Dr. Bogdan Filipic

• Contact information
• Education
• Research interests
• Participation in research and applied projects
• Membership in professional societies
• Awards
• Selected bibliography

• UISP 1998/99
• Course materials

Contact information

Also reachable at:

Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Ljubljana
Askerceva 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: +386 61 177 1404
Fax : +386 61 218 567
Email: see above

Education

1993

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Thesis: Genetic algorithms in combinatorial optimization

1989

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Thesis: An expert system for spectrum estimation

1983

B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Thesis: Implementation of an inference system for medical diagnostics

Research interests

• Evolutionary computation, in particular genetic algorithms in numerical and combinatorial optimization
• Machine learning, knowledge acquisition, expert systems
• Applications of the above techniques in dynamic system control and industrial process optimization, including production scheduling and resource management

Participation in research and applied projects

• Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms (1998--2001), principal investigator
• Multi-phase Systems II (1996-98)
• Evolutionary Computation in Optimization and System Identification (1995-98), principal investigator
• Multi-phase Systems (1993-95)
• Automated Knowledge Synthesis (1992-94)
• Knowledge Engineering (1991-94)
• Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence (1986-91)

International projects:

• ESPRIT IV Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computation (EvoNet) (started in 1996)
• Modeling and Optimization for Competitive Continuous Casting, a project within Slovenian-Czech Intergovernmental S&T Cooperation Programme (1998-99)

Applied projects:

• Process scheduling at a pressing plant of a car factory (1997)
• Modelling of continuous casting of steel (1996-98)
• Synthesis of signal classification rules with inductive machine learning (1989-90)
• An expert system for spectrum estimation (1987-88)
• Timing and attendance data acquisition system (1985-86)

Membership in professional societies

• IEEE (see also Slovenia Section IEEE)
• IEEE Computer Society
• Slovenian Artificial Intelligence Society (SLAIS), also a member of the SLAIS board

Awards

• B. Kidric Innovations Prize for the development of the KRONOS timing and attendance data acquisition system (with coauthors), 1990

Selected bibliography

B. Filipic, B. Sarler: Evolving parameter settings for continuous casting of steel, Proceedings of the 6th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing EUFIT'98, Aachen, Germany, 1998, Vol. 1, pp. 444--449.

B. Filipic: A hybrid optimization algorithm for energy consumption management at a motor plant, Proceedings of the 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing EUFIT'97, Aachen, Germany, 1997, Vol. 1, pp. 717--721.

A. Bombac, I. Zun, B. Filipic, M. Zumer: Gass-filled cavity structures and local void fraction distribution in aerated stirred vessel, AIChE Journal, 43 (11): 2921--2931, November 1997.

I. Zun, M. Perpar, B. Filipic: Probe measurements of local carrying gas fraction in trickle-bed reactor, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 15 (3): 163--173, October 1997.

B. Filipic, M. Junkar: Machine learning refinement of operator decisions in a manufacturing process, Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Intelligent Manufacturing Processes and Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 1997, pp. 42--47. Springer-Verlag.

B. Filipic, T. Urbancic, V. Krizman: Learning optimised control rules with genetic algorithms, Preprints of the IFAC Symposium Automated Systems Based on Human Skill, Kranjska gora, Slovenia, 1997, pp. 39--42.

B. Filipic, D. Juricic: A genetic algorithm to support learning fuzzy control rules from examples. In: F. Herrera, J. L. Verdegay (Eds.) Genetic Algorithms and Soft Computing, (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 8), Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996, pp. 403--418.

B. Filipic, I. Zun, M. Perpar: Signal interpretation in two-phase fluid dynamics through machine learning and evolutionary computing, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems IEA/AIE-96, Fukuoka, Japan, 1996, pp. 461--466.

B. Filipic: A genetic algorithm applied to resource management in production systems. In: J. Biethahn, V. Nissen (Eds.) Evolutionary Algorithms in Management Applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 101--111.

I. Zun, B. Filipic, M. Perpar, A. Bombac: Phase discrimination in void fraction measurements via genetic algorithms, Review of Scientific Instruments, 66 (10): 5055--5064, October 1995.

A. Varsek, T. Urbancic, B. Filipic: Genetic algorithms in controller design and tuning, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 23 (5): 1330--1339, September-October 1993.

B. Filipic, D. Juricic: An interactive genetic algorithm for controller parameter optimization, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms ANNGA '93, Innsbruck, Austria. Springer-Verlag, 1993, pp. 458--462.

B. Filipic: Enhancing genetic search to schedule a production unit, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI-92, Vienna, Austria. John Wiley, 1992, pp. 603--607. Also in: J. Dorn, K. A. Froeschl (Eds.), Scheduling of Production Processes, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, 1993, pp. 61--69.

M. Junkar, B. Filipic, I. Bratko: Identifying the grinding process by means of inductive machine learning, Computers in Industry, 17 (2-3): 147--153, November 1991.

B. Filipic: Prolog User's Handbook: A Library of Utility Programs, Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, 1988. Also published by Kaibundo Publishing Co., Tokyo, 1990 (in Japanese).