Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings, Part I / Edition 1

Keynote Lectures.- Assisting Human Decision Making with Intelligent Technologies.- Driven by Compression Progress.- Evolvable Hardware Architectures and Their Role in Fault Tolerant Computational Systems.- Legal Issues for Military Intelligent Decision-Making Technologies.- New Topics from Recent Interactive Evolutionary Computation Researches.- Virtual Humans: From Researcher’s Fascination to Mass-Market Technology.- How Many Clusters Are There? – An Essay on the Basic Notions of Clustering.- I General Tracks.- An Intelligent Traffic Light Control Based on Extension Neural Network.- Design of an Auto-associative Neural Network by Using Design of Experiments Approach.- A New Implementation for High Speed Normalized Neural Networks in Frequency Space.- A New SOM Initialization Algorithm for Nonvectorial Data.- Accelerated Gradient Learning Algorithm for Neural Network Weights Update.- Neural Model-Based Segmentation of Image Motion.- Classification on Soft Labels Is Robust against Label Noise.- Prediction of the Collapse Index by a Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System.- A Cross-Entropy Based Population Learning Algorithm for Discrete-Continuous Scheduling with Continuous Resource Discretisation.- Improving the Responsiveness of NSGA-II in Dynamic Environments Using an Adaptive Mutation Operator – A Case Study.- Structural Analysis of Promoter Sequences Using Grammar Inference and Support Vector Machine.- A Metric to Discriminate the Selection of Algorithms for the General ATSP Problem.- Classification Method Utilizing Reliably Labeled Data.- A Manifolded AdaBoost for Face Recognition.- On Lipschitz Embeddings of Graphs.- An Experiment on Human Face Recognition Performance for Access Control.- A First Step towards Argument Mining and Its Use in Arguing Agents and ITS.- Optimizing Service Distributions Using a Genetic Algorithm.- Agent-Based User Personalization Using Context-Aware Semantic Reasoning.- Performance Evaluation of a Mobile Agent Network Using Network Calculus.- Using Generalized Learning Automata for State Space Aggregation in MAS.- Recommendation of Multimedia Objects Based on Similarity of Ontologies.- Toward Emotional E-Commerce: The Customer Agent.- A Method for Integration of WordNet-Based Ontologies Using Distance Measures.- The Multiagent System for Channel Selection and Topology Control on 802.11 Based Mesh Networks.- EasyLife: A Location-Aware Service Oriented Mobile Information System.- A New Concept of Trust Modeling and Management in Complex Networks.- Extending Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Mobile Devices.- Integration of Knowledge in Disjunctive Structure on Semantic Level.- Three Parameters Refinement for Distributed 3D-Image Rendering.- CBR to Explain Medical Model Exceptions.- Reasoning for Incomplete Authorizations.- A Place Judgment System Based on an Association Mechanism for Natural Language Interaction.- Knowledge Maturity Based on Processing and Creation of Information.- On Attaining Higher Level of Certainty in Evaluation Processes.- A User Interface for the User-Centred Knowledge Model, t-UCK.- Focus Support Interface Based on Collaborative Learning Activity.- Grammar-Based Argument Construction.- Towards the Knowledge Capitalisation and Organisation in the Model of Conformity-Checking Process in Construction.- A Web-Based Customer Support Knowledge Base System.- Incremental Determinization of Finite Automata in Model-Based Diagnosis of Active Systems.- A Knowledge Based Approach for Capturing Rich Semantic Representations from Text.- Ontology-Based Design Pattern Recognition.- Cognitive Systems for Medical Pattern Understanding and Diagnosis.- Detection and Analysis of Cell Nuclear Phases.- Simple Perceptually-Inspired Methods for Blob Extraction.- A Study on Self Practice Navigation System for the “Kana” Strings.- A Fuzzy Thresholding Circuit for Image Segmentation.- A Method for Reading a Resistor by Image Processing Techniques.- Networked Virtual Marionette Theater.- A Generic Methodology for Classification of Complex Data Structures in Automotive Industry.- Uncovering the Deep Web: Transferring Relational Database Content and Metadata to OWL Ontologies.- Accessing the Distributed Learner Profile in the Semantic Web.- A New Travel Time Prediction Method for Intelligent Transportation Systems.- Measuring Sequence Similarity Trough Many-to-Many Frequent Correlations.- IRPS – An Efficient Test Data Generation Strategy for Pairwise Testing.- A Procedure Ontology for Advanced Diagnosis of Process Systems.- Congenital Heart Disease: An Ontology-Based Approach for the Examination of the Cardiovascular System.- ODDI: Ontology-Driven Data Integration.- Enhancing Recommendations through a Data Mining Algorithm.- Using Sense Recognition to Resolve the Problem of Polysemy in Building a Taxonomic Hierarchy.- A Framework for Context-Awareness in Artificial Systems.- The Proposal of the Association Response Based on Commonsense in Conversation System.- Ontological Knowledge Maintenance Methodology.- A Hybrid Approach for Data Preprocessing in the QSAR Problem.- Modeling of the Students Scenario on a Learning Course.- Sensor Network-Based Nonlinear System Identification.- Automatic Generation of Computer Animation Conveying Impressions of News Articles.- Data Mining for Navigation Generating System with Unorganized Web Resources.- Exploring Robustness Enhancements for Logic-Based Passage Filtering.- Comparing Document Classification Schemes Using K-Means Clustering.- Describing and Generating Web-Based Affective Human-Agent Interaction.- Scalable Content-Based Ranking in P2P Information Retrieval.- A New Algorithm for Community Identification in Linked Data.- GrasSmart: An Intelligent Robotic System for Continuous Area Coverage.- Stator Resistance Tuning Based on a Neural Network in an Indirect Rotor Field Oriented Control System of an Induction Motor.- A Simple Goal Seeking Navigation Method for a Mobile Robot Using Human Sense, Fuzzy Logic and Reinforcement Learning.- Fuzzy Control of a Real Time Inverted Pendulum System.- Construction and Evaluation of a Robot Dance System.- Development and Evaluation of a Centaur Robot.- Collaboration Options for Small and Medium Size Enterprises.- Service Robot System Using Personal Attribute and Acquisition Preference Attribute with Networked Robots.- Self-Protecting Session Initiation Protocol Stack.- Early Forest Fire Detection with Sensor Networks: Sliding Window Skylines Approach.- Analysing Flight Data Using Clustering Methods.- Visual-Based View-Invariant Human Motion Analysis: A Review.- Generalized Extreme Value for Smooth Component Analysis in Prediction Improvement.- Context Cookies.- Smart Environment Vectorization.