Foundations of Intelligent Systems

by International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2003; Ras, Zbigniew W.; Zhong, Ning; Tsumoto, Shusaku

• ISBN13: 9783540202561
• ISBN10: 3540202560
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2003, held in Maebashi City, Japan in October 2003. The 97 revised papers presented together with extended abstracts of 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from close to 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge representation and integration, intelligent information systems, rough sets, intelligent agent technologies, text mining, AI logic and logic programming, soft computing, intelligent information retrieval, automatic and evolutionary computation, and multimedia data processing.

Table of Contents

Invited Papers
New Challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Research	1	(6)
Jiming Liu
Grounding to the Real World -- Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing	7	(5)
Hideyuki Nakashima
Data Mining: Fast Algorithms vs. Fast Results	12	(2)
Raghu Ramakrishnan
Knowledge Discovery Services and Tools on Grids	14	(10)
Domenico Talia
Regular Papers
1A Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (1)
Space Decomposition in Data Mining: A Clustering Approach	24	(8)
Lior Rokach
Oded Maimon
Inbal Lavi
Time Series Rule Discovery: Tough, Not Meaningless	32	(8)
Zbigniew R. Struzik
Mining Diagnostic Rules with Taxonomy from Medical Databases	40	(9)
Shusaku Tsumoto
Comparing Simplification Methods for Model Trees with Regression and Splitting Nodes	49	(8)
Michelangelo Ceci
Annalisa Appice
Donato Malerba
Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Induction Trees	57	(8)
Gilbert Ritschard
Djamel A. Zighed
1B Knowledge Representation and Integration
PDL with Maximum Consistency Monitors	65	(10)
Elisa Bertino
Alessandra Mileo
Alessandro Provetti
Comparing and Merging Ontologies: A Concept Type Hierarchy Approach	75	(8)
Dan Corbett
Integrating Information under Lattice Structure	83	(5)
V. Phan-Luong
T. T. Pham
R. Jeansoulin
Functional Ontology for Intelligent Instruments	88	(5)
Richard Dapoigny
Eric Benoit
Laurent Foulloy
Constructing an Ontology Based on Hub Words	93	(5)
Sang Ok Koo
Soo Yeon Lim
Sang Jo Lee
2A Intelligent Information Systems (1)
Integration of Heterogeneous, Imprecise and Incomplete Data: An Application to the Microbiological Risk Assessment	98	(10)
Patrice Buche
Ollivier Haemmerle
Rallou Thomopoulos
Intelligent Protein 3D Structure Retrieval System	108	(8)
Yiqiang Chen
Wen Gao
Lijuan Duan
Xiang Chen
Charles X. Ling
Cognitive Vision Systems in Medical Applications	116	(8)
Marek R. Ogiela
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz
An Automated School Timetabling System Using Hybrid Intelligent Techniques	124	(11)
Alvin C.M. Kwan
Ken C.K. Chung
Kammy K.K. Yip
Vincent Tam
Representing Audio Data by FS-Trees and Adaptable TV-Trees	135	(8)
Alicja A. Wieczorkowska
Zbigniew W. Ras
Li-Shiang Tsay
2B Rough Sets
A Framework of Rough Sets Based Rule Generation in Non-deterministic Information Systems	143	(9)
Hiroshi Sakai
Granular Computing Based on Rough Sets, Quotient Space Theory, and Belief Functions	152	(8)
Yiyu Yao
Churn-Jung Liau
Ning Zhong
