John Yen

John Yen is University Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the [http://ist.psu.edu College of Information Sciences and Technology] at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the Director of the [http://ist.psu.edu/yen/Lab Intelligent Agents Laboratory] there.

Yen's long-term research interest is the capturing and modeling of knowledge in software agents for supporting decision making, for improving the adaptibility of a system of systems. He is also interested in extracting patterns from networks, in developing dynamic models about the evolution of social networks.

Yen has been a Principal investigator or co-Principal investigator of several multi-million-dollar research projects on these topics. Sponsors of his research projects include National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratory, and Office of Naval Research.

Yen received his Ph.D. in [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley] in 1986. His thesis advisor is Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, the father of fuzzy logic. Between 1986 and 1989, he was the main architect at USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) for an AI architecture that pioneers a knowledge-level integration of a descriptive logic knowledge representation scheme with production rules. Before joining IST in 2001, he was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Center for Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at Texas A&M University. He was the Vice President of Publication for IEEE Neural Networks Council, now [http://ieee-cis.org/ IEEE Computational Intelligence Society] . Yen received the [http://www.nsf.gov/ NSF] Young Investigator Award in 1992. He is a [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/fellows/fellows.html Fellow] of [http://www.ieee.org/portal/site IEEE] . He is currently the Chair of [http://www.fipa.org/subgroups/HAC-WG.html IEEE FIPA Working Group on Human Agent Communications] .

Books

* [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471776157.html Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism] , by Robert L. Popp, John Yen, 2006 ( [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471776157/ Amazon] )
* [http://ist.psu.edu/yen/FLtext/index.html Fuzzy Logic: Intelligence, Control, and Information] , by John Yen and Reza Langari, 1998 ( [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0135258170/ Amazon] )

ee also

*R-CAST
*Recognition primed decision

External links

* [http://ist.psu.edu/yen Dr. John Yen]
* [http://ist.psu.edu/yen/publications/index.html Selected Publications]
* [http://agentlab.psu.edu Intelligent Agents Laboratory at College of IST, PSU]