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A talk by Professor Ernst Gabidulin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

<p>A talk by Professor Ernst Gabidulin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia</p> 2005-06-07 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 07 June Jun 06 2005 13 00 2005-06-07 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 07 June Jun 06 2005 14 00 Tuesday 07 June 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 38

A talk by <a href="http://www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi/">Professor Hisao Ishibuchi</a>, Osaka University, Japan

<p>A talk by <a href="http://www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi/">Professor Hisao Ishibuchi</a>, Osaka University, Japan</p> <p>Download <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/ishibuchi_talk.ppt">Professor Ishibuchi's powerpoint presentation</a></p> 2005-09-01 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 01 September Sep 09 2005 13 00 2005-09-01 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 01 September Sep 09 2005 14 00 Thursday 01 September 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 37

A talk by <a href="http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/staff/nickola.htm">Professor Nik Kasabov</a>, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

<p>A talk by <a href="http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/staff/nickola.htm">Professor Nik Kasabov</a>, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</p> <p>Download <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/kasabov_talk.ppt">Professor Kasabov's powerpoint presentation</a></p> 2005-09-07 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 September Sep 09 2005 13 00 2005-09-07 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 September Sep 09 2005 14 00 Wednesday 07 September 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 36

By <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/hagras_bio.pdf">Dr Hani Hagras</a>, University of Essex

<p>By <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/hagras_bio.pdf">Dr Hani Hagras</a>, University of Essex</p> <p>Embedded agents are embedded computational artefacts integrated with intelligent reasoning and learning mechanisms. The embedded agents are able to personalise themselves to the user's needs and preferences by learning from their behaviour and thus configuring and controlling the user's environments on their behalf. Thus these agents can reduce the cognitive load associated with configuring and programming ubiquitous computing environments to create Ambient Intelligence. Due to the limited processing power and memory capacities of embedded computers, the intelligent mechanisms that are used in embedded-agents have to be computationally undemanding. Moreover, the intelligent approaches applied should have transparent internal representations such that their learnt behaviours and decisions can be represented in the form of human readable rules which are accessible to the end user.</p> <p>This talk will introduce different novel AI techniques that can be used in the agents like type-2 fuzzy logic. The talk will also present the application of these agents to create ambient intelligence within smart environments and the talk will present results obtained from the real test bed of the Essex iDorm.</p> 2005-11-17 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 17 November Nov 11 2005 13 00 2005-11-17 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 17 November Nov 11 2005 14 00 Thursday 17 November 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 35

A talk by <a href="http://mlab.uiah.fi/~jscheib/">Jurgen Scheible</a>, Media Lab at University of Arts and Design Helsinki, Finland

<p>A talk by <a href="http://mlab.uiah.fi/~jscheib/">Jurgen Scheible</a>, Media Lab at University of Arts and Design Helsinki, Finland</p> 2005-12-05 13:00:00 Monday Mon 05 December Dec 12 2005 13 00 2006-10-18 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 18 October Oct 10 2006 14 00 Mon 05 December 2005 - Wed 18 October 2006 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 34

A talk by Michael Haley, <a href="http://www.bp.com/home.do?categoryId=1">BP International</a>, Chief Technology Office

<p>A talk by Michael Haley, <a href="http://www.bp.com/home.do?categoryId=1">BP International</a>, Chief Technology Office</p> 2006-02-09 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 09 February Feb 02 2006 13 00 2006-02-09 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 09 February Feb 02 2006 14 00 Thursday 09 February 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 33

A talk by <a href="http://public.rz.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/%7Eklawonn">Professor Frank Klawonn</a>, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany

<p>A talk by <a href="http://public.rz.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/%7Eklawonn">Professor Frank Klawonn</a>, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany</p> 2006-04-05 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 April Apr 04 2006 13 00 2006-04-05 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 April Apr 04 2006 14 00 Wednesday 05 April 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 32

By <a href="http://www.cs.ugal.ro/%7Ebocanialac/english/index.html">Dr. Cosmin Danut Bocaniala</a>

<p>By <a href="http://www.cs.ugal.ro/%7Ebocanialac/english/index.html">Dr. Cosmin Danut Bocaniala</a></p> <p>The talk focuses on a novel distributed methodology for complex causal systems. Here, a complex system represents a system whose global behaviour, which emerges from the interactions between its usually large number of basic components, is difficult to be accurately described via state-of-the-art modeling techniques. The methodology imitates the manner humans perform reasoning when confronted with mastering complex systems. The monitored complex system is partitioned into minimally separated and causally independent parts that can be separately modeled and understood.</p> <p>The fact that each region is causally independent from the rest of the model, allows allocating a dedicated local agent to each region, that will be able to perform the required task at local level. However, the local agents exchange information between them via partition's borders. The methodology provides minimal complexity for the communication process between agents. The research performed so far indicates that the methodology can be successfully applied for a variety of purposes on complex systems, which feature causal relationships between their basic components. During presentation, application examples from Fault Diagnosis, Particle Swarm Optimization and Autonomous Agents areas will be provided.</p> 2006-05-16 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 16 May May 05 2006 13 00 2006-06-16 14:00:00 Friday Fri 16 June Jun 06 2006 14 00 Tue 16 May - Fri 16 June 2006 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 30

A talk by Professor Jim Kyle, Bristol University

<p>A talk by Professor Jim Kyle, Bristol University</p> 2006-06-08 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 08 June Jun 06 2006 13 00 2006-06-08 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 08 June Jun 06 2006 14 00 Thursday 08 June 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 29

A talk by Professor Les Barclay

<p>A talk by Professor Les Barclay</p> 2006-06-20 12:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 June Jun 06 2006 12 00 2006-06-20 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 June Jun 06 2006 13 00 Tuesday 20 June 2006, 1200-1300 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 28

