Plenary talks: 50 minutes, 10 minutes for questions
Regular talks: 15 minutes, 5 minutes for questions
Time is: Pacific Standard Time
Wednesday, August 19, Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd’2020
8:00- 8:20 am welcome
8:20- 8:40 am Leobardo Valera, Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Equations for Which Newton’s Method Never Works: Pedagogical Examples
8:40- 9:00 am Martine Ceberio, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich
Optimal Search under Constraints
9:00- 9:20 am Julio Urenda, Manuel Hernandez, Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, and Vladik Kreinovich
How User Ratings Change with Time: Theoretical Explanation of an Empirical Formula
9:20- 9:40 am Julio Urenda and Vladik Kreinovich
Why a Classification Based on Linear Approximation to Dynamical Systems Often Works Well in Nonlinear Cases
9:40- 9:50 am break
9:50-10:10 am Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
How Mathematics and Computing Can Help Fight the Pandemic: Two Pedagogical Examples
10:10-10:30 am Julio C. Urenda, Orsolya Csiszar, Gabor Csiszar, Jozsef Dombi, Gyorgy Eigner, and Vladik Kreinovich
Natural Invariance Explains Empirical Success of Specific Membership Functions, Hedge Operations, and Negation Operations
10:30-10:50 am closing
Thursday, August 20
8:00- 8:20 am opening
8:20- 9:20 am Plenary Talk 1
James C. Bezdek
Title: Streaming Clustering is not Clustering!
9:20-11:20 am Special session on genetic fuzzy systems I, Room A
9:20- 9:40 am Anirudh Chhabra, Donghoon Kim and Kelly Cohen
Enhanced Cascaded Genetic Fuzzy System for Counterfeit Banknote Detection
9:40-10:00 am Javier Viana and Kelly Cohen
ExTree – Explainable Genetic Feature Coupling Tree using Fuzzy Mapping for Dimensionality Reduction with Application to NACA 0012 Airfoils Self-Noise Data Set
10:00-10:20 am Javier Viana and Kelly Cohen
Fast Training Algorithm for Genetic Fuzzy Controllers and application to an Inverted Pendulum with Free Cart
10:20-10:40 am Lynn Pickering and Kelly Cohen
Genetic Fuzzy Based Tetris Player
10:40-11:00 am Owen Macmann and Kelly Cohen
A Dynamic Hierarchical Genetic-Fuzzy Sugeno Network
11:00-11:20 am Dhruv Patel and Kelly Cohen
Obstacle Avoidance and Target Tracking by Two Wheeled Differential Drive Mobile Robot using ANFIS in Static and Dynamic Environment
9:20- 9:40 am Fuzzy Applications I, Room B
9:20- 9:40 am Dhrumil Shukla, Natalia Solorzano, Jeremy Thomas, and
Barnabas Bede
Title: TBA
11:20-11:30 am break
11:30-12:30 pm Plenary Talk 2
Bart Kosko, University of Southern California
Tentative title: Machine-learning advances involved in feedforward and feedback fuzzy systems
12:30- 1:20 pm lunch break
1:20- 2:00 pm Special Session on Genetic Fuzzy Systems II, Room A
1:20- 1:40 pm Nicholas Ernest, Brandon Kunkel and Timothy Arnett
An Investigation into the Impact of System Transparency on Work Flows of Fuzzy Tree Based AIs
1:40- 2:00 pm Timothy Arnett, Nicholas Ernest, Brandon Kunkel and
Hugo Boronat
Formal Verification of a Genetic Fuzzy System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigation and Target Capture in a Safety Corridor
1:20- 2:00 pm Fuzzy Applications II, Room B
1:20- 1:40 pm Igor Skrjanc
Interval fuzzy models based on evolving Gaussian clustering – eGauss+
1:40- 2:00 pm Eduardo Ramirez, Patricia Melin, and
German Prado-Arechiga
Towards improving the Fuzzy KNN algorithm based on Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Inference System
2:00- 2:10 pm break
2:10- 2:50 pm Special Session on Relation Between Fuzzy and
Intervals, Part I, Room A
2:10- 2:30 pm Ricardo Alvarez, Nick Sims, Christian Servin,
Martine Ceberio, and Vladik Kreinovich
How to Reconcile Randomness with Physicists’ Belief that Every Theory Is Approximate: Informal Knowledge Is Needed
2:30- 2:50 pm Laxman Bokati, Aaron Velasco, and Vladik Kreinovich
Scale-Invariance and Fuzzy Techniques Explain the Empirical Success
