KERMIT -- Research Unit Knowledge-based Systems

Lixuan AN

Students

PhD Students

Name	Research Topic
Barbini Alessandro	Advanced machine learning methods for spatio-temporal modelling
Deloose Arne	Automated knowledge extraction from maintenance reports and popular texts on nature conservation
Ipek Nusret	Automating the analysis of the behavior of farm animals using computer vision
Van Giel Thomas	Mathematical modelling of invasion and higher-order interactions in ecosystems
Xiong Xiuyuan	Combining network science and artificial intelligence for analysis and prediction of interactions among animals and humans

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Anish Anju Susan	Dynamical aspects of metapopulation patch models for intransitive competition in ecology
Baldoquin Rodriguez Waldemar	Impact evaluation of interventions, addressing spatio-temporal transmission heterogeneity and human mobility, to control arboviruses
Borja Lopez Pelaez Manuel	Development of an expert system for optimizing the formulation of tablets
Cao Taotao
De Block Miguel
Dembowski Marcin	Identifiability of cellular automata and related spatio-temporal paradigms
Gao Yuan
Hu Yuankai	Fuzzy sets, uncertain decision-making and its transitivity.
Rollier Michiel	Analysis and application of heterogeneous cellular automata and networks
Van de Walle Emma
Vispoel Milan	Behaviour, sensitivity and stability of k-state cellular automata

Name	Title	Date
B. Shan	Compound extreme climate events: conceptual definitions, statistical identification, ecological and agronomical effects	09/10/2024
H. Boughambouz	Properties and classes of ternary fuzzy relations	15/09/2024
S. Taelman	Beyond correlations: a causal perspective on host-microbiome interactions	29/08/2024
W. Bołt	Identification of partially observed deterministic and stochastic cellular automata	20/06/2024
W. Barhdadi	Advancing individual-based models rooted in metabolic theory: from organism physiology towards community dynamics	11/06/2024
L. Jiang	Decision models considering path dependence of inter-criterion tradeoffs for project deployment decisions	13/05/2024
Y. Wang	The construction of overlap functions on complete lattices and interval-valued pre-overlap functions	11/05/2024
N. Dewolf	A comparative study of conformal prediction methods for valid uncertainty quantification in machine learning	25/04/2024
P. Dewulf	Exploiting data compositionality using tensor products and hyperdimensional computing	13/12/2023
Y. Cheng	A study of the distributivity and modularity of several vertical implications and aggregation functions	21/11/2023
D. Iliadis	Automated multi-target prediction with two-branch neural networks	17/11/2023
B. Zhu	Measurement and improvement strategies of high-quality development level of China’s marine economy	14/11/2023
D. Boeckaerts	Predicting and understanding phage-host interactions with machine learning tools based on phage receptor-binding proteins	19/10/2023
L. Scabini	Patterns and randomness in networks for computer vision: from graphs to neural networks	24/07/2023
M. Van Haeverbeke	Advances in impedimetric modelling of electrochemical systems in engineering and the life sciences	07/07/2023
T. Mortier	Efficient algorithms for set-valued prediction in classification	23/06/2023
F. Liu	Image super-resolution based on deep learning	20/05/2023
S. Delva	Responding to a warming ocean: a case study of the brown seaweed Dictyota dichotoma	05/05/2023
G. Hanley-Cook	Dietary (bio)diversity: quantification, validation, and public health recommendations	17/02/2023
M. Gasparyan	Model reduction and parameter estimation for kinetic models of biochemical reaction networks	19/01/2023
F. Mey	Integration of synthetic biology, systems biology and machine learning for the production of chitooligosaccharides in Escherichia coli	18/01/2023
W. Quaghebeur	Hybrid models of dynamical systems: neural differential equations, Shapley value analysis, and illustrations in water systems	11/01/2023
N. Muyinda	Exploring the dynamics of ecological species in intransitive competition networks	18/11/2022
