IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Volume 16, Issue 5, 2012

1. Differential Evolution With Neighborhood Mutation for Multimodal Optimization
Qu, B. Y.; Suganthan, P. N.; Liang, J. J.
Page(s): 601 - 614
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151116

2. Progressive Alignment Method Using Genetic Algorithm for Multiple Sequence Alignment
Naznin, F.; Sarker, R.; Essam, D.
Page(s): 615 - 631
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151111

3. Approximating the Genetic Diversity of Populations in the Quasi-Equilibrium State
Arabas, J.
Page(s): 632 - 644
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151093

4. A Filter Approach to Multiple Feature Construction for Symbolic Learning Classifiers Using Genetic Programming
Neshatian, K.; Zhang, M.; Andreae, P.
Page(s): 645 - 661
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151112

5. Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Arias-Montano, A.; Coello, C. A. C.; Mezura-Montes, E.
Page(s): 662 - 694
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151094

6. Review and Study of Genotypic Diversity Measures for Real-Coded Representations
Corriveau, G.; Guilbault, R.; Tahan, A.; Sabourin, R.
Page(s): 695 - 710
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151099

7. Evolution of Plastic Learning in Spiking Networks via Memristive Connections
Howard, G.; Gale, E.; Bull, L.; de Lacy Costello, B.; Adamatzky, A.
Page(s): 711 - 729
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151103

8. Memetic Algorithms for De Novo Motif Discovery
Chan, T.-M.; Leung, K.-S.; Lee, K.-H.
Page(s): 730 - 748
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151097

9. Genetic Algorithms for Discovery of Matrix Multiplication Methods
Joo, A.; Ekart, A.; Neirotti, J. P.
Page(s): 749 - 751
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6151102

10. Erratum to “On the Design of Constraint Covariance Matrix Self-Adaptation Evolution Strategies Including a Cardinality Constraint” [Aug 12 578-596]
Beyer, H.-G.; Finck, S.
Page(s): 752
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6314484

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

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICAISC 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2013 is November 20, 2012. This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, June 9-13, 2013.

On Being a Post-doc

After completing a PhD, most people who wish to stay in academia end up doing one or more post-doctoral positions. Experience as a post-doc is a prerequisite for a career in scientific research, as it is during your post-doc career that you get exposure to ideas and techniques outside of your PhD, and work with a wider range of people than you did during your PhD. The chances of going into a permanent academic position, without doing at least one post-doc, are very slim (most people who manage to do this tend to wind up in the same department they did their PhD in). I've done three post-docs, at Lincoln University in New Zealand, at the University of Sydney, and the University of Adelaide, both of which are in Australia.

So, what's it like being a post-doctoral fellow?

Basically, it sucks. Most post-docs are for two or three years. This term is fixed as the position is usually tied to a particular research grant, which is itself of fixed duration. This means that even if you do extremely well in your research, there is no guarantee of further employment after the contract ends. This means that as a post-doc, you will probably be changing jobs and cities every two years. If you're young and single, that's not entirely a bad thing: travelling and living in different places broadens your mind, can build a wide network of friendships and helps you appreciate different ways of life. Things get harder if you are a couple, as your partner also needs to find work in your new home. If you have even one child, it's a nightmare: you need to find a new school, your child faces the awful wrench of leaving their friends behind, if they're in after-school activities they need to be organised all over again, and if they have even minor health issues, finding adequate care for them can be very challenging. The stress that this can place on your relationship is enormous. In short, being a post-doc is a young (single) person's game.

If your post-doc is tied to a grant, then you will be working on someone else's project. In other words, you'll be working on something that is interesting to someone else (the grant holder). This also means that the outputs you produce (that is, papers) will be of benefit primarily to the grant holder rather than you.

While you should concentrate on doing the work you are paid to do, if you want to move up the academic ladder, then you also need to demonstrate the ability to do independent research. So, in addition to working a full-time job, you're also working part-time on your own research programme.

On top of the above are the dangers of any workplace: while most post-doc supervisors are good and kind people, they get their positions by being good researchers (or occasionally good politicians), not good managers. In the worst case, you might end up working for a narcissistic sociopath. Doing a post-doc with the wrong supervisor (or supervisors) can make your life a living hell. Sociopaths can be pretty hard to spot, too.

