuzzy learning, - fuzzy relational equations, - approximate reasoning, - fuzzification and defuzzification techniques, - fuzzy control, - fuzzy pattern recognition. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Krzysztof J. Cios Department of Electrical Engineering University of Toledo, Toledo, OH43606-3390, USA phone (419) 537-2450 fax (419) 537-2915 email fac1765@uoft01.utoledo.edu has interests in: - dynamic fuzzy neural networks - applications of neuro-fuzzy methods in cardiology - fuzzy pattern recognition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. James B. Comly Artificial Intelligence Laboratory General Electric Corporate Research & Development P.O. Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301 phone: (518)387-5920 fax: (518)387-6845 e-mail: comlyjb@crd.ge.com is interested in - Industrial applications of Fuzzy Logic - Fuzzy control - Combined neural nets and fuzzy logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Costas A. DROSSOS Associate Professor Head of the Division of Pedagogy History and Philosophy of Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of Patras GR 261 10, Patras, GREECE Phone: (+30.61) 997-387 Fax : (+30.61) 992-965 e-mail: cdrossos@math.upatras.gr Main Interests: - Mathematical Foundations of Fuzzy Sets with emphasis on nonstandard, non-Cantorian mathods - Boolean-valued and Probability Logic - Fuzzy Probability and Statistics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Antonio Calvo Cuenca Departamento de Matematicas Escuela Universitaria Politecnica Avda. Menendez Pidal s/n Cordoba 14004, Spain phone 34 57 218350 fax 34 57 218416, 34 57 218316 e-mail acalvo@sun630.uco.es My interest related to fuzzy techniques are: - artificial vision - fuzzy control, - robotics. My experience: - scene analysis - artificial vision - control of mobile robots, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Manuel Marques Custodio Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica Instituto Superior Tecnico Technical University of Lisbon Av, Rovisco Pais 1 1096 Lisboa Codex Portugal Phone +351-1-3524309 Fax +351-1-3523014 E-mail: lmmc@kappa.ist.utl.pt Areas of interest: - fuzzy control applications - fuzzy identification of dynamical systems fuzzy scheduling CIM: production planning and scheduling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Dalton M/S 4-1319 Vitro Corporation 14000 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20906-2972 tel: (301) 231-1004 fax: (301) 231-2020 e-m: Dalton@at-mail-server.vitro.com - Fuzzy rulebases (esp. w/chaining); - Fuzzy diagnosis (w/ equivalence and similarity measures); - Fuzzy object recognition (w/ possibilistic supports). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Walter C. Daugherity Center for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Research Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 Tel: (409)845-1308 Fax: (409)847-8578 E-mail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Areas of interest: - Fuzzy theory - Fuzzy control - Self learning, self training, self tuning - Neural networks - Neuro-fuzzy sytems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Diamond Mathematics Department University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA e-mail: pmd@maths.uq.oz.au Interests: * Computer representations of complicated dynamics * Dynamical Systems * Dynamics of numerical schemes * Fuzzy Control (Controllability; Stability; Observability) * Fuzzy Relational Equations * Fuzzy Optimization * t-norm saddle points and Optimization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Vladimir Dimov Dimitrov Centre for Social Ecology University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Richmond 2753, Australia Phone: (6145) 701903 Fax: (6145) 701901 Email: v.dimitrov@uws.edu.au Interests: - Fuzzy Decision Support Systems, with applications to consensus building processes (negotiation, mediation,facilitation) in public participation practice, - Fuzzy Chaos, Fuzzy Catastrophes and Fuzzy Complexity, with applications to socio-ecological problems of human survival, - Fuzzy Self-Organization, - Fuzzy Logic in balancing the Rational and the Irrational (exoteric and esoteric) in human evolution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jozsef Dombi Research Group on the Theory of Automata, Hungarian Academy of Science, H-6720 Szeged Aradi V. t. 1., phone: 36-62-311622, fax: 36-62-312508, email: h159dom@ella.hu is interested in - Operations on fuzzysets, (axiomatic approach, conjunctive- disjunctive operators, t-norm, t-conorm, implications; relations between the operators). - Modeling multicriteria decision making; utility theory, problem of weighting, preference relations, aggregation and weighted average, - Membership function - Linguistic hedges - Using neuron networks - Fuzzy regression procedures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Didier Dubois Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Universite Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France Phone: +33 61 55 63 31 Fax: +33 61 55 62 39 E-mail: dubois@irit.irit.fr Areas of interest: - Fuzzy set connectives - Fuzzy sets and probabilities - Possibility theory - Fuzzy numbers - Approximate, non-monotonic, interpolative, qualitative analogical reasoning - Applications to expert systems, decision-support systems, databases, operations research (scheduling) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrik Eklund Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, Lemminkainengatan 14, SF-20520 Abo, Finland, phone: 358-21-654684, fax: 358-21-654732, e-mail: peklund@finabo.abo.fi is interested in - Neural fuzzy systems - Fuzzy logic programming - Fuzzy clustering - Process control - Medical diagnostic - Foundations of fuzzy sets - Fuzzy convergence ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Eppler Research Centre for Computer Science, FZI, Haid- und Neustr.10-14, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany, phone: +49-721-9654-449, fax: +49-721-9654-459, e-mail: eppler@fzi.de is interested in - neural fuzzy control - fuzzy control applications - model-based neural controllers - representation of (fuzzy) symbols in neural networks Remarks: Working in this domain since 1989 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sima Etaner Istanbul Technical University Electrical and Electronics Faculty Control and Computer Engineering Department 80626 Maslak Istanbul, TURKEY Phone : (90) (1) 276 64 71 Fax : (90) (1) 276 36 79 E-mail : BBETANER AT TRITU.BITNET Topics of interest : - Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic - Fuzzy Logic and its applications - Fuzzy control and its applications - Fuzzy neural networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Eytan Lab Info, Log & Lang Dpt Info, U Strasbourg II 22 rue Descartes 67084 Strasbourg FR Vox: +33 88 41 74 29 Fax: +33 88 41 74 40 E-Mail: eytan@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr Areas of interest: - Theoretical basis (relationship to categorical logic and topoi) - Fuzzy Control (bed-side pancreas: insulin-injection decision support) - Neuro-fuzzy Networks (bed-side pancreas: insulin-injection decision support) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cesare Fantuzzi Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica (DEIS), (Dept. Electronics, Computer Science and Systems.) University of Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento, 2 I-40136 Bologna, Italy, Phone +39 51 644 30 68 Fax +39 51 644 30 73 E-mail fantuzzi@deis58.cineca.it, is interested in - fuzzy logic control synnthesis based on sliding mode approach - supervision of non-fuzzy controller by means of fuzzy logic - linguistic rule analysis and synthesis of fuzzy dynamic models ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Madjid Fathi Department of Computer Science 1 University of Dortmund Otto-Hahn-Str. 16 D-44221 Dortmund, Germany phone: +49-231-755-6372 fax: +49-231-755-6555 e-mail: fathi@ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de is interested in - Fuzzy Expert Systems - Applications in Fuzzy Logic (especially for Medical and Technical Diagnostic) - Knowledge Acquisition - Knowledge Representation - Knowledge Modeling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Fedrizzi Dept. of Computer and Management Science University of Trento via Inama 1 38100 TRENTO ITALY Phone: +39 (461) 88-2239 Fax: +39 (461) 88-2124 E-mail: fedrizzi@cs.unitn.it Areas of interest: - GDSS - Approximate Reasoning - Fuzzy MCDM Problems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barry Flachsbart McDonnell Douglas Aerospace - East P. O. Box 516 St. Louis, MO 63166 USA Phone: (314) 232-5569 E-mail: flachsbart@mdcgwy.mdc.com Alternate E-mail: c0568@umrvmb.umr.edu Fuzzy logic interests: - classification systems - applications in manufacturing - diagnostics - scheduling - control (e.g., of aircraft) Background: - B.S.A.E., St. Louis U., 1960 - M.S.A.E., Stanford U., 1961 - Ph.D., Aero/Astro Sciences (minor: Math/Comp.Sci.), Stanford U.,1966 - Engineering applications, then directed AI research dept. at MDC - Adjunct Prof., Computer Science, U. of Missouri-Rolla - Affiliate Prof., Mechanical Engineering, Washington U. (St. Louis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ziny Flikop NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc. 500 Westchester Ave. White Plains, NY, USA. Phone: +001-914-644-2733 Fax: +001-914-644-2301 E-mail: ziny@nynexst.com is interested in: - fuzzy control in the high speed data telecommunication networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Janos C.Fodor Department of Computer Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Muzeum krt. 6-8 H-1088 Budapest, Hungary phone: 36-1-2669833 ext 2668 fax: 36-1-2664166 e-mail: jfodor@cs.elte.hu is active in - operations on fuzzy sets, (basic theoretical questions of t-norms, weak t-norms and fuzzy implications) - fuzzy relations, (axiomatic approach to fuzzy preference modeling; different kinds of orders; traces of fuzzy binary relations) - using fuzzy preference modeling in multicriteria decision making problems, (aggregation of preferences, comparison of pre- and post-choice methods; ranking by scoring; consensus via aggregation of decomposable measures) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pascale Fonck Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of Liege Institute of Mathematics 15, avenue des tilleuls B-4000 Liege, Belgium phone: 041-669424 fax: 041-669547 e-mail: fonck@math.ulg.ac.be is active in: - possibility theory - belief networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Fuller Department of Computer Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Muzeum krt. 6-8 H-1088 Budapest, Hungary phone: 36-1-266-9833 ext 2668 fax: 36-1-266-4166 or 2667396, e-mails: rfuller@finabo.abo.fi, rfuller@cs.elte.hu, fuller@cs.unitn.it is interested in - Approximate reasoning for decision making, - (Group) Decision support systems in fuzzy environment - Linear and nonlinear systems with fuzzy parameters, - t-norm-based-operations on fuzzy sets, - Fuzzy control, - Neuro-fuzzy techniques in medical diagnostics, - Fuzzy sets in management sciences. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Diego Gachet Dpto. Automatica EScuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Spain Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2 28002 Madrid Spain e-mail: gachet@disam.upm.es Areas of interest: - Application of fuzzy systems in Control and Autonomous Robotic Systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Maria C. Garcia-Alegre Instituto de Automatica Industrial CSIC N-III. Km.22.8 La Poveda. Arganda. 28500 Madrid Spain Phone: 34 1 871 1900/04 Fax: 34 1 871 7050 e-mail: maria@iai.es Areas of interest: Robotic and Manufacturing, Architectures for Intelligent Control, Learning, Fuzzy Logic based Control Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Isak Gath Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000 Israel e-mail : ISAK@TECHMAX.TECHNION.AC.IL Areas of interest : - Fuzzy clustering, - applications to pattern recognition, - image processing, and biomedical signal processing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnd Gehrmann Lehrstuhl fuer Informatik II Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) Ahornstr. 55 W-5100 Aachen D-52056 Aachen RWTH (from 1st of July 93) Tel: (+49/0) 241 80 21205 Fax: (+49/0) 241 80 21229 email: arnd@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Interests: - Pattern recognition, - Image processing, - Information retrieval, - Neural nets. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Harald Genther Darmstadt University of Technology Karlstrasse 15 64283 Darmstadt Germany Phone: (+49)6151/16-4337 Fax: (+49)6151/16-4936 E-mail: haraldg@microelectronic.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de Areas of interest: - pattern recognition based on fuzzy techniques, - fuzzy clustering, - applications to pattern recognition, - data analysis using fuzzy logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Silvio Giove Department of Informatics University of Trento via Inama 5 I-38100 Trento, Italy phone 39-461-882142 fax 39-461-882124 e-mail giove@cs.unitn.it Interest - Fuzzy control - Biomedical, financial and economical applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio Gonzalez Dpto. Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial Universidad de Granada 18071-Granada (Spain) Phone: +34.58.243199, Fax: +34.58.243317 email: agonzalez@ugr.es, gonzalez@robinson.ugr.es Areas of research: - Automatic learning in a fuzzy environment, - Approximate reasoning, - Uncertainty management, - Fuzzy control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Grabisch Central Research Laboratory, Thomson-CSF Domaine de Corbeville 91404 Orsay Cedex, France Tel : (+33) 1-69-33-92-95 Fax : (+33) 1-69-33-08-65 E-mail: grabisch@thomson-lcr.fr Areas of interest: - fuzzy measure theory, fuzzy integral - decision making, multicriteria decision making - fuzzy connectives - fuzzy reasoning - uncertainty theories (probability theory, possibility theory, evidence theory) - random sets - pattern recognition based on fuzzy techniques ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Janos Grantner Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, Muegyetem rkp. 9, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary, Phone: (36-1) 166-7392, FAX: (36-1) 185-2658, Email: grantner@fsz.bme.hu is interested in - fuzzy logic hardware accelerators - design of fuzzy logic Finite State Machines - fuzzy control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nadine Tschichold-Guerman Institut of Robotics ETH Zuerich 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland Phone +41 1 632 55 54 Fax +41 1 252 02 76 E-mail: tschichold@ifr.ethz.ch Interests: - Neural Networks for optimization of fuzzy rule bases - Neuro-Fuzzy systems for classification / pattern recognition - Fuzzy Logic applications in robotics, especially applications for mobile robots ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hans Werner Guesgen Computer Science Department University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand Email: hans@cs.auckland.ac.nz Fax: +64-9-373-7453 Phone: +64-9-373-7599 x 8815 is interested in - Fuzzy Constraint Networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Elena Aguero Gutierrez Instituto de Automatica Industrial Desvio Km. 22,800. Ctra. N-III. La Poveda. 28500. Arganda del Rey. Madrid. Spain. Phone: 34. 1. 871.1900 Fax: 34. 1. 871.7050 e-mail: helena@iai.es My work is related to: fuzzy control of manufacturing systems. I am interested in: - fuzzy control in general. - intelligent fuzzy control (with multiple levels of reasoning). - fuzzy clustering techniques. - fuzzy and linguistic modeling. - optimization problems using fuzzy reasoning applied to manufact. - multicriteria decison making problems applied to manufacturing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy Van Gyseghem Computer Science Laboratory, University of Ghent, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 9, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium, tel: +32/9/264.55.08 fax: +32/9/264.58.42 e-mail: nancy@egidius.rug.ac.be is interested in - Fuzzy extension of an object-oriented database model, - Fuzzy databases, - Fuzzy data modelling (fuzzy hedges / modifiers, quantifiers and qualifiers), - Fuzzy sets and generalized fuzzy sets, - Fuzzy algorithms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Rodolfo Haber Invited Researcher at Instituto de Automatica Industrial (CSIC) Desv. Km. 22,800 N-III, La Poveda 28500 Arganda del Rey (Madrid) SPAIN Phone (34-1) 871 19 00 FAX (34-1) 871 70 50 E-Mail I'm interesting in: - Fuzzy Control - Objective Fuzzy Control Algorithms - Adaptive Fuzzy Controllers - Applications of Fuzzy Control to Machine Tools cutting process - Applications of Fuzzy Control to Cement Industry - Stability and Dynamic Performance of Fuzzy Control Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saman K. Halgamuge Darmstadt University of Technology Karlstr. 15 64283 Darmstadt Germany Phone: (+49)6151/16-4337 Fax: (+49)6151/16-4936 E-mail: saman@microelectronic.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de Areas of interest: - Fuzzy logic, - Fusion from fuzzy systems and neural networks - Adaptive fuzzy systems - Fuzzy hardware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence O. Hall Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida Tampa, Fl. 33620 Tel: 813-974-4195 FAX: 813-974-5456 E-mail: hall@csee.usf.edu Interests: - Fuzzy logic and sets in learning, - Pattern recognition, - Neuro-fuzzy systems and neuro fuzzy expert systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hellendoorn Siemens AG, ZFE ST SN4 D-81937 Munich Tel. 089/636-46527 Fax 089/636-3320 e-mail Hans.Hellendoorn@zfe.siemens.de is interested in - Fuzzy control, - Industrial applications of fuzzy logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ellen Hisdal Institute of Informatics University of Oslo Box 1080 Blindern 0316 Oslo Norway. Phone, Office, direct line: 47 22 85 24 39 Office, messages: 47 22 85 24 16 Home: 47 22 49 56 53 Fax: 47 22 85 24 01 e-mail: ellen@ifi.uio.no - a unified theory of logic, probability and fuzzy sets, - a probabilistic interpretation of grades of membership as an estimate of the probability of assignment of, e.g., the label 'tall' to persons of height 180cm. - representation of knowledge, general, - chain sets for representation of knowledge with possibilities and probabilities, - interpretative fuzzy set theory (as contrasted with axiomatic fuzzy set theory), - fuzzy classification structures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Horstkotte Togai InfraLogic, Inc. 5 Vanderbilt Irvine, CA 92718 USA Phone: +1 714 975 8522, Fax +1 714 975 8524 E-mail: erik@til.com, postmaster@til.com, is interested in - Anything and everything about fuzzy logic, fuzzy expert systems, and fuzzy applications, but specifically - - Automatic fuzzy expert system creation techniques, including genetic - Fuzzy expert control system tuning techniques, both automatic and manual. - Fuzzy control in general. - Hybrid neurofuzzy systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Goh Tiong Hwee Associate, Research Staff Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Singapore 0511. Tel : (65) 772-6230 Fax : (65) 778-2571 Email : thgoh@iss.nus.sg Interest - Fuzzy Control - Fuzzy applications in MIS - Integrating fuzzy and neural networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Masahiro Inuiguchi Methodology of Decision Analysis Project The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Schlossplatz 1 A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Phone: +43 2236 715210 Fax: +43 2236 71313 E-mail: inuiguch@iiasa.ac.at Area of interest: - Fuzzy mathematical programming - Decision analysis under uncertainty - Approximate reasoning - Possibility theory and evidence theory - Applications of fuzzy systems methods to real world problems Remarks: In September the address will be changed to Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University 4-1 Kagamiyama 1-chome, Higashi-Hiroshima, 724, Japan Phone: +81-824-24-7695 Fax: +81-824-22-7195 E-mail: inuiguti@msl.sys.hiroshima-u.