ICONS 2003 Final programme

07-04-2003

17:00 - 19:00, Registration

08-04-2003

08:00 - 08:30, Registration

08:30 - 09:00, Opening Ceremony

09:00 - 10:00, (PTuM)-Plenary session

• DATA MINING, NEURAL NETWORKS AND RULE EXTRACTION
  Jacek M. Zurada

10:00 - 11:00, (TuMA1)-Fuzzy Logic in modelling, systems identification and control I

• IMPLEMENTATION OF A STABLE INDIRECT FUZZY CONTROLLER
  Omar Sánchez, Aníbal Ollero
• CHAOTIC TIME-SERIES PREDICTION USING WAVELET DESCRIPTORS-BASED NEUROFUZZY NETWORKS
  L.J. Nunes, J.M.G. Sá da Costa
• FEEDFORWARD FUZZY CONTROL FOR REPETITIVE TASKS WITH VARYING PARAMETERS
  M. Olivares, A. Sala, P. Albertos

10:00 - 11:00, (TuMB1)-Robotics I

• CONTINOUS CURVATURE PATH GENERATION FOR PARALLEL PARKING MANOEUVRES BASED ON BETA-SPLINE CURVES
  F. Gómez-Bravo, F. Cuesta, Aníbal Ollero
• ROBUST POSE ACQUISITION METHOD USING RANGE MEASUREMENTS IN STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS
  E. Delgado, A. Barreiro
• ROBUST ROBOT CONTROL ENHANCED BY A HIERARCHICAL ADAPTIVE FUZZY ALGORITHM
  Hassan M. Emara, Abdel Latif Elshafei

11:00 - 11:20, Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:20, [Special session] (TuMA2)-Advances in Learning for Soft Computing Systems I

• GENETIC LEARNING METHODS FOR ENHANCED NON-LINEAR PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES MODELLING
  Sanjay K. Sharma, Uwe Kruger, George W. Irwin
• A RECURSIVE PREDICTION ERROR LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR IIR-MLP NETWORKS
  T.G. Barbounis, J.B. Theocharis

11:20 - 12:20, (TuMB2)-Medical Applications

• PREDICTION OF ARTHRITIS USING A MODIFIED KOHONEN MAPPING AND CASE BASED LEARNING
  L. Boullart, S. Sette, B. Wyns, D. Baeten, I. Hoffman, F. De Keyser
• MEASURING PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE IN NEURAL DETECTION OF HEART ATTACKS
  Paul C. Wilson, George W. Irwin, John V. Lamont, S. Peter Fitzgerald, Geraldine McMahon
• METHOD OF MODELLING AND TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS BASED ON WAVELET NETWORKS
  Wei-dong Zhou, Lei Jia, Ke Yu

12:20 - 14:00, Lunch

14:00 - 15:00, (PTuA)-Plenary session

• A COMPARISON OF VARIOUS SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES IN MODEL IDENTIFICATION OF HIGH COMPLEXITY SYSTEMS
  L.T. Kóczy

15:00 - 16:20, (TuAA1)-Neural networks in modelling, systems identification and control I

• FEED-FORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS IN A REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION OF A PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER
  Miguel Ayala Botto, Ton J.J. van den Boom, Peter Hoekstra
• ADAPTIVE NEUROFUZZY CONTROL AND ITS STABILITY FOR NOISE-FREE NONLINEAR SYSTEMS
  W.K. Yeung, C.W. Chan, K.C. Cheung
• MULTIVARIABLE OUTPUT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION CONTROL FOR NON-GAUSSIAN STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS USING SIMPLE MLP NEURAL NETWORKS
  Hong Wang

15:00 - 16:20, (TuAB1)-Optimisation Methods

• COUNTINUOUS FUNCTION OPTIMISATION USING A HYBRID SPLIT PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM
  P.B. de Moura Oliveira
• A CONDITION NUMBER MINIMISATION APPROACH TO THE ALSTOM GASIFIER PROBLEM
  Saeed Tavakoli, Ian Griffin, Peter J. Fleming
• OPTIMIZATION OF LOGISTIC PROCESSES USING PREDICTIVE ANTS
  C. Silva, J.M. Sousa, T.A. Runkler, J.M.G. Sá da Costa

