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BeneLearn 2012
KERMIT organises the 21st edition of the annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (BeneLearn, May 24, 2012), in conjunction with a workshop on Predictive Modelling for the Life Sciences (PMLS, May 25, 2012). For more information, see the conference website.
 last updated Fri 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Sofie Van Landeghem
On Apr 27, 2012, Sofie Van Landeghem successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Playing hide and seek on the genomic playground: unveiling biological function from literature" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Sciences: Bioinformatics
 last updated Tue 15 May 2012 00:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Jan Baetens
On Apr 3, 2012, Jan Baetens successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Discrete spatio-temporal modelling paradigms for environmental processes: SWOT analysis, application portfolio and Lyapunovian stability analysis" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Applied Biological Sciences.
 last updated Tue 3 Apr 2012 00:00:00  
Best Paper Award for Carlos López-Molina
The "Premio al Mejor Trabajo de Joven Investigador en la Modalidad de Aplicaciones" was awarded for the contribution Detección de bordes en imágenes intervalares (C. López-Molina, B. De Baets, E. Barrenechea and H. Bustince) at the XVI Congreso Español sobre Technologías y Lógica Fuzzy (Valladolid, Spain, Jan 2012).
 last updated Fri 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Karolien Scheerlinck
On Nov 10, 2011, Karolien Scheerlinck successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Metaheuristic versus tailor-made approaches to optimization problems in the biosciences" and was awarded the title of Doctor in the Applied Biological Sciences.
 last updated Tue 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00  
Best Poster Award for Katrijn Cierkens
The Best Poster Award was awarded for the contribution Comparison of implicit and explicit uncertainty analyses in the design of a WWTP upgrade (K. Cierkens, E. Belia, L. Benedetti, S. Weijers, T. Flameling, B. De Baets and I. Nopens) at Watermatex 2011, the 8th IWA Symposium on Systems Analysis and Integrated Assessment (San Sebastián, Spain, Jun 2011).
 last updated Tue 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00  
Doctoral Degree for Serife Yilmaz
On June 16, 2011, Serife Yilmaz successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Triangular norms on lattices with given behaviour on irreducible elements" at the Karadeniz Technical University in Trabzon, Turkey, and was awarded the title of Doctor in Mathematics.
 last updated Tue 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00  
Bernard De Baets elected IFSA Fellow
Bernard De Baets has been elected to the grade of Fellow of IFSA (the International Fuzzy Systems Association) for outstanding contributions, pioneering applications, and support and development of the infrastructure of the fuzzy community. The award ceremony took place on May 24 at the World Conference on Soft Computing in San Francisco, USA.
 last updated Thu 16 Jun 2011 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