CIMA'99

• Keynote Papers
  • Unsupervised Neural Learning for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Hidden Factor Discovery
    E. Oja
  • Some Properties of Time-Coded Artificial Neural Networks
    H. Bothe
• Biologically inspried systems (ISFL’99)
  • Essentials of Learning in Conscious AI and Biological Systems
    R.C. Blue
  • Fuzzy Logic in Neurophysiology: A Case Study
    G. Trajkovski, B. Cukic, G. Stojanov
• Fuzzy modelling (ISFL’99)
  • Fuzzy Modeling: An Hybrid Approach
    G. Castellano, A.M. Fanelli
  • A Fuzzy Logic Model of Freeway Driver Behavior
    S. Das, B.A. Bowles, C.R. Houghland, S.J. Hunn, Y.L. Zhang
  • Examination of Possibility, Fuzziness and Chaos in Sunspot Time Series
    S. Xu, K. Jinno, A. Kawamura, R. Berndtsson, R. Higashijima
• Learning and optimization (ISFL’99)
  • A Fuzzy-Evolutionary Algorithm for Variable Identification in Data Mining
    A.F. Gómez-Skarmeta, F. Jiménez, Jesús Ibáñez
  • Generating Fuzzy Rules by a Clustering-Based Method
    C-C Wong, C-C Chen
• Mathematical foundations (ISFL’99)
  • An Approach to the Linguistic Negation in the Context of Fuzzy Set Theory based on the Reference Frame and the Scope of a Negation Operator
    D. Pacholczyk
  • Fuzzy Estimation for Interval-Valued Numbers with Statistical Information
    P.H. Hanh
• Neural networks and fuzzy logic (ISFL’99)
  • An Effective Hybrid Methodology of Neuro-Fuzzy System
    Y.I. Cho
  • A Comparison between Neural Fuzzy Network and Bayesian Periodic Autoregressive Models to Seasonal Streamflow Series Forecasting
    R. Ballini, S. Soares, M.G. Andrade
  • A Modularized Wavelet Neural Network with Improved CPM Algorithm
    S. Kim, Y. Kim
  • Generating Multi-Variable Fuzzy Systems by Fourier Series Decomposition
    L. Chen, N. Tokuda
  • The ART of Inspection Plan Clustering
    K. Roumina, F.L. Merat
• Robotics and control (ISFL’99)
  • Case Studies in the Implementation of Hierarchical Structured Fuzzy Controllers to Robotic Systems
    H.L. Sng, C. Messom
  • Para-Fuzzy Logic Controller II: A Hybrid Logical Controller Indicated for Treatment of Fuzziness and Inconsistencies
    J.I. Da Silva Filho, J.M. Abe
  • Para-Fuzzy Logic Controller I: A Hybrid Logical Controller Indicated for Treatment of Inconsistencies Designed with the Junction of the Paraconsistent and Fuzzy Logic
    J.I. Da Silva Filho, J.M. Abe
  • Using Fuzzy Logic for Autonomous Navigation
    C. Kreucher, M. Beauvais
  • A Hybrid Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Controller for Co-operating Robot Manipulators
    S. Rajasekharan, C. Kambhampati
  • An Intelligent Guidance and Control System for Ship Obstacle Avoidance
    C.J. Harris, X. Hong, P.A. Wilson
• Speech and language processing (ISFL’99)
  • Optimal Fuzzy Information Fusion for Speaker Verification
    T. Pham, D. Tran, M. Wagner
  • SEARS: Incorporating Fuzzy Resonance in Language Acquisition and Production
    M. Lefley, P. Rogers
  • Fuzzy Approach to Gaussian Mixture Models and Generalised Gaussian Mixture Models
    D. Tran, M. Wagner
  • Computing With Words, When Words Can Mean Different Things to Different People
    J.M. Mendel
• Supervised image processing (ISFL’99)
  • Visual Object Detection Using Fuzzy Concepts
    M.C. Garrido, J.M. Cadenas, A. Ruiz
  • A Simple Fuzzy-Based Structural Approach to On-Line Recognition of Arabic Characters
    F. Bouslama
• Technical applications (ISFL’99)
  • Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Other Algorithms for Handoff In Wireless Networks
    A. Hatami, P. Krishnamurthy, K. Pahlavan, J. Mäkelä, M. Ylianttila, R. Pichna, J. Talvitie
  • Comparative Evaluation of Evolutionary Algorithms in the Design of Fuzzy-Logic Controllers for Overhead Cranes
    B. Porter, T.Y. Cheung
  • Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks Based In-process Surface Roughness Prediction System in Milling Operations
    J.C. Chen
  • Design and Implementation of a Real Time Fuzzy Expert System for X-Ray Solder Joint Inspection
    X. Wei, M. Verkasalo, K. Lappalainen, K. Leiviskä
  • Design of a Fuzzy Controller for Electrical Discharge Machining Systems
    H-S Lee
  • Sensitivity Analysis of the Fuzzy Regression Processes of Photovoltaic System
    T.F. Elshatter, M.T. El-Hagry
  • Estimating the Consumption of Tap Water Using Fuzzy Concepts
    T. Rajkumar, H.W. Guesgen, D. Gorman
• Invited Session on 'Possibility Theory and Fuzzy Sets Theory in Supervised Image Classification' (ISFL’99)
  • Numeric and Symbolic Fuzzy Information Fusion applied to Satellite Images Classification 1
    J. Desachy
  • Reject Strategies for Image-based Supervised Object Recognition
    C. Frélicot
• Classification & Pattern Recognition (AIDA’99)
  • Pattern Classification of Multidimensional Normal Mixture based upon Random Markov Field
    A. Moussa, A. Sbihi, J-G Postaire
  • Are we better off without Counter-Examples?
    N. Japkowicz
  • Clifford Network: A Novel Application in Character Recognition
    A.F.R. Rahman, W.G.J. Howells, M.C. Fairhurst
  • Test Feature Classifiers and its Application to the Phoneme Database
    V. Lashkia, S. Aleshin
  • Regional Voting versus National Voting - Stability of Regional Voting
    L. Chen, N. Tokuda
• Clustering and self-organization (AIDA’99)
  • Finding Behaviour Patterns from Temporal Data using Hidden Markov Model based Unsupervised Classification
    C. Li, G. Biswas
  • An MFR-based Web Log Clustering Approach and Its Application
    Y-C Lin, P. Hadingham
  • Hunting for Correlations in Data Using the Self-Organizing Map
    J. Vesanto, J. Ahola
  • Probabilistic Measures for Responses of Self-Organizing Map Units
    E. Alhoniemi, J. Himberg, J. Vesanto
  • Voting in Clustering and Finding the Number of Clusters
    E. Dimitriadou, A. Weingessel, K. Hornik
  • Upstream Protocol for Integrated Services (UPIS)
    S. De
  • Mode Extraction by a new Mathematical Morphological Algorithm for Cluster Analysis
    M. Sbihi, R. Touahni, C. Bott-Lecocq, A. Sbihi
• Data mining and knowledge discovery (AIDA’99)
  • TV Audience Analysis and Prediction
    T. Gonçalves, C. Brito, F. Moura-Pires
  • Rule Extraction through Database Reverse Engineering
    M. Collard, A. Barbar
  • Reducing Case Library
    O. Babka, C. Lei
  • The INEEL Data Integration Mediation System
    B. Pancapagesan, L. Dean, J. Hui, S. Erickson, A. Hempstead, G. Wiederhold
  • Feature Selection Based on Joint Mutual Information
    H.H. Yang, J. Moody
  • A Method for Mining Simplified Decision Rule Sets
    R.E. Marmelstein, G.B. Lamont
  • Mining Data in Multi-perspectives
    J.J.F. Vasco
  • Semantic Interpretation of Binominal Sequences and Information Retrieval
    C. Fabre, P. Sébillot
  • A Measure of Description Quality for Data Mining and its Implementation in the AQ18 Learning System
    R.S. Michalski, K.A. Kaufman
  • Semantic Unification: A Tool for Information Integration
    A. Badia
