Congress Program

Tuesday September 24th

Tuesday September 24th

Biography
Professor Peter G. Anderson has been the chairman of RIT's graduate computer science program since 1980. Prior to joining RIT, he worked for RCA's computer division and was a faculty member at Princeton, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Seton Hall. He has had consulting relationships with several companies.
His B.S. and Ph.D. are in Mathematics from MIT, in 1962 and 1964; his dissertation was in Algebraic Topology, culminating a life long interest in Klein bottles. His current research interests are in the areas of neural network and their applications to image processing, genetic (and related) algorithms image processing and computer graphics, number theory (Fibonacci numbers), computing aspects of mathematics, and mathematical aspects of computing. In his spare time, he studies Chinese, swims, and trains his dogs.

Abstract
A genetic algorithm (GA) is an indirect method for rapidly searching for good solutions for hard problems. The problems that GAs are particularly suited for are those that have no straight-forward algorithmic solution-generators but do have methods for evaluating how good a proposed solution is. Such problems are typified by scheduling and lens design. GAs are patterned on nature's evolution ("survival of the fittest") or selective breeding. A GA maintains a large population of trial solutions to the problem, selects some with higher fitness, and recombines their components to form new solutions. Over time, the population contains more and more solutions with higher and higher fitness. This is a short, elementary course to introduce GAs to participants with a computer programming background. GA programs, tools, and applications will be provided.

Wednesday September 25th

Wednesday September 25th

Evolutionary Algorithms and Control
100030-04-VS-002
'A Study of GA Convergence Problems in the Iris Data Set'
Vicenç Soler, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Jordi Roig, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Marta Prim, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain

100030-04-AH-046
'Adaptive Control of Non-linear Systems using a New Pole-zero Placement Generalised Minimum-variance Technique'
Ali S. Zayed, Stirling University, Scotland, UK
Amir Hussain, Stirling University, Scotland, UK
Leslie S. Smith, Stirling University, Scotland, UK

100030-04-EB-074
'Design of Multiobjective Controllers for Nonlinear Systems Using Genetic Algorithms'
Alberto Herreros, University of Valladolid, Spain
Enrique Baeyens, University of Valladolid, Spain
José R. Perán, University of Valladolid, Spain

100030-04-LR-089
'Novel Adaptive Fuzzy Speed Estimator for Motor Drives'
Jordi Català i López, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Luis Romeral Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Mohamed Rachid Chekkouri, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Antoni Arias Pujol, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

100030-04-LR-090
'PDF Self- Tuning Using a Hierarchical Fuzzy Structure'
Mohamed Rachid Chekkouri, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Luis Romeral Martínez, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Jordi Català i López, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Emiliano Aldabas, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

100030-04-AH-130
'A New Non- Linear Self- Tuning Pole - Zero Placement Controller Incorporating Neural Networks'
Ali S.Zayed, Stirling University, Scotland, UK
Amir Hussain, Stirling University, Scotland, UK
Leslie S. Smith, Stirling University, Scotland, UK

Signal Processing, Algorithm and Programming
100030-04-TP-006
'Blind Source Separation with Application to Dams Displacements Monitoring'
Theodor D. Popescu, National Institute for Research in Informatics, Romania

100030-04-TD-038 'Real Time Learning for Robust Sequential Reinitialization Algortihms'
Anthony Burrell, Oklahoma State University, USA
Titsa Papantoni, University of Colorado at Denver, USA

100030-04-LP-043 'A comparison between PCA and ICA applied to diagnosis and prediction of epileptic seizure'
Laurent Peyrodie, HEI, France
Thomas Morineaux, HEI, France
Philippe Gallois, Faculté Libre de Médecine de Lille, France
Gérard Forzy, Faculté Libre de Médecine de Lille, France

Keynote Speech
'Prospects for a Golden Age of Computational Innovation: How Competent, Efficient Genetic Algorithms Will Change Our Future'
Prof. David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, USA
Time: 09:15 - 10:30
Room: Assembly Hall

This talk suggests that well designed genetic algorithms (GAs)--so called competent GAs--are the computational embodiment of a number of the processes of human innovation. It further examines five forces that are pushing the use of genetic algorithms into everyday practice and asks whether these forces are sustainable and where these forces will lead. The talk answers that the forces are sustainable, and that we are now poised on the edge of a golden age of computational innovation. Just as steam power gave humankind a kind of mechanical leverage that greatly amplified the capability of an individual during the industrial revolution, so too will genetic algorithms and other forms of computational innovation, provide us with a kind of innovation leverage during the golden age that will vastly multiply our ability to solve difficult problems quickly, reliably, accurately, and well.

