Professor Bob John

Simon Coupland and my paper (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) won best paper in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems for 2007.

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). Amongst the top 1% cited papers on ISI Web of Science.

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.

Some of my recent papers:

1. Fuzziness index driven fuzzy relaxation algorithm and applications to image processing Zhou, S.M. John Q. Gan, Lida Xu, 4and John, R.I. Annals of Operations Research 168(1):119-131, April 2009.
2. Method of Learning Weighted Similarity Function to Improve the Performance of Nearest Neighbour Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi, Elham Parvinnia and Robert John, Information Sciences 2009. To appear.
3. Non-intrusive speech quality prediction in VoIP networks using a neural network approach M. AL-Akhrasa, H. Zedanb, R. John and I. ALMomani Neurocomputing 72:2595-2608, 2009. DOI information: 10.1016/j.neucom.2008.10.019.
4. 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.
5. 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

MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics and MSc Intelligent Systems, PhD applications and Type-2 Fuzzy logic .

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