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Stuart Rubin
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SMCS Technical Committee on
Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems
Co-Chairs: Stuart H. Rubin and Shu-Ching Chen
by Stuart Rubin
The goal of the technical committee on knowledge acquisition
in intelligent systems is to advance the foundations upon which machine
intelligence may be based. The technical committee (henceforth the committee)
recognizes that any non-trivial intelligent system
necessarily embodies a collage of soft computing methodologies, which
calls forth the need to integrate the domain-specific technologies in
a maximally reusable object system. Towards this end, the committee
seeks to foster professional interaction through the medium of IEEE
sponsored conferences, innovative research through the medium of the
IEEE SMC transactions, and the seeding of an optimistic outlook through
support of a medley of eminent keynote speakers.
The IEEE Technical committee on Knowledge Acquisition
in Intelligent Systems was founded as a result of the high cost of getting
knowledge into neural, fuzzy, and expert systems. Part of the difficulty
stems from the problem of representing knowledge in a useable format,
transforming that representation to make the knowledge accessible to
different ontological mechanisms, and extending that body of knowledge,
thereby reducing the cost of acquisition. In particular, we extend knowledge
where it is needed and in a timely manner. This technical committee
not only supports the publication of novel research in this area, but
seeks to develop applications that result from the use of its principles.
For example, we look for answers to such basic questions
as
- how can we formally define and apply analogical reasoning in a
domain-general manner;
- what is the best way to learn Type II fuzzy functions;
- How can domain symmetry be exploited to greatly increase the number
of fundamental memories in an ensemble neural network;
- Can a metaphorical explanation subsystem be developed for a learning
expert system; and,
- How can one develop tractable version rule spaces for symbolic
knowledge?
The application domains for these developments cross
the sub-disciplines of medical and biological informatics, multimedia
search, image recognition, data fusion, language translation, speech recognition,
and the like.
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This year, there are three candidates competing for the 2006 IEEE
President-Elect.
Please see the position statement of each candidate by clicking their
names.
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IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecturer Program provides opportunities for
SMCS members to meet and interact with the following lecturers for
the year 2005: |
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Speaker: Donald E. Brown
Title: Learning from Simulations
Speaker: William A. Gruver
Title: Distributed Intelligent Systems: Technologies
and Applications
Speaker: Lawrence O. Hall
Title: Learning from Large Amounts of Data
Speaker: Tsu-Tian Lee
Title: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Speaker: Daniel S. Yeung
Title: Feature and Sample Reduction for Classification
Problems
Speaker: Mengchu Zhou
Title 1: Deadlock Control in Automated Manufacturing
Systems
Title 2: Clustered Water and Bio-signal Networks
- an Emerging Area for Systems, Man and Cybernetics Research
For more information about the DL program
please visit
DLP website
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for Applications and Recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers |
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The IEEE SMC Society is accepting
applications and recommendations for Distinguished Lecturers, Distinguished
Lecturers Program (Please visit DLP
websiteand the links therein). The successful candidates will
be appointed for a two year term to begin January 1, 2006, with
a possible two year extension. Potential applicants are encouraged
to send a biosketch, abstracts of two lectures, and availability
for lectures in 2006 to the Vice President of Memberships, Tsu-Tian
Lee president@ntut.edu.tw
The successful candidate must be a member of the SMC Society in
good
standing. All applications must be received prior to November 1,
2005. |
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WSC registration is now open! |
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The 2005 Winter Simulation Conference registration is now open.
Take advantage of the early registration savings and come join us
in Orlando, Florida (USA), December 4-7, 2005.
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| Congratulations
to the following members of the SMC Society who were elevated to the
IEEE Senior Member grade at the last meeting of the IEEE Admission
and Advancement Review Panel. |
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June
2005 Senior Member
Qilian Liang
Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin
Stanko Strmcnik
Tao Zhang
August 2005 Senior Member
Charles J. Kim
Joseph O. Palmiter
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