Special Track
'Chaos and Computation'
Organized by
Dr Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Dr. Tjeerd olde Scheper, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Room: 3.04

Purpose of the session
The purpose would be to give people the opportunity to share their research on how they are using chaos in the context of computation and information processing. More specifically, we are interested in how people are taking advantage of the properties of chaos (e.g. sensitivity to initial conditions, ability to synchronise, space filling, etc) when addressing computational or information processing problems.

Target Audience
Given that this is a fairly specialised topic, it is kept as broad as possible. Our target audience will primarily include researchers from intelligent systems, communications, information systems and neuroscience. We are not aiming this specifically at Chaoticians who are contributing to the mathematics of chaos, rather than how it may be used in information processing.

11:00 - 11:30 100030-04-TK-112
'Chaotic Dynamics of the Self-Organising Neural Network with Weight Normalisation for Combinatorial Optimisation'
Terence Kwok, Monash University, Australia
Kate A.Smith, Monash University, Australia

11:30 - 12:00 100030-04-NC-115
'Adaptive Memory Dynamics in a Chaotic Neural Network'
Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Tjeerd olde Scheper, Oxford Brookes University, UK

12:00 - 12:30 100030-04-TO-118
'Delay Control Aspects of the Chaotic Roessler System'
Tjeerd olde Scheper, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University, UK

12:30 - 13:00 100030-04-JP-120
'Analisys of Pseudo-Chaotic Orbits in a Simple Discrete Recurrent Neural Network'
Jose D.Piñeiro, University of La Laguna, Spain
Roberto L.Marichal, University of La Laguna, Spain
Jose F.Sigut, University of La Laguna, Spain
Ignacio Estévez, University of La Laguna, Spain
Evelio J.González, University of La Laguna, Spain
R.M. Aguilar, University of La Laguna, Spain

Technical Session
Genetic Algorithm
Time: 11:00 - 12:20
Room: 3.05
Chair: Peter Anderson

11:00 - 11:20 100030-04-MH-029
'A Comparative Analysis of Genetic Algorithms for the K-Graph Partitioning Problem'
Moez Hammami, URIASIS, ISG, Tunesia
Khaled Ghédira, URIASIS, ISG, Tunesia

11:20 - 11:40 100030-04-EB-073
'The MRCD Genetic Algorithm for Multiobjective Robust Control: Performance Evaluation'
Alberto Herreros, University of Valladolid, Spain
Enrique Baeyens, University of Valladolid, Spain
José R. Perán, University of Valladolid, Spain

11:40 - 12:00 100030-04-PF-075
'An Evolutionary Approach for Capacitor Placement in Distribution Networks'
Alexandre Mendes, UNICAMP, Brazil
Paulo M. França, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Christiano Lyra, UNICAMP, Brazil
Cristiane Pissarra, UNICAMP, Brazil
Celso Cavelucci, Thoth Consultoria, Brazil

12:00 - 12:20 100030-04-CP-127
'Nonlinear Separation of Sources Using Genetic Algorithms'
Carlos G. Puntonet, University of Granada, Spain
Fernando Rojas, University of Granada, Spain
Ignacio Rojas, University of Granada, Spain
Julio Ortega, University of Granada, Spain
Elmar Lang, University of Regensburg, Germany

Technical Session
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Time: 11:00 - 12:20
Room: 3.06
Chair: Norman E. Gough

