I am deeply honored to have been invited to give this second annual Jakobovits Memorial Lecture. I first met the Rav as a young physician who attended his biweekly shiurim at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. He was my teacher, guide and personal friend for over four decades. As you all know, it was he who coined the term “Jewish Medical Ethics” which has taken firm hold throughout the world. The Rav...

Multi-knowledge extraction is significant for many real-world applications. The nature inspired population-based reduction approaches are attractive to find multiple reducts in the decision systems, which could be applied to generate multi-knowledge and to improve decision accuracy. In this Chapter, we introduce two nature inspired populationbased computational optimization techniques namely Pa...

In this paper we present a method for rule based knowledge representation. The proposed approach is inspired from Finite Automata (FA). The inspired FA diagrams are easily used to represent rule-based system and make it more reliable structure in large complicated systems. One of the major additions that gives the proposed structure its significance is that it can represent the rules such that ...

In this paper, we discuss some issues related to exploration of knowledge bases inspired by the rough set theory, which emerged 30 years ago, and is nowadays a rapidly developing branch of artificial intelligence. The partition of rules approach allows us to divide a large set of rules into smaller subsets that are easier to manage. Optimisation relies on reducing the number of rules searched i...