J. Van de Velde	Bias adjustment of climate model outputs for the stochastic generation of meteorological variables and river discharge	20/09/2022
L. Gambarelli	Assessing market risk in the EU	22/04/2022
A. Quayyum	A qualitative representation of moving point configurations with illustrations in micro traffic analysis	20/04/2022
C. Wang	Discriminative metric learning for scene recognition based on deep features	28/02/2022
O. Pieters	Reservoir computing with plants	08/02/2022
D. Avila Alonso	Marine phytoplankton response to environmental stressors associated with climate change	11/01/2022
D. Vanavermaete	Exploring and exploiting genetic variation for balancing short- and long-term genetic gains in plant breeding	17/12/2021
M. Tang	Machine learning methods for ordinal classification with absolute and relative information	14/09/2021
N. Bakri	Closures and openings of ternary relations	15/07/2021
L. De Ligne	Fungal susceptibility of bio-based building materials	02/03/2021
Y. Dan	On the construction of four types of associative aggregation operators on bounded lattices	26/11/2020
J. Clauwaert	Deep learning techniques for genome processing and annotation tasks in prokaryotes	24/09/2020
A. Dzedzej	Multi-state two-dimensional number-conserving cellular automata	31/10/2019
J. Beernaerts	The use of the Qualitative Trajectory Calculus in sports analytics	26/09/2019
P. Rubbens	Machine learning approaches for microbial flow cytometry at the single-cell and community level	24/09/2019
G.H. Barboni Miranda	Towards spatially explicit modeling on networks: understanding patterns & describing processes	28/05/2019
O. Barkat	Compatibility of ternary relations with binary fuzzy relations	04/05/2019
B. Nguyen Cong	Supervised distance metric learning for pattern recognition	23/04/2019
E. Van de Vijver	Development of IPM tools for the management of Oulema beetles in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	29/03/2019
H. Zhan	Cross-migrativity and modularity of binary operations in the context of the study of uninorms	27/03/2019
W. Naessens	Towards improved membrane fouling modelling: from an empirical to a spatially explicit framework	09/01/2019
S. Yang	Approaches to feature selection based on quantitative dominance-based rough sets	22/11/2018
C. Papagiannopoulou	A data-guided insight into global climate-vegetation dynamics	05/10/2018
S. Van Nieuland	Analysis and modeling of biological movement phenomena based on telemetric observations	05/10/2018
J.J. Arias García	A kaleidoscopic view of multivariate copulas and quasi-copulas	26/06/2018
B. Çetintav	Statistical inference based on ranked set sampling	01/06/2018
W. Zong	On the structure and migrativity of associative aggregation functions	18/05/2018
A.J. Daly	Putting ecological theories to the test: individual-based simulations of synthetic microbial community dynamics	18/10/2017
L. De Miguel	Computing with uncertain truth degrees: a convolution-based approach	04/10/2017
H. Bouremel	Clonal sets of a binary relation: theory and applications	01/06/2017
R. Pérez-Fernández	Monotonicity-based consensus states for the monometric rationalization of ranking rules with application in decision making	12/05/2017
M. Stock	Exact and efficient algorithms for pairwise learning	21/04/2017
G. Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun	Fungal growth modelling and assessment: towards a three-dimensional spatially explicit fungal growth model	10/02/2017
Y. Liu	Research on fuzzy QFD by taking the compensation mechanism among customer requirements into account	19/12/2016
J. Van den Bossche	Towards high spatial resolution air quality mapping: a methodology to assess street-level exposure based on mobile monitoring	27/09/2016
A. De Coninck	High-performance computing for large-scale genomic prediction	29/01/2016
A. Kheniche	Compatibility of fuzzy relations	19/01/2016
G. Gonnelli	On the assessment of the reliability of peptide-to-spectrum matches in Mass-Spectrometry-based proteomics	04/09/2015
