Projects

• Awarded European H2020-MSCA-IF-2016-Individual Fellowship for Research project: DeciTrustNET - Trust based Decision Support System for Social Networks with Uncertain Knowledge. Francisco Chiclana (PI). Requested amount of € 183,454.80. January 2017. See entry news at dmu website: How researchers will use maths to support people to make decisions on their health and wellbeing.
• The Royal Society International Exchanges Cost Share 2017 China (NSFC): ‘Intelligent grey dynamic scheduling for complex products based on sense information of the “Internet of things”’. Yingjie Yang (PI), Francisco Chiclana (CI), Archie Kumar (CI). £12K. Period: March 2018 –March 2020.
• Awarded DMU Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF5-RIF7) for Research project: Intelligent Cyber Security Knowledge Sharing System. Ying He (PI), Helge Janicke (CI), Francisco Chiclana (CI). Requested amount of £11,558. Funded September 2015.
• Awarded Campus de Excelencia GENIL-BioTIC-UGR Research Visit Grant (5 days) by the University of Granada (Spain). Principal Investigator. €1000. Period: January-February 2015.
• Awarded Campus de Excelencia GENIL-BioTIC-UGR Research Visit Grant (1 week) by the University of Granada (Spain). Principal Investigator. €1000. Period: February 2014.
• Awarded DMU Research Scholarship 2013-14 scheme for 3 years starting from October 2013. This scheme provides for funding to cover both fees and stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate (£13,770 for 2012-13) to support one research student from UK or EU. (Principal Investigator with Dr David Elizondo and Dr Benjamin Passow - DIGITS).
• Awarded Campus de Excelencia GENIL-BioTIC-UGR Research Visit Grant (1 week) by the University of Granada (Spain). Principal Investigator. €1200. Period: June 2012.
• Awarded DMU Research Scholarship 2012-13 scheme for 3 years starting from October 2012. This scheme provides for funding to cover both fees and stipend equivalent to the RCUK standard rate (£13,770 for 2012-13) to support one research student from UK or EU. (Principal Investigator with Dr David Elizondo and Dr Benjamin Passow - DIGITS).
• Awarded DMU Revolving Investment Fund (RIF) for Research project DIGITS: De Montfort Interest Group In Transport Systems. Principal Investigator. £10K. Period: January 2012 - July 2012.
• Awarded University of Granada Research Visit Grant by the Regional Government of Andalucia (Spain). Principal Investigator. €3184. Period: June 2009 - August 2009.
• Awarded research funding from the EPSRC for a 3 year project, which extends my previous work investigating the role of fuzzy logic in aggregation and consensus modelling. Towards a Framework for Modelling Variation, EPSRC, UK, Co-investigator. £145K. Period: 2006 - 2009
• Awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering grant support towards my research networking visit to Spain. 2009.
• Awarded 2 Conference Grants (Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering) to disseminate my research findings at IPMU 2006 and FUZZ-IEEE 2008.
• Awarded DMU Pump Priming initiative to promote external collaborations at the University of Granada and the University of Jaen in Spain. 2005: £4K
• External research collaborator in Spanish Government Research Projects lead by my collaborators. These projects have funded part of my attendance to international conferences:
• Disruptive Group Decision making Systems in fuzzy context: Applications in smart management of energy and employment (PID2019-103880RB-I00) Spanish Department for Science and Innovation, Co-investigator. €221K. Period: 2020 to 2022.
• Intelligent Systems for Consensus in Decision Making in Fuzzy Contexts: Application in e-health and e-commerce (TIN2016-75850-R) Spanish Department for Economy and Competitiveness, Co-investigator. €210K. Period: 2016 to 2019.
• Intelligent Systems for Consensus in Decision Making in Dynamic and Heterogeneous Contexts: Application in e-tourism (TIN2013-40658-P) Spanish Department for Economy and Competitiveness, Co-investigator. €76K. Period: 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2017.
• Linguistic Information in Decision Making Analysis Processes. Preference Modelling and Applications. Spanish Department for Education and Culture, Co-investigator. €91K. Period: 01/01/2010 to 31/12/2012.
• Project of Excellence: Developing the Fuzzy Linguistic Model and its Use in WEB Applications. Regional Government of Andalucia (Spain), Co-investigator. €187K. Period: 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2013.
• An Information System for the Quality of Aerial Transportation Based on Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Oriented Towards the Citizen. Spanish Department of Transport, Co-investigator. €89K. Period: 01/01/2008 to 31/12/2010.
• Decision Models with Uncertainty in Heterogeneous Contexts. Application to Evaluation Processes in On-line Environments. Spanish Department for Education and Culture, Co-investigator. €50K. Period: 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2009.
• Project of Excellence: Development of WEB Information Access Systems Based on Artificial Intelligence Techniques (SAINFOWEB). Regional Government of Andalucia (Spain), Co-investigator. €50K. Period: 01/01/2005 to 31/12/2008.
• Flexible Preference Modelling in Decision Making. Applications in online recommender systems. Spanish Department for Education and Culture, Co-investigator. €33K. Period: 01/01/2003 to 31/12/2006.
• Spanish National Network in Decision Making, Preference Modelling and Aggregation. Spanish Department for Education and Culture, Co-investigator. €30K. Period: 01/01/2004 to 31/12/2006.
• Similarities Between Physics and Mathematics in Secondary Education. Regional Government of Andalucia (Spain), Principal Investigator. €700. Period: 01/09/2002 to 30/06/2003.

