Prof. Dr. Martine De Cock

Contact

Ghent University
Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science
Krijgslaan 281 (Building S9, Room 40.09.120.012)
B-9000 Gent
Belgium

Phone: +32 9 264.47.70
Fax: +32 9 264.49.95
E-mail: Martine.DeCock@UGent.be

Short biography

Martine De Cock holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Ghent University (Belgium). From 1998 until 2005 her activities as a research assistant and a postdoctoral fellow were supported by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders. Currently she is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University (Belgium). She worked as a visiting scholar in the BISC group at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University (USA) and as a visiting associate professor at the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington (USA). Her research interest is computational web intelligence. She is a partner in N2N: A Ghent University Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

N2N: A Ghent University Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics

Publications

Papers listed in Web of Science SCI - Science Citation Index

Semantics for Possibilistic Answer Set Programs: Uncertain Rules versus Rules with Uncertain Conclusions
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
submitted to: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Fuzzy Autoepistemic Logic and its Relation to Fuzzy Answer Set Programming
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
submitted to: Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Enhancing the Trust-based Recommendation Process with Explicit Distrust
P. Victor, N. Verbiest, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
submitted to: ACM Transactions on the Web
Expressiveness of Communication in Answer Set Programming [PDF]
K. Bauters, J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 13(3), p.361-394, 2013
Using the Crowd for Readability Prediction [PDF]
O. De Clercq, V. Hoste, B. Desmet, P. Van Oosten, M. De Cock, L. Macken
Natural Language Engineering, p.1-33, 2013
Reducing Fuzzy Answer Set Programming to Model Finding in Fuzzy Logics [PDF]
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 12(6), p. 811-842, 2012
A Core Language for Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 53, p. 660-692, 2012
Modelling Gene and Protein Regulatory Networks with Answer Set Programming [PDF]
T. Fayruzov, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 5(2), p.209-229, 2011
Aggregated Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 63(2), p.103-147, 2011
Practical Aggregation Operators for Gradual Trust and Distrust [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. Herrera-Viedma
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 184(1), p.126-147, 2011
Trust- and Distrust-Based Recommendations for Controversial Reviews [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
IEEE Intelligent Systems 26(1), pp. 48-55, 2011
Clustering Web People Search Results using Fuzzy Ants [PDF]
E. Lefever, T. Fayruzov, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
Information Sciences 180(17), p. 3192-3209, 2010
Reasoning about Fuzzy Temporal Information from the Web: Towards Retrieval of Historical Events [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Soft Computing 14(8), p. 869-886, 2010
Linguistic Feature Analysis for Protein Interaction Extraction [HTML]
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
BMC Bioinformatics 10:374, 2009
Efficient Algorithms for Fuzzy Qualitative Temporal Reasoning [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 17(4), p. 794-808, 2009
Spatial Reasoning in a Fuzzy Region Connection Calculus [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Artificial Intelligence 173, p. 258-298, 2009
Gradual Trust and Distrust in Recommender Systems [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, P. Pinheiro da Silva
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 160(10), p. 1367-1382, 2009
Temporal Reasoning about Fuzzy Intervals [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
Artificial Intelligence 172, p. 1158-1193, 2008
Fuzzy Region Connection Calculus: Representing Vague Topological Information [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 48, p. 314-331, 2008
Fuzzy Region Connection Calculus: an Interpretation Based on Closeness [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 48, p. 332-347, 2008
Fuzzifying Allen's Temporal Interval Relations [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 16(2), p.517-533, 2008
Location Approximation for Local Search Services using Natural Language Hints [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Geographical Information Science 22(3), p.315-336, 2008
Key Figure Impact in Trust-Enhanced Recommender Systems [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
AI Communications vol 21(2-3), p.127-143, 2008
Fuzzy Rough Sets: the Forgotten Step [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 15(1), p.121-130, 2007
Clustering Web Search Results Using Fuzzy Ants [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Intelligent Systems 22, p.455-474, 2007
An Introduction to Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
D. Van Nieuwenborgh, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 50, p.363-388, 2007
A Many-valued Representation and Propagation of Trust and Distrust [PDF]
M. De Cock, P. Pinheiro da Silva
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3849, p.114-120, 2006
Question Answering with Imperfect Temporal Information [PDF]
S. Schockaert, D. Ahn, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4027, p.647-658, 2006
Imprecise Temporal Interval Relations [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3849, p.108-113, 2006
Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
D. Van Nieuwenborgh, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4160, p.359-372, 2006
Fuzzy Versus Quantitative Association Rules: A Fair Data Driven Comparison [PDF]
H. Verlinde, M. De Cock, R. Boute
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 36(3), p.679-684, 2006
Elicitation of Fuzzy Association Rules from Positive and Negative Examples [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 149(1), p.73-85, 2005
Relatedness of Fuzzy Sets [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 6(4), p.297-303, 2005
Automatic Acquisition of Fuzzy Footprints [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3762, p.1077-1086, 2005
Fuzzy Constraint Based Answer Validation [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3528, p.394-400, 2005
Efficient Approximate Reasoning with Positive and Negative Information [PDF]
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3214, p.779-785, 2004
Fuzzy Modifiers Based on Fuzzy Relations [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Information Sciences 160, p.173-199, 2004
Fuzzy Ant Based Clustering [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3172, p.342-349, 2004
Mining Positive and Negative Fuzzy Association Rules [PDF]
P. Yan, G. Chen, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3213, p.270-276, 2004
Openings and Closures of Fuzzy Preorderings: Theoretical Basics and Applications to Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems [PDF]
U. Bodenhofer, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of General Systems 32 (4), p.343-360, 2003
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Rough Sets: at the Crossroads of Imperfect Knowledge [PDF]
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks 20(5), p.260-269, 2003
On (Un)suitable Fuzzy Relations to Model Approximate Equality [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 133(2), p.137-153, 2003
Why Fuzzy T-Equivalence Relations do Not Resolve the Poincare Paradox, and Related Issues [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 133(2), p.181-192, 2003
On the meaning of noise annoyance modifiers: a fuzzy set theoretical approach [PDF]
D. Botteldooren, A. Verkeyn, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 88 (2), p.239-251, 2002
Fuzzy Relational Images in Computer Science
M. Nachtegael, M. De Cock, D. Van Der Weken, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2561, p.134-151, 2002
Fuzzy Topologies Induced by Fuzzy Relation Based Modifiers [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2206, p.239-248, 2001
A Neural Network Based on Linguistic Modifiers
M. De Cock, F. Vynckier, E. E. Kerre
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1625, p.694-696, 1999