of Inverse Distance Weighting and of Dual Inverse DistanceWeighting in Geosciences
2:10- 2:50 pm Fuzzy Applications, Part III, Room B
2:10- 2:30 pm Juan Carlos Figueroa-Garcia, and Carlos Franco
An approach for solving fully interval production planning problems
2:30- 2:50 pm Fabian Alberto Castiblanco Ruiz,
Camilo Franco De Los Rios, J. Tinguaro Rodriguez, and
Javier Montero
Optimal number of classes in fuzzy partitions
2:50- 3:00 pm break
3:00- 4:00 pm Plenary Talk 3
Kelly Cohen, University of Cincinnati
Title: Teaching a fuzzy logic based eXplainable AI class at the
University of Cincinnati
Friday, August 21
8:00- 9:00 am Plenary Talk 4
Golnoosh Farnadi, University of Montreal and Mila — Quebec AI
Institute
Tentative title: Bias and Algorithmic Discrimination in Machine
Learning
9:00- 9:10 am break
9:10-11:10 am Panel “Fuzzy Logic based eXplainable AI – An Adopter’s
Perspective”
9:10- 9:20 am introduction by moderators
* Prof. Kelly Cohen – Brian H. Rowe Endowed Chair and Interim
Head, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics,
University of Cincinnati
* Nicholas Ernest – Chief Architect, Thales USA Inc.
9:20- 9:30 am presentation by Paul Yarin, Director, Identity
Technology and Strategy, Thales Identity and Biometric Solutions
9:30- 9:40 am presentation by Dino Martis – Chief Executive Officer,
Genexia LLC
9:40- 9:50 am presentation by Dr. Tim Arnett – Senior AI Researcher
at Thales
9:50-10:00 am presentation by Dr. Jiaqi Ma – Academic Director,
Greater Cincinnati Advanced Transportation Collaborative
10:00-10:10 am presentation by Dr. Adam Kiefer — Department of
Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
10:10-10:20 am presentation by Dr. David Casbeer — Technical Area
Lead, UAV Cooperative & Intelligent Control, Control Science
Center of Excellence, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Air Force
Research Laboratory, USAF
10:20-11:10 am discussions
11:10-11:20 am break
11:20-12:20 pm Plenary Talk 5
Vani Mandava, Microsoft Research
Title: Reproducibility with Microsoft Research Open Data
12:20- 1:10 pm lunch break
1:10- 2:50 pm Special Session on Relation Between Fuzzy and
Intervals, Part II, Room A
1:10- 1:30 pm Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich
Is There a Contradiction Between Statistics and Fairness: From
Intelligent Control to Explainable AI
1:30- 1:50 pm Olga Kosheleva and Vladik Kreinovich
Which Algorithms Are Feasible and Which Are Not: Fuzzy Techniques Can
Help in Formalizing the Notion of Feasibility
1:50- 2:10 pm Juan Carlos Figueroa-Garcia, Christian Servin, and
Vladik Kreinovich
Centroids Beyond Defuzzification
2:10- 2:30 pm Weldon A. Lodwick and Marina T. Mizukoshi
Fuzzy Constraint Interval Mathematical Analysis – An Introduction
2:30- 2:50 pm Leandro Maciel, Rosangela Ballini and Fernando Gomide
Adaptive interval fuzzy modeling from stream data and application
in cryptocurrencies forecasting
1:10- 2:50 pm Fuzzy Applications, Part IV, Room B
1:10- 1:30 pm Vinicius Wasques, Nilmara Pinto, Estevao Esmi and
Laecio C. Barros
Consistence of Interactive Fuzzy Initial Conditions
1:30- 1:50 pm Kanishka Misra and Julia Taylor Rayz
An Approximate Perspective on Word Prediction in Context:
Ontological Semantics Meets BERT
1:50- 2:10 pm Tatiana Ringenberg, Julia Rayz, and
Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar
Using Fuzzy Sets to Assess Differences in Online Grooming
Conversations with Victims, Decoys, and Law Enforcement
2:10- 2:30 pm Nilmara Pinto, Estevao Esmi, and Laecio C. Barros
Carbon Emissions Trading as a Constraint in a Fuzzy Optimization
Problem
2:30- 2:50 pm Patricia Melin, Ivette Miramontes, Oscar Carvajal,
and German Prado-Arechiga
Optimization of neural network models for estimating the risk of
developing hypertension using bio-inspired algorithms
2:50- 3:00 pm break
3:00- 4:00 pm Plenary Talk 6
Nicholas Ernest – Chief Architect, Thales USA Inc.