By Dr. Gary Abel, British Antarctic Survey

<p>By Dr. Gary Abel, British Antarctic Survey</p> <p>There is a growing body of work that shows scale free behaviour in a wide range of phenomena in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system. These observations include the AE indices, magnetic fields, electric fields, auroral brightenings, convection flows and magnetic structures associated with reconnection. They have been analysed using a variety of techniques including spectral analysis, threshold crossings and structure function analysis. This seminar presents some analysis of convection velocities measured by the SuperDARN radar which show scale free complex behaviour. These results will be discussed in the wider context along with some of the implications of scale free behaviour in the Magnetosphere. These implications affect both the way we view the system and the framework within which we should view observations.</p> 2006-07-06 11:00:00 Thursday Thu 06 July Jul 07 2006 11 00 2006-07-06 12:00:00 Thursday Thu 06 July Jul 07 2006 12 00 Thursday 06 July 2006, 1100-1200 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 27

By Dr Edwin Lughofer, Johan Kepler University, Linz, Austria

<p>By Dr Edwin Lughofer, Johan Kepler University, Linz, Austria</p> <p>In nowadays industrial systems there are quite a lot requirements for an incremental modelling of system behaviours from data. These requirements arise due to a fast tracking of dependencies between system variables with online recorded measurements or due to huge data-bases which cannot be loaded into virtual memory at once. Improving the process security by extending already available models to new operating conditions or by adjusting them on the basis of some feedback from operators is an important issue as well.</p> <p>In this talk algorithms for a data-driven incremental learning of fuzzy models are demonstrated. The main focus is given to fuzzy basis function networks (as a specific type of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models), but some aspects how to extend the approach to other types of fuzzy models are illuminated as well. A modified version of vector quantization is exploited for rule evolution and an incremental learning of the rules' premise parts. The modifications include the generation of new clusters due to the nature, distribution and quality of new data, point-wise update of already existing clusters and an alternative distance strategy for selecting the most adjacent clusters for each new incoming sample. The premise part learning is connected in a stable manner with a recursive learning of rule consequent functions possessing linear parameters. Stability can be achieved by preventing the 'unlearning' effect in case of steady states and by ensuring that a suboptimal solution of the parameters can be achieved which is close to the optimal one in the least squares sense (i.e. with respect to least squares as underlying optimization function). Some aspects about maintaining the interpretability of the trained fuzzy models round off the algorithmic part of the talk. The second part is focussed on applications of data-driven evolving fuzzy models in industrial systems. These applications include online identification for high-dimensional static and dynamic data, online fault detection, refinement of expert-knowledge based fuzzy systems with data and model-based (inverse and predictive) control. Some evaluation results for online identification and fault detection are mentioned.</p> 2006-09-12 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 12 September Sep 09 2006 14 00 2006-09-12 15:00:00 Tuesday Tue 12 September Sep 09 2006 15 00 Tuesday 12 September 2006, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 26

A talk by Dr Mike Warrington, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester

<p>A talk by Dr Mike Warrington, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester</p> 2006-09-19 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 19 September Sep 09 2006 13 00 2006-09-19 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 19 September Sep 09 2006 14 00 Tuesday 19 September 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 25

By Professor Maria Petrou, Imperial College, London

<p>By Professor Maria Petrou, Imperial College, London</p> <p>The human vision system has been the inspiration for many computer vision approaches. However, the human vision system has its limitations.</p> <p>The talk will concentrate on methods used to allow us to see characteristics in the data that are not obvious to the human eye. It will show examples of 3D texture analysis for MRI data and also results of tumour boundary detection using high order statistics.</p> 2006-10-26 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 26 October Oct 10 2006 14 00 2006-10-26 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 26 October Oct 10 2006 15 00 Thursday 26 October 2006, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 24

A talk by Dr George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, University of London

<p>A talk by Dr George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, University of London</p> 2006-12-06 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 13 00 2006-12-06 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 14 00 Wednesday 06 December 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 81

Electron Heating in the D region and Mesosphere: A Progress Report

<p>Electron Heating in the D region and Mesosphere: A Progress Report</p> <p>presented by Dr. Mike Rietveld from EISCAT, Tromso, Norway</p> <p>Powerful radio-wave heating of electrons in the D region is one of the oldest known effects in ionospheric heating experiments.</p> <p>It was used since the 1950s in the largely forgotten wave-interaction experiments for probing D region densities and collision frequencies. Since the 1980s the effect has been used to modulate ionospheric conductivities and currents, thereby radiating ELF and VLF waves. Since the late 1990s it was found that electron heating affects the strength of polar mesopsheric summer echoes, with both increases and decreases of the echo amplitude being possible.</p> <p>Within the last few years even polar mesospheric winter echoes as low as 62 km can be modified, thus extending the diagnostic use of HF heating facilities. Nevertheless several gaps in our knowledge remain. For example measuring the effect of heating on the incoherently scattered signal from the D region has proved elusive, as has measuring the heating effect on riometers.</p> <p>The theory, results, and ideas for future experiments related to these effects are discussed.</p> 2007-02-07 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 2007-02-07 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 February Feb 02 2007 15 00 Wednesday 07 February 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 80

The artificial auroras: Wave-particle interactions without boundaries

<p>The artificial auroras: Wave-particle interactions without boundaries</p> <p>by Dr. Mike Kosch from Communications Systems Department</p> <p>Abstract </p> <p>High-power high-frequency radio waves cause plasma turbulence in the Earth's ionosphere, which accelerates electrons, causing particle collisions, resulting in artificial auroras. The optical emissions give direct evidence of the electron energy spectrum. This work contributes to understanding solar corona heating, solar wind acceleration and the energisation of magnetospheric particles, which ultimately cause the natural aurora, and to space weather phenomena, which directly contribute to spacecraft failure.</p> <p>venue: Physics Department</p> 2007-02-14 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 2007-02-14 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 15 00 Wednesday 14 February 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 Lancaster University 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 23