Papers in other international journals

A New Generation of the Fuzzy-Set-Theoretical Representation of Modified Linguistic Terms
M. De Cock
WEB-SLS: The European Student Journal of Language and Speech (on-line journal), 2002
A Context-Based Approach to Linguistic Hedges
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 12(3), p. 371-382, 2002 (indexed by Zentralblatt Math)
Linguistic Variables: a Powerful Concept for Knowledge Representation
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems 8, p.174-189, 2001

Books

Answer Set Programming for Continuous Domains: a Fuzzy Logic Approach
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 5, Atlantis Press, 2012
Trust Networks for Recommender Systems
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 4, Atlantis Press, 2011
Reasoning about Fuzzy Temporal and Spatial Information from the Web
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 3, World Scientific, 2010

Edited books

Proceedings of the 8th Belgian-Dutch Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2008)
E. Hoenkamp, M. De Cock, V. Hoste, eds., 2008
Applied Artificial Intelligence
D. Ruan, P. D'hondt, P. Fantoni, M. De Cock, M. Nachtegael, E. E. Kerre, eds.
World Scientific, 2006, ISBN 981-256-690-2 (listed in Web of Science CPCI-S)
Applied Computational Intelligence
D. Ruan, P. D'hondt, M. De Cock, M. Nachtegael, E. E. Kerre, eds.
World Scientific, 2004, ISBN 981-238-873-7 (listed in Web of Science CPCI-S)