16:20 - 16:40, Coffee Break

16:40 - 18:00, [Special session] (TuAA2)-Advances in Online Learning

• SEQUENTIAL LEARNING USING DIRECT LINK DECOMPOSED RBF NEURAL NETWORKS
  Vijanth S. Asirvadam, Seán F. McLoone, George W. Irwin
• FUNCTION ESTIMATION IN HILBERT SPACE USING SEQUENTIAL PROJECTIONS
  Tony J. Dodd, Visakan Kadirkamanathan, Robert F. Harrison
• BAYESIAN LOCAL PREDICTION
  K.W. Lau, Q.H. Wu
• MULTI-AGENT LEARNING WITHIN AN INTERNET ENVIRONMENT
  P.R.J. Tillotson, Q.H. Wu, P.M. Hughes

16:40 - 18:00, (TuAB2)-System Identification

• GENETIC ALGORITHM IDENTIFICATION OF A FLEXIBLE PLATE STRUCTURE
  I.Z. Mat Darus, M.O. Tokhi
• A CASE BASED COMPARISON OF IDENTIFICATION WITH NEURAL NETWORK AND GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODELS
  Jus Kocijan, Blaz Banko, Bojan Likar, Agathe Girard, Roderick Murray-Smith, Carl Edward Rasmussen
• NEURAL MODELLING AND PREDICTION OF A DISK GRINDING PROCESS
  James J. Govindhasamy, Seán F. McLoone, George W. Irwin, John J. French, Richard P. Doyle
• FROM MULTIPLE MODEL NETWORKS TO THE GAUSSIAN PROCESSES PRIOR MODEL
  Gregor Gregorcic, Gordon Lightbody

19:00 - 21:45, Welcome Reception

09-04-2003

09:00 - 10:00, (PWeM)-Plenary session

• OPTIMIZATION AND MACHINE LEARNING IN INDUSTRY
  David Schaffer

10:00 - 11:00, (WMA1)-Design methodologies

• A LOCAL CONTROLLER NETWORK WITH GUARANTEED GLOBAL STABILITY
  Qinghao Rong, George W. Irwin
• FUZZY ROBUST STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE FOR FUZZY PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTY
  J. Bondia, J. Picó, A. Sala
• HARDWARE FUZZY CONTROLLER FOR THE ROBOT LINK WITH FRICTION
  Maciej Petko

10:00 - 11:00, (WMB1)-Neural networks in modelling, systems identification and control II

• CMAC: RECONSIDERING AN OLD NEURAL NETWORK
  Gábor Horváth
• ADAPTIVE FORECASTING OF IRREGULAR DEMAND PROCESSES
  José Luís Carmo, António J.L. Rodrigues
• NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MODEL-BASED CONTROL
  Stefania Tronci, Alberto Servida, Roberto Baratti

11:00 - 11:20, Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:20, [Special session] (WMA2)-Advances in Learning for Soft Computing Systems II

• MOBILE ROBOT CONTROL USING GENERALIZED DYNAMICS FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS
  Meng Joo Er, C Deng
• OPTIMIZATION USING LEARNING AUTOMATA AND CONFIDENCE PROBABILISTICS
  Enso Ikonen
• INTEGRATING A MACHINE LEARNING TOOL AND AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT: EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION FOR BEHAVIOUR FUSION
  JBB Botía, Humberto Martínez-Barberá, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta

11:20 - 12:20, (WMB2)-Industrial Applications

• MODELLING OF A FED-BATCH ENZYME FERMENTATION PROCESS
  Ulla Saarela, Kauko Leiviskä, Esko Juuso, Antti Kosola
• EXPERIENCES WITH INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF SOFT COMPUTING AND HYBRID AI APPROACHES TO PROCESS MONITORING
  Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela
• COMPARISON OF TWO ADAPTIVE NEURO FUZZY TECHNIQUES IN MODELING AND CONTROLING A KILN
  José António Barros Vieira, Alexandre Manuel Mota

12:20 - 14:00, Lunch

14:00 - 15:00, (PWeA)-Plenary session

• NEARLY OPTIMAL STATE FEEDBACK CONTROL OF CONSTRAINED NONLINEAR SYSTEMS USING A NEURAL NETWORK HJB APPROACH
  Frank L. Lewis, Murad Abu-Khalaf