Effects of the Ionosphere on Space Based Radars

<p>Effects of the Ionosphere on Space Based Radars</p> <p>Prof. Paul S. Cannon</p> <p>Chief Scientist </p> <p>Communications Division</p> <p>Centre for Propagation and Atmospheric Research</p> <p>QinetiQ</p> <p>The presentation will start by introducing the principles of space based synthetic aperture radars together with a summary of the effects that the ionosphere can have on satellite to ground transmissions. The presentation will then go on to describe some measurements which have been made of channel impulse response of the ionosphere near 150 and 400 MHz.</p> <p>This is first determination of ionospheric distortion, comprising the simultaneous characterization of both multipath and Doppler, on wideband, transionospheric VHF and UHF signals. The measurements took place as part of the test phase of the United Kingdom-United States Wideband Ionospheric Distortion Experiment during the evening (1000 UT) of 18 January 2005. This characterization has been achieved using the ALTAIR radar at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll (9.395 N, 167.469 E (12.87 N, 237.16 E corrected geomagnetic)) in the Pacific, in conjunction with a low Earth orbiting, constant radar cross-section, passive satellite (calibration sphere). During the period when the two-way S4 index was above 0.8 on both channels, the median coherency times were 43 and 96 ms at VHF and UHF, respectively (at 1.5s). The corresponding median coherency bandwidths were 0.8 and 2.1 MHz.</p> <p>These measurements will be compared with theoretical calculations.</p> 2007-02-15 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 15 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-15 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 15 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 Thursday 15 February 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 94

by Bjorn Gustavsson from Norway

<p>by Bjorn Gustavsson from Norway</p> 2007-05-08 15:30:00 Tuesday Tue 08 May May 05 2007 15 30 2007-05-08 16:30:00 Tuesday Tue 08 May May 05 2007 16 30 Tuesday 08 May 2007, 1530-1630 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 93

A seminar by DR. Edwin Lughofer from Johanes Kepler Univeristy, Linz, Austria visiting Fellow of the Royal Society (host: Dr. P. Angelov)

<p>A seminar by DR. Edwin Lughofer from Johanes Kepler Univeristy, Linz, Austria visiting Fellow of the Royal Society (host: Dr. P. Angelov)</p> <p>An On-Line Interactive and Self-Adaptive Image</p> <p>Classification Framework</p> <p>Edwin Lughofer</p> <p>edwin.lughofer@jku.at, http://www.flll.jku.at/people/staff/lughofer.html</p> <p>Johannes Kepler University Linz</p> <p>Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria</p> <p>Abstract</p> <p>In many machine vision applications, such as inspection tasks for quality control, an automatic system tries to reproduce</p> <p>human cognitive abilities. The most efficient and flexible way to achieve this, is to learn the task from a human expert. This</p> <p>training process involves object recognition methods, adaptive feature extraction algorithms and evolving classifiers. A lot of</p> <p>research has been done on each of these topics, however, simply plugging all of these methods together does not necessarily lead</p> <p>to a working machine vision system.</p> <p>In this talk, a generic self-adaptive image classification framework is presented, focussing on integration issues and on topics</p> <p>that are specific to quality control applications. The framework is shown in Figure 1. The basic components of these framework</p> <p>are the following:</p> <p>• Generating contrast images by calculating the deviation images to the master</p> <p>• Recognizing ROIs (=regions of interest) in the deviation images</p> <p>• An adaptive object and aggregated feature extraction component (object features characterize single objects, whereas aggregated</p> <p>features characterize whole images)</p> <p>• Training of (initial) base classifiers for aggregated and object features (! aggregated and object classifiers) based on off-line</p> <p>pre-labeled image sets</p> <p>• Ensemble Classifiers for resolving contradictory input among different operators</p> <p>• Strategy for on-line classification of new images (incorporating object, aggregated and ensemble classifiers)</p> <p>• On-line adaptation/evolution of base and ensemble classifiers (based on operator's feedback during on-line mode)</p> <p>• Early prediction of success or failure of a classifier</p> <p>Each of these components will be addressed during the talk.</p> <p>At the end of the talk some results on real-recorded images in various industrial systems will be presented. These results will</p> <p>include a comparison of object recognition methods as well as off-line and on-line classification accuracies and achievable bounds</p> <p>(from base and ensemble classifiers) based on (off-line) pre-labeled data and operator's feedback during on-line operation mode.</p> 2007-05-24 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 24 May May 05 2007 13 00 2007-05-24 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 24 May May 05 2007 14 00 Thursday 24 May 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 100

Research Seminar by Dr. Saqib Ali.

<p>Research Seminar by Dr. Saqib Ali.</p> 2007-06-15 10:00:00 Friday Fri 15 June Jun 06 2007 10 00 2007-06-15 11:00:00 Friday Fri 15 June Jun 06 2007 11 00 Friday 15 June 2007, 1000-1100 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 101

A talk presented jointly by the expert from Guidance & Control Group, Departemnt of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Cranfield University (Defence Academy of the United Kingdom) Dr. John Economou.

<p>A talk presented jointly by the expert from Guidance & Control Group, Departemnt of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Cranfield University (Defence Academy of the United Kingdom) Dr. John Economou.</p> 2007-07-04 12:30:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 12 30 2007-07-04 13:30:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 13 30 Wednesday 04 July 2007, 1230-1330 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 92

A seminar by Theo Davies from La Trobe University, Australia

<p>A seminar by Theo Davies from La Trobe University, Australia</p> 2007-07-12 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 12 July Jul 07 2007 14 00 2007-07-12 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 12 July Jul 07 2007 15 00 Thursday 12 July 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 97