Chapters in books

Fuzzy Answer Set Programming: An Introduction [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Soft Computing: State of the Art Theory and Novel Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 291, Springer, p. 209-222, 2013
Trust and Recommendations [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: Recommender Systems Handbook (F. Ricci, L. Rokach, B. Shapira, P.B. Kantor, eds.), Springer, p. 645-676, 2011
Fuzzy Methods on the Web: a Critical Discussion [PDF]
S. Schockaert, N. Makarytska, M. De Cock
in: 35 Years of Fuzzy Set Theory (C. Cornelis, G. Deschrijver, M. Nachtegael, S. Schockaert, Y. Shi, eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 261, Springer-Verlag, p. 237-266, 2011
Fuzzy Rough Sets: from Theory into Practice
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. M. Radzikowska
in: Handbook of Granular Computing (W. Pedrycz, A. Skowron, V. Kreinovich, eds.), John Wiley & Sons, p. 533-552, 2008
Association Rule Based Specialization in ER Models [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, M. Ren, G. Chen, E. E. Kerre
in: Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications (D. Ruan, G. Chen, E. Kerre, G. Wets, eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence 5, Springer, p. 203-217, 2005
Fuzzy Thesauri for and from the WWW
M. De Cock, S. Guadarrama, M. Nikravesh
in: Soft Computing for Information Processing and Analysis (M. Nikravesh, L. A. Zadeh, J. Kacprzyk, eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 164, Springer-Verlag, p. 275-284, 2005
Generating membership functions for a noise annoyance model from experimental data [PDF]
A. Verkeyn, M. De Cock, D. Botteldooren, E. E. Kerre
in: Soft computing in measurement and information acquisition (L. Reznik, V. Kreinovich, eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 127, Springer-Verlag, p. 51-67, 2003
Linguistic Hedges: a Quantifier Based Approach [PDF]
M. De Cock
in: Soft Computing Systems: Design, Management and Applications (A. Abraham, J. Ruiz-del-Solar, M. Koppen, eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 87, IOS Press, p. 142-150, 2002
The Generalized Modus Ponens in a Fuzzy Set Theoretical Framework
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Fuzzy If-Then Rules in Computational Intelligence : Theory and Applications (D. Ruan, E. E. Kerre, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 37-59, 2000
Linguistic Modifiers; an Overview
E. E. Kerre, M. De Cock
in: Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing (G. Chen, M. Ying, K.-Y. Cai, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 69-85, 1999

Papers in proceedings

(*) listed in Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S)

