1. Chair: Giovanni Acampora Vice-Chair: Bruno Di Stefano
Standards Committee
Chair: Giovanni Acampora
Vice-Chair: Bruno Di Stefano

2. Standards Committee Chair’s Plan in 2013
Managing the FML Standardization Process
Starting a new Standardization Process for ECML
Under evaluation by ECTC for IEEE CIS Sponsorship
Submission of a Project Authorization Request to IEEE Standard Association, after eventual ECTC approval
Starting a new Standardization Process for XES, a language for Process Mining
Motion at AdCom 2013 in Cancun for IEEE CIS Sponsorship
Submission of a Project Authorization Request to IEEE Standard Association
Other activities
Evaluating Software tools for Computational Intelligence (e.g. CILib – University of Pretoria, South Africa – and GUAJE – European Centre for Soft Computing, etc.)
Defining the standard process for asking the “IEEE CIS Standard Sponsorship”
Competitions (IJCNN, CEC), workshop (FUZZ-IEEE), special sessions (SSCI, other conferences) 2

3. Standards Committee
Members

4. Standards Committee
Members

5. Task Forces – A Little Revolution
Standards Committee
Task Forces – A Little Revolution
Starting from the FML Project, the Standards Committee has changed his main objectives and activities
Some changes in the Task Forces is necessary
Old Task Forces overlapped with other Task Forces in other Technical Committee
Old TF:
New Standards Proposal
Terminology and Taxonomy
Benchmarks and Competitions
Software Tools and Data Repository
Education Activities
New TF
Society Guidelines
Supervision of Standardization Process

6. Fuzzy Markup Language

7. TF on Supervision of Standardization Process
Standards Committee
TF on Supervision of Standardization Process
FML Standardization Process: the current Working Group (WG)
Giovanni Acampora Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Jose Maria Alonso University of Madrid, Spain
Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Sergio Guadarrama University of California – Berkeley, USA
Vladik Kreinovich University of Texas, USA
Enrique Héctor Ruspini European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain
Valerie Cross Miami University, USA
Trevor Martin University of Bristol, UK
Yanqing Ji Gonzaga University, USA
Xinyu Du General Motor, USA
Simon M Lucas University of Essex, UK
Dongrui Wu GE Global Research, USA
Chang-Shing Lee University of Tainan, Taiwan
Bruno Di Stefano Nuptek ltd., Canada
Kiyoto Hashimoto Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Plamen Angelov University of Lancaster, UK
Uzay Kaymak Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Autilia Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy
Chin Teng Lin National Chiao Tung University
Francisco Moreno-Velo Universidad de Huelva,Universidad de huelva
Bilgin,Aysenur University of Essex
Witold Pedrycz University of Alberta, Canada
Marek Reformat University of Alberta, Canada

8. TF on Supervision of Standardization Process
Standards Committee
TF on Supervision of Standardization Process
FML Standardization Process: the Workflow
January 2012 – PAR Accepted
April 2012 – FML WG Invitation from IEEE – SA
May 2012 – Definition of WG Policies and Procedures
June 2012 – Setup the FML Document repositories on IEEE SA Server
December 2012 – Policy and Procedures for FML Working Group has been voted by IEEE CIS Standard Committee under the supervision of IEEE Standards Association
January/February 2013 Tutorial IEEE SA about Central Desktop
January 2013 – June 2013 First FML WG Meeting
January 2013 – June 2013 Start the Standard Writing

9. Evolutionary Computation Markup Language
A Proposal for IEEE CIS Sponsorship for IEEE Standardization is currently under evaluation from Evolutionary Computation TC

10. TF on New Standards Proposal
Standards Committee
TF on New Standards Proposal
ECML Standardization Process:
TF involved: New Standard Proposal
TC involved: ECTC
Activities: In order to optimize the ECML workflow, we would like to apply a “pipeline” approach with FML process. In this way, we will use the FML experience for speeding up ECML proposal submission.
The PAR for ECML has been proposed.
The Sponsorship Motion will be evaluated together with ECTC in June 2013

11. TF on New Standards Proposal
Standards Committee
TF on New Standards Proposal
ECML PAR (Sections relevant for AdCom voting):
5.2 Scope: The scope of the standard for ECML is primarily to define the various elements for a UML-based language that allows practitioners and researchers to model problem-specific genotypes in order to use evolutionary algorithms without the need to write code in any low-level programming language. This includes the definition of a corresponding XML schema that allows encoding of problem-specific models in a standardized and exchangeable format.
5.4 Purpose: An Evolutionary Computing Modeling Language (ECML) facilitates rapid development of problem solving applications while minimizing the need for low-level programming. In the context of problem solving, specialization is an important issue. ECML allows to incorporate problem-specific information into the genotype models thus allowing suitable solvers to exploit this information in order to more effectively solve a problem at hand. In addition, the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is used to encode ECML genotype models. This facilitates flexibility and exchangeability as one solver can easily be replaced by another as long as it understands ECML.
5.5 Need for the Project: Currently, users of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) need to manually hard-code problem- specific information in order to improve the performance of the EA. Although various EA libraries have been made available in recent years in an attempt to ease the development burden there is still a significant amount of low- level programming that needs to be done. Furthermore, every solver has its own way of encoding and representing genotypes. A standardized modelling language that defines how genotypes are encoded would have several advantages. First, it would make it possible to exchange solvers without having to do any programming (as long as the EA conforms to ECML). Second, a high-level descriptive language would enable the designer to incorporate as much problem-specific information as needed to effectively solve the problem. ECML would effectively separate problem-specific information from the implementation of an EA.

12. Proposal for IEEE CIS Sponsorship for IEEE Standardization
The XES Language
Proposal for IEEE CIS Sponsorship for IEEE Standardization

13. TF on New Standards Proposal
Standards Committee
TF on New Standards Proposal
XES Standardization Process:
TF involved: New Standard Proposal
TC involved: Data Mining Technical Committee
The PAR for XES will be written before May 20th.
The Sponsorship Motion will be voted at AdCom in June 2013

14. A Motion for requiring IEEE CIS Sponsorship for XES Standardization
Standards Committee
A Motion for requiring IEEE CIS Sponsorship
for XES Standardization
Motion:
To start the standardization process for the process mining technology, named XES, and provide this process with the IEEE CIS Standardization Sponsorship.
PROs: IEEE CIS Committee on Standards, Data Mining TC (Strong support)
CONs: N/A
ACTIONs: Submitting the Project Authorization Request to IEEE Standards Association
FINANCIAL IMPLICATION: N/A
IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE: Available as soon. Waiting for IEEE SA feedback.

15. Thank you