My research interests are Soft Computing, Fuzzy Logic and Risk Analysis.

My hobbies are:

• Chess - I prefer blitz to have a good excuse that i lost because of time :)
• Chinese Chess and Shogi - I learned them recently and I like it even more than European chess
  
• Backgammon - I can be a champion of Italy as no one plays here :)
• Japanese crosswords - I can spend days to solve Japanese crosswords
• Postcard Collection - I especially like painted postcards. Now I started to collect postcards with national ethnic features in them
• Reading - Everyone actually can read but ... My favorite poet is P. Sevak
• Traveling - I still hope that one day we could travel in other planets as easy as we travel now in other cities...
  

My favorite painter is Martiros Saryan. Without having a clue about my country, just by his paintings one can love Armenia.

My favorite composers are Arno Babajanyan and Eric Satie.

My favorite views are Mountain Ararat from Yerevan in the evening and the walls of Lucca in the early morning...

My dream job is running a school for children with physical disabilities.

My favorite quotation is this one by Aristotle :

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision to which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

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Publications

         Book Chapters

1. Lusine Mkrtchyan and Da Ruan,  “Using Belief Degree Distributed Fuzzy Cognitive
Maps for Energy Policy Evaluation”, to appear in Risk Management in Decision Making: Intelligent Methodologies and Applications, Springer 2010

       Journal Papers
 

1. Nicholas Caporusso, Lusine Mkrtchyan, and Leonardo Badia, “A Multimodal Interface Device for Online Board Games Designed for Sight-Impaired People” in Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine, 2009. (to be published)

2.  Beatrice Lazzerini and Lusine Mkrtchyan, “Risk Analysis with Extended -Fuzzy Cognitive Maps“, IEEE Systems Journal (accepted)

     Conference Papers / Posters

 1. Da Ruan, Frank Hardeman and    Lusine Mkrtchyan , “Using Belief Degree Distributed Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Nuclear Safety Culture Assessment“, to appear in Proceedings of North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society 2011, El Paso,  2011  

 2. Ahmed Said, Mercy Njima and Lusine Mkrtchyan,  “A Bayesian Based Method for Agile Software Development Release Planning and Project Health Monitoring“, to appear in INCos 2010, Thessaloniki 2010 

 3.     Lusine Mkrtchyan and Da Ruan, “Belief Degree Distributed Fuzzy Cognitive Maps“, to appear in Proceedings of ISKE 2010 

4.      Beatrice Lazzerini and Lusine Mkrtchyan, “Risk Analysis Using Extended -Fuzzy Cognitive Maps“, to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Cognitive Informatics, Kuala Lampur 2010 

5.      Beatrice Lazzerini and Lusine Mkrtchyan, “Pessimistic evaluation of risks using ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers“,  Proceedings of IEEE International Systems Conference, San Diego 2010, pp. 143 - 148 [Online] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5482483

6.      Davide Bacciu, Maria Grazia Buscemiy and Lusine Mkrtchyan, “Adaptive Fuzzy-valued Service Selection“, Proceedings of 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Track on Service Oriented Architectures and Programming, Sierre 2010, pp. 2467-2471, [Online] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1774598

7.      Beatrice Lazzerini and Lusine Mkrtchyan, “Ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers and its application to risk analysis“,  Proceedings of PACIIA 2009, Vol. 1, pp. 249-252, 2009. [Online]  http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5406446

8.      Nicholas Caporusso, Lusine Mkrtchyan, and Leonardo Badia, "Multimodal Network Board Games for Blind People" in Proceedings of the First Usability Professionals Association European regional conference (UPAEurope), 2008. [Online] http://www.upaeurope2008.org/m-materiali/Poster-UPAEurope2008-Caporusso.pdf
 
9.      Nicholas Caporusso, Lusine Mkrtchyan, and Leonardo Badia, "A Multimodal Network Board Game System for Blind People" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL), 2008. [Online] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4712592&isnumber=4712569

      Technical Reports