Solving Satisfiability in Fuzzy Logics by Mixing CMA-ES
T. Brys, M. Drugan, P. A. N. Bosman, M. De Cock, A. Nowe
to appear in: Proceedings of GECCO2013 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference), 2013
Modeling Stable Matching Problems with Answer Set Programming
S. De Clercq, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, A. Nowe
to appear in: Proceedings of RuleML2013 (7th International Web Rule Symposium), 2013
Recognising Personality Traits using Facebook Status Updates
G. Farnadi, S. Zoghbi, M.-F. Moens, M. De Cock
to appear in: Proceedings of WCPR13 WCPR13, Workshop on Computational Personality Recognition at ICWSM13 (7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media), 2013
Local Search and Restart Strategies for Satisfiability Solving in Fuzzy Logics
T. Brys, M. Drugan, P. A. N. Bosman, M. De Cock, A. Nowe
in: Proceedings of SSCI2013 (2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence), p.52-59, 2013
Five Languages are Better than One: an Attempt to Bypass the Data Acquisition Bottleneck for WSD
E. Lefever, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of CICLing-2013 (14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics), Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7816, Springer-Verlag, p. 343-354, 2013
Possible and Necessary Answer Sets of Possibilistic Answer Set Programs
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of ICTAI2012 (24th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence), p.836-843, 2012
NP-completeness of Fuzzy Answer Set Programming under Lukasiewicz Semantics [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of WL4AI (ECAI 2012 Workshop on Weighted Logics for AI), p.43-50, 2012
Solving Satisfiability in Fuzzy Logics with Evolution Strategies
T. Brys, Y.-M. De Hauwere, M. De Cock, Ann Nowe
in: Proceedings of NAFIPS2012 (31st Annual Meeting of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society), p.1-6. 2012
Discovering Missing Wikipedia Inter-language Links by means of Cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation
E. Lefever, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of LREC2012 (8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), p. 841-846, 2012
SBFC: An Efficient Feature Frequency-based Approach to Tackle Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation
D. Mourisse, E. Lefever, N. Verbiest, Y. Saeys, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis
in: Proceedings of TSD2012 (15th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue), p. 248-255, 2012
Weak and Strong Disjunction in Possibilistic ASP [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of SUM2011 (5th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6929, p.475-488, 2011
Complexity of Fuzzy Answer Set Programming under Lukasiewicz Semantics: First Results [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Poster Proceedings of SUM2011 (5th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management), p.7-12, 2011
Fuzzy Autoepistemic Logic: Reflecting about Knowledge of Truth Degrees [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of ECSQARU 2011 (11th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6717, p.616-627, 2011
ParaSense or how to use Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation [PDF]
E. Lefever, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of ACL-HLT2011 (49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies), p.317-322, 2011
Communicating ASP and the Polynomial Hierarchy [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of LPNMR-11 (11th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6645, p.67-79, 2011
Diversification of Search Results as a Fuzzy Satisfiability Problem [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of DDR2011 (workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval at ECIR2011), p.47-54, 2011
Possibilistic Answer Set Programming Revisited [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of UAI2010 (26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence), 2010
Communicating Answer Set Programs [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of ICLP2010 (26th International Conference on Logic Programming), p. 34-43, 2010
Towards Possibilistic Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of NMR2010 (13th international workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning), 2010
A RapidMiner Framework for Protein Interaction Extraction
T. Fayruzov, G. Dittmar, N. Spence, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: Proceedings of RCOMM2010 (RapidMiner Community Meeting), p.58-63, 2010
Extending Boolean Regulatory Network Models with Answer Set Programming
T. Fayruzov, J. Janssen, C. Cornelis, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of IDASB (workshop on Integrative Data Analysis in Systems Biology at BIBM2010), 2010