15:00 - 16:40, [Poster session] (PWe)-Poster Session

• A DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO PCB ASSEMBLY OPTIMIZATION FOR A SURFACE MOUNTER
  Tae-Hyoung Park, Dong-Man Kim
• FUZZY SLIDING-MODE CONTROL FOR UNCERTAIN SISO SYSTEMS
  Abdelaziz Hamzaoui, Najib Essounbouli, Janan Zaytoon
• MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUZZY DESIGN OF A LATERAL AUTOPILOT FOR A QUASI-LINEARPARAMETER VARYING MISSILE
  Evan J. Hughes, Antonios Tsourdos, Brian A. White
• ROBUST CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR INTERVAL PLANTS FROM SIGNAL ENERGY POINT OF VIEW USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS
  Chen-Chien Hsu, Chih-Yung Yu, Wei-Yen Wang
• A HYBRID AUTONOMOUS ROBOT NAVIGATION METHOD BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES
  László Kiss, Annamaria R. Varkonyi-Koczy, Maria da Graça Ruano
• APPLICATION OF FUZZY ENHANCE ADAPTIVE CONTROL ON ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM
  Shiuh-Jer Huang, Chiang-Wei Lin
• PREDICTING THE PRODUCT YIELDS PROFILE OF AN ETHYLENE PYROLYSIS FURNACE
  Qiang Zhou, Yongmao Xu
• FAULT DIAGNOSIS WITH UNCERTAIN INFORMATION. APPLICATION TO DIESEL ENGINES
  J.L. Chacón, V. Macián, A. Sala
• FUZZY LOGIC AND OPTIMAL CONTROL DESIGN TO AN AUTOMATIVE ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM
  Mehdi Farahmand, Caro Lucas, M.J. Yazdanpanah
• MULTICRITERIA DECISIONS WITH QUALITATIVE INFORMATION.
  A. Blanco, M. Delgado, J. Martín, M. Polo

16:20 - 16:40, Coffee Break

16:40 - 18:00, [Special session] (WAA2)- Advances in Construction of Fuzzy/Neurofuzzy Models

• NEUROFUZZY MODEL CONSTRUCTION AND KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION USING SUBSPACE DECOMPOSITION
  C. J. Harris, X. Hong
• CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF COMPLEX HYBRID NEURO-FUZZY MODELS FOR AL-MG MATERIALS PROPERTIES PREDICTION
  M. F. Abbod, Q. Zhu, D.A. Linkens, C.M. Sellars, M. Mahfouf
• ROBUST IDENTIFICATION FOR LINEAR-IN-THE-PARAMETERS MODELS
  X. Hong, C. J. Harris, S. Chen, P.M. Sharkey
• FUZZY-NEURAL FUNCTION APPROXIMATION USING A VECTOR EVALUATION GENETIC ALGORITHM
  Wei-Yen Wang, Chen-Chien Hsu, C.W. Tao, Yi-Hsum Li

16:40 - 18:00, (WAB2)-Evolutionary computation in modelling, systems identification and control

• EVOLVING THE NEURAL NETWORK MODEL FOR FORECASTING AIR POLLUTION TIME SERIES
  Harri Niska, Mikko Kolehmainen, Teri Hiltunen, Ari Karppinen, Juhani Ruuskanen
• BASIS FUNCTIONS AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS IN NORM-OPTIMAL ITERATIVE LEARNING CONTROL
  V. Hatzikos, J. Hatonen, D. H. Owens
• ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE OF GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO FRAGILITY OF CONTROLLERS
  R.A. Meneguim, K.C. Ribeiro, R.O. Emerick
• TIME-SERIES PARAMETRIC MODELLING USING EVOLUTION STRATEGY WITH DETERMINISTIC MUTATION OPERATORS
  Vasilis Dertimanis, Dimitrios Koulocheris, Harry Vrazopoulos, Andreas Kanarachos

10-04-2003

09:00 - 10:00, (PThM)-Plenary session

• SWARM INTELLIGENCE AND ANT ALGORITHMS
  Marco Dorigo

10:00 - 11:00, (ThMA1)-Fuzzy Logic in modelling, systems identification and control II