11:00 - 11:20 100030-04-EL-021
'A Four-Stage System for Blind Colour Image Segmentation'
Ezequiel López-Rubio, University of Malaga, Spain
José Muñoz-Pérez, University of Malaga, Spain
José Antonio Gómez- Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain

11:20 - 11:40 100030-04-JG-061
'Character Skeletonization by a Segment Based Neural Network'
José Antonio Gómez- Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain
Jose Muñoz-Pérez, University of Malaga, Spain
Maria Angeles Garcia-Bernal, University of Malaga, Spain
Ezequiel López-Rubio, University of Malaga, Spain

11:40 - 12:00 100030-04-MA-069
'Intelligent Processing for Active Vision'
Michael J. Allen, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Javier Marin, University of Malaga, Spain
F. García-Lagos, University of Malaga, Spain
Norman E. Gough, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Qasim Mehdi, University of Wolverhampton, UK

12:00 - 12:20 100030-04-FF-099
'Detecam: An Automated System for Change Detection in Bitemporal Images'
Christian Fernández, University of La Laguna, Spain
M. Angeles Reyes, University of La Laguna, Spain
Fernando Pérez Nava, University of La Laguna, Spain
J. Manuel Gálvez, University of La Laguna, Spain

Plenary Speech
'Artificial Immune Systems- A new Computational Paradigm'
Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Room: Assembly Hall

The immune system is a distributed adaptive system with several functional components for multi-level defense. The system uses learning, memory, and associative retrieval to solve recognition and classification tasks. In particular, it learns to recognize relevant patterns, remember patterns that have been seen previously, and use combinatorics to construct pattern detectors efficiently. Also, the overall behavior of the system is an emergent property of many local interactions. These remarkable information-processing abilities of the immune system provide several important aspects in the field of computation. Like other biologically motivated approaches (Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, etc.), the Artificial Immune System is also a rapidly emerging field. Artificial Immune Systems are used in pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security, and a variety of other applications in science and engineering. The talk will discuss different immunological mechanisms and their relation to information processing and problem solving.

Invited Session
'Intelligent Complexity Engineering of the Software Design Process'
Organized by
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Isabel Cardoso, University of Madeira, Portugal
Time: 15:30 - 17:15
Room: 3.04

15:30 - 15:50 100030-04-AC-145
'How to Measure the Complexity of a Program Text?'
Ana Cardoso, Madeira University, Portugal
Rui Gustavo Crespo, Tecnical University of Lisboa, Portugal
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia

15:50 - 16:10 100030-04-MZ-144
'The SQUFOL - Software Quality Founded On Design Laws'
Milan Zorman, University of Maribor, FERI, Slovenia
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia

16:10 - 16:30 100030-04-PK-146
'Intelligent Chaos Based Fault Prediction in Software'
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Maurizio Pighin, University of Udine, Italy

16:30 - 16:50 100030-04-VP-142
'Intelligent Software Engineering Using Logistic Maps'
Vili Podgorelec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ivan Rozman, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Werner Brunck, Lucent Technologies, Germany

16:50 - 17:15 Discussion time

Technical Session
Manufacturing, Modeling and Dynamic Systems
Time: 15:30 - 17:30
Room: 3.05
Chair: Jerzy Jozefczyk

15:30 - 15:50 100030-04-RJ-042
'On the Completion of Underconstrained Geometric Constraint Problems'
Robert Joan-Arinyo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Antoni Soto-Riera, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Sebastia Vila-Marta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Josep Vilaplana, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

15:50 - 16:10 100030-04-RD-036
'Using Non-Markov models for the Control of Dynamic Systems'
Rainer Deventer, University of Erlangen, Germany
Joachim Denzler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Heinrich Niemann, University of Erlangen, Germany

16:10 - 16:30 100030-04-ML-085
'A-Life Based Optimisation of Non-Stationary Dynamical Systems'
Mauro Annunziato, ENEA - Casaccia Research Center, Italy
Carlo Bruni, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Matteo Lucchetti, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Stefano Pizzuti, ENEA - Casaccia Research Center, Italy