Efficient Solving of Time-Dependent Answer Set Programs
T. Fayruzov, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of ICLP2010 (26th International Conference on Logic Programming), p. 64-73, 2010
(*) Born to Trade: a Genetically Evolved Keyword Bidder for Sponsored Search [PDF]
M. Munsey, J. Veilleux, S. Bikkani, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of IEEE CEC at WCCI2010 (2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), 2010
Ranking Approaches for Microblog Search [PDF]
R. Nagmoti, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of WI2010 (2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence), p.153-157, 2010
(*) Bilattice-Based Aggregation Operators for Gradual Trust and Distrust
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. Herrera-Viedma
in: Proceedings of FLINS2010 (9th International FLINS Conference on Foundations and Applications of Computational Intelligence), p.505-510, 2010
(*) Modeling Protein Interaction Networks with Answer Set Programming [PDF]
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of BIBM2009 (IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine), p.99-105, 2009
An Evolved Fuzzy Logic System for Fire Size Prediction
A. Fowler, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of NAFIPS 2009 (28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference), p.197-202, 2009
(*) General Fuzzy Answer Set Programs
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of WILF 2009 (8th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications), p. 352-359, 2009
(*) Fuzzy Answer Set Programming with Literal Preferences
J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 (Joint 13th IFSA World Congres and 6th Conference of EUSFLAT), p. 1347-1352, 2009
Fuzzy Ants Clustering for Web People Search
E. Lefever, T. Fayruzov, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of WePS2 (2nd Web People Search Evaluation Workshop), workshop at WWW2009 (18th International World Wide Web Conference), 2009
(*) Answer Sets in a Fuzzy Equilibrium Logic
S. Schockaert, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of RR2009 (3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5837, p. 135-149, 2009
(*) Finite Satisfiability in Infinite-Valued Lukasiewicz Logic
S. Schockaert, J. Janssen, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of SUM2009 (3rd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5785, p. 240-254, 2009
Aggregation of Gradual Trust and Distrust
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. Herrera-Viedma
in: Proceedings of EUROFUSE09 (EUROFUSE Workshop Preference Modelling and Decision Analysis), p. 259-264, 2009
Trust- and Distrust-Based Recommendations for Controversial Reviews [paper]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: Proceedings of WebSci'09 - Society On-line (2009 Web Science Conference), 2009
A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Enhanced Recommenders for Controversial Items
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: Proceedings of ICWSM2009 (3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media), p. 342-345, 2009
(*) DEEPER: a Full Parsing Based Approach to Protein Relation Extraction
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4973, Proceedings of EvoBio 2008 (6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics), p. 36-47, 2008
Exploiting Grammatical Relations for Protein Relation Extraction and Role Labeling
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: Proceedings of DIR 2008 (2008 Dutch Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop), p. 37-44, 2008
The Role of Syntactic Features in Protein Interaction Extraction
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: Proceedings of DTMBIO08 (ACM 2nd International Workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics), workshop at the ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008), p.61-68, 2008
Fuzzy Argumentation Frameworks
J. Janssen, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of IPMU 2008 (12th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems), p. 513-520, 2008
(*) Compiling fuzzy answer set programs to fuzzy propositional theories
J. Janssen, S. Heymans, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of ICLP2008 (24th International Conference on Logic Programming), p. 362-376, 2008
(*) Modelling Nearness and Cardinal Directions Between Fuzzy Regions
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of FUZZ-IEEE at WCCI2008 (2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence), p.1548-1555, 2008
Acquiring Vague Temporal Information from the Web
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of WI-IAT Workshops 2008 (IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology), p. 265-268, 2008
