FRONTIERS

2003 BISC FLINT-CIBI INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP
ON
SOFT COMPUTING FOR INTERNET AND BIOINFORMATICS

FLINT-CIBI 2003; Dec 15-19, 2003

FLINT-CIBI 2003: Tutorials;  Dec 19, 2003

306 Soda Hall; HP Auditorium, EECS
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Monday, December 15, 2003

Soft Computing Techniques/Methodologies/Tools

8:00 - 8:10	Welcome Prof. Shankar Sastry (EECS-Chair) Prof. Jitendra Malik (CS-Chair)	306 Soda Hall
8:10 - 8:15	Opening Remarks Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (BISC Director) Dr. Masoud Nikravesh (FLINT-CIBI Chair) Prof. Nikola Kasabov (FLINT-CIBI Chair)	306 Soda Hall
8:15 - 09:00	Prof. Mo Jamshidi Applications of Soft Computing: Control, Robotics, Simulation and Image Processing
9:00 - 10:15	Dr. Dilip Kotak, Prof. William A. Gruver Collaborative Agent Systems for Distributed Automation Dr. John A. Meech Computational Intelligence and Modelling in Materials Science and Processing
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:15	Prof. Sankar K. Pal Machine Intelligence, Granular Computing and Data Mining	306 Soda Hall
11:15 - 12:15	Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Prof. Mohammad Khoshnevisan An Evolutionary Computing Approach to Minimize Dynamic Hedging Error Prof. Mohammad Khoshnevisan and Sukanto Bhattacharya A Proposed Fuzzy Optimal Control Model to Minimize Target Tracking Error in a Dynamic Hedging Problem with a Multi-Asset, Best-of Option Prof. Florentin Smarandache, Prof. Mohammad Khoshnevisan Fuzzy Logic, Neutrosophic Logic, and Applications
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15	Prof. Burhan Turksen Belief and Fuzziness: Re-structuring Epistemology	306 Soda Hall
2:15 - 3:15	Prof. Syozo Yasui Pruning, Selective Binding and Emergence of Internal Models:Applications to ICA and Analogical Reasoning Dr. Souad Bensafi, Gamil Serag-Eldin, Dr. Masoud Nikravesh BISC-DSS: Evolutionary Computing–based Multi–Aggregator Fuzzy Decision Trees and optimization
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:15	Dr. Juan C. Meza LBNL - NERSC	306 Soda Hall
4:15 - 5:30	Prof. Mihaela Ulieru Emergent Information Infrastructures for Intelligent Distributed Systems : Mirroring the Universe and Life in Cyberspace Prof. Thomas Sudkamp Fuzzy temporal predicates in data mining Prof. Victor Korotkikh   (15 minutes)    Fuzzy Logic in the Modelling of Structures and Functions of Protein Sequences
5:30 – 5:45	Break
5:45 - 6:30	Panel of Experts: Soft Computing W. Gruver D. Kotak J. Meza S. Pal S. Yasui B. Turksen	306 Soda Hall
7:00 - 9:00p	Reception	Wozniak Loun

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Computation Intelligence Techniques/Methodologies/Tools

08:00 - 08:15	Opening Remark	306 Soda Hall
08:15 - 09:00	Dr. Enrique H. Ruspini Qualitative Description of Complex Objects
09:00 - 10:15	Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy CIRTIS Program Prof.  Lotfi A. Zadeh World Knowledge and Fuzzy Logic
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30 -11:15	Dr. Frank Olken Graph Data Management for Biology	306 Soda Hall
11:15 -12:15	Prof. Lawrence J. Mazlack Causality Recognition For Data Mining In An Inherently Ill Defined World Prof. S-M. Vincent Tseng A Framework for Effective Gene Expression Analysis and Biological Knowledge Discovery
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15	Prof. Amit Sheth Semantics Powered Bioinformatics: Semantic Search, Integration, Processes and Analytics	306 Soda Hall
2:15 - 3:15	Prof. Miguel Delgado Mining Fuzzy Association Rules: an Overview Dr. Galina Korotkikh (15minutes) Fuzzy Spectral Patterns for Information Integration in a Search Engine F. Olcay Cirit, Prof. Sema Alptekin,  Dr. Masoud Nikravesh (15 minutes) Automated Consumer Profiling using Fuzzy Query and Social Network Techniques
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:15	Dr. Horst D. Simon Soft Computing and Current Trends in Supercomputing	306 Soda Hall
4:15 - 5:30	Prof.  Mo Jamshidi Some Opportunities for Soft Computing Applications Prof. Paul P. Wang Fuzzy Logic for Genetic Networking Yonathan Asfaw,  Dr. Martine De Cock, Dr. Masoud Nikravesh (15 minutes) Performing region detection using simple fuzzy agents
5:30 – 5:45	Break
5:45 - 6:30	Panel of Experts: Computational Intelligence R. Bajcsy M. Jamshidi E. Ruspini A. Sheth H. Simon L. A. Zadeh	306 Soda Hall