Winner of NAFIPS 2019 Early Career Award
Saturday, August 22
8:00- 9:00 am Plenary Talk 7
Irina Perfilieva, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Title: TBA
9:00- 9:10 am break
9:10-11:30 am Fuzzy Theory, Room A
9:10- 9:30 am Jiri Mockor
Powerset operators in categories with fuzzy relations defined by
monads
9:30- 9:50 am Jan Paseka, Sergejs Solovjovs and Milan Stehlik
Sugeno integral over generalized semi-quantales
9:50-10:10 am Flaulles Bergamaschi, Natan Jesus, Alexsandra Andrade
and Regivan Santiago
Agnesi Quasi-fuzzy Numbers
10:10-10:30 am Cibele Cristina Trinca, Ricardo Augusto Watanabe and
Estevao Esmi Laureano
Construction of T-Fuzzy Subgroups and T-Vague Groups Based on
Algebraic Lattices for Real-Valued Interference Channel
10:30-10:50 am Alexsandra Andrade, Flaulles Bergamaschi,
Thiago Viana, and Regivan Santiago
Fuzzy Mathematical Morphology and Applications in Image Processing
10:50-11:10 am Bart Kosko and Akash Panda Random
Fuzzy-Rule Foams for Explainable AI
11:10-11:30 am Barnabas Bede
On Equivalence Between Neural Networks with ReLU Activation and
Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
9:10-11:30 am Fuzzy Applications, Part V, Room B
9:10- 9:30 am Himanshukumar Patel and Vipul Shah
A Novel Optimal Intelligent Fuzzy TID Controller for a
Non-Interacting Conical Tank level Process with Abrupt Actuator and
System Component Fault
9:30- 9:50 am Zahra Alijani and Stefania Tomasiello
Fuzzy-based approaches for agri-food supply chains: a survey
9:50-10:10 am Amira Abo Hozaifa and Ahmed Moussa
Fuzzy Redundancy Mechanism for Enhancing the Resilience of IoT-based
HPC Systems
10:10-10:30 am Xin Li and Kelly Cohen
Improved Fuzzy Q-Learning with Replay Memory
10:30-10:50 am Juan Carlos Figueroa-Garcia and
Jhoan Sebastian Tenjo Garcia
Solving capacitated vehicle routing problems with fuzzy delivery
costs and fuzzy demands
10:50-11:10 am Vinicius Wasques, Estevao Esmi, Laecio C. Barros, and
Francielle Santo Pedro
Numerical solution for reversible chemical reaction models with
interactive fuzzy initial conditions
11:10-11:30 am Bhavya Mayadevi, Dino Martis, Anoop Sathyan and
Kelly Cohen
Fuzzy Bolt for Predictive Maintenance of Aircraft Engines
11:30-11:40 am break
11:40-12:40 pm Plenary Talk 8
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso
Title: Deep Learning (Partly) Demystified
12:40- 1:40 pm lunch break
1:40- 2:40 pm NAFIPS General Meeting
2:40- 3:40 pm Plenary Talk 9
Martine De Cock, University of Washington Tacoma
Title: Privacy-preserving machine learning
3:40- 4:00 pm closing