Honors Received by Interval Researchers
The R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval
Analysis
Other International Honors
- Vladik Kreinovich received Recognition Award from the 20th World Congress of the International
Fuzzy Systems Association, Daegu, South Korea, August 20-23 (2023)
- Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and
Lev Ginzburg's paper "Faster Algorithms for Estimating the Mean of a Quadratic Expression
under Uncertainty" received the Outstanding Paper Award
at the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 31 -- June 2 (2023)
- Martine Ceberio, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva, and
Guenter Mayer's paper "Complex-Valued Interval Computations Are NP-Hard Even for Single Use
Expressions" received the Outstanding Paper Award
at the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 31 -- June 2 (2023)
- Vladik Kreinovich's paper "Theoretical Explanation of Bernstein Polynomials' Efficiency" received the Outstanding Paper Award
at the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society NAFIPS'2023, Cincinnati, Ohio,
May 31 -- June 2 (2023)
- Martine Ceberio received the 2023 K. S. Fu Award for Contributions to the North American Fuzzy
Information Society
- Peter Sussner and Tiago da Silva Alencar's paper
"Generating Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Inputs From Smoothed Data For Fuzzy
Rule-Based Systems" received the Best Paper Award at the
Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'2022, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada, May 31 -- June 3 (2022)
- Dongrui Wu, a specialist in interval-valued fuzzy, elected Fellow of IEEE -- the world's largest engineering organization (2022)
- Tiago Mendonca de Costa awarded the 2022 Early Career Award of the
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society; interval
computations is one of his main areas of research (2022)
- Patricia Melin received the 2022 K. S. Fu Award for Contributions to the North American Fuzzy
Information Society
- Vladik Kreinovich received the 2022 K. S. Fu Award for Contributions to the North American Fuzzy
Information Society (2022)
- Julio Urenda, Olga Kosheleva, and Vladik Kreinovich's paper
"Need to Combine Interval and Probabilistic Uncertainty:
What Needs to Be Computed, What Can Be Computed, What Can Be
Feasibly Computed, and How Physics Can Help" received the Best Student Paper Award at the
8th World Conference on Soft Computing WConSC'2022, Baku, Azerbaijan,
February 3-5 (2022)
- Isaac Elishakoff received the Blaise Pascal Medal for engineering
from the European Academy of Sciences (2021)
- Jerry Mendel received the 2021 IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award -- administered by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society – for developing and promoting Type-2 fuzzy logic -- a topic including interval-valued fuzzy sets
- Laxman Bokati, Olga Kosheleva,
and Vladik Kreinovich's paper
"How Much For a Set: General
Case of Decision Making
Under Set-Valued Uncertainty" received the
Best Student Paper Award at
the Interval Session of
the 2021 Conference of the
North American Fuzzy
Information Processing
Society NAFIPS'2021, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 7-9 (2021)
- Thomas Hales received the Senior Berwick Prize form the London
Mathematical Society for his 2012 book Dense Sphere Packings: A
Blueprint for Formal Proofs that describes, among other things, his
proof of the Kepler conjecture by using interval computations
(2020)
- Jonatan Contreras, Francisco Zapata, Olga Kosheleva,
Vladik Kreinovich, and Martine Ceberio's paper "Let Us Use Negative Examples in Regression-Type
Problems Too" received the Best
Paper Award at the 1st International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Applications,
Melbourne, Australia, September 7-11 (2020)
- Didier Dubois received the lifetime achievement award from
International Fuzzy Systems Association IFSA (2019)
- Andrew Pownuk's interval-related dissertation
received the Best Dissertation Award from the North American Fuzzy
Information Processing Society (2018)
- Qilian Liang from University of Texas at Arlington was elected 2017
Fellow of IEEE, world's largest engineering organization,
for contributions to interval type-2 fuzzy logic systems (2017)
- Julia Kersten, Andreas Rauh, and Harald Aschemann's paper
"Interval Methods for the Implementation and Verification of
Robust Gain Scheduling Controllers" received the
Best Paper Award at the
22nd IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in
Automation and Robotics MMAR'2017,
Miedzyzdroje, Poland (2017)
- Vladik Kreinovich elected Fellow of the International Fuzzy
Systems Association IFSA (2017)
- Vladik Kreinovich elected Fellow of the
Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence SMIA (2017)
- Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin, specialists in
interval-valued fuzzy techniques, elected Fellows of the
Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence SMIA (2016)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Best Paper Award was given
to an interval-related paper Humberto Bustince, Mikel Galar,
Benjamin Bedregal, Anna Kolesarova, and Radko Mesiar, "A New
Approach to Interval-Valued Choquet Integrals and the Problem of
Ordering in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Applications" published in
2013, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1150-1162 (2016)
- Christodoulos "Chris" A. Floudas awarded the Constantin
