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Research Area

• Cyberspace
• Large- Scale System Theory
• Data Fusion & Mining 
• Energy and Resource Systems 
• Control Theories 
• Optimization

BERKEKEY INITIATIVE IN SOFT COMPUTING (BISC)

One of the problems that Internet users are facing today is to find the  desired information correctly and effectively in an environment that the available information, the  repositories of information, indexing, and tools are all dynamic. Even though some tools were developed for a dynamic environment, they are suffering  from "too much" or " too little" information retrieval. Some tools return too few resources and some  tool returns too many resources.

For example, World Wide Web search engines have become the most heavily- used online services, with millions of searches performed each day. Their popularity is due, in  part, to their ease of use. While searches may retrieve thousands of hits, finding relevant partial matches might be a problem. Already explosive amount of users on the Internet is estimated over 200 million. The estimated user of wireless devices is estimated 1 billion within 2003 and 95 % of all  wireless devices will be Internet enabled within 2005.

The main goals of the Interest group are:

1. Carry out R & D in Soft computing and Internet 

2. Provide forum for debate and discussion on Soft computing and Internet 

3. Organize and contribute to conferences and short courses on Soft computing and Internet

4. Provide repository and archive for Soft computing and Internet related R & D 

5. Attract Soft computing and Internet researchers worldwide to collaborate with the interest group 

6. Help technology transfer and commercialization of Soft computing and Internet applications 

7. Create a think-tank to analyze impact of Internet on society
 

The focus of BISC Special Interest group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet will be and are not limited to:

1. Search Engines and Web Crawlers
2. Agent Technology (i.e., Web-Based Collaborative and Distributed Agents)
3. Adaptive and Evolutionary techniques for dynamic environment (i.e. Evolutionary search engine and text retrieval, Dynamic learning and adaptation of the Web Databases, etc)
4. Fuzzy Queries in Multimedia Database Systems
5. Query Based on User Profile
6. Information Retrievals
7. Summary of Documents 
8. Information Fusion Such as Medical Records, Research Papers, News, etc
9. File and Folder Organizer
10. Data Management for Mobile Applications and eBusiness Mobile 
Solutions over the Web
11. Matching People, Interests, Products, etc
12. Association Rule Mining for Terms-Documents and Text Mining
13. E-mail Notification
14. Web-Based Calendar Manager
15. Web-Based Telephony
16. Web-Based Call Center
17. Workgroup Messages
18. E-Mail and Web-Mail
19. Web-Based Personal Info
20. Internet related issues such as Information overload and load  balancing, Wireless Internet, E-coding and D-coding (Encryption), Security such as Web security and  Wireless/Embedded Web Security, Web-based Fraud detection and prediction, Recognition, issues related to E-commerce and E-bussiness, etc.
 

Best Regards,
Masoud NikRavesh

Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
CS Division, Department of EECS
University of California,
Berkeley, California
Email: nikravesh@eecs.berkeley.edu
URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nikraves/
Tel: (510) 642-8282
Fax: (510) 642-5775