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pekka Isomursu Technical Research Centre of Finland Computer Technology Laboratory P.O.Box 201, SF-90571 Oulu, Finland Phone: +358-81 551 2111, fax: +358-81 551 2320, email: Pekka.Isomursu@vtt.fi or epi@vtt.fi is interested in - fuzzy control (system identification and tuning, practical applications) - fuzzy logic in (technical) diagnostics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jyh-Shing Roger Jang The MathWorks, Inc. Cochituate Place, 24 Prime Park Way, Natick, Mass. 01760 Phone: 508-653-2452 ext 6357 Fax: 508-653-2997 Email: jang@eecs.berkeley.edu Interests: - Neuro-fuzzy modeling: structure determination and parameter identification - Neuro-fuzzy control: learning, adaptive, intelligent, robust - Neuro-fuzzy paradigms for classification and regression Remarks: - PhD Dissertation: "Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling: Architectures, Analyses and Applications", 1992, UC Berkeley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Jantzen Technical University of Denmark, Electric Power Eng. Dept., building 325, DK-2800 Lyngby, DENMARK, Ph: (+45) 4288 1633, Fax:(+45) 4288 6111 email: stardust at vm.uni-c.dk is interested in - fuzzy control: Rule based, table based, self-organising, fuzzy PID, stability, tuning; MATLAB, SIMULINK, C - image processing: object recognition in magneto-resonance images of the human brain, rule based; MATLAB, C - fuzzy logic: array based inference, truth tables, inner / outer products, transitivity; APL, BEOLOGIC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Joslyn 327 Spring St. # 2 Portland ME 04102 (207) 774-0029 cjoslyn@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov Current affiliations (expecting change in status in Fall, 1994): Systems Science, SUNY at Binghamton NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dissertation (Spring 1994): Possibilistic Processes for Complex Systems Modeling Research interests: - Possibility theory, random set theory - Generalized Information Theory (confluence of fuzzy sets, probability, possibility, random sets, fuzzy measures, Dempster-Shafer,interval analysis) - Empirical measurement methods for possibility distributions and fuzzy sets - Objective semantics of possibility theory - Possibilistic and fuzzy automata - Possibilistic modeling, qualitative modeling - Modeling environments for General Systems Theory (GST), Computer Aided Systems Theory (CAST) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Kalcher, Monika Reiter, Volkmar H. Haase Institut fuer Informationssysteme (IIS) JOANNEUM RESEARCH Steyrergasse 17 A - 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: +43-316-8020-117 Fax: +43-316-8020-181 E-mail: kalcher@joanneum.ada.at Interests: - Fuzzy expert systems - Large applications and multi level reasoning - Fuzzy logic in knowledge representation - Technical applications of fuzzy theory - Fuzzy control, fuzzy PID ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Osmo Kaleva Department of Mathematics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O.Box 692, 33101 Tampere Finland, phone: 358-31-3162426, fax: 358-31-3161549, e-mail: kaleva@rapola.cc.tut.fi, is interested in - integrals, derivatives of fuzzy-valued functions, - fuzzy differential equations, - interpolation and approximation of fuzzy data, - embedding theorems in spaces of fuzzy sets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Moncef Kallala, BSc, MSc & PhD School of Computing & Mathematics University of Teesside Middlesbrough Cleveland TS1 3BA Voice: (+642) 342692 Fax.: (+642) 342691 E-mail: kallala@uk.ac.teesside.scm My interest are: - Fuzzy Relations, Fuzzy Implications in Medical Assessment and Diagnosis - Fuzzy Logic & Neural Nets in Control - Large Fuzzy Data Bases - Fuzzy Expert Systems - Fuzzy Logic in HCI and Hypermedia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tibor Keresztfalvi Department of Applied Analysis, Eotvos Lorand University, Muzeum korut 6-8, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary, e-mail: xtibor@ludens.elte.hu xtibor@cs.elte.hu investigates - t-norm-based operations on fuzzy intervals, - extended functions (defined via a sup-t-norm convolution), - fuzzy (multiobjective) mathematical programming problems under t-norms, - exact calculation formulas in fuzzy logic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof.Dr.E.E.Kerre Dept.Applied Mathematics & Computer Science Fuzziness & Uncertainty Modelling Krijgslaan,281 S9, 9000 Gent, Belgium Tel:32-9-2644904 Fax:32-9-2644995 e-mail:etnkerre@nessy.rug.ac.be. My current research topics are: fuzzy topology, fuzzy algebraic structures, fuzzy relational calculus, fuzzy quantifiers,fuzzy measure theory, measures of fuzziness, fuzzy relational databases,fuzzy reliability theory, fuzzy morphology and fuzzy numbers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erich Peter KLEMENT FLLL-Fuzzy Logic Laboratorium Linz, Institut fuer Mathematik Johannes Kepler Universitaet, A-4040 LINZ, Austria Phone (++43) (732) 2468-9151, Fax (++43) (732) 2468-10 e-mail: klement@flll.uni-linz.ac.at My fields of interest are: - Mathematical foundations of fuzzy logic - Applications in measure, probability and game theory - Mathematical foundations of fuzzy control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Laszlo T. Koczy Department of Telecommunication and Telematics, Technical University of Budapest, Fax: +361-1812-302 or +361-1666-808, E-mail: koczy@ttt.bme.hu or koczy@sys.titech.ac.jp is active in the fields - algorithms of fuzzy rule based control (complexity, interpolation, extrapolation, general approximation of rules) - certain aspects of computer vision by fuzzy methods (edge detection, components positions, etc.) - fuzzy hardware components (flip-flops, various circuits) - fuzzy graphs - properties of strictly monotonous norms and corresponding algebraic structures Remarks: Started fuzzy research in 1973. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bogdan R. Kosanovic (Ph.D. student) Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience Department of Electrical Engineering University of Pittsburgh 348 Benedum Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA Phone: (412) 624-6773 e-mail: bogdan@neuronet.pitt.edu is interested in: - fuzzy sets and numbers - fuzzy identification and modeling - fuzzy clustering - fuzzy systems theory - approximate and qualitative reasoning - applications in signal processing and medicine - pattern recognition, image processing, nonlinear system theory - sound processing, music and multimedia industry applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Margit Kovacs Department of Computer Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Muzeum krt. 6-8 H-1088 Budapest, Hungary phone: 36-1-2669833 ext 2668 fax: 36-1-2664166 e-mail: margo@cs.elte.hu is mainly interested in - theoretical foundation and comparison of fuzzy optimality concepts, multiobjective linear programming - stability properties of the solution of fuzzy optimization problems and searching for relationships between classical classical regularization methods and fuzzification - solution concepts of fuzzy linear systems and fuzzy linear model fitting - economical and technical applications of fuzzy theory - approximate reasoning for optimization ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Kowalczyk, PhD, MSc(Eng), Knowledge Based Systems Section CRA Advanced Technical Development PO Box 347, Cannington, WA 6107 Perth, Australia Phone: 61-9-470-7792 Fax: 61-9-470-5579 E-mail: rk@perth.atd.craatd.telememo.au Areas of interest: - Fuzzy expert systems - Hybrid knowledge-based systems - Approximate reasoning and management of uncertainty and imprecision - Application areas: scheduling, decision support, process control and diagnosis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonja Kowalewski University of Koblenz-Landau, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Rheinau 3-4, W-5400 Koblenz, Germany, Phone: +49-261-9119-468, Fax: +49-261-37524, email: kowa@infko.uni-koblenz.de is interested in - fuzzy logic in natural language processing, especially in generating natural language texts (modelling vagueness, ambiguity and acceptability) - fuzzy logic in knowledge representation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald H. Kraft Department of Computer Science Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020 Phone: (504) 388-1495 Fax: (504) 388-1465 E-mail: kraft@bit.csc.lsu.edu Areas of interest: - Information retrieval systems, - operations research, - information science. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vladik Kreinovich Department of Computer Science University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX 79968 Phone: (915) 747-6951 Fax: (915) 747-5030 E-mail: vladik@cs.ep.utexas.edu Areas of interest: - Fuzzy control, neural networks for control, - Mathematical foundations, - Different formalisms for representing uncertainty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Matthias Kudra University of Leipzig Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Linnestr. 