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CURRICULUM VITAE

Full Name:

Assoc. Prof. Albena Plamenova Tchamova

Nationality:

Bulgarian

Office Address:

Acad. G.Bonchev Str., bl.25 A, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

Office E-mail:

tchamova@bas.bg

Education

University Degree: M.Sc. in Microelectronics - Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria,1978.

Ph.D Target Attribute Identification and Classification,Technical University, Sofia, 1998.

Teaching: “Geometric Principles and Procedures for Computer Graphics” UNIDO Project No. DP/BUL/81/009/31-01, University of Tubingen,Tubingen, Germany,Сертификат, 1986.

Teaching: “CAD/CAM in Electronics”, UNIDO Project No. DP/BUL/81/009/31-01 Berlin, Germany,Сертификат, 1984.

Languages: English, Russian.

Computer Skills: MATLAB, FORTRAN 77 MPI for Blue Gene/P, MS-WINDOWS, MS-OFFICE, PASCAL, C.

Professional Records

Assoc. Professor - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (Former Institute for Parallel Processing of Information), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 2005-

Senior Researcher - Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1997-2005.

Research Fellow - Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1988 - 1997.

Research Fellow - Center for Advanced Research in CAD/CAM Systems, Sofia, 1982-1987.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

  • Member of the International Society of Information Fusion - ISIF.
  • Member of the Association of European Operational Research Societies on Fuzzy Sets - EUROFUSE.
  • Member of Bulgarian Union of Automation and Informatics.
  • Member of Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians.

    • Professional Experiance

  • Dezert-Smarandache Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Information Fusion.
  • Decision Making under Uncertainty, Conflicts and Paradoxes.
  • Objects's Attributes/Type Identification and Classification.
  • Computer Aided Design in Electronics.

    • Organizational Skils and Competence

  • Member of the management committee of European Cooperation in Science and Technology COST Action IC0602: Algorithmic Decision Theory, Domain field: Information and Communication Technology, 2008-2011.
  • Chair of the International Workshop: “Advances and Applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory for Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Information Fusion”, supported by Europen Project Center of Excellence BIS21++, grant ICA1-2000-70016, 2006.
  • Co-director, NATO Advanced Research Workshop ”Harbour Protection Through Data Fusion Technologies”, Estonia, 2005.
  • Member of Program committee of the special session “Applications and Advances of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Data Fusion” , Seventh International Conference “FUSION2004”, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004.
  • Program committee member of International Symposium "Innovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications", Bulgaria, 2013.

    • Reviewer

  • International Journal of Advances in Information Fusion.
  • International Journal Machine Vision and Applications, Springer.
  • International EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
  • IEEE American Control Conference.
  • IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications.
  • International Conference “Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems”.
  • International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision.
  • IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods.
  • Hindawi Publishing corporation.
  • V.Kandasamy, F. Smarandache, “Neutrosophic Rings”, Hexis, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2006, ISBN: 1-931233-20-9.
  • H. Wang, F. Smarandache, Y. Zhang, R. Sunderraman, „Interval Neutrosophic Sets and Logic: Theory and Applications in Computing” Hexis, 2005, ISBN: 1-931233-94-2.

    • Invited Presentations

  • Tchamova A., "Applications of Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Attribute Data Fusion, Decision Making and Object Type Tracking “Management Committee Meeting COST Action IC0602: “Algorithmic Decision Theory”, Cork, Ireland, March 23-25, 2009.
  • Lancaster University, Department of Communication Systems, InfoLab21, South Drive, Lancaster, U. K. “Data Fusion and Target Tracking Applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning”, October 2007.
  • NATO Advanced Research Workshop ”Harbour Protection Through Data Fusion Technologies”, Tallinn, Estonia, June 2005.
  • NATO Advanced Study Institute “Multisensor Data and Information Processing for Rapid and Robust Situation and Threat Assessment”, Albena, Bulgaria, May 2005.

