Foundations of intelligent systems. 14th international symposium, ISMIS 2003, Maebashi City, Japan, October 28--31, 2003. Proceedings. (Q2388068)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding symposium has been reviewed (see Zbl 0992.00044). Indexed articles: \textit{Liu, Jiming}, New challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) research, 1-6 [Zbl 1070.68526] \textit{Nakashima, Hideyuki}, Grounding to the real world -- architecture for ubiquitous computing, 7-11 [Zbl 1070.68527] \textit{Ramakrishnan, Raghu}, Data mining: fast algorithms vs. fast results, 12-13 [Zbl 1070.68558] \textit{Talia, Domenico}, Knowledge discovery services and tools on grids, 14-23 [Zbl 1070.68567] \textit{Rokach, Lior; Maimon, Oded; Lavi, Inbal}, Space decomposition in data mining: a clustering approach, 24-31 [Zbl 1070.68560] \textit{Struzik, Zbigniew R.}, Time series rule discovery: tough, not meaningless, 32-39 [Zbl 1070.68565] \textit{Tsumoto, Shusaku}, Mining diagnostic rules with taxonomy from medical databases, 40-48 [Zbl 1070.68568] \textit{Ceci, Michelangelo; Appice, Annalisa; Malerba, Donato}, Comparing simplification methods for model trees with regression and splitting nodes, 49-56 [Zbl 1070.68532] \textit{Ritschard, Gilbert; Zighed, Djamel A.}, Goodness-of-fit measures for induction trees, 57-64 [Zbl 1070.68559] \textit{Bertino, Elisa; Mileo, Alessandra; Provetti, Alessandro}, PDL with maximum consistency monitors, 65-74 [Zbl 1070.68525] \textit{Corbett, Dan}, Comparing and merging ontologies: a concept type hierarchy approach, 75-82 [Zbl 1070.68615] \textit{Phan-Luong, V.; Pham, T. T.; Jeansoulin, R.}, Integrating information under lattice structure, 83-87 [Zbl 1070.68619] \textit{Dapoigny, Richard; Benoit, Eric; Foulloy, Laurent}, Functional ontology for intelligent instruments, 88-92 [Zbl 1070.68616] \textit{Koo, Sang Ok; Lim, Soo Yeon; Lee, Sang Jo}, Constructing an ontology based on hub words, 93-97 [Zbl 1070.68618] \textit{Buche, Patrice; Haemmerlé, Ollivier; Thomopoulos, Rallou}, Integration of heterogeneous, imprecise, and incomplete data: an application to the microbiological risk assessment, 98-107 [Zbl 1070.68671] \textit{Chen, Yiqiang; Gao, Wen; Duan, Lijuan; Chen, Xiang; Ling, Charles X.}, Intelligent protein 3D structure retrieval system, 108-115 [Zbl 1070.68672] \textit{Ogiela, Marek R.; Tadeusiewicz, Ryszard}, Cognitive vision systems in medical applications, 116-123 [Zbl 1070.68645] \textit{Kwan, Alvin C. M.; Chung, Ken C. K.; Yip, Kammy K. K.; Tam, Vincent}, An automated school timetabling system using hybrid intelligent techniques, 124-134 [Zbl 1070.68607] \textit{Wieczorkowska, Alicja A.; Raś, Zbigniew W.; Tsay, Li-Shiang}, Representing audio data by FS-trees and adaptable TV-trees, 135-142 [Zbl 1070.68620] \textit{Sakai, Hiroshi}, A framework of rough sets based rule generation in non-deterministic information systems, 143-151 [Zbl 1070.68640] \textit{Yao, Yiyu; Liau, Churn-Jung; Zhong, Ning}, Granular computing based on rough sets, quotient space theory, and belief functions, 152-159 [Zbl 1070.68642] \textit{Bazan, Jan; Skowron, Andrzej; Ślȩzak, Dominik; Wróblewski, Jakub}, Searching for the complex decision reducts: the case study of the survival analysis, 160-168 [Zbl 1070.68636] \textit{Lingras, Pawan; Hogo, Mofreh; Snorek, Miroslav; Leonard, Bill}, Clustering supermarket customers using rough set based Kohonen networks, 169-173 [Zbl 1070.68639] \textit{Intan, Rolly; Mukaidono, Masao}, Multi-rough sets and generalizations of contexts in multi-contexts information system, 174-178 [Zbl 1070.68637] \textit{Kang, Dae-Ki; Choi, Joongmin}, MetaNews: An information agent for gathering news articles on the Web, 179-186 [Zbl 