Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 14th International Symposium, ISMIS 2003, Maebashi City, Japan, October 28-31, 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
New Challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Research....Pages 1-6
Grounding to the Real World – Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing –....Pages 7-11
Data Mining: Fast Algorithms vs. Fast Results....Pages 12-13
Knowledge Discovery Services and Tools on Grids....Pages 14-23
Space Decomposition in Data Mining: A Clustering Approach....Pages 24-31
Time Series Rule Discovery: Tough, Not Meaningless....Pages 32-39
Mining Diagnostic Rules with Taxonomy from Medical Databases....Pages 40-48
Comparing Simplification Methods for Model Trees with Regression and Splitting Nodes....Pages 49-56
Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Induction Trees....Pages 57-64
PDL with Maximum Consistency Monitors....Pages 65-74
Comparing and Merging Ontologies: A Concept Type Hierarchy Approach....Pages 75-82
Integrating Information under Lattice Structure....Pages 83-87
Functional Ontology for Intelligent Instruments....Pages 88-92
Constructing an Ontology Based on Hub Words....Pages 93-97
Integration of Heterogeneous, Imprecise and Incomplete Data: An Application to the Microbiological Risk Assessment....Pages 98-107
Intelligent Protein 3D Structure Retrieval System....Pages 108-115
Cognitive Vision Systems in Medical Applications....Pages 116-123
An Automated School Timetabling System Using Hybrid Intelligent Techniques....Pages 124-134
Representing Audio Data by FS-Trees and Adaptable TV-Trees....Pages 135-142
A Framework of Rough Sets Based Rule Generation in Non-deterministic Information Systems....Pages 143-151
Granular Computing Based on Rough Sets, Quotient Space Theory, and Belief Functions....Pages 152-159
Searching for the Complex Decision Reducts: The Case Study of the Survival Analysis....Pages 160-168
Clustering Supermarket Customers Using Rough Set Based Kohonen Networks....Pages 169-173
Multi-rough Sets and Generalizations of Contexts in Multi-contexts Information System....Pages 174-178
MetaNews: An Information Agent for Gathering News Articles on the Web....Pages 179-186
Enacting an Agent-Based Digital Self in a 24x7 Web Services World....Pages 187-196
Light-Weight Agents for E-learning Environments....Pages 197-205
Towards a Pragmatic Methodology for Open Multi-agent Systems....Pages 206-210
Using Similarity to Implement Distributed Ubiquitous Software Services....Pages 211-215
MIC: Algebraic Agent Environment....Pages 216-220
Using the SPACE Intermediate Model to Help to Implement Agents....Pages 221-225
Belief Revision and Text Mining for Adaptive Recommender Agents....Pages 226-230
NETMARK: A Schema-Less Extension for Relational Databases for Managing Semi-structured Data Dynamically....Pages 231-241
Program Generation for Application Domain Users by Selecting Model Candidates....Pages 242-251
Traffic Sign Recognition in Disturbing Environments....Pages 252-261
Design Patterns in Intelligent Systems....Pages 262-269
Temporal Feature Extraction from Temporal Information Systems....Pages 270-278
Parallel Ant Colony Systems....Pages 279-284
Some Case-Refinement Strategies for Case-Based Criminal Summary Judgments....Pages 285-291
G-STRIPS – A Generalized STRIPS System for Handling State Change over Dynamic Domains....Pages 292-296
Classifying Document Titles Based on Information Inference....Pages 297-306
Building Topic Maps Using a Text Mining Approach....Pages 307-314
Improving the Performance of Text Classifiers by Using Association Features....Pages 315-319
Korean Document Summarization Using Topic Phrases Extraction and Locality-Based Similarity....Pages 320-325
Improving Naïve Bayes Text Classifier with Modified EM Algorithm....Pages 326-333
Mining Environmental Texts of Images in Web Pages for Image Retrieval....Pages 334-338
Towards a Contextual Content of Ontologies....Pages 339-343
An Email Classifier Based on Resemblance....Pages 344-348
The Characterization on the Uniqueness of Answer Set for Prioritized Logic Programs....Pages 349-356
A New Approach to Constraint Inductive Logic Programming....Pages 357-364
Extending the CLP Engine for Reasoning under Uncertainty....Pages 365-373
Logic for Multi-path Message Forwarding Networks for Mobile Agents....Pages 374-383
θ -Subsumption and Resolution: A New Algorithm....Pages 384-391
