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

by Ning Zhong (Editor)

Invited Papers.- New Challenges in the World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Research.- Grounding to the Real World - Architecture for Ubiquitous Computing -.- Data Fast Algorithms vs. Fast Results.- Knowledge Discovery Services and Tools on Grids.- Regular Papers.- Space Decomposition in Data A Clustering Approach.- Time Series Rule Tough, Not Meaningless.- Mining Diagnostic Rules with Taxonomy from Medical Databases.- Comparing Simplification Methods for Model Trees with Regression and Splitting Nodes.- Goodness-of-Fit Measures for Induction Trees.- PDL with Maximum Consistency Monitors.- Comparing and Merging A Concept Type Hierarchy Approach.- Integrating Information under Lattice Structure.- Functional Ontology for Intelligent Instruments.- Constructing an Ontology Based on Hub Words.- Integration of Heterogeneous, Imprecise and Incomplete An Application to the Microbiological Risk Assessment.- Intelligent Protein 3D Structure Retrieval System.- Cognitive Vision Systems in Medical Applications.- An Automated School Timetabling System Using Hybrid Intelligent Techniques.- Representing Audio Data by FS-Trees and Adaptable TV-Trees.- A Framework of Rough Sets Based Rule Generation in Non-deterministic Information Systems.- Granular Computing Based on Rough Sets, Quotient Space Theory, and Belief Functions.- Searching for the Complex Decision The Case Study of the Survival Analysis.- Clustering Supermarket Customers Using Rough Set Based Kohonen Networks.- Multi-rough Sets and Generalizations of Contexts in Multi-contexts Information System.- An Information Agent for Gathering News Articles on the Web.- Enacting an Agent-Based Digital Self in a 24x7 Web Services World.- Light-Weight Agents for E-learning Environments.- Towards a Pragmatic Methodology for Open Multi-agent Systems.- Using Similarity to Implement Distributed Ubiquitous Software Services.- Algebraic Agent Environment.- Using the SPACE Intermediate Model to Help to Implement Agents.- Belief Revision and Text Mining for Adaptive Recommender Agents.- A Schema-Less Extension for Relational Databases for Managing Semi-structured Data Dynamically.- Program Generation for Application Domain Users by Selecting Model Candidates.- Traffic Sign Recognition in Disturbing Environments.- Design Patterns in Intelligent Systems.- Temporal Feature Extraction from Temporal Information Systems.- Parallel Ant Colony Systems.- Some Case-Refinement Strategies for Case-Based Criminal Summary Judgments.- G-STRIPS - A Generalized STRIPS System for Handling State Change over Dynamic Domains.- Classifying Document Titles Based on Information Inference.- Building Topic Maps Using a Text Mining Approach.- Improving the Performance of Text Classifiers by Using Association Features.- Korean Document Summarization Using Topic Phrases Extraction and Locality-Based Similarity.- Improving Naïve Bayes Text Classifier with Modified EM Algorithm.- Mining Environmental Texts of Images in Web Pages for Image Retrieval.- Towards a Contextual Content of Ontologies.- An Email Classifier Based on Resemblance.- The Characterization on the Uniqueness of Answer Set for Prioritized Logic Programs.- A New Approach to Constraint Inductive Logic Programming.- Extending the CLP Engine for Reasoning under Uncertainty.- Logic for Multi-path Message Forwarding Networks for Mobile Agents.- ?-Subsumption and A New Algorithm.- Supporting E-consent on Health Data by Logic.- Towards the Theory of Relaxed Unification.- Probability Logic Modeling of Knowledge Discovery in Databases.- Constructing Extensions of Bayesian Classifiers with Use of Normalizing Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Multiset Model for Information Retrieval and Clustering Using a Kernel Function.- Validation of Fuzzy Partitions Obtained through Fuzzy C-Means Clustering.- Generating Fuzzy Thesaurus by Degree of Similarity in Fuzzy Covering.- Design of Iconic Language Interface for Sema

716 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 2003