• MIMO NONLINEAR TRACKING WITH AI MODELLING AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL
  Jacek Kabzinski
• LMI-BASED RELAXED CONDITIONS FOR NON QUADRATIC STABILIZATION OF A CLASS OF DISCRETE NON LINEAR MODELS
  Thierry Marie Guerra, Laurent Vermeiren
• REGRESSION MATRICES FOR IDENTIFICATION AND TRAINING OF WAVELET DESCRIPTORS-BASED NEUROFUZZY NETWORKS
  L.J. Nunes, J.M.G. Sá da Costa

10:00 - 11:00, (ThMB1)-Automation

• MODEL-BASED GROWTH CONTROL OF BROILER CHICKENS
  J.-M. Aerts, S. Van Buggenhout, D. Berckmans
• TODAY'S REQUIREMENTS ON DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS AND THE L-CORE TECHNOLOGY
  Peter Roessler, Alexander Bauer
• ON-LINE STATISTICAL MONITORING FOR MIXING PROCESSES: AN APPLICATION IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
  Angelo di Noi, Massimo Pacella, Alfredo Anglani

11:00 - 11:20, Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:20, (ThMA2)-Genetic Algorithm Applications

• STRIP-PACKING USING HYBRID GENETIC APPROACH
  Leo H.W. Yeung, Wallace K.S. Tang
• LINEAR ARRAY ANTENNA DESIGN USING HIERARCHICAL GENETIC ALGORITHMS
  Y. Li, K.F. Man
• THE APPLICATION OF EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISATION TO A NOISY ENGINE MAINTENANCE PROBLEM
  James Argyle, Peter J. Fleming, Haydn A. Thompson, John Crocker

11:20 - 12:20, (ThMB2)-Architectures for real-time soft-control

• MULTI-VALUED CONTROL PROBLEMS AND MIXTURE DENSITY NETWORK
  Randa Herzallah, David Lowe
• FUZZY MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR IMAGE PROCESSING: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION
  G. Louverdis, I. Andreadis
• DESIGN APPLICATION-SPECIFIC DIGITAL CONTROLLERS USING FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS
  Jianyong Niu, Peter J. Fleming, Haydn A. Thompson

12:20 - 14:00, Lunch

14:00 - 15:00, (PThA)-Plenary session

• AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE LINEAR PROGRAMMING
  Pekka Korhonen

15:00 - 16:40, [Poster session] (PTh)-Poster Session

• AN EXTENSION TO THE STABILITY ANALYSIS OF THE AFFINE T-S FUZZY MODEL
  Basil M. Al-Hadithi, Fernando Matía, Agustin Jimenez
• NEW METHODS FOR VALIDATION OF LOCAL MODELS OBTAINED IN FUZZY CLUSTERING IDENTIFICATION
  Timo Ahvenlampi, Jose Luis Diez, Jose Luis Navarro
• IDENTIFICATION-BASED CONDITION MONITORING USING NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH
  A. Pashkevich, A.E. Ruano, G. Kulikov, M. Kazheunikau
• HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION USING A MASSIVELY PARALLEL GP ENGINE IN VLSI
  Sven E. Eklund
• GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND MINIMUM ELLIPSOID FOR SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF SOLUTIONS IN OPTIMIZATION
  R.A. Meneguim, K.C. Ribeiro, R.O. Emerick
• OPTIMAL PLACEMENT OF LOUDSPEAKERS AND MICROPHONES IN AN ENCLOSURE USING GENETIC ALGORITHM
  A. Montazeri, J. Poshtan, M. Kahaie
• A FRAMEWORK FOR REVERSE ENGINEERING VLSI CHIPS
  Khaled M. Elleithy, Tarek Sobh
• INFERENTIAL ESTIMATION OF POLYMER MELT INDEX USING BOOTSTRAP AGGREGATED NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SEQUENTIAL TRAINING
  Jie Zhang, Yongmao Xu
• INTELLIGENT FREE FIELD COUGH SOUND RECOGNITION
  A. Van Hirtum, D. Berckmans
• NONSINGLETON FUZZIFIER BASED FUZZY CONTROLLERS WITH APPLICATION TO INVERTED PENDULUM TRACKING, EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION
  Hassan M. Emara
• INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS SIX-LEGGED ROBOTS BY NEURAL NETWORKS
  W. Lechner, Frank Müller

