Professor Bob John

Paper Award

Simon Coupland and I won best paper in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems in 2010 for our paper in 2007:

Geometric Type-1 and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems, S. Coupland and R. I. John, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 15(1):3 - 15, Febuary 2007

Highly Cited Papers

My citations on Scopus

The following two papers are amongst the top 1% cited papers on ISI Web of Science.

J. Mendel, R. John, and F. Liu (2006) Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems Made Simple. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 14(6), pp 808-821

J. Mendel, R.I. John (2002) Type-2 fuzzy sets made simple. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 10 (2), 117-127 (October 2004) (ISSN 1063-6706).

Current and Recent grants:

1. EPSRC (PI): Towards a Framework for Modelling Variation - EPSRC EP/C542215/1 -- Grant value: £145,356
2. EPSRC (PI): Uncertainty Modelling in Technologies for the Elderly - EP/F013167/1 -- Grant Value £45,447
3. DTI (PI): Improving customer demand and cost forecasting methods - TP/5/DAT/6/1/H025E -- Grant value: £380,000
4. DTI KTP (PI): Knowledge Transfer Partnership with GoMad -- Grant Value £145,000
5. DTI KTP (PI): Knowledge Transfer Partnership with ParkAir -- Grant Value £127,000
6. Lachesis (PI): Data Perspective -- Grant Value: £250,000
7. Royal Society (PI): Incoming Travel Grant -- Grant Value: £13,000
8. EPSRC (CI): IMI: IMPROVING THE COST MODEL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (COSTMOD) - GR/M58818/01 -- Grant Value: £293,531
9. EPSRC (CI): Workshop on the Future of (UK) Fuzzy Systems Research - EP/E058388/1 -- Grant Value: £12,026
10. HIRF (CI): Hardware Implementation of a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System - Grant value: £16,028

I have also received other funding form the EU and Teaching Company Scheme (all pre 2004).

I am international scientific adviser to OPTIMIST-RRT (OPTIMisation: using Intelligent Simulation Tools - Robust & Real-Time extensions) which has a grant value of 10 Million Swedish Kroner.

Selected Recent Papers:

1. Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Shang-Ming Zhou, Xiao-Ying Wang, Robert I. John, Ian O. Ellis (2012) Incorporation of Expert Variability into Breast Cancer Treatment Recommendation in Designing Clinical Protocol Guided Fuzzy Rule System Models. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 45 (2012), pp. 447 -- 459 DOI i: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.12.007
2. Miller, Simon Gongora, Mario Garibaldi, Jon and John, Robert (2012) Interval type-2 fuzzy modelling and stochastic search for real-world inventory management. Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 16(8), pp 1447 -- 1459 Doi: 10.1007/s00500-012-0848-y
3. Greenfield Sarah, Chiclana Francisco, John Robert (2012) The sampling method of defuzzification for type-2 fuzzy sets: Experimental evaluation. Information Sciences, 189, pp 77 -- 92. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.11.042
4. Martinez Javier Solano, John Robert I. and Hissel Daniel (2012) A survey-based type-2 fuzzy logic system for energy management in hybrid electrical vehicles.ÊInformation Sciences, 190, pp 192 -- 207. DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.12.013
5. Yang Yingjie and John Robert (2012) Grey sets and greyness. Information Sciences, 185 (1) pp 249 -- 264 DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.09.029
6. Zhou Shang-Ming, Chiclana Francisco, John Robert I. and Garibaldi Jonathan (2011) Alpha-Level Aggregation: A Practical Approach to Type-1 OWA Operation for Aggregating Uncertain Information with Applications to Breast Cancer Treatments. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 23 (10) pp1455--1468, DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.191

Here are all my publications. I currently have an h-index of 23.

MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics and MSc Intelligent Systems and PhD applications

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