Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing — ICAISC 2004 7th International Conference Zakopane, Poland, June 7–11, 2004 Proceedings

Invited Papers.- Evolutionary Design of Information Systems Architectures.- Clifford Support Vector Machines for Classification.- Uncertain Variables and Systems – New Problems and Results.- Blind Signal Separation and Extraction: Recent Trends, Future Perspectives, and Applications.- Visualization of Hidden Node Activity in Neural Networks: I. Visualization Methods.- Visualization of Hidden Node Activity in Neural Networks: II. Application to RBF Networks.- Rough Set Approach to Incomplete Data.- Neural Networks of Positive Systems.- Support of Natural, by Artificial, Intelligence Using Utility as Behavioral Goal.- Top-Down Selective Attention for Robust Perception of Noisy and Confusing Patterns.- On ANN Based Solutions for Real-World Industrial Requirements.- ActiveMath: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Mathematics.- Inference Rules and Decision Rules.- Survival of Intelligent Agents in Changing Environments.- Inducing Robust Decision Rules from Rough Approximations of a Preference Relation.- The New Concept in Computer Vision: Automatic Understanding of the Images.- Neural Networks and Their Applications.- Dynamic High Order Neural Networks: Application for Fault Diagnosis.- Momentum Modification of the RLS Algorithms.- Parallel Realisation of QR Algorithm for Neural Networks Learning.- Rainfall-Runoff Modelling Using Three Neural Network Methods.- Probability Distribution of Solution Time in ANN Training Using Population Learning Algorithm.- Parallelization of the SOM-Based Integrated Mapping.- Training Radial Basis Functions by Gradient Descent.- Generalized Backpropagation through Time for Continuous Time Neural Networks and Discrete Time Measurements.- Experiments on Ensembles of Radial Basis Functions.- Orthodoxy Basis Functions and Convergence Property in Procedure Neural Networks.- Confidence Estimation of GMDH Neural Networks.- On Some Factors Influencing MLP Error Surface.- Discovery of Linguistic Rules by Means of RBF Network for Fault Detection in Electronic Circuits.- Combining Space-Filling Curves and Radial Basis Function Networks.- Chaotic Itinerancy for Patterns Separation.- Dynamic Search Trajectory Methods for Neural Network Training.- Visualizing and Analyzing Multidimensional Output from MLP Networks via Barycentric Projections.- Optimization of Centers’ Positions for RBF Nets with Generalized Kernels.- Fixed Non–linear Combining Rules versus Adaptive Ones.- Learning and System Modeling via Hamiltonian Neural Networks.- Recurrent Network Structure for Computing Quasi-inverses of the Sierpi?ski Space-Filling Curves.- Fuzzy Systems and Their Applications.- Comparison of Reasoning Methods for Fuzzy Control.- Fuzzy Modelling with a Compromise Fuzzy Reasoning.- A Self Tuning Fuzzy Inference System for Noise Reduction.- Fuzzy-Neural Networks in the Diagnosis of Motor-Car’s Current Supply Circuit.- Fuzzy Number-Based Hierarchical Fuzzy System.- Stock Trend Prediction Using Neurofuzzy Predictors Based on Brain Emotional Learning Algorithm.- Digital Implementation of Fuzzy Petri Net Based on Asynchronous Fuzzy RS Flip-Flop.- Fuzzy Calculator – Useful Tool for Programming with Fuzzy Algebra.- On Defuzzyfication of Ordered Fuzzy Numbers.- Information Criterions Applied to Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures Design.- On Hesitation Degrees in IF-Set Theory.- Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Learning through Swarm Intelligence.- Application of the General Gaussian Membership Function for the Fuzzy Model Parameters Tunning.- Are Linguistic Evaluations Used by People of Possibilistic or Probabilistic Nature?.- Fuzzy Linear Programming in Ship Trajectory Optimization in a Restricted Area.- Application of Fuzzy Weighted Feature Diagrams to Model Variability in Software Families.- Neuro-Fuzzy Relational Classifiers.- What Differs Interval Type-2 FLS from Type-1 FLS?.- A Similarity Measure for Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Its Application in Supporting Medical Diagnostic Reasoning.