    • Awards

  • Best paper award: A. Tchamova, J. Dezert, 'On the Behavior of Dempster’s Rule of Combination and the Foundations of Dempster-Shafer Theory' presented at the 2012 IEEE Intelligent Systems Conference.
  • Certificate of Recognition awarded to Dr. Albena Tchamova in recognition of valuable contributions to science by Math & Sciences Department of the University of New Mexico, Gallup Branch, USA.
  • Certificate of recognition to Albena Tchamova for distinguished achievement in paradoxism - a vanguard movement in science and art and to confer an honorary membership, from the board of directors of the international scientific association of paradoxism, USA.

    • TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Assistant Professor - CAD in Electronics, Sofia University of Technology, Bulgaria.

    • List of Selected Publications

    Chapters in Books

    1. Smarandache F., J. Dezert (Editors), “Advances and Application of Dezert-Smarandache Theory for Information Fusion”, (Collected works), Vol. 4, American Research Press, Rehoboth, USA, ISBN:978-1-59973-324-1, ISSN:1938-5544 assigned by the Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, pp. 502, 2015, http://fs.gallup.unm.edu/DSmT.htm Part 1: Chapter 19: Dezert, J., Wang, P., Tchamova, A., On the Validity of Dempster-Shafer Theory, pp.163-169; Chapter 21: Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., On the Behavior of Dempster Rule of Combination and the Foundations of Dempster-Shafer Theory, pp.177-183; Chapter 23: Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., Tacnet, J.-M. Why Dempster rule does not behave as Bayes rule with Informative Priors, pp.189-195; Chapter 24: Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., Tacnet, J.-P., Why Dempster fusion rule is not a generalization of Bayes fusion rule, pp.195-203; Part2: Chapter 11: Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., Intelligent Alarm Prioritization based on DSmT, pp.381-387; Chapter 12: Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., Bocheva, N., Konstantinova, P., Human Integration of Motion and Texture Information in Visual Slant Estimation, pp.387-393; Chapter 14: Tchamova, A., Dezert, J.. Tracking applications with fuzzy-based fusion rules, pp.403-409.
    2. Smarandache F., J. Dezert (Editors), “Advances and Application of Dezert-Smarandache Theory for Information Fusion”, (Collected works), Vol. 3, American Research Press, Rehoboth, USA, ISBN-10: 1-59973-073-1; ISBN-13: 978-1-59973-073-8; ISSN: 1938-5544, assigned by the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., USA, 2009: http://fs.gallup.unm.edu/DSmT.htm Chapter 14: Dezert J., A. Tchamova, L. Bojilov, P.Konstantinova”Performance Evaluation of Tracking Algorithm including Attribute Data”, pp. 411-423. Chapter 15: Tchamova A., J. Dezert, F. Smarandache” New Fusion Rules for solving Blackman Association Problem”, pp. 425-436. Chapter 16: Dezert J., F. Smarandache, A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova “Target Type Tracking with DSmP”, pp.437-454. Chapter 20: Tchamova A., J. Dezert, F. Smarandache,” Object Identification using T-Conorm/Norm Fusion Rule”, pp. 519-527.
    3. Smarandache F., J. Dezert (Eds), “Advances and Application of Dezert-Smarandache Theory for Information Fusion”, Vol. 2, American Research Press, Rehoboth, USA,, ISBN: 1-59973-000-6, 2006. Chapter 13: J. Dezert , A. Tchamova, Tz. Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, "Multitarget Tracking in Clutter based on Generalized Data Association: Performance Evaluation of Fusion Rules", pp. 305-321. Chapter 14: J. Dezert , A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova, F. Smarandache,"Target Type Tracking with Different Fusion Rules: A Comparative Analysis", pp.323- 342.
    4. Smarandache F., J. Dezert (Eds),"Advances and Application of Dezert-Smarandache Theory for Information Fusion”, Vol.1, American Research Press, Rehoboth, USA, ISBN: 1-931233-82-9, 2004. Chapter 13: Tchamova A.,Tz.Semerdjiev, J.Dezert “Estimation of Target Behavior Tendencies using DSmT “, pp.289-301. Chapter 14: Tchamova A., J. Dezert, Tz, Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, “ Generalized Data Association for Multitarget Tracking in Clutter”, pp.303-323. Chapter 15: Dezert J., F.Smarandache, A.Tchamova: ”On the Blackman's Data Association Problem”, pp. 325-336.
    5. Shahbazian E. et al. (eds.), “Harbour Protection Through Data Fusion Technologies” NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, Springer Science, ISBN 978-1-4020-8881-0 (ISBN: 978-1-4020-8882-7), 2009. Chapter: Tchamova A., J. Dezert, “Target Identification based on Dezert-Smarandache Theory”, pp. 307-316.
    6. Lefebvre E. (Eds) “Advances and Challenges in Multisensor Data and Information Processing” NATO Security through Science Series, D: Information and Communication Security-Vol.8, IOS Press, ISBN: 978-1-58603-727-7, ISSN: 1574-5589, 2007. Chapter: Tchamova A., J. Dezert, Tz.Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova: “Multitarget Tracking Applications of Dezert-Smarandache Theory", pp.179-186.