Post-graduate Research Supervision

Completed:

• PhD:
1. Dr. Sergio Alonso Burgos (University of Granada, Spain)- Group Decision Making With Incomplete Fuzzy Preference Relations. Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI), University of Granada. Co-supervisors: Prof. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Prof. Francisco Herrera. May 2006.
2. Dr. Fahad Alshathry (DMU) - Building a Decision Support System to integrate digital evidence with interview investigation. Second supervisor. First supervisor: Dr Giampaolo Bella (STRL). August 2011
3. Dr. Sarah Greenfield (DMU) - Type-2 Fuzzy Logic: Circumventing the Defuzzification Bottleneck. First supervisor. Second supervisors: Prof. Robert I. John and Dr Simon Coupland (CCI). May 2012.
4. Dr. Maria Raquel Ureña Perez (University of Granada, Spain)- Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (DECSAI), University of Granada. Co-supervisor: Prof. Enrique Herrera-Viedma. 25th November 2015.
5. Dr. Manal Alghieth (DMU) - Development of an evolutionary neuro-fuzzy inference methodology for efficient time-series financial forecasting. Second supervisor. First supervisor: Dr Yingjie Yang (CCI). January 2017.
6. Dr. Issa Qabajeh (DMU) - Dynamic Rule Covering Classification in Data Mining with Application in Phishing Detection. First supervisor. Second supervisor: Dr Andrew Richard Grantham Jones. External advisor: Dr Fadi Thabtah (Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Aucklan, New Zealand). May 2017.
7. Dr. Stephen Marc Ackland (DMU) - Embedded Eye-Gaze Tracking on Mobile Devices. First supervisor. Second supervisors: Dr Simon Coupland, Dr Howell Istance, Dr Stephen Vickers. June 2017.
8. Dr. Orestes Appel (DMU) - A Hybrid Approach to the Sentiment Analysis Problem. First supervisor. Second supervisor: Dr Jenny Carter . External advisor: Prof. Hamido Fujita (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan). July 2017.
9. Dr. Mohammad Khalid Yousef Al-Omari (DMU) - An Agent-based Architecture to Support Adaptivity in Virtual Learning Environment's Based on Learners' Learning Styles. Second supervisor. First supervisor: Dr Jenny Carter (CCI). October 2017.
10. Eseosa Oshodin (DMU) - Encouraging Inactive users towards Effective Recommendation. First supervisor. Second supervisors: Dr Archie Khumar (IAI). Mode of Study: Full-Time on-site (02 April 2019).
11. Dr. Nor H.Kamis (Emma) (University of Leicester - UoL) - Consistent Preference Similarity Network Clustering and Influence Based Consensus Group Decision Making. First supervisor. Other supervisors: Prof. Jeremy Levesley and Prof. Alexander Gorban (Dept. of Mathematics at UoL). Mode of study: Full-time on site (January 2019).
12. Dr. Olukemi Olowofoyeku (DMU) - Adaptable Spatial Agent-Based Facility Location for Healthcare Coverage. Second supervisor. Other supervisor: Dr Jethro Shell (First Supervisor), Dr Lipika Deka (Second Supervisor). Mode of study: Full -time on site (July 2019).
13. Dr. Raymond Moodley (DMU) - Enhancing the Prediction of Missing Targeted Items from the Transactions of Frequent, Known Users. First supervisor. Second supervisors: DR Fabio Caraffini, Dr Jenny Carter. Mode of study: Part-Time distance UK PhD Programme (January 2020).
14. Dr. Tamas Galli (DMU) - Application of Data Science Techniques for Modelling Execution Tracing Quality. First supervisor. Second supervisor: Dr Francois Siewe (STRL). Mode of Study: Part-Time distance International PhD Programme (August 2022).
• MPhil:
1. Tamas Galli (MPhil DMU) - Fuzzy Logic Based Software Product Quality Models by Execution Tracing. First supervisor. Second supervisor: Dr Jenny Carter (CCI). Technical adviser: Helge Janicke (STRL). February 2014.

