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2001 BISC INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON 
FUZZY LOGIC AND THE INTERNET 

- FLINT 2001 -

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ENHANCING THE POWER OF THE INTERNET 
 

Preliminary Workshop Program


Tuesday, August 14: Research Engines and Retrieving Information

09:00 - 10:00 Registration  380 Soda Hall
10:15 - 10:30 Opening Remarks
S. Shankar Sastry (EECS Department Chair)
Christos H. Papadimitriou (CS Associate Chair)
Masoud Nikravesh (BISC Program)
Ben Azvine (BTexact Technologies)
306 Soda Hall
10:30 - 11:15 Keynotes
C. Lee Giles
Searching World Wide Web  
11:15 - 12:00 Plenary
Marti Hearst
Using Dynamic Metadata to Improve Search User Interfaces 
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch
01:30 - 02:15 Plenary
Trevor Martin
Searching and Smushing on the Semantic Net - Challenges for Soft Computing
306 Soda Hall
02:15 - 03:00 Plenary
Hamid Berenji
Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning and the Internet with Applications in Power Management of Wireless Networks
03:00 - 04:30 Formal Talks

Elie Sanchez 
Fuzzy logic e-motion

William Maurer 
Intelligent Collection Environment for System

Maria J. Martin Batista
User Profiles and Fuzzy Logic in Web Retrieval

Mori Anvari 
Search Engines: Key to Knowledge Acquisition 

04:30 - 04:45 Coffee Break
04:45 - 06:30 Panel of Experts: Search Engines and Queries
Moderators: Rebecca Roberts and Masoud Nikravesh
Panel: Mori Anvari, Lee C. Giles, Jim Gray, Marti Hearst, Trevor Martin
306 Soda Hall
07:00 - 09:00 Dinner Wozniak Lounge

 

Wednesday, August 15

09:00 - 09:40 Tutorial
Tony Cowden
Fuzzy Queries
320 Soda Hall
09:40 - 10:00 Informal Presentations
Seyed Shahrestani
Fuzzy Logic and Network Intrusion Detection
10:15 - 10:30 Remarks (BISC - BTexact Technologies) 306 Soda Hall
10:30 - 11:15 Keynotes
Jim Baldwin
Future directions for fuzzy theory with applications to intelligent agents
11:15 - 12:00 Plenary
Ronald Yager 
Aggregation Methods for Intelligent Search and Information Fusion 
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch Break
01:30 - 02:15 Plenary
Tomohiro Takagi 
Proposal of a Search Engine based on Coceptual Matching of Text Notes 
306 Soda Hall
02:15 - 03:00 Plenary
John Meech 
Internet-based systems for design, planing, operating and marketing in the mining, minerals, metals and materials industrie 
03:00 - 04:30 Formal Talks

Dae-Young Choi 
Integration of Document Index with Perception Index and Its Application to Fuzzy Query on the Internet

Tru Cao 
Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs for the Semantic Web 

Fernando Gomide
A Reference Model for Intelligent Information Search 

Sunanda Mitra
Content Based Vector Coder for Efficient Retrieval of Information

04:30 - 04:45 Coffee Break
04:45 - 06:30 Panel of Experts: Internet and Academia
Moderators: John Yen and Masoud Nikravesh
Panel: Fernando Gomide, John Meech, Elie Sanchez, Tomohiro Takagi, Mihaela Ulieru, Ronald Yager, Lotfi A. Zadeh
306 Soda Hall

  

Thursday, August 16

09:00 - 09:30 Tutorial
Tony Cowden
Fuzzy Queries
320 Soda Hall
09:30 - 10:00 Informal Presentations
Yanqing Zhang
Granular Fuzzy Web Search Agents 

Yanqing Zhang
Fuzzy Neural Web Agents for Stock Prediction 

10:15 - 10:30 Remarks (BISC - BTexact Technologies) 306 Soda Hall
10:30 - 11:15 Keynotes
I. Burhan Türksen 
Scientific and Philosophical Contribution of L.A. ZADEH 
11:15 - 12:00 Plenary
Lotfi A.Zadeh
The problem of deduction in an environment of imprecision, uncertainty, and partial truth
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch Break
01:30 - 02:15 Plenary
Amit Sheth
On Supporting Complex Relationships and Knowledge Discovery in the Semantic Web 
306 Soda Hall
02:15 - 03:00 Plenary
Seyed Shahrestani
Fuzzy Logic and Integrated Network Management 
03:00 - 04:30 Formal Talks

Yanqing Zhang 
Personalized Library Search Agents Using Data Mining Techniques 

Ana M. Garcia Serrano
Intelligent Assistance on the Web

Marcin Detyniecki
Uncertain Aggregation and Multimedia

Andreas Nürnberger 
Clustering of Document Collections using a Growing Self-Organizing Map 

04:30 - 04:45 Coffee Break
04:45 - 06:30 Panel of Experts: Soft Computing: Past, Present, Future
Moderators: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Rebecca Roberts, Masoud Nikravesh
Panel: Jim Baldwin, Hamid Berenji, Abe Mamdani, Tomohiro Takagi, Burhan Turkesan, Ronald Yager, Lotfi A. Zadeh
306 Soda Hall

 

Friday, August 17: E-Commerce, Intelligent Agents, Customization and  Personalization

09:00 - 10:00 Opening Remarks

Keynotes
Dilip B. Kotak

Plenary
Ebrahim Mamdani

306 Soda Hall
10:15 - 10:30 Remarks (BISC - BTexact Technologies) 306 Soda Hall
10:30 - 11:15 Keynotes
Ming-Chien Shan 
The E-Business Technologies: Past, Present and Future 
11:15 - 12:00 Plenary
Babak Hodjat 
An Interface that maps Intent to Functionality: An Agent Oriented Approach 
12:00 - 01:30 Lunch
01:30 - 02:15 Plenary
John Yen 
Incorporating Fuzzy Ontology of Terms Relations in a Search Engine 
306 Soda Hall
02:15 - 03:00 Plenary
Danis Yadegar 
Business-critical Technology Solutions that Meet the Integration Challenges of Today's e-Commerce Landscape
03:00 - 04:30 Formal Talks

I. Burhan Türksen
Operations Research and Management Science Applications of Fuzzy Theory 

Gero Presser
Fuzzy Personalization 

Eduarda Mendes 
Dynamic Knowledge Representation for E-Learning Applications

Mihaela Ulieru 
Soft Computing Techniques for the Holonic Enterprise

04:30 - 04:45 Coffee Break
04:45 - 06:30 Panel of Experts: Internet and Industry
Moderators: Rebecca Roberts and Masoud Nikravesh
Panel: B. Azvin (BTexact Technologies), T. Cowden (Sonalysts), B. Hodjat (Dejima), J. Shanahan (Xerox), M. Shan (HP), D. Yadegar (Arsin)
306 Soda Hall
07:00 - 09:00 Dinner Wozniak Lounge
 
 

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