16:30 - 16:50 100030-04-MO-016
'An evolutionary model to face the problem of evolution of engineering applications'
Dalila Tamzalit, IRIN, France
Mourad Oussalah, IRIN, France

16:50 - 17:10 100030-04-VM-125
'Goniophotometer Calibration Through a Kinematic Model'
Victor F. Muñoz Martínez, University of Malaga, Spain
Jesús Gómez de Gabriel, University of Malaga, Spain
Jesús Fernández- Lozano, University of Malaga, Spain
Ricardo Molina-Mesa, University of Malaga, Spain
Javier Serón Barba, University of Malaga, Spain

Thursday September 26th

Poster Sessions
The posters can be posted the whole day in the coffee break area.
Discussion and feedback on the posters during the coffee breaks.

Neural Networks
100030-04-EL-020
'Efficient Learning Rules for the ASSOM Network'
Ezequiel López-Rubio, University of Malaga, Spain
José Muñoz-Pérez, University of Malaga, Spain
José Antonio Gómez- Ruiz, University of Malaga, Spain

100030-04-JM-093
'An Industrial Application of Neural Networks in the Estimation of Hydrocarbon Fractions in a Gas Plant'
Justo E. Matheus, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela
Domingo Ramirez, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela
Aaron Ranson, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela
Angel Vivas, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela

Knowledge Representation, Agents and Learning
100030-04-OO-005
'A Reusable Multiagent Scheme (ARMS)'
Olayide T.Olorunleke, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Gordon McCalla, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

100030-04-MM-015
'A Multi-Agent Approach to Fault Diagnosis on Electricity Distribution Networks'
Jusong Yang, University of the West of England, UK
Brian Carse, University of the West of England, UK
Mohammad Montakhab, University of the West of England, UK
Anthony G. Pipe, University of the West of England, UK
Terence S.Davies, University of the West of England, UK

100030-04-AR-039
'A Robust Strategy for Monitoring and Knowledge Extraction in Real-Time Process'
Aaron Ranson, PDVSA INETEVP, Venezuela
Karen Hernández, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela
Justo Matheus, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela
Angel Vivas, PDVSA INTEVEP, Venezuela

100030-04-BB-040
'Emotions and Time in Captological Agents'
Boldur E. Barbat, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

100030-04-EG-045
'A Knowledge-based Technique for Hydrological Information Validation'
Eduardo Guzmán, University of Malaga, Spain
Ricardo Conejo, University of Malaga, Spain

100030-04-TB-055
'Some Concepts of Application of Software Agents in Virtual Educational Environment in Bulgaria'
Teodora Bakardjieva, Varna Free University, Bulgaria
Nickola Lyutov, Varna Free University, Bulgaria

Plenary Speech
'Failure in Research'
Dr Nigel Crook, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
Time: 09:00 - 10:00
Room: Assembly Hall

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ISMC 2003
'Workshop on Information Systems for Mass Customization'
Organized by
Prof. Dr. Claus Rautenstrauch, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
PD Dr. Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany
Time: 10:30 - 17:00
Room: 3.04

10:30 - 11:00 100030-04-RS-123
'The demands on Information Systems for Mass Customization'
Michael Schenk, Fraunhofer Institute IFF, Germany
Ralph Seelmann-Eggebert, Fraunhofer Institute IFF, Germany

11:00 - 11:30 100030-04-YP-035
'ERP Integration into Generic Plant Automation Model'
Yoseba K.Penya, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Alexei Bratoukhine, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Thilo Sauter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

11:30 - 12:00 100030-04-JB-092
'Compression of Quotation Preparation Time in a Mass Customization Environment'
Jo Bramham, University of Nottingham, UK
Bart MacCarthy, University of Nottingham, UK
Philip Brabazon, University of Nottingham, UK

Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 100030-04-KP-041
'Enabling Mobile Commerce through Mass Customization'
Key Pousttchi, University of Augsburg, Germany
Bernhard Selk, University of Augsburg, Germany
Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany

14:00 - 14:30 100030-04-CS-037
'Customer- oriented Products and Services - Classification, Discussion of Traditional Concepts and Suggestion of an Internet- based business model'
Christian Scheer, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Peter Loos, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

