Francisco Chiclana is a Visiting Researcher within the SCI²S research group. He obtained his BSc Degree in Mathematics (Statistics & Operational Research) in the University of Granada (Spain) in 1989. Moreover, he got his PhD in MAthematics in the academic year 1999/2000 also in the University of Granada. In November 27th, 2002 his thesis obtained the Outstanding Award for a PhD in Mathematics from University of Granada.

He has been a member of the SECABA Lab since its inception and has contributed with several research projects and publications with all its members.

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Research Activities

Editorialship for International Journals in Web of Science

1. Associate Editor of Group Decision and Negotiation ISSN: 0926-2644 (from December 2016).
2. Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society) ISSN: 2168-2216 (from November 2015).
3. Associate Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (Springer-Verlag) ISSN: 1562-2479 (from August 2015).
4. Associate Editor of Information Sciences (Elsevier) ISSN: 0020-0255 (from April 2014).
5. Associate Editor of Soft Computing (Springer-Verlag) ISSN: 1432-7643 (from April 2014) (Member of the Editorial Board from October 2011 to March 2014).
6. Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier) ISSN: 1568-4946 (from February 2014).
7. Member of the Advisory Board of Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier) ISSN: 0950-7051 (from December 2013).
8. Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (IOS Press) ISSN: 1064-1246 (from September 2012).
9. Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (Old City Publishing) ISSN: 1542-3980 (from August 2011).

Awards

1. My following reseach paper "Jian Wu, Francisco Chiclana: A social network analysis trust-consensus based approach to group decision-making problems with interval-valued fuzzy reciprocal preference relations. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 59, pages 97–107, March 2014. doi: 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.01.017", is a winning paper in the prestigious Emerald Citations of Excellence for 2017.
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2. Best Paper at the International Fuzzy Systems Association and the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (IFSA-EUSFLAT-15). Best Paper Award IFSA-EUSFLAT-2015 Certificate.
3. Best Paper at the IEEE International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE 2015). Best Paper Award ICSSE 2015 Certificate.

Special Issue Guest Editor for International Journals in ISI

1. "Intelligent decision-making and consensus under uncertainty in inconsistent and dynamic environments" in the journal Knowledge-Based Systems. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Chiclana, Yucheng Dong, Vicenzo Loia, Gang Kou, Hamido Fujita, (Eds.). Work in progress.
2. "Intelligent Decision Support Systems based on Soft Computing in Applied Soft Computing Volume 67, June 2018. Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Chiclana, Yucheng Dong, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, (Eds.).
3. "Fuzzy Approaches in Intelligent Decision Making and Consensus" in the journal FUZZY OPTIMIZATION AND DECISION MAKING, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2017 ISSN: 1568-4539 (Print) 1573-2908 (Online). Editors: Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Chiclana, Yucheng Dong, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo.
4. "Fuzzy Decision-Making and Consensus: New Trends and Real Life Applications (Decision Mak. & Consensus)" in Applied Soft Computing at http://ees.elsevier.com/asoc/. Francisco Chiclana, Núria Agell Jané, Jian Wu and Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Eds.).
5. "FUZZY APPROACHES IN PREFERENCE MODELLING, DECISION MAKING AND APPLICATIONS" in the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS), Volume 16, Issue 2 Supp. August 2008. F. Chiclana, E. Herrera-Viedma, S. Alonso, F. Herrera (Eds.)
6. "COMPUTING WITH WORDS IN DECISION MAKING" in the International Journal of Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making Journal, Volume 8, Number 4 / December 2009. F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma, S. Alonso and F. Chiclana (Eds.)