3 04103 Leipzig Phone: (0341) 6858500 Fax: (0341) 6858225 E-Mail: kudra@server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de is interested in - Application of fuzzy methods to spectra simulation - Modelling chemical connections by fuzzy controllers - Regression with fuzzy dates - Fuzzy Software for PC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ludmila Ilieva Kuncheva, Ph.D. Central Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering Bulgarian Acdemy of Sciences Acad. G. Bonchev Street, Block 105 1113 Sofia, BULGARIA tel. +359(2) 713 36 03 fax. +359(2) 72 37 87 e-mail lucy@inf.nbu.bg fields of interest: - fuzzy pattern recognition and classification - fuzzy neural networks - aggregation rules and consensus - fuzzy two- and multi-level classifiers - medical applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ming-Shong Lan Science Center Rockwell International Corporation 1049 Camino Dos Rios P.O.Box 1085 Thousand Oaks, CA 91358 Tel: (805)-373-4429 Fax: (805)-373-4383 E-mail: msl@jupiter.risc.rockwell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Henrik Legind Larsen KBS lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Roskilde University, bldg. 20.1, Postbox 260, DK-4000 Roskilde email: hll@dat.ruc.dk phones: +45 4675 7781 + (direct dial) 2133 (office) fax: +45 4675 4201 (Comp.Sci. dept.) Interested in: - fuzzy information retrieval & querying - fuzzy querying user interfaces - fuzzy object-oriented knowledge representation & reasoning - fuzzy propagation and aggregation operators - fuzzy graph algorithms (including parallel algorithms) - fuzzy relations - fuzzy sets and lattice theory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Seok Jong Lee Department of Mathematics Chungbuk National University 360-763, South Korea Phone: +82-431-61-2249 Fax: +82-431-67-4232 E-mail: sjlee@cbucc.chungbuk.ac.kr is interested in - fuzzy topology - fuzzy mathematics - fuzzy logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurent Lemaitre DE-LEG/C3i, Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne phone: +41-21-693-6978, fax: +41-21-693-4663, e-mails: Laurent_Lemaitre@deqm.epfl.ch is interested in - The integration of fuzzy units in CMOS technologies, - fuzzy logic and multi-valued logics, - Fuzzy control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Churn Jung Liau Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica 128 Yen-Chiu-Yuan Road, Sec. II Taipei 11529, Taiwan, ROC. phone: 886-2-7883799-2417 fax: 886-2-7824814 e_mail: liaucj@iis.sinica.edu.tw is interested in - fuzzy logic, possibilistic logic, uncertainty reasoning, - non-classical logic, - fuzzy set theory and mathematical techniques. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikko LIPSANEN, Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, Lemminkainengatan 14, SF-20520 Abo, Finland, phone: 358-21-654538, fax: 358-21-654732, Research Interests: - Means to represent uncertain information in decision support systems especially Causal Probabilistic Networks, - Model based systems in medical decision making. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Lotfi Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Queensland St. Lucia, Qld. 4072, Australia Phone: (7) 3654138 Fax: (7) 3654999 E-mail: lotfia@s1.elec.uq.oz.au Fields of interest: - Reinforcement fuzzy rule-based controller - Adaptive membership function for fuzzy inference systems - Optimal and robust fuzzy controller design - Neuro fuzzy controller ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Francisco J. Lopez-Aligue Departamento de Electronica e Ing. Electromecanica University of Extremadura Avda. de Elvas, s/n 06071 - Badajoz SPAIN Tel.: +34 24 27 48 00 Ext.350 & 268 Fax.: +34 24 27 13 04 Email : aligue@ba.unex.es Areas of interest : - Neural models and its implementation in multimicroprocessor networks. - Fuzzy strategies for thodse models - Fuzzy Cellular models in image processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ho Chung LUI Institute of Systems Science National University of Singapore Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 0511 email: luihc@iss.nus.sg fax: (65)-778-2571 Areas of interest: -- neuro-fuzzy fusion -- adaptive fuzzy inference & approximate reasoning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashutosh Malaviya GMD-FUZZY, German National Research Center for Comp. Sc. Postfach 1316 W-5205 St.Aogustin 1 GERMANY Tel: +49-2241-14-2751 Fax: +49-2241-14-2342 E-mail: malaviya@borneo.gmd.de is presently working on - Online/Offline handwriting recognition using Fuzzy Logic ( Mathematical formula recognition with PenTop and document recognition/analysis ) - Fuzzy Pattern Recognition/ Computer Vision and his research interests include - Fuzzy grammars, fuzzy kohonen maps, fuzzy-GA/NNs - Applying Fuzzy Logic in Pattern Recognition and Control Systems - VLSI realization of Fuzzy Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Milan MARES Institute of Information Theory and Automation Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic P.O.Box 18 182 08 Praha 8 Czech republic phone : (++42)(2) 6605 2803 6641 4669 fax : (++42)(2) 6641 4903 e-mail: mares@utia.cas.cz Area of interest : - fuzzy numbers and fuzzy quantities - multicriteria fuzzy decision-making - fuzzy coalition games - uncertain knowledge processing in artificial intelligence - mathematical models of economy including fuzzy elements ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger MARTIN-CLOUAIRE Station de Biometrie et d'Intelligence Artificielle INRA, BP27 31326 Castanet-Tolosan, FRANCE. Tel: (33) 61 28 52 86 Fax: (33) 61 28 53 35 Email: rmc@toulouse.inra.fr areas: - approximate reasoning in AI systems, - fuzzy logic, - application to agriculture, - environmental sciences and natural resources management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Newton Maruyama Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ tel: +44-865-273914 fax: +44-865-273906 e-mail: newton.maruyama@eng.ox.ac.uk areas: - neural-fuzzy systems for modelling and control, - application of fuzzy systems to robotics. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Francesco Masulli Assistant Professor Department od Physics University of Genoa Via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Genova - Italy Email: masulli@genova.infn.it Main areas of interest are: - Pattern Recognition, - Fuzzy Neural Networks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fernando Matia Dept. Automatica (DISAM) Universidad Politecnica de Madrid J.Gutierrez Abascal, 2 28006 - Madird (Spain) Fax: +34 1 564 29 61 E-mail: matia@disam.upm.es Interests: - Fuzzy Control: Design and Analysis - Fuzzy Models - Fuzzy Linear Systems - Data Validation using Fuzzy Logic - Software for Fuzzy Logic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jorma K. Mattila Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, SF-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland phone: 358 - 53 - 571 2829, fax: 358 - 53 - 571 2899 e-mail: mattila@luoti.lut.fi is interested in - Foundations of fuzzy sets - Mathematical fuzzy logic, especially two-valued fuzzy logic - Fuzzy logic programming - Fuzzy control - Fuzziness in economical systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William J. Maurer Computer Scientist Engineering Research Division (510) 423-7866 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808 L-441 University of California Livermore, California 94550 Telefax (510) 423-6195 email maurer1@llnl.gov - Expert systems, - Inference engines (fuzzy assumption based truth maintenance system), - Signal and image processing, pattern recognition, - Neural computation, - Information retrieval. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M.Mironov. Moscow State University, Center of New Information Technologies (CNIT MSU) RUSSIA,119899,Moscow,Leninskiye Gory, Moscow State University, Center of New Information Technologies E-mail: mironov@cnit.chem.msu.su Phone: (095) 939-13-03 Fax: (095) 939-07-13 BACKGROUND: - mathematician, Moscow, (1989) - D.Sc., Moscow, (1992) INTERESTS : - fuzzy databases,decomposition of fuzzy databases, complexity of fuzzy databases - algebraic theory of databases, Halmos algebras, fuzzy algebras and models - topos theory, logic in toposes, models of the linear logic in toposes, fuzzy Petri nets - modal logic, algebraic logic, constructing of languages of fuzzy queries for fuzzy relational databases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Masaharu MIZUMOTO Division of Information and Computer Sciences Graduate School of Engineering Osaka Electro-Communication University Neyagawa, Osaka 572, Japan Tel: +81-720-20-4569, +81-727-57-2724(home) Fax: +81-720-24-0014 E-mail: mizumoto@mzlab.osakac.ac.jp is interested in - fuzzy controls (methodology, practical applications) - fuzzy reasoning (multi-stage and multi-fold reasoning, extrapolative reasoning) - fuzzy neural networks - fuzzy hardware - applications of genetic algorthm, chaos, fractal, and neural networks to soft computing - fuzzy theory (fuzzy numbers, fuzzy operations) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pieter Moerman Computer Science Laboratory, University of Ghent, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 9, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium, tel: +32/9/264.55.08 fax: +32/9/264.58.42 e-mail: pm@egidius.rug.ac.be is interested in - graphical representation of fuzzy values - reduction of general fuzzy values to piecewise linear approximations - graphical interface to fuzzy