Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Applications : 13th International Conference, IPMU 2010, Dortmund, Germany, June 28-July 2, 2010. Proceedings, Part II

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, held in Dortmund, Germany, in June 2010. Front Matter....Pages - Data-Driven Design of Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems for Predicting NOx Emissions....Pages 1-10 Coping with Uncertainty in Temporal Gene Expressions Using Symbolic Representations....Pages 11-20 Olive Trees Detection in Very High Resolution Images....Pages 21-29 A Fast Recursive Approach to Autonomous Detection, Identification and Tracking of Multiple Objects in Video Streams under Uncertainties....Pages 30-43 Soft Concept Hierarchies to Summarise Data Streams and Highlight Anomalous Changes....Pages 44-54 Using Enriched Ontology Structure for Improving Statistical Models of Gene Annotation Sets....Pages 55-64 Predicting Outcomes of Septic Shock Patients Using Feature Selection Based on Soft Computing Techniques....Pages 65-74 Obtaining the Compatibility between Musicians Using Soft Computing....Pages 75-84 Consistently Handling Geographical User Data....Pages 85-94 A Model Based on Outranking for Database Preference Queries....Pages 95-104 Incremental Membership Function Updates....Pages 105-114 A New Approach for Comparing Fuzzy Objects....Pages 115-125 Generalized Fuzzy Comparators for Complex Data in a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database Management System....Pages 126-136 The Bipolar Semantics of Querying Null Values in Regular and Fuzzy Databases....Pages 137-146 Describing Fuzzy DB Schemas as Ontologies: A System Architecture View....Pages 147-157 Using Textual Dimensions in Data Warehousing Processes....Pages 158-167 Uncertainty Estimation in the Fusion of Text-Based Information for Situation Awareness....Pages 168-177 Aggregation of Partly Inconsistent Preference Information....Pages 178-187 Risk Neutral Valuations Based on Partial Probabilistic Information....Pages 188-197 A New Contextual Discounting Rule for Lower Probabilities....Pages 198-207 The Power Average Operator for Information Fusion....Pages 208-220 Performance Comparison of Fusion Operators in Bimodal Remote Sensing Snow Detection....Pages 221-230 Color Recognition Enhancement by Fuzzy Merging....Pages 231-240 Towards a New Generation of Indicators for Consensus Reaching Support Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets....Pages 241-250 Multiagent Decision Making, Fuzzy Prevision, and Consensus....Pages 251-260 A Categorical Approach to the Extension of Social Choice Functions....Pages 261-270 Signatures for Assessment, Diagnosis and Decision-Making in Ageing....Pages 271-279 A Default Risk Model in a Fuzzy Framework....Pages 280-288 On a Fuzzy Weights Representation for Inner Dependence AHP....Pages 289-297 Different Models with Fuzzy Random Variables in Single-Stage Decision Problems....Pages 298-305 A Neuro-Fuzzy Decision Support System for Selection of Small Scale Business....Pages 306-315 Bond Management: An Application to the European Market....Pages 316-323 Estimating the Brazilian Central Bank’s Reaction Function by Fuzzy Inference System....Pages 324-333 Do Uncertainty and Fuzziness Present Themselves (and Behave) in the Same Way in Hard and Human Sciences?....Pages 334-343 Some Notes on the Value of Vagueness in Everyday Communication....Pages 344-349 On Zadeh’s “The Birth and Evolution of Fuzzy Logic”....Pages 350-355 Complexity and Fuzziness in 20th Century Science and Technology....Pages 356-365 Educational Software of Fuzzy Logic and Control....Pages 366-375 A Fuzzy Distance between Two Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 376-382 On the Jaccard Index with Degree of Optimism in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 383-391 Negation Functions in the Set of Discrete Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 392-401 Trapezoidal Approximation of Fuzzy Numbers Based on Sample Data....Pages 402-411 Multiple Products and Implications in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Theory....Pages 412-419 Fuzzy Ontology and Information Granulation: An Approach to Knowledge Mobilisation....Pages 420-429 Adjoint Pairs on Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets....Pages 430-439 Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part