14:30 - 15:00 100030-04-MA-032
'Mass customization: Requirement analysis for configurators'
Michel Aldanondo, Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France
Guillaume Moynard, Ecole des Mines d'Albi and Lapeyre group, France

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 100030-04-FB-066

'Software Components for Personalized Electronic Customer Interaction'
Bernd Weiser, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Susanne Robra-Bissantz, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Freimut Bodendorf, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

16:00 - 16:30 100030-04-FP-111
'Leveraging customer interaction to improve the bottom line of Mass Customization concepts in the field of complex consumer goods'
Ralf Reichwald, Technical University of Muenchen (TUM), Germany
Frank T.Piller, Technical University of Muenchen (TUM), Germany
Christof M.Stotko, Technical University of Muenchen (TUM), Germany
Jan Christov Ihl, Technical University of Muenchen (TUM), Germany

16:30 - 17:00 100030-04-MS-117
'Embedding Fuzzy Criteria in Request-for-Quote Automated Procurement Processes'
Miguel- Angel Sicilia, Carlos III University, Spain
David Palomar, Carlos III University, Spain
Ignacio Aedo, Carlos III University, Spain
Paloma Díaz, Carlos III University, Spain
Elena García, University of Alcalá, Spain

Technical Session
Knowledge Representation, Decision Support and Expert Systems
Time: 10:30 - 12:10
Room: 3.05
Chair: Carl Reidsema

10:30 - 10:50 100030-04-CR-019
'Intelligent Support for Planning in Concurrent Engineering'
Carl Reidsema, University of New South Wales, Australia
Edward Szczerbicki, University of Newcastle, Australia

10:50 - 11:10 100030-04-TW-057
'Rediscovering Workflow Models from Event-Based Data'
Ton Weijters, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Wil Aalst, van der, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

11:10 - 11:30 100030-04-JJ-064
'Knowledge Based Two-Level Control of a Group of Mobile Executors'
Jerzy Józefczyk, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

11:30 - 11:50 100030-04-SR-065
'A Multiattribute Decision Support System for the Optimization of Resource Planning Processes over Time'
Sixto Ríos-Insua, Madrid Technical University, Spain
Antonio Jiménez, Madrid Technical University, Spain
Alfonso Mateos, Madrid Technical University, Spain

11:50 - 12:10 100030-04-JM-105
'Time Annotation in CommonKADS Rules'
Jose A. Maestro, University of Valladolid, Spain
César Llamas, University of Valladolid, Spain
Carlos J.Alonso, University of Valladolid, Spain

Technical Session
Multi- Agent Systems
Time: 10:30 - 11:50
Room: 3.06
Chair: Mohammad Montakhab

10:30 - 10:50 100030-04-HF-025
'Decentralized transport control'
Wilhelm Dangelmaier, Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Germany
Hubertus Franke, Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Germany
Tobias Gajewski, Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Germany
U. Pape, Heinz-Nixdorf-Institut, Germany

10:50 - 11:10 100030-04-LR-033
'Commitments: A Logical Perspective based on Game Theory'
Lambèr Royakkers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

11:10 - 11:30 100030-04-MV-084
'A Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Assistance in a GUI'
Maria Virvou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Katerina Kabassi, University of Piraeus, Greece

11:30 - 11:50 100030-04-YP-096
'Intelligent Software Agents in Plant Automation'
Alexei Bratoukhine, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yoseba K. Penya, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Thilo Sauter, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Plenary Speech
'Fuzzy Logic Methods in Robot Control'
Dr. Anibal Ollero, University of Sevilla, Spain
Time: 13:30 - 14:30
Room: Assembly Hall