Supporting E-consent on Health Data by Logic....Pages 392-396
Towards the Theory of Relaxed Unification....Pages 397-401
Probability Logic Modeling of Knowledge Discovery in Databases....Pages 402-407
Constructing Extensions of Bayesian Classifiers with Use of Normalizing Neural Networks....Pages 408-416
Fuzzy Multiset Model for Information Retrieval and Clustering Using a Kernel Function....Pages 417-421
Validation of Fuzzy Partitions Obtained through Fuzzy C-Means Clustering....Pages 422-426
Generating Fuzzy Thesaurus by Degree of Similarity in Fuzzy Covering....Pages 427-432
RNA Structure as Permutation: A GA Approach Comparing Different Genetic Sequencing Operators....Pages 511-520
Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Ensemble Classifier in Lymphoma Cancer Classification....Pages 521-530
Floorplan Design Using Improved Genetic Algorithm....Pages 531-538
Some Enhancements in Genetic Learning: A Case Study on Initial Population....Pages 539-543
Development of Generic Search Method Based on Transformation Invariance....Pages 486-495
Hierarchical Ordering for Approximate Similarity Ranking....Pages 496-500
Space Transformation Based Approach for Effective Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 501-505
Collaborative Filtering – Safe and Sound?....Pages 506-510
Design of Iconic Language Interface for Semantic Based Korean Language Generation....Pages 433-439
Incremental Feature Extraction Based on Empirical Kernel Map....Pages 440-444
Comparing Hierarchical Markov Networks and Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks....Pages 544-553
Constraint Propagation to Semantic Web Services Discovery....Pages 554-561
Reasoning in Data Integration Systems: Why LAV and GAV Are Siblings....Pages 562-571
Design of an Adaptive Web Merchandising System Using Data Mining....Pages 572-576
On Lookahead Heuristics in Decision Tree Learning....Pages 445-453
Empirical Evaluation of Dissimilarity Measures for Time-Series Multiscale Matching....Pages 454-462
First-Order Rules Mining Guided by Information Gain....Pages 463-467
Simultaneous Row and Column Partitioning: Evaluation of a Heuristic....Pages 468-472
Partial Prefix Sum Method for Large Data Warehouses....Pages 473-477
Spatio-Temporal Association Mining for Un-sampled Sites....Pages 478-485
Minutiae Extraction from Fingerprint Images Using Run-Length Code....Pages 577-584
Endpoint Detection of Isolated Korean Utterances for Bimodal Speech Recognition in Acoustic Noisy Environments....Pages 585-592
Enhanced Active Shape Models with Global Texture Constraints for Image Analysis....Pages 593-597
Discovering Structures in Video Databases....Pages 598-602
Theoretical Evaluation of Ring-Based Architectural Model for Middle Agents in Agent-Based System....Pages 603-607
Multi-attributes-Based Negotiation Agent and E-marketplace in Customer-to-Customer Electronic Commerce....Pages 608-612
A Feature Analysis Framework for Evaluating Multi-agent System Development Methodologies....Pages 613-617
Decentralized Control....Pages 618-622
An Intelligent Agent for Automatic Course Adaptation....Pages 623-627
An Exploration of Bugs and Debugging in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 628-632
A Framework for Building Competency-Based Systems Dedicated to Human Resource Management....Pages 633-639
Extracting the Most Discriminant Subset from a Pool of Candidates to Optimize Discriminant Classifier Training....Pages 640-645
Knowledge Engineering of Intelligent Sales-Recruitment System Using Multi-layered Agent Methodology....Pages 646-651
The KAMET II Methodology: A Modern Approach for Building Diagnosis-Specialized Knowledge-Based Systems....Pages 652-656
A Formal Approach to Describing Action Concepts in Taxonomical Knowledge Bases....Pages 657-662
An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Core Attributes in Database Systems....Pages 663-667
Similarity Graphs....Pages 668-672
Image-Based Flame Control of a Premixed Gas Burner Using Fuzzy Logics....Pages 673-677
Intelligent Pattern Recognition by Feature Selection through Combined Model of DWT and ANN....Pages 678-683
Applying Neural Networks to Study the Mesoscale Variability of Oceanic Boundary Currents....Pages 684-688
Dialog Planning and Domain Knowledge Modeled in Terms of Tasks and Methods: A Flexible Framework for Dialog Managing....Pages 689-693
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