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De Baets Bernard

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De Baets Bernard
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3876-620X
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Research Interests: Knowledge-based, predictive and spatio-temporal modelling

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Journal papers

(9) Traces of ternary relations based on Bandler-Kohout compositions
L. Zedam, H. Boughambouz and B. De Baets
(2024) MATHEMATICS. 12, 952.

(8) A holistic approach to the composition of ternary relations
H. Boughambouz, L. Zedam and B. De Baets
(2024) COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS. 43, 94.

(7) A comparison of embedding aggregation strategies in drug-target interaction prediction
D. Iliadis, B. De Baets, T. Pahikkala and W. Waegeman
(2024) BMC BIOINFORMATICS. 25, 59.

(6) A simulation experiment on the probabilities of ranking reversal, tie making, and tie breaking for multiple criteria decision making methods
L. Jiang, H. Liao and B. De Baets
(2024) OMEGA. 125, 103033.

(5) Impedimetric biofilm characterisation with microelectrode arrays using equivalent electrical circuit features and ensemble classifiers
M. Van Haeverbeke, C. Cums, T. Vackier, D. Braeken, M. Stock, H. Steenackers and B. De Baets
(2024) CHEMOMETRICS AND INTELLIGENT LABORATORY SYSTEMS. 244, 105048.

(4) Ultrametrics for context-aware comparison of binary images
C. Lopez-Molina, S. Iglesias-Rey and B. De Baets
(2024) INFORMATION FUSION. 103, 102101.

(3) Environment-dependent population dynamics emerging from dynamic energy budgets and individual-scale movement behavior
W. Barhdadi, A.J. Daly, J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets
(2024) OIKOS. 2024, e09986.

(2) The pseudo-inverse of a monotone function between complete lattices and its use in generating t-norms and t-conorms
Y. Dong, B. Pang and B. De Baets
(2024) FUZZY SETS AND SYSTEMS. 478, 108837.

(1) A critical review of common pitfalls and guidelines to effectively infer parameters of agent-based models using Approximate Bayesian Computation
L. De Visscher, B. De Baets and J.M. Baetens
(2024) ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING AND SOFTWARE. 172, 105905.

Conference papers

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2015 (1)
2014 (1)
2012 (1)
2011 (4)
2010 (4)
2009 (4)
2008 (2)
2007 (1)
2006 (1)

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Date	Title
24/07/2023	2022 National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba
22/09/2021	Honorary EUSFLAT Membership for Bernard De Baets
01/12/2019	Bernard De Baets appointed Professor Extraordinarius at UNISA
08/11/2019	Best Thesis Abstract Nomination for Gang Wang
11/09/2019	EUSFLAT Scientific Excellence Award for Bernard De Baets
10/05/2019	2018 National Award of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba
19/01/2019	EOS-prize 2018 goes to Sarah Vanbesien
29/10/2018	2018 Prize of the Rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
21/09/2018	Best Student Paper Award for Jasper Beernaerts
30/04/2018	Ron Cockcroft Award and Gareth Williams Award for Liselotte De Ligne
27/10/2017	Cuban Minister of Higher Education confers Bernard De Baets as 'Profesor Invitado'
16/09/2017	Best Student Paper Award for Laura De Miguel Best Student Paper Award Nomination for Gang Wang
04/06/2017	Richard J. Ziobro Award for Liselotte De Ligne
26/05/2017	The University of Turku confers Bernard De Baets as honorary doctor
30/10/2016	Gang Wang wins Image Denoising Competition
16/05/2016	Ron Cockcroft Award for Guillermo Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun
08/09/2015	Best Student Paper Award Nominations for Laura De Miguel and Raúl Pérez-Fernández
18/08/2014	2015 IEEE CIS Outstanding TFS Paper Award
16/09/2013	Nomination for Best Student Paper Award for Tarad Jwaid
30/07/2013	Best Paper Award for Tarad Jwaid
19/12/2012	Bernard De Baets nominated for the 2012 Ghent University Prometheus Award for Research
26/07/2012	Third Place at the COST Green Engineering Camp
17/02/2012	Best Paper Award for Carlos López-Molina
16/06/2011	Bernard De Baets elected IFSA Fellow
07/11/2010	Best Paper Award for Karolien Scheerlinck
20/07/2009	Best Student Paper Award for Jan Baetens
26/09/2007	Best Student Paper Award for Koen C. Maes
01/01/2007	Bernard De Baets appointed Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fuzzy Sets and Systems
04/09/2006	Honorary Professorship for Bernard De Baets
06/06/2006	First Place in the Top Five Student Paper Awards for Ester Van Broekhoven

