1998 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Book

	Fuzzy Modular Networks for Structural Systems Identification	1
	A Fuzzy System for Real-time Control of Tissue Temperature During Laser Heating	5
	Fuzzy Modeling of Fine Particle Separating Equipment	10
	A Rapid-Prototyping Approach to Fuzzy System Modeling	15
	Fuzzy Cyclic Modeling of a Periodically Perturbed Pendulum	20
	Learning Fuzzy Logic Controller for Hovering a Helicopter	25
	A Fuzzy Logic Application to Aquaculture Environment Control	29
	Classification of ECG Patterns Using Fuzzy Rules Derived from ID3-Induced Decision Trees	34
	Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in MRI by Fuzzy Neural Networks: FLVQ and FOSART	39
	Fuzzy Mining of Meterological Data	44
	Design and Tuning of Fuzzy If - Then Rules for Automatic Classification	50
	Improving Fuzzy Neural Networks using Input Parameter Training	55
	Designing Dynamic Temporally Sensitive Fuzzy Neural Networks	59
	Membership Function Optimization of A Fuzzy Controller Using Modified Tabu Search Algorithm	64
	Hardware Implementation of Fuzzy Systems	68
	Analog Realization of Fuzzifier and Defuzzifier Interfaces for Fuzzy Chips	72
	Fuzzy Replacement Analysis	77
	A Moving Average Method for Predicting Process Resource Usage Based on a State Transition Model	82
	Evaluation for a Stability of Fuzzy Decision Making Using a Sensitivity Analysis	86
	Dynamic Clustering Model for Ordinal Similarity	91
	Fuzzy Probist Reliability Assessment of Repairable Systems	96
	Analog and Fuzzy Deductive Reasoning	101
	Granularity and Specificity in Fuzzy Function Approximation	105
	Overview of Fuzzy Systems in Reengineering	110
	Causal Interactions, Fuzzy Sets and Cerebrovascular "Accident": The Limits of Evidence Based Medicine and the Advent of Complexity Based Medicine	115
	A Study of Set-Theoretic Measures for Use with the Generalized Compatibility-Based Ranking Method	124
	Enhancing Computer Science Courses with Fuzzy Set Theory	130
	Inference and Improper Knowledge Detection on Fuzzy Rules with Enhanced High-Level Fuzzy Petri Nets	135
	Fuzzy Data Mining for Querying and Retrieval of Research Archival Information	140
	Fuzzy Set Theory in Object-Oriented Databases: A Prototype Implementation Using Versant ODBMS & Visual C++	146
	Fuzzy Information Technology and Knowledge Management	151
	Processing of Binary Temporal Constructors for Fuzzily-Bounded Time Intervals in Temporal Databases	156
	Improving Classifier Accuracy By Simulating Fuzzy Boundaries Between Classes	161
	Design of Fuzzy Querying in Object-Oriented Spatial Data and Geographic Information Systems	165
	Class of Non Linear Filters based on Fuzzy Membership Functions	170
	Locating Clusters in Noisy Data: A Genetic Fuzzy c-means Clustering Algorithm	178
	A Fuzzy Angle for Artificial Vision (1)	183
	Medical Image Granulation by Fuzzy Inference	188
	On Combining Multiple Classifiers by Fuzzy Templates	193
	Image Restoration Using Parametric Adaptive Fuzzy Filter	198
	Fuzzy Power Series	203
	Efficiently Comparing Fuzzy Graphs	208
	Counting Boolean Networks are Universal Approximators	212
	Natural Extensions in Fuzzy Topology	217
	An Approach Toward Defining L-Fuzzy Lattices	221
	Cubic Splines and Fuzzy Interpolation: A Visual Comparison	226
	Fuzzy Clustering of Vitamin and Homocysteine Levels in Patients with History of Ischemic Stroke	231
	Robust Mixture Decomposition via Maximization of Trimmed Log-Likelihood with Application to Image Database Organization	237
	Fuzzy Cluster Analysis with Missing Values	242
	Querying Video Using Fuzzy Temporal Concepts	247
	Random Vector Clustering Using Fuzzy c-Means	251
	Generalized Noise Clustering as a Robust Fuzzy c-M-Estimators Model	256
	Fuzzy Clustering for Land Mine Detection	261
	Automatic Input Space Partitioning for Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems	266
	Design Issues of Fuzzy Logic Programming Languages	271
	Evolution of Fuzzy Uncertainty in Neural Network Learning	276
	Analytic Fuzzy RBF Neural Network	281
	A Fuzzy Model for Color Reproduction Assessment	286
	Defuzzification Nonmonotonicity in Material Implication Logics	291
	Perspectives on Fuzzy Systems in Computer Vision	296
	Agents, Emotional Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic	301
	Optimization of Fuzzy Systems	306
	An Artificial Neuron Approach to Speech Processing based on a Hidden Markov Model	310
	Applying Hierarchical Fuzzy Automatons to Automatic Diagnosis	315
	Fuzzy Semantics in Collaborative Processes	320
	Fuzzy Reasoning using Fuzzy Partition and its Application	324
	On Linguistic Approximation of Subnormal Fuzzy Sets	329
	Flexible, Adaptive, Automatic Fuzzy-Based Grade Assigning System	334
	A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Detector Scoring	339
	FOOM: A Fuzzy Object-Oriented Modeling for Imprecise Requirements	345
	Dynamic Monitoring and Control of Patient Anaesthetic Levels	350
	Adaptive Stochastic Resonance with Fuzzy Systems	355
	Multicriteria Decision Making Using Fuzzy Logic	360
	On Applying Fuzzy Arithmetic to Finite Element Problems	365
	Author Index	370