ISBN: 3-540-66645-1
TITLE: New Directions in Rough Sets, Data Mining, and Granular-Soft Computing
AUTHOR: Zhong, Ning; Skowron, Andrzej; Ohsuga, Setsuo (Eds.)
TOC:

Invited Talks
Decision Rules, Bayes' Rule and Rough Sets 1
Z. Pawlak
A New Direction in System Analysis: From Computation with Measurements to Computation with Perceptions 10
L. A. Zadeh
On Text Mining Techniques for Personalization 12
C. C. Aggarwal, P. S. Yu
A Road to Discovery Science 19
S. Arikawa
Rough Computing: Foundations and Applications 
Calculi of Granules Based on Rough Set Theory: Approximate Distributed Synthesis and Granular Semantics for Computing with Words 20
L. Polkowski, A. Skowron
Discovery of Rules about Complications 29
S. Tsumoto
Rough Genetic Algorithms 38
P. Lingras, C. Davies
Classifying Faults in High Voltage Power Systems: A Rough-Fuzzy Neural Computational Approach 47
L. Han, J. F. Peters, S. Ramanna, R. Zhai
Rough Set Theory and Its Applications
Toward Spatial Reasoning in the Framework of Rough Mereology 55
L. Polkowski
An Algorithm for Finding Equivalence Relations from Tables
with Non-deterministic Information 64
H. Sakai, A. Okuma
On the Extension of Rough Sets under Incomplete Information 73
J. Stefanowski, A. Tsoukias
On Rough Relations: An Alternative Formulation 82
Y. Y. Yao, T. Wang
Formal Rough Concept Analysis 91
J. Saquer, J. S. Deogun
Noise Reduction in Telecommunication Channels
Using Rough Sets and Neural Networks 100
R. Krolikowski, A. Czyzewski
Rough Set Analysis of Electrostimilation Test Database for the Prediction of Post-Operative Profits in Cochlear Implanted Patients 109
A. Czyzewski, H. Skarzynski, B. Kostek, R. Krolikowski
A Rough Set-Based Approach to Text Classification 118
A. Chouchoulas, Q. Shen
Modular Rough Fuzzy MLP: Evolutionary Design 128
P. Mitra, S. Mitra, S. K. Pal
Approximate Reducts and Association Rules: Correspondence and Complexity Results 137
H. S. Nguyen, D. Slezak
Handling Missing Values in Rough Set Analysis of Multi-Attribute and Multi-Criteria Decision Problems 146
S. Greco, B. Matarazzo, R. Slowinski
The Generic Rough Set Inductive Logic Programming Model and Motifs in Strings 158
A. Siromoney, K. Inoue
Rough Problem Settings for Inductive Logic Programming 168
C. Liu, N. Zhong
Using Rough Sets with Heuristics to Feature Selection 178
J. Z. Dong, N. Zhong, S. Ohsuga
The Discretization of Continuous Attributes Based on Compatibility
Rough Set and Genetic Algorithm 188
L. Sun, W. Gao
Fuzzy Set Theory and Its Applications
Level Cut Conditioning Approach to the Necessity Measure Specification 193
M. Inuiguchi, T. Tanino
Four c-regression Methods and Classification Functions 203
S. Miyamoto, K. Umayahara, T. Nemoto
Context-Free Fuzzy Sets in Data Mining Context 212
S. Tsumoto, T. Y. Lin
Applying Fuzzy Hypothesis Testing to Medical Data 221
M. Last, A. Schenker, A. Kandel
Generating A Macroeconomic Fuzzy Forecasting System
Using Evolutionary Search 230
R. Veliev, A. Rubinov, A. Stranieri
Fuzzy Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Nonlinearized Parameterization 239
H. Han, H. Kawabata
Control of Chaotic Systems Using Fuzzy Model-Based Regulators 248
K. Watanabe, L. Udawatta, K. Kiguchi, K. Izumi
Fuzzy Behavior-Based Control for the Obstacle Avoidance of Multi-Link Manipulators 257
P. Dassanayake, K. Watanabe, K. Izumi
Fuzzy Future Value and Annual Cash Flow Analyses 266
N. Cetin, C. Kahraman
Semi-Linear Equation with Fuzzy Parameters 271
S. Melliani
Non-Classical Logic and Approximate Reasoning First Order Rough Logic-Revisited 276