Current:

1. Ahmed Ibrahim (DMU) - An extended Internet Users’ Information Privacy Concerns Model for evaluating users’ privacy behaviour across diverse internet environments in Egypt. Second supervisor. First supervisor: Dr Adebowale Owoseni (CCSR). Mode of Study: Full-Time distance International PhD Programme (1 Jan 2023 - 31 Dec 2026).

Awards:

• Dr Sarah Greenfield was a finalist in the Anita Borg Scholarships 2010.
• Dr Sarah Greenfield was awarded the third prize in DMU's Creative Thinking Awards 2010, for the Greenfield-Chiclana Collapsing Defuzzifier.

Research Visitors

1. Professor Jian Wu (October 2012 - October 2013)
2. Dr. Yujia Liu (December 2017 - December 2018)
3. Dr. Jingjing Hao (December 2017 - December 2018)
4. Dr. Guolin Tang (November 2018 - January 2020)
5. Dr. Peng Wang (June 2019 - May 2020)
6. DR. Mingshou Cao (November 2021 - November 2022)
7. Dr. Weiqiao Liu (November 2021 - November 2022)
8. Dr. Xinli You (November 2021 - November 2022)
9. Dr. Yanli Meng (October 2022 - October 2023)
10. Dr. Sha Wang (December 2022 - December 2023)
11. Dr. Yu Feng (February 2023 - February 2024)
12. Dr. Huifang Nie (January 2024 - January 2025)
13. Dr. Tingting He (January 2024 - January 2025)
14. Dr. Tiantian Gai (December 2024 - December 2025)
15. Yuan Xu (January 2025 - January 2026)
16. Weidong Jin (September 2026 - September 2027)

Other Selected Research Visitors

1. Dr. Burak Efe [1 year: August 2023 - August 2024] - Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
2. Professor Jesús Serrano Guerrero [3 months: June 2023 - August 2023; 5 months: May 2026 - September 2026] - Academic Secretary/International Affairs Vice-dean at the Computer Engineering College, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
3. Professor Ramón Alberto Carrasco González [3 months: June 2023 - September 2023; 3 months: December 2023 - March 2024] - Vice-Dean for Research, Postgraduate Studies and International Affairs at the Faculty of Statistic, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.