FUZZ-IEEE 2007: Session Listing

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The registration desk will be open as follows :

Monday 8:30 - 18:30
Tuesday 8:30 - 20:30
Wednesday 8:30 - 18:30
Thursday 9:00 - 18:00

Tutorial TUT2: Model based Fuzzy Logic Control: Overview and Perspectives
Monday, July 23, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509a, Instructor: Gary Feng and Xiao-Jun Zeng

Tutorial TUT1A: Design of Real Time Evolving Fuzzy Systems: Methodology, Algorithms (1)
Monday, July 23, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509b, Instructor: Dimitar Filev and Plamen Angelov

Tutorial TUT5: Uncertainty and Information
Monday, July 23, 11:15AM-1:15PM, Room: EE 509a, Instructor: George Klir

Tutorial TUT1B: Design of Real Time Evolving Fuzzy Systems: Methodology, Algorithms (2)
Monday, July 23, 11:15AM-1:15PM, Room: EE 509b, Instructor: Dimitar Filev and Plamen Angelov

Tutorial TUT3: Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning
Monday, July 23, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: EE 509a, Instructor: Hamid Berenji

Tutorial TUT4A: Rule Base Compression in Fuzzy Systems (1)
Monday, July 23, 2:00PM-4:00PM, Room: EE 509b, Instructor: Alexander Gegov

Tutorial TUT4B: Rule Base Compression in Fuzzy Systems (2)
Monday, July 23, 4:15PM-6:15PM, Room: EE 509b, Instructor: Alexander Gegov

Tuesday, July 24

Opening Session
Tuesday, July 24, 9:00AM-9:45AM, Room: Great Hall

Plenary Talk : The Role of Soft Computing in Intelligent Data Analysis
Rudolf Kruse
Tuesday, July 24, 9:45AM-10:45AM, Room: Great Hall, Chair: Hani Hagras

Special Session S05A: Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics (1)
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: Great Hall, Chair: Mihail Popescu

A fuzzy rule based approach to identify biomarkers for diagnostic classification of cancers [#1307]
Nikhil Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, India
Decoding Trace Peak Behaviour - A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach [#1493]
David Thornley and Stavros Petridis
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mapping Genes to Pathways Using Ontological Fuzzy Rule Systems [#1333]
Mihail Popescu and Dong Xu
University of Missouri-Columbia, United States
Graph Alignment: Fuzzy Pattern Mining for the Structural Analysis of Protein Active Sites [#1149]
Eyke Huellermeier, Nils Weskamp, Gerhard Klebe and Daniel Kuhn
Marburg University, Germany

Session R10: Fuzzy Decision-Making
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Philippe de Wilde

CLP(F) module for modeling, solving and improving optimal solution in fuzzy decision-making [#1185]
Przemyslaw Kobylanski
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
A Fuzzy Action Selection Method for Virtual Agent Navigation in Unknown Virtual Environments [#1324]
Jafreezal Jaafar, Eric McKenzie and Alan Smaill
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Parametrized Fuzzy Numbers for Option Pricing [#1213]
Maria Letizia Guerra, Laerte Sorini and Luciano Stefanini
University of Bologna and University of Urbino, Italy; University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy
Linguistic Attribute Hierarchies for Multiple-Attribute Decision Making [#1414]
Jonathan Lawry and Hongmei He
University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Special Session S27: Statistical Analysis of Fuzzy Data
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Gil Gonzalez Rodriguez

Two Clustering Algorithms for Data with Tolerance based on Hard c-Means [#1204]
Yukihiro Hamasuna, Yasunori Endo, Yasushi Hasegawa and Sadaaki Miyamoto
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Fuzzy clustering for space-time series using spatial autocorrelation information [#1375]
Renato Coppi, Pierpaolo D'Urso and Paolo Giordani
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; University of Molise, Italy
A determination coefficient for Fuzzy Random Variables in a fuzzy arithmetic-based linear model [#1152]
Ana Colubi, Norberto Corral, Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Manuel Montenegro
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Power analysis of the one sample test for fuzzy random variables [#1153]
Maria Angeles Gil, Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Maria Teresa Lopez-Garcia and Ana Belen Ramos
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain

Session R19: AI and Machine Learning
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Christian Borgelt

A general framework for imprecise regression [#1420]
Mathieu Serrurier and Henri Prade
DSNA, France; IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse, France
Learning Undirected Possibilistic Networks with Conditional Independence Tests [#1284]
Christian Borgelt
European Center for Soft Computing, Spain
Fuzzy Approximation for Convergent Model-Based Reinforcement Learning [#1270]
Lucian Busoniu, Damien Ernst, Bart De Schutter and Robert Babuska
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Ecole Superieure d'Electricite, France
Case Based Reasoning for Monopropellant Propulsion [#1511]
Hamid Berenji, Yan Wang and George Vachtsevanos
IIS Corp, United States; Georgia Tech, United States

Session R17: Indexing, Retrieval and Databases
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Andreas Nuernberger

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Image Database Search using Fuzzy and Quantum Logic [#1533]
Ingo Schmitt and Andreas Nuernberger
University of Cottbus, Germany; University of Magdeburg, Germany
A Migration Approach from Crisp Databases to Fuzzy Databases [#1486]
Mohamed Ali Ben Hassine, Habib Ounelli, Amel Grissa Touzi and Jose Galindo
Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Scie, Tunisia; National School of Engineers, Tunis, Tunisia; University of Malaga, Spain
FPDB4O: A Fuzzy and Probabilistic Object Base Management System [#1200]
Ma Nam, Nguyen Ngoc, Hoa Nguyen and Tru Cao
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Viet Nam; Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Viet Nam
A Low Implementation Cost Alternative for Indexing Fuzzy Numerical Data [#1451]
Carlos D. Barranco, Jesus R. Campana and Juan M. Medina
Pablo de Olavide University, Spain; University of Granada, Spain

Session R01: Fuzzy Control - Applications
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Robert John

Fuzzy Logic Control System for Autonomous Sailboats [#1046]
Roland Stelzer, Tobias Proell and Robert John
De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom; Austrian Association for Innovative Computer Sc., Austria; Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Control-Oriented Modeling of Hydrostatic Transmissions using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems [#1524]
Horst Schulte
Bosch Rexroth AG, Germany
Real--Time Fuzzy Predictive Control of a Column Flotation Process [#1426]
Susana M. Vieira, J. M. C. Sousa and F. O. Durao
Technical University of Lisbon, IST, CIS/IDMEC, Portugal; Technical University of Lisbon, IST, DME/CVRM, Portugal
Fuzzy Logic Intelligent Control System of Magnetic Bearings [#1174]
Shuliang Lei, Alan Palazzolo and Albert Kascak
Texas AM/ NASA Glenn, United States; Texas AM University, United States; NASA Glenn, United States

Session R15: Description Logic and Ontologies
Tuesday, July 24, 11:15AM-12:30PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Elie Sanchez

Dealing with Similarity Relations in Fuzzy Ontologies [#1479]
Afef Bahri, Rafik Bouaziz and Faiez Gargouri
MIRACL Laboratory, Institut Superieur d'Inform, Tunisia; MIRACL Laboratory, Institut Sup\'erieur d'Inform, Tunisia
A Fuzzy Description Logic with Product T-norm [#1194]
Fernando Bobillo and Umberto Straccia
University of Granada, Spain; ISTI - CNR, Italy
f-DLPs: Extending Description Logic Programs with Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic [#1409]
Tassos Venetis, Giorgos Stoilos, Giorgos Stamou and Stefanos Kollias
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
On Storing Ontologies including Fuzzy Datatypes in Relational Databases [#1447]
Carlos D. Barranco, Jesus R. Campana, Juan M. Medina and Olga Pons
Pablo de Olavide University, Spain; University of Granada, Spain

Session R09: Fuzzy Similarity
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: Great Hall, Chair: Anca Ralescu

Measuring Proximity between Heterogeneous Data [#1417]
Anca Ralescu and Michihiko Minoh
Computer Science Dept., University of Cincinnati, United States; Academic Center of Computing and Media, Japan
A new similarity measure for intuitionistic fuzzy sets: straightforward approaches may not work [#1154]
Eulalia Szmidt and Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sci, Poland
Blockwise similarity in [0,1] via triangular norms and Sugeno integrals -- Application to cluster validity [#1235]
Hoel Le Capitaine, Thomas Batard, Carl Frelicot and Michel Berthier
MIA - Universite de La Rochelle, France
Distances defined by Choquet integral [#1159]
Yasuo Narukawa
Toho Gakuen, Japan
Reasoning Consistently about Inconsistency [#1224]
Christopher Hinde, Robert Patching, Roger Stone, Daniela Xhemali and Stephen McCoy
Loughborough University, United Kingdom; Hazid Technologies, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Special Session S04: Evolving Fuzzy Systems
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Plamen Angelov

Parameter Estimation of Neuro-Fuzzy Model by Parallel and Series-Parallel Identification Configurations [#1454]
Ahmad Banakar and Mohammad Fazle Azeem
electrical engineering Department, Iran; electrical engineering Department, India
Evolving Single- And Multi-Model Fuzzy Classifiers with FLEXFIS-Class [#1123]
Edwin Lughofer, Plamen Angelov and Xiaowei Zhou
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; Infolab 21, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Real Time Knowledge Acquisition Based on Unsupervised Learning of Evolving Neural Models [#1347]
Gancho Vachkov
Kagawa University, Japan
An Adaptive Hybrid Model for Monthly Streamflow Forecasting [#1321]
Ivette Luna, Secundino Soares and Rosangela Ballini
COSE/DENSIS - UNICAMP, Brazil; DTE/IE - UNICAMP, Brazil
Evolving Fuzzy Model-based Adaptive Control [#1336]
Jean-Camille De Barros and Arthur L. Dexter
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Session R05: Fuzzy Aggregation
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Jordi Recasens

