Seminar on New Trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing PhD Program: Design, Analysis and Applications of Intelligent Systems

Remembering Philippe Smets Thanks for your outstanding contributions as well as your humanity

The Seminar  Objectives: Presenting state of the arts Presenting new trends Showing a window to the researcher world

Thursday morning  10:30h Opening  10:45h Jay Liebowitz. Johns Hopkins University. USA "New Trends in Intelligent Systems“ "New Trends in Intelligent Systems“  11:45h Javier Montero. Universidad Complutense. Madrid "Some open problems in classification systems" "Some open problems in classification systems"

Thursday afternoon  16:00h Enrico Motta. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University. UK "The creation and use of semantics on the web" "The creation and use of semantics on the web"  17:15h Carlos Artemio Coello. Centro de Investigaciones Avanzadas - Instituto Politécnico Nacional México "Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization after 20 Years: Current State and Future Challenges" "Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization after 20 Years: Current State and Future Challenges"

Friday morning  10:00h Mounia Lalmas. Queen Mary University of London. UK "XML retrieval: A content-oriented perspective"  11:30h Rudolf Kruse. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. Germany Probabilistic and Possibilistic Graphical Models in Complex Applications Probabilistic and Possibilistic Graphical Models in Complex Applications  12:30h Round Table: "New trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft-Computing: questions and answers"  Closing

Some marketing …..  Research activities of the groups supporting the phd program in the last five years About 350 papers in SCI journals About 40 phD theses Have leaded more than 50 research projects  Students: 2004/2005: 59 phD students 2005/2006: 57 phD students

Organization committee Nicolás MarínNicolás Marín (Coordinator) Antonio Bailón - ARAIARAI Ignacio Blanco - IDBISIDBIS Jorge Casillas - SCIISSCIIS Manuel Gómez - UTAIUTAI David Pelta - MODOMODO José Manuel Puche - ISIS

Jay Liebowitz Johns Hopkins University  Prof. Liebowitz is a Full Professor in the Graduate Division of Business and Management at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Hopkins, he was the first Knowledge Management Officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Before NASA, Dr. Liebowitz was the Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Professor of Management Science at George Washington University, and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the U.S. Army War College.  He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems With Applications: An International Journal and the Founder/Chair of The World Congress on Expert Systems.  He has published 31 books and a multitude of articles dealing with expert/intelligent systems, knowledge management, and information technology management.  He is the Program Director for the new Graduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence in the Graduate Division of Business and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Fulbright Scholar, IEEE-USA Federal Communications Commission Executive Fellow, and Computer Educator of the Year (International Association for Computer Information Systems).

Javier Montero. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. España  Javier Montero is Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operational Research I at the Faculty of Mathematics, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Complutense University since  He is author of more than 50 research papers in refereed journals in the area of Artificial Intelligence, plus more than 50 papers as book chapters.  His research interests are in Preference Representation, Multicriteria Decision Making, Group Decision Making, System Reliability Theory and Classification problems, mainly viewed as application of Fuzzy Sets Theory.

Enrico Motta Open University. UK  Enrico Motta received his 1st Degree in computer science from the University of Pisa in Italy and his PhD in artificial intelligence from the Open University. He is currently Professor of Knowledge Technologies and Director of the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University in the UK, a center carrying out advanced research and development in areas related to knowledge media, such as Semantic Web services, organizational learning, telepresence, and agent technologies.  His main interest is in knowledge technologies, and his current research focuses on applying these technologies to support the creation and configuration of Semantic Web services and to facilitate knowledge capture, sharing, and publishing in organizations.  He has leaded several international projects such as -AKT - [Semantic Web and Knowledge Services] Advanced Knowledge Technologies -KnowledgeWeb - [Semantic Web and Knowledge Services] Ontology technology from Academia to Industry -OpenKnowledge - [Semantic Web and Knowledge Services] Open Architecture for Coordinated Knowledge Sharing -X-Media - [Semantic Web and Knowledge Services] Knowledge Sharing and Reuse across Media

Carlos Artemio Coello. CINVESTAV-IPN. Mexico  Carlos Artemio Coello Coello received a MSc and a PhD in Computer Science in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His PhD thesis was one of the first in the field now called "evolutionary multiobjective optimization".  Dr. Coello has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Plymouth Engineering Design Centre (in England) and a Visiting Professor at DePauw University (in the USA). He is currently full professor at CINVESTAV-IPN in Mexico City, Mexico.  He has published over 130 papers in international peer- reviewed journals and conferences. He has also co- authored and co-edited several books  He has delivered invited talks, keynote speeches and tutorials worldwide.  He actually serves as associate editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation" and as a member of the editorial boards of the journals "Evolutionary Computation", "Soft Computing", the "International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research" and "Engineering Optimization".

Prof. Mounia Lamas Queen Mary University of London  Prof Mounia Lalmas is a Professor of Information Retrieval at the Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, which she joined as a lecturer in  Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of intelligent access to interactive, heterogeneous and complex information spaces. Her areas of expertise include (1) logical modelling for information retrieval (IR), where she has developed meta-theories to formally reason about IR; (2) application of uncertainty theories, such as Dempster- Shafer's theory of evidence, for the modelling of IR tasks for Web, XML, and MPEG-7 retrieval; and (3) structured document retrieval, where she has developed generic approaches that capture structural and heterogeneous aspects.  Since 2002, she has been heading the international evaluation initiative for XML search methods (INEX). This is a large-scale project with over 50 participating organisations worldwide, responsible for defining the nature of XML retrieval, and how it should be evaluated.

Rudolf Kruse University of Braunschweig. Germany  Rudolf Kruse obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 1980, the venia legendi in Mathematics in 1984 from University of Braunschweig, Germany. Since 1996 he is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Magdeburg where he is leading the computational intelligence research group.  He has carried out research and projects in statistics, artificial intelligence, expert systems, fuzzy control, fuzzy data analysis, computational intelligence, and data mining. His research group is very successful in various industrial applications, currently he is involved in industrial projects with BMW, British Telecom, Deutsche Sparkasse and Volkswagen in the area of intelligent data analysis.  He has coauthored 12 monographs, 15 edited books, as well as 280 refereed technical papers in various scientific areas. He has been a plenary speaker to several utilities. He is associate editor of several scientific journals. Recently he became fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), and fellow of the Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE).

Round Table New trends on Intelligent Systems and Soft- Computing: questions and answers"  The impact of Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems in real life. Will they be omnipresent in current systems?  Artificial Intelligence: Where do we need more efforts? Basic research or development of engineering tools?  Do we need a good advertising campaign to bring Intelligent techniques to the real world audience?  Opportunities and challenges for young researches

Closing Thanks to all of you for your attendance (people coming from almost all the Comunidades Autónomas in Spain) Particularly, thank you very much to the invited speakers and the members of the organization committee Looking forward to seeing you next year!