Vladimir A. Fomichov

• Faculty of Business Informatics | Department of Innovation and Business in Information Technologies: Professor

Education and degrees

Scientific Interests

My papers pertain to the fields of Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems, Electronic Commerce, Cognitonics, and Theory of Education.

Command of Foreign Languages

English and German: fluently; French: read very well (both scientific literature and belles-lettres), can speak and write; Polish: read; Italian: read with dictionary (the learning of foreign languages has been my hobby during many years)

Scientific-organizational work on international level

International Scientific Expert

A member of the Experts Board attached to the Committee for Research Evaluation, the Italian Ministry for Education, Universities, and Research since 2003.

Editorial Boards of Scientific Journals

Associate Editor of the International Peer-Reviewed Journal "Educational Technology & Society" (head office in Canada,  URL http://www.ifets.info) since 1998;

a member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal in Russian “Informational Ttechnologies” (Moscow);

a member of the Editorial Board of INFORMATICA. An International Journal of Computing and Informatics (Ljubljana, Slovenia, Central Europe, URL http://www.informatica.si) since 1992;

 

a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, UK); http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijicc.htm;

 

a member of the International Steering Committee of  METALOGICON. An International Journal of Pure and Applied Logic, Linguistics, and Philosophy (Rome, Italy); http://www.metalogicon.org/COMMITTEE.html;

 

a member of the Editorial Board of an international peer-reviewed on-line journal “International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, published by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA   (http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/).

 

Guest Editor of Special Issues of International Journals 

 

An editor of eight Special Issues of the international scientific journals published in Germany, New Zealand, Slovenia, United Kingdom, including:

 

The Special Issue on Natural Language Processing and Multi-Agent Systems. INFORMATICA, 1998, Vol. 22, No. 4. This Special Issue includes the papers from the leading scientific centers of  Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, U.S.A.;

 

Special Issue on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems. INFORMATICA (Slovenia), 2000, Vol. 24, No. 1. This Special Issue includes 10 papers from the leading scientific centres of Australia, France, Great Britain, Japan, Russia, Taiwan;

 

Special Issue on Developing Creativity and Broad Mental Outlook in the Information Society,  INFORMATICA (Slovenia), 2006, Vol. 30, No. 4. This Special Issue includes 8 papers from Botswana, Canada, Italy, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia;

 

Special Issue on Semantic Informational Technologies. INFORMATICA (Slovenia), 2010, Vol. 34, No. 3. This Special Issue includes 7 papers from the leading scientific centres of Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia;

 

 

• The special issues on Developing Creativity and Broad Mental Outlook in the Computer Age of the international journal "Educational Technology and Society",

Vol. 4, Issue 2 (April 2001, URL  http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_2_2001/v_2_2001.html),

Vol. 6, Issue 3 (July 2003), URL  http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/6_3/index.html.

Membership in the Program Committees of the intern. conferences, congresses, and workshops

 

Worked or am working as a member of the Program Committees of the international conferences, congresses, and workshops in Australia, Austria, Belgium, China (Hong Kong), Croatia, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, U.S.A.

 

Organizing and chairing international symposia and workshops

 

• Chair (President) of the Interdisciplinary Symposium “From Ideas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to New Theories and Methods of Teaching” under the framework of the 14^th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium,  August 1995

 

• Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Symposium “The Ideas of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy for Social Progress” under the framework of the 15^th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur, Belgium,  August 1998

 

• Chair of the First International Workshop "Developing Creativity and Large Mental Outlook in   

       the Computer Age - CLMO'2000" in conjunction with  The Seventh Conference of the

       International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI2000)

       "Approaching a New  Millenium: Lessons from the Past  - Prospects for the Future",

       University of Bergen, 14 - 18 August 2000, Web-site http://www.uib.no/issei2000 ; the workshop

attracted 22 presentations from Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan,  Norway, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom, U.S.A.; it was the biggest workshop of the International Conference ISSEI-2000.