databases - fuzzy algorithms / implementation aspects ---------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Montero Dept. Statistics and O.R. Fac. Mathematics Complutense University Madrid 28040 (Spain) Phone: 34 1 3944452 Fax: 34 1 3944607 E-mail: monty@sunes1.mat.ucm.es Main research areas of interest: - Group Decision Making - Multicriteria Decision Making - Preference models - Reliability systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Noureddine MOUADDIB Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy CRIN URA-CNRS 262 BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex France Tel : (33) 83 59 20 63 Fax : (33) 83 41 30 79 email : mouaddib@loria.fr - Modeling and Analysis fuzziness, impreciseness and uncertainty in information & database systems, - Extension of relational algebra to fuzzy databases, - Definition of an object oriented environment to describe and manage fuzzy information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Naether Department of Mathematics Technical University Mining Academy Freiberg D-O-9200 Freiberg Bernhard-von-Cotta-Str. 2 phone: +49-3731-51-2689 fax: +49-3731-51-3442 e-mail: naether@mathe.ba-freiberg.dbp.de is interested in - fuzzy statistics, - fuzzy data analysis, - fuzzy measures, - non-probabilistic inference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mikio Nakatsuyama Department of Electronic Engineering, Yamagata University, 992 Japan, Phone: +81-238-22-5181 EXT 329, Fax: +81-238-24-2752) is interested in - neuro-fuzzy control - fuzzy C - neuro-fuzzy expert systems - fuzzy image processing Remark: Address Department of Electronic Engineering, Yamagata University, 4-3-16 Jonan, Yonezawa 992 Japan Phone: +81-238-22-5181 EXT 329, Fax: +81-238-24-2752 E-mail: nakatsu@ea5.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Detlef Nauck Technical University of Braunschweig, Department of Computer Science, Bueltenweg 74 - 75, W-3300 Braunschweig, Germany, Tel: +49.531.391.3155, Fax: +49.531.391.5936, email: nauck@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de is interested in - Fuzzy control, - Combinations of neural networks and fuzzy systems, i.e. any kind of neuro-fuzzy approach. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcio L. Andrade Netto Dept. of Computer Engineering and Industrial Automation School of Electrical Engineering State University of Campinas - UNICAMP 13081-970 - CAMPINAS - SP BRASIL Phone: (55)-192-394313 Fax: (55)-192-391395 E-mail: marcio@fee.unicamp.br Interests: - Fuzzy control applications (elevators, automobiles), - Neural-Fuzzy networks, - Neural networks learning algorithms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vesa A NISKANEN Department of Economics & Management, P.O. BOX 27 (VIIKKI, A-HOUSE), SF-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, Phone: +358 0 708 5052, Fax: +358 0 708 5096 E-mail: niskanen@cc.helsinki.fi is interested in - Methodological problems of fuzzy systems, - Fuzzy reasoning, - Fuzzy decision-making, - Education of fuzziness, - Fuzzy neural nets, - Fuzzy statistics, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vilem Novak Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic Institute of Geonics Studentska 1768 CZ-708 00 Ostrava-Poruba Czech Republic Phone: +42-69-6918651 Fax: +42-69-6919452 E-Mail: geonics@vsb.cz is interested in - fuzzy (many-valued) logic, - approximate reasoning, - linguistic modelling, - fuzzy control, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- J. Valente de Oliveira INESC - Control of Dynamic Systems Group Apartado 10105, 1017 Lisboa Codex, Portugal Phone: +351.1.3100510 Fax: +351.1.525843 E-mail: jlvo@eniac.inesc.pt Interests: - Fuzzy control and fuzzy modeling methodologies, - Fuzzy relational structures and logic neurons, - Fuzzy systems I/O interfaces, - Fuzzy systems analysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Walenty Ostasiewicz Department of Economic Cybernetics Academy of Economics Komandorska 118/120 53-345 Wroclaw, Poland Phone: 48-71-686055 E-mail: WOSTAS@unix.ok.ae.wroc.pl Interests: - Logic and fuzzy logic, - Uncertainty and vagueness, - Fuzzy modelling, - Group decisions, - Neural networks, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marek Patyra Department of Computer Engineering University of Minnesota 10 University Drive Duluth, MN 55812 USA Phone: (218) 726-6103 Fax: (218) 726-7267 E-mail: mpatyra@ua.d.umn.edu Interests: - Fuzzy logic based analog and digital circuit implementation, - Mixed Fuzzy and Neural Networks Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Teresa de Pedro Instituto de Automatica Industrial, C.S.I.C. Km 22'800 N3, La Poveda, Arganda del Rey, 28500 Madrid, SPAIN ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ Return-Path: Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23687; 22 Sep 94 21:54:24 EDT Received: from mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at by GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07871; 22 Sep 94 21:54:07 EDT Received: from (localhost.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [127.0.0.1]) by mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA01360 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 1994 03:53:56 +0200 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 03:53:56 +0200 From: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Message-Id: <199409230153.DAA01360@mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Errors-To: fuzzy-owner@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Reply-To: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Sender: listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at To: mark.kantrowitz@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: GET LISTPROC WHOISWHOINFUZZY (1/1) [2/2] X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Boston University ListProcessor Archive LISTPROC, file whoiswhoinfuzzy. Part 1/1 (subpart 2/2), total size 120000 bytes: ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------ Phone: 34-1-8711900 e-mail: Tere@IAI.ES is interested in - Fuzzy control, - Distributed fuzzy control, - Fuzzy techniques for robots. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Liliane Peters System Design Technology Department GMD ( German National Center for Computer Science) P.O.Box 1316 5205 St. Augustin 1 Germany e-mail: peters@gmd.de phone: (+49)-2241-14-2332 fax: (+49)-2241-14-2342 Areas of interest related to fuzzy: - VLSI design - computer vision for robotics - decision making - neuro-fuzzy systems for control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ing. Uwe Pilz University of Leipzig Dept. of medicine Johannisallee 32 04103 Leipzig Germany phone (+49 341) 397 517 fax (+49 341) 2615 546 E-Mail pilz@server3.medizin.uni-leipzig.de Interests: - Fuzzy based expert systems in medicine, especially in intensive care ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Markus PISTAUER Department of Electronics Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 12 A-8010 Graz, AUSTRIA Phone: ++43 / 316 / 873-7549 Fax: ++43 / 316 / 464534 E-mail: pistauer@electronic.tu-graz.ac.at Interests: - Fuzzy control: Rule and table based Self organising - Fuzzy control in process data systems - Fuzzy hard and software solutions with 8bit and 16bit microcontroller - Fuzzy hardware with fuzzy coprocessor - Neuro fuzzy control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Petr Pivonka Technical University Brno Department of Automation Control Bozetechova 2 61266 Brno, Czech Republic Phone: ++5/7275172 Fax : ++5/41211141 E-mail: pivonka@dame.fee.vutbr.cz Interests: - fuzzy control real systems ( eg. power plant ) - fuzzy PID - fuzzy modelling - fuzzy identification - comparison of fuzzy control and adaptive control techniques - fuzzy expert systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marco Poloni MPA Stuttgart Institute for material testing Pfaffenwaldring 32 D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany phone: +49-711-6852040 fax: +49-711-6853053 e-mail: poloni@mpaxp1.mpa.uni-stuttgart.de Areas of Interest: - data analysis - pattern recognition - sensor fusion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Henri Prade Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Universite Paul Sabatier 118 route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France Phone: +33 61 55 65 79 Fax: +33 61 55 62 39 E-mail: prade@irit.irit.fr Areas of interest: - Fuzzy set connectives - Fuzzy sets and probabilities - Possibility theory - Fuzzy numbers - Approximate, non-monotonic, interpolative, qualitative analogical reasoning - Applications to expert systems, decision-support systems, databases, operations research (scheduling) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hugo PRISTAUZ Institut f. Regelungstechnik (IRT) (Institute for Control Engineering) TU-Graz Krenngasse 37/II A - 8010 Graz, Austria Tel.: +43-316-824045/31 Fax.: +43-316-848359 E-mail: pristauz@irt.tu-graz.ac.at Interests: - Fuzzy (feedback) control - Fuzzy logic knowledge representation for feedforward control - Fuzzy development tools - Hardware implementations of fuzzy algorithms - Fuzzy system identification ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jaroslav Ramik Dept. of Mathematics and Comp. Science School of Business and Management Silesian University Univerzitni namesti 76 733 40 Karvina The Czech Republic phone: +42 69 631 2497 fax: +42 69 631 2069 e-mail: Ramik@nwopf.opf.slu.cz Area of interest: -Fuzzy mathematical programming -Fuzzy (multicriteria) decision making -Fuzzy control -Fuzzy numbers ranking -Fuzzy based expert systems -Fuzzy sets application in business and finance -Operations Research -Iterative methods in nonlinear programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulrich Rehfuess Siemens AG ZFE ST SN 42, Otto-Hahn-Ring 6, D-8000 Muenchen 83, Germany, phone: +49 / 89 / 636 42942, fax: +49 / 89 / 636 3320 e-mail: rehfuess@smaragd.zfe.siemens.de is interested in - fuzzy control applications - classical control vs. fuzzy control - neural fuzzy control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Leonid REZNIK Dpt. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Footscray Campus Victoria University of Technology P.O. Box 14428, MMC Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia Email: leonid@cabsav.vut.edu.au Phone: +(613) 688 4079 Fax: +(613) 688 4806 Areas of research interest: - fuzzy control, - fuzzy expert systems, - fuzzy logic applications in measurement Current special interest in membership function choice ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rita Almeida Ribeiro Universidade Nova Lisboa FCT, Dept. Informatica 2825 Monte Caparica Portugal e-mail: rr@fct.unl.pt My main interests are: - Case based reasoning - Uncertainty in decision support systems - Fuzzy pattern recognition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Burghard B. Rieger Head of Dept. Computational Linguistics Fachbereich II: LDV/CL University of Trier D-54286 TRIER, Germany Email (NEW!): rieger@ldv01.Uni-Trier.de Tel: ++651-201-2272/2270 Fax: ++651-201-3946 Areas of interest: - Analysis and representation of world knowledge and natural language meaning: Fuzzy Semantics; - Fuzzy modelling and empirical reconstruction of linguistic categories: Fuzzy Linguistics; - VLLC-analyses (Very Large Linguistic Corpora: >= 10EXP7 words): Quantitative Linguistics; - Simulation (procedural modelling) of cognitive processes, meaning constituition, understanding: Computational Semiotics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Riissanen Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University, Lemminkainengatan 14, SF-20520 Abo, Finland, phone: 358-21-654755, fax: 358-21-654732, e-mail: triissanen@finabo.abo.fi is interested in - Fuzzy control - Fuzzy clustering - Neural fuzzy nets - Fuzzy pattern recognition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Heinrich Rommelfanger, Institut fuer Statistik und Mathematik, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, J.W.Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt am Main, Mertonstrasse 17-25, D-60054 Frankfurt am Main Federal Republic of Germany phone: ++49/69/798 2268 fax: ++49/69/798 3330 e-mail: Rommelfanger@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.dbp.de Area of interest: - Fuzzy mathematical programming, - Fuzzy (multicriteria) decision making, - Fuzzy control, - Fuzzy logic based processing of expert rules, - Fuzzy sets applications in management, - Preference analysis. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Roubens Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of Liege Institute of Mathematics 15, avenue des tilleuls B-4000 Liege- Belgium phone: 041-669410 fax: 041-669547 e-mail: roubens@math.ulg.ac.be is active in: - preference modelling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FULVIO RUDELLO DEPT. OF PROJECTING AND DEV. IRCCS S. RAFFAELE V. OLGETTINA 60 20132 MILANO PHONE ++ 39 2 2643.2782 FAX ++ 39 2 2643.2782 E-MAIL RUDELLF@HSR.IT is intersested in: - fuzzy control - fuzzy logic proramming - fuzzy modelling and simulation - application of fuzzy sets in medicine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Da RUAN Nuclear Research Centre SCK/CEN Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium tel. +32-14-332272 fax. +32-14-315021 e-mail: br1stag2 at bmlsck11 is interested in: - fuzzy expert system development (fuzzy implication operators and rule base, fuzzy inference rules) - fuzzy simulation, classification and decision making (nuclear reactor, decision aiding systems) - fuzzy systems in nuclear science and engineering - general use of fuzzy logic and intelligent technologies in application domains. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ricardo Garcia Rosa Instituto de Automatica Industrial, CSIC 23 Km de N3, La Poveda, Arganda del Rey 28500 Madrid, Spain phone 34 1 8711900 fax 34 1 8717050 e-mail ricardo@iai.es My interest related to fuzzy techniques are: - fuzzy control, - robotics. My experience: - control of mobile robots, - multifinger robot and expert fuzzy system to automatic tunning of electronic equipement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas A. Runkler Darmstadt University of Technology (+49)6151/16-4337 E-mail: thomasr@microelectronic.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de is interested in - Fuzzy logic, - Fuzzy control, - Fuzzy hardware. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Saffiotti Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood ave Menlo Park CA 94025 U.S.A. Phone: +1 (415) 859-2159 Fax: +1 (415) 859-3735 Email: saffiotti@ai.sri.com Current interests: - Logical formalization of partial belief and uncertain knowledge. - Use of partial belief in reasoning, planning and acting. - Foundations of Dempster-Shafer's theory and fuzzy logic. - Application of the above to mobile robots and autonomous vehicles. Remark: Permanent address: IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles 50 av Roosevelt, Bruxelles, Belgium Email: asaffio@ulb.ac.be ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Faisel Saeed Computer Science Department, Oklahomat State University, Stillwater, OK 74078. phone: (405) 744-5668 e-mail: saeed@a.cs.okstate.edu is interested in - Using fuzzy mathematical techniques for image processing - Fuzzy Calculus - Fuzzy control - Any other application ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arkadiusz Salski Ecosystem Research Center University of Kiel Schauenburgerstr. 112 D-2300 Kiel 1, Germany Fax: ++49-431-880 40 83 E-mail: arek@pz-oekosys.uni-kiel.dbp.de is interested in - Uncertainty problems in ecological research (uncertainty of ecological data and uncertainty of expert knowledge), - Fuzzy knowledge-based modelling, - Approximate reasoning methods, - Knowledge representation, - Fuzzy expert system, - Fuzzy clustering, - Any application of fuzzy sets in ecology. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Antony Satyadas Dept. of Computer Science The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa AL 35486-4983, USA. Tel. No. (205)-345-9086 email: antony@cs.ua.edu Area of Research Interest: - Flexible Intelligent Systems - Learning and Optimization of Fuzzy Membership Functions and Rules - Develop and Apply Soft Computing models for - Prediction - Multicriteria Group Decision Making - Uncertainty Management - Cognition - Intelligence Evaluation - Control ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Igor Sauperl Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics Graz University of Technology Kopernikusgasse 24 A-8010 Graz Phone: (++43) 316 873/7210 Fax: (++43) 316 82 14 90 E-mail: sauperl@vkma.tu-graz.ac.at Interests: - fuzzy logic/control applications in hydraulic system simulations - integration of fuzzy logic and traditional programming techniques and software (FORTRAN, C, ... interfaces) - automatic learning in fuzzy systems - fuzzy logic and control in general - fuzzy software and programming tools ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saeed Setayeshi Electrical Engineering Department Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) P.O.Box 1000, Halifax, NS. B3J 2X4, Canada Phone: 1-902-420-7885 Fax : 1-902-422-7535 Email: setayess@newton.ccs.tuns.ca Interests: - Fuzzy-Neural Pattern Recognition, Classification, and Detection - Fuzzy-Neural Based Signal Processing - Application of Fuzzy-Neural Systems in Layered Media Modeling - Fuzzy-Neural Models - Learning, Adaptation, and Software Implementation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jutta Schiffers Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing (FAW) PO-Box 2060 89010 Ulm Germany Voice: (+49) 731-501-608 Fax.: (+49) 731-501-609 E-mail: schiffer@faw.uni-ulm.de is interested in: - Fuzzy Classification - Fuzzy Vector Quantization - Automatic Extraction of Fuzzy Rules - Fuzzy Logic in Machine Learning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard H. Schildt Institute for Automation Department of Computer Science Technical University Vienna A-1040 Vienna/Austria Treitlstr. 3 Phone: ++43-1-58801.8190 Fax: ++43-1-56 32 60 E-mail:schi@auto.tuwien.ac.at - fuzzy control - integration of fuzzy und traditional conmtrol ( application: robotics ) - fuzzy simulation - uncertainty management ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel G. Schwartz Dept. of Computer Science, B-173 Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-4019 U.S.A. Office 904-644-5875 CS Dept 904-644-2296 Fax 904-644-0058 Home 904-385-7735 E-mail schwartz@cs.fsu.edu Areas of interest: - Knowledge representation, methods of approximate reasoning, - expert systems, - case-based reasoning, - information filtering and retrieval. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel T. SEMERTZIDIS University of Paris 6 CNRS URA 09, CASE 115 Tour 16, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, F R A N C E Internet: SEMERZ@LMCP.JUSSIEU.FR interests: - Applications of fuzzy sets in the prediction of protein structure. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor V. Senkevich Central Research Institute for Informatics, Economics & Management Systems, Moscow Deputy Chief of Information Communication Center 115597, Moscow, P.O.Box 104 Russia E-mail: victors@tverbul.msk.su Fax: 7 (095) 202.8857 Interests - Fuzzyness and uncertainty in Data Bases, - Natural language, - Philosophical aspects. Remarks: I am not pure fuzzy scientist, I experienced software developer in the field of Relational DBMS, communications, intelligent systems. I am author of information communication systems for remote Off-Line-access to business Data Bases with remote automatic Data Base performing and creation of geographically distributed Data Bases with flexible, automatic, adaptive data distribution. That processing is based on some fuzzy algorithms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arya M. Sharma, M.D. Dept. of Nephrology Klinikum Steglitz Free University of Berlin Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany Present Adress (till spring 1995): Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Utah, Suite 6200, 84112 Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Phone: +1-801-581-2081 Fax: +1-801-585-3910 e-mail: arya@corona.med.utah.edu (preferred) 100316.2615@compuserve.com areas of research: - high blood pressure - blood pressure and renal physiology - genetics of complex diseases - nutrition is interested in: - fuzzy expert systems - fuzzy control in medicine - self-learning diagnostic and therapeutic systems in (internal) medicine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Qiang Shen Dept. of Computing & Electrical Eng. Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS U.K. Tel.: +44 31 449 5111 Ext. 4164 Fax: +44 31 451 3327 E-mail: sqi@cee.hw.ac.uk Areas of interest: - Fuzzy qualitative modelling and simulation - Fuzzy image/signal processing (image smoothing, signal enhancement) - Fuzzy model-based diagnosis - Fuzzy control Remark: Have been working in the fuzzy field since 1982. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Marcelo Godoy Simoes University of Tennessee - USA Phone (615) 558-7552 Area: - Applications of fuzzy logic in modeling, power electronics and neural fuzzy systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang SLANY Christian Doppler Labor fuer Expertensysteme Abteilung fuer Datenbanken und Expertensysteme Institut fuer Informationssysteme (Nr. 184/2) Technische Universitaet Wien Paniglg. 16, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43-1-58801-6121 or 6125 or 6141 FAX: +43-1-5055304 Email: wsi@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Papers: ftp://mira.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/pub/slany URL: http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/staff/slany.html (port 8080 may be necessary for some more time) is interested in - Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Fuzzy Constraint Relaxation, including complexity issues - Fuzzy Scheduling, Knowledge-Based Scheduling, Reactive Scheduling - Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Logic - Advanced User Interfaces - cooperating in research projects (Esprit, Eureka, ...) He is the administrator of the European fuzzy-mail list: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Send SUB FUZZY-MAIL Name in the body of an otherwise empty mail to | | listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at to subscribe. For "Name", please | | specify your real name, e.g. Wolfgang Slany. Your email address will | | be automatically extracted from the header of your mail. Send all | | messages that you want to be distributed to the subscribers to | | fuzzy-mail@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at, and send every control command | | such as GET FUZZY-MAIL INFO to listproc@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Smithson Psychology and Sociology James Cook University Queensland 4811 Australia e-mail: bhmjs@marlin.jcu.edu.au Areas of interest are: - Applications of fuzzy sets in the behavioral and social sciences, - Fuzzy statistics, possibility and uncertainty measures and and uncertainty representation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter A. STEGMAIER Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich (ETHZ) Institute for Robotics WES B 16 ETH Zentrum CH-8092 ZURICH Phone: ++41 - 1 - 256 55 48, or ++41 -81 - 37 01 01 (HAMILTON Bonaduz) Fax ++41 -81 - 37 25 63 e-mail: stegmaier@ifr.ethz.ch Areas of interest: - Applications in biomedical systems working in a real-time environment (fuzzy control and fuzzy decision systems) - Applications running on standard 8-, 16- or 32-bit Micro-Controllers - Robustness of Fuzzy Logic - Methodologies for Fuzzy Designs of systems with many inputs and some outputs - fuzzy data analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Klaus Stohl VOEST-ALPINE Industrieanlagenbau GmbH, Dept. TAP1, Turmstr. 44, 4031 Linz, Austria, phone: +43 732 592 3631, fax: +43 732 592 2089, e-mail: stohl@vai.co.at is interested in: - building large applications (automation in the steel industry), large means, many inputs, many outputs, long inference chains - fuzzy expert systems - combining fuzzy logic and neural networks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Stoica Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Victoria University of Technology PO Box 14428, MMC Melbourne, Australia Phone: 61-3-688-4034 Fax: 61-3-688-4908 E-mail: adrian@cabsav.vut.edu.au Interests: - Soft Computing - Qualitative Reasoning - Fuzzy Models in Learning with a present focus on: - Neuro-fuzzy models for robot learning ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N. Sundararajan, Assoc. Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engg., Nanayang Technological University, Singapore, 2263. Phone: 65 -799 - 5027. Fax: 65 -791-2687. email: ensundara @ ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg Interests : - Fuzzy Control and applications . - Neural networks, learning schemes - neuro -fuzzy control and applications. - fuzzy logic and control tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hartmut Surmann Department of Electrical Engineering University of Dortmund 44221 Dortmund, Germany phone: ++49/231/755-4324 fax: ++49/231/755-4450 e-mails: surmann@luzi.e-technik-uni-dortmund.de is interested in - Fuzzy control - Neuro-fuzzy techniques & gentic algorithms - Design of fuzzy systems, - VLSI implementation of fuzzy controller - Applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaohua Tan Department of Electrical Engineering National University of Singapore 10 kent Ridge Crescent Singapore 0511 Tel (65) 7726326 Fax (65) 7791103 E-mail: eletansh@nuscc.nus.sg - Fuzzy modelling and control - Fuzzy decision system for pattern recognition I'm currently in the following address: ESAT Lab Department of Electrical Engineering KUL, Belgium E-mail: tan@esat.kuleuven.ac.be till the end of June 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yunyan Tian Expert Systems Lab. Department of Industrial Engineering University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Canada Tel. (416)978-0880 Fax (416)978-1280 E-mail: tian@fuzzy.ie.utoronto.ca Areas of interest: - Fuzzy reasoning and fuzzy control - Fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert systems - Factory scheduling and software engineering - Neural-fuzzy systems and system modelling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jungfu Tsao Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112, USA phone: 409-846-2810 e-mail: tsaoj@cs.tamu.edu is interested in - Fuzzy Logic Control - Fuzzy Interpolation/Extrapolation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor I. B. Turksen Department of Industrial Engineering University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 Email: turksen@ie.utoronto.ca Areas of interest are: - Fuzzy Systems Modeling for control and decision-support; - Interval-Valued Fuzzy sets and Logics; - Uncertainty and Fuzziness. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert VALETTE LAAS-CNRS, 7 Av. du Colonel Roche, F-31077 TOULOUSE Cedex France, TEL:++33 61336409, FAX:++33 61553577, NET: robert@laas.fr is interested in - using fuzzy reasoning techniques for controlling and monitoring Manufacturing Systems - using fuzzy reasoning on processes (fuzzy date, fuzzy state...) - fuzzy Petri nets, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ria Vandenberghe Computer Science Laboratory, University of Ghent, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 9, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium, tel: +32/9/264.55.08 fax: +32/9/264.58.42 e-mail: rvdbergh@egidius.rug.ac.be is interested in - Fuzzy extension of an extended entity-relationship model, - Fuzzy databases, - Fuzzy data modelling (fuzzy hedges / modifiers, quantifiers and qualifiers). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Aldo Ventre Istituto di Matematica della Facolta di Architettura Universita di Napoli "Federico II". Via Monteoliveto 3 I-80134 Naples, Italy Phone +39-81-5523348 Fax +39-81-5513347 and Dipartimento di Informatica e Studi Aziendali Universita di Trento Via Inama 5-7 I-38100 Trento, Italy Phone +39.461.882102 Fax +39.461.882124 Current research Interests: - Non expected utility models, - Applications of fuzzy sets to economics, - Group decisions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. J.L. Verdegay Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Granada 18071 Granada (Spain) Phone: +34.58.244018, Fax: +34.58.243317, email: jverdegay@ugr.es Areas of research: - Fuzzy logic in optimization problems - Genetic Algorithms - Fuzzy control - Approximate Reasoning - Decision support systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sjur Jonas Vestli Institut of Robotics Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule ETH Zuerich Leonhardstr. 