T. Y. Lin, Q. Liu
A Generalized Decision Logic in Interval-set-valued Information Tables 285
Y. Y. Yao, Q. Liu
Many-Valued Dynamic Logic for Qualitative Decision Theory 294
C. J. Liau
Incorporating Fuzzy Set Theory and Matrix Logic in Multi-Layer Logic 304
H. Yamauchi, S. Ohsuga
Fuzzy Logic as Interfacing Media for Constraint Propagation
Based on Theories of Chu Space and Information Flow 314
K. Sato, T. Horiuchi, T. Hiraoka, H. Kawakami, O. Katai
Pattern Reasoning: A New Solution for Knowledge Acquisition Problem 324
H. Tsukimoto
Probabilistic Inference and Bayesian Theorem Based
on Logical Implication 334
Y. Yamauchi, M. Mukaidono
Reasoning with Neural Logic Networks 343
R. Yasdi
The Resolution for Rough Propositional Logic with Lower (L)
and Upper (H) Approximate Operators 352
Q. Liu
Information Granulation and Granular Computing
Information Granules in Distributed Environment 357
A. Skowron, J. Stepaniuk
Evolving Granules for Classification for Discovering Difference in the Usage of Words 366
T. Yoshida, T. Kondo, S. Nishida
Interval Evaluation by AHP with Rough Sets Concept 375
K. Sugihara, Y. Maeda, H. Tanaka
Interval Density Functions in Conflict Analysis 382
Y. Maeda, K. Senoo, H. Tanaka
Incorporating Personal Databases by G ranular Computing 390
Y. Kakemoto
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge-Driven Discovery of Operational Definitions 395
J. M. Zytkow
A Closest Fit Approach to Missing Attribute Values in Preterm Birth Data 405
J. W. Grzymala-Busse, W. J. Grzymala-Busse, L. K. Goodwin
Visualizing Discovered Rule Sets with Visual Graphs Based on Compressed Entropy Density 414
E. Suzuki, H. Ishihara
A Distance-Based Clustering and Selection of Association Rules on Numeric Attributes 423
X. Du, S. Suzuki, N. Ishii
Knowledge Discovery for Protein Tertiary Substructures 433
C. K. Chen, D. Y. Y. Yun
Integrating Classification and Association Rule Mining: A Concept Lattice Framework 443
K. Hu, Y. Lu, L. Zhou, C. Shi
Using Rough Genetic and Kohonen's Neural Network for Conceptual Cluster Discovery in Data Mining 448
H. Kiem, D. Phuc
Towards Automated Optimal Equity Portfolios Discovery in A Knowledge Sharing Financial Data Warehouse 453
Y. C. Lu, H. Cheng
Rule-Evolver: An Evolutionary Approach for Data Mining 458
C. Lopes, M. Pacheco, M. Vellasco, E. Passos
Machine Learning
Decision Making with Probabilistic Decision Tables 463
W. Ziarko
The Iterated Version Space Learning 472
J. J. Zhang, N. Cercone
An Empirical Study on Rule Quality Measures 482
A. An, N. Cercone
Rules as Attributes in Classifier Construction 492
M. S. Szczuka
An Algorithm to Find the Optimized Network Structure
in An Incremental Learning 500
J. C. Lee, W. D. Lee, M. S. Han
Patterns in Numerical Data: Practical Approximations
to Kolmogorov Complexity 509
T. Y. Lin
Performance Prediction for Classification Systems 514
F. Sun
Intelligent Agents and Systems
Flexible Optimization and Evolution of Underwater
Autonomous Agents 519
E. Eberbach, R. Brooks, S. Phoha
Ontology-Based Multi-Agent Model of An Information Security System 528
V. I. Gorodetski, L. J. Popyack, I. V. Kotenko, V. A. Skormin
Optimal Multi-Scale Time Series Decomposition for Financial Forecasting Using Wavelet Thresholding Techniques 533
T. Shin, I. Han
Computerized Spelling Recognition of Words Expressed in the Sound Approach 543
M. Higgins, W. Ziarko
An Adaptive Handwriting Recognition System 551
G. Qian 
Author Index 557
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