I: Interval Approach....Pages 440-450 Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part II: Fuzzy and Gradual Interval Approach....Pages 451-460 Model Assessment Using Inverse Fuzzy Arithmetic....Pages 461-470 New Tools in Fuzzy Arithmetic with Fuzzy Numbers....Pages 471-480 Application of Gaussian Quadratures in Solving Fuzzy Fredholm Integral Equations....Pages 481-490 Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions of Fuzzy Volterra Integro-differential Equations....Pages 491-500 Expansion Method for Solving Fuzzy Fredholm-Volterra Integral Equations....Pages 501-511 Solving Fuzzy Heat Equation by Fuzzy Laplace Transforms....Pages 512-521 A New Approach for Solving First Order Fuzzy Differential Equation....Pages 522-531 A Comparison Study of Different Color Spaces in Clustering Based Image Segmentation....Pages 532-541 Retrieving Texture Images Using Coarseness Fuzzy Partitions....Pages 542-551 A Fuzzy Regional-Based Approach for Detecting Cerebrospinal Fluid Regions in Presence of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions....Pages 552-561 Probabilistic Scene Models for Image Interpretation....Pages 562-571 Motion Segmentation Algorithm for Dynamic Scenes over H.264 Video....Pages 572-581 Using Stereo Vision and Fuzzy Systems for Detecting and Tracking People....Pages 582-591 Group Anonymity....Pages 592-601 Anonymizing Categorical Data with a Recoding Method Based on Semantic Similarity....Pages 602-611 Addressing Complexity in a Privacy Expert System....Pages 612-621 Privacy-Protected Camera for the Sensing Web....Pages 622-631 Bayesian Network-Based Approaches for Severe Attack Prediction and Handling IDSs’ Reliability....Pages 632-642 Structuring and Presenting the Distributed Sensory Information in the Sensing Web....Pages 643-652 Evaluation of Privacy Protection Techniques for Speech Signals....Pages 653-662 Digital Diorama: Sensing-Based Real-World Visualization....Pages 663-672 Personalizing Public and Privacy-Free Sensing Information with a Personal Digital Assistant....Pages 673-679 The Open Data Format and Query System of the Sensing Web....Pages 680-689 See-Through Vision: A Visual Augmentation Method for Sensing-Web....Pages 690-699 Manufacturing Virtual Sensors at Caterpillar, Inc.....Pages 700-708 Modelling Low-Carbon UK Energy System Design through 2050 in a Collaboration of Industry and the Public Sector....Pages 709-718 A Remark on Adaptive Scheduling of Optimization Algorithms....Pages 719-728 An Adaptive Fuzzy Model Predictive Control System for the Textile Fiber Industry....Pages 729-736 Methodology for Evaluation of Linked Multidimensional Measurement System with Balanced Scorecard....Pages 737-746 Predictive Probabilistic and Possibilistic Models Used for Risk Assessment of SLAs in Grid Computing....Pages 747-757 Back Matter....Pages - The International Conference on Information Processing and Management of - certainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU, is organized every two years with the aim of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems. Since 1986, this conference has been providing a forum for the exchange of ideas between th theoreticians and practitioners working in these areas and related ?elds. The 13 IPMU conference took place in Dortmund, Germany, June 28-July 2, 2010. This volume contains 79 papers selected through a rigorous reviewing process. The contributions re?ect the richness of research on topics within the scope of the conference and represent several important developments, speci?cally focused on theoretical foundations and methods for information processing and management of uncertainty in knowledge-based systems. We were delighted that Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University, USA), Nihkil R. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute), Bernhard Sch ̈ olkopf (Max Planck I- titute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubing ̈ en, Germany) and Wolfgang Wahlster (German Research Center for Arti?cial Intelligence, Saarbruc ̈ ken) accepted our invitations to present keynote lectures. Jim Bezdek received the Kamp ́ede F ́ eriet Award, granted every two years on the occasion of the IPMU conference, in view of his eminent research contributions to the handling of uncertainty in clustering, data analysis and pattern recognition