Departing from how the speaker became involved, and by what he did work with fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, an (obviously subjective) look at their future will be discussed. Namely, by arguing on some aspects such research could follow to not only being a theoretic ground for Zadeh’s Computing with Words,...

In this age, big data applications are increasingly becoming the main focus of attention because of the enormous increment of data generation and storage that has taken place in the last years, in science, business, . . . This situation becomes a challenge when huge amounts of data are processed to extract...

In this talk, I will discuss our research in leveraging Big Data for the Common Good. I will provide an overview of different research initiatives in my research program in network and data science, including applications to grand societal challenges. I will focus on our research initiative in patient-centered...

This talk aims to discuss the main challenges in evolutionary optimization of complex systems to bridge the gap between the academic research and the urgent demands from industry. We will show that, while solving “hard” problems, such as multi-modal and strongly correlated problems, multi-objective optimization...