• Fuzzy Systems (AIDA’99)
  • Contextual Classification of Multi-Source Geoscientific Data using a Fuzzy/Genetic Learner
    A. Skabar, K. Biswas, B. Pham, A. Maeder
  • A Random-Set Statistical Approach to Systems Identification
    O. Wolkenhauer, M. Garcia-Sanz
  • A Fast Algorithm for Computing the Transitive Closure of a Fuzzy Similarity Matrix
    H-S Lee
  • Identification of Correspondence of Objects Related by Fuzzy Transformation
    L.A. Kuznetsov, O.A. Nazarkin
  • Fuzzy Rules Generation and Application Based on Frequency Distributions
    K. Weber
• Neural Networks (AIDA’99)
  • A Credit Risk Assessment Case Study in the Stabilized Brazilian Economy: A Neural Network Solution
    P.J.L. Adeodato, G.C. Vasconcelos, D.S.M.P. Monteiro
  • Comparing Regression Trees with Neural Networks in Aerobic Fitness Approximation
    S. Tamminen, P. Laurinen, J. Röning
  • Comparison of Predictive Accuracy of Neural Network Methods and Cox Regression for Censored Survival Data
    S. Azen, A. Xiang, P. Lapuerta, A. Ryutov, J. Buckley
  • Application of Neural Networks to Data from a Melt Crystallization Process for the Detection of Outliers
    H.C. Bülau, J. Ulrich, R. Guardani, C.A.O. Nascimento
• Invited Session: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine (AIDA’99)
  • Evaluation and Intelligent Medical Systems, especially with regard to Statistical Analysis
    M.G.E. Peterson
  • Data Analysis using Patterns in an Intelligent Medical System
    T. Welzer, B. Stiglic, M. Druzovec, I. Golob
  • Induction of Medical Decision Trees with Genetic Algorithms
    V. Podgorelec, P. Kokol
  • Medical Applications of 'Linked Decision Forests'
    M. Zorman, D. Mavric, P. Kokol
  • Intelligent Data Analysis in Medical Environment
    P. Kokol, S.H. Babic, M.M. Stiglic
• Biomedical Images (SCB’99)
  • Fully Automatic Detection of Spine in Chest Radiographs using Fuzzy Logic Approach
    H. Luo, R. Acharya, R. Gaborski
  • 3D Sonoelastography for Prostate Tumor Imaging
    L.S. Taylor, B. Porter, D.J. Rubens, K.J. Parker
  • Motion Correction During CT Scanning by Using An Optical Measuring Method
    J. Kai, T. Sasama, Y. Sato, S. Tamura, H. Shiomi, T. Inoue, T. Inoue
• Medical Diagnosis (SCB’99)
  • Prospective Medical Information System Engineering
    P. Szczurko
  • Use of Soft Computing Methodologies in the Study of Incipient Glaucoma Pathology
    M. Reyes de los Mozos
  • Clinical Diagnosis Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Fuzzy Temporal Reasoning
    P.R. Innocent
• Medical Intervention (SCB’99)
  • The Sentinel Intelligent Anaesthesia Monitor
    A. Lowe, R.W. Jones, M.J. Harrison
  • OWCH - A Decision Support System for Designing Novel Cancer Chemotherapies
    J.A.W. McCall, A. Petrovski
  • Self-Learning Fuzzy Logic Control of Multiple Drug Infusions for Haemodynamic Support of Septic Shock
    D.G. Mason, J.J. Ross, N.D. Edwards, D.A. Linkens
• Molecular and Cell Biology (SCB’99)
  • Prediction of Individual Plasma Concentration from Population Data by the Parzen Method
    M. Costa, E. Berno, R. Canaparo, G.P. Zara, C.D. Pepa, M. Eandi
  • ABG: An Expert System to Aid in the Interpretation of Acid Base Disorders 5
    F. Vergara
  • A Novel Technique for the Classification and Visualisation of Complex Biomedical Datasets Using Growing Cell Structure Networks
    A.J. Walker, S.S. Cross, R.F. Harrison
• Neurobiology (SCB’99)
  • A Qualitative Fault Monitoring System to Support Medical Decisions: An Application to the Central Nervous System
