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 the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington Tacoma (USA). Her current research interest is computational web intelligence.
Teaching
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Application Oriented Formal Logic I
1st Year Bachelor of Informatics
- Practicum Mathematics
1st Year Bachelor of Mathematics
- Data Analysis I: Mathematical Principles
1st Year Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
Erasmus Exchange Program
Martine De Cock is the departmental Erasmus coordinator for informatics. Please click here for more information.
Publications
Papers in international journals listed in SCI - Science Citation Index
- Temporal Reasoning about Fuzzy Intervals
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
to appear in: Artificial Intelligence
- Efficient Algorithms for Fuzzy Qualitative Temporal Reasoning
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
to appear in: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Fuzzy Region Connection Calculus: Representing Vague Topological Information
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
to appear in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
- Fuzzy Region Connection Calculus: an Interpretation Based on Closeness
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, E. E. Kerre
to appear in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
- Fuzzifying Allen's Temporal Interval Relations
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
to appear in: IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
- Location Approximation for Local Search Services using Natural Language
Hints
S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre
to appear in: International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- Gradual Trust and Distrust in Recommender Systems
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, P. Pinheiro da Silva
to appear in: Fuzzy Sets and Systems
- 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
- Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
D. Van Nieuwenborgh, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4160, p. 359-372, 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 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 Poincaré
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
Edited books
- 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
- 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 Knowledge ISI Proceedings)
Chapters in books
- Fuzzy Rough Sets: from Theory into Practice
C. Cornelis, M. De Cock, A. M. Radzikowska
to appear in: Handbook of Granular Computing (W. Pedrycz, A. Skowron, V. Kreinovich, eds.), John Wiley & Sons, 2007
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (listed in Web of Knowledge ISI Proceedings)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (listed in Web of Knowledge ISI Proceedings)
- 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 (invited)
Papers in proceedings
- DEEPER: a Full Parsing Based Approach to Protein Relation Extraction
T. Fayruzov, M. De Cock, C. Cornelis, V. Hoste
to appear in: Proceedings of EvoBio 2008 (6th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics)
- Whom Should I Trust? The Impact of Key Figures on Cold Start Recommendations
P. Victor, C. Cornelis, A. Teredesai, M. De Cock
to appear in: Proceedings of ACM SAC 2008 (2008 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing)
- 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
to appear 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 (Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), p. 569-574, 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 (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
- 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
- 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 Set Theoretical Approach to the Automatic Generation of
Absenteeism Analyses in Natural Language [PDF]
N. du Bois, M. De Cock, E. E. Kerre, R. Babuška
in: Proceedings of IMPU 2002 (9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems), Volume III, p. 1961-1968, 2002
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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