时间：2019年10月21日下午2:00-3:00

地 点： 逸夫楼I321

报告人：申强教授，英国皇家威尔士科学院院士，英国亚伯大学副校长，物理和计算机科学学院院长，英国国家学术科研综合评估委员会委员，英国计算智能指导委员会主席，中国长江学者评委会委员。

题 目：Feature Selection in Systems Modelling with Imprecise Data（不精确数据系统建模中的特征选择）

参加人：智能学院教师，在读研究生，本科生代表

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智能技术与工程学院

2019年10月15日

报告内容：

Feature selection (FS) addresses the problem of selecting those system descriptors that are most predictive of a given outcome. Unlike other dimensionality reduction methods, with FS the original meaning of the features is preserved. This has found application in tasks that involve datasets containing very large numbers of features that might otherwise be impractical to model and process (e.g., large-scale image analysis, text processing and Web content classification), where feature semantics play an important role.This talk will focus on the development and application of approximate FS mechanisms based on rough and fuzzy-rough theories. Such techniques provide a means by which imprecisely described data can be effectively reduced without the need for user-supplied information. In particular, fuzzy-rough feature selection (FRFS) works with discrete and real-valued noisy data (or a mixture of both). As such, it is suitable for regression as well as for classification. The only additional information required is the fuzzy partition for each feature, which can be automatically derived from the data. FRFS has been shown to be a powerful technique for semantics-preserving data dimensionality reduction. In introducing the general background of FS, this talk will first cover the rough-set-based approach, before focusing on FRFS and its application to real-world problems. The talk will conclude with an outline of opportunities for further development.

报告人简历：

Professor Qiang Shen received a PhD in Knowledge-Based Systems and a DSc in Computational Intelligence. He holds the Established Chair of Computer Science and is a Pro Vice-Chancellor (i.e., Vice President in American English) at Aberystwyth University. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a UK Research Excellence Framework (2008-2014 and 2014-2021) panel member (for Computer Science and Informatics), one of the only two overseas Chinese scholars who have been twice appointed to such an important role across all assessment panels. He has been a long-serving Associate Editor or Editorial Board member of many leading international journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems), and has chaired and given keynotes at numerous international conferences. Professor Shen’s current research interests include: computational intelligence, learning and reasoning under uncertainty, pattern recognition, data modelling and analysis, and their applications for intelligent decision support (e.g., space exploration, crime detection, consumer profiling, systems monitoring, and medical diagnosis). He has authored 2 research monographs and over 390 peer-reviewed papers, including an award-winning IEEE Outstanding Transactions paper. He has served as the first supervisor of more than 60 PDRAs/PhDs, including one UK Distinguished Dissertation Award winner.