Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 132 Book

	New challenges in the world wide wisdom web (W4) research	1
	Grounding to the real world - architecture for ubiquitous computing	7
	Data mining : fast algorithms vs. fast results	12
	Knowledge discovery services and tools on grids	14
	Space decomposition in data mining : a clustering approach	24
	Time series rule discovery : tough, not meaningless	32
	Mining diagnostic rules with taxonomy from medical databases	40
	Comparing simplification methods for model trees with regression and splitting nodes	49
	Goodness-of-fit measures for induction trees	57
	PDL with maximum consistency monitors	65
	Comparing and merging ontologies : a concept type hierarchy approach	75
	Integrating information under lattice structure	83
	Functional ontology for intelligent instruments	88
	Constructing an ontology based on hub words	93
	Integration of heterogeneous, imprecise and incomplete data : an application to the microbiological risk assessment	98
	Intelligent protein 3D structure retrieval system	108
	Cognitive vision systems in medical applications	116
	An automated school timetabling system using hybrid intelligent techniques	124
	Representing audio data by FS-trees and adaptable TV-trees	135
	A framework of rough sets based rule generation in non-deterministic information systems	143
	Granular computing based on rough sets, quotient space theory, and belief functions	152
	Searching for the complex decision reducts : the case study of the survival analysis	160
	Clustering supermarket customers using rough set based Kohonen networks	169
	Multi-rough sets and generalizations of contexts in multi-contexts information systems	174
	Metanews : an information agent for gathering news articles on the web	179
	Enacting an agent-based digital self in a 24x7 web services world	187
	Light-weight agents for e-learning environments	197
	Towards a pragmatic methodology for open multi-agent systems	206
	Using similarity to implement distributed ubiquitous software services	211
	MIC : algebraic agent environment	216
	Using the SPACE intermediate model to help to implement agents	221
	Belief revision and text mining for adaptive recommender agents	226
	NETMARK : a schema-less extension for relational databases for managing semi-structured data dynamically	231
	Program generation for application domain users by selecting model candidates	242
	Traffic sign recognition in disturbing environments	252
	Design patterns in intelligent systems	262
	Temporal feature extraction from temporal information systems	270
	Parallel ant colony systems	279
	Some case-refinement strategies for case-based criminal summary judgments	285
	G-STRIPS - a generalized STRIPS system for handling state change over dynamic domains	292
	Classifying document titles based on information inference	297
	Building topic maps using a text mining approach	307
	Improving the performance of text classifiers by using association features	315
	Korean document summarization using topic phrases extraction and locality-based similarity	320
	Improving naive Bayes text classifer with modified EM algorithm	326
	Mining environmental texts of images in web pages for image retrieval	334
	Towards a contextual content of ontologies	339
	An email classifier based on resemblance	344
	The characterization on the uniqueness of answer set for prioritized logic programs	349
	A new approach to constraint inductive logic programming	357
	Extending the CLP engine for reasoning under uncertainty	365
	Logic for multi-path message forwarding networks for mobile agents	374
	[theta]-subsumption and resolution : a new algorithm	384
	Supporting e-consent on health data by logic	392
	Towards the theory of relaxed unification	397
	Probability logic modeling of knowledge discovery in databases	402
	Constructing extensions of Bayesian classifiers with use of normalizing neural networks	408
	Fuzzy multiset model for information retrieval and clustering using a kernel function	417
	Validation of fuzzy partitions obtained through fuzzy C-means clustering	422
	Generating fuzzy thesaurus by degree of similarity in fuzzy covering	427
	Design of iconic language interface for semantic based Korean language generation	433
	Incremental feature extraction based on empirical kernel map	440
	On lookahead heuristics in decision tree learning	445
	Empirical evaluation of dissimilarity measures for time-series multiscale matching	454
	First-order rules mining guided by information gain	463
	Simultaneous row and column partitioning : evaluation of a heuristic	468
	Partial prefix sum method for large data warehouses	473
	Spatio-temporal association mining for un-sampled sites	478
	Development of generic search method based on transformation invariance	486
	Hierarchical ordering for approximate similarity ranking	496
	Space transformation based approach for effective content-based image retrieval	501
	Collaborative filtering - safe and sound?	506
	RNA structure as permutation : a GA approach comparing different genetic sequencing operators	511
	Evolutionary computation for optimal ensemble classifier in lymphoma cancer classification	521
	Floorplan design using improved genetic algorithm	531
	Some enhancements in genetic learning : a case study on initial population	539
	Comparing hierarchical Markov networks and multiply sectioned Bayesian networks	544
	Constraint propagation to semantic web services discovery	554
	Reasoning in data integration systems : why LAV and GAV are siblings	562
	Design of an adaptive web merchandising system using data mining	572
	Minutiae extraction from fingerprint images using run-length code	577
	Endpoint detection of isolated Korean utterances for bimodal speech recognition in acoustic noisy environments	585
	Enhanced active shape models with global texture constraints for image analysis	593
	Discovering structures in video databases	598
	Theoretical evaluation of ring-based architectural model for middle agents in agent-based system	603
	Multi-attributes-based negotiation agent and e-marketplace in customer-to-customer electronic commerce	608
	A feature analysis framework for evaluating multi-agent system development methodologies	613
	Decentralized control (obligations and permissions in virtual communities of agents)	618
	An intelligent agent for automatic course adaptation	623
	An exploration of bugs and debugging in multi-agent systems	628
	A framework for building competency-based systems dedicated to human resource management	633
	Extracting the most discriminant subset from a pool of candidates to optimize discriminant classifier training	640
	Knowledge engineering of intelligent sales-recruitment system using multi-layered agent methodology	646
	The KAMET II methodology : a modern approach for building diagnosis-specialized knowledge-based systems	652
	A formal approach to describing action concepts in taxonomical knowledge bases	657
	An efficient algorithm for computing core attributes in database systems	663
	Similarity graphs	668
	Image-based flame control of a premixed gas burner using fuzzy logics	673
	Intelligent pattern recognition by feature selection through combined model of DWT and ANN	678
	Applying neural networks to study the mesoscale variability of oceanic boundary currents	684
	Dialog planning and domain knowledge modeled in terms of tasks and methods : a flexible framework for dialog managing	689
	Author index	695