Cliff Joslyn received his B.A. in Cognitive Science and Mathematics from Oberlin College in 1985, with High Honors in Systems Theory. After two years as a professional software engineer, he studied with George Klir in the Systems Science department at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he took his M.S. in 1989 and Ph.D. in 1994. In his dissertation he developed the semantic and mathematical basis for possibilistic measurement and modeling.
He was a Graduate Fellow in the Software and Automation Systems Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from 1991-1994, and a Nati*onal Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Research Associate there from 1994-1996, where he pursued research on quali*tative model-based diagnosis and trend analysis using fuzzy systems theory. From 1996-1998 he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Computer Research and Applications Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is currently a Member of the Technical Staff there, and leads the research team on Distributed Knowledge Systems. He has had teaching appointments at the University of New Mexico--Los Alamos, Southern Maine Technical College, and SUNY Binghamton.
Dr. Joslyn is the author of many scientific papers, is a founding editor of the Principia Cybernetica project for the collaborative development of a systemic-evolutionary philosophy (http:*//pespmc1.vub.ac.be), serves as an Associate Editor of Applied Systems Studies, and serves on the Editorial Board of Advances in Complex Systems. He is a referee for many journals in Information and Systems Science, and has served on the program committees of many conferences. His research interests include General Information Theory, Possibility Theory and Fuzzy Theory, Systems Science and Cybernetics, Semiotic Control Systems, Distributed Knowledge Systems, and Inductive Modeling for Data Mining.
[1] Heylighen, Francis and Joslyn, Cliff: (1993) ``Electronic Networking for Philosophical Development in the Principia Cybernetica Project'', Informatica, v. 17:3, pp. 285-293
[2] Heylighen, Francis and Joslyn, Cliff: (1995) ``Systems Theory'', in: Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. R. Audi, pp. 784-785, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge MA
[3] Heylighen, Francis; Joslyn, Cliff; and Turchin, Valentin, eds.: (1995) The Quantum of Evolution: Towards a Theory of Meta-System Transitions, special issue of World Futures, v. 45:1, Gordon and Breach, New York
[4] Hochberg, Judith; Joslyn, Cliff; and Nix, David: (1999) ``Probabilistic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Character Trigrams'', in: Proc. 7th Text REtrieval Conf (TREC-7)
[5] Johnson, Norman; Rasmussen, Steen; Joslyn, C; Luis Rocha; Steve Smith; and Marianna Kantor: (1998) ``Symbiotic Intelligence: Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed Networks Drive by Human Interaction'', in: Proc. Artificial Life 1998, ed. C. Adami et al., MIT Press
[6] Joslyn, Cliff: (1991) ``On the Semantics of Entropy Measures of Emergent Phenomena'', Cybernetics and Systems, v. 22:6, pp. 631-640
[7] Joslyn, Cliff: (1993) ``Possibilistic Semantics and Measurement Methods in Complex Systems'', in: Proc. 2nd Int. Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ed. Bilal Ayyub, pp. 208-215, IEEE Computer Soc.
[8] Joslyn, Cliff: (1994) ``On Possibilistic Automata'', in: Computer Aided Systems Theory---EUROCAST '93, ed. F. Pichler and R. Moreno-Di'az, pp. 231-242, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
[9] Joslyn, Cliff: (1994) ``Possibilistic Approach to Qualitative Model-Based Diagnosis'', Telematics and Informatics, v. 11:4, pp. 365-384
[10] Joslyn, Cliff: (1995) ``Semantic Control Systems'', World Futures, v. 45:1-4, pp. 87-123
[11] Joslyn, Cliff: (1995) ``In Support of an Independent Possibility Theory'', in: Foundations and Applications of Possibility Theory, ed. G de Cooman et al., pp. 152-164, World Scientific, Singapore
[12] Joslyn, Cliff: (1996) ``Aggregation and Completion of Random Sets with Distributional Fuzzy Measures'', Int. J. of Uncertainty, Fuzziness, and Knowledge-Based Systems, v. 4:4, pp. 307-329
[13] Joslyn, Cliff: (1996) ``Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational Form for Cybernetics'', in: Proc. 1996 European Conf. on Cybernetics and Systems Research, v. 2, pp. 905-910
[14] Joslyn, Cliff: (1997) ``Measurement of Possibilistic Histograms from Interval Data'', Int. J. General Systems, v. 26:1-2, pp. 9-33
[15] Joslyn, Cliff: (1997) ``Semiotic Aspects of Control and Modeling Relations in Complex Systems'', in: Control Mechanisms for Complex Systems, ed. Michael Coombs, Addison-Wesley, Redwood City CA, SFI Studies in the Science of Complexity, to appear
[16] Joslyn, Cliff: (1997) ``Towards General Information Theoretical Representations of Databases Problems'', in: Proc. 1997 Conf. of the IEEE Society for Systems, Man and Cybernetics, v. 2, pp. 1662-1667
[17] Joslyn, Cliff: (1999) ``Levels of Control and Closure in Complex Semiotic Systems'', in: 7th Annual Washington Evolutionary Systems Conference, to appear
[18] Joslyn, Cliff and Heylighen, Francis: (1999) ``Cybernetics'', in: Encyclopedia of Computer Science, ed. J. Hemmendinger, A. Ralston, International Thomson Publishing, in press
[19] Joslyn, Cliff and Mniszeiski, Susan: (1999) ``DEEP: Data Exploration through Extension and Projection'', in preparation for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
[20] Joslyn, Cliff and Rocha, Luis: (1998) ``Towards a Formal Taxonomy of Hybrid Uncertainty Representations'', Information Sciences, v. 110:3-4, pp. 255-277
[21] Joslyn, Cliff and Rocha, Luis, eds.: (1999) Semiotics of Autonomous Information Systems, Wiley, in preparation
[22] Kantrowitz, Mark; Horstkotte, Erik; and Joslyn, Cliff: (1994) Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Expert Systems, in: comp.ai.fuzzy+
[23] Rocha, Luis M and Joslyn, Cliff: (1998) ``Simulations of Evolving Embodied Semiosis: Emergent Semantics in Artificial Environments'', in: Proc. 1998 Conf. on Virtual Worlds in Simulation, pp. 233-238, Society for Computer Simulation, San Diego