 

• Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop “Developing Creativity and Broad Mental Outlook in the Computer Age – CBMO-2002” in conjunction with the Eighth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas – ISSEI 2002, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, 22 - 27 July, 2002.
• Chair of the Third International Workshop “Developing Creativity and Broad Mental Outlook in the Computer Age – CBMO-2006” in conjunction with the 10^th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas – ISSEI 2006, University of Malta, Malta, July 24 - 29, 2006, URL http://issei2006.haifa.ac.il/.
• Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Cognitonics in conjunction with the 12^th  International Multiconference “Information Society”, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, Ljubljana, October 12 -16, 2009.

Working Positions

March 2007   Full Professor of Computer Science, State University – Higher School of Economics,

to present       Faculty of Business Informatics, Department of Innovation and Business in the Sphere

                      of Informational Technologies, Kirpichnaya str. 33, 105679  Moscow, Russia

 

Sept. 2007     Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Business Informatics, State University – Higher

to present       School of Economics, Kirpichnaya str. 33, 105679  Moscow, Russia

 

June 2008  to present       Scientific Secretary of the Dissertation Council (Ph.D. degree and higher Dr.Sci. degree), the speciality “Mathematical modeling, calculative methods, and computer programs”,                      State University – Higher School of Economics, Kirpichnaya str. 33, 105679  Moscow

 

March 2000   An Adjunct Professor of the Online Education Center “SNHU Online Education”,

to June 2009  Division of Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU)

                     2500 North River Road, Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A.

I taught in English from Moscow the courses Discrete Mathematics (MAT-230, former MAT-320), Finite Mathematics (MAT-120), Mathematical Concepts and Techniques for Business (MAT-121), and Statistics (MAT-220)  under the framework of the Online Education Program at SNHU (over 85 mathematical online classes (Blackboard-based) at SNHU).

 

The estimations of my work at SNHU are as follows:

• I am a biographee of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002/2003, Seventh edition and  2005/2006 Edition

 

• My distance education work was appreciated in two issues of the Southern New Hampshire University Magazine, Fall 2001, the article “Long-Distance Learning: Time and Space are Relative” (p. 13) and Fall 2002, the article “Russian DE Professor named to Who’s Who” (p. 3).

 

1996 to present   Full Professor of Computer Science (half time),                             K.E.Tsiolkovsky Russian State Technological University -  "MATI" ,

                            Department of Information Technologies, Orshanskaya str.  3,                             121552  Moscow, Russia

 

1995 to  2003      A part-time Associate Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State                             University, Faculty of  Mathematics and Mechanics, Department of

                            Discrete Mathematics, Vorobyovy Hills str., 119899 Moscow, Russia

 

1984 to            Associate Professor and Full Professor of Computer Science and Cybernetics,

June 2007         Moscow State   Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (former Moscow Institute                           of Electronic Engineering),  Faculty of  Applied Mathematics,                           Department of Cybernetics and after its  dividing in                           two parts  in 1986 - Department of  Mathematical Methods and

                          Programming for Information  Processing and Control Systems ,                           B.Tryokhsvyatitelsky pereulok 3/12, 109028 Moscow, Russia

Publications

I am the author and a co-author of over 140 scientific publications, including over 65 papers in English published in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Finland, U.S.A., and of three papers in French published in France and Switzerland. In particular, the author of four monographs:

1. Fomichov V.A. Representing Information by Means of K-calculuses. Moscow, Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, 1988 (in Russian).

2. Fomichov V.A. Formalization of Designing Linguistic Processors. Moscow, MAX Press Publ. House, 2005.-368 p. (in Russian).

3. Fomichov V.A. Mathematical Foundations of Representing the Content of Messages Sent by Computer Intelligent Agents; Moscow, State University – Higher School of Economics, Publishing House "TEIS", 2007.-176 p. (in Russian).

4. Fomichov, V.A. Semantics-Oriented Natural Language Processing: Mathematical Models and Algorithms. IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering , Vol. 27. Springer, New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, 2010.-354 p.; http://www.springer.com/math/applications/book/978-0-387-72924-4

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