(*) Whom Should I Trust? The Impact of Key Figures on Cold Start Recommendations
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of ACM SAC 2008 (2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing), p. 2014-2018, 2008
(*) Getting Cold Start Users Connected in a Recommender System's Trust Network
P. Victor, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, A. Teredesai
in: Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control (D. Ruan, J. Montero, J. Lu, L. Martinez, P. D'hondt, E. E. Kerre, eds.), World Scientific, p.877-882, 2008
(*) Vaguely Quantified Rough Sets
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Radzikowska
in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4482, Proceedings of JRS2007 (2007 Joint Rough Set Symposium), p. 87-94, 2007
(*) Selection of Web Services with Imprecise QoS Constraints
M. De Cock, S. Chung, O. Hafeez
in: Proceedings of WI-2007 (2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence), p.535-541, 2007
Reasoning about Vague Topological Information
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of CIKM2007 (ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), p.593-602, 2007
Neighborhood Restrictions in Geographic IR [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of SIGIR2007 (30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval), p. 167-174, 2007
Qualitative Temporal Reasoning about Vague Events [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of IJCAI'07 (20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), p. 569-574, 2007
(*) Computing Fuzzy Answer Sets Using dlvhex
D. Van Nieuwenborgh, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: Proceedings of ICLP2007 (23th International Conference on Logic Programming), p. 449-450, 2007
Supporting temporal question answering: strategies for offline data collection [PDF]
D. Ahn, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of ICoS-5 (5th International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics), 2006
(*) Fuzzy Spatial Relations between Vague Regions [PDF]
S. Schockaert, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IEEE IS 2006), p. 221-226, 2006
Towards Fuzzy Spatial Reasoning in Geographic IR Systems [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of GIR06 (Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval), Workshop at SIGIR2006 (29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development on Information Retrieval), p. 34-36, 2006
(*) An Efficient Characterization of Fuzzy Temporal Interval Relations [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of the 2006 World Congres on Computational Intelligence, p. 9026-9033, 2006
Reflections on Modelling Vagueness in Description Logics
S. Schockaert, P. Victor, G.J. Houben, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW2006), Workshop at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, 2006
(*) Enhanced Recommendations Through Propagation of Trust and Distrust [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of Adaptation and Personalisation for e-Business Intelligence, Workshop at the IEEE/ACM/WI Conference on Web Intelligence, p. 263-266, 2006
Towards a Provenance-Preserving Trust Model in Agent Networks [PDF]
P. Victor, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, P. Pinheiro da Silva
in: Proceedings of Models of Trust for the Web (MTW'06), Workshop at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), ISBN 085432853X, 2006
Fuzzy Rough Set Based Web Query Expansion [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis
in: Proceedings of Rough Sets and Soft Computing in Intelligent Agent and Web Technology, International Workshop at WIIAT2005 (2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology), p. 9-16, 2005
(*) Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relational Images [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
in: Computational Intelligence for Modelling and Predictions (S. K. Halgamuge, L. Wang, eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence 2, Springer-Verlag, p. 129-146, 2005
(*) Representing Reliability and Hesitation in Possibility Theory: A General Framework
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Applications and Science in Soft Computing (A. Lotfi, J. M. Garibaldi, eds.), Advances in Soft Computing , Springer-Verlag, p. 127-132, 2004
A Clear View on Quality Measures for Fuzzy Association Rules
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of FSSCEF 2004 (International Conference on Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing in Economics and Finance), p. 54-61, 2004
Fuzzy Rough Sets: Beyond the Obvious [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of FUZZ-IEEE2004 (2004 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems), Volume 1, p. 103-108, 2004