Searching for the Complex Decision Reducts: The Case Study of the Survival Analysis	160	(9)
Jan Bazan
Andrzej Skowron
Dominik Slezak
Jakub Wroblewski
Clustering Supermarket Customers Using Rough Set Based Kohonen Networks	169	(5)
Pawan Lingras
Mofreh Hogo
Miroslav Snorek
Bill Leonard
Multi-rough Sets and Generalizations of Contexts in Multi-contexts Information System	174	(5)
Rolly Intan
Masao Mukaidono
3A Intelligent Agent Technology (1)
MetaNews: An Information Agent for Gathering News Articles on the Web	179	(8)
Dae-Ki Kang
Joongmin Choi
Enacting an Agent-Based Digital Self in a 24x7 Web Services World	187	(10)
Steve Goschnick
Light-Weight Agents for E-learning Environments	197	(9)
Kevin Chan
Leon Sterling
Towards a Pragmatic Methodology for Open Multi-agent Systems	206	(5)
Philippe Mathieu
Jean-Christophe Routier
Yann Secq
Using Similarity to Implement Distributed Ubiquitous Software Services	211	(5)
Abdelkader Gouaich
MIC*: Algebraic Agent Environment	216	(5)
Abdelkader Gouaich
Yves Guiraud
Using the SPACE Intermediate Model to Help to Implement Agents	221	(5)
Dominique Fournier
Bruno Mermet
Gaele Simon
Marianne Flouret
Belief Revision and Text Mining for Adaptive Recommender Agents	226	(5)
Raymond Y.K. Lau
Peter van den Brand
3B Intelligent Information Systems (2)
Netmark: A Schema-Less Extension for Relational Databases for Managing Semi-structured Data Dynamically	231	(11)
David A. Maluf
Peter B. Tran
Program Generation for Application Domain Users by Selecting Model Candidates	242	(10)
Takumi Aida
Setsuo Ohsuga
Traffic Sign Recognition in Disturbing Environments	252	(10)
Hsiu-Ming Yang
Chao-Lin Liu
Kun-Hao Liu
Shang-Ming Huang
Design Patterns in Intelligent Systems	262	(8)
James F. Peters
Temporal Feature Extraction from Temporal Information Systems	270	(9)
Piotr Synak
Parallel Ant Colony Systems	279	(6)
Shu-Chuan Chu
John F. Roddick
Jeng-Shyang Pan
Che-Jen Su
Some Case-Refinement Strategies for Case-Based Criminal Summary Judgments	285	(7)
Chao-Lin Liu
Tseng-Chung Chang
G-STRIPS -- A Generalized STRIPS System for Handling State Change over Dynamic Domains	292	(5)
Yan Zhang
Yun Bai
4A Text Mining
Classifying Document Titles Based on Information Inference	297	(10)
Dawei Song
Peter Bruza
Zi Huang
Raymond Lau
Building Topic Maps Using a Text Mining Approach	307	(8)
Hsin-Chang Yang
Chung-Hong Lee
Improving the Performance of Text Classifiers by Using Association Features	315	(5)
Yang Zhang
Lijun Zhang
Zhanhuai Li
Jianfeng Yan
Korean Document Summarization Using Topic Phrases Extraction and Locality-Based Similarity	320	(6)
Je Ryu
Kwang-Rok Han
Kee-Wook Rim
Improving Naive Bayes Text Classifier with Modified EM Algorithm	326	(8)
Han-joon Kim
Jae-young Chang
Mining Environmental Texts of Images in Web Pages for Image Retrieval	334	(5)
Hsin-Chang Yang
Chung-Hong Lee
Towards a Contextual Content of Ontologies	339	(5)
Djamal Benslimane
Catherine Roussey
Christelle Vangenot
Ahmed Arara
An Email Classifier Based on Resemblance	344	(5)
Chung Keung Poon
Matthew Chang
4B Logic for AI and Logic Programming
The Characterization on the Uniqueness of Answer Set for Prioritized Logic Programs	349	(8)
Yan Zhang
Yun Bai
A New Approach to Constraint Inductive Logic Programming	357	(8)
Lei Zheng