Students

PhD Students

Name	Research Topic
Barhdadi Wissam	Spatially explicit modelling of marine ecosystems
Deloose Arne	Automated knowledge extraction from maintenance reports and popular texts on nature conservation
Dewolf Nicolas	Machine learning methods for time series data
Shan Baoying	Agricultural water management based on coupling simulation and optimization methodology under uncertainties
Ipek Nusret	Automating the analysis of the behavior of farm animals using computer vision
An Lixuan	A combined framework of machine learning and extreme value theory for anomaly detection and ranking
Van Giel Thomas	Mathematical modelling of invasion and higher-order interactions in ecosystems
Spanoghe Bram	Probabilistic modelling of plant growth

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Bolt Witold	Identification of partially observed deterministic and stochastic cellular automata
Dembowski Marcin	Identifiability of cellular automata and related spatio-temporal paradigms
Boughambouz Hamza	Properties and classes of ternary fuzzy relations
Steyn Matthys Lucas	Open set recognition using extreme value statistics applied to (big) biological data
Baldoquin Rodriguez Waldemar	Impact evaluation of interventions, addressing spatio-temporal transmission heterogeneity and human mobility, to control arboviruses
Anish Anju Susan	Dynamical aspects of metapopulation patch models for intransitive competition in ecology
Jiang Lisheng	Carbon capture and storage selection based on multi-stage multi-criterion group decision making
Wang Yuntian	The study of overlap functions and pre-aggregation functions on bounded posets
Mu Dawei	Data analysis and mathematical modelling for groundwater quality evaluation
Gao Yuan

