Awards and Recognitions

Personal Honors and Awards

Honors and awards bestowed to members of the research group are listed in this section:

  • F. Herrera: IFSA Fellow 2013 (He has been elected a fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association in recognition of his research in fuzzy sets and systems).
  • F. Herrera: AEPIA Award 2013 (He received the recognition by Spanish Association on Artificial Intelligence to a scientific career in Artificial Intelligence).
  • O. Cordón, S. Damas, O. Ibáñez, J. Santamaría, I. Alemán, M. Botella, F. Navarro: IFSA Award for Outstanding Applications of Fuzzy Technology 2011. Title: "Forensic Identification System Using Craniofacial Superimposition Based on Fuzzy Sets and Evolutionary Algorithms".
  • O. Cordón: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Early Career Award 2011 (It was the first such award conferred).
  • I. Zwir: 2011 Howard Hughes Medical Institute award for ten years of research (a personal award from the HHMI institute to I. Zwir former collaborations).
  • E. Herrera-Viedma: 2011 Diploma in recognition to the stientific merit Faculty of Information and Documentation, University of Granada.
  • F. Herrera: 2010 International International Cajastur Award "Mamdani Prize" for Soft Computing (Fourth Edition, November, 2010) (This award is promoted by Cajastur and the Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing, through the European Centre for Soft Computing).
  • F. Herrera: 2010 Spanish National Award on Computer Science ARITMEL to the "Spanish Engineer on Computer Science" (This award is promoted by the Spanish Computer Sciences Scientific Society (SCIE) - Premio Nacional de Informática ARITMEL 2010).
  • F. Herrera: 2009 Outstanding Associate Editor Award IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
  • F. Herrera: ECCAI Fellow 2009 (F. Herrera has been elected a fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for AI in recognition of his research and service to the community)
  • O. Cordón: 2008 Outstanding Associate Editor Award IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

Work Honors and Awards

Honors and awards given to works developed by members of the research group are presented in this section:

  • Best Methodological Paper Award in the "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2013), September 17-20, 2013, Madrid, Spain

D. Martín, A. Rosete, J. Alcalá-Fdez y F. Herrera. MOPNAR: Algoritmo Evolutivo Multi-Objetivo para Extraer Reglas de Asociación Cuantitativas Positivas y Negativas. "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2013), 882-891, Madrid (Spain), 17-20 September 2013.

  • Best Application Paper Award in the "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2013), September 17-20, 2013, Madrid, Spain

F.J. Rodríguez, C. García-Martínez, C. Blum, M. Lozano. Un algoritmo voraz iterativo para el problema de la planificación sobre máquinas paralelas no relacionadas. "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2013), 882-891, Madrid (Spain), 17-20 February 2013.

  • 2012 University of Granada" Award for outstanding research work

J. Casillas, F.J. Martínez-López, Mining uncertain data with multiobjective genetic fuzzy systems to be applied in consumer behaviour modelling, Expert Systems with Applications 36:2 (2009) 1645-1659. ISSN 0957-4174.

  • Best Methodological Paper Award in the "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2012), February 08-10, 2012, Albacete, Spain

C. García-Martínez, F.J. Rodríguez Díaz, M. Lozano. Análisis Empírico del No Free Lunch en Problemas Binarios Reales. "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2012), 111-116, Albacete (Spain), 08-10 February 2012.

  • Best Application Paper Award in the "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2012), February 08-10, 2012, Albacete, Spain

M. Chica, O. Cordón, S. Damas, J. Bautista. Análisis del NSGA-II para el TSALBP-1/3 cuando existe variación de demanda en una producción mixta. "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2012), 759-765, Albacete (Spain), 08-10 February 2012.

  • GEFS 2011 Outstanding Paper Award in the 5th International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (GEFS2011), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011 (SSCI 2011), April 11-15, 2011, Paris, France

A. álvarez-álvarez, G. Triviño, O. Cordón. Body Posture Recognition by means of a Genetic Fuzzy Finite State Machine. 5th International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (GEFS2011), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011 (SSCI 2011), 60-65, Paris (France), 11-15 April 2011.