C.K. Lim	Interval-valued fuzzy inference mechanisms based on the Bandler-Kohout subproduct	26/03/2015
D. Oldoni	Computational modelling for soundscape analysis inspired by human auditory perception and its application in monitoring networks	12/01/2015
M. Vyverman	ALFALFA: fast and accurate mapping of long next generation sequencing reads	05/12/2014
H.S. Chavoshi	New directions in the analysis of movement patterns in space and time	01/12/2014
T. Jwaid	Semi-linear and semi-quadratic conjunctive aggregation functions	08/09/2014
D. Martinetti	Fuzzy and probabilistic approaches to individual choice and preference: rationality conditions and their relationships	24/07/2014
J.C. Montoya	The potential of batch in vitro simulations and milk fatty acids to assess rumen methane mitigation	29/01/2014
S. Freson	Transitive closures and openings of reciprocal relations	19/12/2013
W. De Smet	Explicit sequence-culture-strain-taxon links in StrainInfo and their role in quality assessment and assurance	25/11/2013
J. Van doninck	Remotely sensed soil moisture proxies with application to modelling the spatial distribution of C. imicola	16/04/2013
M. Zaini Ahmad	Numerical method for computing fuzzy-valued functions and its applications to differential equations	17/12/2012
I. Stefanov	The potential of vibrational spectroscopy techniques to determine minor milk fatty acids	10/12/2012
S. Landschoot	Prediction of Fusarium head blight and deoxynivalenol content in winter wheat with regression-based learning algorithms	12/11/2012
E. Colman	Milk fatty acids as biomarkers of subacute ruminal acidosis in dairy cows	08/10/2012
S. Vandenberghe	Copula-based models for generating design rainfall	20/09/2012
C. López-Molina	The breakdown structure of edge detection: Analysis of individual components and revisit of the overall structure	31/07/2012
B. Verslyppe	StrainInfo: from microbial information to microbiological knowledge	05/07/2012
W. Blondé	Metarel, an ontology facilitating advanced querying of biomedical knowledge	22/06/2012
S. Van Landeghem	Playing hide and seek on the genomic playground: unveiling biological function from literature	27/04/2012
S. Yilmaz	Triangular norms on lattices with given behaviour on irreducible elements	16/06/2011
D. Xue	Nitrate source classification in surface water via isotopic fingerprinting	13/05/2011
V. Gevaert	Integrated dynamic modelling of the fate of organic priority pollutants in the urban wastewater system	02/07/2010
S. Maenhout	Marker-based prediction of hybrid maize performance using genetic evaluation data	02/04/2010
K. De Loof	Efficient computation of rank probabilities in posets	18/12/2009
B. Slabbinck	From learning taxonomies to phylogenetic learning: a computational approach to FAME-based bacterial species identification	04/12/2009
E. Antezana	Towards semantic systems biology: biological knowledge management using semantic web technologies	28/09/2009
M. Rademaker	Optimal resolution of reversed preference in multi-criteria data sets	03/07/2009
B. Donckels	Optimal experimental design to discriminate among rival dynamic mathematical models	30/04/2009
P. Claeys	Towards automatic numerical solver selection for hierarchical bioprocess models	19/12/2008
W. Waegeman	Learning to rank: a ROC-based graph-theoretic approach	14/10/2008
J. Peters	Ecohydrology of wetlands: monitoring and modelling interactions between groundwater, soil and vegetation	11/09/2008
A. Mouton	A critical analysis of performance criteria for the evaluation and optimisation of fuzzy models for species distribution	20/06/2008
K. Zendehdel	Increasing social support for environmental decision making by discursive ordinal multi-criteria valuation	18/03/2008
R. Sanchez	Evaluation of development projects based on multiple intangible criteria: theoretical framework and applications to coca-producing regions of Bolivia	14/01/2008
Y. Rodriguez	Generalizations of the Value Difference Metric for linguistic variables and their application in knowledge-based systems	17/07/2007
S. Janssens	Bell inequalities in cardinality-based similarity measurement	18/09/2006
