IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Volume 21 Issue 1

A Vectorization-Optimization-Method-Based Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Network for Noisy Data Classification
Authors: Wu, G.-D.; Huang, P.-H.
Page(s): 1 - 15
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Petri Net Representation of Switched Fuzzy Systems
Authors: Ding, Z.; Ma, J.; Kandel, A.
Page(s): 16 - 29
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A New Gradient Descent Approach for Local Learning of Fuzzy Neural Models
Authors: Zhao, W.; Li, K.; Irwin, G. W.
Page(s): 30 - 44
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A Review of the Application of Multiobjective Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: Current Status and Further Directions
Authors: Fazzolari, M.; Alcala, R.; Nojima, Y.; Ishibuchi, H.; Herrera, F.
Page(s): 45 - 65
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A Review of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Research During the Last Decade
Authors: Papageorgiou, E. I.; Salmeron, J. L.
Page(s): 66 - 79
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Approaches for Reducing the Computational Cost of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems: Overview and Comparisons
Authors: Wu, D.
Page(s): 80 - 99
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Evolutionary Robot Wall-Following Control Using Type-2 Fuzzy Controller With Species-DE-Activated Continuous ACO
Authors: Hsu, C.-H.; Juang, C.-F.
Page(s): 100 - 112
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Preference Relations Based on Intuitionistic Multiplicative Information
Authors: Xia, M.; Xu, Z.; Liao, H.
Page(s): 113 - 133
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Adaptive Fuzzy Output Feedback Control of MIMO Nonlinear Systems With Unknown Dead-Zone Inputs
Authors: Tong, S.; Li, Y.
Page(s): 134 - 146
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Control Synthesis of Discrete-Time T–S Fuzzy Systems Based on a Novel Non-PDC Control Scheme
Authors: Xie, X.; Ma, H.; Zhao, Y.; Ding, D-.W.; Wang, Y.
Page(s): 147 - 157
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Robust Observer Design for Unknown Inputs Takagi–Sugeno Models
Authors: Chadli, M.; Karimi, H. R.
Page(s): 158 - 164
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To Transmit or Not to Transmit: A Discrete Event-Triggered Communication Scheme for Networked Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
Authors: Peng, C.; Han, Q.-L.; Yue, D.
Page(s): 164 - 170
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Fuzzy Nash Equilibriums in Crisp and Fuzzy Games
Authors: Chakeri, A.; Sheikholeslam, F.
Page(s): 171 - 176
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A Three-Domain Fuzzy Wavelet System for Simultaneous Processing of Time-Frequency Information and Fuzziness
Authors: Liu, Z.; Chen, C. L. P.; Zhang, Y.; Li, H.-X.; Wang, Y.
Page(s): 176 - 183
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A Fuzzy Measure Similarity Between Sets of Linguistic Summaries
Authors: Wilbik, A.; Keller, J. M.
Page(s): 183 - 189
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Reminder: conference paper deadline for EANN 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 14th conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN) 2013 is 22 April 2013. This conference will be held in Halkidiki, Greece, 13-16 September, 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems: Volume 24, Issue 3, March 2013