Richard Vinter, Imperial College London

<p>Richard Vinter, Imperial College London</p> <p> </p> <p>One of the most important areas of application of nonlinear filtering is to Bayesian target tracking: that is, estimating the position of a target from noisy sensor measurements. In this area, linear Gaussian models are commonly used to describe motion of the target and sensor platform. The estimation problem is typically non-linear because of the nature of the measurement process which, depending on the precise nature of the application, provides noisy information about angle-to-line-of-sight (or bearing), range or range rate, all of which quantities are nonlinear functions of target position.</p> <p> </p> <p>Traditional approaches to target tracking are based on the application of the Kalman filter to a linearization of the underlying equations about current estimates (the extended Kalman filter approach). However, the Kalman filter breaks down (fails to provide convergent estimates) when applied to many challenging tracking problems involving, perhaps, multiple sensor platforms or degenerate configurations where the measurements provide very little information about some aspects of target motion. This accounts for the great interest in recent years in particle filters; according to this approach the conditional density, on which estimates of target position are based, is approximated by a discrete distribution obtained by carrying out on-line Monte Carlo tests. The ability of particle filters to provide useful estimates for difficult tracking problems where extended Kalman filters are inadequate is now well documented. Their main disadvantage however is the large computation requirements of such tracking algorithms. The question therefore arises whether tracking algorithms can be devised which achieve the accuracy of particle filters for difficult tracking problems but whose computational demands are comparable to those of Kalman filters. We show that, if we focus on specific classes of tracking problems, 'bearings only' tracking or 'range only' tracking for example, this goal is achievable. The filters however need to be tailored to the geometric structures of the measurement process concerned. We examine the performance of new filters, devised at Imperial College according to these principles, in collaboration with Martin Clark. We illustrate their benefits in a range of challenging scenarios where particle filters are computationally expensive, and where the extended Kalman filter fails altogether.</p> 2007-10-25 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 October Oct 10 2007 13 00 2007-10-25 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 October Oct 10 2007 14 00 Thursday 25 October 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 208

The phrase "digital obesity" summarises a range of problems arising from our propensity to generate and retain a rapidly growing volume of data, at web-scale as well as at corporate and personal scales. Much of this data is effectively wasted unless we can find and use the "right" data when needed.

<p>The phrase "digital obesity" summarises a range of problems arising from our propensity to generate and retain a rapidly growing volume of data, at web-scale as well as at corporate and personal scales. Much of this data is effectively wasted unless we can find and use the "right" data when needed.</p> <p>Statistical methods help to a degree with numerical data, although they sometimes "average out" useful information. Textual data is less amenable to formal treatment. To a large degree, the problem arises from a mis-match between the precisely defined terms used by formal models of data storage and retrieval and the far more subtle and expressive terms used in human communication. We are adept at communicating in a language where the majority of concepts are fuzzy, defined by common usage rather than by necessary and sufficient conditions. It is only when we interact with computers that we adapt our way of thinking to artificial precision. We need to redress this balance, so that computers adapt to our way of thinking.</p> <p>The success of fuzzy control is one example of the way in which fuzzy set theory enables computers to work with commonly understood terms such as "hot" and "slow" rather than with precise numerical values.</p> <p>This talk describes some ways in which fuzziness enables computers to work with ill-defined concepts, leading to more effective use of text- based information in business and other situations.</p> <p>Trevor Martin is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol. Since 2001 he has been funded by BT as a Senior Research Fellow, researching soft computing in intelligent information management including areas such as the semantic web, soft concept hierarchies and user modelling. In addition, he has investigated the use of intelligent data analysis for extracting information from home sensor networks.</p> <p>He is a member of the editorial board of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and has served on many conference programme and organising committees, including programme chair for the 2007 IEEE Fuzzy Systems Conference.</p> <p>He has published over 200 papers in refereed conferences, journals and books, and is a Chartered Engineer and member of the BCS and IEEE</p> 2008-07-02 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 13 00 2008-07-02 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 14 00 Wednesday 02 July 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 209

The seminar will present theoretical developments in the area of blind source separation (BSS), also known as independent component analysis (ICA).

<p>The seminar will present theoretical developments in the area of blind source separation (BSS), also known as independent component analysis (ICA).</p> <p>BSS and ICA address those situations where mixtures of a set of unknown source signals are available and the problem is to extract the original source signals from these observed mixtures without the knowledge of the mixing matrix.</p> <p>In the case of linear, instantaneous mixtures, the received signals, y, can be written as y = A*x, where x represents the unknown original source signals and A is the unknown mixing matrix. It will be demonstrated that independent source signals can be extracted using higher-order statistics (HOS).</p> <p>BSS and ICA have many potential applications in diverse fields. The seminar will present theoretical developments as well as examples of simulation, demonstration, and real-world examples.</p> <p>speaker:</p> <p>Prof. Asoke K Nandi</p> <p>David Jardine Chair of Signal Processing</p> <p>Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics</p> <p>The University of Liverpool</p> <p>Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GJ, UK</p> 2008-07-10 11:30:00 Thursday Thu 10 July Jul 07 2008 11 30 2008-07-10 12:30:00 Thursday Thu 10 July Jul 07 2008 12 30 Thursday 10 July 2008, 1130-1230 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 214

A talk by Jose Antonio Iglesias from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain).

<p>A talk by Jose Antonio Iglesias from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). </p> <p>Knowledge about computer users is very beneficial for assisting them, predicting their future actions or detecting masqueraders. Thus, to create and recognize the behaviour profile of a computer user is an interesting task.</p> <p>However, a challenge in this task is how to accurately profile a user while his/her behaviour changes constantly. Thus, a user profile should be frequently revised to keep it up to date. In order to solve this problem, Evolving System can be very helpful.</p> <p>This talk describes a way to create the model of computer user behaviour and classify it using Evolving Systems. In order to tackle this task, computer user behaviour is represented as the sequence of the commands s/he types. This sequence of commands is transformed into a distribution of relevant subsequences in order to find out a profile that defines its behaviour. Then, an evolving system is applied for classifying the profile.</p> <p>Jose Antonio Iglesias is teaching assistant at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He received his Master´s degree in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain). He has several papers about behaviour modelling and classification, especially in two different environments (RoboCup and UNIX User). Related to the RocoCup environment, he participated in the RoboCup Coach Competition 2006 held in Bremen (Germany). His research interests include evolving intelligent systems, modelling behaviour and their applications in real problems.</p> 2008-07-18 13:00:00 Friday Fri 18 July Jul 07 2008 13 00 2008-07-18 14:00:00 Friday Fri 18 July Jul 07 2008 14 00 Friday 18 July 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 210

