CIS 2011 Awards

2011 CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award:
Piero Bonissone
GE Global Research
Computing and Decision Sciences
"For contributions to the representation and management of uncertainty in intelligent systems"

2011 CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award:
Abraham Kandel
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of South Florida
"For theoretical and practical contributions to fuzzy switching systems and automata"

2011 CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award:
Russell C. Eberhart and James Kennedy
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
and
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Washington, DC
"For the invention of particle swarm optimization"

2011 CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award:
J. David Schaffer
Philips Research
Briarcliff Manor
"For contributions to multi-objective optimization and to the fundamental understanding of genetic algorithms"

2011 CIS Meritorious Service Award:
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
University of Pierre and Marie Curie
Computer Science Laboratory of the University Paris 6 (LiP6)
"For long-time service and dedication to the Society"

2011 Outstanding Chapter Award:
The Singapore Chapter

2011 Outstanding Organization Award:
The European Centre for Soft Computing

2011 Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Dr. Dongrui Wu for
"Intelligent Systems for Decision Support", March 2009, The University of Southern California

2011 Outstanding Early Career Award:
Dr. Kay Chen Tan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
"For contributions to evolutionary computation in multi-objective optimization"

2009 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (bestowed in 2011):
A. K. Qin, V. L. Huang and P. N. Suganthan, "Differential Evolution Algorithm with Strategy Adaptation for Global Numerical Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 13, no. 2, April 2009, pp. 398-417.

2009 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award (bestowed in 2011):
AQ. C. Nguyen, Y. S. Ong and M. H. Lim , "Probabilistic Memetic Framework" IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 604-623, June 2009

2009 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award (bestowed in 2011):
H. Chen, P. Tino, X. Yao, "Probabilistic Classification Vector Machines", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 901-914, June 2009.