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Dr André de Korvin, Professor, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences.Expertise: Mathematics and Computer Science |
My very first research efforts started in 1963 while I was working for the I.B.M. Scientific Center at Los Angeles. These efforts led to my first paper, in the field of Automata Theory, which was published in the SIAM Journal of Control in 1968 (see publ[1]). At the time, I was completing my Ph.D. thesis on von Neumann algebras. My first publications, naturally enough, were in that general area (see pub[2] and pub[3] for example). Later I was able to obtain related results for norm closed algebras, i.e. C* algebras (for example see pub[5] and pub[12]). Later still I developed an interest in integration theory and other areas of functional analysis.
From 1975 I became more interested in Probability (for example see pub[22] and pub[38]), Control Theory (for example see pub[49] and pub[37]), Non Linear Analysis (for example see pub[34] and pub[41]) and Numerical Analysis (for example see pub[45] and pub[51]).
In 1978 I became interested in Computer Science. This was brought about in a rather natural way as the Department of Mathematics at Indiana State had decided to go ahead with a B.S. program in Computer Science. In 1983 I held the rank of Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science of Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis.
My initial research interests include the construction of stochastic models for information flows, see pub[53] through pub[57]. In pub[55] we study a mechanism followed by a decision maker ethically bound to pursue the best available course of action. The model allows for feedback information to be input for each cycle of decision making. Equations describing the updated expected utilities in terms of the learning factor are obtained. The estimators obtained from a martingale or a submartingale allowing the analysis of when and how the decision maker can terminate the feedback decision making loop. In pub[56] the study is generalized so that termination is analyzed although the estimators do not form a martingale or a submartingale. More recent articles pub[57] pub[64] ,for example, concentrate on goal uncertainty.
My more recent research pub[70] is in the areas of the mathematical theory of evidence, uncertainty in expert systems, knowledge acquisition, fuzzy logic, neural nets, neuron-fuzzy systems and how to apply these theories to the problems of object recognition and expert systems construction, as well as to business problems. This work was funded by NASA for the Summers of 88, 89, 90, 91 and for the year 1992 as well as by NSF and the Army Research Office from 1995 to 1999. Fuzzy logic, the Dempster Shafer theory and Rough sets are important techniques used to investigate many problems in these areas.
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1967.
M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1963.
B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1962.
Attended Sorbonne, University of Paris, France 1955 through 1959
Work History
Lecture, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, Texas, 2010 through present.
Professor of Computer and Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Houston Downtown, Houston, Texas, 1987 through Lecturer.
Professor and Chairman of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, 1987.
Professor and Acting Chairman of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, 1986 through 1987.
Professor of Computer and Information Science, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, 1983 through 1986.
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1982 through 1983.
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Visiting, Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis, 1981 through 1982.
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1975 through 1981.
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1971 through 1975.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1969 through 1971.
Assistant Professor of mathematics Visiting, Carnegie Mellon University, 1968 through 1969.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1967 through 1968.
Consultant Mathematician, I.B.M. Corporation, Los Angeles Scientific Center, CA, 1964 through 1967.
Mathematician and Programmer, I.B.M. Corporation, San Jose, 1963 through 1964.
Teaching Assistant of Algebra and Calculus, University of California, Los Angeles, September 1961 through 1963.
Honors and Awards
University of Houston Downtown Excellence in Professional Service Award 1990.
University of Houston Downtown Excellence in Scholarship Award 1992.
University of Houston Downtown Teaching Award Finalist 1991, 1992.
Keynote Speaker at the International EXPERSYS 92 Conference.
Taught by invitation a short course in Mathematical Problems in Artificial Intelligence MAA Conference in Houston 1992.
University of Houston-Downtown Excellence in Scholarship Award 2009.
Elected to the Phi-Kappa-Phi Society 2000.
University of Houston-Downtown Excellence in Scholarship Award 1999.
University of Houston-Downtown Excellence in Scholarship Finalist 1998.
Member of the Computer Science Accreditation Commission.
Member Of The Editorial Board Of The J. Of Managerial Finance 1997 to present
Keynote Paper at the International EXPERSYS 93 Conference.
University of Houston Downtown Enron Excellence in Teaching Award 1993.
ARTICLES PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
CS/MATH 4334 Fuzzy Logic
CS/MATH 4333Neural Nets
CS/MATH 4336 Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
Dr Dekorvin's full Vita
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