Professor Bob John

Paper Award

Simon Coupland and I won best paper in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems in 2010 for our paper in 2007:

Geometric Type-1 and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems, S. Coupland and R. I. John, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 15(1):3 - 15, Febuary 2007

Highly Cited Papers

My citations on Scopus

The following two papers are amongst the top 1% cited papers on ISI Web of Science.

J. Mendel, R. John, and F. Liu (2006) Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Made Simple. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 14(6), pp 808-821

J. Mendel, R.I. John (2002) Type-2 fuzzy sets made simple. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 10 (2), 117-127 (October 2004) (ISSN 1063-6706).

Current and Recent grants:

1. EPSRC (PI): Towards a Framework for Modelling Variation - EPSRC EP/C542215/1 -- Grant value: £145,356
2. EPSRC (PI): Uncertainty Modelling in Technologies for the Elderly - EP/F013167/1 -- Grant Value £45,447
3. DTI (PI): Improving customer demand and cost forecasting methods - TP/5/DAT/6/1/H025E -- Grant value: £380,000
4. DTI KTP (PI): Knowledge Transfer Partnership with GoMad -- Grant Value £145,000
5. Lachesis (PI): Data Perspective -- Grant Value: £250,000
6. Royal Society (PI): Incoming Travel Grant -- Grant Value: £13,000
7. EPSRC (CI): IMI: IMPROVING THE COST MODEL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (COSTMOD) - GR/M58818/01 -- Grant Value: £293,531
8. EPSRC (CI): Workshop on the Future of (UK) Fuzzy Systems Research - EP/E058388/1 -- Grant Value: £12,026
9. HIRF (CI): Hardware Implementation of a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System - Grant value: £16,028

I have also received other funding form the EU and Teaching Company Scheme (all pre 2004).

I am international scientific adviser to OPTIMIST-RRT (OPTIMisation: using Intelligent Simulation Tools - Robust & Real-Time extensions) which has a grant value of 10 Million Swedish Kroner.

Selected Recent Papers:

1. Evolutionary optimisation of noisy multi-objective problems using confidence-based dynamic resampling, Anna Syberfeldt, Amos Ng, Robert John and Phillip Moore, European Journal of Operational Research, August, Vol. 204, 3(1) , 533-544, 2010.
2. Fuzziness index driven fuzzy relaxation algorithm and applications to image processing Zhou, S.M. John Q. Gan, Lida X and John, R.I. Annals of Operations Research 168(1):119-131, April 2009.
3. Method of Learning Weighted Similarity Function to Improve the Performance of Nearest Neighbour Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi, Elham Parvinnia and Robert John, Information Sciences, 179, 17, 2964-2973, 2009.
4. Non-intrusive speech quality prediction in VoIP networks using a neural network approach M. AL-Akhrasa, H. Zedan, R. John and I. ALMomani Neurocomputing 72:2595-2608, 2009. DOI information: 10.1016/j.neucom.2008.10.019.
5. On Constructing Parsimonious Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems via Influential Rule Selection S. -M Zhou, J. M. Garibaldi, R. I. John, and F. Chiclana IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (ISSN 1063-6706) Pages 654-667, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2008.928597.
6. The Collapsing Method of Defuzzification for Discretised Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets Sarah Greenfield, Francisco Chiclana, Simon Coupland and Robert John Information Sciences (ISSN 0020-0255) 179(13): 2055-2069, 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.07.011.

Here are all my publications. I currently have an h-index of 14. In total there are 54 papers in the ISI Web of Science with total citations in 2009 being 148. In Scopus I have 66 cited papers with 195 citations in 2009.

MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics and MSc Intelligent Systems and PhD applications

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