seminar by Prof. Heung-Gyoon Ryu from Chungbuk National University, Korea

<p>seminar by Prof. Heung-Gyoon Ryu from Chungbuk National University, Korea</p> <p>speaker: </p> <p>Position: Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea</p> <p>Prof. Ryu is the recipient of the "2002 ACADEMIC AWARD" from the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society (Institute)</p> <p>His fields of Interest include:</p> <p>- New next generation mobile communication, B3G/4G</p> <p>- MIMO system with OFDM for next generation mobile communication</p> <p>- Low Power communication for Satellite and HAPS</p> <p>- Spread Spectrum System , AJ and LPI Technology</p> <p>- Communication Signal Processing.</p> <p>- GPS, WLAN, Mobile Ad-hoc Network, Wireless Sensor Network.</p> <p>- High performance PLL Design and Application</p> <p>- CDMA System Design and Adaptive Modulation System</p> <p>- PLC(power line communication) and Home Networking, etc . . .</p> <p>- </p> <p>From 1988 until now, Professor Ryu has published over 230 papers IEEE and Korea domestic journals, over 50 papers in international and domestic conferences. He has finished or now proceed over 35 research projects from Korea government, ETRI, ADD and Samsung, LG, etc. paper review, book publication, . . .). He graduated 13 Ph.D students and 77 M.S students (2 from Vietnam and 2 from China). Now, He is advising professor of 4 M.S. students and 6 Ph.D students </p> <p>Publication Lists (within recent 5 years):</p> <p>- 24 IEEE and IEE Transaction papers</p> <p>- Submitted papers to IEEE (under review): 32 papers</p> <p>- International conference papers: over 25 papers</p> <p>- Domestic regular journal papers: about 55 papers</p> <p>- Domestic conference papers: about 12 papers</p> <p>- Submitted or registered Korea patents: 16 patents</p> <p>- USA patent : 1</p> <p>- Canada patent : 1</p> <p>- European Patent : 3</p> 2008-08-20 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 August Aug 08 2008 13 00 2008-08-20 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 August Aug 08 2008 14 00 Wednesday 20 August 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 234

Wireless Video Transmission:

<p>Wireless Video Transmission: </p> <p>from joint source and channel coding to cross-layer design</p> <p>Dr. Maria Martini</p> <p>Senior Lecturer in wireless and mobile communications </p> <p>Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics </p> <p>Kingston University </p> <p>Penrhyn Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames</p> <p>London, KT1 2EE, UK </p> <p>Phone: +44 (0) 20 8547 7900 </p> <p>Fax: +44 (0) 20 8547 7972 </p> <p>e-mail: mgmartini@ieee.org </p> <p>m.martini@kingston.ac.uk</p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Recently, joint source and channel coding and decoding (JSCC/D) techniques that include a co-ordination between source and channel encoders were investigated, in particular for transmission of audio data, images and video over wireless channels. It was shown that, for wireless audio and video transmission, separate design of source and channel coding is usually not optimal, nor it is always applicable, in particular when transmitting data with real-time constraints or operating on sources whose encoded data bit error sensitivity varies significantly. With joint source and channel coding, the transmission system can be adapted to source characteristics, either at channel coding level or through source adaptive modulation. JSCC/D techniques may require the use of rate/distortion curves or models of the source in order to perform the optimal compromise between source compression and channel protection. Similarly, source compression and resilience can be adapted to channel and network characteristics. Joint source and channel coding involves joint design of the source encoder, at the application layer, and of channel encoder/modulator, at the physical layer. In order to realistically perform JSCC/D, it is thus necessary to allow the flow of information to be exchanged in the transmission system and a cross-layer approach is needed. Cross layer design is a recent further evolution of the concept of joint source and channel coding, targeting at jointly designing the classically separated OSI layers. Characteristics and limits of such approach will be described, together with approaches proposed by the speaker and under study in the WMN group in Kingston University.</p> 2008-10-27 13:00:00 Monday Mon 27 October Oct 10 2008 13 00 2008-10-27 14:00:00 Monday Mon 27 October Oct 10 2008 14 00 Monday 27 October 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 276

The application of fuzzy logic (FL) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in modelling and control of complex, non-linear and time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands marks recently a considerable progress. The aim of the lecture is to present some basic theory and research results, related with the development and implementation of PI-like fuzzy logic and fuzzy neural controllers.

<p>The application of fuzzy logic (FL) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in modelling and control of complex, non-linear and time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands marks recently a considerable progress. The aim of the lecture is to present some basic theory and research results, related with the development and implementation of PI-like fuzzy logic and fuzzy neural controllers. </p> <p>First, the essence of ANNs and some applications in modelling and control is discussed. Then, fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic are introduced and employed in building PI-like fuzzy logic process controller. Next, the process of anaerobic digestion of organic waste is studied. For this non-linear complex plant: 1) an ANN plant predictor is suggested; 2) a two-level fuzzy logic controller is designed, consisting of a primary fuzzy controller and a supervisory fuzzy controller for autotuning of the scaling factors; 3) a Sugeno ANN is trained on the basis of the fuzzy two-level controller in order to make a simple neural-fuzzy controller (NFC); 4) finally the Sugeno NFC is combined with the ANN plant predictor in the feedback to further improve the control system performance. </p> <p>Results from simulation and real time control using MATLAB facilities are presented and the control system performance estimated and compared with the performance of designed ordinary PI controller system.</p> 2009-02-25 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 February Feb 02 2009 13 00 2009-02-25 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 February Feb 02 2009 14 00 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 31

