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Doctoral Degree for Karel De Loof
On December 18, 2009, Karel De Loof successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Efficient computation of rank probabilities in posets" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Sciences: Informatics"
 last updated Sat 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00  
Best Young Scientist Poster Award for Sander Vandenberghe
The Best Young Scientist Poster Award was awarded for the contribution Evaluation of stochastic rainfall models based on a comparative copula-based bivariate frequency analysis of observed and simulated rainfall (S. Vandenberghe, N. Verhoest and B. De Baets) at the Eighth Internat. Workshop on Precipitation in Urban Areas (St Moritz, Switzerland, Dec 2009).
 last updated Sat 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Bram Slabbinck
On December 4, 2009, Bram Slabbinck successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "From learning taxonomies to phylogenetic learning: a computational approach to FAME-based bacterial species identification" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Applied Biological Sciences.
 last updated Tue 8 Dec 2009 09:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Erick Antezana
On Sep 28, 2009, Erick Antezana successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Towards semantic systems biology: biological knowledge management using semantic web technologies" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Sciences: Biotechnology.
 last updated Wed 30 Sep 2009 08:00:00  
Post-doc Eveline Volcke appointed Professor
From Oct 1, 2009, post-doc Eveline Volcke will join the Department of Biosystems Engineering at Ghent University as lecturer in the field of biosystems control. Congratulations!
 last updated Mon 21 Sep 2009 14:00:00  
Best Student Paper Award for Jan Baetens
The Best Student Paper Award was awarded for the paper Incorporating fuzziness in spatial susceptible-infected epidemic models (J. Baetens and B. De Baets) at the Joint 13th Internat. Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress and 6th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal, Jul 2009).
 last updated Mon 17 Aug 2009 08:30:00  
Doctoral Degree for Michaël Rademaker
On July 3, 2009, Michaël Rademaker successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Optimal resolution of reversed preference in multi-criteria data sets" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Applied Biological Sciences.
 last updated Fri 14 Aug 2009 09:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Brecht Donckels
On April 30, 2009, Brecht Donckels successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Optimal experimental design to discriminate among rival dynamic mathematical models" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Applied Biological Sciences.
 last updated Tue 5 May 2009 09:00:00  
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