Soft methodology and random information systems. Collection of papers presented at the 2nd international conference on soft methods in probability and statistics (SMPS'2004), Oviedo, Spain, September 2--4, 2004. (Q1889723)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding workshop (SMPS 2002) has been reviewed (see Zbl 1051.65006). Indexed articles: \textit{Zadeh, Lotfi A.}, Probability theory should be based on fuzzy logic -- a contentious view, 3-7 [Zbl 1062.60002] \textit{Molchanov, Ilya S.}, Applications of random sets in image analysis. How to average a cat and a dog?, 8-18 [Zbl 1094.68109] \textit{Nguyen, Hung T.}, Choquet weak convergence of capacity functionals of random sets, 19-31 [Zbl 1061.60009] \textit{Ogura, Yukio; Li, Shoumei}, On limit theorems for random fuzzy sets including large deviation principles, 32-44 [Zbl 1060.60029] \textit{Ralescu, Dan A.}, Fuzzy probability and some applications, 45-49 [Zbl 1063.62001] \textit{Bonissone, Piero P.}, Development and maintenance of fuzzy models in financial applications, 50-66 [Zbl 1140.68497] \textit{Klose, Aljoscha; Kruse, Rudolf}, Information mining with semi-supervised learning, 67-74 [Zbl 1140.68377] \textit{Feng, Ding; Nguyen, Hung T.}, On statistical inference with random sets, 78-84 [Zbl 1065.62001] \textit{Beck, Jan B.; Kreinovich, Vladik; Wu, Berlin}, Interval-valued and fuzzy-valued random variables: from computing sample variances to computing sample covariances, 85-92 [Zbl 1065.62020] \textit{Walker, Elbert A.}, Estimability and admissibility in sample survey models, 93-100 [Zbl 1063.62011] \textit{Kuo, Wen-Chi; Labuschagne, Coenraad C. A.; Watson, Bruce A.}, Riesz space and fuzzy upcrossing theorems, 101-108 [Zbl 1057.60003] \textit{Inoue, Hiroshi}, On laws of large numbers for exchangeable random sets, 109-116 [Zbl 1057.60028] \textit{Guan, Li; Li, Shoumei}, Strong and weak laws of large numbers for weighted sums of fuzzy set-valued random variables, 117-124 [Zbl 1060.60022] \textit{Antonucci, Alessandro; Salvetti, Andrea; Zaffalon, Marco}, Assessing debris flow hazard by credal nets, 125-132 [Zbl 1140.68498] \textit{Couso, Inés; Miranda, Enrique; de Cooman, Gert}, A possibilistic interpretation of the expectation of a fuzzy random variable, 133-140 [Zbl 1061.60003] \textit{Troffaes, Matthias C. M.}, Learning and optimal control of imprecise Markov decision processes by dynamic programming using the imprecise Dirichlet model, 141-148 [Zbl 1140.90504] \textit{Baudrit, Cédric; Dubois, Didier; Fargier, Hélène}, Representation of incomplete probabilistic information, 148-156 [Zbl 1071.60005] \textit{Abellán, Joaquín; Moral, Serafín}, Range of entropy for credal sets, 157-164 [Zbl 1088.68791] \textit{De Baets, Bernard; De Meyer, Hans}, From the comparison of ordered lists to the construction of copulas, 165-172 [Zbl 1072.60005] \textit{Rodríguez-Lallena, José; Úbeda-Flores, Manuel}, Compatibility of three bivariate quasi-copulas: applications to copulas, 173-180 [Zbl 1064.62060] \textit{Klement, Erich Peter; Mesiar, Radko; Pap, Endre}, Transformations of copulas and quasi-copulas, 181-188 [Zbl 1063.62078] \textit{Durante, Fabrizio; Sempi, Carlo}, Compositions of copulas and quasi-copulas, 189-196 [Zbl 1063.62075] \textit{Albanese, Angela; Sempi, Carlo}, Countably generated idempotent copulas, 197-204 [Zbl 1063.62074] \textit{Klement, Erich