Aggregation and fuzzyfication by weighted fuzzy fusion operator [#1288]
Hakim Lamara, Laurent Vermeiren and Dominique Roger
LAMIH UMR CNRS 8530 University of Valenciennes, France; LAMIH UMR CNRS 8530 University of Valenciennes, France
Asymptotic idempotency [#1406]
Roberto Ghiselli Ricci
University of Sassari, Italy
Aggregation Operators and the Lipschitzian Condition [#1287]
Jordi Recasens and Joan Jacas
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
User-friendly optimal improvement of an overall industrial performance based on a fuzzy Choquet integral aggregation [#1404]
Sofiane Sahraoui, Jacky Montmain, Lamia Berrah and Gilles Mauris
LGI2P-Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France; LGI2P-EMA, France; LISTIC-Universite de Savoie, France
Linguistic Summaries of Time Series via An OWA Operator Based Aggregation of Partial Trends [#1151]
Janusz Kacprzyk, Anna Wilbik and Slawomir Zadrozny
Systems Research Institute, PAS, Poland

Session R02: Fuzzy Hardware and Robotics
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Rainer Palm

Membership function circuit for neural/fuzzy hardware of analog-mixed operation based on the programmable conductance [#1504]
Il Song Han
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Fuzzy Flip-Flops and Neural Nets? [#1181]
Laszlo T. Koczy and Rita Lovassy
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Budapest, Hungary
A Simple Neuro-Fuzzy Controller for Car-Like Robot Navigation Avoiding Obstacles [#1443]
Iluminada Baturone and Andres A. Gersnoviez
University of Seville/CSIC, Spain
Combination of Fuzzy Based Maximum Power Point Tracker and Sun Tracker for Deployable Solar Panels in Photovoltaic Systems [#1337]
Mohsen Taherbaneh, Hasan Ghafori Frard, Amir Hosein Rezaie and Shahab Karbasian
IROST, Iran; Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran; Iranian Telecommunication Research Center, Iran
Segmentation and Recognition of Human Grasps for Programming-by-Demonstration using Time-clustering and Fuzzy Modeling [#1039]
Rainer Palm and Boyko Iliev
Oerebro University, Sweden

Special Session S12A: Type-2 Fuzzy Systems for Decision Making
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Tan Woei Wan

Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Membership Function Design and its Application to Radial Basis Function Neural Networks [#1529]
Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee and Byung-In Choi
Hanyang University, South Korea
Support Vector-Enhanced Design of a T2FL Approach to Motor Imagery-Related EEG Pattern Recognition [#1496]
Pawel Herman, Girijesh Prasad and Thomas Martin McGinnity
University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Microcalcification Detection in Mammograms Using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System [#1373]
Sutasinee Thovutikul, Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul and Nipon Theera-Umpon
Computer Engineering Dept., Chiang Mai Univ., Thailand; Electrical Engineering Dept., Chiang Mai Univ., Thailand
Type-2 Fuzzy System for ECG Arrhythmic Classification [#1244]
Woei Wan Tan, Chek Liang Foo and Teck Wee Chua
National University of Singapore, Singapore
A Method for Response Integration in Modular Neural Networks using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic [#1088]
Jerica Urias, Patricia Melin and Oscar Castillo
Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico

Special Session S09A: Soft Computing in Image Processing: Recent Advances (1)
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Mike Nachtegael

Hesitancy Histogram Equalization [#1442]
Ioannis Vlachos and George Sergiadis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
A Detail-Preserving Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Filter for Impulse Noise Removal from Digital Images [#1218]
M. Tulin Yildirim, Alper Basturk and M. Emin Yuksel
Erciyes University, Turkey
Improved Adaptive Impulsive Noise Suppression [#1103]
Pankaj Kumar Sa, Banshidhar Majhi and Ganapati Panda
CSE dept, National Institute of Rourkela, India; ECE dept, National Institute of Rourkela, India
Segmentation of Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Images using a Segmentation of Extreme Ultraviolet Solar Images using a [#1081]
Vincent Barra, Veronique Delouille and Jean-Francois Hochedez
LIMOS, UMR CNRS 6158, France; Dep Solar Physics, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium
Breast Cancer Classification Using Statistical Features and Fuzzy [#1293]
Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Michal Zavisek, Yasuyuki Yokota and Ales Drastich
Aston University, United Kingdom; Osaka Prefecture University, Indonesia; Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic; Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Special Session S24A: Flexible approaches to information access on the Web
Tuesday, July 24, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Enrique Herrera-Viedma

Improving Fuzzy Service Matchmaking through Concept Matching Discovery [#1318]
Giuseppe Fenza, Vincenzo Loia and Sabrina Senatore
DMI - University of Salerno, Italy
Using Generalized Constraints and Protoforms to Deal with Adjectives [#1331]
Andres Soto, Jose Angel Olivas and Manuel E. Prieto
Universidad Autonoma del Carmen, Mexico; Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
PNL-Enhanced Restricted Domain Question Answering System [#1335]
Sufyan Beg, Marcus Thint and Zengchang Qin
UC Berkeley, United States; British Telecom, United States
Semantic Information Retrieval Based on CP-Nets [#1231]
Fatiha Boubekeur, Mohand Boughanem and Lynda Tamine-Lechani
IRIT, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France
Inference based on Fuzzy Deformable Prototypes for Information Filtering in Dynamic Web Repositories [#1367]
Fco. Pascual Romero, Jose Angel Olivas and Pablo Garces
Dpt of Information Systems and Technologies, Spain; Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain; Dpt of Computer Science and Art Intelligence, Spain

Special Invited Lecture : From Fuzzy Logic to Extended Fuzzy Logic -- The Concept of F-Validity and the Impossibility Principle
Lotfi Zadeh
Tuesday, July 24, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Room: Great Hall, Chair: Abe Mamdani

Special Session S05B: Fuzzy Systems in Bioinformatics (2)
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: Great Hall, Chair: Mihail Popescu

Extracting Biological Knowledge by Fuzzy Association Rule Mining [#1177]
F. Javier Lopez, Armando Blanco, Fernando Garcia and Antonio Marin
University of Granada, Spain; University of Seville, Spain
Fuzzy Classification of Gene Expression Data [#1292]
Gerald Schaefer, Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota and Hisao Ishibuchi
Aston University, United Kingdom; Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Semantic, Fuzzy Set and Fuzzy Measure Similarity for the Gene Ontology [#1498]
Valerie Cross and Yi Sun
Miami University, United States
Round table discussion

Session R21: Fuzzy Decision Support
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Jonathan Lawry

A Fuzzy Decision Support System for an Hydraulic Application [#1215]
Alberto Cavallo, Armando Di Nardo and Michele Di Natale
Dip. Ing. Informazione - Univ. Napoli 2, Italy; Dip. Ing. Civile - Univ. Napoli 2, Italy
A Fuzzy Expert Decision Support System for Job Assignment [#1334]
Ali Hajiha, Javad Jassbi and Sohrab Khanmohammadi
Azad University, Iran
A system recommending top-k objects for multiple users preferences [#1294]
Alan Eckhardt, Jaroslav Pokorny and Peter Vojtas
Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and P, Czech Republic
Applying fuzzy logic for decision-making on Wireless Sensor Networks [#1163]
Luci Pirmez, Flavia Delicato, Paulo Pires, Ana Mostardinha and Rezende Nelson
UFRJ, Brazil; UFRN, Brazil

Session R07: Fuzzy Inference and Reasoning
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Siegfried Gottwald

A practical inference method with several implicative gradual rules and a fuzzy input: one and two dimensions [#1222]
Hazael Jones, Didier Dubois, Serge Guillaume and Brigitte Charnomordic
INRA / Cemagref, France; IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse, France; Cemagref, Montpellier, France; National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
A Plea for the Usefulness of the Deductive Interpretation of Fuzzy Rules in Engineering Applications [#1412]
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Martina Dankova, Martin Stepnicka and Vilem Novak
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria; University of Ostrava, IRAFM, Czech Republic
On a General Approach toward Fuzzy Control Strategies [#1214]
Siegfried Gottwald
Leipzig University, Institute for Logic, Germany
Toward multiple-agent extensions of possibilistic logic [#1073]
Didier Dubois and Henri Prade
IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse, France

Session R20: Data Analysis
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Maria Angeles Gil

Mountain C-Regressions in Comparing Fuzzy C-Regressions [#1080]
Miin-Shen Yang, Kuo-Lung Wu and June-Nan Hsieh
Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan; Kun Shan University, Taiwan
Fuzzy representation of incomplete knowledge about infinite support probability distributions in a measurement context [#1439]
Gilles Mauris
LISTIC-Universite de Savoie, France
An asymmetry coefficient for random variables based on fuzzification [#1127]
Ana Colubi, Maria Angeles Gil, Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez and M. Asuncion Lubiano
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Possibilistic Information Fusion Using Maximal Coherent Subsets [#1145]
Sebastien Destercke, Didier Dubois and Eric Chojnacki
Institute of Radioliogical Protection (IRSN), France; IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse, France

Special Session S23: Advances in Incremental Learning
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Bogdan Gabrys