B. De Schuymer	Comparison of random variables from a game-theoretic perspective	03/06/2005
H. Vernieuwe	Cluster-based fuzzy models for groundwater flow and rainfall-discharge dynamics	13/05/2005
S. Degroeve	Design and evaluation of a linear classification strategy for gene structural element recognition	10/12/2004
S. Diaz	Decomposition of transitivity in additive preference structures	12/11/2004
V. Adriaenssens	Knowledge-based macroinvertebrate habitat suitability models for use in ecological river management	15/10/2004
E. Ducheyne	Multiple objective forest management using GIS and genetic optimization techniques	15/09/2003
H. Naessens	Algoritmische aspecten van de transitieve benadering van vaagrelaties	25/02/2002
V. Boeva	Dempster-Shafer theory in modal logic	15/05/2000
B. Van de Walle	The existence and characterization of fuzzy preference structures	08/11/1996

Name	Title	Date
N. Salman	AI-enabled automated Artemia imagery processing: identification, counting, measurement, and life cycle monitoring	2023 - 2024
H. B. Karaaslan	Leveraging probabilistic programming in causal inference for precision medicine	2022 - 2024
J. Leus	Modelling chemical emissions at dredge disposal sites in the Belgian Part of the North Sea	2022 - 2023
J.-H. Nowé	Countering illegal timbering by using multimodal machine learning	2022 - 2023
J. Deygers	A comparative study of diversity indices for assessing food biodiversity and its relation with mortality in Europe	2022 - 2023
H. Jaspaert	Modelling ecological higher-order interactions and their effect on invasions	2022 - 2023
M. Fatjanov	The potential of hyperdimensional computing for protein sequence representation	2022 - 2023
N. Tourne	Two-branch neural networks for predicting protein-DNA interaction	2022 - 2023
J. De Landsheere	Data-driven prediction of pharmaceutical granules' size	2021 - 2022
W. Decrop	Computational prediction of bacteria-phage interactions of Escherichia coli through omics data analysis and machine learning	2021 - 2022
S. Santelé	Modelling the effects of future marine heatwaves on North Sea bivalve molluscs	2021 - 2022
D. Snoeck	A data-based view for brewing	2021 - 2022
B. Spanoghe	Probabilistic programming for Bayesian modeling and its applications in biology	2021 - 2022
S. Taragola	Analysis of the Standardized Precipitation Index on droughts in Flanders	2021 - 2022
W. Van Belle	Automating the design of biological robots using MAP-Elites	2021 - 2022
L. Van Der Veken	Automatic calibration of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model	2021 - 2022
S. Van Hoye	Evolution and design of metabolic networks using quality-diversity optimization algorithms	2021 - 2022
Y. Van Laere	Detection of 5mC modification in Nanopore sequencing data using deep learning	2021 - 2022
S. Van Parys	BIOBOTS: a new type of multicellularity	2021 - 2022
M. Vandewalle	Environmental sustainability assessment of centralised and decentralised drinking water production	2021 - 2022
Y. Bae	Drug-drug interaction prediction for side effects, diseases, and cell lines using three-step kernel ridge regression	2021 - 2022
A. Merckx	The art of summarising: looking for informative statistics to calibrate agent-based models	2021 - 2022
T. Willaert	Improving classification by rejection of high epistemic uncertainty points	2020 - 2021
L. Theunissen	A comparison of flat and hierarchical classification for automatic annotation of single-cell transcriptomics data	2020 - 2021
J. Luca	Investigation of the impact of the corona measures on the air quality in Flanders	2020 - 2021
K. Rondou	Microstructure development in semi-liquid shortenings upon storage	2020 - 2021
K. Zhang	Drug-target interaction prediction using multi-target prediction methods	2020 - 2021
E. Lorrez	Quantifying the environmental controls on African tropical forest dynamics through using a Granger causality framework	2020 - 2021
Q. Q. Li	Applications of differentiable dynamic programming in biology	2020 - 2021
J. Vermout	A data-driven approach to the design of new cocktail recipes	2019 - 2020