Peter; Kolesárová, Anna}, 1-Lipschitz aggregation operators, quasi-copulas and copulas with given diagonals, 205-211 [Zbl 1071.62048] \textit{Krätschmer, Volker; Oberlinger, Joachim}, Few remarks concerning a concept to define normally distributed random fuzzy sets, 212-218 [Zbl 1059.60009] \textit{Bolaños, M. Jorge; Reche, Fernando}, Fuzzy integrals on partially-known measures, 219-226 [Zbl 1065.28011] \textit{Casasnovas, Jaume}, Characterization of the scalar \((s,t)\)-additive measures: probabilities and cardinalities, 227-234 [Zbl 1059.60005] \textit{Jayakumar, K.}, On Pareto process, 235-242 [Zbl 1062.60035] \textit{Riečan, Beloslav}, Representation of probabilities on IFS events, 243-248 [Zbl 1061.03058] \textit{Sgarro, Andrea}, Possibilistic time processes and soft decoding, 249-256 [Zbl 1094.68030] \textit{Coletti, Giulianella; Scozzafava, Romano}, Some aspects of conditioning in a coherent setting, 257-264 [Zbl 1055.68105] \textit{Scozzafava, Romano; Vantaggi, Barbara}, The role of zero probabilities in dealing with zero frequency problems, 265-272 [Zbl 1099.62003] \textit{De Meyer, Hans; De Baets, Bernard}, Generalized stochastic transitivity for probabilistic relations, 273-280 [Zbl 1093.91014] \textit{Kalina, Martin; Nánásiová, Olga}, The concept of non-symmetric independence on MV-algebras, 281-288 [Zbl 1057.03056] \textit{Terán, Pedro}, On limit theorems for t-normed sums of fuzzy random variables, 289-296 [Zbl 1068.60047] \textit{Gupta, Arjun K.; Nguyen, Truc T.; Pardo, Leandro}, Phi-residual based on minimum phi-divergence estimator in the loglinear model of symmetry, 299-306 [Zbl 1084.62049] \textit{Pardo, Leandro}, Bahadur efficiency of the phi-divergence test statistic, 307-314 [Zbl 1140.62319] \textit{Morales, Domingo; Pardo, Leandro; Vajda, Igor}, Digitalization of observations permits efficient estimation in continuous models, 315-322 [Zbl 1081.62017] \textit{Pérez, Teresa; Pardo, Julio Angel}, \(K_\varphi\) divergence statistics in multinomial populations, 323-330 [Zbl 1063.62016] \textit{Marhuenda, Yolanda; Morales, Domingo; Pardo, Julio Angel; Pardo, María del Carmen}, On the selection of the best Rukhin's statistic for the uniform exact distribution function, 331-338 [Zbl 1063.62069] \textit{Molina, Isabel; Morales, Domingo}, On testing hypotheses with divergence statistics, 339-346 [Zbl 1115.62310] \textit{Pardo, Julio Angel; Pardo, María del Carmen}, Testing a hierarchical sequence of linear logistic models, 347-354 [Zbl 1063.62020] \textit{Pardo, Julio Angel}, Inference for three-dimensional contingency tables based on \(\varphi_1\)-divergences, 355-362 [Zbl 1063.62087] \textit{Topsøe, Flemming}, Information theory and complexity in probability and statistics, 363-370 [Zbl 1084.62503] \textit{Batsidis, Apostolos; Zografos, Konstantinos}, Measures of multivariate association and dependence, 371-378 [Zbl 1063.62088] \textit{Menéndez, María Luisa}, Phi-divergence test statistics for trends in binary responses, 379-386 [Zbl 1063.62019] \textit{Näther, Wolfgang}, A random set view on fuzzy random variables, 387-391 [Zbl 1062.60003] \textit{Hareter, Dietmar; Viertl, Reinhard}, Fuzzy information and Bayesian statistics, 392-398 [Zbl 1063.62003] \textit{Trutschnig, Wolfgang; Hareter, Dietmar}, Fuzzy probability distributions, 399-406 [Zbl 1064.60005] \textit{Krätschmer, Volker}, Least squares estimation in linear