(*) Efficient Clustering with Fuzzy Ants [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
in: Applied Computational Intelligence (D. Ruan, P. D'hondt, M. De Cock, M. Nachtegael, E. E. Kerre, eds.), World Scientific, p. 195-200, 2004
Fuzzy Association Rules: a Two-Sided Approach [PDF]
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of FIP2003 (International Conference on Fuzzy Information processing: Theories and Applications), p. 385-390, 2003
Linguistic Hedges in an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Setting
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of FSKD'02 (1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery), Volume I, p. 101-105, 2002
Assessing Degrees of Possibility and Certainty within an Unreliable Environment
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of RASC2002 (4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing), p. 194-199 (CD-ROM), 2002
(*) Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relational Calculus: an Overview
C. Cornelis, G. Deschrijver, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of IS'2002 (First International IEEE Symposium Intelligent Systems), Volume I, p. 340-345, 2002
(*) A Fuzzy-Rough Approach to the Representation of Linguistic Hedges
M. De Cock, A. Radzikowska, E. E. Kerre
in: Technologies for Constructing Intelligent Systems I (B. Bouchon-Meunier, J. Gutierrez-Rios, L. Magdalena, R. R. Yager, eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing 89, Springer-Verlag, p. 33-42, 2002
A Fuzzy Set Theoretical Approach to the Automatic Generation of Absenteeism Analyses in Natural Language [PDF]
N. du Bois, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre, R. Babu ka
in: Proceedings of IPMU 2002 (9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems), Volume III, p. 1961-1968, 2002
(*) Fuzzy Set Theory: a Useful Interlingua?
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, D. Botteldooren, E. E. Kerre
in: Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (N. Baba, L.C. Jain, R.J. Howlett, eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 69, IOS Press, p. 1137-1141, 2001
Fuzzy Hedges: a Next Generation [PDF]
M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2001 Student Session (13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information), p. 59-70, 2001
(*) The Representation of Linguistic Hedges using Fuzzy Relational Calculus
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of Joint 9th IFSA World Congres and 20th NAFIPS International Conference, Vol. 3, p. 1608-1613, 2001
Approximate Equality is no Fuzzy Equality [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of EUSFLAT2001 (International Conference European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology), p. 369-371, 2001
Modelling Linguistic Hedges by L-Fuzzy Modifiers
M. De Cock, Zabokrstky, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of CIMCA'2001 (International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation), p. 64-72 (CD-ROM), 2001
Soft Computing Techniques for Speech Recognition
M. Nachtegael, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of CBGIST'2001 (Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology and Genome Information Systems and Technology), Association for Intelligent Machinery Inc., p. 205-209, 2001
Fuzzy Relational Images in Computer Science
M. Nachtegael, M. De Cock, D. Van Der Weken, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of RELMICS'6 (6th International Workshop on Relational Methods in Computer Science), p. 156-170, 2001
Modelling Linguistic Expressions Using Fuzzy Relations
M. De Cock, U. Bodenhofer, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings IIZUKA2000 (6th International Conference on Soft Computing), (CD-ROM), p. 353-360, 2000
(*) A New Class of Fuzzy Modifiers
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of ISMVL2000 (30th IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic), IEEE Computer Society, p. 121-126, 2000
Modelling Linguistic Modifiers Using Fuzzy-Rough Structures
M. De Cock, A. Radzikowska, E. E. Kerre
in: Proceedings of IPMU 2000 (8th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems), Volume III, p. 1735-1742, 2000
(*) Images under Fuzzy Relations : a Master-Key to Fuzzy Applications
M. De Cock, M. Nachtegael, E. E. Kerre
in: Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing in Nuclear Science and Engineering (D. Ruan, H. A. Abderrahim, P. D hondt, E. E. Kerre, eds.), World Scientific, p. 47-54, 2000
Representing the Adverb Very in Fuzzy Set Theory
M. De Cock
in: Proceedings of the ESSLLI99 Student Session (11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information), (Amalia Todirascu, ed.), p. 223-232, 1999

