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following Blog News
The WSEAS Proceedings participate now in the
ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, www.acm.org
Please, visit http://portal.acm.org , select "The Guide" and then type
WSEAS
So, the WSEAS Members and WSEAS Friends that maintain this blog are
very happy about it
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A very interesting blog by WSEAS Members is also this Blog:
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We also received another email that other WSEAS Members maintain this
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WSEAS Conferences in the University of CAMBRIDGE:
Additionally to all the other benefits,
WSEAS opened now an Exhibition in our Conferences in the University of
Cambridge with all the Proceedings of the WSEAS Conferences
of the last 5 years.
WSEAS donated also several Proceedings in the University of Cambridge.
We are glad to announce that we will run again the same conferences in
the University of Cambridge in 2009.
The Best Papers will be published in http://www.naun.org
Proposals for collaboration from
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WSEAS forwarded to a Committee this Proposal from
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Visiting the Site: http://www.universitypress.org.uk/ we have found
that in December 13, 2006, the University Press starts three new
journals
1. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS
2. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS
3. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, APPLICATIONS AND
DEVELOPMENT
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All the WSEAS participants can receive additionally to
their CD-ROM (Contains 8 Volumes of Conference Proceedings) and ISI
book,
another CD-ROM with proceedings from recent WSEAS Conferences as a
gift!
So, the WSEAS participants in the University of Cambridge will receive
the usual conference
material (CD & Hard Copy) together with a previous CD-ROM Proceedings
of their choice (from our Exhibition). All these WSEAS CD-ROM
proceedings were given also to the Library of the University.
Conference Participants have already received envelope, pen and notepad
with the logotype of the university.
Finally, our Secretariat will not offer their services from 10:00 -
11:00, today, February 21, respecting the keynote Speech of our Great
Keynote Speaker: LOTFI A. ZADEH that will take place at that time.
Thanks
The Organizing Committee
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*7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on APPLIED COMPUTER and APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL
SCIENCE
(ACACOS '08)
www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/hangzhou/acacos/
*7th WSEAS Int. Conf. on INSTRUMENTATION, MEASUREMENT, CIRCUITS and
SYSTEMS
(IMCAS'08)
www.wseas.org/conferences/2008/hangzhou/imcas
*8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on ROBOTICS, CONTROL and MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(ROCOM'08)
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*8th WSEAS Int. Conf. on MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS & SIGNAL PROCESSING (MUSP
'08)
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operates in a non-for-profit base.
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Plenary Lecture
Toward Human-Level Machine Intelligence
Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720 -1776
Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
Abstract: Achievement of human-level machine intelligence has profound
implications for modern society�a society which is becoming
increasingly infocentric in its quest for efficiency, convenience and
enhancement of quality of life.
Humans have many remarkable capabilities. Among them a capability that
stands out in importance is the human ability to perform a wide
variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any
computations, based on perceptions of distance, speed, direction,
intent, likelihood and other attributes of physical and mental
objects. A familiar example is driving a car in city traffic.
Mechanization of this ability is a challenging objective of machine
intelligence.
Science deals not with reality but with models of reality. In large
measure, models of reality in scientific theories are based on
classical, Aristotelian, bivalent logic. The brilliant successes of
science are visible to all. But when we take a closer look, what we
see is that alongside the brilliant successes there are areas where
achievement of human-level machine intelligence is still a distant
objective. We cannot write programs that can summarize a book. We
cannot automate driving a car in heavy city traffic. And we are far
from being able to construct systems which can understand natural
language.
Why is the achievement of human-level machine intelligence a distant
objective? What is widely unrecognized is that one of the principal
reasons is the fundamental conflict between the precision of bivalent
logic and imprecision of the real world.
In the world of bivalent logic, every proposition is either true or
false, with no shades of truth allowed. In the real world, as
perceived by humans, most propositions are true to a degree. Humans
have a remarkable capability to reason and make rational decisions in
an environment of imprecision, uncertainty, incompleteness of
information and partiality of truth. It is this capability that is
beyond the reach of bivalent logic�a logic which is intolerant of
imprecision and partial truth.
A much better fit to the real world is fuzzy logic. In fuzzy logic,
everything is or is allowed to be graduated, that is, be a matter of
degree or, equivalently, fuzzy. Furthermore, in fuzzy logic everything
is or is allowed to be granulated, with a granule being a clump of
elements drawn together by indistinguishability, similarity, proximity
or functionality. Graduation and granulation play key roles in the
ways in which humans deal with complexity and imprecision. In this
connection, it should be noted that, in large measure, fuzzy logic is
inspired by the ways in which humans deal with complexity, imprecision
and partiality of truth. It is in this sense that fuzzy logic is
human-centric.
In coming years, fuzzy logic and fuzzy-logic-based methods are likely
to play increasingly important roles in achievement of human-level
machine intelligence. In addition, soft computing is certain to grow
in visibility and importance. Basically, soft computing is a coalition
of methodologies which in one way or another are directed at the
development of better models of reality, human reasoning, risk
assessment and decision making. This is the primary motivation for
soft computing�a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing,
evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and machine learning.
The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, better
results can be achieved through the use of constituent methodologies
of soft computing in combination rather than in a stand-alone mode.
Brief biography of the speaker:
LOTFI A. ZADEH is a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science
Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In
addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative
in Soft Computing).
Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT and
Columbia University. He held visiting appointments at the Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT, Cambridge, MA; IBM Research
Laboratory, San Jose, CA; AI Center, SRI International, Menlo Park,
CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems
analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His current
research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft
computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing,
evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine
learning.
Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is
a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member
of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Finnish Academy of
Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Science &
Technology and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of
the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE
Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal
of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC
Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize,
the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award,
the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Achievement Award, the SOFT Scientific
Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the
IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2001 Allen Newell Award, the Norbert
Wiener Award of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society,
Civitate Honoris Causa by Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical
Institution, Budapest, Hungary, the V. Kaufmann Prize, International
Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF), the Nicolaus
Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the J. Keith
Brimacombe IPMM Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame,
the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum Wall of Fame, other awards and
twenty-six honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide
variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of
information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial
boards of over sixty journals.
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Also from WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_E._Mastorakis
we copied the following text for the WSEAS Executive Director
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Nikos E. Mastorakis is Professor in the Military Institutes of
University Education (ASEI), Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece.
He is also the founder and the first president of the WSEAS,
http://www.wseas.org
Dr. Mastorakis who has published over than 300 papers in
WSEAS,IEEE,IASME,NAUN etc..., was the chairman in many WSEAS
Conferences, editor in many WSEAS Books and editor-in-chief in several
WSEAS journals.
Some of his major contributions in the science of Systems Theory is
the Factorization of Multidimensional Polynomials (see 1.-18. in
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt), Stability of
Multidimensional Systems (see 25,27,29,30,38,47,53 in
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt )and Artificial
Intelligence applications in multidimensional systems (published in
WSEAS & IEEE Journals)
Dr. Mastorakis organizes many WSEAS Conferences each year, he is the
Publishing Manager in more than 15 WSEAS International journals. Nikos
Mastorakis was Visiting Professor in the University of Exeter (UK),
University of Sofia (Bulgaria) while he has served as Special Session
Chairman in many WSEAS IEEE, IMACS conferences.
Dr. Mastorakis solved the problem of polynomial factorization for
polynomials of several complex variables presented several methods and
also introduced the term of approximate multidimensional
factorization. See
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt He worked in
collaboration with Prof. Tzafestas and Prof. Theodorou in National
Technical University of Athens, receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science with "Excellent" (December 1992, he
had received the Bachelor and the M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from
the same university in 1988). He received also the Diploma in
Theoretical Mathematics from the National University of Athens in
1995. In 1996, he was elected Full Professor in the Military
Institutes of University Education (ASEI), Hellenic Naval Academy,
Greece.
Together with Prof. Politis, developed various Hardware and Software
Implementations of Byzantine Music (published in Advances in Physics,
Electronics and Signal Processing Applications, WSEAS Press). Together
with Prof. Meng Joo Er and M.Zribi and S.S.Thng, Nikos Mastorakis
developed several fuzzy control applications on robotics (published in
WSEAS Books, and WSEAS Transactions,
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt) while with
Prof. I.Reljin solved numerous problem in Signal Processing (published
in WSEAS Books, and WSEAS Transactions,
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt). Together with
Prof. M.N.S.Swamy (Fellow IEEE), Dr. I. Gonos (National Technical
University of Athens) solved the general problem (in its more
generalized case) of multidimensional systems stability using genetic
algorithms and neural networks. The relevant results were published in
WSEAS & IEEE Journals and WSEAS and IEEE Conferences. See
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications90-01.txt and
http://www.wseas.org/mastorakis/publications02-11.htm )
In 2000, Dr Mastorakis published the article "The Optimum Radius of
the Robust Stability of Schur Polynomials", in the Journal of
Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA) solving this difficult
problem. Some preliminary versions of this solution had appeared in
WSEAS Books in 1998 and 1999.
Together with Prof. Valeri Mladenov (Technical University of Sofia,
Bulgaria), Nikos Mastorakis developed several intelligent methods and
intelligent techniques for investigating multidimensional systems
stability. These scientific articles have been published in WSEAS,
IEEE Transactions as well as in WSEAS Conferences,
http://www.wseas.org/ and http://www.wseas.us/
Starting from the model of Leo Chua, Dr Mastorakis devoloped several
Cellular Neural Networks (CNN's) for 2-D Systems Analysis and
Stability (See "Advances in Neural Networks and Applications", WSEAS
Press, pp. 9-17, 2001.)
Honoring the Father of Fuzzy Logic, Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, Nikos
Mastorakis published two books by WSEAS Press (1999) titled
"COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS", WSEAS Press, July, 1999
"RECENT ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS", WSEAS
Press, July, 1999. Also as Prof. Mastorakis underlined in the opening
of the WSEAS Conference in 1999 "Our world gave birth to 3
personalities: Aristotelis (Aristotle), DeCarte and Zadeh" (in this
WSEAS Conference, i.e. WSEAS CSCC 1999, Prof. Zadeh was Invited
Keynote Speaker by WSEAS) http://www.worldses.org/books/previous.htm
Prof.Mastorakis wrote on this occasion a paper: "Fuzzy
Multidimensional Systems" published on "COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND
APPLICATIONS", WSEAS Press, July, 1999 as well as in the Proceedings
of WSEAS CSCC 1999.
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