regression models with vague concepts, 407-414 [Zbl 1055.62081] \textit{Wünsche, Andreas}, Testing one-sided hypotheses for the expectation of fuzzy random variables, 415-422 [Zbl 1074.62014] \textit{Cascos-Fernández, Ignacio; López-Díaz, Miguel}, The zonoid hull of a multivariate probability distribution and its trimmed regions, 423-430 [Zbl 1060.62057] \textit{Montenegro, Manuel; González-Rodríguez, Gil; Colubi, Ana; Gil, María Angeles}, Bootstrap approach to test the linear independence between interval-valued random sets, 431-438 [Zbl 1055.62045] \textit{Basaran, Alper; Gunay, Suleyman}, Detection of influential case in fuzzy regression, 439-446 [Zbl 1094.62081] \textit{Calero, Julio; Delgado, Gabriel; Serrano, José-María; Sánchez, Daniel; Vila, María-Amparo}, A proposal of fuzzy correspondence analysis based on flexible data mining techniques, 447-454 [Zbl 1115.62333] \textit{Bertoluzza, Carlo; De Simoni, Sergio}, Uncertainty measures and hierarchical classification, 455-462 [Zbl 1059.62063] \textit{Coppi, Renato; D'Urso, Pierpaolo; Giordani, Paolo}, Informational paradigm and entropy-based dynamic clustering in a complete fuzzy framework, 463-470 [Zbl 1071.62055] \textit{González Rodríguez, Inés; Lawry, Jonathan}, Induction of fuzzy prototypes with features selection, 471-478 [Zbl 1114.68431] \textit{Groißböck, Werner; Lughofer, Edwin; Klement, Erich Peter}, A comparison of variable selection methods with the main focus on orthogonalization, 479-486 [Zbl 1114.68543] \textit{Montenegro, Manuel; González-Rodríguez, Gil; Gil, María Angeles; Colubi, Ana; Casals, María Rosa}, Introduction to ANOVA with fuzzy random variables, 487-494 [Zbl 1055.62084] \textit{Grzegorzewski, Przemysław}, Distribution-free tests for vague data, 495-502 [Zbl 1064.62052] \textit{Hryniewicz, Olgierd}, Measures of association for fuzzy ordered categorical data, 503-510 [Zbl 1063.62089] \textit{Mrówka, Edyta}, Designing confidence intervals under vague information, 511-518 [Zbl 1065.62042] \textit{Burduk, Robert}, Decision rules for Bayesian hierarchical classifier with fuzzy factor, 519-526 [Zbl 1063.62005] \textit{Grabisch, Michel; Labreuche, Christophe; Marical, Jean Luc; Miranda, Petro}, \(k\)-intolerant bi-capacities in veto criteria, 527-534 [Zbl 1131.91314] \textit{Van den Berg, Jan; Kaymak, Uzay}, On the notion of statistical fuzzy entropy, 535-542 [Zbl 1063.62004] \textit{Arenas, Mar; Bilbao, Amelia; Pérez-Gladish, Blanca; Rodríguez-Uría, M. Victoria}, Fuzzy extended lexicographic goal programming, 543-550 [Zbl 1095.90607] \textit{Kacprzyk, Janusz}, Fuzzy dynamic programming with stochastic systems under various aggregation operators: solvability and perceived meaning, 551-558 [Zbl 1083.90050] \textit{León-Rojas, Juan M.; Morales, Montaña}, Interval fuzzy Bayesian inference, 559-566 [Zbl 1063.62033] \textit{Stern, Julio Michael}, Inconsistency analysis for statistical tests of hypotheses, 567-574 [Zbl 1071.62028] \textit{Mohammadpour, Adel; Mohammad-Djafari, Ali}, An alternative criterion to likelihood for parameter estimation accounting for a prior information on a nuisance parameter, 575-580 [Zbl 1055.62023] \textit{Bognár, Tomas; Komorník, Jozef; Komorníková, Magda}, Application of regime-switching models of time series with cubic spline transition function, 581-588 [Zbl 1071.62076] \textit{Kirchner, Rosane M.; Souza, Reinaldo C.; Ziegelmann, Flávio A.