    International Journals and Conferences

    1. Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., Bocheva, N., Konstantinova, P., Genova, B., Stefanova, M.. A Study on Human Learning ability during Classification of Motion and Colour Visual Cues and Their Combination. issue 1, Cybernetics and Information Technologies Journal, 2021, ISSN:Print ISSN: 1311-9702 Online ISSN: 1314-4081, SJR (Scopus):0.3 Q2 (Scopus)
    2. Dezert, J., Smarandache, F., Tchamova, A., Han, D.. Fast Fusion of Basic Belief Assignments Defined on a Dichotomous Frame of Discernment. 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion Virtual Conference July 6 - 9, 2020, 2020, DOI:DOI: 10.23919/FUSION45008.2020.9190547, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus.
    3. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., Tacnet, J-M.. The SPOTIS Rank Reversal Free Method for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Support. 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion Virtual Conference July 6 - 9, 2020, 2020, DOI:DOI: 10.23919/FUSION45008.2020.9190347, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus
    4. Dezert J., Tchamova A., Fidanova S., Deqiang H.. Two Applications of Inter-Criteria Analysis With Belief Functions. 20, 5, Cybernetics and Information Technologies Journal, 2020, ISSN:Print ISSN: 1311-9702 Online ISSN: 1314-4081, DOI:DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2020-0039, 38-59. SJR (Scopus):0.3 Q2 (Scopus)
    5. Fidanova, S., Dezert, J., Tchamova, A.. Fast BF-ICrA Method for the Evaluation of MO-ACO Algorithm for WSN Layout. Volume 21, Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems, Proceedings of the 2020 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, 2020, ISBN:ISBN 978-83-955416-7-4 (Web), DOI:DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2020F10, 241-249, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    6. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., Wickramarathne, T.. A simplified formulation of generalized Bayes' theorem, in Proc. of Fusion 2019 Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, July 2-5, 2019.. 2019, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (IEEE Xplore)
    7. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., Tacnet, JM.. Simplification of multi-criteria decision-making using inter-criteria analysis and belief functions, in Proc. of Fusion 2019 Int. Conf. on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, July 2-5, 2019.. 2019, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    8. Fidanova S., Dezert J., Tchamova A.. Inter-Criteria Analysis Based on Belief Functions for GPS Surveying Problems. IEEE Explorer, 2019, DOI:DOI: 10.1109/INISTA.2019.8778423, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    9. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D.. Total Belief Theorem and Generalized Bayes’ Theorem. Proc. of 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2018), Cambridge, UK, July 10-13, IEEE, 2018, DOI:10.23919/ICIF.2018.8455351, 1040-1047, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    10. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D.. Total Belief Theorem and Conditional Belief Functions. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Volume33,, Issue12, Wiley, 2018, ISSN:1098-111X, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22031, 2314-2340. JCR-IF (Web of Science):7.229 Q1, (Web of Science)
    11. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D.. Credibilistic Independence of Two Propositions. Proc. of 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion 2018),Cambridge, UK, July 10-13, IEEE, 2018, DOI:10.23919/ICIF.2018.8455810, 1048-1055, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    12. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D.. Correct Proof of Shafer's Belief Conditioning Formulas. Proceedings 2018 Chinese Automation Congress, CAC 2018 8623669, 2018, 965-969, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    13. Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., Konstantinova, P., Bocheva, N., Genova, B., Stefanova, M.. Human Heading Perception Based on Form and Motion Combination. Proc. of IEEE (SMC) International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications INISTA 2018, July 3-5, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, IEEE, 2018, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    14. J. Dezert, P. Konstantinova, Tchamova, A.. 1. J. Dezert, P. Konstantinova, A. Tchamova, Performance Evaluation of Improved QADA-KF and JPDAF for Multitarget tracking in clutter, in Proc. of the Annual International Scientific Conference on Education, Sciences and innovations, European Polytechnical University, Pernik, Bulgaria, June 9-10, 2017.. Proc. of the Annual International Scientific Conference on Education, Sciences and innovations, European Polytechnical University, Pernik, Bulgaria, 2017, 482-500
