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Report No. 2001-1-siSeptember 2001

Edited by: Masoud Nikravesh

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

Computer Science Division- Department of EECSUniversity of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720Tel: (510) 643-4522 & (510) 642-8271 Fax: (510) 642-5775

URL: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.eduEmail: [email protected] & [email protected]

BISC AND THE NEW MillenniumPerception-based information technology

COMPUTING WITH WORDS, COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF PERCEPTION,

PRECISIATED NATURAL LANGUAGES,PERCEPTION-BASED DECISION ANALYSIS, AND

PERCEPTION-BASED INFORMATION PROCESSING AND RETRIEVAL

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BISC Sponsorship PROGRAM

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) Computer Science Division- Department of EECS

University of California at BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720

Tel: (510) 643-4522 & (510) 642-8271; Fax: (510) 642-5775URL: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu

Email: [email protected] & [email protected]

The objective of the program is to encourage close cooperation between the industrial, government, and academic communities and the BISC program. This collaboration includes a faster transfer and exchange of our research results, implementation of focused research on problems of interest to members, increased members' access to publications, students, and faculty, and involvement in research and education through grants to support our activities at BISC program.

The BISC sponsorship opportunities include 1) BISC-Direct membership research program, 2) BISC-ILP and, 3) BISC-BEECSA. For more information please contact:

Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh; Email: [email protected]; Phone: (510) 642-4959Dr. Masoud Nikravesh; Email: [email protected]; Phone: (510) 643-4522

BISC Program: http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.eduBISC-ILP: http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu:80/IRO/BISC-BEECSA: http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~little/vif.instructions.html

http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~little/vif.instructions.html

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BISCReport No. 2001-1-si

September 2001

This report is sponsored by:

BTexact Technologies

NASA

ONR

ARO

DAAH

ILP Program of UC Berkeley

BISC Program of UC Berkeley

BISCReport No. 2001-1-si

September 2001

Content:

Part I: PERCEPTION-BASED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

1. A New Direction in AI – Toward a Computational Theory of Perceptions2. Toward a Perception-Based Theory of Probabilistic Reasoning with

Imprecise Probabilities3. From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words -- From

Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions4. Outline of a Computational Theory of Perception Based on Computing with

Words5. Toward a Logic of Perceptions Based on Fuzzy Logic6. Precisiated Natural Languages (Abstracts and Slides related to PNL)7. Collections of 2000-2001 PowerPoint Slides of Lotfi A. Zadeh 8. The BISC Decision Support System9. Perception Based Information Processing and Retrieval: Application to

User Profiling and Ambiguity Resolution Through Clarification Dialog10. Perception-Based Information Processing for Collective of Robots11. Credit Scoring for Billions of Financing Decisions12. Fuzzy Query and Ranking with Application to Queries and Search13. Interactive Text Retrieval Supported by Growing Self-Organizing Maps14. State of the Art in Numerical Aggregation Operators15. Integration of Document Index with Perception Index-

Part I: Fuzzy Query on the Internet Part II: Ranking Algorithm based on Perception Index

16. An Algorithm Approach for Handling Linguistic Values: Human’s Perception Perspective

17. Some Consideration on Standardization of Fuzzy Sets18. Perception-Based Information Processing and Retrieval- Application to:

User Profiling, Search Engine, Ontology, and Document Clustering19. Fuzzy Logic and the Internet

Part II: FLINT 2001

20. New Direction in Enhancing the Power of the Internet- 2001 BISC International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet

Part III: BISC-SIG-ES Publications: 2000-2001

21. Soft Computing for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling22. Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis in Oil Exploration23. Soft Computing and Earth Sciences, Special Issues I (June 2001) and

Special Issue II (August 2001)24. Mining and Fusion of Petroleum Data With Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network

Agents25. Soft Computing: Tools for Intelligent Reservoir Characterization (IRESC)26. Soft Computing for Intelligent Reservoir Characterization