1. Dissipativity Analysis for Discrete-Time Stochastic Neural Networks With Time-Varying Delays
Authors: Zheng-Guang Wu; Peng Shi; Hongye Su; Jian Chu
Page(s): 345 - 355
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2. Model-Based Online Learning With Kernels
Authors: Guoqi Li; Changyun Wen; Zheng Guo Li; Aimin Zhang; Feng Yang; Kezhi Mao
Page(s): 356 - 369
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3. Adaptive Control for Nonlinear Pure-Feedback Systems With High-Order Sliding Mode Observer
Authors: Jing Na; Xuemei Ren; Dongdong Zheng
Page(s): 370 - 382
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4. Low-Rank Structure Learning via Nonconvex Heuristic Recovery
Authors: Yue Deng; Qionghai Dai; Risheng Liu; Zengke Zhang; Sanqing Hu
Page(s): 383 - 396
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5. Synaptic Variability in a Cortical Neuromorphic Circuit
Authors: Mohammad Mahvash; Alice C. Parker
Page(s): 397 - 409
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6. Sampled-Data Synchronization of Chaotic Lur'e Systems With Time Delays
Authors: Zheng-Guang Wu; Peng Shi; Hongye Su; Jian Chu
Page(s): 410 - 421
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7. Multiplicative Update Rules for Concurrent Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Maximum Margin Classification
Authors: Olga Zoidi; Anastasios Tefas; Ioannis Pitas
Page(s): 422 - 434
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8. Distributed Synchronization of Coupled Neural Networks via Randomly Occurring Control
Authors: Yang Tan; Wai Keung Wong
Page(s): 435 - 447
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9. Portfolio of Automated Trading Systems: Complexity and Learning Set Size Issues
Authors: Sarunas Raudys
Page(s): 448 - 459
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10. Regularized Mixture Density Estimation With an Analytical Setting of Shrinkage Intensities
Authors: Zohar Halbe; Maria Bortman; Mayer Aladjem
Page(s): 460 - 470
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11. Stochastic Optimal Controller Design for Uncertain Nonlinear Networked Control System via Neuro Dynamic Programming
Authors: Hao Xu; Sarangapani Jagannathan
Page(s): 471 - 484
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12. Simple Exponential Family PCA
Authors: Jun Li; Dacheng Tao
Page(s): 485 - 497
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13. Dynamics Analysis of a Population Decoding Model
Authors: Jiali Yu; Huajin Tang; Haizhou Li
Page(s): 498 - 503
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14. Learning With Kernel Smoothing Models and Low-Discrepancy Sampling
Authors: Cristiano Cervellera; Danilo Macciò
Page(s): 504 - 509
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Conference paper deadline: EANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 14th conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN) 2013 is 22 April 2013. This conference will be held in Halkidiki, Greece, 13-16 September, 2013.

Conference paper deadline: SOCO 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications (SOCO) 2013 is 20 April 2013. This conference will be held in Salamanca, Spain, 11-13 September, 2013.

Paper submission deadline extended for IJCNN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2013 has been extended to 1 March 2013. This conference will be held in Dallas, Texas, 4-9 August 2013.

Evolving Systems Vol. 4, Issue 1, February 2013

Editorial

1. Introduction to the special issue on handling concept drift in adaptive information systems
Authors: Mykola Pechenizkiy & Indre Zliobaite
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Original Papers

2. Real-time algorithm for changes detection in depth of anesthesia signals
Authors: Raquel Sebastião, Margarida M. Silva, Rui Rabiço, João Gama & Teresa Mendonça
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3. Drift detection using uncertainty distribution divergence
Authors: Patrick Lindstrom, Brian Mac Namee & Sarah Jane Delany
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4. Detecting and Visualizing the Change in Classification of Customer Profiles based on Transactional Data
Authors: Edward Apeh & Bogdan Gabrys
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5. Using a classifier pool in accuracy based tracking of recurring concepts in data stream classification
Authors: Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Zahra Ahmadi & Hamid Beigy
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6. EVE: a framework for event detection
Authors: Iris Adä & Michael R. Berthold
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Conference paper deadline: ICANN 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 2013 is 1 March 2013. This conference will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 10-13 September 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICONS 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Control and Automation Science (ICONS) 2013 is 15 March, 2013. This conference will be held in Chengdu, China, 2-4 September, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for CIVEMSA 2013

A reminder that the deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications is March 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Milan, Italy, 15-17 July, 2013.

Reminder: paper submission deadline for IJCCI 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 5th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) 2013 is March 13, 2013. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 20-22 September, 2013. IJCCI is a combination of three computational intelligence conferences: The International Conference on Evolutionary Computation  Theory and Applications (ECTA), the International Conference on Fuzzy Computation Theory and Application (FCTA), and the International Conference on Neural Theory and Applications (NCTA).

Paper submission deadline: ICIC 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) 2013 is 15 February 2013. This conference will be held in Nanning, China, 28-31 July 2013.