T. Ntumba	Prediction of water quality parameters of Flemish surface waters using machine learning techniques	2019 - 2020
L. Van de Sompel	Machine learning for empowering the bio-economy: using lower rade feedstocks for the production of fatty aids at an industrial scale	2019 - 2020
M. Perneel	Gebruik van machine learning methoden voor het voorspellen van productiekengetallen bij melkvee	2019 - 2020
S. Omar	Vochtdynamiek van biogebaseerde bouwmaterialen als levensduurbepalende parameter	2019 - 2020
L. Van Waerebeek	How do temperature-nitrate interactions shape the sensitivity of a brown seaweed to global warming?	2019 - 2020
T. Vanneste	Predicting interactions between bacteria and their prophages based on genomic sequence data	2019 - 2020
G. Tjon	Automative drinking water monitoring using flow cytometry data	2019 - 2020
L. Davey	Using artificial neural networks to uncover features in promoter sequences responsible for nonorthogonality in E. Coli	2019 - 2020
B. Verfaillie	Pattern recognition in raman spectroscopy data for a faster labelling of subjects in multiple domains	2019 - 2020
B. De Saedeleer	Combatting illegal timber trade using chemical fingerprints: the power of mathematics and mass spectrometry	2019 - 2020
L. Pollaris	Protein secondary structure prediction using transformer networks	2019 - 2020
B. De Clercq	Forecasting tidal surge in the Lower Sea Scheldt using machine learning techniques	2018 - 2019
M. Van Haeverbeke	Detection of m6a modifications in native RNA using Oxford Nanopore Technology	2018 - 2019
S. Taelman	A dual computational approach to map domain architecture in phage lytic proteins	2018 - 2019
A. Deloose	Acoustic monitoring of bats with self-organizing maps	2018 - 2019
A. Potokin	Bayesiaanse optimalisatie voor het ontwerpen van nieuwe enzybiotica	2018 - 2019
S. Top	Vertical farming of lettuce: the influence of rhizosphere bacteria and substrates	2018 - 2019
N. Goeders	Fight the illegal wood trade through chemical fingerprints : The power of mathematics and mass spectrometry	2018 - 2019
G. De Clercq	Deep learning for classification of DNA functional sequences	2018 - 2019
K. D'haeyer	Towards a data-driven identification of the microbial "Rammanome"	2018 - 2019
Z. Van Moerkerke	Exploring the link between competition structure and long-term coexistence in in silico communities	2017 - 2018
T. Vanlerberghe	Hierarchical multi-label classification of food products	2017 - 2018
L. Hoebeke	Automated recognition of people and identification of animal species in camera trap images	2017 - 2018
S. Vanbesien	Machine learning and pollination networks: the right flower for every bee	2017 - 2018
K. De Roos	Invloed van klimaatverandering op extreme debieten: een benadering op basis van vine-copula's	2017 - 2018
D. Boeckaerts	A computational study of bacteria-phage interactions to reveal determinants of phage-host specificity	2017 - 2018
J. Van de Velde	Een vergelijkende studie van alternatieve retourperiodes voor hydraulisch ontwerp	2017 - 2018
A. De Graeve	Detecting climate drivers for vegetation extremes	2017 - 2018
T. De Nood	Cellular automata for simulation of water transport in variably saturated soil	2017 - 2018
I. Van Bever	Ruimtelijk discrete modellering van oppervlakkige afvoer in het Bulskampveld	2017 - 2018
R. Ingels	Understanding vegetation anomalies with machine learning methods	2017 - 2018
M. Misonne	Prediction of RNA polymerase-DNA interactions in Escherichia Coli	2017 - 2018
J. Verwilt	Modelling of Myxococcus xanthus populations and functional analysis of Pxr small RNA putative targets in Myxococcus xanthus	2017 - 2018
W. Quaghebeur	Individual-based modelling of biodiversity in microbial communities	2016 - 2017
F. Zoeter	Een uitbreiding van het gewijzigde Bartlett-Lewis neerslagmodel met behulp van copulas	2016 - 2017
K. Coorevits	The spread of myxomatosis in Belgium: A model-based reconstruction	2016 - 2017
L. De Visscher	Towards a real-time dynamic wildfire simulator for Belgium	2016 - 2017