    15. J. Dezert, Tchamova A., P. Konstantinova, E. Blasch. A Comparative Analysis of QADA-KF with JPDAF for Multitarget Tracking in Clutter.. Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Information Fusion, IEEE, 2017, 2017, DOI:10.23919/ICIF.2017.8009736, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    16. Dezert J., Tchamova A., Konstantinova P.. Multitarget Tracking Performance based on the Quality Assessment of Data Association. Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Information Fusion, Heidelberg, Germany, 2016, ISBN:978-0-9964-5274-8, 201-208, ?????????? ? WoS ??? Scopus (Scopus)
    17. Dezert, J., Tchamova, A., Han, D., A Real Z-box Experiment for Testing Zadeh Example. Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Information Fusion FUSION 2015, 6-9 July 2015, Washington, DC, 2015, DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.1418.6322, pp.407 – 412.
    18. Tchamova, A., Dezert, J., Konstantinova, P.,The Impact of the Quality Assessment of Optimal Assignment for Data Association in a Multitarget Tracking Context. Cybernetics and Information Technologies Journal, Special Issue on Control in Transportation Systems, 15, 7, BAS, 2015, ISSN:Print ISSN: 1311-9702; Online ISSN: 1314-4081, DOI:10.1515/cait-2015-0013, pp. 88 – 98, SJR: 0.212.
    19. Jean Dezert, Albena Tchamova; On the Validity of Dempster’s Fusion Rule and its Interpretation as a Generalization of Bayesian Fusion Rule", International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol.29, Issue 3, pp. 223–252, March 2014, IF=1.416.
    20. Dezert, J.; Pei Wang; Tchamova, A.; "On the validity of Dempster-Shafer Theory", 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) 2012, pp.655-660, Singapore, 9-12 July 2012, E-ISBN : 978-0-9824438-4-2 , Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-0417-7.
    21. Tchamova, A.; Dezert, J.; "On the behavior of Dempster's rule of combination and the foundations of Dempster-Shafer Theory", 6th IEEE International Conference “Intelligent Systems” 2012, pp.108-113, Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 Sept. 2012 (best paper award), Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-2276-8 , DOI : 10.1109/IS.2012.6335122.
    22. Tchamova, A.; Dezert, J.; , "Intelligent alarm classification based on DSmT," 6th IEEE International Conference “Intelligent Systems” 2012, pp.120-125, Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 Sept. 2012, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-2276-8 , DOI: 10.1109/IS.2012.6335124.
    23. Tchamova, A.; Dezert, J.; Bocheva, N.; Konstantinova, P.; "Human integration of motion and texture information in visual slant estimation", 6th IEEE International Conference “Intelligent Systems” 2012, pp.114-119, Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-8 Sept. 2012, Print ISBN: 978-1-4673-2276-8, DOI: 10.1109/IS.2012.6335123.
    24. Tchamova, Albena; Dezert, Jean: “Tracking applications with fuzzy-based fusion rules”, IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), Albena, Bulgaria, 19-21 June 2013, pp.5, Print ISBN: 978-1-4799-0659-8, DOI : 10.1109/INISTA.2013.6577630.
    25. Dezert, Jean; Tchamova, Albena; Han, Deqiang; Tacnet, Jean-Marc: “Why Dempster's rule doesn't behave as Bayes rule with informative priors” , IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), Albena, Bulgaria, 19-21 June, 2013, pp.5, Print ISBN:978-1-4799-0659-8, DOI: 10.1109/INISTA.2013.6577631.
    26. Jean Dezert, Albena Tchamova, Deqiang Han, Jean-Marc Tacnet ; “Why Dempster’s fusion rule is not a generalization of Bayes fusion rule”, 16th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Istanbul, 9-12 July 2013, pp. 1127 – 1134, Print ISBN: 978-605-86311-1-3.
    27. Dezert J., Tchamova A., On the behavior of Dempster’s rule of combination, presented to Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS), 2011, Autrans, France, April 2011, available on HAL, March 22th, 2011. http://www.onera.fr/sites/default/files/u523/Par001_-_Dezert_-_HAL.pdf.
    28. Tchamova A., J.Dezert, F.Smarandache, “A New Class Fusion Rule for solving Blackman's Association Problem”, 4th International IEEE Conference “Intelligent Systems”, Varna, pp. 8-23. IEEE Catalog Number CFP08802-PRT, ISBN 978-1-4244-1740-7, Sept. 6-8 2008.
    29. Tchamova A., J.Dezert, “An Approach for Object Identification Using Fuzzy based Fusion Rule”, International Conference “Automatics and Informatics’08”, Proceedings of the Symposium “Multisensor Signal, Image and Data Processing” Sofia, pp. IV-17 - IV-20, ISSN 1313-1850, October 1-4 2008.
