Dr. Md. Monirul Islam (ডঃ মোঃ মনিরুল ইসলাম)

Professor

mdmonirulislam AT cse DOT buet DOT ac DOT bd
880 2 9665650 Ext. 6706

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh


Education

Ph.D., Information Sciences, 2002
University of Fukui, Japan

M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 1996
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1989
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology

Research Interest

Neural Networks
Evolutionary Algorithms
Data Mining
Robotics

Journal Article

1. M. A. Nayeem, Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao, Solving Transit Network Design Problem Using Many-Objective Evolutionary Approach, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018. DOI
2. Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Xin Yao, Layered Ensemble Architecture for Time Series Forecasting, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 46, 270--283, 2016.
3. Sukarna Barua, Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao, Kazuyuki Murase, MWMOTE: Majority Weighted Minority Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Data Set Learning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2012.
4. M. S. Alam, Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao, K. Murase, Diversity Guided Evolutionary Programming: A novel approach for continuous optimization, Applied Soft Computation, 12, 1693-1707, 2012.
5. M. S. Alam, Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao, K. Murase, Recurring Two-Stage Evolutionary Programming: A Novel Approach for Numeric Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 41, 1352-1365, 2011.
6. M. R. Hassan, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A New Local Search Based Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E93-D, 1127-1136, 2010.
7. M. M. Kabir, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A New Wrapper Feature Selection Approach using Neural Network, Neurocomputing, 73, 3273-3283, 2010.
8. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Abdus, M. F. Amin, Xin Yao, K. Murase, A New Adaptive Merging and Growing Algorithm for Designing Artificial Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B, 705-722, 2009.
9. M. F. Amin, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Ensemble of Single-Layered Complex-Valued Neural Networks for Classification Tasks, Neurocomputing, 72, 2227-2234, 2009.
10. Mashud Hyder, Md. Monirul Islam, M. A. H. Akhand, K. Murase, Symmetry axis based object recognitioon under translation, rotation and scaling, International Journal of Neural Systems, 19, 25-42, 2009.
11. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Comparative Study of Data Sampling Techniques for Constructing Neural Network Ensembles, International Journal of Neural Systems, 19, 67-89, 2009.
12. Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Abdus Sattar, M. F. Amin, Xin Yao, K. Murase, A New Constructive Algorithm for Architectural and Functional Adaptation of Artificial Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, 39, 1590-1605, 2009.
13. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Progressive Interactive Training: A Sequential Neural Network Ensemble Learning Method, Neurocomputing, 73, 260-273, 2009.
14. X. Yao, Md. Monirul Islam, Evolving artificial neural network ensembles, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 3, 31-42, 2008.
15. Md. Monirul Islam, X. Yao, S.M. S. Nirjon, M. A. Islam, K. Murase, Bagging and Boosting Negatively Correlated Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, 38, 771-784, 2008.
16. Suman Ahmmed, K. Abdullah-Al-Mamun, Md. Monirul Islam, A Novel Algorithm For Designing Three Layered Artificial Neural Networks, International Journal of Soft Computing, 2, 450-458, 2007.
17. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, Parametric mobility support dynamic resource reservation and call admission control scheme for cellular multimedia communications, Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, 20, 233-248, 2007.
18. M.A.H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A hybrid sequential and simultaneous training algorithm for constructing neural network ensembles, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, 3, 1078-1085, 2006.
19. S. M. Kamruzzaman, Md. Monirul Islam, An Algorithm to Extract Rules from Artificial Neural Networks for Medical Diagnosis Problems, International Journal of Information Technology, 12, 42-60, 2006.
20. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Chaotic Dynamics of a Behavior based Miniature Mobile Robot: Effects of Environment and Control Network, Neural Networks (American National Institute Standards Approved Journal), 18, 123-144, 2005.
21. S.M. Kamruzzaman, Md. Monirul Islam, Extraction of symbolic rules from artificial neural networks, Transaction on Engineering, Computing and Technology, 10, 271-277, 2005.
22. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Incremental Evolution with Learning to Develop the Control System of Autonomous Robots for Complex Task, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E85-D, 2002.
23. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A New Crossover Operator and Its Application to Artificial Neural Networks Evolution, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, E84-D, 1144-1154, 2001.
24. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A New algorithm to Design Compact Two-Hidden Layer Artificial Neural Networks, Neural Networks (American National Standard Institute Approved Journal), 14, 1265-1278, 2001.
25. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Evolving Autonomous Robots in Variable Environment: Effects of Fitness Function, Machine Intelligence and Robot Control, 3, 157-165, 2001.
26. Md. Monirul Islam, M. R. M. Khondoker, C. M. Rahman, Application of artificial intelligence techniques in automatic hull form generation, Journal of Ocean Engineering, Elsevier Science, 28, 1531-1544, 2001.
27. M. M. H. Rahman, M. A. S. Kamal, Md. Monirul Islam, B. C. Ghosh, Fuzzy Logic versus PI Control of a Separately Excited DC Motor Drive-A Comparison, Journal of Electrical Engineering, IEB, 27, 37-42, 1999.
28. M. A. S. Kamal, M. A. Rafiq, Md. Monirul Islam, B. C. Ghosh, uzzy Logic Enhanced Indirect Vector Control of Induction Motor Drives, ournal of Electrical Engineering, IEB, 27, 35-38, 1999.
29. Md. Monirul Islam, J Kamruzzaman, A neural network model for invariant pattern recognition, Journal of Electrical Engineering, IEB, EE25, 101-107, 1997.
30. Md. Monirul Islam, X. Yao, K. Murase, A Constructive Algorithm for Training Cooperative Neural Network Ensembles, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 14, 820-834, 0000.

