Foundations of intelligent systems : 13th International Symposium, ISMIS 2002, Lyon, France, June 27-29, 2002 : proceedings

Constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, held in France in 2002. The 63 papers cover learning and knowledge discovery, intelligent user interfaces and ontologies, logic for AI, knowledge representation and reasoning, and more. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2002, held in Lyon, France, in June 2002. The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 160 submissions. The book offers topical sections on learning and knowledge discovery, intelligent user interfaces and ontologies, logic for AI, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent information retrieval, soft computing, intelligent information systems, and methodologies Knowledge Representation for Information Integration....Pages 1-3 Infrastructure and Interoperability for Agent-Mediated Services....Pages 4-4 Improving Classification by Removing or Relabeling Mislabeled Instances....Pages 5-15 Incremental Learning with Partial Instance Memory....Pages 16-27 KDD-Based Approach to Musical Instrument Sound Recognition....Pages 28-36 Learning Significant Alignments: An Alternative to Normalized Local Alignment....Pages 37-45 A Plausibility Description Logics for Reasoning with Information Sources Having Different Formats and Structures....Pages 46-54 Roles of Ontologies for Web Intelligence....Pages 55-65 Handling Semantic Inconsistencies in Distributed Knowledge Systems Using Ontologies....Pages 66-74 Structured Ontology and Information Retrieval for Email Search and Discovery....Pages 75-84 Conceptual Clustering of Heterogeneous Sequences via Schema Mapping....Pages 85-93 Is a Greedy Covering Strategy an Extreme Boosting?....Pages 94-102 Acquisition of a Knowledge Dictionary from Training Examples Including Multiple Values....Pages 103-113 Mining Bayesian Network Structure for Large Sets of Variables....Pages 114-122 Automatic Generation of Trivia Questions....Pages 123-130 Answering Queries Addressed to Several Databases: A Query Evaluator which Implements a Majority Merging Approach....Pages 131-139 Minimal Generalizations under OI-Implication....Pages 140-148 I-Search: A System for Intelligent Information Search on the Web....Pages 149-157 Four-Valued Knowledge Augmentation for Representing Structured Documents....Pages 158-166 WISECON — An Intelligent Assistant for Buying Computers on the Internet....Pages 167-175 Basic Semantics of the Logic of Plausible Reasoning....Pages 176-184 Logic-Based Reasoning on Delegatable Authorizations....Pages 185-193 Mixing Selections and Foreign Key Joins in Queries against Possibilistic Databases....Pages 194-202 Aggregates as Meta Functions....Pages 203-212 A Knowledge-Based Approach to Querying Heterogeneous Databases....Pages 213-222 Using User Profiles in Intelligent Information Retrieval....Pages 223-231 Partition-Refining Algorithms for Learning Finite State Automata....Pages 232-243 Computing Full and Iceberg Datacubes Using Partitions....Pages 244-254 A Dynamic Approach to Dimensionality Reduction in Relational Learning....Pages 255-264 Incremental and Dynamic Text Mining....Pages 265-273 A Logic Framework for the Integration of Databases....Pages 274-284 Inference for Annotated Logics over Distributive Lattices....Pages 285-293 Disjunctive Logic Programs with Inheritance Revisited....Pages 294-302 Knowledge Constructions for Artificial Intelligence....Pages 303-311 Validation and Reparation of Knowledge Bases....Pages 312-320 Automated Discovery of Decision Rule Chains Using Rough Sets and Medical Diagnostic Model....Pages 321-332 Inheriting Parents Operators: A New Dynamic Strategy for Improving Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 333-341 An Intelligent Web Recommendation System: A Web Usage Mining Approach....Pages 342-350 Porphyry 2001: Semantics for Scholarly Publications Retrieval....Pages 351-361 Preprocessor to Improve Performance of GA in Determining Bending Process for Sheet Metal Industry....Pages 362-373 Recognizing and Discovering Complex Events in Sequences....Pages 374-382 Why to Apply Generalized Disjunction-Free