Name	Title	Date
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
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
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
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
G. Wang	Automated image analysis using Gaussian-based convolutional kernels and deep convolutional networks	19/11/2019
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
M. Sader	Combining absolute and relative evaluations for determining sensory food quality: analysis and prediction	29/08/2019
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
S. Yang	Approaches to feature selection based on quantitative dominance-based rough sets	22/11/2018
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
P. Van der Weeën	Meso-scale modelling of reaction-diffusion processes using cellular automata	10/09/2014
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. Verwaeren	Mathematical optimization methods for the analysis of compositional data: subset selection, unmixing and prediction	23/06/2014
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
J.M. Baetens	Discrete spatio-temporal modelling paradigms for environmental processes: SWOT analysis, application portfolio and Lyapunovian stability analysis	03/04/2012
K. Scheerlinck	Metaheuristic versus tailor-made approaches to optimization problems in the biosciences	10/11/2011
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
K.C. Maes	Rotation-invariant t-norms	16/04/2007
E. Van Broekhoven	Monotonicity aspects of linguistic fuzzy models	30/03/2007
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
K. Cao-Van	Supervised ranking: from semantics to algorithms	21/11/2003
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
M. Fatjanov	The potential of hyperdimensional computing for protein sequence representation	2022 - 2023
J. Leus	Modelling chemical emissions at dredge disposal sites in the Belgian Part of the North Sea	2022 - 2023
A. Merckx	The art of summarising: looking for informative statistics to calibrate agent-based models	2021 - 2022
Y. Bae	Drug-drug interaction prediction for side effects, diseases, and cell lines using three-step kernel ridge regression	2021 - 2022
M. Vandewalle	Environmental sustainability assessment of centralised and decentralised drinking water production	2021 - 2022
S. Van Hoye	Evolution and design of metabolic networks using quality-diversity optimization algorithms	2021 - 2022
L. Van Der Veken	Automatic calibration of a conceptual rainfall-runoff model	2021 - 2022
S. Taragola	Analysis of the Standardized Precipitation Index on droughts in Flanders	2021 - 2022
B. Spanoghe	Probabilistic programming for Bayesian modeling and its applications in biology	2021 - 2022
K. Zhang	Drug-target interaction prediction using multi-target prediction methods	2020 - 2021
J. Vanhaecke	De rol van predictiemodellen in de genetische vooruitgang van plantenteelt	2020 - 2021
T. Ntumba	Prediction of water quality parameters of Flemish surface waters using machine learning techniques	2019 - 2020
S. Dierickx	Bayesian optimisation for modular design: BOMoD.jl	2019 - 2020
J. Vermout	A data-driven approach to the design of new cocktail recipes	2019 - 2020
A. Deloose	Acoustic monitoring of bats with self-organizing maps	2018 - 2019
J. Van de Velde	Een vergelijkende studie van alternatieve retourperiodes voor hydraulisch ontwerp	2017 - 2018
D. Boeckaerts	A computational study of bacteria-phage interactions to reveal determinants of phage-host specificity	2017 - 2018
K. De Roos	Invloed van klimaatverandering op extreme debieten: een benadering op basis van vine-copula's	2017 - 2018
S. Vanbesien	Machine learning and pollination networks: the right flower for every bee	2017 - 2018
L. Hoebeke	Automated recognition of people and identification of animal species in camera trap images	2017 - 2018
T. Vanlerberghe	Hierarchical multi-label classification of food products	2017 - 2018
Z. Van Moerkerke	Exploring the link between competition structure and long-term coexistence in in silico communities	2017 - 2018
L. De Visscher	Towards a real-time dynamic wildfire simulator for Belgium	2016 - 2017
K. Coorevits	The spread of myxomatosis in Belgium: A model-based reconstruction	2016 - 2017
F. Zoeter	Een uitbreiding van het gewijzigde Bartlett-Lewis neerslagmodel met behulp van copulas	2016 - 2017
W. Quaghebeur	Individual-based modelling of biodiversity in microbial communities	2016 - 2017
F. Ramon	A data-driven analysis of ingredients in cooking recipes	2015 - 2016
T. Focquet	Linear algebra solver for combined sparse/dense system equations	2015 - 2016
A. Van den Hove	Het ontwerpen van een zwarte koolstof kaart van stadsregio Gent voor gebruik bij routing problemen	2015 - 2016
L. Tilleman	In silico engineering van cytochroom P450 via machine learning technieken	2015 - 2016
A. Depicker	Risk analysis and spatio-temporal modeling of wildfires in Belgium	2015 - 2016
S. Vriens	Een habitatgeschiktheidskaart voor de oehoe: kennisgebaseerde versus datagedreven modellering	2015 - 2016
T. Depraetere	Transient coexistence in non-deterministic cyclic species competition	2014 - 2015
R. Van de Vijver	Een experimentele studie van gekoppelde, niet-lineaire chemische oscillatoren	2013 - 2014
W. Van der Meeren	Stability of stochastic cellular automata	2013 - 2014
M. De Clercq	Prediction of ingredient combinations using machine learning techniques	2013 - 2014
N. Nicolaï	Experimental design for multi-enzyme processes	2012 - 2013
A. De Paepe	The prediction of interaction between mRNA and miRNA using machine learning techniques	2012 - 2013
N. Vanheuverbeke	Datagedreven modellering van dierenmigratie aan de hand van brownse bruggen	2012 - 2013
A. Keunen	Spatio-temporele, datagedreven modellering van natuurbranden	2012 - 2013
M. Stock	Learning pairwise relations in bioinformatics: three case studies	2011 - 2012
M. De Schagt	Efficiënte parallellisatie van cellulaire automaten	2011 - 2012
J. Vandepitte	Ontwikkeling van een gepersonaliseerde webtool voor de predictie van aarfusarium	2010 - 2011
D. De Wilde	Modellering van mycelium netwerken in complexe substraten	2010 - 2011
L. Eyerman	Parametrisatie van een ruimtelijk expliciet epidemiologisch model CASIR	2010 - 2011
W-J. Vanhaute	Parametrisatie van stochastische neerslagmodellen door middel van heuristische zoektechnieken	2010 - 2011
M. Brackx	Automatisch determineren van bomen op basis van beeldmateriaal met behulp van machine learning technieken	2010 - 2011
P. Van der Weeën	Ontwikkeling en validatie van discrete spatio-temporele modellen ter beschrijving van scheikundige processen	2009 - 2010
J. Vandepitte	Voorspellen van Fusarium spp. aanwezigheid en DON concentraties in wintertarwe met machine learning technieken	2009 - 2010
D. Van Audenhove	Analyse van spectrum- en sequentie-gebaseerde similariteitsmaten van bacteriën met behulp van machine learning technieken	2009 - 2010
S. Gielen	Simulatiestudie van microbiële diversiteit bij nitrificatie in biofilmreactoren	2008 - 2009
B. Debusscher	Ontwikkeling van een routeplanningstool met behulp van intelligente technieken	2008 - 2009
D. Baele	Dynamische metabolische modellering: analyse van controlecoëfficiënten en evaluatie van B-spline datasmoothers	2008 - 2009
S. Landschoot	Markov Chain Monte Carlo methodes voor verwantschapsanalyse in de plantenveredeling	2007 - 2008
S. Vandenberghe	Frequentie-analyse van de 105-jarige neerslagtijdreeks te Ukkel met behulp van copulas	2007 - 2008
D. Jacops	Identificatie van de kinetiek in metabolische modellen: een genetische algoritmen gebaseerde aanpak	2007 - 2008
D. Curvers	Modelleren van de elektro-osmotische ontwatering van afvalwaterslib	2004 - 2005
S. Lievens	Studie en implementatie van instantie-gebaseerde algoritmen voor destillatie-eenheden	2003 - 2004
E. Van Broekhoven	Toepasbaarheid van vage technieken bij de procesvoering van destillatie-eenheden	2001 - 2002

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