Publications and research-related activities

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Baetens, J.M. and B. De Baets (2010). On irregular cellular automata. Physica D. (submitted)
P. Van der Weeën, J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets (2011). Design and parameterization of a stochastic cellular automaton describing a chemical reaction, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 32, 1952-1961
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets (2011). On the topological sensitivity of cellular automata. Chaos, 21, 023108.
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets (2010). Phenomenological study of irregular cellular automata based on Lyapunov exponents and Jacobians. Chaos, 20, 033112.
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J.M. Baetens, K. Verbist, W.M. Cornelis, D. Gabriels and G. Soto (2009). On the influence of coarse fragments on soil-water retention. Water Res. Res. 45, W07408, doi:10.1029/2008WR007402.
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K. Verbist, J. Baetens, W.M. Cornelis, D. Gabriels, C. Torres, and G. Soto (2009). Hydraulic Conductivity as Influenced by Stoniness in Degraded Drylands of Chile. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 73: 471-484.
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Conference Proceedings and Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science

J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets. Towards the full Lyapunov spectrum of elementary cellular automata. In: T.E. Simos, C. Tsitouras, G. Psihoyios and Z.A. Anastassi, editors. AIP Conference Proceedings. Ninth International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, September 2011, Halkidiki, Greece, In press.
J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets. (2010). Continuous cellular automata on irregular tessellations: mimicking steady-state heat flow. In: H. Takagi, A. Abraham, M. K�ppen, K. Yoshida and A.C.P.L.F. de Carvalho, editors. IEEE Proceedings of the Second World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2010), December 2010, Kitakyushu, Japan, pp. 53-59.
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets. (2010). Towards generalized measures grasping CA dynamics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6350, 177-187.
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets.(2010). Tracking uncertainty in a spatially explicit susceptible-infected epidemic model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6350, 95-105.
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets. (2009). Towards irregular cellular automata. AUTOMATA 2009 Proceedings, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 346-355.
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J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets. (2009). Incorporating fuzziness in spatio-temporal epidemic spread models. In: J. P. Carvalho, D. Dubois, U. Kaymak and J. M. C. Sousa, editors. Proceedings of the Joint 2009 International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress and 2009 European Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technology Conference, July, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 201-206.
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Conference Abstracts

P. Van der Weeën, J.M. Baetens, X. Van Doorslaer, P.M. Heynderickx, J. Dewulf and B. De Baets. A cellular automata approach for modeling the photocatalytic degradation of fluoroquinolones, In: D. Makowiec, A.T. Lawniczak and B.N. Di Stefano, editors. Turku Centere for Computer Science Lecture Notes publication, June 2011, Turku, Finland, In press.
P. Van der Weeën, J. M. Baetens and B. De Baets (2010). Parameterization of a stochastic cellular automaton describing a chemical reaction. 16th Symposium on Applied biological sciences, December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
S. Van Nieuland, I. Pauwels, J. Baetens, A. Mouton, B. Baets and P. Goethals (2010). Construction of a qualitative foodweb based dynamic habitat suitability model to describe pike populations in rivers. 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7), December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
I. Pauwels, A. Mouton, J.M. Baetens, B. De Baets and P. Goethals (2010). Spatial-explicit dynamic habitat modelling of pike (Esox Lucius L.) in rivers. 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7), December 2010, Ghent, Belgium.
J.M. Baetens and B. De Baets (2010). A discrete, spatially explicit and GIS-coupled model for epidemic spread. 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7), December 2010, Ghent, Belgium
B. De Baets and J. M. Baetens. Cellular automata: When irregularity meets reality. 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Informatics (SISY 2010), September 2010, Subotica, Serbia.
Baetens, J.M., Cornelis, W.M., Verbist, K., Gonzalez, E., Soto, G. and Gabriels, D. (2008). Estimating the water retention curve of stony soils from on-the-spot tension infiltrometry. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
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Baetens, J.M., Verbist, K., Cornelis, W.M. and Gabriels, D. (2008). On the influence of coarse fragments on soil water retention: an inverse modelling approach. Day of Young Soil Scientists, Soil Science Society of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.

Speaker at international scientific events

December 2010: 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7), Ghent, Belgium
September 2010: Ninth Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI 2010), Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
June 2010: 8th New Kind of Science Summer School, Burlington, United States.
December 2009: Winter school , Montpellier, France
July 2009: IFSA 2009 World Conference - EUSFLAT 2009 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
June 2009: 7th New Kind of Science Summer School, Pisa, Italy.

Awards

Procter & Gamble Modeling and Simulation award at the 16th Symposium on Applied biological sciences, Ghent Belgium for our contribution entitled 'Parameterization of a stochastic cellular automaton describing a chemical reaction'
Award for the best presentation at the 16th Symposium on Applied biological sciences, Ghent Belgium for our contribution entitled 'Parameterization of a stochastic cellular automaton describing a chemical reaction'
Best student presentation at the 7th International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7), Ghent Belgium for my contribution entitled 'A discrete, spatially explicit and GIS-coupled model for epidemic spread'
Best student paper award at the IFSA-EUSFLAT 2009 conference, Lisbon, Portugal for my contribution entitled 'Incorporating fuzziness in spatio-temporal epidemic spread models'

Committee Memberships

Organizer of the first satellite meeting Unravelling and controlling discrete dynamical systems during the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS).
Member of the programm committee of the 2011 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems, 19 - 25 September, Halkidiki, Greece.
Member of the organizing committee of the 16th Symposium on Applied biological sciences, Ghent Belgium.
Member of the technical review committee of the IFSA 2009 World Conference - EUSFLAT 2009 Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

Passive participation in international scientific events

May 2009: spring school Reasoning and Decision Making under Uncertainty and Imprecision, 18-20 May, Mieres, Spain
June 2008: 6th New Kind of Science Summer School, Burlington, United States.