Conference Organisation, Plenary Talks and Invited Lectures

• Co-chair of The 2016 International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, London, U.K., 29 June - 1 July, 2016.
• Programme Co-chair of IEEE International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE 2015).
• Co-chair of International Conference of Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems, London, UK (2007-2015).
• Organised and Chaired special sessions in the following international conferences:
  1. Special Session on "Decision-making under uncertainty in inconsistent and dynamic environments: Soft consensus approaches" in FUZZ-IEEE 2017 - Naples (Italy) July 2017. Organisers: Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain (viedma@decsai.ugr.es); Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, U.K (chiclana@dmu.ac.uk); Yucheng Dong, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (ycdong@scu.edu.cn); Francisco Javier Cabrerizo,Granada University, Spain (cabrerizo@decsai.ugr.es).
  2. Workshop on "Big Data based Technological Innovations on Intelligent Health Service in the Clouds" in SMC 2016 - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS - Budapest (Hungary) October 2016. Organisers: Hamido Fujita, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Ali Selamat, Amedeo Cesta, Francisco Chiclana.
  3. Special Session on "Fuzzy decision-making: Consensus and Missing Preferences" in FUZZ-IEEE 2016 - Vancouver (Canada) July 2016. Organisers: Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain (viedma@decsai.ugr.es); Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, U.K (chiclana@dmu.ac.uk); Yucheng Dong, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (ycdong@scu.edu.cn); Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, UNED, Spain (cabrerizo@issi.uned.es).
  4. Special Session: Intelligent Decision Making and Consensus in the Fourth International Conference on Information Technology And Quantitative Management (ITQM 2016), Asan, Korea, Aug. 16-18, 2016. Organisers: Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University, U.K (chiclana@dmu.ac.uk); Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, UNED, Spain (cabrerizo@issi.uned.es); Yucheng Dong, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (ycdong@scu.edu.cn); Zeshui Xu, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (xuzeshui@263.net); Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Granada University, Spain (viedma@decsai.ugr.es).
  5. Special Session on "Fuzzy decision-making: Consensus and Missing Preferences" in FUZZ-IEEE 2015 - Istanbul (Turkey) from 2-5 August 2015.
  6. Special Session: Intelligent Decision Making and Consensus in the Third International Conference on Information Technology And Quantitative Management (ITQM 2015), July 21-24, 2015, Rio, Brazil.
  7. Special Session on Decision Support Systems under Subjectivity and Social Big Data (D4SBD) in the The 28th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2015), June 10-12, 2015, COEW, Seoul, Korea.
  8. Special Session: Intelligent Decision Making and Consensus in INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IS’14, Warsaw, Poland September 24-26, 2014.
  9. Special Session FZ08: Fuzzy decision-making: Consensus and Missing Preferences in FUZZ-IEEE 2014 - Beijing (China) held as part of the WCCI2014 from 6-11 July 2014.
  10. Special Session 04: Fuzzy Preference Modelling, Decision Making and Consensus in the Second International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM2014), Moscow - Russia from 3-5 June 2014.
  11. Focus Session on Consensus and Decision Making Under Uncertainty in the 2013 IFSA World Congress NAFIPS Annual Meeting Edmonton, Canada June 24-28, 2013
  12. Special Session on Fuzzy Preference Modelling, Decision Making and Consensus in first International Conference of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2013), May 16-18, 2013 at Suzhou, China
  13. Special Session on "Soft Decision Making - Theory and Applications" for the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ_IEEE), Hong-Kong, China (2008).
  14. Special Session on "Fuzzy Decision Making Issues: Preference Modelling and Aggregation" for the 8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Madrid, Spain (2008).
  15. Special Session on "Fuzzy Approaches in Preference Modelling, Decision Making and Applications" for the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ_IEEE), London, UK (2007).
• Organised Workshop on Big Data based Technological Innovations on Intelligent Health Service in the Clouds at SMC 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 9-12. Organizers: Hamido Fujita, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Ali Selamat, Amedeo Cesta, Francisco Chiclana.
• Organised Workshop on "Type-2 Fuzzy Logic and the Modelling of Uncertainty" at the AI-2007 Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK.
• Plenary talk at the 2009 EUROFUSE Workshop on Preference Modelling and Decision Analysis.
• Invited Lectures at the University of Granada, the University of Pamplona, the University of Valladolid, the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Albacete, the University of Jaen (Spain), Ghent University (Belgium), University of Portsmouth (UK), Hefei University of Technology and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (China), Iwate Prefecture University (Japan).

Bibliometrics

WoS Citation Report and ESI Highly Cited Papers/Scientist

• Prof. Francisco Chiclana currently has 228 scientific publications in books, leading international conferences and international journals. His current 154 records in the ISI Web of Science Core Collection have received a total of 6981 citations, with an h-index of 41 (WoS 02-10-2018).
• Prof. Francisco Chiclana has been consistently classed as one of the Most Cited Scientist in the Fields of Engineering and Computer Science.
• In the Essential Science Indicators dataset update on March 15, 2018, to cover the 11-year period, January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2017, ProF. Chiclana had 18 journal papers classed as Highly Cited Papers (HCPs): 10 HCPs in the Field of Computer Science and 8 HCPs in the Field of Engineering. (See paper list below). De Montfort University appears in the ESI as having 31 HCPs.
  • Scientist Ranking in Computer Science - F CHICLANA highly cited papers position 84/3173
  • Scientist Ranking in Engineering - F CHICLANA highly cited papers position 464/8497

ESI Period 2007-2017: Highly Cited Scientist - HCPs

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ESI Period 2006-2016: Highly Cited Scientist - HCPs

• In the Essential Science Indicators database from Clarivate Analytics (formerly the IP&S business of Thomson Reuters) update on March 9, 2017, to cover a 10-year plus 12-month period, January 1, 2006 – December 31, 2006, ProF. Chiclana had 16 journal papers classed as highly cited (HCP): 7 HCP in the Field of Engineering and 9 HCP in the Field of Computer Science. (See paper list Current Active Period 2006-2016 below). De Montfort University appears in the ESI as having 27 HCPs.
  • Scientist Ranking in Engineering - F CHICLANA highly cited papers position 512/8159
  • Scientist Ranking in Computer Science - F CHICLANA highly cited papers position 54/3186

HCP Inactive Period

1. Some Induced Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators and Their Use for Solving Group Decision-making Problems Based on Fuzzy Preference Relations. 2007-2017 (E)
2. Group Decision-Making Model with Incomplete Fuzzy Preference Relations Based on Additive Consistency. 2007-2017 (E)
3. A Consensus Model for Group Decision Making with Incomplete Fuzzy Preference Relations. 2007-2017 (E)
4. A Consensus Support System Model for Group Decision-making Problems with Multi-granular Linguistic Preference Relations. 2005-2015 (E)
5. Some Issues on Consistency of Fuzzy Preference Relations. 2004-2014 (E)
6. A Consensus Model for Multiperson Decision Making with Different Preference Structures. 2002-2012 (E)
7. Integrating Multiplicative Preference Relations in a Multipurpose Decision-making Model Based on Fuzzy Preference Relations. 2001-2011 (E)
8. Multiperson Decision Making Based on Multiplicative Preference Relations. 2001-2011 (E)
9. Integrating Three Representation Models in Fuzzy Multipurpose Decision Making Based on Fuzzy Preference Relations. 1998-2008 (E)