IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 20, Issue 5, 2012

1. Monotone Centroid Flow Algorithm for Type Reduction of General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
Linda, O.; Manic, M.
Page(s): 805 - 819
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6135785

2. Control Design of Uncertain Quantum Systems With Fuzzy Estimators
Chen, C.; Dong, D.; Lam, J.; Chu, J.; Tarn, T-.J.
Page(s): 820 - 831
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6145644

3. On the Fundamental Differences Between Interval Type-2 and Type-1 Fuzzy Logic Controllers
Wu, D.
Page(s): 832 - 848
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6145645

4. Adaptive Local Fusion With Fuzzy Integrals
Abdallah, A. C. B.; Frigui, H.; Gader, P.
Page(s): 849 - 864
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6146419

5. Fuzzy-Based Self-Interactive Multiobjective Evolution Optimization for Reverse Engineering of Biological Networks
Wu, S.-J.; Wu, C.-T.; Chang, J.-Y.
Page(s): 865 - 882
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6148274

6. General Type-2 Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Uncertain Fuzzy Clustering
Linda, O.; Manic, M.
Page(s): 883 - 897
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6157608

7. An Efficient Configuration for Probabilistic Fuzzy Logic System
Zhang, G.; Li, H.-X.
Page(s): 898 - 909
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151823

8. Fuzzy Discrete Event Systems for Multiobjective Control: Framework and Application to Mobile Robot Navigation
Schmidt, K. W.; Boutalis, Y. S.
Page(s): 910 - 922
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6159076

9. Intuitionistic Fuzzy Information Aggregation Using Einstein Operations
Wang, W.; Liu, X.
Page(s): 923 - 938
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6159077

10. Enhanced Centroid-Flow Algorithm for Computing the Centroid of General Type-2 Fuzzy Sets
Zhai, D.; Mendel, J. M.
Page(s): 939 - 956
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6165348

11. Robust Filter for Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Systems in Sensor Signal Processing: Fuzzy Approach
Chen, B.-S.; Chen, W.-H.; Zhang, W.
Page(s): 957 - 970
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6166877

12. Three-Degree-of-Freedom Dynamic Model-Based Intelligent Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control for a Gantry Position Stage
Lin, F.-J.; Chou, P.-H.; Chen, C.-S.; Lin, Y.-S.
Page(s): 971 - 985
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6172224

13. Programming-Based OWA Operator Weights With Quadratic Objective Function
Ahn, B. S.
Page(s): 986 - 992
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6220246

14. Comments on “Chaos Synchronization of Uncertain Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems With Time Delay Based on Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control”
Tavazoei, M. S.
Page(s): 993 - 995
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6156435

15. Comment on “Toward General Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Based on zSlices”
Zhai, D.; Mendel, J. M.
Page(s): 996 - 997
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6165347

Results of IEEE CIS Facebook Photo Competition

This is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's blog.

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The Facebook photo competition closed on the 30th of September. The winners, as judged by the number of "likes" each photo received, are as follows:

In first place, and winner of an iPad, is Ryan Rhay Vicerra, of the Philipines, with 1452 Likes. Ryan also wins free membership to the CIS for 2013.

In second and third place, and winning free CIS membership for 2013, are  Kanny Krizzy David, from the Philippines, with 1219 Likes, and Wissam Audah from the UK, with 489 Likes.

Congratulations to the winners! And our thanks to everyone who entered and who voted for the photos, all of whom made the competition such a great success.

Open source textbook - Chapter 2 outline

The outline of Chapter 2 of the open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems" is now available online. Chapter 2 is entitled "Simple and Linear Transformations" and is intended to be a brief overview of some of the data processing techniques that can be used to prepare data before it is modeled with computational intelligence techniques. My previous post about the outline of Chapter 1, "Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems", is here.

As always, you comments and suggestions are requested and valued.

Conference paper deadline: KES IIMSS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (IIMSS) 2013 is 6 January 2013. This conference will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal, 26 - 28 June, 2013.

Open source textbook - Chapter 1 outline

Following on from my post last week about the updated outline for my open-source textbook "Intelligent Information Systems", I've made the outline of Chapter 1 "Introduction to Intelligent Information Systems" available online.

As always, comments and suggestions are most welcome!

Reminder: conference paper deadline: KES-IDT 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT) is 6 January 2013. This conference will be held in Sesimbra, Portugal, 26-28 June 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for Fuzz-IEEE 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE) 2013 is 5 January, 2013. This conference will be held in Hyderabad, India, 7-10 July, 2013.

Important dates for IJCNN 2013

Some important dates for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013. The following are all due by December 15, 2012:

• Tutorials proposals
• Workshop proposals
• Panel proposals
• Special sessions proposals

For more information, see the IJCNN website: www.ijcnn2013.org.

An experiment in open-source textbooks 2

In an earlier post, I described how I'm working on an open source textbook about Intelligent Information Systems.

While progress has been slower than I would have liked (mainly due to my relocating permanently to my native New Zealand), I have been able to digest the suggestions made in the comments on my previous post. As a result, I've made the second outline of this textbook available here.

