Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology 4th International Conference, RSKT 2009, Gold Coast, Australia, July 14-16, 2009, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology, RSKT 2009, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in July 2009. The 85 revised full papers papers presented together with 3 keynote papers and 2 special sessions were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rough sets and computing, rough sets and data reduction, data mining and knowledge discovery, granular computing and cognitive computing, fuzzy sets and computing, knowledge technology and intelligent systems, computational intelligence and applications, image processing and understanding, and formal concept analysis.

Keynote Papers.- Interactive Granular Computing in Rightly Judging Systems.- Rough Diamonds in Natural Language Learning.- KT: Knowledge Technology — The Next Step of Information Technology (IT).- Rough Sets and Computing.- Rough 3-Valued ?ukasiewicz Agebras and MV-Algebras.- Mechanisms of Partial Supervision in Rough Clustering Approaches.- Lattice Derived by Double Indiscernibility and Computational Complementarity.- Double Approximation and Complete Lattices.- Integrating Rough Sets with Neural Networks for Weighting Road Safety Performance Indicators.- Evolutionary Rough K-Means Clustering.- Rough Sets under Non-deterministic Information.- Development of the Data Preprocessing Agent’s Knowledge for Data Mining Using Rough Set Theory.- Improving Rules Quality Generated by Rough Set Theory for the Diagnosis of Students with LDs through Mixed Samples Clustering.- Topological Residuated Lattice: A Unifying Algebra Representation of Some Rough Set Models.- Rough Sets and Data Reduction.- A Time-Reduction Strategy to Feature Selection in Rough Set Theory.- Reducts Evaluation Methods Using Lazy Algorithms.- Knowledge Reduction in Formal Contexts Based on Covering Rough Sets.- On New Concept in Computation of Reduct in Rough Sets Theory.- Research of Knowledge Reduction Based on New Conditional Entropy.- Research on Complete Algorithms for Minimal Attribute Reduction.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- A Comparison of Composed Objective Rule Evaluation Indices Using PCA and Single Indices.- An Incremental Rule Induction Algorithm Based on Ordering Relations.- On Construction of Partial Association Rules.- Forecasting Change Directions for Financial Time Series Using Hidden Markov Model.- Learning to Extract Web News Title in Template Independent Way.- Multiagent Framework for Bio-data Mining.- Granular Computing and Cognitive Computing.- EEG Analysis on Skull Conductivity Perturbations Using Realistic Head Model.- An Approach for the Neuropsychological Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Hybrid Model in Decision Making.- Machine Learning in Granular Computing.- Mental Imagery Knowledge Representation Mode of Human-Level Intelligence System.- Mining Fuzzy Ontology for a Web-Based Granular Information Retrieval System.- A Cognitive Evaluation for Meetings in Software Development Process.- Granule Oriented Data Warehouse Model.- A Prototype Biometric Security Authentication System Based upon Fingerprint Recognition.- Intelligent Failure Diagnosis Algorithm Based on Binary Granule Neural Network.- Fuzzy Sets and Computing.- Closures of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relations.- Protein Comparison by the Alignment of Fuzzy Energy Signatures.- Some Invariant Properties of Fuzzy Information Systems under Homomorphism.- Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets.- Kernelized Fuzzy Rough Sets.- On Fuzzy Rough Set Algebras in Infinite Universes.- The Basis Algebra in L-Fuzzy Rough Sets.- An Interpretation of Rough Sets in Incomplete Information Systems within Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets.- Knowledge Technology and Intelligent Systems.- Comparison of Two MCDA Classification Methods over the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.- Efficient Information Propagation in Service Routing for Next Generation Network.- Monitoring the Depth of Anesthesia Using Discrete Wavelet Transform and Power Spectral Density.- Nested Proof Compilation and Proof Checking in Universal Pattern Logic.- Positive Linear Correlation Particle Swarm Optimization.- Classification of EEG Signals Using Sampling Techniques and Least Square Support Vector Machines.- Stability Analysis of Model-Based Networked Control System with Unreliable Links.- Estimation of Mutual Information: A Survey.- A Novel Multimodal Probability Model for Cluster Analysis.- Computational Intelligence and Applications.- OFDM Channel Estimation and Signal Detection on Nonintegral-Delay and Fast Time-Varying Channels.- A Novel Frequency Offset Estimation Method for Distributed MIMO Systems with Large Estimation Range.- The Application of Support Vector Machine in Classifying the Causes of Voltage Sag in Power System.- Fault Diagnosis Based on Artificial Immune and Principal Component Analysis.- Teaching of Critical Path Networks Using Software Packages.- A RFID Based Agile Manufacturing Planning and Control System.- Object-Oriented Inheritance Metrics: Cognitive Complexity Perspective.- Research Design for Investigation of Nigeria Manufacturing Management.- Real-Time Pressure Monitoring and Control of a Hydraulic System without Sensor.- Automated Grammar Checking of Tenses for ESL Writing.- Using Coding Technology to Improve the Communication Efficiency of a Person with Multiple Disabilities.- Time Synchronization for OFDM Systems with Narrowband Interference.- Electromagnetism-like Mechanism with Force Decay Rate Great Deluge for the Course Timetabling Problem.- A Model Based on SVM for Predicting Spontaneous Combustion of Coal.- Using Genetic Algorithm for Traffic Light Control System with a Pedestrian Crossing.- Cross Language Information Extraction Knowledge Adaptation.- Temporal Reasoning in Urban Growth Simulation.- Novel H/ACA Box snoRNA Mining and Secondary Structure Prediction Algorithms.- Image Processing and Understanding.- Self-adapting Cyclic Delay Diversity System.- Using Wavelets and Independent Component Analysis for Quantization Index Modulation Watermarking.- Granular Approach to Object-Oriented Remote Sensing Image Classification.- Image Transformation on Hexagonal Structure Based on Conversion between 1D and 2D Coordinates.- Formal Concept Analysis.- Conceptual Graph Interchange Format for Mining Financial Statements.- The Reduction Theory of Object Oriented Concept Lattices and Property Oriented Concept Lattices.- Correlation Analysis Between Objects and Attributes.- Fuzzy Concept Lattices Determined by (?,?)-Fuzzy Rough Approximation Operators.- Special Session: Decision-Theoretic Rough Sets.- Learning Optimal Parameters in Decision-Theoretic Rough Sets.- Entropy Measures of Flow Graphs with Applications to Decision Trees.- Rough Set Analysis for Sudan School Certificate.- Reasoning Decision Rules of an Uncertain System.- Three-Way Decision: An Interpretation of Rules in Rough Set Theory.- A Multi-View Decision Model Based on Decision-Theoretic Rough Set.- Special Session: Web Mining and Web Recommender Systems.- A User Profiles Acquiring Approach Using Pseudo-Relevance Feedback.- Tag Based Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems.- Exploring Concepts’ Semantic Relations for Clustering-Based Query Senses Disambiguation.- Average Transitive Trustworthy Degrees for Trustworthy Networks.- News Recommender System Based on Topic Detection and Tracking.- A Collaborative Filtering Algorithm with Phased Forecast.