Part IV: BISC Team 2000-2001; Short Bio

Prof. Lotfi. A. Zadeh

Dr. Masoud Nikravesh

Dr. Mori Anvari

Dr. Andreas Nürnberger

Dr. Marcin Detyniecki

Dr. Dae-Young Choi

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PART I: BISC AND THE NEW MILLENNIUM




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Part II: NEW DIRECTION IN ENHANCING THE POWER OF THE INTERNET- 2001 BISC INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FUZZY LOGIC AND THE INTERNET

FLINT 2001 WORKSHOP




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PART III: BISC-SIG-ES PUBLICATIONS: 2000-2001




1. Patrick Wong, Fred Aminzadeh, and M. Nikravesh, Soft Computing for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume 80, 2001, Physica-Verlag/Springer-Verlag.

2. Nikravesh, M., Fred Aminzadeh, and Lotfi A. Zadeh, Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis in Oil Exploration., ELSEVIER Dec 2001.

3. Nikravesh, M., Fred Aminzadeh, and Lotfi A. Zadeh, Soft Computing and Earth Sciences, Special Issues I (June 2001) and Special Issue II (August 2001); Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.

4. Nikravesh, M. and F. Aminzadeh Mining and Fusion of Petroleum Data With Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Agents, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 29 (3-4) (2001)

5. Nikravesh, M., R. D. Adams and R. A. Levey, Soft Computing: Tools for Intelligent Reservoir Characterization (IRESC), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 29 (3-4) (2001).

6. D. Tamhane, Patrick Wong, Nikravesh, M. and F. Aminzadeh, Soft Computing for Intelligent Reservoir Characterisation, presented at the SPE Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Modelling for Asset Management, Yokohama, Japan, 2000.

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PART IV: BISC TEAM 2000-2001; SHORT BIO




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). 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. 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 Central Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award, the SOFT Scietific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and 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 fifty journals.

Masoud Nikravesh is Senior Research Engineer and BT Senior Research Fellow in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Scientist in the Imaging and Collaborative Computing Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In addition, he is serving as the Associate Director (Co-founder) of Zadeh Institute for Information Technology (Information Technology) and Chairs of BISC-Earth Sciences, BISC-Fuzzy Logic and Internet, and BISC-Recognition Technology Groups. He has over 10 years research and industrial experience in soft computing and artificial intelligence. He worked as consultant to major companies and funded several key projects in the area of soft computing, data mining and fusion, control, and earth sciences through US government and major companies. He published and presented extensively on diverse topics and served as SPE Technical Editor and several National and International Technical Committees and Technical Chairs. He served as member of IEEE, SPE, AICHE, SEG, AGU, and ACS. His credentials have led to front-page news at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory News and headline news at the Electronics Engineering Times.

Mori Anvari:

Andreas Nürnberger received his Ph.D in computer science specializing in neuro-fuzzy systems and their applications to data analysis and system control in 2001. He was involved in several academic and industrial research projects on data analysis problems. He is now BISC researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently working on soft computing techniques for information retrieval.

Marcin Detyniecki received his Ph.D in computer science specializing in mathematical aggregation operators in 2000. Marcin worked in fuzzy logic and multimedia indexing, mathematical aggregation operators and their application to the video querying. He is now BISC researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and is currently working on Precisiated Natural Languages (PNL) and fuzzy query.

Dae-Young Choi received his Ph.D in computer science specializing in data mining. Choi worked in data preparation for data mining, data aggregation, and fuzzy systems. He is now BISC researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently working on fuzzy query, search engines and fuzzy logic and the Internet.

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)Computer Science Division

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencesUniversity of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1776Tel: (510) 643-4522 & (510) 642-8271; FAX: 510-642-5775

Email: [email protected]: [email protected]

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This report is sponsored by BTexact Technologies, NASA, ONR, ARO, DAAH, ILP and the BISC Program of UC Berkeley.


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