ANNUAL REPORT 2006 Past-Chair Chairman: Chair-Elect: Secretary: BSP TC, IEEE CAS SOCIETY Yujiro Inouye Andrzej Cichocki Shoji Makino Wei Xing Zheng 1. Conferences and Workshops Conferences or Workshops where the BSP TC or Members of the TC are/were actively involved include the followings: Review Committee Member 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Juha Karhunen Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Shoji Makino Review Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Wei Xing Zheng Review Committee Member of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Athens, September 2006: Christian Jutten Review Committee Member of IJCNN 2006: Juha Karhunen Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Seungjin Choi Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Yujiro Inouye Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Derong Liu Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Shoji Makino Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Fabian Theis Review Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Wei Xing Zheng Review Committee Member of the IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece , August 27-29, 2007: Christian Jutten Track Chair 15. Track Chair of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye 16. Track Chair of 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Andrzej Cichocki Session Chair 17. Technical Session Chair of "Adaptive Signal Processing I" at the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 18. 19. Technical Session Chair of "Digital Signal Processing for Communications" at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Wei Xing Zheng 20. Technical Session Chair of "Architectures for Communications" at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, May 2007: Rui J.P.de Figueiredo Program Committee Member 21. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Seungjin Choi 22. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Andrzej Cichocki 23. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Yujiro Inouye 24. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Juha Karhunen 25. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Mitsuru Kawamoto 26. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 27. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 28. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Scott Makeig 29. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Shoji Makino 30. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Wakako Nakamura 31. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Hiroshi Sawada 32. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Toshihisa Tanaka 33. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Fabian Theis 34. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006) , Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Alle-Jan van der Veen 35. 36. Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Andrzej Cichocki 37. Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Shoji Makino 38. Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Hiroshi Sawada 39. 40. Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2006): Seungjin Choi 41. Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP2006): Andrzej Cichocki 42. 43. Program Committee Member of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, July 2006: Erkki Oja 44. Program Committee Member of KSS: Andrzej Cichocki 45. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2006), Miami, Florida, USA, April 23-25, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 46. Program Committee Member of IDEAL2006: Juha Karhunen 47. International Program Committee Member of the 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA2006), Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 48. Program Committee Member of the Eighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Internation, Zakopane, Poland, June 25-29, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 49. Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006): Seungjin Choi 50. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2006), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 16-21, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 51. Program Committee Member of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2006), Kos, Greece, May 2006: Yujiro Inouye 52. International Program Committee Member of the 2006 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP2006), Setubal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 53. Program Committee Member of the First International Conference on Neural Networks and Associative Memories (NNAM2006), Mexico City, November 21-24, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 54. International Program Committee Member of the 21st IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2006), Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 55. Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC2006): Seungjin Choi 56. Program Committee Member of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2006), San Diego, California, USA, December 13-15, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 57. Program Committee Member of International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS2006): Seungjin Choi 58. 