}, Identification of the structure of linear and nonlinear time series models, using nonparametric local linear kernel estimation, 589-596 [Zbl 1063.62125] \textit{Rodríguez del Aguila, María del Mar; Requena, Ignacio; Bernier, José Luis; Ros, Eduardo; Mota, Sonia}, Neural networks and statistics: a review of the literature, 597-604 [Zbl 1063.62132] \textit{Romero, Vanessa; Salmerón, Antonio}, Multivariate imputation of qualitative missing data using Bayesian networks, 605-612 [Zbl 1055.62079] \textit{Pavlenko, Tatjana; Hall, Mikael; von Rosen, Dietrich; Andrushchenko, Zhanna}, Towards the optimal feature selection in high-dimensional Bayesian network classifiers, 613-620 [Zbl 1115.62335] \textit{López-Díaz, Miguel; Rodríguez-Muñiz, Luis J.}, Addition nodes in influence diagrams with fuzzy-valued utilities and variables, 621-627 [Zbl 1097.68635] \textit{Barros, Laécio C.; Bassanezi, Rodney C.; De Oliveira, Renata Z. G.}, Fuzzy differential inclusion: an application to epidemiology, 631-637 [Zbl 1055.92047] \textit{Breuckmann, Tomas K.; Kudri, Soraya R. T.; Aygün, Halis}, About weakly locally compact spaces, 638-644 [Zbl 1070.54001] \textit{Osuna-Gómez, Rafaela; Jiménez-Gamero, María Dolores; Chalco-Cano, Yurilev; Rojas-Medar, Marko Antonio}, Hadamard and Jensen inequalities for \(s\)-convex fuzzy processes, 645-652 [Zbl 1113.26031] \textit{Cervelati, Juliana; Jiménez-Gamero, María Dolores; Vilca-Labra, Filidor; Rojas-Medar, Marko Antonio}, Continuity for \(s\)-convex fuzzy processes, 653-660 [Zbl 1113.26029] \textit{Hu, Shiyan; Huang, Han; Czarkowski, Dariusz}, Fuzzy solution for approximating constrained optimal PWM using quantum evolutionary algorithm, 661-668 [Zbl 1114.90486] \textit{Román-Flores, Heriberto; Chalco-Cano, Yurilev}, A note on chaos in fuzzy systems, 669-674 [Zbl 1059.37025] \textit{Alvgargonzález-Rodríguez, Mercedes; López-Menéndez, Ana Jesus; Pérez-Suárez, Rigoberto}, The double quadratic uncertainty measures and their economic applications, 677-684 [Zbl 1064.62004] \textit{Campos, F. Alberto; Villar, José}, Medium-term electricity generation with fuzzy availability, 685-692 [Zbl 1095.90608] \textit{Carleos, Carlos; Corral, Norberto; Lubiano, M. Asunción; Baro, Jesús Angel}, Enhanced QTL linkage analysis with DNA pooling by means of Monte Carlo EM, 693-700 [Zbl 1064.62108] \textit{Chiranjivi, G. V. S.; Nag Choudhuri, D.}, Characterization of human electrocardiogram by analyses of phase attributes, 701-708 [Zbl 1115.92308] \textit{Fernández-Álvarez, J. Paulino; Fernández-Matínez, Juan Luis; Menéndez-Pérez, C. Omar}, A posteriori inference model parameters in a geophysical inverse problem using GA, 709-716 [Zbl 1115.62364] \textit{Flórez, José Luis}, Bayesian networks to improve the balanced scorecard, 717-724 [Zbl 1115.62371] \textit{Landajo, Manuel}, Classification techniques, sample size and predictive performance: a comparative analysis based on a Spanish case, 725-732 [Zbl 1115.62334] \textit{Magnago, Karine F.; Bassanezi, Rodney C.}, Metapopulations study with subjective biotic and abiotic processes, 733-740 [Zbl 1055.92044] \textit{Lawry, Jonathan; Han, Dawei; Cluckie, Ian D.}, Fuzzy rule generation in hydrological modelling, 741-748 [Zbl 1114.68545] \textit{Popescu, Theodor D.}, Robust change detection method using Akaike information criterion for signal segmentation, 749-756 [Zbl 1062.94523]