An Introspection

Qualifying exam oral defense is the one that has been running in the background of my mind for the past few months. This has taken way too long for me. The usual limitation for QE is 24 months from the start of the PhD. I lost around six months researching on Microelectronics before shifting to computational intelligence. So with 1.5 years i had to complete the necessary research work to give a QE. My prof seems to be a bit skeptical about this part still. Even after having 2 IEEE conferences and one submitted with one journal submitted, the QE defense still seems to take a longer time. Hopefully i would give it by this February middle. Hope everything goes fine here.

After a long time, i felt it would be better to start writing again. The past two months have been really hectic with lots to complete in terms of paper. I got some good results which are comparable with the work done by others in this field earlier. First came the journal paper which took almost 5 weeks to complete. The paper was written for audience of Transportation research but profs changed it to IEEE Systems, man and cybernetics. I had to include a lot of supporting materials and change my entire style of writing focusing more on type-2 fuzzy logic. WCCI conference paper was the next attempt. According to me this paper has come out better than the journal. Here i had put forward the multiagent system architecture in a generalized manner making it suitable for any application. I found that using mean speed to describe about the delay experienced in the vehicles in a traffic optimization problem was giving me an additional edge. Now i have to concentrate and complete my