Adaptive Optimization of the Number of Clusters in Fuzzy Clustering [#1196]
Juergen Beringer and Eyke Huellermeier
University of Magdeburg, Germany; Marburg University, Germany
Overview of Some Incremental Learning Algorithms [#1472]
Abdelhamid Bouchachia, Bogdan Gabrys and Zoheir Sahel
University of Klagenfurt, Austria; University of Bourenmouth, United Kingdom
New Neurofuzzy Training Procedure Based on Participatory Learning Paradigm [#1499]
Michel Hell, Pyramo Costa Jr. and Fernando Gomide
DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP, Brazil; PPGEE-PUC-MG, Brazil
Single Pass Fuzzy C Means [#1087]
Prodip Hore, Lawrence Hall and Dmitry Goldgof
University of South Florida, United States

Special Session S09B: Soft Computing in Image Processing: Recent Advances (2)
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Emin Yuksel

Self-Fuzzification Method according to Typicality Correlation for Classification on tiny Data Sets [#1289]
Emmanuel Schmitt, Vincent Bombardier and Patrick Charpentier
CRAN Henri Poncare University, France
On the Use of Fuzzy Texture Spectrum for Homogeneous and Textured Images Discrimination [#1488]
Miquel Grau-Sanchez, Eduard Montseny and Pilar Sobrevilla
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
A feature selection method based on Choquet integral and Typicality analysis [#1446]
Cyril Mazaud, Jan Rendek, Vincent Bombardier and Laurent Wendling
CRAN Henri Poncare Univsersity, France; LORIA Henri Poincare University, France; CRAN Henri Poncare University, France
Fuzzy Sets for Modelling Fineness Perception in Texture Images [#1491]
Jesus Chamorro-Martinez, Elena Galan-Perales and Jose Manuel Soto-Hidalgo
University of Granada, Spain

Panel Session PAN6: Decision Analysis and Decision Support - The Need for Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing
Tuesday, July 24, 5:15PM-6:30PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Janusz Kacprzyk
Panelists : Valentina Balas, Christer Carlsson, Shyi-Ming Chen, Raija Koivisto, Lotif Zadeh

Plenary Poster Session and Reception
Tuesday, July 24, 6:30PM-8:30PM, Room: Ante-Room

  Mandarin Digital Speech Recognition Based on a Chaotic Neural Network and Fuzzy C-means Clustering [#1028]
    Guang Li, Jin Zhang and J. Freeman Walter
    National Laboratory of Industrial Control Techno, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang U, China; University of California at Berkeley, United States
  Detecting Abnormal Changes in E-mail Traffic Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems [#1341]
    Mark Jyn-Huey Lim, Michael Negnevitsky and Jacky Hartnett
    School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, Australia; School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Australia
  An Improved Method For Solving Fuzzy Linear Systems [#1004]
    Babak Asadi
   Iran
  Transformation of a Mamdani FIS to First Order Sugeno FIS [#1005]
    Javad Jassbi, S. Alavi, Paulo Serra and Rita Ribeiro
    Azad University, Iran; M.C.G., Iran; UNINOVA, Portugal
  A Block-Diagonal Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network for Dynamic System Identification [#1010]
    Paris Mastorocostas
    Technological Educational Institute of Serres, Greece
  Architecture of Next Generation of E-Commerce with Fuzzy-GA-Based-Negotiator Agents [#1016]
    Mahdi Setayesh Bar Haghi and Mohammad Ali Zadeh
    Iran University Of Medical Scienece, Iran; Iran Azad University of Tabriz, Iran
  Fuzzy Controller Design by Ant Colony Optimization [#1022]
    Chia-Feng Juang, Hao-Jung Huang Hao-Jung Huang and Chun-Ming Lu
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., National ChungHsing Univ., Taiwan; Dept. of Electr. Eng.,Chung-Cho Inst of Tech., Taiwan; Dept. of Electr. Eng., National ChungHsing Univ, Taiwan
  Solving quadratic programming with fuzzy parameters based on extension principle [#1051]
    Shiang-Tai Liu
    Graduate School of Business and Management, Vanu, Taiwan
  Penta-Valued Fuzzy Set [#1058]
    Vasile Patrascu
    Tarom Company, Romania
  Neural Networks for Author Attribution [#1062]
    Nikolaos Tsimboukakis and George Tambouratzis
    Institute of Language and Speech Process, Greece; Intitute of Language and Speech Processing, Greece
  An Intelligent Method of Impedance Measurement employing PSO-Aided Neuro-Fuzzy System with LMS Algorithm [#1071]
    Amitava Chatterjee, Mita Dutta and Anjan Rakshit
    Jadavpur University, India
  FHLS: Fuzzy Hierarchical Location Service for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks [#1110]
    Ihn-Han Bae and Honghai Liu
    Catholic University of Daegu, Korea, Republic of; IIR, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  Markov Chain Lumpability on Fuzzy Partitions. [#1113]
    Ioannis Gerontidis and Stavros Kontakos
    Technological Educational Institution of Kavala, Greece
  Base on GA Parameter Optimization and FLC Nonnsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Controller of Two-Link Flexible Manipulators [#1115]
    Xuemei Zheng, Jim Platts, Delamore David and Feng Yong
    Harbin Institute of Technology, China; University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  Fuzzy Control of Flow Shop Production Systems Using State and Output Feedback [#1118]
    Nima Mohajerin, Ali Doustmohammadi, Mohammad Bagher Menhadj and Aliakbar Gorji
    Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
  Stabilizing the Convergence of Online-Learning in Neuro-Fuzzy Systems by an Immune System-inspired Approach [#1119]
    Werner Brockmann and Alexander Horst
    University of Osnabrueck, Germany; University of Tuebingen, Germany
  Decentralized Adaptive Fuzzy Controller Design for Uncertain Large-Scale Systems with Unknown Dead-Zone [#1122]
    Chiang-Cheng Chiang and Wen-Hsien Lu
    Tatung University, Taiwan
  A Fuzzy Variant of an Evolutionary Algorithm for Clustering [#1125]
    Vinicius S. Alves, Ricardo J. G. B. Campello and Eduardo R. Hruschka
    Catholic University of Santos (UniSantos), Brazil; University of Sao Paulo (ICMC/USP), Brazil
  A Genetic Algorithm Implementation of the Fuzzy Least Trimmed Squares Clustering [#1131]
    Amit Banerjee and Sushil Louis
    University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States
  An Observer-Based Indirect Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Rolling Carts [#1132]
    Wen-Shyong Yu
    EE Dept. Tatung University, Taiwan
  Simulated Annealing with Fuzzy Fitness Function for Test Frequencies Selection [#1144]
    Damian Grzechca
    Silesian University of Technology, Poland
  Compromise Chance Measure for Hybrid Events [#1150]
    Xiang Li and Baoding Liu
    Tsinghua University, China
  Extending Probabilistic Object Bases with Uncertain Applicability and Imprecise Values of Class Properties [#1155]
    Hoa Nguyen and Tru Cao
    Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Viet Nam; Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Viet Nam
  Adaptive hyperlinks using page access sequences and minimum spanning trees [#1165]
    Pawan Lingras and Rucha Lingras
    Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada
  An Application of the L-Fuzzy Concept Theory to the Short-circuit Detection [#1168]
    Cristina Alcalde, Ana Burusco, Ramon Fuentes-Gonzalez and Itziar Zubia
    Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain; Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
  Observer-Based Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control of Uncertain Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Nonlinear Systems [#1173]
    Chiang-Cheng Chiang and Chih-Hsueh Wu
    Tatung University, Taiwan
  Applying Consistent Fuzzy Linguistic Preference Relations to Evaluation of E-Learning Material Design [#1179]
    Yueh-Hsiang Chen and Ru-Jen Chao
    Kao-Yuan University, Taiwan
  Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control for Variable Displacement Hydraulic Servo System [#1180]
    Mao-Hsiung Chiang, Lian-Wang Lee and Hsien-Hsush Liu
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan; National Taiwan University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan
  Models and Algorithm for Fuzzy Multi-objective Multi-follower Linear Bilevel Programming [#1201]
    Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu and Tharam Dillon
    University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  On the generalized LU-fuzzy derivative and fuzzy differential equations [#1210]
    Luciano Stefanini
    University of Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy
  Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems for Wideband Signal Recovery in a Noise-Limited Environment [#1220]
    Chien-Hsun Tseng and Marina Cole
    University of Warwick, United Kingdom
  Metrics for Vague Spatial Objects Based on the Concept of Mass [#1230]
    Arta Dilo, Rolf de By and Alfred Stein
    Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; International Institute for GeoInformation (ITC), Netherlands; ITC, Netherlands
  Management of Ignorance by Interval Probability [#1240]
    Tomoe Entani and Hideo Tanaka
    Kochi University, Japan; Hiroshima International University, Japan
  A Comparative Analysis of Performances of Econometric, Fuzzy and Time-series Models for the Forecast of Transport Demand [#1250]
    Vassilios Profillidis and George Botzoris
    Democritus Thrace University, Greece; University of Thessaly, Greece
  Fuzzy temporal random sets with an application to cell biology [#1253]
    Teresa Leon, Rafael Sebastian, Guillermo Ayala, Elena Diaz and Roberto Zoncu
    Universidad de Valencia, Spain; Yale University, United States
  Detection Algorithm for Color Image by Multiple Surveillance Camera under Low Illumination Based-on Fuzzy Corresponding Map [#1338]
     Yutaka Hatakeyama, Masatoshi Makino, Akimichi Mitsuta and Kaoru Hirota
     Kochi University, Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Customer Solutions Development Co., Japan
  Design of a Fuzzy Controller for Underwater Vehicles to Avoid Moving Obstacles [#1263]
    Sohrab Khanmohammadi, Ghasem Alizadeh and Mohammad Poormahmood
    University of Tabriz, Iran
  Fuzzy Strategy-based Position Control of Field-oriented PM-hybrid Stepping Motor [#1267]
    Csaba Szasz
    Technical University of Cluj, Romania
  A Fuzzy Logic Approach to the Concept of Manipulability in Mechanics [#1271]
    Trivino Gracian and San Martin Jose
    European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
  Adaptive Median Type Filter Based on Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory for Fuzzy Image Restoration [#1282]
    Tzu-Chao Lin
    Wufeng Institute of Technology, Taiwan
  Fuzzy Chemistry --- An Axiomatic Theory for General Chemistry [#1296]
    Paolo Amato and Cerofolini Gianfranco
    STMicroelectronics, Italy
  LMI Stability Conditions for Takagi-Sugeno Uncertain Descriptors [#1305]
    Tahar Bouarar, Kevin Guelton, Badr Mansouri and Noureddine Manamanni
    CReSTIC - University of Reims, France
  Soft Computing Feature Extraction for Health Monitoring of Rotorcraft Structures [#1327]
    Ponciano Jorge Escamilla-Ambrosio and Nick Lieven
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Fuzzy Logic Obstacle Identity Declaration and Fusion in the Autotaxi System [#1328]
    Ponciano Jorge Escamilla-Ambrosio and Nick Lieven
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Fault-tolerant Control of Uncertain Time-delay Discrete-time Systems Using T-S Models [#1349]
    Le Zhang, Yuan-Wei Jing and Georgi Dimirovski
    Northeastern Univeristy of Shenyang, China; Norethestern University of Shenyang, China; Dogus University of Istanbul, Turkey
  Multivariable GA-Based Identification of TS Fuzzy Models: MIMO Distillation Column Model Case Study [#1359]
    Borhan Molazem Sanandaji, Karim Salahshoor and Alireza Fatehi
    Petroleum University of Technology, Iran; K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran
  Novel Hybrid Learning Algorithms for Tuning ANFIS Parameters Using Adaptive Weighted PSO [#1366]
    Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli, Mohammad Teshnehlab and Ali Khaki Sedigh
    Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad Uni, Iran; K. N. Toosi University of Tech, Iran
  Fuzzy Ontology and Fuzzy-OWL in the KAON Project [#1370]
    Silvia Calegari and Davide Ciucci
    Universita' di Milano Bicocca, Italy
  A Novel Approach to Type-2 Fuzzy Addition [#1380]
    William Blewitt, Shang-Ming Zhou and Simon Coupland
    De Montfort University, United Kingdom; School of Computing, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
  Fuzzy Individual Model (FIM) for Realistic Crowd Simulation: Preliminary Results [#1386]
    Aladdin Ayesh, Jonathan Stokes and Ron Edwards
    De Montfort University, United Kingdom; Ambient Performance, United Kingdom
  A Compact Representation of Preference Queries [#1396]
    Rawad Abou Assi and Souhila Kaci
    CRIL, France
  Toward trust-based multi-modal user authentication on the Web: a fuzzy approach [#1401]
    Antonia Azzini and Stefania Marrara
    Unversity of Milan, Italy; University of Milan, Italy
  Interpretable Fuzzy Models from Data and Adaptive Fuzzy Control: A New Approach [#1418]
    Juan Contreras, Roger Misa and Luis Murillo
    Escuela Naval Almirante Padilla, Colombia; Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Eche, Cuba; Corporacion Universitaria Rafael Nunez, Colombia
  An efficient approach for reduction of membership functions and rules in fuzzy systems [#1422]
    Peter Manley-cooke and Moe Razaz
    University of East Anglia, United Kingdom; Bioimaging, United Kingdom
  A Framework for Automatic Reconstruction of a Semi-Structured Rationale from a Minutes Document. [#1450]
    Victor Onditi and Ian Sommerville
    Computing Department, Lancaster University, United Kingdom; School of Computer Science, St Andrews Universit, United Kingdom
  Introducing Class-Based Classification Priority in Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification Systems [#1461]
    Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Gerald Schaefer and Hisao Ishibuchi
    Osaka Prefecture University, Japan; Aston University, United Kingdom
  A New Fast Algorithm for Fuzzy Rule Selection [#1462]
    Barbara Pizzileo and Kang Li
    Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
  An Alternative Gesture Recognition using a Prediction-Error-Classification Approach [#1466]
    Gonzalo Bailador and Sergio Guadarrama
    Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  The Best Interval Representation of Fuzzy S-Implications and Automorphisms [#1467]
    Benjamin Bedregal, Regivan Santiago, Renata Reiser and Dimuro Gracaliz
    Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil
  Identification of MIMO Takagi-Sugeno model of a bioreactor [#1477]
    Komi Midzodzi Pekpe, Jean-Philippe Cassar and Chenikher Salah
    USTL-LAGIS - UMR CNRS 8146, France
  Four-Wheel Steering Vehicle Control using Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Models [#1484]
    Wissam El Messoussi, Olivier Pages and Ahmed El Hajjaji
    UPJV, CREA, France
  Multi-Objective Evolutionary Fuzzy Clustering for High-Dimensional Problems [#1495]
    Alessandro G. Di Nuovo, Maurizio Palesi and Vincenzo Catania
    DIIT, University of Catania, Italy
  Creating of Multiple Classifier Systems by Fuzzy Decision Making in Human-Computer Interface Systems [#1497]
    Maryam Esmaeili and Mohammad Rahmati
    M.Sc degree student of Artificial Intelligence, Iran; Professor of Computer Science, Iran
  Product Outsourcing under Uncertainty: an Application of Fuzzy Real Option Approach [#1516]
    Cheng Jao-Hong and Lee Chen-Yu
    National Yunlin University of Science and Techno, Taiwan
  A new method for confidence of network based on fuzzy matrix operations [#1517]
    Xinghu Zhang, Hian-Beng Lee and Ho-Keong Chan
    DSO National Laboratories, Singapore