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Wednesday, December 17. 2003

Bioinformatics

08:15 - 09:00	Prof. Nikola Kasabov Knowledge Based Neurocomputing for Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics	306 Soda Hall
09:00 - 10:15	Dr. Chris Ding Principal Component and Self-aggregation Clustering of Gene Expressions and Protein Interactions Dr. Michael R. Berthold Mining Imprecise Discriminative Molecular Fragments
10:15 -10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:15	Prof. C. Anthony Hunt A Decentralization Method For Modeling The Multiple Levels Of Organization And Function Within The Liver	306 Soda Hall
11:15 - 12:15	Prof. Voula C. Georgopoulos Augmented Fuzzy Cognitive Maps based on Case Based Reasoning for Decisions in Medical Informatics Prof. Adam Gaweda Soft Computing Methods for Drug Dosing in Chronic Anemia
12:15 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:15	Prof. Nikola Kasabov and Liang Goh NeuCom – A Neuro Computing Environment for Evolving Intelligence	306 Soda Hall
2:15 - 3:15	Dr. Yanqing Zhang Hybrid Fuzzy Neural Networks for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Prof. Rainer Unland Multi-Agent system and soft computing technologies as a fruitful symbiosis for reliable medical diagnoses
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:15	Prof. James Keller Soft Computing Tools for Gene Similarity Measures in Bioinformatics	306 Soda Hall
4:15 - 5:30	Dr. Isabelle Guyon Applications of Variable and Feature Selection in Bioinformatics Prof.  Sunanda Mitra, Shuyu Yang Adaptive Clustering in Medical Image Segmentation as a Diagnostic Tool
5:30 - 5:45	Break
5:45 - 6:30	Panel of Experts: Bioinformatics M. Berthold I. Guyon A. Hunt N. Kasabov Y. Zhang	306 Soda Hall
7:00 – 9:00	Dinner	Pomegranate Mediterranean*

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Thursday, December 18, 2003

Search Engine & Internet

08:15 - 09:00	Dr. Peter Norvig Google^TM	306 Soda Hall
09:00 - 10:15	Dr. Marcus Thint Research and Applications of Soft Computing at BT Exact Dr. Robert I. John The Role of User Modelling in Information Retrieval from the  WWW
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:15	Babak Hodjat Evolution of the Laws that Deal with the Utilization of Information Networks	306 Soda Hall
11:15 - 12:15	Prof. Alexander Ryjov Basic Principles of Information Monitoring Systems Prof. Tomohiro Takagi, Dr. Masoud Nikravesh BeMySearch: Concept-Based Search Engine Multimedia
12:00 - 01:30	Lunch Break
01:30 - 02:15	Danis Yadegar ARSIN	306 Soda Hall
02:15 - 03:15	Dr. Charles Ortiz Context-directed information access Prof. Olfa Nasraoui Web user profiling and web personalization based on data mining and soft computing
03:15 - 03:30	Break
03:30 - 04:15	Dr. James G. Shanahan Mining opinion	306 Soda Hall
04:15 - 05:30	Dr. Martine De Cock, Sergio Guadarrama, Dr. Masoud Nikravesh Constructing Fuzzy Thesauri for the WWW : application to BeMySearch Andrey Kolobov, Daniel Kuo, Dr. Martine De Cock, Dr. Masoud Nikravesh On Similarity Measures and Pruning Strategies for Fuzzy Ontologies Yuchun Tang, Yanqing Zhang Genetic Fuzzy Neural Agents Using Type-2 Fuzzy Reasoning for Intelligent Web Information Search Task
05:30 - 05:45	Break
05:45 - 06:30	Panel of Experts: Internet and Search B. Hodjat P. Norvig T. Takagi M. Thint J. Shanahan D. Yadegar	306 Soda Hall

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Friday, December 19, 2003
TUTORIALS

9:00 - 10:30	Dr. M. Berthold Intelligent Data Analysis	306 Soda Hall
10:30 -10:45	Break
10:45 -12:00	Dr. C. Ding Bioinformatics	306 Soda Hall
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00	Dr. Isabelle Guyon Feature Extraction and Feature Selection Challenge	306 Soda Hall
3:00 - 3:15	Break
3:15 - 4:30	Prof. L.A. Zadeh and Dr. M. Nikravesh,  Soft Computing Soft Computing Techniques/Methodologies/Tools	306 Soda Hall

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