16:20 - 16:40, Coffee Break

16:40 - 18:00, (ThAA2)-Fault Management

• MODEL-BASED DETECTION OF CRITICAL DRIVING SITUATIONS WITH FUZZY LOGIC DECISION MAKING
  Marcus Börner, Rolf Isermann
• NEURAL OBSERVER-BASED APPROACH TO FAULT DIAGNOSIS APPLIED TO A LIQUID LEVEL SYSTEM
  L.B. Palma, F.V. Coito, R.N. Silva
• FAULT CLASSIFICATION BASED UPON SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAPS FOR TIME VARIABLE SYSTEMS
  H. Benitez-Perez, F. Garcia-Nocetti
• INTELLIGENT CONTROL AND MONITORING UNIT AND ITS INVESTIGATION USING MARKOV MODELLING
  V. Arkov, G. Kulikov, V. Fatikov, P. Kotenko, T. Breikin, S. Epifanov

16:40 - 18:00, (ThAB2)-Genetic Programming

• AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS USING GENETIC PROGRAMMING OF IMPROVED PID TUNING RULES
  Matthew J. Streeter, Martin A. Keane, John R. Koza
• GENETIC PROGRAMMING AND BACTERIAL ALGORITHM FOR NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY SYSTEMS DESIGN
  C. Cabrita, J. Botzheim, A.E. Ruano, L.T. Kóczy
• MODEL STRUCTURE IDENTIFICATION BASED ON A MB-GP APPROACH: A GAS ENGINE APPLICATION
  Katya Rodriguez-Vazquez, Carlos Oliver-Morales
• COMPARING LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS AND GENETIC PROGRAMMING: A CASE STUDY
  L. Boullart, S. Sette, B. Wyns

20:00 - 23:00, Gala Dinner

11-04-2003

09:00 - 10:00, (PFrM)-Plenary session

• MECHANISM AND CONTROL OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEM WITH HIGHER DEGREES OF FREEDOM
  Toshio Fukuda, Yasuhisa Hasegawa

10:00 - 11:00, (FrMA1)-Fuzzy Logic in modelling, systems identification and control III

• AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF FUZZY RULES USING DYNAMIC FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS WITH REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
  C Deng, Meng Joo Er
• A FUZZY PATIENT MODEL IN ANAESTHESIA
  C.S. Nunes, M. Mahfouf, D.A. Linkens
• NEURO-FUZZY MODELING APPROACH TO GAS TURBINE DYNAMIC SYSTEM
  S.K. Kim, Peter J. Fleming, Haydn A. Thompson

10:00 - 11:00, (FrMB1)-Signal Processing

• ESTIMATING VOLTERRA FILTERS IN HILBERT SPACE
  Tony J. Dodd, Robert F. Harrison
• NON-STATIONARY CHANNEL EQUALISATION VIA ADAPTIVE KERNEL-BASED FILTERING
  Ben Mitchinson, Robert F. Harrison
• DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL CONTROLLER USING SUBBAND CODING
  S. Sarma, S. Majhi

11:00 - 11:20, Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:20, (FrMA2)-Neural networks in modelling, systems identification and control III

• ADVANCED CONNECTIONIST CONTROL OF ROBOT COMPLIANCE TASKS USING WAVELET NETWORK CLASSIFIER
  Dusko Katic, Miomir Vukobratovic
• REDUCING THE TRAINING COMPLEXITY OF SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES FOR INTELLIGENT CONTROL
  C. Pereira, A. Dourado
• USE OF NEURONS IN CHAOS GENERATION
  H.S. Kwok, G.Q. Zhong, Wallace K.S. Tang

11:20 - 12:20, (FrMB2)-Robotics II

• SELF-ORGANIZATION OF MULTIPLE-AGENTS USING INFORMATION THEORETIC INTERACTIONS
  Rajvignesh Thogulua, Deniz Erdogmus, José C. Principe
• NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE FOR COLLISION FREE TRAJECTORY SYNTHESES FOR ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS
  A. Pashkevich, A. Dolgui, M. Kazheunikau
• A 3D VISION-BASED MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR TELEROBOTICS
  M. Al-Mouhamed, O. Toker, A. Al-Harthy

12:20 - 14:00, Lunch

14:00 - 15:00, (PFrA)-Plenary session

• INFORMATION THEORETIC LEARNING FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, CONTROLS, AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
  José C. Principe

15:00 - 16:00, [Panel discussion] (PD)-Panel Discussion

16:00 - 16:20, Closing Ceremony

12-04-2003

10:00 - 18:00, Conference Tour