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Five most recent KERMIT publications in Web of Science

(294) T. Jwaid, H. De Meyer and B. De Baets, Lower semi-quadratic copulas with a given diagonal section, Statistical Planning and Inference 143 (2013), 1355-1370.

(293) M.Z. Ahmad, M.K. Hasan and B. De Baets, Analytical and numerical solutions of fuzzy differential equations, Information Sciences 236 (2013), 156-167.

(292) M.R.J. Daelman, B. De Baets, M.C.M. van Loosdrecht and E.I.P. Volcke, Influence of sampling strategies on the estimated nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment plants, Water Research 47 (2013), 3120-3130.

(291) I. Stefanov, V. Baeten, O. Abbas, B. Vlaeminck, B. De Baets and V. Fievez, Evaluation of FT-NIR and ATR-FTIR spectroscopy techniques for determination of minor odd- and branched-chain saturated and trans unsaturated milk fatty acids, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 61 (2013), 3403-3413.

(290) L. Benedetti, E. Belia, K. Cierkens, T. Flameling, B. De Baets, I. Nopens and S. Weijers, The incorporation of variability and uncertainty evaluations in WWTP design by means of stochastic dynamic modeling: the case of the Eindhoven WWTP upgrade, Water Science and Technology 67 (2013), 1841-1850.

last updated Fri 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00

PhD position: The influence of behavior on the aggregated exposure to chemicals

KERMIT, in collaboration with VITO, is looking for a PhD candidate to do research on "The influence of behavior on the aggregated exposure to chemicals". Start date: as soon as possible. More information (PDF). Email us for an English version.

last updated Wed 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Jasper Van doninck

On April 16, 2013, Jasper Van doninck successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Remotely sensed soil moisture proxies with application to modelling the spatial distribution of C. imicola" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Tue 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Muhammad Zaini Ahmad

On Dec 17, 2012, Muhammad Zaini Ahmad successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Numerical method for computing fuzzy-valued functions and its applications to differential equations" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Industrial Computing at the National University of Malaysia.

last updated Mon 8 Apr 2013 00:00:00

Bernard De Baets nominated for the 2012 Ghent University Prometheus Award for Research

At the UGent Award Ceremony 2012 on Dec 19 in the University Aula, Prof. Bernard De Baets was nominated for the Prometheus Award for Research for his capacity to apply new and advanced mathematical techniques in a very broad spectrum of research domains.

Prometheus Award for Research

He expresses his gratitude to all colleagues who nominated him and congratulates all nominees and winners.

More information can be found at:

http://www.ugent.be/nl/actueel/nieuws/laureaten-onderscheidingen-2012.htm http://www.beeldbank.ugent.be/fotoalbums/505

last updated Wed 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Ivan Stefanov

On Dec 10, 2012, Ivan Stefanov successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "The potential of vibrational spectroscopy techniques to determine minor milk fatty acids" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Mon 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Sofie Landschoot

On Nov 12, 2012, Sofie Landschoot successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Prediction of Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol content in winter wheat with regression-based learning algorithms" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Mon 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Ellen Colman

On Oct 8, 2012, Ellen Colman successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Milk fatty acids as biomarkers of subacute ruminal acidosis in dairy cows" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Mon 8 Oct 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Sander Vandenberghe

On Sep 20, 2012, Sander Vandenberghe successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Copula-based models for generating design rainfall" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Thu 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00

Best Paper Award for Willem Waegeman

The Best Paper Award was awarded for the contribution An analysis of chaining in multi-label classification (K. Dembczynski, W. Waegeman and E. H�llermeier) at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Montpellier, France, August 2012).

last updated Mon 3 Sep 2012 00:00:00

Progeno spin-off launches October 1, 2012

Progeno is a Ghent University spin-off company that offers data-oriented software and services to plant and animal breeding companies worldwide. Our industry-proven software system supports all aspects of the breeding data life cycle which generally includes data collection, storage, analysis and decision making phases. The core of the Progeno technology is a highly innovative computing engine that has resulted from many years of collaborative research between KERMIT and the Department of Plant production of the Faculty of Applied Bioscience Engineering under the leadership of Prof. dr. ir. Geert Haesaert. For more information see http://www.progeno.net

last updated Fri 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Carlos L�pez-Molina

On Jul 31, 2012, Carlos L�pez-Molina successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "The breakdown structure of edge detection: Analysis of individual components and revisit of the overall structure" and was awarded the title of Doctor of the Public University of Navarre.

last updated Tue 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00

Third Place at the COST Green Engineering Camp

On July 6, 2012, at the COST Green Engineering Camp (short for "Intelligent Use and Development of ICT to Increase Environmental Efficiency") in Plitvice, Croatia, the project proposal "Towards a European forest fire simulator" (J.M. Baetens, F. Van Coillie, R. De Wulf and B. De Baets) presented by Jan Baetens was ranked third out of 63 proposals.

last updated Thu 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Bert Verslyppe

On Jul 5, 2012, Bert Verslyppe successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "StrainInfo: from microbial information to microbiological knowledge" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Computer Science.

last updated Thu 5 Jul 2012 00:00:00

Doctoral Degree for Ward Blond�

On Jun 22, 2012, Ward Blond� successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Metarel, an ontology facilitating advanced querying of biomedical knowledge" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.

last updated Fri 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00

Mission Statement

KERMIT (acronym for Knowledge Extraction, Representation and Management by means of Intelligent Techniques) is a young interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists initiated by Bernard De Baets in 2000. KERMIT is a partner of the iKnow consortium.

KERMIT draws upon intelligent techniques resulting from the cross-fertilization between the fields of computational intelligence and operations research. The main focus is on mathematical and computational aspects of relational structures as knowledge instruments, with emphasis on the fields of fuzzy set theory and machine learning. Particular attention goes to the modelling of imprecision and uncertainty.

KERMIT serves as an attraction pole for applications in the applied biological sciences, and serves colleagues in hydrology, ecology, bacterial taxonomy, genome analysis, integrated water management, geographical information systems, forest management, metabolic engineering, soil science, bioinformatics, plant systems biology, etc.

last updated Wed 14 Mar 2007 14:00:00