Robot control can be considered at several levels including: motor axis control, coordinated joint control, trajectory control, task control and mission control. The design of a robot control system involves the kinematics and dynamics constraints of the robot, the characteristics of the environment and the interaction with the human operator. The control problems are greatly dependent of the available sensorial information: encoder angular position, inertial and navigation sensors (accelerometers, gyroscope, compass), position information (GPS, radio beacons), range sensors (laser, ultrasonics, infrared) and visual information (real-time image processing). Thus, sensor data fusion plays an important role in the implementation of robot control systems. It could be also noticed that human-robot interfaces and the interpretation of human commands are very relevant in tele-robotics applications. Fuzzy logic techniques have been widely applied for robot control including all the above mentioned levels and functions. Both rule-based Mamdani type controller and Takagi-Sugeno controllers have shown efficiency in robot control. The most common motivation of the fuzzy robot control applications reported in the literature are:

• Lack of knowledge of the involved physical models of the robot and/or the interacting objects, particularly when dynamic and time varying models are involved.
• Uncertainties in the environment perception.
• Availability of knowledge expressed in qualitative linguistic terms.
• Availability of human trainers that could operate the robot to generate input-output data which could be used to obtain fuzzy or neuro-fuzzy systems.

The application of fuzzy logic to both sensor data fusion and the generation of control commands is considered in the presentation. This presentation includes a number of video segments that show the performance of fuzzy and non-fuzzy controllers of robots such as Romeo 3R, Romeo 4R, an autonomous 16 tons truck and a robot for forestry.

Invited Session
'Intelligent System in Medicine'
Organized by
Prof.Dr. Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Dr. Vili Podgorelec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Time: 15:00 - 17:30
Room: 3.05

15:00 - 15:20 100030-04-TW-151
'Autonomous System for Increasing the Quality of Medical Data'
Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Boštjan Brumen, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Marjan Družovec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Matjaž Juric, University of Maribor, Slovenia

15:20 - 15:40 100030-04-DU-140
'An XML Multi-Agent System for the Collaborative Prediction of Protein Structures'
Alfredo Garro, DEIS - University of Calabria, Italy
Giorgio Terracina, DIMET - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Domenico Ursino, DIMET - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

15:40 - 16:00 100030-04-MD-150
'Handling Extensive Medical Data'
Marjan Družovec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Boštjan Brumen, University of Maribor, Slovenia

16:00 - 16:20 100030-04-VP-141
'Autonomous Agents for Classification in Health Care'
Vili Podgorelec, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ivan Rozman, University of Maribor, Slovenia

16:20 - 16:40 100030-04-BB-147
'Autonomous Estimation of Sample Size for Classification'
Boštjan Brumen, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Tatjana Welzer, Universit y of Maribor, Slovenia
Izidor Golob, Universit y of Maribor, Slovenia
Hannu Jaakkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

16:40 - 17:00 100030-04-MZ-143
'Building Decision Trees with Hybrid NN-DT Cascade Method'
Milan Zorman, University of Maribor, FERI, Slovenia
Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia

17:00 - 17:30 Discussion time

Technical Session
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems I
Time: 15:00 - 16:20
Room: 3.06
Chair: Nigel Crook

15:00 - 15:20 100030-04-CP-070
'An Autoassociative Neural Network Model Applied to Knowledge Extraction Tasks in Text Documents'
Clara Pérez, Spanish Distance Learning University, Spain
Carlos Mora, de, Spanish Distance Learning University, Spain

15:20 - 15:40 100030-04-DA-078
'Level Predictive Control for a Drum Boiler based on Fuzzy Model'
Daniela Andone, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania
Radu Dobrescu, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania
Sergiu S. Iliescu, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania
Andrei Hossu, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania
Matei Dobrescu, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania

15:40 - 16:00 100030-04-SA-086
'A Neural Fuzzy Controller for Moving Obstacle Avoidance'
Sami Al-Hasan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

16:00 - 16:20 100030-04-SR-091
'Local Maximum Ozone Concentration Prediction Using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks'
Sabrine Ribeiro, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
René Alquézar, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Friday September 27th

Objectives
Thorough overview on different approaches to realize fuzzy processing functions on various platforms. The focus is on creating fast hardware solutions for embedded applications requiring fuzzy inference. It is shown that implementing a (fast) fuzzy hardware is a relatively simple task if field-programmable-gate arrays (FPGAs) are used.