  • 2011 Lotfi A. Zadeh Prize (Best Paper Award 2009-10), International Fuzzy Systems Association, for the following paper:

A. Fernandez, M.J. del Jesus, F. Herrera, Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Based Classification Systems with Genetic Rule Selection for Imbalanced Data-Sets. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 50 (2009) 561-577.

  • 2010 Award ICPR Landscape Contest. ICPR 2010 Contest for Classifier Domains of Dominance. Champion of the Offline Test and Champion of the Real-Time test, with the contribution:

J. Derrac, S. García, F. Herrera. IFS-CoCo in the Landscape Contest: Description and results. 20th Conference of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2010), 56-65, Istanbul (Turkey), 23-26 August 2010.

  • 2010 Award to the "Top Cited Article 2005 - 2010" of the Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence for the paper:

R. Alcalá, J. Casillas, O. Cordón, A. González, F. Herrera. A Genetic Weighted Rule Derivation and Rule Selection Process for Fuzzy Control of HVAC Systems. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 18:3 (2005) 279-296.

  • 2010 Winning Entry Certificate CEC 2010 High-dimensional Numerical Optimization Competition. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2010, IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, July 18-23, 2010, with the contribution:

D. Molina, M. Lozano, F. Herrera. MA-SW-Chains: Memetic Algorithm Based on Local Search Chains for Large Scale Continuous Global Optimization. 2010 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010), IEEE World Conference on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), 3153-3160, Barcelona (Spain), 18-23 July 2010.

  • 2010 Best paper award in the 5th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT10), 15-17 Octubre, 2010, Beijing (China):

C. Cornelis, R. Jensen, N. Verbiest, Ordered Weighted Average Based Fuzzy Rough Sets. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT10), Beijing (China), pp. 78-85, October 15-17, 2010.

  • 2010 University of Granada" Award for outstanding research work (bestowed in 2010 for papers from 2008 and 2009)

F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, L. Martínez, A Fuzzy Linguistic Methodology To Deal With Unbalanced Linguistic Term Sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 16:2 (2008) 354-370.

  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System Outstanding 2008 Paper Award (bestowed in 2011), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, for the following paper:

F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, L. Martínez, A Fuzzy Linguistic Methodology To Deal With Unbalanced Linguistic Term Sets. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 16:2 (2008) 354-370.

  • 2008 Klerman Award in Clinical Psychiatry Research (NARSAD) for Outstanding Basic Research (Team Award) for the team leaded by Dr. de Erausquin:

G. A. de Erausquin, I. Zwir, M. Calvó, N. V. Florenzano, G. Gonzalez Aleman, M. Martínez, E. Padilla, M. C. Breed, B. A. Benítez, H. Belálcazar, G. Guerrero, B. Molina Rangeon, M. Sedó, H. A. Conesa, J. I. Escobar, C. R. Cloninger. A Map Function Predictive of Risk of Psychosis Obtained by Concurrent Genome Wide Association to Dopaminergic Deficits. Neuropsychopharmacology 36:S1 (2011) S75-S197.

  • 2008 Best paper award in the 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems (GEFS2008), March 04-07, 2008, Witten-Bommerholz, Germany

J. Casillas, A.Orriols-Puig, E. Bernadó-Mansilla. Toward Evolving Consistent, Complete, and Compact Fuzzy Rule Sets for Classification Problems. 3rd International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems (GEFS 2008), 89-94, Witten-Bommerholz (Germany), March 04-07 2008.

Ph. D. Students Awards

Ph. D. student awards given to works developed or supervised by members of the research group are presented in this section:

  • 2013 EUSFLAT Best Phd Award, Second Position: Dr. José Antonio Sanz for the Phd thesis:

Linguistic Fuzzy Rule-based Classification Systems Using Interval-valued Fuzzy Sets and Tuning of the Ignorance Degree. Supervisors: A. Fernández-Hilario, H. Bustince, F. Herrera.