By <a href="http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/%7Epld/">Dr. Pier Luigi Dragotti</a>, Imperial College, London, UK

<p>By <a href="http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/%7Epld/">Dr. Pier Luigi Dragotti</a>, Imperial College, London, UK</p> <p>The paradigm of point-to-point communications is well established, and dates back to the seminal work of Shannon. With the recent advances of the sensor network technology, a new paradigm for signal processing and communication is emerging and this will have a dramatic impact on the way we acquire and process signals and the way we transport and reconstruct them.</p> <p>In particular, since sensors are low-power devices and communication bandwidth is critical, there are new trade-offs between accuracy, compression, computation and transmission power that need to be investigated.</p> <p>In this talk, we consider the case of camera sensor networks and discuss the entire signal processing pipeline: distributed data acquisition, distributed data compression and data reconstruction at the receiver. We first introduce the plenoptic function that well models the spatio-temporal structure of the visual data and study its sampling. We then focus on the problem of distributed compression and propose a distributed compression scheme that allows for a flexible allocation of bit-rates amongst the sensors. Finally, the data fusion problem is discussed and new results on image super-resolution and scene segmentation are presented.</p> <p>We also briefly analyze the fundamental trade-offs between the reconstruction fidelity, the number and locations of cameras and the overall compression rate.</p> <p>This is joint work with N. Gehrig (ICL), Jesse Berent (ICL), Loic Baboulaz (ICL), M. Gastpar (UC&Berkeley) and M. Vetterli (EPFL).</p> 2009-06-01 13:00:00 Monday Mon 01 June Jun 06 2009 13 00 2009-06-01 14:00:00 Monday Mon 01 June Jun 06 2009 14 00 Monday 01 June 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 302

This talk will focus on compositional methods for modelling vehicular traffic and on distributed estimation methods for real time traffic systems.

<p>This talk will focus on compositional methods for modelling vehicular traffic and on distributed estimation methods for real time traffic systems. </p> <p>Compositional models describing the evolution of the traffic density, and possibly also of the average speed of traffic, in different sections of a road network, are proposed. Hybrid models - combining discrete event models with very simple continuous evolution equations - allow compact modelling of fairly complicated behaviour.</p> <p>In many cases road traffic controllers will have available a fairly large, but often an inaccurate and unreliable, set of measurements of the traffic state at the current time. Combining the on-line measurements with the compositional models we develop recursive estimators for the traffic state, and detection of faults (sensor faults, or traffic incidents). Particle filtering and other Bayesian techniques can be used. Distributed implementations of the estimation algorithms make possible their application in practice. Finally, these state estimates can be used for on-line control actions, e.g., synchronising traffic in closed loop.</p> 2009-06-25 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 June Jun 06 2009 13 00 2009-06-25 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 June Jun 06 2009 14 00 Thursday 25 June 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 96

A talk by Dr. José Juan Macías Hernández

<p>A talk by Dr. José Juan Macías Hernández</p> <p>Dept. Engineering Chemistry</p> <p>Universidad de La Laguna,</p> <p>Spain</p> <p>Dr. José Macías is currently Head of Process Engineering Department at an Oil Refinery based in Tenerife and Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands. </p> <p>He has 20 plus years of experience in both industry and academia. In the Refinery, he has being responsible for the design and commissioning of advanced control applications using Multivariable Predictive Control and Expert Systems Applications for Operators guidance. </p> <p>In the university he is responsible for the tuition of Simulation and Optimization of Chemical engineering Processes and Petroleum Technology subjects. </p> <p>He has given several in-house advanced control courses using rigorous dynamic simulation. He is founder of an engineering company dedicates to programming, simulation and control in chemical engineering.</p> <p> </p> <p>His research interest is mainly dedicated to the fields of soft sensors and chemical engineering optimisation.</p> 2009-07-13 14:00:00 Monday Mon 13 July Jul 07 2009 14 00 2009-07-13 15:00:00 Monday Mon 13 July Jul 07 2009 15 00 Monday 13 July 2009, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 429 Professor Gregory Kabatyanskiy Institute for Information Trnasmission Problems, RAS, Moscow

In this talk we prove initial results on the proportion of "mutated" coordinates that can be tolerated under the IPP property. The talk is based on a joint work with A. Barg, G.R. Blakley and C. Tavernier.

<p>In this talk we prove initial results on the proportion of "mutated" coordinates that can be tolerated under the IPP property. The talk is based on a joint work with A. Barg, G.R. Blakley and C. Tavernier.</p> <p>An n-word y over a finite alphabet is called a descendant of a set U of t words (called "parents") if each coordinate of y coincides with the same coordinate of at least one of these t words. A code C is said to have the t-identifying parent property (t-IPP) if for any word y that is a descendant of at most t parents belonging to the code it is possible to identify at least one of them. The existence of good t-i.p.p. codes is known from earlier works. </p> <p>We introduce a strong version of this problem under which some of the coordinates in y can break away from the descent rule ("mutate") , i.e., can take arbitrary values from the alphabet, or become completely unreadable.</p> 2010-02-05 13:00:00 Friday Fri 05 February Feb 02 2010 13 00 2010-02-05 14:00:00 Friday Fri 05 February Feb 02 2010 14 00 Friday 05 February 2010, 1300-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 423 Dr Mosa Ali Abu-Rgheff Reader in Mobile Communications, University of Plymouth

Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) provide safety on the road and deliver road traffic information and route guidance to drivers along with commercial applications.