1070.68546] \textit{Goschnick, Steve}, Enacting an agent-based digital self in a \(24\times 7\) Web services world, 187-196 [Zbl 1070.68540] \textit{Chan, Kevin; Sterling, Leon}, Light-weight agents for E-learning environments, 197-205 [Zbl 1070.68533] \textit{Mathieu, Philippe; Routier, Jean-Christophe; Secq, Yann}, Towards a pragmatic methodology for open multi-agent systems, 206-210 [Zbl 1070.68553] \textit{Gouaich, Abdelkader}, Using similarity to implement distributed ubiquitous software services, 211-215 [Zbl 1070.68624] \textit{Gouaich, Abdelkader; Guiraud, Yves}, MIC*: algebraic agent environment, 216-220 [Zbl 1070.68541] \textit{Fournier, Dominique; Mermet, Bruno; Simon, Gaële; Flouret, Marianne}, Using the SPACE intermediate model to help to implement agents, 221-225 [Zbl 1070.68539] \textit{Lau, Raymond Y. K.; van den Brand, Peter}, Belief revision and text mining for adaptive recommender agents, 226-230 [Zbl 1070.68550] \textit{Maluf, David A.; Tran, Peter B.}, NETMARK: a schema-less extension for relational databases for managing semi-structured data dynamically, 231-241 [Zbl 1070.68520] \textit{Aida, Takumi; Ohsuga, Setsuo}, Program generation for application domain users by selecting model candidates, 242-251 [Zbl 1070.68517] \textit{Yang, Hsiu-Ming; Liu, Chao-Lin; Liu, Kun-Hao; Huang, Shang-Ming}, Traffic sign recognition in disturbing environments, 252-261 [Zbl 1070.68647] \textit{Peters, James F.}, Design patterns in intelligent systems, 262-269 [Zbl 1070.68528] \textit{Synak, Piotr}, Temporal feature extraction from temporal information systems, 270-278 [Zbl 1070.68566] \textit{Chu, Shu-Chuan; Roddick, John F.; Pan, Jeng-Shyang; Su, Che-Jen}, Parallel ant colony systems, 279-284 [Zbl 1070.68534] \textit{Liu, Chao-Lin; Chang, Tseng-Chung}, Some case-refinement strategies for case-based criminal summary judgments, 285-291 [Zbl 1070.68552] \textit{Zhang, Yan; Bai, Yun}, G-STRIPS -- a generalized STRIPS system for handling state change over dynamic domains, 292-296 [Zbl 1070.68612] \textit{Song, Dawei; Bruza, Peter; Huang, Zi; Lau, Raymond}, Classifying document titles based on information inference, 297-306 [Zbl 1070.68564] \textit{Yang, Hsin-Chang; Lee, Chung-Hong}, Building topic maps using a text mining approach, 307-314 [Zbl 1070.68572] \textit{Zhang, Yang; Zhang, Lijun; Li, Zhanhuai; Yan, Jianfeng}, Improving the performance of text classifiers by using association features, 315-319 [Zbl 1070.68575] \textit{Ryu, Je; Han, Kwang-Rok; Rim, Kee-Wook}, Korean document summarization using topic phrases extraction and locality-based similarity, 320-325 [Zbl 1070.68561] \textit{Kim, Han-joon; Chang, Jae-young}, Improving Naïve Bayes text classifier with modified EM algorithm, 326-333 [Zbl 1070.68549] \textit{Yang, Hsin-Chang; Lee, Chung-Hong}, Mining environmental texts of images in web pages for image retrieval, 334-338 [Zbl 1070.68573] \textit{Benslimane, Djamal; Roussey, Catherine; Vangenot, Christelle; Arara, Ahmed}, Towards a contextual content of ontologies, 339-343 [Zbl 1070.68613] \textit{Poon, Chung Keung; Chang, Matthew}, An email classifier based on resemblance, 344-348 [Zbl 1070.68557] \textit{Zhang, Yan; Bai, Yun}, The characterization on the uniqueness of answer set for prioritized logic programs, 349-356 [Zbl 1070.68515] \textit{Zheng, Lei; Liu, Chunnian; Jia, Dong; Zhong, Ning}, A new approach to constraint inductive logic programming, 357-364 [Zbl 1070.68576] \textit{Angelopoulos, Nicos}, Extending the CLP engine for reasoning under uncertainty, 365-373 [Zbl 1070.68635] \textit{Kurihara, Masahito; Numazawa, Masanobu}, Logic for multi-path message forwarding networks for mobile agents, 374-383 [Zbl 1070.68611] \textit{Ferilli, S.; Di Mauro, N.; Basile, T. M. A.; Esposito, F.