  • 2013 Best student paper award at 14th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC13) for the paper "Implicator-Conjunctor Based Models of Fuzzy Rough Sets: Definitions and Properties"

L. D'eer, N. Verbiest, C. Cornelis, L. Godo, Implicator-Conjunctor Based Models of Fuzzy Rough Sets: Definitions and Properties. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC13), Halifax (Canada), pp. 169-179, October 11-13, 2013.

  • 2012 MAEB PhD Student Award, Isaac Triguero received the Best Student Paper Award for the work presented at the MAEB 2012 "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms", February, 2012.

I. Triguero (student), J. Derrac, S. García, F. Herrera. Evolución Diferencial para Reducción de Prototipos y Ponderación de Características. "VIII Spanish Conference on Metaheuristics, Bioinspired and Evolutionary Algorithms" (MAEB 2012), 267-274, Albacete (Spain), 08-10 February 2012.

  • 2012 ESTYLF PhD Student Award, Victoria López received the Best Student Paper Award (Application modality) for the work presented at the ESTYLF 2012 "XVI Spanish Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Technologies", February, 2012.

V. López (student), A. Fernandez, M.J. del Jesus, F. Herrera. Un sistema de clasificación basado en reglas difusas jerárquico con programación genética para problemas de clasificación altamente no balanceados. XVI Spanish Conference on Fuzzy Logic and Technologies (ESTYLF 2012), 313-318, Valladolid (Spain), February 01-03 2012.

  • 2011 EUSFLAT Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, óscar Ibáñez (University of Santiago de Compostela) received the EUSFLAT Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, 2011 edition) for the work:

Forensic Identification by Craniofacial Superimposition using Soft Computing. Author: Dr. O. Ibáñez (University of Santiago de Compostela). Advisors: Drs. O. Cordón (University of Granada), S. Damas (European Centre for Soft Computing).

  • 2011 AEPIA Student Master Award,Isaac Triguero received the AEPIA Best Student Master Award (Spanish Association for the Artificial Intelligence, First edition, November 2011) for the work:

Prototype generation. IPADE: Iterative Prototype Adjustment for Nearest Neighbor Classification. Author: I. Triguero. Advisors: S. García, F. Herrera.

  • 2011 ISDA PhD Student Award, José Antonio Sáez received the Best Special Session Student Paper Award at the ISDA 2011 (November 2011) "11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications", for the contribution:

J. A. Sáez (student), J. Luengo (co-supervisor), F. Herrera (co-supervisor). Fuzzy Rule Based Classification Systems versus Crisp Robust Learners Trained in Presence of Class Noise's Effects: a Case of Study. 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'11), 1229-1234, Córdoba (Spain), 22-24 November 2011.

  • 2009 ISDA PhD Student Award, Ignacio J. Pérez received the Best Student Paper Award for the work presented at 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’09), 30 de Noviembre – 2 de Diciembre, 2009, Pisa, Italia:

S. Alonso, I.J. Pérez, E. Herrera-Viedma, F.J. Cabrerizo. Consensus with Linguistic Preferences in Web 2.0 Communities. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’09), 809-814, Pisa (Italy) November 30 - December 02, 2009.

  • 2009 IFSA PhD Student Award, Julián Luengo received the Best Student Paper Award for the work presented at 2009 IFSA World Congress/EUSFLAT Conference (July 2009), for the contribution:

J. Luengo (student), F. (supervisor). On the use of Measures of Separability of Classes to characterise the Domains of Competence of a Fuzzy Rule Based Classification System. 2009 International Fuzzy Systems Association congress and 2009 European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology conference (IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009), 1027-1032, Lisbon (Portugal), 20-24 July 2009.