27, 8092 - Zuerich, Switzerland Phone +41 1 256 25 29 Fax +41 1 252 02 76 E-mail: s.vestli@ieee.org Interests: - Fuzzy Logic applied to mobile robots ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Virtanen Department of Computer Science, Abo Akademi University Lemminkainengatan 14 A, SF-20520 Abo, Finland Tel: +358-21-654 541, Fax: +358-21-654 732 e-mail: hvirtanen@finabo.abo.fi is interested in - Fuzzy logic programming, - Fuzzy Expert Systems, - Neuro fuzzy systems, - Fuzzy Control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bartel Van de Walle Nuclear Energy Research Center, Boeretang 200, B - 2400 MOL BELGIUM, and State University of Ghent, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Departement, S9, Krijgslaan 281, 9000 GENT, BELGIUM, Phone +32 14 33 2813, e-mail: vdwalle at bmlsck11.bitnet is interested in: - Decision support systems (esp. related to nuclear energy) - Uncertainty in decision making - Fuzzy data bases - Nuclear energy related fuzzy research ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Percy F. Wang School of Mechanical Engineering PURDUE University West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. is interesetd in: - Fuzzy allplication in Noise/Vibration Cancellation - Fuzzy application in musical instruments pitch detection - Fuzzy GA and genetic fuzzy system - Fuzzy logic educational/demo system development currently at 1077 Ray W. Herrick Laboratories West Lafayette IN 47907-1077 1077 Ray W. Herrick Laboratories West Lafayette IN 47907-1077 Phone: (317) 494-0231 Fax : (317) 494-0787 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joachim Weisbrod Universitaet Karlsruhe Vincenz-Priessnitz-Strasse 1 Postfach 6980 7500 Karlsruhe phone: +49/721/608-4763 fax: +49/721/6622-698 email: weisbrod@ira.uka.de is interested in - fuzzy relations and fuzzy relation equations - merging symbolic and sub-symbolic approaches by combining fuzzy and connectionist methods. - fuzzy XPS - applications of FC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roman Weissgaerber Institut fuer Computertechnik Technische Universitaet Wien Gusshausstrasse 27-29/384 A-1040 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-58801-3824, Fax: +43-1-50538984 E-mail: roman@ece.tuwien.ac.at is interested in: - demonstration models of fuzzy control for educational purposes (simulations and real models e.g. small vehicles) - Online and offline learning techniques for fuzzy control (Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, ...) - Intelligent Fuzzy Control (Fuzzy Controller with multiple levels of reasoning) - Fuzzy Hardware ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brigitte Werners Lehrstuhl fur Betriebswirtschaftslehre Ruhr University Bochum P.O.Box 10 2148 D-44780 Bochum, Germany Phone: (0234) 700-5311 Fax: (0234) 7094-267 E-mail: brigitte.werners@ruba.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Interests: - Fuzzy MCDM problems - Fuzzy expert systems - Applications to real life problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Werner Wolfermann Lehrstuhl fuer Elektrische Antriebstechnik TU Muenchen Arcisstrasse 21 80333 Muenchen Tel.: 089/2105-8453 Fax.: 089/2105-8336 email: wewo@eat.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de Fields of interest - Fuzzy control applications (especially decoupling of multimotordrives in processing machines with moving webs and robotics) - Stability of fuzzy control - Fuzzy neural networks (combination of fuzzy and neural networks) - Design of optimal fuzzy control. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. John Yen Director, Center for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Research Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3112 (409) 845-5466 FAX: (409) 847-8578 E-mail: yen@cs.tamu.edu Interests: - Fuzzy logic, - AI, intelligent control, - approximate reasoning, - expert systems, - software engineering ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bo Yuan Department of Systems Science Binghamton University (SUNY) Vestal parkway Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Phone(home): (607)724-4061 Fax(home): (607)724-4061 Fax(university): (607)777-4000 E-mail: BA05074@BINGVMB.BITNET is interested in: - mathematics of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic - approximate reasoning - fuzzy control and its applications in Surface Mount Technology - information theory - neural networks and genetic algorithms ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maria Zemankova Database and Expert Systems Program National Science Foundation 1800 G St., N.W. -- Room 310 Washinghton, D.C. 20550 U.S.A. Phone: 202-357-9570 Fax: 202-357-0320 Internet: mzemanko@nsf.gov Bitnet: mzemanko@nsf Interests: Fuzzy intelligent information systems (databases, information retrieval systems, expert systems); knowledge discovery (machine learning of imprecise concepts, trends, detecting exceptions -- especially in scientific data); approximate reasoning (if-then rules, generalization, specialization, analogy, abduction); abstraction and information/knowledge organization (summarization of large volumes of data or text, navigation in information/knowledge spaces); user profiles for active intelligent customized information delivery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jianwei Zhang Institute for Real-Time Control Systems and Robotics Department of Computer Science University of Karlsruhe Postfach 6980 7500 Kalrsruhe 1 Germany E-mail.: zhang@ira.uka.de Tel.: ++49-721-608-4262 Fax.: ++49-721-606740 is interested in - application of fuzzy control in robotics, - harware design of fuzzy controllers, - integration of fuzzy methods and other AI methods. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Qiao Zhang Department of Linguistics University of Edinburgh AFB, George Square Edinburgh U.K. EH8 9LL Phone: +44 31 650 4227 Fax: +44 31 650 6536 E-mail zhang@ling.ed.ac.uk is interested in - Fuzzy quantifiers in natural languages - Formal linguistic representation of fuzzy expressions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Ziqiang Chen INRA Toulouse Station de Biometrie et d'Intelligence Artificielle 31326 Castanet-Tolosan cedex France phone: +33 61285285 Fax: +33 61285335 e-mail: chen@toulouse.inra.fr current interests: --fuzzy real-time scheduling, supervision and control --fuzzy CSP and dynamical CSP --fuzzy expert systems --fuzzy temporal reasoning --fuzzy information retrieval, decision-making, NLP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan Zizka, Ivan Direr Dept. of Automation and Measurement Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering Brno Technical University Bozetechova 2 612 66 Brno Czech Republic Phone: (+42) 5 746111 extension 275 (Zizka) or 276 (Direr) Fax: (+42) 5 750252 E-mail: zizka@dame.fee.vutbr.cz direr@dame.fee.vutbr.cz Areas of Interest: - Fuzzy Inference Methods, - Defuzzyfication (deriving scalar values), - Building Fuzzy Knowledge Bases, - Fuzzy Expert Systems, - Fuzzy Knowledge Acquisition, - Fuzzy Control, - Fuzzy Modeling, - Fuzzy Decision Making, - Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms, - Any Applications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alessandro Zorat Dept. of Computer and Management Science University of Trento via Inama 1 38100 TRENTO ITALY Phone: +39 (461) 88-2146 Fax: +39 (461) 88-2124 E-mail: zorat@cs.unitn.it Areas of interest: - Fuzzy control - Hardware (on-chip) implementation of fuzzy logic - Fuzzy computation for image processing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Research organizations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Research (Texas A&M): +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+ This group publishes a Technical Report Series, in addition to the proceedings and video tapes of the first and second International Workshop on Industrial Fuzzy Control and Intelligent Systems (IFIS 91/92). Dr. John Yen Center for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems Research Texas A&M University MS 3112 Harvey R. Bright Building Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 USA Phone: 409-845-5466 Fax: 409-847-8578 Email: cfl@cs.tamu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD): +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The GMD supports a fuzzy logic group which does research in - adaptive control - VLSI design - image processing Liliane E. Peters GMD-SET P. O. Box 1316 D-5205 St. Augustin 1, Germany Phone: 49-2241-14-2332 Fax: 49-2241-14-2342 Email: peters@borneo.gmd.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (SFIT): +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+ Email: stegmaier@ifr.ethz.ch, vestli@ifr.ethz.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITech): +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- TITech's Department of Systems Science support Dr. Michio Sugeno's laboratory, which does research in practical applications of fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert systems. Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Systems Science 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku Yokohama 227 Japan Phone: 81-45-922-1111 x2641 Fax: 81-45-921-1485 Email: @sys.titech.ac.jp [According to Dr. Michael Griffin (griffin@sys.titech.ac.jp), "Don't bother sending e-mail to Professor M. Sugeno, he doesn't use it."] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Darmstadt Technical University, Institute of Automatic Control, Laboratory of Control Engineering and Process Automation: +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-++-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Our research group is working on applications of fuzzy logic for adaptive and learning digital control systems, process identification and fault diagnosis. Bernd-Markus Pfeiffer Institute of Automatic Control, Darmstadt Technical University Landgraf-Georg-Str. 4, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany. Phone +49(6151)16-4127, Fax +49(6151)293445 email: bmpf@irt1.rt.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------