59. International Program Committee Member of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2007), London, UK, April 2007: Wei Xing Zheng 60. Program Committee Member of the 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, December 2007: Wei Xing Zheng 61. Program Committee Member NOLTA 2007, Vancouver, Canada: Rui J. P. de Figueiredo Technical Committee Member 62. Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 63. Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006), Florence, Italy, September 4-8, 2006: Shoji Makino 64. 65. Technical Program Committee Member of the 8th Biennial Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS2006), Singapore, December 4-7, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 66. Technical Program Committee Member of the Three-way Methods in Chemistry and Psychology (TRICAP2006), China, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 67. Technical Committee Member of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino 68. 69. Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Shoji Makino 70. Technical Committee Member of the14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Fabian Theis 71. Technical Program Committee Member of the 9th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications (ISSPA2007), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), February 2007: Wei Xing Zheng Organizing Committee Member 72. Organizing Committee Member of the Symposium on Learning, Seoul, Korea, November 30 - December 1, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 73. Organizing Committee Member of the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino 74. National Organizing Committee Member of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID2006), Newcastle, Australia, March 29-31, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 75. 76. Opening Ceremony Chair of the IEEE Nanjing Section and Workshop on Information Science & Technology Development, Southest University, Nanjing, June 3-5, 2007: Zhenya He Special Session Organizer 77. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006): Shoji Makino 78. Special Session Organizer at KES2006: Toshihisa Tanaka 79. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2006): Shoji Makino 80. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2006): Shoji Makino 81. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar2006): Shoji Makino 82. Special Session Organizer at the 2006 Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ2006): Shoji Makino 83. 84. Special Session Organizer at the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS2007): Shoji Makino Chairs 85. Program Co-Chair of the International. Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Athens, September 2006: Erkki Oja 86. Program Committee Chair of the 2006 International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2006), Charleston, USA, March 5-8, 2006: Shoji Makino 87. Regional Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition, Weihai, China, August 20-23, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 88. Registration Chair of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID2006), Newcastle, Australia, March 29-31, 2006: Wei Xing Zheng 89. Organizer of the 2006 Neurobiology and Neuroinformatics, Kyoto, Japan, July 23-24, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 90. Symposium Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Artificial Brain with Emotion and Learning, Seoul, Korea, August 24-25, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 91. Organizer of the International Symposium on Bio Systems, Daejeon, Korea, October 13, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 92. General Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, Bucharest, Romania, June 2006: Rui J.P. de Figueiredo 93. 94. Publicity Co-Chair of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN2007), Nanjing, China, June 2007: Wei Xing Zheng 95. Publications Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007): Hiroshi Sawada 96. General Chair of the 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA2007): Shoji Makino 97. Chair, Panel on Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering, Foundation for Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal 2007: Rui J. P de Figueiredo 98. 99. General Chair of the IEEE ICCSC2008 in Shanghai, 2008: Rueywen Liu 100. General Chair of the IEEE CAS China Workshop on Analog Fault Diagnosis in Chengdu, 2008: Rueywen Liu Steering Committee Member 101. International ICA Steering Committee Member: Shun-ichi Amari 102. International ICA Steering Committee Member: Andrzej Cichocki 103. International ICA Steering Committee Member: Christian Jutten 104. International ICA Steering Committee Member: Shoji Makino 105. International ICA Steering Committee Member: Erkki Oja 106. 107. International Steering Committee Member of the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS): Wei Xing Zheng 108. International IWAENC Standing Committee Member: Shoji Makino 109. Steering Committee Member of the 4th International Workshop on Total Least Squares and Errors-in-Variables Modeling, Leuven, Belgium, August 21-23, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer Advisory Committee Member 110. Advisory Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee: Seungjin Choi 111. International Advisory Panel for ICA Research Network: Shoji Makino 112. 