Conference Article

1. Sukarna Barua, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, GOS-IL: A Generalized Over-Sampling based Online Imbalanced Learning Framework, 22nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2015), 2015.
2. S. K. K. Santu, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Towards better generalization in Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC 2014), 2014.
3. Md. Mustafizur Rahman, S. K. K. Santu, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, Forecasting Time Series - A Layered Ensemble Architecture, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2014), 2014.
4. Sukarna Barua, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, ProWSyn: Proximity Weighted Synthetic Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Data Set Learning, PAKDD- Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2013.
5. Sukarna Barua, Md. Monirul Islam, Kazuyuki Murase, A Novel Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Data Set Learning, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 735-744, 2011.
6. Z. Karim, N. R. Karim, M. M. Ali, G. Sorwar, Md. Monirul Islam, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Pattern based object segmentation using split and merge, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2009.
7. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, electing Neural Network Ensemble Methods based on Problems Characteristics: An Empirical Study, Proceedings of Joint 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 9th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2091-2096, 2008.
8. M. F. Amin, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Single-layered Complex-valued Neural Networks and Their Ensembles for Real-valued Classification Problems, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2008), 2501-2507, 2008.
9. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Training of Neural Network Ensemble Through Progressive Interaction, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2008), 2121-2127, 2008.
10. Md. Monirul Islam, M. F. Amin, S. Ahmed, K. Murase, An Adaptive Merging and Growing Algorithm for Designing Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2008), 2004-2009, 2008.
11. M. F. Amin, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Enhancing Classification Ability of Single-Layered Complex-Valued Neural Network by Ensemble Methods, Proceedings of Joint 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 9th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, (SCIS&ISIS2008), 1947-1958, 2008.
12. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Ensemble with Selected Heterogeneous Neural Networks, Proceedings of Joint 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 9th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS2008), 924-929, 2008.
13. Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Abdus Sattar, M. F. Amin, K. Murase, A New Adaptive Strategy for Pruning and Adding Hidden Neurons during Training Artificial Neural Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 40-48, 2008.
14. A. Iqbal, A. B. M. Musa, Md. Anindya Tahsin Prodhan, Md. Abdus Sattar, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A Novel Algorithm for Translation, Rotation and Scale Invariant Character Recognition, 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 9th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems, 2008.
15. S. Sharmin, Md. Monirul Islam, D. Barua, A. Mahmood, Graph Matching Recombination for Evolving Neural Networks, Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN 2007, 4492, 562-568, 2007. DOI
16. Md. Abdus Sattar, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A New Constructive Algorithm for Designing and Training, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2007), 317-327, 2007.
17. M. M. Hyder, Md. Monirul Islam, M. A. H. Akhand, K. Murase, A novel two-stage approach for translation, rotation and scale invariant character recognition, oint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006), 1352-1357, 2006.
18. M. S. Alam, Md. Monirul Islam, M. A. H. Akhand, K. Murase, A recurring multi-stage evolutionary system for balancing exploitation and exploration, Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006), 1111-1116, 2006.
19. M. I. B. Shahid, Md. Monirul Islam, M. A. H. Akhand, K. Murase, A new algorithm to design multiple hidden layered artificial neural networks, oint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006), 463-468, 2006.
20. Md. Shaifur Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, A New Approach for Designing Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 408-413, 2006.
21. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A Hybrid Training Approach to Create Neural Network Ensemble, In Proc. of 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT2005), 832-837, 2005.
22. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A hybrid algorithm for compact neural network ensemble, International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies & Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2005), 471-478, 2005.
23. Md. Monirul Islam, Md. Mostofa Akbar, Hemayet Hossain, E. G. Manning, Admission Control of Multimedia Sessions to a set of Multimedia Servers connected by an Enterprise Network, IEEE Pacrim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 2005.
24. Hemayet Hossain, Md. Mostofa Akbar, Md. Monirul Islam, Extended-butterfly Fat Tree Interconnection (EFTI) Architecture for Network on Chip, IEEE Pacrim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 2005.
25. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Estimation of cell overload probability for adaptive bandwidth allocation scheme in cellular multimedia communications, IASTED International Conference on Wireless Networks and Emerging Technology (WNET), 160-165, 2005.
26. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Min-Max fairness scheme for resource allocation in cellular multimedia networks, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC), 265-270, 2005.
27. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A Constructive Algorithm for Neural Network Ensemble: Dynamical Change in Input Space (DCIS, nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS2004), CD-ROM WP-6-3 (6 pag, 2004.
28. M. S. Sadi, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A new algorithm for extracting interesting rules, Fourth International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy (HART04), 333-338, 2004.
29. M. A. H. Akhand, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Component neural network addition based on misclassified patterns leads to create compact neural network ensemble, Fourth International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy (HART04), 271-276, 2004.
30. M. M. Masud, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Empirical Study On Learnable Evolution Model For P-Median and Capacitated P-Median Problems, Fourth International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems: From Control to Autonomy (HART04), 265-270, 2004.
31. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, L. S. Dooley, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Enhanced cell visiting probability for QoS provisioning in mobile multimedia communications, IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC), 258-262, 2004.
32. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, L. S. Dooley, A novel velocity-dependent directional probability function based call admission control scheme in wireless multimedia communications, 23rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 77-84, 2004.
33. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Murshed, L. S. Dooley, Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam, Comparative analysis of directional probability functions for mobility based resource reservation in wireless multimedia communications, 3rd IEEE/IEE International Conference on Networking (ICN), 891-897, 2004.
34. M. Shahjahan, M. M. Kabir, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Single neural net training through correlation of hidden nodes for time series prediction, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 765-770, 2003.
35. M. Shahjahan, M. M. Kabir, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Recognizing appearance of objects by non-linear auto-associative network with negative correlation learning of weights, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 759-764, 2003.
36. M. Shahjahan, Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A competitive node decaying method for artificial neural networks, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering System and Allied Technologies (KES), 11-15, 2002.
37. Md. Monirul Islam, A. K. H Akhand, K. Murase, Weight freezing to reduce training time in designing artificial neural networks, International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 132-136, 2002.
38. Md. Monirul Islam, A. K. H Akhand, K. Murase, A new algorithm for training cooperative neural network ensemble, International Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (ICECE), 386-389, 2002.
39. Md. Monirul Islam, S. Terao, K. Murase, Effects of fitness functions for the evolution of autonomous robots in an open environment, Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES2001), 171-181, 2001.
40. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Shajahan, K. Murase, A new weight freezing method for reducing training time in artificial neural networks, International Conference on IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, 182-191, 2001.
41. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Shajahan, K. Murase, Exploring constructive algorithm with stopping criteria to produce individual neural networks in ensemble, International Conference on IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, 341-346, 2001.
42. Md. Monirul Islam, S. Terao, K. Murase, Using population information in crossover operation for the evolution of autonomous robots in open-environment, International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering System and Allied Technologies (KES), 864-868, 2001.
43. H. Akita, Md. Monirul Islam, T. Matsumoto, K. Murase, Backpropagation learning in real autonomous mobile robot using proximal and distal evaluation of behavior, Proc. of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (CD ROM), 2000.
44. Md. Monirul Islam, H. Akita, M. Shajahan, K. Murase, epresentative evolution: A simple and efficient algorithm for artificial neural network evolution, Proc. of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (CD ROM), 2000.
45. Md. Monirul Islam, M. Shajahan, K. Murase, An algorithm for automatic design of two hidden layered artificial neural network, Proc. of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (CD ROM), 2000.
46. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, Chaos in sensory information of an autonomous mobile robot, Proc. of Fuzzy, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Soft Computing Symposium, 73-74, 2000.
47. S. M. Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, R. J. Bignall, Performance evaluation of an invariant pattern neural network model for printed Bangla character recognition, Proc. of the Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control & Automation, 129-134, 1999.
48. Md. Monirul Islam, K. Murase, A GA-based evolutionary system for evolving artificial neural networks with connectionist learning, Proc. of Fuzzy, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (FAN) Symposium, 530-533, 1999.
49. R. Odagiri, Md. Monirul Islam, M. Okura, T. Asai, K. Murase, Deterministic chaos in sensory information of real mobile robot Khepera, Proc. of the First International Khepera Workshop, 49-56, 1999.
50. A. Z. E. Hossain, M. Z. Rahman, Md. Monirul Islam, On the performance of a multi-channel R-ALOHA protocol for voice and data integration in short-haul wireless communication environments, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications, 465-469, 1997.