Professor Sanchez 
(William Evans fellow), University of Marseille, France
sanchez@neswup.univ-mrs.fr

Title:  "Intelligent decision making and guidance systems"
Elie Sanchez

Abstract:
In the present age of information, fuzzy logic based systems
are effectively penetrating biomedical, engineering and
economic fields. As it will be seen with practical examples,
a common spirit in representing and processing knowledge can
lead to intelligent systems that can assist decision makers
in diagnosis, recognition or guidance problems. Rapid
technological development and a competitive global economy
can force career changes. Injured individuals that have lost
some of their mental or physical abilities might need to be
re-evaluated to return to the labor market. For such applications,
the proposed FuzzADe system aims at assisting a staff of
vocational counselors, psychologists, instructors and supervisors,
in vocational tasks of rehabilitation, testing, evaluation and
guidance.

About Prof Elie Sanchez:
Prof. Elie SANCHEZ, from the University of Marseille, France,
is a Doctor in Mathematics (Faculty of Sciences) and a Doctor
in Human Biology (Faculty of Medicine). He is the Director of
the Neurinfo Research Dept and President of the Neural & Fuzzy
Systems Institute, Marseille. He was a former President of the
International Fuzzy Systems Association. In 1995 he received
the International Grigore MOISIL Gold Medal and Award for "capital
contributions to Computer and Information Sciences, namely in
the fields of Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence". He
serves on the editorial board of many International journals.
After initiating theoretical work on the resolution of fuzzy
relation equations he published intensively in fuzzy set theory
and in soft computing, in particular with applications to Medicine
and Biology (his recent interest lies also DNA Biosoft Computing).
Within the Neural & Fuzzy Systems Institute, practical applications
(R&D, transfer of technology) of his group include: fuzzy logic
based decision support systems ("FuzzIA"), hand-written pattern
recognition ("Eureca"), fuzzy logic controlled mobile robots
("Vitaur") and automotive applications (in particular, with Peugeot),
vocational guidance systems ("FuzzADe") and Fuzzy Information
Retrieval Systems, with optimization of weighted queries by genetic
algorithms.

When:  Thursday, 3rd September at 1.00 PM

Where:  Commerce: 2.03