Plenary Lecture

Intelligent Systems and their Reliability in Real-Life Applications

Professor Adnan Khashman
Founder and Head of Intelligent Systems Research Group (ISRG)
Faculty of Engineering, Near East University
Nicosia, N. Cyprus
E-mail: amk@neu.edu.tr

Abstract: Intelligent systems in general, and artificial neural network (ANN) systems in particular, have been popularly gaining interest, and seen as potential future solutions to many problems in real-life applications. Areas of applications usually include production and manufacturing, security and intelligence, finance and banking, and much more. Often, an intelligent system would be used for classification, identification, or prediction. The basic idea behind an ANN-based intelligent system is to mimic our natural way of perceiving an input stimulus (often visual stimulus), and then associating it or categorizing it into a set of known classes. For us, humans, the knowledge of these classes is obtained via what we call “experience”. The experience for intelligent systems is obtained by exposing the system to numerous examples of what we would like it to learn.
In this lecture a brief review of intelligent systems with focus on ANNs will be presented. Examples of ANN-based intelligent systems which were developed by the speaker will be described; these include real-life applications to face recognition, as well as coin recognition. The reliability of such systems will be discussed and the potential of using ANN-based intelligent systems in manufacturing and production lines will be discussed. The lecture will be concluded with a discussion on whether intelligent systems are reliable enough to replace their human creators.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Adnan Khashman received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in electronic engineering from University of Nottingham, England, UK, in 1992 and 1997, respectively, and his B.Eng. degree in electronic and communication engineering from University of Birmingham, England, UK, in 1991. During 1998-2001 he was an Assistant Professor and Chairman of the Computer Engineering Department, Near East University, Nicosia, N. Cyprus. From 2001-2009 he was an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at the same university. From 2007 till 2008 he was also the Vice-Dean of the Engineering Faculty. Since 2009 he is a full Professor and the Head of the Intelligent Systems Research Group (ISRG) which he founded in 2001 at the same university.
His current research interests include emotion modeling in neural networks and their engineering applications, intelligent systems and their applications, image processing, and pattern recognition. Prof. Dr. Khashman is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a reviewer for many journals. He has authored and co-authored more than 65 scientific publications in books, journals, and conference proceedings.