Peter Funk Link to official page Board member of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (chair Maj 2006- Maj 2010) SAIS

Books & Journals Conferences Co-author of chapter in book: Case-Based Reasoning on Images and Signals, Petra Perner (eds). Hard back, 2007, Springer. Don't miss the opportunity: special price on Amazon! Organizing committee for SCAI2008, 10th Scandinavian conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden Guest editor, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press 2006, P. Funk and L. Spaanenburg. Volume 17, Number 4 / 2006 Program Chair/Organiser of SAIS-SSLS 2005, the yearly Swedish AI and Learning Systems event (3 days). Held in Västerås 12-14 April 2005. Peter Funk, Pedro A. González Calero (eds). Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. 822 pages, 2004, Springer LNAI 3155, ISBN: 3-540-22882-9. Conference and Program Chair of ECCBR 2004 (7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning) with Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero Per Kreuger, Anders Hols, Peter Funk (eds.), Tenth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence SCAI 2008, 230 pp., hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58603-867-0 Peter Funk, Thorsteinn Rognvaldsson, Ning Xiong (eds.). Proceedings for SAIS-SSLS 2005, 265 pp, Västerås Sweden.

Back to top of page

Short biography

Scientific Publications

Service to Research Community

Awards, Funding and Prizes

Research funding

Press and Popular Science articles/radio/films

Teaching/cours development/program

Peter Funk * Professor * School of Innovation , Design and Engineering * Mälardalen University * SE-721 23 Västerås * Sweden * Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Group * Tele: +46 2110 3153 * Mobil: +46 70333 9150 * Fax: +46 70611 9150

Short biography:

Peter Funk is professor at Mälardalen University where he is located since 1999. He established and leads the Artificial Intelligence group, one of the university's more successful research groups recognized both nationally and internationally and one of the key groups in one of the university's six prioritized research areas, Intelligent Sensor Systems. Dr Funk is leading and participates in a number of research projects in collaboration with public and private sector organizations, and supervises a number of PhD students. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University, one of the leading Universities in AI. He moved to Mälardalen University after 13 years research for Ericsson focusing on applied research with artificial intelligent. His main research focus is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical and industrial applications, which offer great challenges for AI researchers to solve. Dr. Funk's research includes the use of AI methods and techniques including case-based reasoning, intelligent and adaptive systems, information fusion, genetic algorithms, ANN providing a framework for successful research solving previously unsolved problems. He has since 2000 lead and participated in a number of projects (mainly as main applicant and project leader and funded by KKS, SSF Proviking, EU, Vinnova and industry and in total more than €5 million in funding) and has been awarded a number of prizes and one patent. Since 2006 Dr. Funk has been the elected President of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS).

Scientific Publications (on official home page):
Back to index

• Follow this link for publication list (more than 70 peer reviewed scientific publications including
  more than 12 journal papers/book chapters/books)
  
  Journals (2005-2009):
  
  • A Multi-Module Case Based Biofeedback System for Stress Treatment, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Bo von Schéele, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, ELSEVIER, December, 2009
  • A CASE-BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR INDIVIDUAL STRESS DIAGNOSIS USING FUZZY SIMILARITY MATCHING, Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Bo von Schéele, Computational Intelligence (CI), vol in press, Blackwell, June, 2009
  • Case-based systems in health sciences - a case study in the field of stress management, Shahina Begum, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Peter Funk, WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on SYSTEMS, vol Issue 3, Volume 8, nr 1109-2777, p344-354, WSEAS , March, 2009
  • Agent-Based Monitoring using Case-Based Reasoning for Experience Reuse and Improved Quality, Erik Olsson, Peter Funk, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Emerald Journals, February, 2009
  • Concise case indexing of time series in health care by means of key sequence discovery, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk, Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol 28, p247-260, Springer, December, 2008
  • Case-based Reasoning for Diagnosis of Stress using Enhanced Cosine and Fuzzy Similarity, Mobyen Uddin Ahmed, Shahina Begum, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Bo von Schéele, Transactions on Case-Based Reasoning on Multimedia Data, vol Volume 1, nr Number 1, IBaI Publishing, ISSN: 1864-9734, October, 2008
  • Case Based Reasoning and Knowledge Discovery in Medical Applications with Time Series, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Journal of Computational Intelligence, vol 22, nr 3/4, p238-253, Blackwell Publishing, August, 2006
  • Building similarity metrics reflecting utility in case-based reasoning, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, guest editors: P. Funk, L. Spaanenburg, vol 17, nr 4, p407-416, IOS Press, August, 2006
  • Construction of Fuzzy Knowledge Bases Incorporating Feature Selection, Ning Xiong, Peter Funk, Journal of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, vol 10, nr 9, p796-804, Spring Verlag, July, 2006
  • Intelligent Buffer Storage System – Enabling Fast and Flexible Assembling with Industrial Robots, Mikael Hedelind (IDP), Peter Funk, Milun Milic (ABB Automation), Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, p8, IOS Press, March, 2006
  • Clinical decision-support for diagnosing stress-related disorders by applying psychophysiological medical knowledge to an instance-based learning system, Markus Nilsson (former), Peter Funk, Erik M. G. Olsson (Dept. of Psychology, Uppsala University), Bo von Schéele (PBMStressMedicine AB), Ning Xiong, Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol 36, nr 2, p156-176, Elsevier, November, 2005
  • Fault Diagnosis in Industry Using Sensor Readings and Case-Based Reasoning, Erik Olsson, Peter Funk, Ning Xiong, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol Vol. 15, ISSN 1064-1, p10, IOS Press, December, 2004