Generators Representation of Frequent Patterns?....Pages 383-392 Trading-Off Local versus Global Effects of Regression Nodes in Model Trees....Pages 393-402 An Efficient Intelligent Agent System for Automated Recommendation in Electronic Commerce....Pages 403-411 Matching an XML Document against a Set of DTDs....Pages 412-422 Decision Tree Modeling with Relational Views....Pages 423-431 Discovering Sequential Association Rules with Constraints and Time Lags in Multiple Sequences....Pages 432-441 Mining Association Rules in Preference-Ordered Data....Pages 442-450 Unknown Attribute Values Processing by Meta-learner....Pages 451-461 Intelligent Buffer Cache Management in Multimedia Data Retrieval....Pages 462-471 A Logical Formalization of Semistructured Data Models....Pages 472-481 Solving Travel Problems by Integrating W eb Information with Planning....Pages 482-490 A Framework for Generating Task Specific Information Extraction Systems....Pages 491-502 A Formal Framework for Reasoning on UML Class Diagrams....Pages 503-513 A Biological Approach to the Development of Computer Autoimmune Systems....Pages 514-525 Adaptive Layout Analysis of Document Images....Pages 526-534 A NLG-Based Presentation Method for Supporting KDD End-Users....Pages 535-543 A Tool Supported Structured Method for Planning Domain Acquisition....Pages 544-552 Probabilistic Aggregates....Pages 553-564 Samples for Understanding Data-Semantics in Relations....Pages 565-573 Cooperation of Multiple Strategies for Automated Learning in Complex Environments....Pages 574-582 Classifier Fusion Using Local Confidence....Pages 583-591 Feature Selection for Ensembles of Simple Bayesian Classifiers....Pages 592-600 Data Squashing for Speeding Up Boosting-Based Outlier Detection....Pages 601-611 This Volume Contains The Papers Selected For Presentation At The 13th International Symposium On Methodologies For Intelligent Systems Ismis 2002, Held In Lyon, France, 27-29 June, 2002. The Symposium Was Organized By The UniversitØ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, The UniversitØ Lumière Lyon 2, L’institut National Des Sciences AppliquØes De Lyon, And Hosted By The UniversitØ Claude Bernard Lyon 1. The Ismis Conference Series Was Started In 1986 In Knoxville, Tennessee. Since Then It Has Been Held In Charlotte (north Carolina), Knoxville (tennessee), Turin (italy), Trondheim (norway), Warsaw (poland), And Zakopane (poland). The Program Committee Selected The Following Major Areas For Ismis 2002: Intelligent Multimedia, Intelligent Information Retrieval, Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Representation And Integration, Learning And Knowledge Discovery, Logic For Artificial Intelligence, Methodologies (modeling, Design, Validation, Performance Evaluation), And Soft Computing. The Contributed Papers Were Selected From Approximately 160 Full Draft Papers By The Following Program Committee: L. Carlucci Aiello, N. Belkhiter, P. Berka, E. Bertino, P. Bosc, H. Briand, J. Calmet, S. Carberry, L. Carbonara, B. Catania, T. Catarci, N.j. Cercone, J. Chen, W. Chu, L. De Raedt, J. Debenham, R. Demolombe, B.c. Desai, E. El-kwae, T. Elomaa, P. Emmerman, F. Esposito, J. Fan, P.a. Flach, P. Gallinari, A. Giordana, M.-s. Hacid, M. Hadzikadic, H.j. Hamilton, D. Hislop, C.a. Johnson, W. Kloesgen, Y. Kodratoff, L. Lakhal, T.y. Lin, D. Malerba, D. Maluf, S. Matwin, R. Meersman, R.s. Michalski, S. Miguet, M. Mukaidono, N. Nicoloyannis, S. Ohsuga, L. Knowledge Representation For Information Integration / Marie-christine Rousset -- Infrastructure And Interoperability For Agent-mediated Services / Katia Sycara -- Improving Classification By Removing Or Relabeling Mislabeled Instances / Stephane Lallich, Fabrice Muhlenbach And Djamel A. Zighed -- Incremental Learning With Partial Instance Memory / Marcus A. Maloof And Rysyard S. Michalski -- Kdd-based Approach To Musical Instrument Sound Recognition / Dominik Slezak, Piotr Synak, Alicja Wieczorkowska And Jakub Wroblewski -- Learning Significant Alignments: An Internative To Normalized Local Alignment / Eric Breimer And Mark Goldberg. Mohand-saïd Hacid ... [et Al.] (eds.) Includes Bibliographical References And Index.