    30. Dezert J., A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova, F.Smarandache, "Target Type Tracking with PCR5 and Dempster’s rules:A Comparative Analysis" , Proceedings of Ninth International Conference of Information Fusion, Florence, Italy, ISBN 0-9721844-6-5, IEEE Catalog No.06EX1311C.
    31. Tchamova Albena, Jean Dezert and Florentin Smarandache,”A New Class of Fusion Rules based on T-Conorm and T-Norm Fuzzy Operators”, Information & Security, An International Journal, Vol. 20, pp.77-93, ISSN 1311-1493, 2006.
    32. Dezert, J., A. Tchamova, L. Bojilov, P. Konstantinova, "Performance evaluation of tracking algorithm incorporaring attribute data processing via DSmT", in Proc. of International Workshop "Advances and Applications of Desert-Smarandache Theory for Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Information Fusion", Sofia, pp. 16-20, December 2006.
    33. Dezert J., A. Tchamova, Tz. Semerdjiev, P.Konstantinova, “Performance Evaluation of Fusion Rules For Multitarget Tracking in Clutter Based on Generalized Data Association” ", Proceedings of Eight International Conference of Information Fusion, Philadelphia, USA, ISBN: 0-7803-9286-8/05, 26th June - 31th June 2005.
    34. Tchamova A., “Target Identification in case of Uncertainty, based on DSm Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning”, “Comptes rendus de l’Academie bulgare des Sciences, vol. 58 No.4, pp. 385-390, ISSN: 1310-1331, 2005.
    35. Tchamova A., J. Dezert, Tz.Semerdjiev, P. Konstantinova, "Target Tracking with Generalized Data Association based on the General DSm Rule of Combination", Proceedings of Seventh International Conference of Information Fusion, Stockholm, Sweden, pp.392-399, Proc.Vol.1 ISBN: 91-7056-115-X , Proc.Vol.2 ISBN: 91-7056-116-8, Proc.CD-ROM ISBN: 91-7056-117-6, 2004.
    36. Tchamova A.,Tz. Semerdjiev, J. Dezert , ”Estimation of Target Behaviour Tendencies using Dezert-Smarandache Theory”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Fusion, Cairns, Australia, pp.1349-1357, ISBN: 0-9721844-3-0, 2003.
    37. Dezert J., F. Smarandache, A. Tchamova, “On the Blackman’s Association Problem”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Fusion, Cairns, Australia, pp.1371-1379, ISBN: 0-9721844-3-0, 2003.
    38. Tchamova A., Tz. Semerdjiev, “Fuzzy Logic Approach to Estimating Tendencies in Target Behavior”, Information & Security. An International Journal, Vol.9, pp.58-69, ISSN: 1311-1493, 2002.
    39. Tchamova A., Tz. Semerdjiev, ”Target Behaviour Tendency Estimation Using Fuzzy Logic”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp.342-349, ISBN:3-540-00608-7, 2002.
    40. Тchamova A., “Evidence Reasoning Theory with Application to the Identity Estimation and Data Association Systems", "Mathematics and Computers in Simulation" Journal, 43, Elsevier Science, Netherlands, pp.139-142, 1997.
    41. Semerdjiev E., A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova. “Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Using Dempster-Shafer’s Attribute Class Estimation”, Comptes rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, vol.51, pp.53-56, 1998.
    42. Tchamova A., "Evidence Reasoning Logic and Fuzzy Set Theory: Combined Method for Resolving Dempster's Rule Indefiniteness in a Case of Conflicting Evidence", Proceedings of Fourth European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Aachen , Germany, v.I, pp. 135-137, September 2-5 1996.
    43. Tchamova A., "Evidence Reasoning Logic and Fuzzy Set Theory: Combined Method for Resolving Coflict Assignments in Attributes Data Association Systems, IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, v. II, Greece, pp. 1011-1014, June 20-22 1995.
    44. Semerdjiev E., A. Tchamova, " An Approach for a Fast Reduction of the Full Ignorance in the Target Identification Process", Proceedings of International Conference "FUSION"'98, Las Vegas, pp. 986-991, 1998.
    45. Tchamova A. "Resolving Conflict Assignment in Attributes Data Association Systems”, Comptes rendus de l'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, Tome 48/1, pp. 57-60, 1995.
    46. Konstantinova P., E. Semerdjiev, A. Tchamova, "Performance evaluation of attribute data association algorithm using parallel processing" Proceedings of the 10-th International Conference "Systems for automation of engineering and research"', Bulgaria, pp. 99-104, 1996.
    47. Bocheva N.,A. Tchamova, P. Konstantinova,:”Effect of age on sensitivity to the shape characteristics defined through texture and motion”, Scripta Sceientifica Medica, vol. 43(3), 2011, pp.203, abstract, X National congress of Bulgarian society for physiological sciences, Varna, 6-9 October, 2011.