}, \(\theta\)-subsumption and resolution: a new algorithm, 384-391 [Zbl 1070.68606] \textit{Ruan, Chun; Varadharajan, Vijay}, Supporting E-consent on health data by logic, 392-396 [Zbl 1070.68632] \textit{Abou-Assaleh, Tony; Cercone, Nick; Kešelj, Vlado}, Towards the theory of relaxed unification, 397-401 [Zbl 1070.68610] \textit{Deogun, Jitender; Jiang, Liying; Xie, Ying; Raghavan, Vijay}, Probability logic modeling of knowledge discovery in databases, 402-407 [Zbl 1070.68536] \textit{Ślȩzak, Dominik; Wróblewski, Jakub; Szczuka, Marcin}, Constructing extensions of Bayesian classifiers with use of normalizing neural networks, 408-416 [Zbl 1070.68563] \textit{Mizutani, Kiyotaka; Miyamoto, Sadaaki}, Fuzzy multiset model for information retrieval and clustering using a kernel function, 417-421 [Zbl 1070.68554] \textit{Kim, Dae-Won; Lee, Kwang H.}, Validation of fuzzy partitions obtained through fuzzy c-means clustering, 422-426 [Zbl 1070.68548] \textit{Intan, Rolly; Mukaidono, Masao}, Generating fuzzy thesaurus by degree of similarity in fuzzy covering, 427-432 [Zbl 1070.68638] \textit{Choo, Kyonam; Park, Hyunjae; Min, Hongki; Woo, Yoseop; Kang, Seokhoon}, Design of iconic language interface for semantic based Korean language generation, 433-439 [Zbl 1070.68648] \textit{Kim, Byung Joo; Shim, Joo Yong; Hwang, Chang Ha; Kim, Il Kon; Song, Joon Hyun}, Incremental feature extraction based on empirical kernel map, 440-444 [Zbl 1070.68547] \textit{Elomaa, Tapio; Malinen, Tuomo}, On lookahead heuristic in decision tree learning, 445-453 [Zbl 1070.68537] \textit{Hirano, Shoji; Tsumoto, Shusaku}, Emprical evaluation of dissimilarity measures for time-series multiscale matching, 454-462 [Zbl 1070.68544] \textit{Yang, Xinwu; Liu, Chunnian; Zhong, Ning}, First-order rules mining guided by information gain, 463-467 [Zbl 1070.68574] \textit{Ritschard, Gilbert; Zighed, Djamel A.}, Simultaneous row and column partitioning: evaluation of a heuristic, 468-472 [Zbl 1070.68609] \textit{Chun, Seok-Ju}, Partial prefix sum method for large data warehouses, 473-477 [Zbl 1070.68535] \textit{Li, Dan; Deogun, Jitender}, Spatio-temporal association mining for un-sampled sites, 478-485 [Zbl 1070.68551] \textit{Adachi, Fuminori; Washio, Takashi; Motoda, Hiroshi; Fujimoto, Atsushi; Hanafusa, Hidemitsu}, Development of generic search method based on transformation invariance, 486-495 [Zbl 1070.68521] \textit{Chua, Joselíto J.; Tischer, Peter E.}, Hierarchical ordering for approximate similarity ranking, 496-500 [Zbl 1070.68605] \textit{Shah, Biren; Raghavan, Vijay}, Space transformation based approach for effective content-based image retrieval, 501-505 [Zbl 1070.68522] \textit{O'Mahony, Michael P.; Hurley, Neil J.; Silvestre, Guénolé C. M.}, Collaborative filtering -- safe and sound?, 506-510 [Zbl 1070.68630] \textit{Wiese, Kay C.; Glen, Edward}, RNA structure as permutation: a GA approach comparing different genetic sequencing operators, 511-520 [Zbl 1070.68571] \textit{Park, Chanho; Cho, Sung-Bae}, Evolutionary computation for optimal ensemble classifier in lymphoma cancer classification, 521-530 [Zbl 1070.68556] \textit{Ida, Kenichi; Kimura, Yosuke}, Floorplan design using improved genetic algorithm, 531-538 [Zbl 1070.68545] \textit{Bruha, Ivan}, Some enhancements in genetic learning: a case study on initial population, 539-543 [Zbl 1070.68530] \textit{Butz, C. J.; Geng, H.