    A. Escobet, A Nebot, M. Vallverdú
  • MATLAB Implementation of a Neuromuscular Blockade Controller
    T. Mendonça, P. Lago, A. Mota
  • Single Trial P3 Recognition in a Virtual Environment
    J.D. Bayliss, D.H. Ballard
  • The Virtual Audiometer: A New Computerized Hearing Sense Screening Tool
    F. Vergara
• Populational Studies (SCB’99)
  • Fuzzy Dynamical Model for Canine Rabies
    N.R.S. Ortega, P.C. Sallum, E. Massad
  • Fuzzy Decision Making for the Designing of a Control Strategy for Measles Vaccination in São Paulo State
    E. Massad, M.N. Burattini, N.R.S. Ortega
  • The SynCon Project: Phase II Assessing Human Health in the Arctic
    K.L. Nance, S.W. George, J.J. Wiens
• ANN-GA (SCFM’99)
  • Stock Market Predictions Using a Hybrid Neuro-Genetic Approach
    R. Suchar, I. Ciocoiu, A. Brezulianu, C. Bonciu
• Factor Identification (SCFM’99)
  • The Logic and Probabilistic Method of Assessment of Credit Risks and Identification of Risk Models
    E. Solojentsev, V. Karassev
  • Target Signal Selection for a Neural Network based Financial Classifier
    N. Ireland, A. Blair
• Financial Markets (SCFM’99)
  • Simulation Model of Financial Markets
    T. Ankenbrand, M. Tomassini
  • A Reverse Engineering Methodology for the Interpretation of Stock Price Dynamics
    H. Kiliç, M. Güler, A. Altay-Salih
• Forecasting (SCFM’99)
  • Hybrid Neural Networks vs Non Linear Time Series Models in Financial Forecasting
    M. Resta
  • Dynamic Weighted Averages: Nonlinearity and Fuzzy Logic in Prediction
    H.M. Hubey, D. Deremer
  • Preprocessing Seasonal Time Series for Improving Neural Network Predictions
    F. Virili, B. Freisleben
  • Market Sector Selection Using Fuzzy Regression Trees
    R.E. Haskell
• Macro (SCFM’99)
  • On Fuzzy Capital Budgeting Problem
    C. Carlsson, R. Fullér
  • Determinants of Long-term Economic Growth: An Empirical Cross-country Study involving Routh Set Theory and Rule Induction
    M. Obersteiner, S. Wilk
• Invited Session: 'Econometric Theory and Soft Computing' (SCFM’99)
  • Approximation Properties of the Neuro-Fuzzy Minimum Function
    A. Gottschling, C. Kreuter
  • Combination of the Least Squares and Least Absolute Deviation Estimators using the James-Stein Rule
    T-H Kim, H. White
• Invited Session: "Stock Price Predictions by Techniques of Computational Intelligence" (SCFM’99)
  • Predictions of the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prices Indexes (TOPIX) by Techniques of Computational Intelligence
    N. Baba
  • An Agent-Based Simulation of Bubbles and Crashes in Economy
    T. Iba, H. Takenaka, Y. Takefuji
  • Information Propagation and Price Fluctuation on Multi-Brand Market
    H. Shima, T. Iba, T. Ozawa, Y. Takefuji
  • Growing Learning Machines and their Applications to Portfolio Problems
    H. Nakayama
• Special Session: 'Image Understanding' (CIMA’99)
  • Comparative Analysis of Fractal Dimension Estimation and it's Applicability to Biomedical Image Analysis
    R. Acharya, K. Chugh, V. Sarangan, C-C Ke
  • Identifying Phangeal Regions in Digital X-ray Images
    T.F. Pawlicki, R.S. Gaborski
  • Determination of a Superior set of K-factors for a Multi-Factor Stock Returns Model through Feature Selection and Clustering using Neural Networks
    T. Dutt, K.C. Sin, C.L. Marshall
  • 3D Image Data Analysis for Pose Estimation
    M.A. Rodrigues, Y. Liu
  • Locating People in Images
    R.S. Gaborski, E. Oswalt