Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 12th International Symposium, ISMIS 2000, Charlotte, NC, USA October 11-14, 2000 Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 1932

Invited Papers.- Information Retrieval Based on Statistical Language Models.- Intelligent Agent Battlespace Augmentation.- Learning and Evolution: An Introduction to Non-darwinian Evolutionary Computation.- Regular Papers.- Can Relational Learning Scale Up?.- Discovering Geographic Knowledge: The INGENS System.- Temporal Data Mining Using Hidden Periodicity Analysis.- Mining N-most Interesting Itemsets.- Repository Management in an Intelligent Indexing Approach for Multimedia Digital Libraries.- Logic-Based Approach to Semistructured Data Retrieval.- High Quality Information Retrieval for Improving the Conduct and Management of Research and Development.- Signature-Based Indexing for Retrieval by Spatial Content in Large 2D-String Image Databases.- Refining Logic Theories under OI-Implication.- Rule Quality Measures Improve the Accuracy of Rule Induction: An Experimental Approach.- A Dynamic Approach for Knowledge Discovery of Web Access Patterns.- Data Reduction via Conflicting Data Analysis.- A Comparison of Rule Matching Methods Used in AQ15 and LERS.- Evolving Behaviors for Cooperating Agents.- Evolving Finite-State Machine Strategies for Protecting Resources.- A Method of Generating Program Specification from Description of Human Activities.- PLAtestGA: A CNF-Satisfiability Problem for the Generation of Test Vector for Missing Faults in VLSI Circuits.- Evaluating Migration Strategies for an Evolutionary Algorithm Based on the Constraint-Graph that Solves CSP.- Relative Robustness: An Empirical Investigation of Behaviour Based and Plan Based Paradigms as Environmental Conditions Change.- A Heuristic for Domain Independent Planning and Its Use in an Enforced Hill-Climbing Algorithm.- Planning while Executing: A Constraint-Based Approach.- Problem Decomposition and Multi-agent System Creation for Distributed Problem Solving.- A Comparative Study of Noncontextual and Contextual Dependencies.- Extended Query Answering Using Integrity Rules.- Finding Temporal Relations: Causal Bayesian Networks vs. C4.5.- Learning Relational Clichés with Contextual LGG.- Design of Rough Neurons: Rough Set Foundation and Petri Net Model.- Towards Musical Data Classification via Wavelet Analysis.- Annotated Hyperresolution for Non-horn Regular Multiple-Valued Logics.- Fundamental Properties on Axioms of Kleene Algebra.- Extending Entity-Relationship Models with Higher-Order Operators.- Combining Description Logics with Stratified Logic Programs in Knowledge Representation.- Emergence Measurement and Analyzes of Conceptual Abstractions during Evolution Simulation in OOD.- Using Intelligent Systems in Predictions of the Bacterial Causative Agent of an Infection.- An Intelligent Lessons Learned Process.- What the Logs Can Tell You: Mediation to Implement Feedback in Training.- Top-Down Query Processing in First Order Deductive Databases under the DWFS.- Discovering and Resolving User Intent in Heterogeneous Databases.- Discovering and Matching Elastic Rules from Sequence Databases.- Perception-Based Granularity Levels in Concept Representation.- Local Feature Selection with Dynamic Integration of Classifiers.- Prediction of Ordinal Classes Using Regression Trees.- Optimal Queries in Information Filtering.- Automatic Semantic Header Generator.- On Modeling of Concept Based Retrieval in Generalized Vector Spaces.- Template Generation for Identifying Text Patterns.- Qualitative Discovery in Medical Databases.- Finding Association Rules Using Fast Bit Computation: Machine-Oriented Modeling.- Using Closed Itemsets for Discovering Representative AssociationRules.- Legitimate Approach to Association Rules under Incompleteness.- A Simple and Tractable Extension of Situation Calculus to Epistemic Logic.- Rule Based Abduction.- An Efficient Proof Method for Non-clausal Reasoning.- An Intelligent System Dealing with Complex Nuanced Information within a Statistical Context.- On the Complexity of Optimal Multisplitting.- Parametric Algorithms for Mining Share Frequent Itemsets.- Discovery of Clinical Knowledge in Hospital Information Systems: Two Case Studies.- Foundations and Discovery of Operational Definitions.- A Multi-Agent Based Architecture for Distributed KDD Process.- Towards a Software Architecture for Case-based Reasoning Systems.- Knowledge Representation in Planning: A PDDL to OCL h Translation.- A Method and Language for Constructing Multiagent Systems.- A Formalism for Building Causal Polytree Structures Using Data Distributions.- Abstraction in Cartographic Generalization.

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