L. Bodyn	Exploration of deep autoencoders for collaborative filtering on cooking recipes	2016 - 2017
J. Heyse	Development and application of single-cell analysis tools for the study of sympatric bacterial populations	2016 - 2017
T. Mortier	Modeling of climate-vegetation dynamics using machine learning techniques in a non-linear Granger causality framework	2016 - 2017
S. Decubber	Spatiotemporal optimization of Granger causality methods for climate change attribution	2016 - 2017
C. Zhang	Visualization and unsupervised learning of flow cytometry data for bacterial identication	2016 - 2017
D. Schaumont	Een integratieve benadering gebaseerd op random forest voor de verbeterde predictie van exon-intron juncties	2016 - 2017
X. Yin	Discovering relationships in climate-vegetation dynamics using dynamic feature selection techniques	2016 - 2017
S. Vriens	Een habitatgeschiktheidskaart voor de oehoe: kennisgebaseerde versus datagedreven modellering	2015 - 2016
A. Depicker	Risk analysis and spatio-temporal modeling of wildfires in Belgium	2015 - 2016
F. Ramon	A data-driven analysis of ingredients in cooking recipes	2015 - 2016
L. Tilleman	In silico engineering van cytochroom P450 via machine learning technieken	2015 - 2016
A. Van den Hove	Het ontwerpen van een zwarte koolstof kaart van stadsregio Gent voor gebruik bij routing problemen	2015 - 2016
T. Focquet	Linear algebra solver for combined sparse/dense system equations	2015 - 2016
T. Depraetere	Transient coexistence in non-deterministic cyclic species competition	2014 - 2015
J. De Reu	Analyse van voorspellingsmodellen voor aardappelziekten en hun toepasbaarheid in Vlaanderen	2014 - 2015
W.K. Tsang	Assessing pathogen invasion based on community evenness and metabolic similarity	2014 - 2015
M. De Clercq	Prediction of ingredient combinations using machine learning techniques	2013 - 2014
W. Van der Meeren	Stability of stochastic cellular automata	2013 - 2014
M. Ghijs	Spatio-temporal modeling of filter cake formation in membrane bioreactors	2013 - 2014
A. Gistelinck	Enhanced spatio-temporal modelling of basal water beneath ice sheets	2013 - 2014
R. Van de Vijver	Een experimentele studie van gekoppelde, niet-lineaire chemische oscillatoren	2013 - 2014
A. Keunen	Spatio-temporele, datagedreven modellering van natuurbranden	2012 - 2013
N. Vanheuverbeke	Datagedreven modellering van dierenmigratie aan de hand van brownse bruggen	2012 - 2013
A. De Paepe	The prediction of interaction between mRNA and miRNA using machine learning techniques	2012 - 2013
N. Nicolaï	Experimental design for multi-enzyme processes	2012 - 2013
M. De Schagt	Efficiënte parallellisatie van cellulaire automaten	2011 - 2012
M. Stock	Learning pairwise relations in bioinformatics: three case studies	2011 - 2012
D. De Wilde	Modellering van mycelium netwerken in complexe substraten	2010 - 2011
J. Vandepitte	Ontwikkeling van een gepersonaliseerde webtool voor de predictie van aarfusarium	2010 - 2011
D. Van Audenhove	Analyse van spectrum- en sequentie-gebaseerde similariteitsmaten van bacteriën met behulp van machine learning technieken	2009 - 2010
J. Vandepitte	Voorspellen van Fusarium spp. aanwezigheid en DON concentraties in wintertarwe met machine learning technieken	2009 - 2010
D. Baele	Dynamische metabolische modellering: analyse van controlecoëfficiënten en evaluatie van B-spline datasmoothers	2008 - 2009
B. Debusscher	Ontwikkeling van een routeplanningstool met behulp van intelligente technieken	2008 - 2009
S. Gielen	Simulatiestudie van microbiële diversiteit bij nitrificatie in biofilmreactoren	2008 - 2009
D. Jacops	Identificatie van de kinetiek in metabolische modellen: een genetische algoritmen gebaseerde aanpak	2007 - 2008
S. Vandenberghe	Frequentie-analyse van de 105-jarige neerslagtijdreeks te Ukkel met behulp van copulas	2007 - 2008
S. Landschoot	Markov Chain Monte Carlo methodes voor verwantschapsanalyse in de plantenveredeling	2007 - 2008
D. Curvers	Modelleren van de elektro-osmotische ontwatering van afvalwaterslib	2004 - 2005

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