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PROFILE

• I am Professor and Director of the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. I am on secondment from the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK. Prior to this appointment in 2007, I was Professor (1996-2007), Reader (1992-1996) and Senior Lecturer (1984-1992) at the Nottingham Trent University, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Durham (1981-1984) and Lecturer (1978-1981) at the Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland.
• Visiting Professorships at the University of Alberta (Canada), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan).
• Chairman of the European Council for Modelling and Simulation, (2002-04, 2004-06)
• Special Visiting Research Fellow at Konan University, Japan, (2005 - ).
• Foreign Member of the Decision Support Section of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2004-06).
• Titular Professorship conferred by the President of Poland in October 2005
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part-A, (2008 - ).
• Editor-in-Chief of Modelling and Simulation in Engineering published by Hindawi Press (2006 - ).
• Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2006-2009).
• Medal for Merit from the Silesian Technical University, 2009.

Granular Computing A. Bargiela and W. Pedrycz Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Dordrecht, London, 2002 This monograph is written to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of researchers and graduate level students in computer science and engineering.		Introduction to FAN in CI K. Hirota, A. Bargiela, H. Takahashi, SOFT, Tokyo, Japan 2005 This textbook is aimed at research students undertaking their MPhil/PhD study in the area of Computational Intelligence. The book has earned the Best 2005 Book Award by the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Systems.
Archives of Control Sciences Special Issue: Granular Computing A. Bargiela and W. Pedrycz (Eds.) PolSl. Publishing House, Gliwice, 2002 This Special Issue explores the interface between Granular Computing and the established ACM domain of decision support systems, knowledge modelling and uncertainty processing.		Computer Simulation and Modelling Series A. Bargiela - Series Editor John Wiley, 2003- This series is intended to serve as a reference series for the state-of-the-art developments in systems modelling and computer simulation.
Human-Centric Information Processing through Granular Modelling Studies in Computational Intelligence 182 A. Bargiela and W. Pedrycz (Eds.) Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2009 This volume is intended to document the milestone contributions to human-centric information processing research and to demonstrate computational methods that arose from these research insights.

My research interests fall under the general heading of Intelligent Decision Support and involve the following:

• Foundations of Granular Computing - methodology of information abstraction, granular algorithms and theoretical framework of Granular Computing (see: a36, a31, a30, a27, a25, a22, a21, b3)
• Human-centred information processing - semantical transformation of data and verification of information abstractions (see: a38, a37, a36, a33, b5)
• Fuzzy sets and systems - mathematical foundations and algorithms (see: a34, a29, a23, a20, a18, a16)
• Fault-tolerant distributed computing - software environment for dependable computing (see: a28, a19)
• Neural networks based state estimation - algorithms for ultra-fast approximate computations using analog neural networks (see: a18, a15, a10)
• Confidence Limits Analysis methodology - systems modelling with explicit representation of uncertainty (see: a11, a8, a7, a6)
• State Estimation in public utility systems - methods for robust state estimation, observability and control methods (see: a8, a4, a3, a2, a1)