Chunnian Liu
Dong Jia
Ning Zhong
Extending the CLP Engine for Reasoning under Uncertainty	365	(9)
Nicos Angelopoulos
Logic for Multi-path Message Forwarding Networks for Mobile Agents	374	(10)
Masahito Kurihara
Masanobu Numazawa
θ-Subsumption and Resolution: A New Algorithm	384	(8)
S. Ferilli
N. Di Mauro
T.M.A. Basile
F. Esposito
Supporting E-consent on Health Data by Logic	392	(5)
Chun Ruan
Vijay Varadharajan
Towards the Theory of Relaxed Unification	397	(5)
Tony Abou-Assaleh
Nick Cercone
Vlado Keselj
Probability Logic Modeling of Knowledge Discovery in Databases	402	(6)
Jitender Deogun
Liying Jiang
Ying Xie
Vijay Raghavan
5A Soft Computing
Constructing Extensions of Bayesian Classifiers with Use of Normalizing Neural Networks	408	(9)
Dominik Slezak
Jakub Wroblewski
Marcin Szczuka
Fuzzy Multiset Model for Information Retrieval and Clustering Using a Kernel Function	417	(5)
Kiyotaka Mizutani
Sadaaki Miyamoto
Validation of Fuzzy Partitions Obtained through Fuzzy C-Means Clustering	422	(5)
Dae-Won Kim
Kwang H. Lee
Generating Fuzzy Thesaurus by Degree of Similarity in Fuzzy Covering	427	(6)
Rolly Intan
Masao Mukaidono
Design of Iconic Language Interface for Semantic Based Korean Language Generation	433	(7)
Kyonam Choo
Hyunjae Park
Hongki Min
Yoseop Woo
Seokhoon Kang
Incremental Feature Extraction Based on Empirical Kernel Map	440	(5)
Byung Joo Kim
Joo Yong Shim
Chang Ha Hwang
Il Kon Kim
Joon Hyun Song
5B Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
On Lookahead Heuristics in Decision Tree Learning	445	(9)
Tapio Elomaa
Tuomo Malinen
Empirical Evaluation of Dissimilarity Measures for Time-Series Multiscale Matching	454	(9)
Shoji Hirano
Shusaku Tsumoto
First-Order Rules Mining Guided by Information Gain	463	(5)
Xinwu Yang
Chunnian Liu
Ning Zhong
Simultaneous Row and Column Partitioning: Evaluation of a Heuristic	468	(5)
Gilbert Ritschard
Djamel A. Zighed
Partial Prefix Sum Method for Large Data Warehouses	473	(5)
Seok-Ju Chun
Spatio-Temporal Association Mining for Un-sampled Sites	478	(8)
Dan Li
Jitender Deogun
6A Intelligent Information Retrieval
Development of Generic Search Method Based on Transformation Invariance	486	(10)
Fuminori Adachi
Takashi Washio
Hiroshi Motoda
Atsushi Fujimoto
Hidemitsu Hanafusa
Hierarchical Ordering for Approximate Similarity Ranking	496	(5)
Joselito J. Chua
Peter E. Tischer
Space Transformation Based Approach for Effective Content-Based Image Retrieval	501	(5)
Biren Shah
Vijay Raghavan
Collaborative Filtering -- Safe and Sound?	506	(5)
Michael P. O'Mahony
Neil J. Hurley
Guenole C.M. Silvestre
6B Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation
RNA Structure as Permutation: A GA Approach Comparing Different Genetic Sequencing Operators	511	(10)
Kay C. Wiese
Edward Glen
Evolutionary Computation for Optimal Ensemble Classifier in Lymphoma Cancer Classification	521	(10)
Chanho Park
Sung-Bae Cho
Floorplan Design Using Improved Genetic Algorithm	531	(8)
Kenichi Ida
Yosuke Kimura
Some Enhancements in Genetic Learning: A Case Study on Initial Population	539	(5)
Ivan Bruha
7A Intelligent Information Systems
Comparing Hierarchical Markov Networks and Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks	544	(10)
C.J. Butz
H. Geng