- Evolutionary Algorithms and Their Applications.- Multi-criterion Evolutionary Algorithm with Model of the Immune System to Handle Constraints for Task Assignments.- Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Minimizing Total Weighted Completion Time.- Adaptive Evolutionary Computation – Application for Mixed Linear Programming.- Adaptive Evolutionary Computation of the Parametric Optimization Problem.- Concentration of Population in Phenotypic Evolution.- An Evolutionary Clustering Algorithm.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for Oblique Decision Tree Induction.- Propagation of Building Blocks in SGA and MPGA.- Selection Pressure and an Efficiency of Neural Network Architecture Evolving.- Rule Extraction from Neural Network by Genetic Algorithm with Pareto Optimization.- Graph Transformations in Evolutionary Design.- A Genetic Algorithm for Probabilistic SAT Problem.- Design and Optimization of Combinational Digital Circuits Using Modified Evolutionary Algorithm.- Modified Version of Roulette Selection for Evolution Algorithms – The Fan Selection.- New Genetic Crossover Operator for the TSP.- Rough Sets and Their Applications.- Hybridization of Blind Source Separation and Rough Sets for Proteomic Biomarker Indentification.- Inducing Jury’s Preferences in Terms of Acoustic Features of Violin Sounds.- Fuzzy Implication Operators in Variable Precision Fuzzy Rough Sets Model.- Fuzzyfication of Indiscernibility Relation for Structurizing Lists of Synonyms and Stop-Lists for Search Engines.- Rough Sets in the Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures Based on Monotonic Fuzzy Implications.- Rough Sets in the Neuro-Fuzzy Architectures Based on Non-monotonic Fuzzy Implications.- On L–Fuzzy Rough Sets.- Application of Rough Sets Techniques to Induction Machine Broken Bar Detection.- Application of Rough Sets and Neural Networks to Forecasting University Facility and Administrative Cost Recovery.- Soft Computing in Classification.- Selection of the Linearly Separable Feature Subsets.- Short-Time Signal Analysis Using Pattern Recognition Methods.- Application of Genetic Algorithms and Kohonen Networks to Cluster Analysis.- Modified Kohonen Networks for Complex Cluster-Analysis Problems.- Reducing the Computational Demands for Nearest Centroid Neighborhood Classifiers.- SSV Criterion Based Discretization for Naive Bayes Classifiers.- Comparison of Instance Selection Algorithms II. Results and Comments.- SBL-PM-M: A System for Partial Memory Learning.- Relevance LVQ versus SVM.- Comparison of Instances Seletion Algorithms I. Algorithms Survey.- Towards Grammatical Inferencing of GDPLL(k) Grammars for Applications in Syntactic Pattern Recognition-Based Expert Systems.- Intelligent Layer of Two-Way Voice Communication of the Technological Device with the Operator.- A Neural Network Based Method for Classification of Meteorological Data.- An Empirical Test Suite for Message Authentication Evaluation in Communications Based on Support Vector Machines.- Efficient Digital Fingerprint Production and Evaluation for Secure Communication Systems Based on Genetic Algorithms.- On Chinese Web Page Classification.- A New Fuzzy Clustering Method with Constraints in Time Domain.- Special Cluster Analysis and Basic Feature Estimation with a Modification of Self-Organizing Map.- An Unsupervised Cluster Analysis and Information about the Modelling System.- Cursive-Character Script Recognition Using Toeplitz Model and Neural Networks.- Learning with an Embedded Reject Option.- Image Processing.- Impulsive Noise Suppression from Highly Corrupted Images by Using Resilient Neural Networks.- A New Methodology for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Raw Data Compression Based on Wavelet Transform and Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Processing Technique for Content-Based Image Retrieval.- Human Ear Identification Based on Image Analysis.- Automatic Change Detection Based on Codelength Differences in Multi-temporal and Multi-spectral Images.- Estimating Face Direction via Facial Triangle.- An Image Compression Algorithm Based on Neural Networks.- Fuzzy Nonparametric Measur