}, Comparing hierarchical Markov networks and multiply sectioned Bayesian networks, 544-553 [Zbl 1070.68614] \textit{Benbernou, Salima; Canaud, Etienne; Hacid, Mohand-Said; Toumani, Farouk}, Constraint propagation to semantic web services discovery, 554-561 [Zbl 1070.68670] \textit{Calì, Andrea}, Reasoning in data integration systems: why LAV and GAV are siblings, 562-571 [Zbl 1070.68531] \textit{Ha, Sung Ho}, Design of an adaptive Web merchandising system using data mining, 572-576 [Zbl 1070.68625] \textit{Shin, Jung-Hwan; Hwang, Hui-Yeoun; Chien, Sung-Il}, Minutiae extraction from fingerprint images using run-length code, 577-584 [Zbl 1070.68601] \textit{Oh, Hyun-Hwa; Kwon, Hong-Seok; Son, Jong-Mok; Bae, Keun-Sung; Chien, Sung-Il}, Endpoint detection of isolated Korean utterances for bimodal speech recognition in acoustic noisy environments, 585-592 [Zbl 1070.68651] \textit{Shan, Shiguang; Gao, Wen; Wang, Wei; Zhao, Debin; Yin, Baocai}, Enhanced active shape models with global texture constraints for image analysis, 593-597 [Zbl 1070.68599] \textit{Hajji, Hicham; Hacid, Mohand-Said; Toumani, Farouk}, Discovering structures in video databases, 598-602 [Zbl 1070.68542] \textit{Li, Chunsheng; Zhang, Chengqi; Cao, Longbing}, Theoretical evaluation of ring-based architectural model for middle agents in agent-based system, 603-607 [Zbl 1070.68629] \textit{Kim, Wooju; Hong, June S.; Song, Yong U.}, Multi-attributes-based negotiation agent and E-marketplace in customer-to-customer electronic commerce, 608-612 [Zbl 1070.68628] \textit{Tran, Quynh-Nhu Numi; Low, Graham; Williams, Mary-Anne}, A feature analysis framework for evaluating multi-agent system development methodologies, 613-617 [Zbl 1070.68633] \textit{Boella, Guido; van der Torre, Leendert}, Decentralized control. Obligations and permissions in virtual communities of agents, 618-622 [Zbl 1070.68622] \textit{Abdel Razek, Mohammed; Frasson, Claude; Kaltenbach, Marc}, An intelligent agent for automatic course adaptation, 623-627 [Zbl 1070.68621] \textit{Poutakidis, David; Padgham, Lin; Winikoff, Michael}, An exploration of bugs and debugging in multi-agent systems, 628-632 [Zbl 1070.68631] \textit{Trichet, Francky; Leclère, Michel}, A framework for building competency-based systems dedicated to human resource management, 633-639 [Zbl 1070.68634] \textit{Vivaracho, Carlos E.; Ortega-Garcia, Javier; Alonso, Luis; Moro, Q. Isaac}, Extracting the most discriminant subset from a pool of candidates to optimize discriminant classifier training, 640-645 [Zbl 1070.68569] \textit{Khosla, R.; Goonesekera, T.; Mitsukura, Y.}, Knowledge engineering of intelligent sales-recruitment system using multi-layered agent methodology, 646-651 [Zbl 1070.68627] \textit{Cairó, Osvaldo; Alvarez, Julio César}, The KAMET II methodology: a modern approach for building diagnosis-specialized knowledge-based systems, 652-656 [Zbl 1070.68623] \textit{Kemke, Christel}, A formal approach to describing action concepts in taxonomical knowledge bases, 657-662 [Zbl 1070.68626] \textit{Han, Jianchao; Hu, Xiaohua; Lin, T. Y.}, An efficient algorithm for computing core attributes in database systems, 663-667 [Zbl 1070.68543] \textit{Knappe, Rasmus; Bulskov, Henrik; Andreasen, Troels}, Similarity graphs, 668-672 [Zbl 1070.68617] \textit{Tuntrakoon, Apichart; Kuntanapreeda, Suwat}, Image-based flame control of a premixed gas burner using fuzzy logics, 673-677 [Zbl 1070.68646] \textit{Kim, Cheol-Ki; Cha, Eui-Young; Chon, Tae-Soo}, Intelligent pattern recognition by feature selection through combined model of DWT and ANN, 678-683 [Zbl 1070.68588] \textit{Botelho, Silvia S. C.; Mata, Mauricio M.; de Bem, Rodrigo; Almeida, Igor}, Applying neural networks to study the mesoscale variability of oceanic boundary currents, 684-688 [Zbl 1070.68529] \textit{Delorme, Fabien; Lehuen, Jérôme}, Dialog planning and domain knowledge modeled in terms of tasks and methods: a flexible framework for dialog managing, 689-693 [Zbl 1070.68649]