Teaching Activities in Soft Computing and Computacional Intelligence

In the following, we provide a comprehensible list of teaching activities in soft computing and related fields.

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India

  • Title of the course: Certificate Course on Machine Intelligence and Soft Computing
    Level: Postgraduate
    Institute and departament: Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
    Short description of topics: Pattern recognition; Image processing; Fuzzy sets; Neural networks; Evolutionary computation; Project work on real life problems.
    Lecturer or responsible person: S. K. Pal
    Other people involved: A. Ghosh, D.P. Mandal, M.K. Kundu, C.A. Murthy, S. Mitra, B. Chanda, P. Maji, K. Ghosh
    Language: English
    Web page: http://www.isical.ac.in/~scc
    Starting year of the course in its present form: August 2007
    Goals/contents of the course: This is a value addition course for post graduate degree holders. The objective of the program is to train the students with the scientific knowledge in soft computing and machine learning paradigm. This may help the students for getting suitable job or accelerating research activities.
    Duration and period: 6-8 months.
    Approximate number of students: 20
    Additional information: Visit the website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~scc or email qreries to: scc@isical.ac.in

Taiwan, ROC

  • Title of the course: Fuzzy Set Theory and Applications
    Level: graduate
    Institute and departament: Industrial Engineering &Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University
    Short description of topics: Introduction to the theories & logic of fuzzy sets with uncertainties in information and its uses in systems optimization and decision making.
    Lecturer or responsible person: Hsiao-Fan Wang
    Language: English
    Web page: http://softlab.ie.nthu.edu.tw
    Starting year of the course in its present form: Feb. 2010
    Goals/contents of the course: The main contents are: 1. Introduction and Review of Set Theory 2. Fuzzy Sets and Operations 3. Fuzzy Numbers and Arithmetic 4. Fuzzy Relations 5. Fuzzy Events and Fuzzy Regression 6. Fuzzy Measures 7. Fuzzy Linear Programming 8.*Fuzzy Decision Making 9. Fuzzy Clustering and Pattern Recognition 10Trend of softt Computing
    Slides or others supporting material: http://softlab.ie.nthu.edu.tw
    Duration and period: One semester
    Approximate number of students: 30
    Intended audience: Engineering and Management students
    The course is part of: master/phd in Industrial Engieering & Engineering Management
    Type: elective
    Additional information: a term project is required

Spain

  • Title of the course: Master in Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
    Level: Master
    Institute and departament: European Centre for Soft Computing and Universtity of Oviedo
    Short description of topics: Soft computing, Fuzzy logic, Neural networks, Evolutionary computation, Meta-heuristics, Probabilistic reasoning, Intelligent data analysis, Hybrid systems, ...
    Lecturer or responsible person: Luis Magdalena
    Other people involved: More than forty lecturers including: P. Bonissone, C. Borgelt, J.L. Castro, O. Cordón, S. Crone, D. Dubois, B. Gabrys, M.A. Gil, F. Herrera, J. Kacprzyk, R. Kruse, M. Laguna, P. Larrañaga, R. López de Mántaras R. Martí, C. Moraga, A. Nürnberger, G. Pasi and E. Trillas
    Language: English
    Web page: http://www.softcomputing.es/master
    Starting year of the course in its present form: 2009
    Goals/contents of the course: The general objective of the Master program is to prepare students for highly qualified positions in a wide range of jobs in the public and the private sector, and to provide students with the foundations required to pursue a PhD degree. Its specific objective is to train researchers to make significant contributions to scientific knowledge in soft computing and intelligent data analysis environment.
    Duration and period: One year, full time
    Additional information: Visit the web http://www.softcomputing.es/master or e-mail your questions to master@softcomputing.es

Italy

  • Title of the course: Problems and approaches in computational chemistry
    Level: graduate
    Institute and departament: Politecnico di Milano, DEI
    Short description of topics: Computational chemistry is a well developed intersection of chemistry and computer science that employs the results of theoretical chemistry to compute the structures and properties of molecules. Present computational chemistry can accurately calculate the properties of molecules that contain no more than 10-40 electrons. Approximate methods are available for larger molecules. The course will introduce the methods used in the basic areas of computational chemistry: 1. The prediction of the molecular structure of molecules 2. Storing and searching for data on chemical entities 3. Identifying correlation between chemical structures and properties 4. Computational approaches to design molecules that interact in specific ways with other molecules (eg drug design) After a review of the area we will present the open challenges. Challenges in size: work with big molecules (proteins, etc), work on large data sets, etc. Challenges in the meaning: classification of the chemical space, classification of the mechanisms space, etc. Challenges in the perspectives: from "in vivo" testing to "in silico" testing. Challenges in the hybridization with new areas: how proteomics, genetics, neurosciences can build over computational chemistry. The course will be organized with the cooperation of external experts and problem holders.
    Lecturer or responsible person: Giuseppina Gini
    Other people involved: Emilio Benfenati (Mario Negri Institute, Milan)
    Language: English
    Web page: http://home.dei.polimi.it/gini/CompChem/
    Starting year of the course in its present form: 2008
    Goals/contents of the course: The goal is to introduce the students to the topic and to review with them relevant publications in the computer science and AI areas.
    Text book or classnotes: http://home.dei.polimi.it/gini/CompChem/lezioni.htm
    Slides or others supporting material: http://home.dei.polimi.it/gini/CompChem/
    Duration and period: 20 hours
    Approximate number of students: 25
    Intended audience: PhD student in ICT
    The course is part of: Doctorate in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano
    Type: elective