Background of participants
General knowledge of fuzzy system theory, digital computers and programming, digital systems design.

Instructor
Dr. Ivan Kalaykov is an Associate Professor and Head of the Intelligent Control Lab in the Center of Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) at Örebro University, Sweden. His research interests are fuzzy logic and vision based control, fuzzy hardware for fast processes. He has implemented a super fast fuzzy controller on FPGA able to operate at a 50 MHz sampling frequency. His experience includes computer-controlled systems, embedded systems and DSP applications for various industrial applications. His current research projects are in fast fuzzy logic based image processing for embedded real-time vision systems.

Technical Session
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems II
Time: 10:30 - 11:50
Room: 3.04
Chair: Nigel Crook

10:30 - 10:50 100030-04-AE-098
'ANN Based Sensor Fusion Strategy for Metal Cutting Processes Monitoring'
Abderrazak El Ouafi, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada

10:50 - 11:10 100030-04-MB-101
'A Comparison of Mulitlayer Perceptron Architectures to Predict the Values of Hydro-Power System Variables'
Mounir Boukadoum, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Hakim Lounis, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Vincent Siveton, CRIM, Canada

11:10 - 11:30 100030-04-EM-122
'Project Scheduling with a Multivalued Recurrent Neural Network'
Enrique Mérida Casermeiro, University of Malaga, Spain
Rafaela Benítez Rochel, University of Malaga, Spain
José Muñoz-Pérez, University of Malaga, Spain

11:30 - 11:50 100030-04-FC-139
'Intelligent System for Parallel Parking in Cars and Tractor-Trailers'
Fernando Gómez-Bravo, University of Huelva, Spain
Federico Cuesta, University of Seville, Spain
Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain

Technical Session

Robotics
Time: 10:30 - 12:50
Room: 3.05
Chair: Tjeerd olde Scheper

10:30 - 10:50 100030-04-QW-026
'New Solutions for Kidnapped Robot Problem in Markov Localization Algorithm'
QingXiang Wu, University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland, UK
David Bell, University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland, UK
Gongde Guo, University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland, UK

10:50 - 11:10 100030-04-AC-047
'An Adaptable Multirobot System Simulation Schema'
Ana Cruz, University of Malaga, Spain
Víctor Fernando Muñoz, University of Malaga, Spain
Alfonso García-Cerezo, University of Malaga, Spain

11:10 - 11:30 100030-04-EA-050
'A Fuzzy Perceptual Model for Ultrasound Sensors Applied to Intelligent Navigation of Mobile Robots'
Eugenio Aguirre, University of Granada, Spain
Antonio González, University of Granada, Spain
Raúl Pérez, University of Granada, Spain

11:30 - 11:50 100030-04-JF-060
'Assistive Navigation using a Hierarchical Model of the Environment'
Juan A. Fernández Madrigal, University of Malaga, Spain
Javier González Jiménez, University of Malaga, Spain
Cipriano Galindo, University of Malaga, Spain
Antonio Reina, University of Malaga, Spain
Antonio Muñoz, University of Malaga, Spain

11:50 - 12:10 100030-04-CD-080
'A CLP Approach for Assembly Sequence Planning'
Carmelo Del Valle, University of Sevilla, Spain
Eduardo F.Camacho, University of Sevilla, Spain
Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain

12:10 - 12:30 100030-04-JM-082
'Outdoor Path Tracking with Continuous Localization for the Mobile Robot Aurora'
Ricardo Molina-Mesa, University of Malaga, Spain
Jorge L.Martínez, University of Malaga, Spain

12:30- 12:50 100030-04-JF-124
'On Laparoscopic Robot Design and Validation'
Víctor F.Muñoz, University of Malaga, Spain
Jesús Gómez de Gabriel, University of Malaga, Spain
Jesús Fernández-Lozano, University of Malaga, Spain
Mohamed Azouaghe, University of Malaga, Spain
Isabel García Morales, University of Malaga, Spain
Carlos Pérez del Pulgar, University of Malaga, Spain