<p>Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) provide safety on the road and deliver road traffic information and route guidance to drivers along with commercial applications.</p> <p>However the challenges facing VANET are numerous. Nodes move at high speeds, road side units and base-stations are scarce, the topology is constrained by the road geometry and changes rapidly, and the number of nodes peaks suddenly in traffic jams.</p> <p>In this talk, I will focus on issues related to the physical and link layers of VANET to achieve high data rates and high throughput.</p> <p>For the physical layer, we examine the use of multiple antennas installed on top of the vehicles structured in Vertical BLAST (VBLAST) systems to provide higher capacities in rich fading environments. To study the capability of the proposed system, a vehicular channel model was developed from a rich scattering environment.</p> <p>However, the performance of VBLAST system drops as the line of sight strength increases due to the correlation between the antennas. The analysis of VLAST-OFDM systems showed that they experience an error floor due to intercarrier interference (ICI) which increases with speed, number of antennas transmitting and number of subcarriers used.</p> <p>The IEEE 802.11p MAC layer standard, under development for VANET, uses a variant of Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). IEEE 802.11 protocols were evaluated to prove the saturation throughput of the basic access method drops as the number of nodes increases thus yielding very low throughput in congested areas.</p> <p>RTS/CTS access provides higher throughput but it applies only to unicast transmissions.</p> <p>To overcome the limitations of 802.11 protocols, we designed a protocol known as SOFT MAC which combines Space, Orthogonal Frequency and Time multiple access techniques. In SOFT MAC the road is divided into cells and each cell is allocated a unique group of subcarriers. Within a cell, nodes share the available subcarriers using a combination of TDMA and CSMA. The throughput analysis of SOFT MAC showed it has superior throughput compared to the basic access and similar to the RTS/CTS access of 802.11.</p> 2010-05-18 12:00:00 Tuesday Tue 18 May May 05 2010 12 00 2010-05-18 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 18 May May 05 2010 13 00 Tuesday 18 May 2010, 1200-1300 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 468 Professor Snejana Yordanova Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria; e-mail: sty@tu-sofia.bg; http://web.hit.bg/syordanova

The fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) mark a considerable progress in controlling complex, non-linear, time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands

<p>The fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) mark a considerable progress in controlling complex, non-linear, time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands</p> <p>Since their emergence in the area of process control the FLCs design is constantly being improved laying it out on theoretical grounds and making it more general and simple.</p> <p>Different structures of model-free and T-S model-based FLCs and approaches have been suggested for treating together fuzzy system stability and uncertainty for the purposes not only of analysis but also of design.</p> <p>The aim of this lecture is to present some results from the research of the author and her team on development and implementation of various types PI-like model-free process FLCs for robust control of complex industrial plants with time delay.</p> <p>An effort has been made to treat together in the frequency domain the stability and the performance of a fuzzy control system of a plant with time delay and model uncertainties, provoked by plant complexity and shift of the operating point along the smooth non-linear plant characteristics due to disturbances, changes in the operating mode and time-varying plant properties.</p> <p>Another research goal is to offer a simple and transparent both FLCs and FLCs design in order to make controllers and their design feasible and easy to complete in industrial PLCs. </p> <p>Robust stability and robust performance criteria are derived by extending the Popov stability criterion for the case of a fuzzy control system and combining it with Morari robustness considerations, employing experts estimates of simple nominal plant model with time delay and plant uncertainties model.</p> <p>These criteria lay the theoretical foundations for the developed simple and objective FLC design and parameter tuning procedure. The design starts with a single input - the signed distance, fuzzy controller (SI FC), making use of its crucial advantages for application of the Popov and Morari techniques - 1-D uniquely determined rule base, a sector bounded non-linear control curve and a reduced number of tuning parameters. Then it is extended to other sole and two-input FLCs. A model of the procedure is derived using LSM and feedforward ANNs to automate the PLC implementation of the design.</p> <p>The design procedure is assessed by applying it for the control of the inside temperature of a laboratory-scale dryer using MATLAB real-time and Siemens SIMATIC PLC. A comparison of the fuzzy closed loop system performance with the performance of a designed ordinary PI controller system underlines the advantages of the fuzzy system. An extension to the case of multivariable FLCs is suggested which is tested for the control of an aerodynamic plant (laboratory-scale helicopter). </p> <p>Brief biography of the speaker:</p> <p>Snejana Yordanova - MEng in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Control) and Ph.D. holder from the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), a full-time Associate Professor with the Department of Process Control, Faculty of Automation, TUS; TUS ECTS expert</p> <p>Member of the Union of Automatics and Informatics in Bulgaria and the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS)</p> <p>Teaching activity - process control, fuzzy control, control systems, elements of industrial automation, modelling and simulation, MATLAB</p> <p>Scientific and research interests - application of the robust, fuzzy logic and neural network approaches to system modelling, simulation and control under uncertainties in the areas of oil refining, milk processing, wastewater treatment; measurement systems; thermal power plants</p> <p>Publications:</p> <p>papers - over 120 (in journals Int. Sc. J. of Computing, WSEAS Trans. on Systems, WSEAS Trans. on Circuits and Systems, J. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia, IEEE Trans. Instrum. and Measurement, Transactions of the Institute of Meas. and Control, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Int. J. of Automation and Control, Advances in Physics, Electronics and Signal Processing Applications, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, Bioprocess Engineering, Problems of Eng. Cybernetics and Robotics, Automatica & Informatics, Proceedings of the Technical University of Sofia, Technical Review, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, etc.); </p> <p>textbooks 8 and manuals 4, </p> <p>Research and education projects 18; </p> <p>Coordinator and guest lecturer in 8 Erasmus-Socrates projects (Spain, Italy, Sweden, UK, Portugal).</p> <p>Supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students</p> <p>Member of organising and international scientific committees of conferences (WSEAS, IDAACS, IFAC, UIEEE, "Challenges in Research and Education of 21-st century"- Bulgaria, etc.); co-editor of proceedings; reviewer for journals (WSEAS, Automatica, IEEE, etc.).</p> 2010-05-20 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 20 May May 05 2010 13 00 2010-05-20 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 20 May May 05 2010 14 00 Thursday 20 May 2010, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 481 Dr. Mario Gongora Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester

At the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester, we are working in a collaborative thinking process using a project in progress, the Virtual Romans (VR). Around the VR project we can discuss a new approach in engaging the understanding at basic level and the analysis at research level of the same subject.