Constraint Propagation to Semantic Web Services Discovery	554	(8)
Salima Benbernou
Etienne Canaud
Mohand-Said Hacid
Farouk Toumani
Reasoning in Data Integration Systems: Why LAV and GAV Are Siblings	562	(10)
Andrea Cali
Design of an Adaptive Web Merchandising System Using Data Mining	572	(5)
Sung Ho Ha
7B Multi-media Data Processing
Minutiae Extraction from Fingerprint Images Using Run-Length Code	577	(8)
Jung-Hwan Shin
Hui-Yeoun Hwang
Sung-Il Chien
Endpoint Detection of Isolated Korean Utterances for Bimodal Speech Recognition in Acoustic Noisy Environments	585	(8)
Hyun-Hwa Oh
Hong-Seok Kwon
Jong-Mok Son
Keun-Sung Bae
Sung-Il Chien
Enhanced Active Shape Models with Global Texture Constraints for Image Analysis	593	(5)
Shiguang Shan
Wen Gao
Wei Wang
Debin Zhao
Baocai Yin
Discovering Structures in Video Databases	598	(5)
Hicham Hajji
Mohand-Said Hacid
Farouk Toumani
8A Intelligent Agent Technology
Theoretical Evaluation of Ring-Based Architectural Model for Middle Agents in Agent-Based System	603	(5)
Chunsheng Li
Chengqi Zhang
Longbing Cao
Multi-attributes-Based Negotiation Agent and E-marketplace in Customer-to-Customer Electronic Commerce	608	(5)
Wooju Kim
June S. Hong
Yong U. Song
A Feature Analysis Framework for Evaluating Multi-agent System Development Methodologies	613	(5)
Quynh-Nhu Numi Tran
Graham Low
Mary-Anne Williams
Decentralized Control (Obligations and Permissions in Virtual Communities of Agents)	618	(5)
Guido Boella
Leendert van der Torre
An Intelligent Agent for Automatic Course Adaptation	623	(5)
Mohammed Abdel Razek
Claude Frasson
Marc Kaltenbach
An Exploration of Bugs and Debugging in Multi-agent Systems	628	(5)
David Poutakidis
Lin Padgham
Michael Winikoff
8B Intelligent Information Systems
A Framework for Building Competency-Based Systems Dedicated to Human Resource Management	633	(7)
Francky Trichet
Michel Leclere
Extracting the Most Discriminant Subset from a Pool of Candidates to Optimize Discriminant Classifier Training	640	(6)
Carlos E. Vivaracho
Javier Ortega-Garcia
Luis Alonso
Q. Isaac Moro
Knowledge Engineering of Intelligent Sales-Recruitment System Using Multi-layered Agent Methodology	646	(6)
R. Khosla
T. Goonesekera
Y. Mitsukura
The KAMET II Methodology: A Modern Approach for Building Diagnosis-Specialized Knowledge-Based Systems	652	(5)
Osvaldo Cairo
Julio Cesar Alvarez
A Formal Approach to Describing Action Concepts in Taxonomical Knowledge Bases	657	(6)
Christel Kemke
An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Core Attributes in Database Systems	663	(5)
Jianchao Han
Xiaohua Hu
T. Y. Lin
8C Soft Computing
Similarity Graphs	668	(5)
Rasmus Knappe
Henrik Bulskov
Troels Andreasen
Image-Based Flame Control of a Premixed Gas Burner Using Fuzzy Logics	673	(5)
Apichart Tuntrakoon
Suwat Kuntanapreeda
Intelligent Pattern Recognition by Feature Selection through Combined Model of DWT and ANN	678	(6)
Cheol-Ki Kim
Eui-Young Cha
Tae-Soo Chon
Applying Neural Networks to Study the Mesoscale Variability of Oceanic Boundary Currents	684	(5)
Silvia S. C. Botelho
Mauricio M. Mata
Rodrigo de Bem
Igor Almeida
Dialog Planning and Domain Knowledge Modeled in Terms of Tasks and Methods: A Flexible Framework for Dialog Managing	689	(6)
Fabien Delorme
Jerome Lehuen
Author Index	695