Wednesday, July 25

Special Session S22: Relational Data Analysis
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Radim Belohlavek

Generating Non-redundant Bases of Data Tables with Fuzzy Attributes by Reduction of Complete Sets of Fuzzy Attribute Implications [#1264]
Zdenek Horak and Vilem Vychodil
Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Scaling, Granulation, and Fuzzy Attributes in Formal Concept Analysis [#1261]
Radim Belohlavek and Jan Konecny
Binghamton University - SUNY, United States; Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Social Network and One-sided Fuzzy Concept Lattices [#1083]
Stanislav Krajci and Jana Krajciova
Inst of Comp. Sci., Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia; OG Alejova 1, Kosice, Slovakia
Relational Reasoning in Formal Concept Analysis [#1285]
Joanna Golinska-Pilarek and Ewa Orlowska
The National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Proof System for Enriched Fuzzy BK Relational Calculi [#1444]
Ha Hoang and Ladislav J Kohout
Dept. of Comp. Sci., Florida State University, United States
Knowledge Spaces, Attribute Dependencies, and Graded Knowledge States [#1246]
Radim Belohlavek and Eduard Bartl
Binghamton University - SUNY, United States; Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Chu Space and Approximable Concept Lattice in Fuzzy Setting [#1048]
Xueyou Chen and Qingguo Li
Shandong University of Technology, China; Hunan University, China

Special Session S17: Genetic Fuzzy Systems - Foundations
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Oscar Cordon

Multiobjective Genetic Fuzzy Systems: Review and Future Research Directions [#1259]
Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization of Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers in the ROC Space [#1226]
Marco Cococcioni, Pietro Ducange, Beatrice Lazzerini and Francesco Marcelloni
Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Learning Fuzzy Linguistic Models from Low Quality Data by Genetic Algorithms [#1494]
Luciano Sanchez and Jose Otero
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Highly Interpretable Linguistic Knowledge Bases Optimization: Genetic Tuning versus Solis-Wetts. Looking for a good interpretability-accuracy trade-off [#1256]
Jose M. Alonso, Oscar Cordon, Serge Guillaume and Luis Magdalena
Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain; European Centre for Soft Computing (ECSC), Spain; Cemagref, Montpellier, France
Exploiting Fuzzy Ordering Relations to Preserve Interpretability in Context Adaptation of Fuzzy Systems [#1300]
Alessio Botta, Beatrice Lazzerini, Francesco Marcelloni and Dan Stefanescu
IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy; Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Univ. of Pisa, Italy; Suffolk University, United States
A New Fuzzy Systems Design and Optimization Approach Using Genetic Algorithms [#1346]
Pietro Cuomo and Luigi Di Lascio
University of Salerno, Italy
Evolutionary optimization of interval type-2 membership functions using the Human Evolutionary Model [#1134]
Roberto Sepulveda, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, Oscar Montiel and Luis Aguilar
Center for Research in Digital Systems, Tijuana, Mexico; Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico; CITEDI-Tijuana, Mexico

Session R06: Mathematical Foundations
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Enric Trillas

