ISBN: 3-540-41094-5
TITLE: Foundations of Intelligent Systems
AUTHOR: Ras, Zbigniew W.; Ohsuga, Setsuo (Eds.)
TOC:

Invited Papers 
Information Retrieval Based on Statistical Language Models 1 
W. Bruce Croft 
Intelligent Agent Battlespace Augmentation 12 
Philip J. Emmerman and Uma Y. Movva 
Learning and Evolution: An Introduction to Non-darwinian Evolutionary 
Computation 21 
Ryszard S. Michalski 
Regular Papers 
1A Knowledge Discovery and Learning 
Can Relational Learning Scale Up? 31 
Attilio Giordana, Lorenza Saitta, Michele Sebag, and Marco Botta 
Discovering Geographic Knowledge: The INGENS System 40 
Donato Malerba, Floriana Esposito, Antonietta Lanza, and 
Francesca A. Lisi 
Temporal Data Mining Using Hidden Periodicity Analysis 49 
Weiqiang Lin and Mehmet A. Orgun 
Mining N-most Interesting Itemsets 59 
Ada W.-c. Fu, Renfrew W.-w. Kwong, and Jian Tang 
1B Intelligent Information Retrieval 
Repository Management in an Intelligent Indexing Approach for 
Multimedia Digital Libraries 68 
B. Armani, E. Bertino, B. Catania, D. Laradi, B. Marin, and G.P. Zarri 
Logic-Based Approach to Semistructured Data Retrieval 77 
Mohand-Sad Hacid and Farouk Toumani 
High Quality Information Retrieval for Improving the Conduct and 
Management of Research and Development 86 
Ronald N. Kostoff 
Signature-Based Indexing for Retrieval by Spatial Content in Large 
2D-String Image Databases 97 
Essam A. El-Kwae 
2A Knowledge Discovery and Learning 
Refining Logic Theories under OI-Implication 109 
Floriana Esposito, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli, and G. Semeraro 
Rule Quality Measures Improve the Accuracy of Rule Induction: 
An Experimental Approach 119 
Aijun An and Nick Cercone 
A Dynamic Approach for Knowledge Discovery of Web Access Patterns 130 
Alaaeldin Hafez 
Data Reduction via Conflicting Data Analysis 139 
M. Boussouf and M. Quafafou 
A Comparison of Rule Matching Methods Used in AQ15 and LERS 148 
Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse and Pankaj Shah 
2B Evolutionary Computation 
Evolving Behaviors for Cooperating Agents 157 
Jeffrey K. Bassett and Kenneth A. De Jong 
Evolving Finite-State Machine Strategies for Protecting Resources 166 
William M. Spears and Diana F. Gordon 
A Method of Generating Program Specification from Description of Human 
Activities 176 
Shuhei Kawasaki and Setsuo Ohsuga 
PLAtestGA: A CNF-Satisfiability Problem for the Generation of Test 
Vectors for Missing Faults in VLSI Circuits 186 
Alfredo Cruz 
Evaluating Migration Strategies for an Evolutionary Algorithm Based on 
the Constraint-Graph that Solves CSP 196 
Arturo Nez and Mara-Cristina Riff 
3A Methodologies 
Relative Robustness: An Empirical Investigation of Behaviour Based and 
Plan Based Paradigms as Environmental Conditions Change 205 
Jennifer Kashmirian and Lin Padgham 
A Heuristic for Domain Independent Planning and Its Use in an Enforced 
Hill-Climbing Algorithm 216 
Jrg Hoffmann 
Planning while Executing: A Constraint-Based Approach 228 
R. Barruffi, M. Milano, and P. Torroni 
3B Intelligent Information Systems 
Problem Decomposition and Multi-agent System Creation for Distributed 
Problem Solving 237 
Katsuaki Tanaka, Michiko Higashiyama, and Setsuo Ohsuga 
A Comparative Study of Noncontextual and Contextual Dependencies 247 
S.K.M. Wong and C.J. Butz 
Extended Query Answering Using Integrity Rules 256 
Barry G.T. Lowden and Jerome Robinson 
4A Knowledge Discovery and Learning 
Finding Temporal Relations: Causal Bayesian Networks vs. C4.5 266 
Kamran Karimi and Howard J. Hamilton 
Learning Relational Clichs with Contextual LGG 274 
Johanne Morin and Stan Matwin 
Design of Rough Neurons: Rough Set Foundation and Petri Net Model 283 
J.F. Peters, A. Skowron, Z. Suraj, L. Han, and S. Ramanna 
Towards Musical Data Classification via Wavelet Analysis 292 
Alicja Wieczorkowska 
4B Logic for AI 
Annotated Hyperresolution for Non-horn Regular Multiple-Valued Logics 301 
James J. Lu, Neil V. Murray, and Erik Rosenthal 
Fundamental Properties on Axioms of Kleene Algebra 311 