Abstracts/Editorials

Towards a Deeper Understanding of Nonmonotonic Reasoning with Degrees
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir, M. De Cock
to appear in: Proceedings of IJCAI2013 (23th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2013
How well do your Facebook status updates express your personality?
G. Farnadi, S. Zoghbi, M.-F. Moens, M. De Cock
to appear in: Proceedings of BENELEARN2013 (22nd annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning), 2013
Complexity of Infinitely Valued Lukasiewicz Possibilistic Modal Logics
M. Blondeel, M. De Cock, T. Flaminio
in: Book of Abstracts of UniLog 2013 (4th World Congress and School on Universal Logic), p.112-113, 2013
Solving Satisfiability in Fuzzy Logics with Evolution Strategies
T. Brys, Y.-M. De Hauwere, M. De Cock, A. Nowe.
in: Proceedings of BNAIC2012 (24th BENELUX Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2012
Crawling a Ground Truth Dataset for Ad Personalization
G. Farnadi, S. Zoghbi, M.-F. Moens, M. De Cock
in: Abstracts of LTCI2012 (5th AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), p.7, 2012
An ASP-based Simulation Method for Finding all Synchronous and Asynchronous Attractors in Genetic Regulatory Networks
G. Torres, K. Marchal, Y. Van de Peer, M. De Cock
in: 8th Student Council Symposium of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology), 2012
Predicting Long Term Behavior of Genetic Regulatory Networks with Answer Set Programming
G. Torres, K. Marchal, Y. Van de Peer, M. De Cock
in: BENELEARN & PMLS 2012 (21st edition of the annual Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning in conjunction with a workshop on Predictive Modeling for the Life Sciences), 2012
Solving Fuzzy Answer Set Programs
M. De Cock, J. Janssen, S. Schockaert, D. Vermeir
in: WConSC'11 (World Conference on Soft Computing), 2011
Using Parallel Corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation
E. Lefever, V. Hoste, M. De Cock
in: BNAIC2011 (23rd Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence), p.407-408, 2011
Filtering Abstracts for Protein Interactions in PRISE
G. Dittmar, T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: Annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2010
Information Extraction in PRISE
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: LTCI2010 (4th AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), p.12, 2010
Augmenting Microblog Search with Social Authority Ranking
R. Nagmoti, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
in: ISNA2010 (30th International Sunbelt Social Network Conference), 2010
PRISE - a PRotein Interaction Search Engine
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste, R. Hill, S. Lynch, A. Teredesai
in: LTCI2009 (Third AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), 2009
Features for Protein Interaction Extraction: is More Always Better?
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: ATila'08 (Antwerp Tilburg Studies in Language Acquisition Workshop), 2008
Grammatical Structures for Protein Interaction Extraction
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: LTCI2008 (Second AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), p.14, 2008
Solving Fuzzy Answer Set Programs with Fuzzy SAT Solvers
J. Janssen, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
in: LTCI2008 (Second AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), p.8, 2008
Trust-Based Recommendations for Cold Start Users
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. Teredesai
in: LTCI2008 (Second AUGent Workshop on Language Technology and Computational Intelligence), p.9, 2008
Protein Relation Extraction using Full Parsing Information
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
in: ATila'07 (Antwerp Tilburg Studies in Language Acquisition Workshop), 2007
Exploiting Vague Spatial Information in Geographic IR
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: DBDBD2006 (Dutch Belgian Database Day), 2006
A Bilattice-based Trust Model for Personalizing Recommendations [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: First Research Contact Day of the Computational Intelligence & Learning Doctoral School 2006
Trust Propagation Operators in Social Network Analysis
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: Intelligent Systems for Data Mining and Information Processing, Workshop China-Flanders, Gent, p. 21, 2006
Trust networks in recommender systems [PDF]
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: ORBEL 20 (The Twentieth Conference on Quantitative Methods for Decision Making), p 78-79, 2006
Extracting, Representing, and Grounding Events for Temporal Question Answering
D. Ahn, S. Schockaert, M. De Rijke, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: CLIN2005 (16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), 2005
Guest Editorial of Special Issue dedicated to the 60th birthday of Etienne E. Kerre
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems 16(4), p. 239-303, 2005 (listed in SCI)
Towards Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relational Webs of Trust and Distrust [PDF]
M. De Cock, P. Pinheiro da Silva
in: Workshop of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Other Extensions/Applications of Fuzzy Sets, p.15-16, 2005
Reasoning with Fuzzy Time Intervals [PDF]
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Workshop of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Other Extensions/Applications of Fuzzy Sets, p.8-9, 2005
Backstage with Support and Confidence in Fuzzy Association Rules
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock
in: On Methods and Applications of Knowledge Discovery to Support Intelligent Business Decisions, Workshop China-Flanders, Hasselt, p.5, 2004
Taxonomies for Fuzzy Association Rules: the Making of
M. De Cock, C. Cornelis
in: On Methods and Applications of Knowledge Discovery to Support Intelligent Business Decisions, Workshop China-Flanders, Hasselt, p.6, 2004
The Need for Fuzzy Association Rules: Myths and Reality
M. De Cock, H. Verlinde
in: DBDBD2004 (Dutch Belgian Database Day), 2004
Performing Region Detection Using Simple Fuzzy Agents
Y. Asfaw, M. Spielberg, E. Madariaga, M. De Cock
in: BISC2003 FLINT-CIBI International Joint Workshop on Soft Computing for Internet and Bioinformatics, p. 46, 2003
Constructing Fuzzy Thesauri for the WWW
M. De Cock, S. Guadarrama, M. Nikravesh
in: BISC2003 FLINT-CIBI International Joint Workshop on Soft Computing for Internet and Bioinformatics, p. 67, 2003
Pruning Fuzzy Ontologies
A. Kolobov, D. Kuo, M. De Cock, M. Nikravesh
in: BISC2003 FLINT-CIBI International Joint Workshop on Soft Computing for Internet and Bioinformatics, p. 67, 2003
Opening and Closure Operators of Fuzzy Preorderings: Basic Properties and Applications to Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems
U. Bodenhofer, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Abstracts 21st Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory, p.29-30, 2000
Linguistic Modifiers: the Horizon Approach [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: Belgium/Fuzzy 2 Workshop, 2000
Rose and TiMBL: a Match Made in Heaven [PDF]
M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
in: CLIN2000, (16th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands), p. 9, 2000