On a Class of Fuzzy Set Theories [#1052]
Enric Trillas, Claudi Alsina and Ana Pradera
European Centre for Soft Computing, Spain; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Propositional Goedel Logic and Delannoy Paths [#1325]
Pietro Codara, Ottavio D'Antona and Vincenzo Marra
University of Milan, Italy
Adjusting the core and/or the support of a fuzzy set - A new approach to fuzzy modifiers [#1438]
Patrick Bosc, Didier Dubois, Allel HadjAli, Olivier Pivert and Henri Prade
IRISA/ENSSAT, Lannion, France; IRIT/CNRS, Toulouse, France
A Generalized Class of T-norms From a Categorical Point of View [#1304]
Benjamin Bedregal, Helida Santos and Roberto Callejas-Bedregal
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
A Multiresolution Approximate Descriptor of a Fuzzy Set [#1309]
Adolfo R. de Soto
University of Leon, Spain
Fuzzy Associative Memories from the Perspective of Mathematical Morphology [#1234]
Marcos Valle and Peter Sussner
State University of Campinas, Brazil
System of Fuzzy Relation Equations with sup-* Composition in Semi-linear Spaces: Minimal Solutions [#1399]
Lenka Noskova and Irina Perfilieva
IRAFM, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

Special Session S10: Recent Advances in fuzzy control and system identification (1)
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Gary Feng

Stabilization of Takagi-Sugeno discrete models: towards an unification of the results [#1209]
Alexandre Kruszewski, Thierry Marie Guerra and Salim Labiod
University of Valenciennes LAMIH UMR CNRS 8530, France; University of Jijel, Algeria
Stable Model Predictive Control of Fuzzy Affine Systems with Input and State Constraints [#1065]
Tiejun Zhang, Gang Feng and Jianhong Lu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Southeast University, China
An Input-Output Clustering Method for Fuzzy System Identification [#1101]
Di Wang, Xiao-Jun Zeng and John Keane
the University of Manchester, United Kingdom; University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Supervised Adaptive PID Control of Unknown Nonlinear Systems Using Fuzzily Blended Time-Varying Canonical Model [#1030]
Yau-Zen Chang and Zhi-Ren Tsai
Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Stability Analysis and Performance Deign for Fuzzy-Model-Based Control System under Imperfect Premise Matching [#1166]
H.K. Lam and F.H.F Leung
King's College London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Iterative Feedback Tuning Approach to Development of PI-Fuzzy Controllers [#1076]
Radu-Emil Precup, Zsuzsa Preitl and Stefan Preitl
"Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Simultaneous Coordinated Tuning of Fuzzy PSS and Fuzzy FACTS Device stabilizer for Damping Power System Oscillations in Multi-Machine Power System [#1106]
Sohrab Khanmohammadi and Omid Ghaderi
University of Tabriz, Iran

Special Session S14: Fuzzy Linear Programming: New Advances and Applications
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Jose-Luis Verdegay

A fuzzy ranking strategy for portfolio selection applied to the Spanish stock market [#1227]
Jose D. Bermudez, Jose V. Segura and Enriqueta Vercher
Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Two-phase method to solve fuzzy quadratic programming problems [#1274]
Ricardo Silva, Jose-Luis Verdegay and Akebo Yamakami
State University of Campinas, Brazil; Universidad de Granada, Spain
On unfeasible fuzzy goal programming problems [#1068]
Mariano Jimenez
Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
A fuzzy linear programming approach to mix product selection problem [#1421]
Francesco Nucci, Carmelo Cavallo and Antonio Grieco
University of Lecce, Italy
A Fuzzy Decision Support Tool for Demand Forecasting [#1142]
Jose D. Bermudez, Jose V. Segura and Enriqueta Vercher
Universitat de Valencia, Spain; Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Supply chain planning under uncertainty: a fuzzy linear programming approach [#1301]
David Peidro, Josefa Mula and Raul Poler
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Round Table Discussion

Session R04: Fuzzy Systems Modelling
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Dimitar Filev

Stability of Cascaded Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems [#1158]
Zsofia Lendek, Robert Babuska and Bart De Schutter
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Design of Multiple-Parameterisation PDC Controllers via Relaxed Conditions for Multi-Dimensional Fuzzy Summations [#1268]
Carlos Arino and Antonio Sala
Univ. Jaume I Castello, Spain; Univ. Politecnica Valencia, Spain
Adaptive Fuzzy Approaches to Modelling Operator Functional States in a Human-Machine Process Control System [#1085]
Mahdi Mahfouf, JianHua Zhang, Derek Arthur Linkens, Ahmed Nassef, Peter Nickel, Robert Hockey and Andrew Roberts
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Simultaneous, Multiplicative Actuator and Sensor Fault Estimation using Fuzzy Observers [#1405]
David Blake and Martin Brown
The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Fault Identification in Transformers through a Fuzzy Discrete Event System Approach [#1371]
Erdal Kilic, Okan Ozgonenel and Mustafa Ulutas
Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey
Simplified Approximations to Surfaces using Multiresolution Analysis and TSK Systems [#1384]
Adolfo R. de Soto and Conrado A. Capdevila
Universidad de Leon, Spain
Interpretability of Fuzzy Systems and Its Application to Process Control [#1084]
Andri Riid and Ennu Rustern
Department of Computer Control, TUT, Estonia

Session R14: Clustering
Wednesday, July 25, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Janusz Kacprzyk

Pareto Optimality of Cluster Objective and Validity Functions [#1041]
Thomas Runkler
Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany
Linear Fuzzy Clustering of Mixed Databases Based on Cluster-wise Optimal Scaling of Categorical Variables [#1129]
Katsuhiro Honda, Ryo Uesugi, Hidetomo Ichihashi and Akira Notsu
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Interpreting Fuzzy Clustering Results based on Fuzzy Formal Concept Analysis [#1241]
Minyar Sassi, Amel Grissa Touzi and Habib Ounelli
Phd. Student, Tunisia; National School of Engineers, Tunis, Tunisia; Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
Prototype-less Fuzzy Clustering [#1283]
Christian Borgelt
European Center for Soft Computing, Spain
A Pareto Principle Based Weighted Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm [#1363]
Yiming Zhou and ChunHui Zhang
BeiHang University, China
A New Kernel based Hybrid c-Means Clustering Model [#1383]
Meena Tushir and Smriti Srivastava
MSIT,New Delhi, India; NSIT,New Delhi, India
Semi-Supervised Clustering and Feature Discrimination with Instance-Level Constraints [#1449]
Hichem Frigui and Rami Mahdi
University of Louisville, United States

Plenary Talk : Recognition Technology for Eldercare
Jim Keller
Wednesday, July 25, 11:30AM-12:30PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Robert John

Panel Session PAN4: Fuzzy Logic Control : Present, Future, and New Directions
Wednesday, July 25, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Hani Hagras and Valentina Balas
Panelists : Gary Feng, Dimitar Filev, Hans Geering, Jan Jantzen, Reza Langari, Abe Mamdani, Hiroshi Nakajima, Michio Sugeno, Kazuo Tanaka

Special Session S11A: Recent Developments and Future Directions in Genetic Fuzzy Systems(1)
Wednesday, July 25, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Jorge Casillas

A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Rule Selection and Tuning on Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems [#1356]
Rafael Alcala, Jesus Alcala-Fdez, Maria Jose Gacto and Francisco Herrera
University of Granada, Spain; University of Jaen, Spain
Some Results about Mutual Information-based Feature Selection and Fuzzy Discretization of Vague Data [#1500]
Luciano Sanchez, M. del Rosario Suarez, Ines Couso and J. Ramon Villar
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Niching genetic feature selection algorithms applied to the design of fuzzy rule-based classification systems [#1470]
Jose Joaquin Aguilera, Manuel Chica, Maria Jose del Jesus and Francisco Herrera
University of Jaen, Spain; University of Granada, Spain
A New Multiobjective RBFNNs Designer and Feature Selector for a Mineral Reduction Application [#1487]
Alberto Guillen, Ignacio Rojas, Jesus Gonzalez, Hector Pomares, Luis-Javier Herrera and Francisco Fernandez
University of Jaen, Spain; University of Granada, Spain
A semantic driven evolutive fuzzy clustering algorithm [#1503]
Paulo Fazendeiro and Jose Valente de Oliveira
UBI-DI; IT; UAlg ILab, Portugal; UAlg ILab, Portugal

Special Session S29: Fuzzy Scheduling and Timetabling
Wednesday, July 25, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Jon Garibaldi

Fuzzy Grid Scheduling Using Tabu Search [#1286]
Carole Fayad, Jonathan M Garibaldi and Djamila Ouelhadj
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
A Memetic Approach to Fuzzy Job Shop Based on Expectation Model [#1207]
Ines Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Camino R Vela and Jorge Puente
University of Cantabria, Spain; University of Oviedo, Spain
Fuzzy Supervisory Based Capacity Allocation Control for Manufacturing Systems [#1465]
Karim Tamani, Reda Boukezzoula and Georges Habchi
LISTIC - University of Savoie, France; SYMME - University of Savoie, France
Fuzzy Disjunctive Temporal Problems with Classes [#1474]
Marco Falda
University of Padova, Italy
Round Table Discussion

Special Session S15: Software for Soft Computing
Wednesday, July 25, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Detlef Nauck

Using Xfuzzy Environment for the Whole Design of Fuzzy Systems [#1160]
Iluminada Baturone, Francisco J. Moreno-Velo, Santiago Sanchez-Solano, Angel Barriga, Piedad Brox, Andres A. Gersnoviez and Maria Brox
University of Seville/CSIC, Spain; University of Huelva, Spain; CSIC, Spain
An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Toolbox for Control Applications [#1038]
Juan R. Castro, Oscar Castillo and Patricia Melin
UABC University, Mexico; Tijuana Institute of Technology, Mexico
Fuzzy Expert System Shell Development with Computer Security Assessment Applicaiton [#1092]
Leon Reznik and Robert St. Jacques
Rochester Institute of Technology, United States; Xerox Corp., United States
FrIDA - A Free Intelligent Data Analysis Toolbox [#1489]
Christian Borgelt and Gil Gonzalez Rodriguez
European Center for Soft Computing, Spain
GNU Fuzzy [#1279]
Detlef Nauck
BT Group, United Kingdom