Conference paper deadline: CIS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2013 is 30 June 2013. This conference will be held at Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China, December 14-15 2013.

Conference paper deadline: CIS 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 9th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 2013 is 30 June 2013. This conference will be held at Mount Emei, Sichuan Province, China, December 14-15 2013.

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Volume 17 Issue 1 2013

1. Parent Selection Pressure Auto-Tuning for Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming
Authors: Xie, H.; Zhang, M.
Page(s): 1 - 19
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2. A Hybrid Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization Problems
Authors:Tang, L.; Wang, X.
Page(s): 20 - 45
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3. Classification of Electromyographic Signals: Comparing Evolvable Hardware to Conventional Classifiers
Authors:Kaufmann, P.; Glette, K.; Gruber, T.; Platzner, M.; Torresen, J.; Sick, B.
Page(s): 46 - 63
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4. A New Sequential Covering Strategy for Inducing Classification Rules With Ant Colony Algorithms
Authors:Otero, F. E. B.; Freitas, A. A.; Johnson, C. G.
Page(s): 64 - 76
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5. Objective Reduction in Many-Objective Optimization: Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms
Authors:Saxena, D. K.; Duro, J. A.; Tiwari, A.; Deb, K.; Zhang, Q.
Page(s): 77 - 99
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6. On the Advantages of Variable Length GRNs for the Evolution of Multicellular Developmental Systems
Authors:Trefzer, M. A.; Kuyucu, T.; Miller, J. F.; Tyrrell, A. M.
Page(s): 100 - 121
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7. The Transferability Approach: Crossing the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics
Authors:Koos, S.; Mouret, J.-B.; Doncieux, S.
Page(s): 122 - 145
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8. The Use of an Analytic Quotient Operator in Genetic Programming
Authors:Ni, J.; Drieberg, R. H.; Rockett, P. I.
Page(s): 146 - 152
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Reminder: paper submission deadline for ICIC 2013

A reminder that the paper submission deadline for the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) is February 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Nanning, China, July 28-31, 2013.

Paper submission deadline: ICONIP 2013

The paper submission deadline for the 20th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2013 is 1 June 2013. This conference will be held in Daegu, Korea, 3-7 November, 2013.

Down with middlemen!

If there is one thing that the rise of e-commerce sites like eBay and Amazon.com has shown it is that the middleman is doomed. Entire bookshop chains like Borders have vanished from the face of the Earth, largely because they were unable to compete with a model that has no physical presence. Bookshops are middlemen: they connect one group of people (publishers) with another group of people (book purchasers, consumers). And the one thing that the Internet is really good at is getting rid of middlemen. Even publishers are middlemen, they don't produce the product, the authors do. The rise of self-publishing is the strongest indicator yet that the publishers are, like bookshops, an endangered species.

Online sales sites like e-bay (and Trademe, Gumtree) have also had an impact on retailers, and second hand dealers in particular: when we moved from Australia back to New Zealand, we had to sell our car and a few others bits and pieces. We didn't take the car to a second hand car dealer, or call a second hand furniture shop about our excess furniture: we just put some adverts up on Gumtree. While it is harder for online retailers to compete on items that require large volumes such as groceries, for smaller-volume or speciality items online sites are slowly but surely eliminating the traditional merchants. In the last ten years the only time I've booked air travel through a travel agent was for business travel, and then only because my employers had a policy of booking through certain agents.

This all raises a question: what is a middleman? If we define middlemen to be someone who does not produce, add value or provide a service that cannot be automated, then a huge number of current professions come under that heading: real estate agents, immigration agents, literary agent, property management agent... Basically, anyone with the word "agent" in their job title is a middleman and is doomed.

How does this relate to computational intelligence or academia? Well, what if journals and universities are really middlemen?

In the past I have blogged about how open-access journals are the future of academic publishing. But how much value do journals of any kind really add? A journal will arange peer-review, format the accepted articles and assign volume/page/DOI numbers. Apart from peer-review, each of these steps can be automated. In an age when every article published is available online, and are indexed by sites like Google Scholar and Citeseer, journals don't add much to the publicity of an article - in fact, the most effective way of publicising an article seems to be to blog or tweet about it. This is still the major advantage of open-access journals, as anyone with an interest can download and read the article (and hopefully cite it).

