Francois Modave

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

The University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso, Texas, 79968-0518

Tel: (915) 747 5564

Fax: (915) 747 5030

Room: CS 222 A

E-mail: fmodave at utep -dot- edu

Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2003-present

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, 2001-02

• Research Fellow/Lecturer, School of IT, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD, Australia, 1999-2001

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III - ENSEEIHT, Corporate Research Laboratories, Thomson-CSF, 1999

• M.S., Mathematics Applied to Engineering, University Paris IX Dauphine, 1994

• B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, University Paris IX Dauphine, 1993

Research Interests

• Decision under uncertainty, multicriteria decision making, game theory

• Fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals

• Applications to computational biology, human-computer interactions, systems

Grants

• Cross-cultural perceptions of human and virtual human group conversational behavior”, U.S. Army (joint project with ICT-USC), 12 months beginning November 7, 2007, P.I. David Traum, co-P.I.s David Novick and Francois Modave, $100,000.

• New Physical-Statistical Methods and Models for Clutter, Army Research Lab, $27,000, 2003-04, PI.  

Selected Publications -in English-

• On the probability of making a given decision: a theoretically justification from interval to fuzzy uncertainty, F. Modave, V.N. Huynh, Y. Nakamori, NAFIPS Conference, San Diego, Ca, June 2007

• Interval-based mulicriteria decision making, M. Ceberio, F. Modave, book chapter in Modern Information Processing: from Theory to Applications, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G Coletti, R.R. Yager, Elsevier ed. 2006

• Towards real world applications: interval related talks at NAFIPS’05, V. Kreinovich, F. Modave, S. Starks, G. Xiiang, Journal of reliable computing, Springer Science, vol. 12, n.1, pp73-77, February 2006

• Paradigms for decision-making under increasing levels of uncertainty. A. de Korvin, R. Kleyle, F. Modave, Int. J. Pure Appl. Math. 21, No.4, 419-430 (2005)

• Comparing attacks: an approach based on interval computation and fuzzy integration, F. Modave, M. Ceberio, X. Wang, Fuzz-IEEE 05

• Using 1-D radar observations to detect a space explosion core among the explosion fragments: sequential and distributed algorithms, J. Boehm, P. Debroux, F. Modave, V. Kreinovich, G. Xiang, J. Beck, K. Tupelly, R. Kandathi, L. Longpre, K. Villaverde, 1-D Radar IEEE workshop, Santa Fe, NM, Aug. 2005

• The AKS algorithm in ACL2, C. Campos, F. Modave, S. Roach, InTech’04, Houston, TX, Dec. 2004

• An interval-valued 2-additive Choquet integral for Multicriteria Decision Making, M. Ceberio, F. Modave,  10th Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU), July 2004, Perugia, Italy.

• Interval-Based Multicriteria Decision Making, M. Ceberio, F. Modave, 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, January, 2004.

• Qualitative Multicriteria Decision Making Based on the Sugeno Integral, F. Modave, D. Iourinski, NAFIPS Conference, Chicago, IL, July 2003.

• The Use of Fuzzy Measures as a Data Fusion Tool in Geographic Information Systems C. Campos, V. Kreinovich, F. Modave, S. Starks, NAFIPS Conference, Chicago, IL, July 2003. PDF.

• Axiomatization of Qualitative Multicriteria Decision Making with the Sugeno Integral, F. Modave, D. Iourinski, Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, in Advances in Soft Computing, Ed. Springer, May 2003, pp. 77-86.

• Decision making for robust resilient systems, F. Modave, R. Alo, A. de Korvin, HICSS 36, Hawaii, January 2003.

• Fuzzy functions and decision theory, R. Alo, A. de Korvin, F. Modave, EUNITE Conference, Portugal, September 2002.

• Fuzzy measures and integrals as aggregation operators: solving the commensurability problem, F. Modave, V. Kreinovich, North American Fuzzy Information Processing System, New Orleans, LA, June 2002.

• Using fuzzy functions to select an optimal action in decision theory, R. Alo, A. de Korvin, F. Modave, NAFIPS Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2002.

• A measurement theory perspective for multicriteria decision making, Fuzz-IEEE Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2001.

• Web-based collaborative multicriteria decision making, F. Modave, T. Tilley, 1st Int. Conf. on I.T., Bangkok,Thailand, May 2001.

• Lotteries in a multicriteria decision making framework, F. Modave, M. Grabisch, 8th Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU), July 2000, Madrid, Spain.

• Relating decision under uncertainty and multicriteria decision making models, D. Dubois, M. Grabisch, F. Modave, H. Prade, Int. Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS), ed. Wiley, 2000.

• Preference representation by the Choquet integral: the commensurability hypothesis, F. Modave, M. Grabisch, 7th Int. Conf. on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU), July 1998, Paris, France.

• Application of fuzzy multicriteria classification to select the best robust parses of speech recognition hypotheses, D. Roussel, F. Modave, Int. Workshop on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), June 1998, St-Petersburg, Russia.

• Relating decision under uncertainty and MCDM models in an AI perspective, D. Dubois, M. Grabisch, F. Modave, H. Prade, IJCAI (poster), August 1997, Nagoya, Japan.

• A Choquet integral representation in MCDM, F. Modave, M. Grabisch, D. Dubois, H. Prade, AAAI Fall Symposium, November 1997, Boston, Ma.

• Preferential independence and the Choquet integral, 8th Conf on the Foundations and Applications of Decision under Risk and Uncertainty (FUR), July 1997, Mons, Belgium.

• Possibilistic Optimization, F. Modave, B. Julien, Proc. of the Bilateral Workshop Canada-Japan on Intelligent Manufacturing and Process Design, December 1996, Toronto, Canada.

Teaching

Fall 07

• CS 3350: Automata, Languages and Computability, TR, 10.30am-11.50am, CS321

• CS 4390/5390: Special topics: Cryptography, TR, 6.00pm-7.20pm, CS321

Past Courses

• Introduction to Java, Data Structures, Software Engineering II, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Database Theory, Cryptography. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Topics in Decision Making, Topics in Game Theory, Introduction to Computational Biology

Triathlon and Articles (for Sports Fans and Fitness Junkies)

• Ironman France, www.ironmanfrance.com

• Ironman, www.ironman.com

• Strength Training for Cycling, F. Modave

• Crash Training in Triathlon, F. Modave

• Practical Considerations for Triathletes in Quest for Speed: vVo2max and tlimVo2max, F. Modave