Special Session S24B: Flexible approaches to information access on the Web
Wednesday, July 25, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Enrique Herrera-Viedma

Summarizing the Contents of Web Servers Logs: A Fuzzy Linguistic Approach [#1483]
Slawomir Zadrozny and Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute, PAS, Poland
The Development of A Fuzzy Multi-Objective Group Decision Support System [#1199]
Fengjie Wu, Jie Lu, Guangquan Zhang and Da Ruan
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Gent U, Belgium
A Linguistic Multi-level Weighted Query Language to Represent User Information Needs [#1344]
Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Antonio G. Lopez-Herrera, Sergio Alonso, Carlos Porcel and Francisco J. Cabrerizo
Dept. Computer Sciences and A.I., Univ. Granada, Spain; Dept. Computer Sciences, Univ. Jaen, Spain; Dept. Software Engineering, University of Granad, Spain; Dept. Computer Sciences and N.A., Univ. Granada, Spain
Social Measures and Flexible Navigation on Online Contact Networks [#1355]
Nikolaos Korfiatis and Miguel-Angel Sicilia
Copenhaghen Bussiness School, Denmark; University of Alcala, Spain
On Fuzzy Result Merging for Metasearch [#1128]
Arijit De, Elizabeth Diaz and Vijay Raghavan
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States; University of Texas at Permian Basin, United States

Panel Session PAN2: Women in Computational Intelligence
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Panelists: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Keeley A Crockett, Valerie Cross, Vicenzo Piuri, Anca Ralescu, Rita Ribeiro, Lorenzaé Saitta, Pilar Sobrevilla, Woei Wan Tan

Panel Session PAN1: Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (FLINT)
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:00PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Masoud Nikravesh
Panelists : M. Nikravesh, E. Sanchez, R. R. Yager, L.A. Zadeh, T. P. Martin

Panel Session PAN5: Fuzzy Rule Base Networks - Overview and Perspective
Wednesday, July 25, 5:00PM-6:00PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Alexander Gegov
Panelists: Plamen Angelov, Jon Garibaldi, Alexander Gegov, Uzay Kaymak, Ahmad Lotfi

Workshop COMP: Fuzzy Competition Workshop
Wednesday, July 25, 5:00PM-6:00PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Hani Hagras
17:00 Introduction by Session Chair
Hani Hagras
17:10 Entry of the Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Ruben Vazquez and Sergio Guadarrama
17:20 Entry of Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Seiya Fujii, Hisao Ishibuchi
17:30 Entry of Lancaster University, UK
Xiowei Zhou and Plamen Angelov
17:40 Entry of Nottingham University, UK
Ho Duc Thang and Jon Garibaldi
17:50 Results

Special Session S25: Soft Computing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Igor Zwir

Evolutionary Search of Biclusters by Minimal Intrafluctuation [#1459]
Raul Giraldez, Federico Divina, Beatriz Pontes and Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz
Pablo de Olavide University, Spain; University of Seville, Spain
Mining and Predicting CpG islands [#1322]
Christopher Previti, Oscar Harari and Coral del Val
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany; University of Granada, Spain
An Optimal Alignment of Proteins Energy Characteristics with Crisp and Fuzzy Similarity Awards [#1395]
Dariusz Mrozek, Bozena Malysiak and Stanislaw Kozielski
Silesian University of Technology, Poland
An Integrated Time Series Gene Expression Data Analysis Pipeline with a Fuzzy Clustering method to assess Expression Patterns [#1354]
Patricio Yankilevich, Paola Barrero and Igor Zwir
Bio Sidus S. A., Argentina; Virology Lab Dr R Gutierrez Children Hospital, Argentina; Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
On Using Fuzzy Contact Maps for Protein Structure Comparison [#1434]
Juan R. Gonzalez and David A. Pelta
DECSAI, University of Granada, Spain
Identifying the promoter features governing differential kinetics of co-regulated genes using fuzzy expressions [#1306]
Igor Zwir, Rocio Romero-Zaliz, Oscar Harari and Cristina Rubio-Escudero
Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States; University of Granada, Spain

Session R08: Classifier Systems
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Larry Hall

Ensembles of Fuzzy Classifiers [#1043]
Juana Canul-Reich, Larry Shoemaker and Lawrence Hall
University of South Florida, United States
Classification of Weather Radar Images using Linguistic Decision Trees with Conditional Labelling [#1391]
Daniel McCulloch, Jonathan Lawry, Miguel Ramirez and Ian Cluckie
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Iterative Fuzzy Support Vector Machine Classification [#1364]
Alistair Shilton and Daniel Lai
The University Of Melbourne, Australia
Transformation of Relational Features for Use with Conventional Classifiers [#1510]
Aleksey Fadeev, Hichem Frigui, Dae-Jin Kim and Adel Elmaghraby
University of Louisville, United States
A Linguistic Fuzzy-XCS classifier system [#1400]
Javier G. Marin-Blazquez, Gregorio Martinez Perez and Manuel Gil Perez
Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Using Entropy to Impute Missing Data in a Classification Task [#1176]
Thomas Delavallade and Thanh Ha Dang
THALES and University Paris VI, France; University Paris VI, France

Special Session S02A: Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Theory (1)
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Jerry Mendel

Construction of Interval Type 2 Fuzzy Images to Represent Images in Grayscale. False Edges [#1040]
Humberto Bustince, Edurne Barrenechea, Miguel Pagola and Raul Orduna
Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain
A Vector Similarity Measure for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets [#1013]
Dongrui Wu and Jerry Mendel
University of Southern California, United States
New Type-2 Rule Ranking Indices for Designing Parsimonious Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems [#1242]
Shang-Ming Zhou, Robert John, Francisco Chiclana and Jonathan Garibaldi
School of Computing, De Montfort University, United Kingdom; Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfo, United Kingdom
An Interval Approach to Fuzzistics for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets [#1281]
Feilong Liu and Jerry Mendel
University of Southern California, United States
Interval-Valued and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sets: A Subjective Comparison [#1314]
Adam Niewiadomski
Technical Univeristy of Lodz, Poland, Poland

Special Session S13: Soft Computing : Philosophy, Methods and Applications in Medicine
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Rudolf Seising

Soft Computing and the Life Sciences- Philosophical Remarks [#1229]
Rudolf Seising
Medical University of Vienna, Core Unit of Medic, Austria
Fuzzy Health, Illness, and Disease -- Sadegh-Zadeh's framework and a program to identify diseases [#1228]
Julia Limberg and Rudolf Seising
Medical University of Vienna, Core Unit of Medic, Austria
The Parametric Modification of Fuzzy Sets Constituting a Content of Medical Linguistic Variables [#1262]
Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Increasing Diagnostic Accuracy by Meta Optimization of Fuzzy Rule Bases [#1098]
Mario Drobics, Janos Botzheim and Laslo T. Koczy
Medical University Vienna, Austria; Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
A Fuzzy Decision Support System for Therapy Administration in Cardiovascular Intensive Care Patients [#1070]
Mouloud Denai, Mahdi Mahfouf and Jonathan Ross
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Physiological Modelling and Multivariable SOFLC of Drug Administration for Critically Ill Patients [#1360]
Olufemi King, Mahdi Mahfouf, Jonathan Ross and Mouloud Denai
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Special Session S19: Fuzzy-based Agents for Ambient Intelligence Environments
Wednesday, July 25, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Vincenzo Loia

Fuzzy pro-active agents as key issue to increase traffic safety for next generation tunnels [#1278]
Vincenzo Galdi, Vincenzo Loia, Antonio Piccolo and Mario Veniero
DIIIE - University of Salerno, Italy; DMI - University of Salerno, Italy
Intelligent Coordinator of Fuzzy Controller-Agents for Indoor Environment Control in Buildings Using 3-D Fuzzy Comfort Set [#1369]
Anastasios Dounis and Christos Caraiscos
Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus, Greece
An Intelligent Fuzzy Agent based on PPQA Ontology for Supporting CMMI Assessment [#1032]
Chang-Shing Lee and Mei-Hui Wang
National University of Tainan, Taiwan
A Fuzzy Based Architecture for Learning Relevant Embedded Agents Associations in Ambient Intelligent Environments [#1172]
Hakan Duman, Hani Hagras and Victor Callaghan
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Soft Computing Prediction Techniques in Ambient Intelligence Environments [#1424]
M. Javad Akhlaghinia, Ahmad Lotfi and Caroline Langensiepen
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Monitoring the State of a Ubiquitous Robotic System: A Fuzzy Logic Approach [#1490]
Donatella Guarino and Alessandro Saffiotti
ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy, Italy; University of Orebro, Orebro, Sweden, Sweden

Thursday, July 26

Special Session S16: Robot Intelligent Connection
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Honghai Liu

