Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications: International Conference 9th Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 18-20, 2006 Proceedings (Advances in Soft Computing)

Plenary Talk.- From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems: The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance, Deduction, and Precisiation.- Invited Session: Fuzzy Multiperson and Multicriteria Decisions Modelling.- A Fuzzy Approach to Optimal R&D Project Portfolio Selection.- Choquet Integration and Correlation Matrices in Fuzzy Inference Systems.- Linguistic Summarization of Some Static and Dynamic Features of Consensus Reaching.- Consistency for Nonadditive Measures: Analytical and Algebraic Methods.- Neural Nets.- Neuro-Fuzzy Kolmogorov's Network with a Modified Perceptron Learning Rule for Classification Problems.- A Self-Tuning Controller for Teleoperation System using Evolutionary Learning Algorithms in Neural Networks.- A Neural-Based Method for Choosing Embedding Dimension in Chaotic Time Series Analysis.- On Classification of Some Hopfield-Type Learning Rules via Stability Measures.- Applications I.- A New Genetic Based Algorithm for Channel Assignment Problems.- Max-Product Fuzzy Relational Equations as Inference Engine for Prediction of Textile Yarn Properties.- Automatic Defects Classification and Feature Extraction Optimization.- Short-Term Load Forecasting in Power System Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine.- Plenary Talk.- Fifteen Years of Fuzzy Logic in Dortmund.- Invited Session: Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets I.- Intuitionistic Fuzzy Graphs.- On Some Intuitionistic Properties of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Implications and Negations.- On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Negations.- Invited Session: Soft Computing Techniques for Reputation and Trust I.- A Simulation Model for Trust and Reputation System Evaluation in a P2P Network.- A Fuzzy Trust Model Proposal to Ensure the Identity of a User in Time.- Quantification of the Effectiveness of the Markov Model for Trustworthiness Prediction.- Applications II.- Fuzzy-Genetic Methodology for Web-based Computed-Aided Diagnosis in Medical Applications.- Weight Optimization for Loan Risk Estimation with Genetic Algorithm.- A Fuzzy Feature Extractor Neural Network and its Application in License Plate Recognition.- Invited Session: Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets II.- Nearest Interval Approximation of an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Number.- On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Expert Systems With Temporal Parameters.- Generalized Fuzzy Cardinalities of IF Sets.- Invited Session: Soft Computing Techniques for Reputation and Trust II.- Towards Usage Policies for Fuzzy Inference Methodologies for Trust and QoS Assessment.- Simulating a Trust-Based Peer-to-Peer Metadata Publication Center.- The Complex Facets of Reputation and Trust.- Theory I.- Fuzzy Covering Relation and Ordering: An Abstract Approach.- Measures of Differentiability.- Lipschitz Continuity of Triangular Norms.- Plenary Talk.- Formal Models of Knowledge Operators: Rough-Set-Style and Fuzzy-Set-Style Approaches.- Invited Session: Looking at Language with Fuzzy Logic.- Using a Fuzzy Model for Combining Search Results from Different Information Sources to Build a Metasearch Engine.- Some Fuzzy Counterparts of the Language uses of And and Or.- Fuzzy Sets Versus Language.- Theory II.- Some Properties of Fuzzy Languages.- General Form of Lattice Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets.- A Note on Generated Pseudo-Operations with Two Parameters as a base for the Generalized Pseudo-Laplace Type Transform.- Theory III.- Fuzzy All-Pairs Shortest Paths Problem.- Optimal Toll Charges in a Fuzzy Flow Problem.- Modified Interval Global Weights in AHP.- Plenary Talk.- Fuzzy Approaches to Trust Management.- Invited Session: Complex-Valued Neural Networks.- Proposal of Holographic 3D-Movie Generation Using Coherent Neural-Network Interpolation.- Blur Identification Using Neural Network for Image Restoration.- Solving the Parity n Problem and Other Nonlinearly Separable Problems Using a Single Universal Binary Neuron.- Some Novel Real/Complex-Valued Neural Network Models.- Theory IV.- Extending the Fuzzy Rule Interpolation "FIVE" by Fuzzy Observation.- Fuzzy Rule Interpolation Based on Polar Cuts.- Approximate Reasoning Using Fodor's Implication.- Plenary Talk.- Brain-, Gene-, and Quantum-Inspired Computational Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities.- Invited Session: Intelligent Data Mining.- Incremental Learning for E-mail Classification.- Reduction of Search Space for Instance-Based Classifier Combination.- Invited Session: Preferences and Decisions.- Linguistic Matrix Aggregation Operators: Extensions of the Borda Rule.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Biobjective QAP.- On a Hill-Climbing Algorithm with Adaptive Step Size: Towards a Control Parameter-Less Black-Box Optimisation Algorithm.- Self-Adaptive Baldwinian Search in Hybrid Genetic Algorithms.- Intragenerational Mutation Shape Adaptation.- Theory V.- The Choquet-Integral as an Aggregation Operator in Case-Based Learning.- Fuzzy Sets and Multicriteria Decision Making.- Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Outlier Resistant Recursive Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms.- Invited Session: Fuzzy Sets - 40 years after.- Fuzzy Set Theory - 40 Years of Foundational Discussions.- Fuzzy Control - Expectations, Current State, and Perspectives.- Fuzzy Sets in Categories of Sets with Similarity Relations.- Fuzzy Sets as a Special Mathematical Model of Vagueness Phenomenon.- Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules from Logical Point of View.- Applications III.- Synthesizing Adaptive Navigational Robot Behaviours Using a Hybrid Fuzzy A* Approach.- Fuzzy Impulse Noise Reduction Methods for Color Images.- Use of Variable Fuzzy Sets Methods for Desertification Evaluation.- A Fuzzy Ultrasonic System for Estimating Degradation of Insulating Oil.- A Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Inference System in Prediction of Wave Parameters.- Poster Contributions.- Estimation of Degree of Polymerisation and Residual Age of Transformers Based on Furfural Levels in Insulating Oil Through Generalized Regression Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Shortest Paths in Fuzzy Graphs.- Improving Vegas Algorithm Using PID and Fuzzy PID Controllers.- A Fuzzy-Based Automation Level Analysis in Irrigation Equipment.- Motorized Skateboard Stabilization Using Fuzzy Controller.