I've also investigated several different licensing schemes, and it looks like I'll be going with one of the Creative Commons licenses. I'm looking at making the LaTeX source and PDF files freely available online, while retaining the print rights.

Any comments on the outline, or my licensing plan, will be gratefully received!

Reminder: paper submission deadline for EvoStar 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for EvoStar 2013 is 1 November, 2012. This conference will be held in Vienna, Austria, 3-5 April, 2013.

The Problem with Academic Journals 7

The following quote was in an email I received from the editor of a certain prestigious general science journal:

"Your manuscript is now undergoing an initial screening to determine whether it will be sent for in-depth review. We will notify the corresponding author of our decision as soon as possible."

That really annoyed me. It annoyed me because it is not the job of the editor to screen submissions. Sure, it is appropriate for them to check that the paper is formatted correctly, that there aren't big sections of it missing, and that it fits the theme of the journal (which is not the case with general science journals like the journal this paper was submitted to). The kind of screening this editor is talking about it a kind of pre-peer review, where the editor is determining whether the paper is worthy of being considered by their august publication. It is, in fact, a rather extreme form of academic arrogance.

Having a paper rejected by peer review is one thing, but being rejected because one person doesn't think it's worthy enough? So many of my colleagues have had so many perfectly good papers rejected by editors without going to peer review. The purpose of peer review is to find errors in the science (and have no doubt about it, computational intelligence is a science). If there are no errors in the science - that is, there are no discernible errors in methodology or interpretation of results - then the paper should be published. Even a rejection is useful, as it allows the authors to improve their research. But editorial rejections eliminate even that, they make the entire process of submitting to that journal a waste of time.

As I've said many times before, the solution is to go to open access journals. Peer review will help catch the errors, and the people reading the papers (and there will be a lot more of them reading open access papers than subscription-only papers) will find the errors the peer reviewers missed. But arrogant editors from expensive subscription-only journals will soon find themselves presiding over a shrinking author base.

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development: Volume 4, Issue 3, 2012

1. Editorial: Impact Factor and Outstanding Paper Awards
Zhang, Z.
Page(s): 189
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298016

2. Guest Editorial: Biologically Inspired Human–Robot Interactions—Developing More Natural Ways to Communicate with our Machines
Harris, C.; Krichmar, L.; Siegelmann, T.; Wagatsuma, H
Page(s): 190 - 191
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6298018

3. Long Summer Days: Grounded Learning of Words for the Uneven Cycles of Real World Events
Heath, S.; Schulz, R.; Ball, D.; Wiles, J.
Page(s): 192 - 203
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6236014

4. Learning Through Imitation: a Biological Approach to Robotics
Chersi, F.
Page(s): 204 - 214
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6203559

5. Context-Based Bayesian Intent Recognition
Kelley, R.; Tavakkoli, A.; King, C.; Ambardekar, A.; Nicolescu, M.; Nicolescu, M.
Page(s): 215 - 225
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6276240

6. Reciprocity and Retaliation in Social Games With Adaptive Agents
Asher, D. E.; Zaldivar, A.; Barton, B.; Brewer, A. A.; Krichmar, J. L.
Page(s): 226 - 238
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6212318

7. Towards a Platform-Independent Cooperative Human Robot Interaction System: III An Architecture for Learning and Executing Actions and Shared Plans
Lallee, S.; Pattacini, U.; Lemaignan, S.; Lenz, A.; Melhuish, C.; Natale, L.; Skachek, S.; Hamann, K.; Steinwender, J.; Sisbot, E. A.; Metta, G.; Guitton, J.; Alami, R.; Warnier, M.; Pipe, T.; Warneken, F.; Dominey, P. F.
Page(s): 239 - 253
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6204326

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Volume 4, Issue 3, 2012

1. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Computational Aesthetics in Games
Browne, C.; Yannakakis, G. N.; Colton, S.
Page(s): 149 - 151
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6299016

2. Unsupervised Modeling of Player Style With LDA
Gow, J.; Baumgarten, R.; Cairns, P.; Colton, S.; Miller, P.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6269992

3. Beyond Skill Rating: Advanced Matchmaking in Ghost Recon Online
Delalleau, O.; Contal, E.; Thibodeau-Laufer, E.; Ferrari, R. C.; Bengio, Y.; Zhang, F.
Page(s): 167 - 177
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6156756

4. Evaluating the Aesthetics of Endgame Studies: A Computational Model of Human Aesthetic Perception
Iqbal, A.; van der Heijden, H.; Guid, M.; Makhmali, A.
Page(s): 178 - 191
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6177652

5. Experience-Driven Procedural Music Generation for Games
Plans, D.; Morelli, D.
Page(s): 192 - 198
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6266725

6. Continuous Recognition of Player's Affective Body Expression as Dynamic Quality of Aesthetic Experience
Savva, N.; Scarinzi, A.; Bianchi-Berthouze, N.
Page(s): 199 - 212
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6212341

7. Adapting Models of Visual Aesthetics for Personalized Content Creation
Liapis, A.; Yannakakis, G. N.; Togelius, J.
Page(s): 213 - 228
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6185648

8. Elegance in Game Design
Browne, C.
Page(s): 229 - 240
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6194295