      48. (Note: The publications are available under request.)

    R&D Projects

    International Projects

  • AComIn: Advanced Computing for Innovation, FP7 Capacity Programme, Research Potential of Convergence Regions.
  • ALGODEC - COST Action 0602 "Algorithmic Decision Theory", 2008-2011.
  • European FP7 Project Marie Curie Initial Training Networks (ITN) Call: FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 “European Research Training in Monte Carlo based Innovative Management and Processing for an Unrivalled Leap in Sensor Exploitation, Starting 2009.
  • EVALIPP Evaluation of the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences", EC FP7-REGPOT-2008-2-IST-229502, 2009-2010.
  • European Commission EC FP6 funded project - BIS21++ (FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2),Bulgarian IST Center of Competence: “Dezert-Smarandache Theory of Plausible and Paradoxical Reasoning for Information Fusion", 2005-2007.
  • BIS21++ Bulgarian IST Centre of Competence in 21 Century, EC Human Potential Programme, FP6-INCO-CT-2005-016639, 2005-2007.
  • “Multi-Sensor Data Fusion” Research & Development Project, ELTA Electronics Ltd., Israel Aircraft Industries, 1992-1994.
  • Finite Elements Method based CAD system “PAFEC”, UK, 1987-1989.

    • National Projects

  • "Modeling the Process of Visual Information Perception in Elder People", contract D002-240/18.12.2008 with Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 2008 - 2012.
  • "Hierarchical Information Integration and Processing from Thousand of Sensors", contract with National Center for Supercomputer Applications, 2009-2010.
  • "Methods and Algorithms for Image and Data Processing in Multisensor Systems", Bulgarian National Science Foundation, grant MI-1506,2006-2009
  • “Ground Penetrating Radar” IF-02-85/2005г., National Innovation Fund, Ministry of Economy and Energy, MPS Ltd. Institute of Information Technologies and , contract I-1205/2002 with Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 2004-2006.
  • "Data Association and Estimation for State Estimation of Dynamical Objects", contract I-1205/2002 with Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 2004-2006.
  • "Multisensor Data Fusion and Association in Target Tracking" grant No 1205, Bulgarian National Science Foundation, 2002-2004.