Service to Research Community (only recent tasks):
Back to index

• Workshop organiser of Artificial Intelligence in Designing Modern Decision Support Systems, at COMADEM 2010, Japan 28 June - 2 July
• Invited Speeker of Seminarium om Erfarenhetsåterföring, BEFO, Stockholm 27 April 2010
• In International Advisory Committee of 23rd International Congress Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic, COMADEM 2010, Japan 28 June - 2 July
• In Program Committee of 18th International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing , FAIM 2008
• In Program Committee of The 12th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, ASC 2008
• In Program Committee of COMADEM 2008, Prague.
• In Program Committee of 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM´2008, Leibzig, Germany
• In Program Committee of International Workshop Case-Based Reasoning on Multimedia Data, CBR-MD 2008
• In Program Committee of 9th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR2008, Trier, Germany
• Guest editor for special Issue of Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press 2006.
• In Program Committee and session chair for COMADEM 2006, Luleå, Sweden.
• In Program Committee of ICDM 2006, the 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining, Leipzig, Germany, 2006.
• In Program Committee of ICCBR 2007, European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Belfast, 2007
  
• In Program Committee of ECCBR 2006, 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, Turkey, 2006
  
• In Program Committee of KES'2006, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems
• In Program Committee of ICCBR 2005, the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
• In Program Committee for Case-Based Reasoning in the Health Sciences (workshop at ICCBR 2005)
• In Program Committee for Computer Gaming and Simulation Environments (workshop at ICCBR 2005).
• Invited reviewer for IJCAI 2005, the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• In Program Committee of the WM2005, 3rd Professional Knowledge Management Conference.
• In Program Committee of AILS'04 , the 2nd joint workshop in Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems.
• In Program Committee of ICCBR 2003 The 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
• In Program Committee for workshop Long lived CBR systems at ICCBR 2003
• In Program Committee of GWEM 2003, Experience Management 2003 workshop
• ...

Reviews for Books and Journals:

• Review Board Member International Journal of Applied Intelligence,ISSN: 0924-669X
• Editorial board Transactions on Case-Based Reasoning for Multimedia, ISSN: 1864-9734
• Review for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press 2004
• Review for special Issue of the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press 2004
• Review for Special Issue of the Computational Intelligence Journal (case-based reasoning in health care), 2004/2006/2008/. ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2004: 18/78
• Reviewer for Book, new edition: Artificial Intelligence, George Luger, Pearson Education 2003
• Reviewer for Journal: International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2003
• Reviewer for Journal: IEE - Software, 2003

Commission of trust:

• Key-note Speaker at NAIS 2009 Trondheim, Norway 23 November 2009
• Organising committee for Medicinteknikdagarna 2009, 28-29 September i Västerås
• Organising committee of 10th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SCAI2008 . Stockholm 26-28 May 2008.
• Elected Director of the Swedish AI Society (SAIS).
• Program Chair/Organiser of SAIS-SSLS 2005, the yearly Swedish AI and Learning Systems event (3 days). Held in Västerås 12-14 April 2005.
• Conference and Program Chair of ECCBR 2004, 7th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning.
• Scientific advisor for FOI, Swedish defence organisation 2004-
• Promoter (with Sture Hägglund) for the Swedish Artificial Intelligence network at the Swedish Computer Society (Dataföreningen i Sverige)
• In examination board for PhD viva for Christopher Johansson (KTH October 2006), Jenny Nyström January 2006, ISt, MdH,
• External Examiner and opponent for PhD Dónal Doyle, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, December 2005
  
• External Examiner and opponent for PhD Keith Bradley, National University of Ireland/UCD, Ireland, 2004 (approved examiner by the National University of Ireland 2003).
• Examiner, opponent and member of examination board for licentiate degrees at numerous occasions, Stockholm university and Mälardalen university.
• Evaluator/Advisor for a number of promotions to assistant and associate professor in Sweden and US.