Tomoko Ninomiya and Masao Mukaidono 
Extending Entity-Relationship Models with Higher-Order Operators 321 
Antonio Badia 
Combining Description Logics with Stratified Logic Programs in 
Knowledge Representation 331 
Jianhua Chen 
5A Knowledge Discovery and Learning 
Emergence Measurement and Analyzes of Conceptual Abstractions During 
Evolution Simulation in OOD 340 
Mourad Oussalah and Dalila Tamzalit 
Using Intelligent Systems in Predictions of the Bacterial Causative Agent 
of an Infection 349 
Diana R. Cundell, Randy S. Silibovsky, Robyn Sanders, and 
Les M. Sztandera 
An Intelligent Lessons Learned Process 358 
Rosina Weber, David W. Aha, Hector Muoz-vila, and 
Leonard A. Breslow 
5B Intelligent Information Systems 
What the Logs Can Tell You: Mediation to Implement Feedback in 
Training 368 
David A. Maluf and Gio Wiederhold 
Top-Down Query Processing in First Order Deductive Databases under 
the DWFS 377 
C.A. Johnson 
Discovering and Resolving User Intent in Heterogeneous Databases 389 
Chris Fernandes and Lawrence Henschen 
6A Learning and Knowledge Discovery 
Discovering and Matching Elastic Rules from Sequence Databases 400 
Sanghyun Park and Wesley W. Chu 
Perception-Based Granularity Levels in Concept Representation 409 
Lorenza Saitta and Jean-Daniel Zucker 
Local Feature Selection with Dynamic Integration of Classifiers 417 
Alexey Tsymbal and Seppo Puuronen 
Prediction of Ordinal Classes Using Regression Trees 426 
Stefan Kramer, Gerhard Widmer, Bernhard Pfahringer, and 
Michael de Groeve 
6B Intelligent Information Retrieval 
Optimal Queries in Information Filtering 435 
Ali H. Alsaffar, Jitender S. Deogun, and Hayri Sever 
Automatic Semantic Header Generator 444 
Bipin C. Desai, Sami S. Haddad, and Abdelbaset Ali 
On Modeling of Concept Based Retrieval in Generalized Vector Spaces 453 
Minkoo Kim, Ali H. Alsaffar, Jitender S. Deogun, and 
Vijay V. Raghavan 
Template Generation for Identifying Text Patterns 463 
Ccile Boisson and Nahid Shahmehri 
7A Knowledge Discovery and Learning 
Qualitative Discovery in Medical Databases 474 
David A. Maluf and Jiming Liu 
Finding Association Rules Using Fast Bit Computation: Machine-Oriented 
Modeling 486 
Eric Louie and Tsau Y. Lin 
Using Closed Itemsets for Discovering Representative Association Rules 495 
Jamil Saquer and Jitender S. Deogun 
Legitimate Approach to Association Rules under Incompleteness 505 
Marzena Kryszkiewicz and Henryk Rybinski 
7B Logic for AI 
A Simple and Tractable Extension of Situation Calculus to Epistemic Logic 515 
Robert Demolombe and Maria del Pilar Pozos Parra 
Rule Based Abduction 525 
Sai K. Lakkaraju and Yan Zhang 
An Efficient Proof Method for Non-clausal Reasoning 534 
E. Altamirano and G. Escalada-Imaz 
An Intelligent System Dealing with Complex Nuanced Information within 
a Statistical Context 543 
D. Pacholczyk and F. Dupin de Saint Cyr 
8A Learning and Knowledge Discovery 
On the Complexity of Optimal Multisplitting 552 
Tapio Elomaa and Juho Rousu 
Parametric Algorithms for Mining Share-Frequent Itemsets 562 
Brock Barber and Howard J. Hamilton 
Discovery of Clinical Knowledge in Hospital Information Systems: 
Two Case Studies 573 
Shusako Tsumoto 
Foundations and Discovery of Operational Definitions 582 
Jan M. Zytkow and Zbigniew W. Ras 
A Multi-agent Based Architecture for Distributed KDD Process 591 
Chunnian Liu, Ning Zhong, and Setsuo Ohsuga 
8B Knowledge Representation 
Towards a Software Architecture for Case-Based Reasoning Systems 601 
Enric Plaza and Josep-Llus Arcos 
Knowledge Representation in Planning: A PDDL to OCL_h Translation 610 
R.M. Simpson, T.L. McCluskey, D. Liu, and D.E. Kitchin 
A Method and Language for Constructing Multiagent Systems 619 
Hiroyuki Yamauchi and Setsuo Ohsuga 
A Formalism for Building Causal Polytree Structures Using Data 
Distributions 629 
M. Ouerd, B.J. Oommen, and Stan Matwin 
Abstraction in Cartographic Generalization 638 
Sbastien Mustire, Lorenza Saitta, and Jean-Daniel Zucker 
Author Index 645 
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