My experience is that it can take six months or more to find a new position, which means that shortly after starting a post-doc, you need to start looking for another. If your career is a chess game, then you need to start getting your pieces into place sooner rather than later.

To sum up, being a post-doctoral fellow means a semi-itinerant life of uncertainty and upheaval, serving the research needs of others, while also planning a future career that might not happen.

Was it all worth it for me? While there are many things I would do differently if I had the chance to do it all again, I don't want to live my life in regret: the things in my life, the good and the bad, the joy and the hurt, have all made me the person I am. But I do regret the hurt it has caused my family. Being a post-doc is hard on everyone if you have a family. It's not all bad news, though, and in a future post I'll be discussing ways in which you can make your post-doc career successful.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2012

1. Title: Silicon-Based Dynamic Synapse With Depressing Response
Authors: Thomas Dowrick; Steve Hall; Liam J. McDaid
Page(s): 1513 - 1525
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6287129


2. Title: Self-Organizing Spiking Neural Model for Learning Fault-Tolerant Spatio-Motor Transformations
Authors: Narayan Srinivasa; Youngkwan Cho
Page(s): 1526 - 1538
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6248739


3. Title: Learning From ISS-Modular Adaptive NN Control of Nonlinear Strict-Feedback Systems
Authors: Cong Wang; Min Wang; Tengfei Liu; David. J. Hill
Page(s): 1539 - 1550
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6248726


4. Title: Synchronization Error Estimation and Controller Design for Delayed Lur'e Systems With Parameter Mismatches
Authors: Wangli He; Feng Qian; Qing-Long Han; Jinde Cao
Page(s): 1551 - 1563
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6248725&tag=1


5. Title: Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces With Odd Kernels in Price Prediction
Authors: Miloš Krejník; Anton Tyutin
Page(s): 1564 - 1573
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6253266


6. Title: Neural Modeling of Episodic Memory: Encoding, Retrieval, and Forgetting
Authors: Wenwen Wang; Budhitama Subagdja; Ah-Hwee Tan; Janusz A. Starzyk
Page(s): 1574 - 1586
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6261552


7. Title: A Discrimination Analysis for Unsupervised Feature Selection via Optic Diffraction Principle
Authors: Praisan Padungweang; Chidchanok Lursinsap; Khamron Sunat
Page(s): 1587 - 1600
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6263306


8. Title: Nonnegative Blind Source Separation by Sparse Component Analysis Based on Determinant Measure
Authors: Zuyuan Yang; Yong Xiang; Shengli Xie; Shuxue Ding; Yue Rong
Page(s): 1601 - 1610
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6263307


9. Title: Multiclass Feature Selection With Kernel Gram-Matrix-Based Criteria
Authors: Mathieu Ramona; Gaël Richard; Bertrand David
Page(s): 1611 - 1623
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6264104


10. Title: Efficient Online Subspace Learning With an Indefinite Kernel for Visual Tracking and Recognition
Authors: Stephan Liwicki; Stefanos Zafeiriou; Georgios Tzimiropoulos; Maja Pantic
Page(s): 1624 - 1636
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6269106


11. Title: Feedback Control by Online Learning an Inverse Model
Authors: Tim Waegeman; Francis wyffels; Benjamin Schrauwen
Page(s): 1637 - 1648
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6269107


12. Title: Symbolic Representation of Recurrent Neural Network Dynamics
Authors: Thuan Q. Huynh; James A. Reggia
Page(s): 1649 - 1658
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6269105


13. Title: Inphase and Antiphase Synchronization in a Delay-Coupled System With Applications to a Delay-Coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo System
Authors: Yongli Song; Jian Xu
Page(s): 1659 - 1670
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6269931


14. Title: Simple and Fast Calculation of the Second-Order Gradients for Globalized Dual Heuristic Dynamic Programming in Neural Networks
Authors: Michael Fairbank; Eduardo Alonso; Danil Prokhorov
Page(s): 1671 - 1676
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6239600