The measure of the quality of an article is the number of citations it receives, much more so than the supposed quality of the journal it is published in. Metrics like impact factor are so bogus as to be meaningless, despite the arrogant attitude of editors who deem submissions unworthy of publication in their august journal, without bothering to send them to peer-review. A good article will be cited more, no matter where it is published. Articles that aren't useful won't be cited. In other words, articles now can stand on their own, they don't need the support of journals to be useful. The journals, therefore, are middlemen, standing between the producers (the people who do the research and write it up) and consumers (the people who are reading and citing the research). Do we really need journals to arrange peer review? Or is there scope for a journal-agnostic, peer-review service for individual articles?

If individual articles can now stand on their own, how about individual academics? The Khan academy has been described as a revolution in teaching numerous times, and open courses like those offered by MIT have had thousands of students. In many ways universities are middlemen, providing access to resources (academic staff) to consumers (students). Universities provide tuition, consultation (students can ask their instructors for clarification), assessment (tests, assignments and exams), and accreditation (a degree / diploma from an institution has a certain credibility). Tuition can be supplied directly by the lecturer via sites like YouTube. Consultation can be done via discussion boards and live chat. Accreditation remains as an open problem. There are a huge number of accreditations available in a vast range of technical subjects: the IT industry in many ways leads the way in this, with certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, CompTIA and others. Professional organisations like the IEEE publish bodies of knowledge that graduates in certain disciplines are expected to know, and it's only a matter of time before this is expanded to include computational intelligence. Practical work is harder to deal with, but even then the large amount of open source software available means that anyone with a cobbled-together Linux box and a basic internet connection can not only do the lecture and practical work associated with undergrad study but also access the accreditation offered by numerous organisations.

The only problem for which I cannot see an obvious solution is, how would the lecturers get paid? Locking material behind paywalls won't work, people just won't use it. Also, a fixed fee won't work either: $500 might not seem like much for someone in the western world, but for someone in parts of Africa, it's more than they see in a year. The pay-what-you can model might work: this is where someone pays as much as they think something is worth, or as much as they can afford. A few people might take advantage and pay nothing when they could afford to pay, but most people are pretty honest and will pay a fair price. The accreditation agencies could also pay a referral fee to lecturers who direct students to their services, much like the Amazon affiliates program.

Universities would still survive, there still needs to be places where research is carried out, and training of the next generation of researchers (postgraduate students) takes place. The survival of journals is a bit less certain, as self-published peer-reviewed articles are much easier to do. Whatever happens, though, middlemen are on the way out.

Paper submission deadline: CIVEMSA 2013

The deadline for submitting papers to the 2013 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications is March 15, 2013. This conference will be held in Milan, Italy, 15-17 July, 2013.

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

1. A Unified Account of Gaze Following
Authors: Jasso, H.; Triesch, J.; Deák, G.; Lewis, J.M.
Page(s): 257 - 272
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2. A Developmental Approach to Structural Self-Organization in Reservoir Computing
Authors: Jun Yin; Yan Meng; Yaochu Jin
Page(s): 273 - 289
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3. Predicting Visual Stimuli From Self-Induced Actions: An Adaptive Model of a Corollary Discharge Circuit
Authors: Ruesch, J.; Ferreira, R.; Bernardino, A.
Page(s): 290 - 304
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4. Human-Recognizable Robotic Gestures
Authors: Cabibihan, J.; Wing-Chee So; Pramanik, S.
Page(s): 305 - 314
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5. Intrinsic Motivation and Introspection in Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Merrick, K.E.
Page(s): 315 - 329
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6. Model-Free Reinforcement Learning of Impedance Control in Stochastic Environments
Authors: Stulp, F.; Buchli, J.; Ellmer, A.; Mistry, M.; Theodorou, E.A.; Schaal, S.
Page(s): 330 - 341
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