Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 4th International Conference, MDAI 2007, Kitakyushu, Japan, August 16-18, 2007, Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4617

Invited Papers.- An Overview of Fuzzy Relational Calculus and Its Applications.- Golden Quadruplet: Optimization - Inequality - Identity - Operator.- Algorithms for String Pattern Discovery.- Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders.- Decision Making.- Static and Dynamic Coalition Formation in Group-Choice Decision Making.- A Multicriteria Fuzzy System Using Residuated Implication Operators and Fuzzy Arithmetic.- A Behavioral Analysis in Decision Making Using Weather Information with the Fuzzy Target Based Decision Model.- Group Decision Making: From Consistency to Consensus.- Weighting Individual Opinions in Group Decision Making.- An Active Learning Method Based on Most Possible Misclassification Sampling Using Committee.- Research on Next Generation Grids Using a Fuzzy Assessment Method.- Combining Prioritized Decisions in Classification.- An Aggregation of Agents, Roles and Coalition Formation to Support Collaborative and Dynamic Organizations.- Non Additive Measures and Concept Lattices.- Multidimensional Fuzzy Integrals.- Lindig’s Algorithm for Concept Lattices over Graded Attributes.- A Version of Lebesgue Decomposition Theorem for Non-additive Measure.- Trees in Concept Lattices.- An Axiomatization of Shapley Values of Games on Set Systems.- Clustering and Rough Sets.- Formulation of Fuzzy c-Means Clustering Using Calculus of Variations.- CWC: A Clustering-Based Feature Weighting Approach for Text Classification.- A Novel Spatial Clustering Algorithm with Sampling.- Algorithms for Sequential Extraction of Clusters by Possibilistic Clustering.- Fuzzy c-Means for Data with Tolerance Defined as Hyper-Rectangle.- Kernel Functions Based on Fuzzy Neighborhoods and Agglomerative Clustering.- c-Means Clustering on the Multinomial Manifold.- On a Rough SetsBased Tool for Generating Rules from Data with Categorical and Numerical Values.- Applying Rough Sets to Information Tables Containing Probabilistic Values.- Soft Computing.- Fuzzy Extension of Estimations with Randomness: The Perception-Based Approach.- Boltzmann Machine Incorporated Hybrid Neural Fuzzy System for Hardware/Software Partitioning in Embedded System Design.- Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) Optimization Algorithm for Training Feed-Forward Neural Networks.- A Multi-supplier and Return-Policy Newsboy Model with Limited Budget and Minimum Service Level by Using GA.- Performance Enhancement of RBF Networks in Classification by Removing Outliers in the Training Phase.- An Evolutionary Algorithm with Diversified Crossover Operator for the Heterogeneous Probabilistic TSP.- Applications.- Ordered Data Set Vectorization for Linear Regression on Data Privacy.- A Public-Key Protocol for Social Networks with Private Relationships.- An Incentive-Based System for Information Providers over Peer-to-Peer Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.- Classification of Normal and Tumor Tissues Using Geometric Representation of Gene Expression Microarray Data.- A Seed-Based Method for Predicting Common Secondary Structures in Unaligned RNA Sequences.- Automatic Segmentation of Neoplastic Hepatic Disease Symptoms in CT Images.- A Robust Localization Method for Mobile Robots Based on Ceiling Landmarks.- Robust Parameter Decision-Making Based on Multidisciplinary Knowledge Model.- Resolution of Singularities and Stochastic Complexity of Complete Bipartite Graph-Type Spin Model in Bayesian Estimation.- A Study of Emotion Recognition and Its Applications.- Error Detection and Correction Based on Chinese Phonemic Alphabet in Chinese Text.- Mining Frequent Diamond Episodes from Event Sequences.- ModelingDecisions for the Time-Dependent Optimal Lane Configuration Policy with Queueing Theory and Mathematical Programming.