Hybrid Information Systems

Neural Networks and Applications.- A Full Explanation Facility for a MLP Network that Classifies Low-Back-Pain Patients and for Predicting its Reliability.- Use of Multi-category Proximal SVM for Data Set Reduction.- Neural Techniques in Logo Recognition.- Motion Detection Using Cellular Neural Network.- Speech Separation Based on Higher Order Statistics Using Recurrent Neural Networks.- Speaker Recognition Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks.- A Multifaceted Investigation into Speech Reading.- Global Optimisation of Neural Networks Using a Deterministic Hybrid Approach.- AppART: An ART Hybrid Stable Learning Neural Network for Universal Function Approximation.- Monitoring System Security Using Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines.- A Hybrid Detection and Classification System for Human Motion Analysis.- Integrated Technique with Neurocomputing for Temporal Video Segmentation.- Matching Data Mining Algorithm Suitability to Data Characteristics Using a Self-Organizing Map.- Perceptual Grouping of Contours via Gated Diffusion of Boundary Signals.- Fuzzy Logic and Applications.- Fusion of Fuzzy System and Conventional Technique to Evaluate Weather and Terrain Effects on the Vehicle Operations.- Soft Computing for Developing Short Term Load Forecasting Models in Czech Republic.- An Induction Algorithm with Selection Significance Based on a Fuzzy Derivative.- Adaptive Database Learning in Decision Support Systems Using Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems: A Generic Framework.- Histogram-Based Fuzzy Clustering and its Comparison to Fuzzy C-Means Clustering in One-Dimensional Data.- Optimizing Linear Programming Technique Using Fuzzy Logic.- Semantics for Fuzzy Disjunctive Programs with Weak Similarity.- An Integration of Fuzzy and Two-Valued Logics on Natural Language Semantics.- Fuzzy Hyperplanes in the Hypothesis Space.- Evolutionary Computation and Other Heuristics.- A Genetic Algorithm for Optimizing Throughput in Non-broadcast WDM Optical Networks.- Solving Trigonometric Identities with Tree Adjunct Grammar Guided Genetic Programming.- Integrated Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolving Natural Language Parser with Genetic Programming.- A Linear Genetic Programming Approach for Modeling Electricity Demand Prediction in Victoria.- Flexible Generator Maintenance Scheduling in a Practical System Using Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithm.- Information Space Optimization with Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm for Inductive Learning.- A Comparison of GRASP and an Exact Method for Solving a Production and Delivery Scheduling Problem.- Intelligent Agents and Applications.- MEBRL: Memory Evolution Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm of MAS.- Agent Representation and Communication in CBR-Tutor.- Agent-based Software Engineering and Agent Mediations.- Virtual AI Classroom: A Proposal.- An Argumentation-Based Multi-Agent System for eTourism Dialogue.- Modeling a Distributed Knowledge Management for Cooperative Agents.- Bayesian Methods / Rough Sets and Applications.- Linear Discriminant Text Classification in High Dimension.- A Bayesian Track-before-Detect Algorithm for IR Point Target Detection.- Application of Bayesian Controllers to Dynamic Systems.- An Algorithm for Automatic Generation of a Case Base from a Database Using Similarity-Based Rough Approximation.- A Family of Algorithms for Implementing the Main Concepts of the Rough Set Theory.- Intelligent Data Mining and Information Analysis.- Value of Information Analysis in Dynamic Influence Diagrams.- An Automated Report Generation Tool for the Data Understanding Phase.- Determining the Validity of Clustering for Data Fusion.- The Performance of Small Support Spatial and Temporal Filters for Dim Point Target Detection in Infrared Image Sequences.- Using Petri Nets for Modeling Branch Control of Pipeline Processors.- Extended Vector Annotated Logic Program and its Applications to Robot Action Control and Automated Safety Verification.- Hybrid Intelligent Systems Applications: Reviews and Frameworks.- Overview of Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Statistical Inference and its Application.- Insurance Applications of Soft Computing Technologies.- Teaming Human and Machine: A Conceptual Framework.- Dynamics and Thinking of Social Systems.- Author Index.