<p>At the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester, we are working in a collaborative thinking process using a project in progress, the Virtual Romans (VR). Around the VR project we can discuss a new approach in engaging the understanding at basic level and the analysis at research level of the same subject.</p> <p>In the standard state of mind, research informs basic education; being a one-way process. Now we attempt to have the education and the research work together at the same level and cross feed. Technology provides the simulation of a virtual environment, where an artist designs the look and feel. With this collaboration, the VR project aims to create a simulation a Roman settlement in Britain at a specific date and location, where people can interact with the characters and researchers can use it to study this particular piece of our history.</p> <p>For the purpose of engaging in the study of history, we can make the virtual characters look like Romans; but for the purpose of research, we cannot make them think like Romans. By creating the characters using our intelligent agents Rational-Reactive (RaRe) approach we can use them to induce naïve and unprejudiced observes to interact with the Roman environment and spontaneously attempt to think like a roman type character; using the natural desire to interact with them, and historical cues to guide their behaviour.</p> <p>With a combination of the RaRe methodology and a biologically inspired memory model we create a powerful evolvable intelligent behaviour simulation, which allows the virtual characters to learn from the interactions with naïve observers. With our collaborative thinking process, we attempt to create an environment where we can use our known constraints and research to validate and guide the structure of the historical simulation, and hence the creation of small details of history as it should have happened in those times.</p> 2010-06-03 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 03 June Jun 06 2010 14 00 2010-06-03 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 03 June Jun 06 2010 15 00 Thursday 03 June 2010, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 470 Dr. James Llinas, Research Professor, Executive Director Center for Multisource Information Fusion, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

Information Fusion is a still-maturing area of research even after some 30 years of study and application. The processes and capabilities of Information Fusion have however proven to have wide and even extraordinary types of successful application, but crafting such processes and capabilities has been shown to require a multidisciplinary team, ranging from those expert in sensors and signal processing and communication to those expert in decision science and cognitive engineering.

<p>Information Fusion is a still-maturing area of research even after some 30 years of study and application. The processes and capabilities of Information Fusion have however proven to have wide and even extraordinary types of successful application, but crafting such processes and capabilities has been shown to require a multidisciplinary team, ranging from those expert in sensors and signal processing and communication to those expert in decision science and cognitive engineering.</p> <p>Grasping the concepts of Information Fusion across this multidisciplinary spectrum is thus a bit of a challenge and this talk will try to clarify those ideas. The talk will also present a portrait of the multidisciplinary sciences necessary for integrated Information Fusion system development, as well as some system-level architectural strategies.</p> <p>Brief remarks will be made about the professional Information Fusion community and its publications, conferences, and societal aspects, all of usual interest to academics. While progress has been made as noted, there are many modern research and application challenges that will require innovative to revolutionary progress, and a view of those challenges will conclude the talk.</p> <p>the talk's PPT are displayed at www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/angelov/industry.htm</p> 2010-07-26 11:00:00 Monday Mon 26 July Jul 07 2010 11 00 2010-07-26 12:00:00 Monday Mon 26 July Jul 07 2010 12 00 Monday 26 July 2010, 1100-1200 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> 997 to-the-cloud-from-your-office-and-beyond-your-own-horizon Stuart Coulson Secarma

This talk takes you on a journey from the office to the world of cloud computing, examining the questionable advantages of BYOD (bring your own devastation), and looking at how far you can go to protect your cloud and business online. Plus a look down the full technology supply chain to spot the competitive advantage of security throughout the entire process.

<p>This talk takes you on a journey from the office to the world of cloud computing, examining the questionable advantages of BYOD (bring your own devastation), and looking at how far you can go to protect your cloud and business online. Plus a look down the full technology supply chain to spot the competitive advantage of security throughout the entire process.</p> <p> </p> <p>2012 has been an interesting year for data security with BYOD hitting the headlines, cloud computing becoming a more mature hosting solution and major security breaches occurring from lower down the value chain. Secarma would like to show you how this jigsaw puzzle is constructed and how it pieces together.</p> <ul class="link"><li> <a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/education/guest_lectures/stuart_coulson.php">Read More</a></li></ul> <h4>Watch the talk summary</h4> <p><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3OcODg4AYBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> <h4>Watch the full talk</h4> <p><iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YAOXl1rNA18" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p> 2012-10-11 10:00:00 Thursday Thu 11 October Oct 10 2012 10 00 2012-10-11 11:00:00 Thursday Thu 11 October Oct 10 2012 11 00 Thursday 11 October 2012, 1000-1100 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p> http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1349358207.jpg 75 75 1021 guest-talk-from-ian-glover Ian Glover Council of Registerd Ethical Security Testers (CREST)

The talk will describe:

<p>The talk will describe:</p> <ul> <li>The need for professionalization within the technical information assurance industry </li><li>Why there is such a good opportunity to enter the industry </li><li>The professional qualifications that are available for students to aim for once they have entered the industry </li><li>Examples from current penetration testers in different points in their career </li><li>Government and private sector schemes </li><li>Opportunities for Internships and junior roles </li><li>Student CREST membership and opportunities to apply for CREST awards through the university. </li></ul> <p>Ian will give his talk in C74 in InfoLab</p> <ul stle="link"><li style="more"><a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/education/guest_lectures/ian_glover.php">More Details</a></li> <li style="more"><a href="http://ianglover271112.eventbrite.co.uk/">Register</a></li></ul> 2012-11-27 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 27 November Nov 11 2012 14 00 2012-11-27 15:00:00 Tuesday Tue 27 November Nov 11 2012 15 00 Tuesday 27 November 2012, 1400-1500 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars <p>An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend.</p>