• EU FP7 Pain-Out, resposible for work package 4, Decition Support in Clinical Applications, 2009-2011, pain-out.eu
• SSF ProViking II, 2009-2011
• ProEK, Sparbanksstiftelsen Nya, 2007-2008
• EU Mål 2, 2007, Web tool for Experience Sharing and Reuse amongst Small and Medium Sized Companies
• Robotdalen funding, 2006-2007, Research leader, Intelligent Human Robot Interaction
• Funding from Vetenskapsrådet Västmanland for Patent application.
• Winner of SSF ProViking Utlysning III (main applicant Mats Jackson) 2004
• SSF ProViking awarded project funding for ExAct, Intelligent Experience Reuse in Industry, 2004-2007
• Awarded funding for 3 year project 2004-2007, main applicant professor Ylva Bäcklund
• Nominated to "samverkanslärare 2003" (second prize) at Mälardalens University
• Prize, winner of Mälardalen University's innovation competition, Idetävling >2002< (IdéLab, price value 14.000 Euro to be used for further development of idéa :)
• Competition open for all staff and students at MdH, best idea (uniqueness and commercial potential)
• Prize from Idélab (local competition June 2002) for proposal of commercially interesting idea
• An additional regional price (June 2002, ALMI Innovation Västmanlands Specialpris)
• Funding of prototype development of idea from IdéLab 10.000 SEK, 2002
• Elected by the computer science students to receive the "Computer Science Prize 2001"
  for his contributions to a prospering computer science area at the university

• Sparbanksstiftelsen Nya, ”PROEK, Ökad Produktivitet och Livskvalitet Genom Minskad Stress” Effektiva metoder, tekniker och system för tidig stressdiagnos och stresshantering inom företag: 2007-01-01 - 2008-12-31 (1 PhD student, main applicant: Peter Funk)
• The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), ProViking program Project nr: V03.16 Project name: ExAct, Intelligent experience reuse in industrial applications, project duration: 2004-01-01 - 2007-12-31 (5 PhD student, main applicant: Peter Funk)
• The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), ProViking program, Project name: Factory in a Box, duration: 2005-01-01 - 2007-10-31 (main applicant: Mats Jacksson)
• EU mål 2 and Länsstyrelsen i Västmanlands län, Project name: EKEN, Effektiv Kunskaps- och Erfarenhetsåtervinning i näringslivet, project duration: 2006-09-31 - 2007-09-31 (1 research engineer, main applicant: Peter Funk)
• Robotdalen, Intelligent Human Robot interaction, project duration: 2006-10-31 - 2007-05-31 (academic leader/investigator: Peter Funk)
• The Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KKS): Intelligent, integrated sensor systems for diagnosis, treatment and health care (KKS Dnr 2004/0341). 3 years (1 PhD student, main applicant: Ylva Bäcklund, main supervisor: Peter Funk), 2005-2007.
• The Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KKS) and PBM Stressmedicine AB: Case Based Reasoning and Artificial intelligence for decision support for medical decision support system in stress treatment. (KKS Dnr 2001/0068a) 2002-2005, (1 PhD student and 1 Lic student, main applicant: Peter Funk)
• The Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KKS) and Eyescream AB: Modelling, collaborative filtering, case-based reasoning for flexible, adaptive, “intelligent” interfaces (KKS Dnr 2001/0068b) 2002-2003 (1 Lic jointly with 2001/0068a, main applicant: Peter Funk)
• Swedish Knowledge Foundation and Ericsson: Artificial intelligence methods and architectures for telecommunication applications. (KKS MRTC99/05) 1999-2001 (2 research engineers)
• TeknIQ and PBM Stressmedicine: Artificial intelligence for medical applications, 2001.
• Vinnova and Eyescream AB: personalisation and learning systems for e-learning and marketing applications. 2001
• Västmanlands Forsknings- och Utvecklingsråd (patent funding 50)
• IdeLab (price for innovation 100.000 kr, commercialisation of innovation 50.000 kr)