Caratheodory prize of the International Society of Global Optimization
for his work in mathematical modeling and optimization of complex
systems (2015)
- Vladik Kreinovich received 2015 Society for Design and Process
Science (SDPS) Fay and Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Major Contributions
to the Theory and Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Related Fields
(2015)
- Dr. Christian Servin awarded the 2015 Early Career Award of the
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society; interval
computations is one of his main areas of research (2015)
- At the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems
FUZZ-IEEE'2015, the Best Paper Award was awarded to Dr. Tufan
Kumbasar from Istanbul Technical University for his
interval-related paper "Revisiting KM Algorithms: A Linear
Programming Approach" (2015)
- At the 2015 World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems
Association (IFSA), Rafik Aliev, Maria Angeles Gil, and Oscar
Castillo, researchers who apply interval ideas and
techniques to fuzzy, have been selected as new IFSA Fellows (2015)
- Maria Angeles Gil received a Medal from the European Center for
Soft Computing (2015)
- Dr. Dongrui Wu awarded the 2014 Early Career Award of the North American Fuzzy Information
Processing Society; one of his main areas of research is interval-valued fuzzy sets and their applications (2014)
- Vladik Kreinovich named Life Fellow of the
International Society
of Management Engineers (2014)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Best Paper Award was given to an interval-related paper
Dongrui Wu and Jerry M. Mendel, "On the continuity of type-1 and interval type-2 fuzzy
systems" published in 2011, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 179-192 (2014)
- Jon Rokne named Fellow of IEEE, the world's largest
engineering society, for his contributions to computer graphics
and geographic information systems. IEEE Fellow is a
distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose
extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of
interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation
(2013)
- Best Student Interval Paper Awards at
a 2013 International Fuzzy Conference (2013)
- Best
Paper Award at the 2012 Annual Conference of the North
American Fuzzy Information Processing Society NAFIPS'12
(Berkeley, California) given to an interval
paper by Karen Villaverde and Vladik Kreinovich (2012)
- Dongrui Wu's interval-related dissertation
receives the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society (2011)
- Isaac Elishakoff elected a Foreign
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the
Republic of Georgia (2010)
- PhD Dissertation "New Interval Methods for Competitive
Location Problems" by Boglarka G.-Toth (University of Almeria,
Spain, supervisors: Jose Fernandez Hernandez, Blas Pelegrin,
and Leocadio G. Casado) is one of the three finalists in the
EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition in Operational
Research (2009)
- Martin Berz
awarded Honorary Doctoral Degree from Saint Petersburg State
University, Russia (2008)
- Jerry Mendel, one of the world leading researchers in
interval-valued fuzzy techniques, receives 2008 Fuzzy Systems
Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- Thomas C. Hales and Samuel P.
Furgeson receive the 2007 Robbins Prize
- George Klir receives 2007 Fuzzy Systems
Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- PhD Dissertation "New Interval Methods for Competitive
Location Problems" by Boglarka G.-Toth (University of Almeria,
Spain, supervisors: Jose Fernandez Hernandez, Blas Pelegrin,
and Leocadio G. Casado) won
the UPS-SOLA Biannual Dissertation Award from the
Section on Locational Analysis (SOLA) of the INstitutue
For Operations Research and the Management Sciences
INFORMS (2007)
- Nick
Sahinidis and Mohit Tawarmalani receive the 2006
Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize of the Mathematical Programming
Society for a paper describing the global optimization package
BARON (2006) The prize citation explicitly mentions
interval arithmetic among the techniques employed.
- Janusz Kacprzyk receives the
Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal (2006)
- Warwick
Tucker receives a European Mathematical Society prize (2004)
- Professor Alefeld Elected Member
of the European Academy of Sciences (2004)
- The 2003
Chauvenet Prize awarded to Thomas C. Hales for an interval-related
work (2003)
- Jonathan Shewchuk Receives 2003
Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software (2003)
- Patricia Nava receives the Third Millennium
Medal from IEEE (2001)
- Innovative
Application of Artificial Intelligence Award from the American
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) given to an interval
paper by Eero Hyvonen and Stefano de Pascale during the
IAAI/AAAI'99 conference in Orlando, Florida (1999)
- Stadtherr gets
Computing in Chemical Engineering Award
for work using intervals (1998)
-
Interval-related paper chosen as Outstanding at AI conference (1998)
- Outstanding International Student Award for
interval research (1998)
- Robot success repeated (1997)
-
Daneil E. Cooke elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee (1997)
- Pawlak wins Lofti A. Zadeh Best Paper
Award (1996)
- Peter
Fishburn receives von Neumann Prize (1996)
- Interval methods help a robot succeed (1996)
- Daniel E. Cooke elected Senior Member of IEEE
(1996)
National Honors
Regional Honors
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