Draft:Rafig Aliyev

Rafig Aliyev
Born	Rafiq Əziz oğlu Əliyev (1942-02-10) February 10, 1942 Agdam, USSR
Citizenship	Azerbaijan
Education	Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry (1963)
Known for	Member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Fields	Automation, automatic control systems, artificial intelligence

Rafig Aziz oglu Aliyev (born 10 February 1942, Agdam) is a Doctor of Technical Sciences (1975), professor (1976), corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), former head of the Department of Automatic Control Systems at the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, director of the joint MBA program of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy and Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), director of the BBA program, and president of the Society of Genetics and Artificial Intelligence.

Biography

Rafig Aliyev was born on 10 February 1942 in the village of Novruzlu in the Agdam district of Azerbaijan. Between 1948 and 1958, he attended secondary school in Agdam, graduating with honors. From 1958 to 1963, he studied at the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after M. Azizbayov, graduating with an honors diploma. Between 1964 and 1967, he was a postgraduate student at the Institute of Control Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He received the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences in 1967 and the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1975. From 1967 to 1969, he headed a scientific research laboratory at the Neftkimyaavtomat Scientific Research and Design Institute. He became a professor in 1976. In 1989, he was elected a corresponding member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. From 1989 to 2011, he served as head of the Department of Automatic Control Systems at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Since 1998, he has served as director of the joint MBA program of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy and Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), and since 2001, as director of the BBA program of these universities.

He has played a leading role in organizing scientific research in the fields of informatics and control in Azerbaijan and in many foreign countries. He has supervised more than 130 Candidates of Sciences and 25 Doctors of Sciences in Azerbaijan, Russia, Germany, and Iran. His students currently work not only in Azerbaijan but also in countries such as the United States, Germany, Turkey, Russia, and Iran.

Since 1994, he has directly led the organization of international scientific conferences under the title "Application of Fuzzy Systems" in various European countries. Since 2000, he has organized the biennial international conference "Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing" in Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, and, also since 2000, the biennial international conference "Computing with Words and Soft Computing in System Analysis, Decision Making and Control" in Antalya.

He is the author of approximately 70 books and more than 350 scientific articles devoted to informatics and control, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, and soft computing.

Awards

• 1971 — Azerbaijan Lenin Komsomol Prize in the field of science
• 1983 — USSR State Prize in Science and Technology
• 1992 — Professor of the University of Tabriz (Iran)
• 1999 — Professor of Georgia State University (USA)
• 2000 — Professor at the University of Siegen (Germany)
• 2003 — Professor of Near East University (NEU)

Main scientific achievements

• Formulation of the invariance conditions of multidimensional and combined deterministic, stochastic (1967), and fuzzy (1981) control systems;
• Establishment of principles for the integration of decision-making and control processes in intelligent industrial systems (1969);
• Development of synthesis methods for stochastic variable-structure systems (1976);
• Development of coordination theory for multi-level distributed production systems (1980);
• Creation of the fuzzy logics AL11, AL12, and AL13 (1984–1986);
• Formulation of the adequacy conditions of fuzzy models (1984);
• Development of the theory and construction principles of fuzzy intelligent robots (1986);
• Development of fuzzy expert systems, including ESPLAN (1987);
• Establishment of the concept of fuzzy distributed intelligent systems (1988) and development of methods for their construction (1993);
• Creation of multi-agent intelligent systems based on soft computing, with competition and cooperation among agents (1997);
• Development of a learning method for fuzzy neural networks based on genetic algorithms (1997);
• Development of a new concept of fuzzy regression analysis based on genetic algorithms (1998);
• Proposal of adaptive control systems based on fuzzy–chaos synergy (2001);
• Development of new forecasting methods based on fuzzy time series (2002);
• Development of generalized stability theory; proposal of the Zadeh–Aliyev definition and criterion of stability of dynamical systems (2003–2007).

Selected works

• Aliyev R. A. Automatic Control. Baku: Maarif, 1993, 622 pp. (in Azerbaijani).
• Aliyev R. A. Integration Methods in Production Control Systems. Moscow: Energoatomizdat, 1989, 271 pp. (in Russian).
• Aliev R. A., Aliev F. T., and Babaev M. D. Fuzzy Process Control and Knowledge Engineering. Cologne: Verlag TÜV Rheinland, 1991, 148 pp. (in English).
• Aliev R. A., Bonfig K. W., and Aliev F. T. Soft Computing. Berlin: Technik Verlag, Germany, 2000, 448 pp. (in German).
• Aliev R. A. and Aliev R. R. Soft Computing and Its Applications. World Scientific: New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, 2001. (in English).

Filmography

1. Electronic Computers Control Production (film, 1982)
2. I Begin My Book (film, 2006)

External links

• Biography of Rafig Aliyev (archived)
• http://www.science.az/az/commembers/alievrfaz.htm (archived)
• http://www.raliev.com/

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