Multiple Omnidirectional Vision System and Its Self-Localization Experiment [#1138]
Yoichiro Maeda and Daisuke Idou
University of Fukui, Japan
Distributed Cohesion Control for Leader-follower Flocking [#1471]
Zongyao Wang and Dongbing Gu
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Structured Learning for A Prediction-based Perceptual System of Partner Robots [#1265]
Naoyuki Kubota and Kenichiro Nishida
Tokyo Metropolitan University, JST, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Understanding Sensori-motor Coordination during a Humanoid Robot Dynamic Task [#1528]
Diego Pardo and Cecilio Angulo
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Soft Target Based Obstacle Avoidance for Car-like Mobile Robot in Dynamic Environment [#1353]
Yougen Chen and Seiji Yasunobu
University of Tsukuba,Japan, China; University of Tsukuba,Japan, Japan
Behaviour Based Fuzzy Flocking Systems [#1379]
Zongyao Wang and Dongbing Gu
University of Essex, United Kingdom
An Approach to Robot Motion Behaviour Representation [#1269]
Honghai Liu and David Brown
IIR, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Special Session S18: Genetic Fuzzy Systems - Applications
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Oscar Cordon

Genetic Learning of Membership Functions for Mining Fuzzy Association Rules [#1402]
Rafael Alcala, Jesus Alcala-Fdez, Maria Jose Gacto and Francisco Herrera
University of Granada, Spain; University of Jaen, Spain
On the Optimization of T-norm parameters within Fuzzy Decision Trees [#1047]
Keeley Crockett, Zuhair Bandar and David Mclean
Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Environmental Modeling by means of Genetic Fuzzy Systems [#1188]
Angela Nebot, Jesus Acosta and Violeta Mugica
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain; Instituto Universitario Tecnologia Alonso Gamero, Venezuela; Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
A Multiobjective G.A./Fuzzy Logic augmented flight controller for an F16 aircraft [#1245]
Dan Gladwin, Paul Stewart, Matt Parr and Stewart Jill
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Iniversity of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Computer Intrusion Detection Using an Iterative Fuzzy Rule Learning Approach [#1094]
Mohammad Saniee Abadeh and Jafar Habibi
PhD student, Iran; Associate Professor, Iran
Audio Coding Improvement Using Evolutionary Speech/Music Discrimination [#1233]
J. Enrique Munoz Exposito, Sebastian Garcia Galan, Nicolas Ruiz Reyes and Pedro Vera Candeas
Universidad de Jaen, Spain
Genetic Fuzzy Systems applied to Online Job Scheduling [#1413]
Carsten Franke, Joachim Lepping and Uwe Schwiegelshohn
SAP Research CEC Belfast,, Northern Ireland; University Dortmund, Robotics Research Institute, Germany

Session R11: Fuzzy Optimization
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: José Luis Verdegay

Optimizing the Linear Fractional Programming Problem with Max-Archimedean t-norm Fuzzy Relational Equation Constraints [#1112]
Yan-Kuen Wu, Sy-Ming Guu and Julie Yu-Chih Liu
Vanung University, Taiwan; Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Determining Unfuzzy Nondominated Solutions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Fuzzy Costs [#1104]
Kasperski Adam and Zielinski Pawel
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Equilibrium Strategies of Two-Player Nonzero-Sum Games with Fuzzy Payoffs [#1248]
Jinwu Gao, Zhi-Qiang Liu and Yan-Kui Liu
School of Information, Renmin University, China; School of creative media, City University of Hon, China; Hebei University, China
Minimum-Risk Criteria in Two-Stage Fuzzy Random Programming [#1277]
Yan-Kui Liu and Xiaodong Dai
Hebei University, China
An algorithm for the fuzzy maximum flow problem [#1225]
Fabio Hernandes, Maria T. Lamata, Marcia Takahashi, Akebo Yamakami and Jose L. Verdegay
Universidade Estadual do Centro - Oeste, Brazil; Universidad de Granada, Spain; Petrobras, Brazil; State University of Campinas, Brazil
Portfolio selection problems with random fuzzy variable returns [#1136]
Takashi Hasuike, Hideki Katagiri and Hiroaki Ishii
Osaka University, Japan; Hiroshima University, Japan
An Optimization Approach to Fuzzy Diagnosis: Oil Analysis Application [#1382]
Antonio Sala, Julio C. Ramirez, Bernardo Tormos and Manuel Yago
Univ. Politecnica Valencia, Spain; Instituto Tecnologico Nogales, Mexico

Session R03: Fuzzy Control
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Gary Feng

Stability conditions for fuzzy control systems with fuzzy feedback gains [#1425]
H.K. Lam and F.H.F. Leung
King's College London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Exact Fuzzy observer for a Baker's Yeast Fed-Batch Fermentation process [#1275]
Enrique Herrera, Bernardino Castillo, Jesus Ramirez and Eugenio C. Ferreira
Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico; Centro de Investigacion y Asistencia en Tecnolog, Mexico; IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineeri, Portugal
Robust H-infinity Filtering for Fuzzy Time-Delay Systems [#1388]
Jun Yoneyama
Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Stabilization Control for a Class of Switched Fuzzy Discrete-time Systems [#1351]
Hong Yang, Honghai Liu, Georgi Dimirovski and Jun Zhao
Northeastern University of Shenyang, China; IIR, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; Dogus University of Istanbul, Turkey
Fuzzy Logic based Switching and Tuning Supervisor for a Multi-variable Multiple Controller [#1433]
Rudwan Abdullah, Amir Hussain and Marios Polycarpou
University of Stirling, United Kingdom; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
A Delay-Dependent Approach to H-infinity Filtering for Fuzzy [#1190]
Meng Chen, Feng Gang and Haibo Ma
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Johnson Electric, Hong Kong
On the property of single input rule modules connected type fuzzy reasoning method [#1308]
Hirosato Seki, Hiroaki Ishii and Masaharu Mizumoto
Osaka University, Japan; Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan

Special Session S28: Fuzzy Approaches in Preference Modelling, Decision Making and Applications
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Francisco Chiclana

Visualizing Consensus in Group Decision Making Situations [#1476]
Sergio Alonso, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco J. Cabrerizo, Francisco Chiclana and Francisco Herrera
University of Granada, Spain; De Montfort University, United Kingdom
Evaluation of e-learning Material Design with Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relations [#1178]
Ru-Jen Chao and Yueh-Hsiang Chen
Kao-Yuan University, Taiwan
Building User profiles for Recommender Systems from incomplete preference relations [#1272]
Luis G. Perez, Manuel J. Barranco and Luis Martinez
University of Jaen, Spain
A recursive group decision procedure based on EOWA operators [#1280]
Miguel A. Ballester and Jose Luis Garcia-Lapresta
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Decomposing preference relations [#1329]
Daniel Gomez, Javier Montero and Javier Yanez
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
Fuzzy Hypothesis Management for Disorder Diagnosis [#1480]
Sandra Sandri, Javier Diaz, Maria Rifqi and Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
IIIA-Artificial Intelligencer Research Institute, Spain; LIP6-Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Consistency of Reciprocal Preference Relations [#1297]
Francisco Chiclana, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sergio Alonso and Francisco Herrera
School of Computing, De Montfort University, United Kingdom; Dept. Computer Sciences and A.I., Univ. Granada, Spain; Dept. Software Engineering, University of Granada, Spain; University of Granada, Spain

Special Session S02B: Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Theory (2)
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Simon Coupland

Optimised Generalised Type-2 Join and Meet Operations [#1059]
Sarah Greenfield and Robert John
Centre for Computational Intelligence, DMU, United Kingdom; Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
New Definitions and Terms for Non-Stationary Fuzzy Sets [#1441]
Jonathan M Garibaldi, Marcin Jaroszewski and Salang Musikasuwan
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
On the Accuracy of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets [#1055]
Simon Coupland and Robert John
De Montfort University, United Kingdom; Centre for Computational Intelligence, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
On Complete Sublattices of the Algebra of Truth Values of Type-2 Fuzzy Sets [#1189]
John Harding, Carol Walker and Elbert Walker
New Mexico State University, United States
General Type-2 Fuzzy Inference Systems: Analysis, Design and Computational Aspects [#1295]
Luis Lucas, Tania Centeno and Myriam Delgado
Federal University of Technology of Parana, Brazil
A Type-2 Fuzzy Model for Stock Market Analysis [#1099]
Mohamd Hossein Fazel Zarandi, Neshat Elahe, Turksen I. Burhan and Babak Rezaee
Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran; University of Toronto, Canada
Type-2 fuzzy decision making by means of a BL-algebra [#1392]
Luigi Di Lascio, Enrico Fischetti, Alessandro Gisolfi, Antonio Gisolfi and Aniello Nappi
DMI - University of Salerno, Italy

Special Session S31: Rough and Fuzzy Methods: a Hybrid Approach
Thursday, July 26, 9:00AM-11:00AM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Richard Jensen

Rough Sets on Four-Valued Fuzzy Approximation Space [#1082]
Vasile Patrascu
Tarom Company, Romania
Survey of Rough and Fuzzy Hybridization [#1053]
Pawan Lingras and Richard Jensen
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada; University of Wales Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Distance Measure Assisted Rough Set Feature Selection [#1291]
Neil Mac Parthalain, Qiang Shen and Richard Jensen
University of Wales Aberystwyth, Wales; University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales
Tolerance-based and Fuzzy-Rough Feature Selection [#1247]
Richard Jensen and Qiang Shen
University of Wales Aberystwyth, United Kingdom; University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Rough Set Theory for the Treatment of Incomplete Data [#1116]
Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo and Tshilidzi Marwala
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Core-generating Approximate Minimum Entropy Discretization for Rough Set Feature Selection: An Experimental Investigation [#1186]
David Tian, John Keane and Xiao-Jun Zeng
University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Plenary Talk: An Approach to Computing With Words
Jerry Mendel
Thursday, July 26, 11:30AM-12:30PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Hani Hagras

