Title: Intelligent Multi-layered and HierarchicSystems: A Practical View/b>
Masoud Mohammadian (PhD)
School of Information Sciences and Engineering
University of Canberra
Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract
In this presentation I examine theoretical and practical aspects used for construction of a multi-layer and hierarchical control system using fuzzy logic technologies to model several complex (nonlinear) system associated with the decomposition into hierarchical/multi-layered fuzzy logic sub-systems and the learning of fuzzy rules and internal parameters. The decomposition into hierarchical/multi-layered fuzzy logic sub-systems greatly reduces the number of fuzzy rules to be defined and to be learnt but such decomposition is not unique and may give rise to variables with no physical
significance. This can raise then major difficulties in obtaining a complete class of rules from experts even when the number of variables is small. Application areas considered are: the prediction of the Australian CPI, supervisory control of traffic flow at intersections, robot control and testing and software development.
Biographical Statement
Masoud Mohammadian research interests lie in adaptive self-learning systems, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks and their applications in industrial, financial and business problems, which involve real time data processing, planning and decision making. His current research also concentrates on the application of computational intelligence techniques for learning and adaptation of intelligent agents and web-based information filtering and data mining and software engineering and testing. He has chaired thirteen international conferences on computational intelligence and intelligent agents. He has published over ninety research papers in conferences, journal and books as well as editing fifteen books in the area of computational intelligence and intelligent agents. Masoud has over sixteen years of academic experience and he has served as program committee member and/or co-chair of a large number of national and international conferences. He was the chair of IEEE ACT Section and he was the recipient of Award from IEEE in Australia and several awards from Ministry of Commerce from Austria.
Last Modified: 22/11/2006
