Unit:  Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Algorithms

Principal Researcher

e-mail: oscar.cordon@softcomputing.es

Oscar Cordón received his M.S. degree (1994) and his Ph.D. (1997) both in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain, where he was professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence since 1995 until 2007, and associate professor since January, 2001. He was also the creator and head of its Virtual Learning Center (CEVUG) between 2001 and 2005, and was awarded with the Young Researcher Career Award in 2004. Since April 2006, he is the Principal Researcher of the "Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Algorithms" research unit at the European Centre for Soft Computing.

He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including 45 JCR-SCI-indexed journal publications, more than 30 book chapters, and around 20 contributions to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. He is also a co-author of the book "Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Evolutionary Tuning and Learning of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases", World Scientific, 2001. In June 2008, his publications had received more than 530 citations, carrying an h index of 13, and being included in the 1% of most cited researchers both in the "Engineering" and "All scientific fields" areas. He has co-edited 6 special issues in international journals (Information Sciences, Mathware & Soft Computing, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Applied Soft Computing) and 3 research books published by Springer, and has co-organized 15 special sessions in national and international conferences on "Genetic Fuzzy Systems", "Soft Computing Applications to Intelligent Information Retrieval", "Ant Colony Optimization" and "Advances in Soft Computing". Besides, he has advised 11 PhD dissertations.

He has participated in 20 research projects and contracts supported by the European Commission, the Spanish and Andalusian Governments, the Principality of Asturias, the University of Granada, and the Puleva Food S.A. and Tenneco Automotive Ibérica S.A. companies (being the main researcher in 9 of them), related with evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy systems, genetic fuzzy systems, ant colony optimization and other metaheuristics, as well as e-learning. Besides, he is Area Editor of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning since 2005, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems since 2008, and was treasurer of the EUSFLAT Society between 2005 and 2007. He was also co-chairman of the First International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy Systems (GFS205), held in Granada, in March 2005 and he will be publicity co-chair of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2009 (SCCI2009) and finance co-chair of the IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 World Congress. He also created in 2004 the Genetic Fuzzy Systems Task Force (currently Evolutionary Fuzzy ystems Task Force), Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and was his chair till 2007.

His current main research interests are in the fields of soft computing for forensic anthropology and medical imaging; fuzzy rule-based systems and genetic fuzzy systems; soft computing and information retrieval; and evolutionary computation, ant colony optimization and other single- and multi-objective metaheuristics, and their applications to different real-world problems (design and mining of visual science maps, automotive assembly line balancing, etc.).

Additional information, including a complete list of publications, is available in his old web page at the University of Granada (http://decsai.ugr.es/~ocordon/).