Panel Session PAN3: Soft Computing and Multimedia Organization and Retrieval
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Marcin Detyniecki and Andreas Nürnberger
Panelists: Enrique Herrera Viedma, Michihiko Minoh, Mike Nachtegael, Jan Nesvadba, Gabriella Pasi, Henri Prade, Anca Ralescu

Special Session S11B: Recent Developments and Future Directions in Genetic Fuzzy Systems(2)
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: Jorge Casillas

Consistent, Complete and Compact Generation of DNF-type Fuzzy Rules by a Pittsburgh-style Genetic Algorithm [#1455]
Jorge Casillas and Pedro Martinez
University of Granada, Spain
Data Set Subdivision for Parallel Distributed Implementation of Genetic Fuzzy Rule Selection [#1513]
Yusuke Nojima, Isao Kuwajima and Hisao Ishibuchi
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
FIXCS: a Fuzzy Implementation of XCS [#1482]
Andrea Bonarini and Matteo Matteucci
Politecnico di Milano-Dept. Electronics Inform., Italy
A Genetic-Fuzzy Mining Approach for Items with Multiple Minimum Supports [#1453]
Chun-Hao Chen, Tzung-Pei Hong, Vincent S. Tseng and Chang-Shing Lee
National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan; National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan; National University of Tainan, Taiwan
People Detection with Quantified Fuzzy Temporal Rules [#1303]
Manuel Mucientes and Alberto Bugarin
University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Special Session S08: Nature-Inspired Soft Computing in Large Networks
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:15PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Uzay Kaymak

Analytical Solution of Gene Regulatory Networks [#1514]
Erol Gelenbe
Imperial College, UK, United Kingdom
Detecting Denial of Service Attacks with Bayesian Classifiers and the Random Neural Network [#1501]
Gulay Oke, George Loukas and Erol Gelenbe
Imperial College London, Great Britain
Supply-Chain Management Using ACO and Beam-ACO Algorithms [#1436]
J. L. Caldeira, R. C. Azevedo, C. A. Silva and J. M. C. Sousa
Technical University of Lisbon, IST, CIS/IDMEC, Portugal
A bi-objective evolutionary approach to robust scheduling [#1428]
Michele Surico, Uzay Kaymak, David Naso and Rommert Dekker
Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Special Session S26: Flexible management of Spatial data in GISs
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Gloria Bordogna

A System for Querying With Qualitative Distances in Networks [#1191]
Carl Schultz, Hans Guesgen and Robert Amor
The University of Auckland, New Zealand; Massey University, New Zealand
Consensual Fusion of Multisource Spatial Data in presence of Uncertainty [#1299]
Gloria Bordogna, Marco Pagani and Gabriella Pasi
CNR IDPA, Italy; University Milano Bicocca, Italy
Image-to-X Registration Using Linear Features [#1508]
Anthony Stefanidis, Peggy Agouris, Caixia Wang and Arie Croitoru
George Mason University, United States; University of Maine, United States
Accuracy benefits of a fuzzy classifier in remote sensing data classification of snow [#1156]
Monica Pepe, Luigi Boschetti, Pietro Alessandro Brivio and Anna Rampini
CNR-IREA, Italy; Department of Geography, University of Maryland, United States

Special Session S03: Fuzzy Models and Applications in Decision Support,Process Monitoring and Control
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 503, Chair: Alessandra Orsoni

A Comparison of Fuzzy Modelling Techniques for Load Forecasting [#1105]
Piers Campbell
UAE University, United Arab Emirates
Multicriteria Decision Support for Industrial Plant Re-Engineering [#1276]
Stefanus Smith and Alessandra Orsoni
Kingston University, United Kingdom
An Interval Intelligent-based Approach for Fault Detection and Modelling [#1124]
Abbas Khosravi, Joaquim Armengol Llobet, and Esteban R. Gelso
University of Girona, Spain
Fuzzy Representation of Land Cover Classes Using Digital Geo-Data [#1534]
Ourania Mavrantza and Nikolaos V. Karadimas
Department of Data Quality Control, KTIMATOLOGI, Greece; National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Soft computing approaches towards design and decision support applications [#1192]
Teruaki Ito
University of Tokushima, Japan

Special Session S12B: Type-2 Fuzzy Modelling and Control
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 611, Chair: Tan Woei Wan

A Genetic Algorithm Based Architecture for Evolving Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controllers for Real World Autonomous Mobile Robots [#1074]
Christian Wagner and Hani Hagras
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Motion Planning in Dynamic and Unknown Environment Using an Interval Type-2 Tsk Fuzzy Logic Controller [#1481]
Nesrine Baklouti and Adel M Alimi
Ecole Nationale d Ingenieurs de Sfax, Tunisia
Estimation of Uncertainty in Measurement by means of Type-2 Fuzzy Variables [#1157]
Arianna Mencattini, Marcello Salmeri and Roberto Lojacono
University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Parallel Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Co-Processors for Engine Management [#1258]
Christopher Lynch, Hani Hagras and Victor Callaghan
University of Essex, United Kingdom
Soft Computation of Turbine Inlet Temperature of Gas Turbine Power Plant Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems [#1108]
Raj Kumar Gupta, Umesh Pareek and Indra Narayan Kar
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; NTPC Limited, New Delhi, India

Special Session S21B: Advances in Fuzzy Modelling
Thursday, July 26, 2:00PM-3:30PM, Room: EE 408, Chair: Shun-Feng Su

Integration of CMAC-GBF and Support Vector Regression Techniques [#1170]
Chen-Chia Chuang, Chia-Chu Hsu and Jin-Tsong Jeng
National Ilan University, Taiwan; National Formosa University, Taiwan
Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control Schemes for Tracking Time-various Trajectories [#1026]
Ted Tao and Chih-Yi Huang
No. 2, Xue Yuan Street, Beitou, Taipei 112, Taiwan
Fuzzy Control Design for Nonlinear Systems [#1343]
Song Shyong Chen, Jenq lang Wu, Yuan Chang Chang and Shun-Feng Su
Hsiu-Ping Institute of Technology, Taiwan; National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan; Li-Min Institute of Technology, Taiwan; National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Annealing Robust Fuzzy Basis Function for Modeling of Molecular Autoregulatory Feedback Loop Systems with Outliers [#1097]
Jin-Tsong Jeng and Chen-Chia Chuang
National Formosa University, Taiwan; National Ilan University, Taiwan
An On-Line Fuzzy Predictor from Real-Time Data [#1527]
Chih-Ching Hsiao and Shun-Feng Su
Kao Yuan University, Taiwan; National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan

Panel Session PAN7: Fuzzy Sets in Information Systems
Thursday, July 26, 4:00PM-5:15PM, Room: Mech Eng LTB, Chair: Masoud Nikravesh
Panelists : P. Bosc, M. Nikravesh, Gabriella Pasi, G. de Tré, Lotfi Zadeh

Special Session S20: Fuzzy Qualitative Reasoning
Thursday, July 26, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 509a, Chair: George M. Coghill and Liliana Ironi

Qualitative-fuzzy System Identification of Complex Dynamical Systems [#1211]
Raffaella Guglielmann and Liliana Ironi
University of Pavia, Italy; IMATI-CNR, Pavia, Italy
Fuzzy Qualitative Behaviour Prioritisation [#1290]
George Macleod Coghill
University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Towards Fuzzy Compositional Modelling [#1326]
Xin Fu, Qiang Shen and Ruiqing Zhao
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Using Orders of Magnitude and Nominal Variables to Construct Fuzzy Partitions [#1273]
Cati Olmo, German Sanchez, Francesc Prats, Nuria Agell and Monica Sanchez
GREC Group and Technical University of Catalonia, Spain; GREC Group and Esade - Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain
An Effective Human Motion Classification Approach using Knowledge Representation in Qualitative Normalised Templates [#1432]
Chan Chee Seng, Liu Honghai and David Brown
Institute of Industrial,University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom; Institute of Industrial Research, University of, United Kingdom
Computational Complexity Study of Fuzzy Qualitative Temporal Algebra [#1437]
Silvana Badaloni, Marco Falda and Massimiliano Giacomin
University of Padova, Italy; University of Brescia, Italy

Session R13: Mining Fuzzy Rules
Thursday, July 26, 4:00PM-5:45PM, Room: EE 509b, Chair: Trevor Martin

Mining Association Rules under Imprecision and Vagueness: towards a Possibilistic Approach [#1212]
Yassine Djouadi, Samir Redaoui and Karima Amroun
Department of Computer Science, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
Extracting compact and information lossless set of fuzzy association rules [#1377]
Sarra Ayouni and Sadok Ben Yahia
Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia
BayesFuzzy: using a Bayesian Classifier to Induce a Fuzzy Rule Base [#1468]
Estevam Rafael Hruschka Jr., Heloisa Camargo, Marcos Cintra and Maria do Carmo Nicoletti
UFSCar - Universidade Federal de S. Carlos, Brazil
Approximate Sequential Patterns for Incomplete Sequence Database Mining [#1198]
Celine Fiot, Anne Laurent and Maguelonne Teisseire
LIRMM - Univ. Montpellier 2 - CNRS, France
An Automatic KANSEI Fuzzy Rule Creating System Using Thesaurus [#1387]
Hajime Hotta and Masafumi Hagiwara
Keio University, Japan
Generation of Fuzzy Classification Rules Directly from Overlapping Input Partitioning [#1167]
Ioannis Gadaras, Ludmil Mikhailov and Stavros Lekkas
University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Session R12: Industrial and Medical Applications
Thursday, July 26, 4:00PM-5:30PM, Room: EE 508, Chair: Kee