113. Advisory Board of the Second International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC2006) and The Third International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD2006), Xi’an, China, September 24-27, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 114. International Advisory Committee Member of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong, October 3-6, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 115. International Advisory Committee Member of the 2nd Shanghai International Congress on Physiological Biophysics - Audition & Vision (Shanghai NSA06), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 116. 117. Advisory Committee Co-chair of the Fourth International Conference on Neural Networks, Nanjing, June 3-7, 2007: Zhenya He 2. Short courses, Plenary Sessions, Keynote Speakers, Invited Lectures: 118. Keynote Talk at the GAMM-SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Dusseldorf, Germany, July 24-27, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 119. Plenary Talk at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2006), Vancouver; 7/26/2006: Shun-ichi Amari 120. Plenary Talk at the 2006 International. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Vancouver, Canada: Erkki Oja 121. Plenary Talk at the ICA Research Network International Workshop, Liverpool UK, September 2006: Christian Jutten 122. Plenary Talk at the Inaugural Queensland Brain Institute Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience, Brisbane, 8/14/2006: Shun-ichi Amari 123. Plenary Talk at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Cardiff,Wales, UK, July 1-4: Christian Jutten 124. Plenary Talk at the 2nd Shanghai International Congress on Physiological Biophysics - Audition & Vision (Shanghai NSA06), Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 125. Plenary Talk at the 3rd International Symposium on Neural Network (ISSN), Chengdu, China: Erkki Oja 126. Plenary Talk at the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006), Hong Kong, 10/4/2006: Shun-ichi Amari 127. Plenary Talk at the IAR Annual Meeting, Nancy, France, November: Christian Jutten 128. Invited Talk at Telluride, USA, June 25 - July 15, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 129. Invited Talk at the Three-way Methods in Chemistry and Psychology (TRICAP2006), China, Crete, Greece, June 4-9, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 130. Invited Talk at the 2nd Pacific Rim Brain Conference, Sunshine Coast, Australia, 8/15/2006: Shun-ichi Amari 131. Invited Talk at the INE Telluride Workshop 2006: Soo-Young Lee 132. Invited Talk at the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets, Stanford University and Yahoo! Research, June 21-24, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 133. Invited Talk at the Structural Dynamical Systems 2006 (SDS2006) Workshop, Bari, Italy: Toshihisa Tanaka 134. Invited Talk at the Second International ICSC Symposium on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS2006), Lesbos Island, 10/11/2006: Shun-ichi Amari 135. Invited Talk at the Total Least Squares and Error-in-Variables Workshop, Leuven, Belgium, August 21-23, 2006: Lieven Lathauwer 136. Invited Talk at DGMP 2006: Fabian Theis 137. Invited Talk at the 2006 International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong, October 3-6, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 138. Invited Lecture at the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC2006), Zakopane, Poland, June 25-29: Andrzej Cichocki 139. Panelist at the IJCNN2006 (WCCI2006), Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006: Soo-Young Lee 140. Short Course at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, April 2006: Harold Szu and Shoji Makino 141. Tutorial Speaker at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CDIM) : Andrzej Cichocki 142. 143. Keynote Speaker at the 2007 IEEE CAS APCCAS, Singapore: Rueywen Liu 144. Keynote Speaker at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Hong Kong Chapter & Hong Kong Baptist University, March 28, 2007: Zhenya He 145. Plenary Lecture at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CDIM), Honolulu, April 2007: Andrzej Cichocki 146. Plenary Invited Lecture at the 2007 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2007), Poznan, Poland, September 3-7, 2007: Andrzej Cichocki 147. Invited Lectures at the NCKU, Taiwan, March 2007: Rueywen Liu 148. Invited Talk at the International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA2007), Warsaw, Poland, April 11-14, 2007: Andrzej Cichocki 149. Master Research Course at the University Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, May 14-17, 2007: Christian Jutten 150. Seminar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 30, 2007: Zhenya He 151. Seminar at the Shenzhen University, ShenZhen, May 17, 2007: Zhenya He 152. Seminar at the Shenzhen Institue of Information Technology, May 18, 2007: Zhenya He 153. Seminar at the Southest University, June, 2007: Zhenya He 154. Tutorial Speaker at the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 15-20, 2007: Shoji Makino and Hiroshi Sawada 3. Distinguished Lecturer 4. Editorial Services: 155. Editor-in-Chief of the Neural Information Processing - Letters and Reviews: Soo-Young Lee 156. Editorial Board of the Neural Processing Letters: Soo-Young Lee 157. Editorial Board of the Cognitive Neurodynamics: Soo-Young Lee 158. Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing,: Hiroshi Sawada 159. Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control: Wei Xing Zheng 160. Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters: Wei Xing Zheng 161. Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications: Lieven Lathauwer 162. Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing: Shoji Makino 163. Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence: Erkki Oja 164. Associate Editor of the Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience: Fabian Theis 165. Associate Editor of the Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience: Seungjin Choi 166. Associate Editor of the Neural Information Processing - Letters and Review: Seungjin Choi 167. Associate Editor of the Neurocomputing: Seungjin Choi 168. Action Editor of the Neural Computation: Erkki Oja 169. Area Editor of the Journal of Natural Computing: Erkki Oja 170. Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing: Shoji Makino 171. Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computers: Shoji Makino 172. Newsletter Editorial Committee Chair of Nanjing Section: Zhenya He 5. Books and book chapters: 173. Kollias, S., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., and Oja, E. (Eds): Artifical Neural Networks - ICANN 2006. Volumes I and II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4131 and 4132. Berlin, Germany: Springer (2006). 174. S. Makino, H. Sawada, R. Mukai, and S. Araki, ''Blind source separation of convolutive mixtures of audio signals in frequency domain, '' in Topics in Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, E. Haensler and G. Schmidt, Eds., Springer, May 2006. 175. 176. Séparation de sources. Vol. 1 : concept de base et analyse en composantes indépendantes, P. Comon and C. Jutten (Eds), in French, 280 pages, Hermès, Lavoisier, April 2007 177. Séparation de sources. Vol. 2 :au-delà de l'aveugle et applications, P. Comon and C. Jutten (Eds), ,in French, 260 pages, Hermès, Lavoisier, April 2007 178. S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Blind Speech Separation, Springer, 2007. 179. A. Cichocki, "Generalized Component Analysis and Blind Source Separation Methods for Analyzing Multichannel Brain Signals" - a chapter in the monograph, "Statistical and Process Models of Cognitive Aging", Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methods, Editors: M.J Wenger and C. Schuster, Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007. 180. H. Sawada, S. Araki, and S. Makino, ''Frequency-domain blind source separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007. 181. S. Araki, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''K-means based underdetermined blind speech separation, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007. 182. S. Winter, W. Kellermann, H. Sawada, and S. Makino, ''Underdetermined blind source separation of convolutive mixtures by hierarchical clustering and L1-norm minimization, '' in Blind Speech Separation, S. Makino, Te-Won Lee, and H. Sawada, Eds., Springer, 2007. 183. New multipurpose software for the scientific community ICALAB, NMFLAB and NTFLAB for BSS: http://www.bsp.brain.riken.jp/ICALAB/nmflab.html, http://www.bsp.brain.riken.jp/ICALAB/ Version 3: Andrzej Cichocki. 184. Matlab toolbox for BSS of functional MRI data (as plugin for SPM): mfBox (http://mfbox.sourceforge.net) : Fabian Theis] 185. R. J. P. de Figueiredo, “A Nonlinear Functional Analytic Framework for Modeling and Processing Fuzzy Sets”, in the book “Forging the New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers I”, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, edited by M. Nikravesh, J. Kacprzyk, and L. A. Zadeh, Springer Verlag, 2007 6. IEEE Services: 186. IEEE Fellow: Shun-ichi Amari 187. IEEE Fellow: Pierre Comon 188. IEEE Fellow: Zhi Ding 189. IEEE Fellow: Georgios Giannakis 190. IEEE Fellow: Rueywen Liu 191. IEEE Fellow: Derong Liu 192. IEEE Fellow: Shoji Makino 193. IEEE Fellow: Erkki Oja 194. IEEE Fellow: Fathi Salem 195. IEEE Fellow: Harold Szu 196. IEEE Fellow: Lang Tong 197. IEEE Fellow: Joos Vandewalle 198. IEEE Honor Membership Committee: Rueywen Liu 199. Awards Committee/Subcommittee Member of the IEEE CAS: Rui J. P. de Figueiredo 200. Awards Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Shoji Makino 201. Finnish Chapter Chairman of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society: Erkki Oja 202. IEEE China Council Member: Zhenya He 203. IEEE Nanjing Section Chair: Zhenya He 204. IEEE CAS Nanjing Chapter Chair: Zhenya He 205. Technical Committee Member of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Christian Jutten 206. Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Shoji Makino 207. Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics of the IEEE Signal Processing Society: Hiroshi Sawada 208. 209. Past-Chair of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Yujiro Inouye 210. Chair of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Andrzej Cichocki 211. Chair-Elect of the Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Shoji Makino 212. Secretary of Technical Committee on Blind Signal Processing, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Wei Xing Zheng 213. Secretary of Technical Committee on Neural Systems and Applications, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society: Wei Xing Zheng