8. Fuzzy Days 2004: Dortmund, Germany

Evolutionary Algorithms

• István Borgulya:
  An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Unconstrained Binary Quadratic Problems. 3-16
  
• Boriana Vatchova:
  Application of Genetic Algorithms by Means of Pseudo Gradient. 17-24
  
• Juan Romero, Carlos Cotta:
  Optimization by Island-Structured Decentralized Particle Swarms. 25-33
  
• Stefan Berlik:
  Directed Mutation by Means of the Skew-Normal Distribution. 35-50
  

Rule-Based Fuzzy Inference

• Thomas Vetterlein:
  Smooth Extensions of Fuzzy If-Then Rule Bases. 53-59
  
• Farida Benmakrouha:
  Pre-validation of a Fuzzy Model. 61-64
  
• Ricardo Ñanculef, Carlos Concha, Claudio Moraga, Héctor Allende:
  Multiresolution Fuzzy Rule Systems. 65-79
  

Invited Session Data Characterization through Fuzzy Clustering

• Olga Georgieva, Frank Klawonn, Elisabeth Härtig:
  Fuzzy Clustering of Macroarray Data. 83-94
  
• Hichem Sahbi, Nozha Boujemaa:
  Fuzzy Clustering: Consistency of Entropy Regularization. 95-107
  
• Bernard Hugueney, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Georges Hébrail:
  Fuzzy Long Term Forecasting through Machine Learning and Symbolic Representations of Time Series. 109-123
  
• Marie-Jeanne Lesot, Laure Mouillet, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier:
  Fuzzy Prototypes Based on Typicality Degrees. 125-138
  

Plenary Talk

• Janusz Kacprzyk:
  The Power of Zadeh's Protoforms: Towards General Problem Formulations in Fuzzy Multistage Control and Group Decision Making. 141-142
  

Fuzzy Control

• Ahmet Yardimci, N. Hadimioglu:
  Fuzzy Logic Fluid Therapy Control System for Renal Transplantation. 145-158
  
• Szilveszter Kovács:
  Interpolative Fuzzy Reasoning in Behaviour-Based Control. 159-170
  
• S. Akabari, M. B. Menhaj, S. K. Nikravesh:
  Fuzzy Modeling of Offensive Maneuvers in an Air-to-Air Combat. 171-184
  

Invited Session Recent Advances in Theoretical Soft Computing

• Martin Stepnicka, Stephan Lehmke:
  Approximation of Fuzzy Functions by Extended Fuzzy Transforms. 187-195
  
• Siegfried Gottwald:
  Fuzzy Control as a General Interpolation Problem. 197-204
  
• Radim Belohlávek, Tatána Funioková, Vilém Vychodil:
  Galois Connections with Truth Stressers: Foundations for Formal Concept Analysis of Object-Attribute Data with Fuzzy Attributes. 205-219
  
• Irina Perfilieva, Radek Valásek:
  Fuzzy Transforms in Removing Noise. 221-230
  
• Irina Perfilieva, Stephan Lehmke:
  Safe Modelling of Fuzzy If-Then Rules. 231-236
  
• Vilém Novák:
  Perception-Based Logical Deduction. 237-250
  

Invited Session Towards Intelligent Decision Support Systems via Soft Computing

• Fernando Berzal, Juan C. Cubero, Nicolás Marín, Olga Pons:
  Fuzzy Object-Oriented Modelling with Metadata Attributes in C#. 253-262
  
• Vassia Atanassova:
  Strategies for Decision Making in the Conditions of Intuitionistic Fuzziness. 263-269
  
• Janusz Kacprzyk, Slawomir Zadrozny:
  Fuzzy Linguistic Summaries in Text Categorization for Human-Consistent Document-Driven Decision Support Systems. 271-279
  
• Boyan Kolev, Panagiotis Chountas, Ilias Petrounias, Vassilis S. Kodogiannis:
  An Application of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Relational Databases in Football Match Result Predictions. 281-289
  
• Anthony G. Shannon, Daniela Langova-Orozova, Evdokia Sotirova, Krassimir T. Atanassov, Pedro Melo-Pinto, Taekyun Kim:
  Generalized Net Model for Adaptive Electronic Assessment, Using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Estimations. 291-297
  

Fuzzy Logic in Decision Support

• Tomoe Entani, Kazutomi Sugihara, Hideo Tanaka:
  Analytic Hierarchy Process Based on Fuzzy Analysis. 301-309
  
• David Pritchard, Mircea Gh. Negoita:
  A Fuzzy-Ga Hybrid Technique for Optimization of Teaching Sequences Presented in ITSs. 311-316
  
• Irina Georgescu:
  Consistency Conditions for Fuzzy Choice Functions. 317-324
  

Applications of Fuzzy Systems

• Ahmet Yardimci, A. Muhammetoglu, H. Oguz:
  A Fuzzy Logic Application to Environment Management System: A Case Study for Goksu Streams Water Quality Assesment. 327-338
  
• Yutaka Hata, Osamu Ishikawa, Syoji Kobashi, Katsuya Kondo:
  Combination Rule of Normal Degrees on Automated Medical Diagnosis System (AMDS). 339-347
  
• Tatiana Kiseliova, Stanislav Krajci:
  Generation of Representative Symptoms Based on Fuzzy Concept Lattices. 349-354
  

Connectives

• Funda Karaçal:
  On the Direct Decomposability of Fuzzy Connectives, Negations and Implications Based on T-Norms and T-Conorms on Product Lattices. 357-367
  
• Andrea Stupnanová:
  The Cancellation Law for Addition of Fuzzy Intervals. 369-375
  
• Irina Perfilieva:
  Generic View On Continuous T-Norms and T-Conorms. 377-382
  

Invited Session Intelligent Techniques for Knowledge Extraction and Management

• Paolo Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani:
  Mining Class Hierarchies from XML Data: Representation Techniques. 385-396
  
• Daniel Sánchez, Andrea Tettamanzi:
  Generalizing Quantification in Fuzzy Description Logics. 397-411
  
• Fernando Berzal, Juan C. Cubero, Nicolás Marín, María Amparo Vila Miranda:
  Fuzzy Types: A First Step Towards Lazy Types in the .NET Framework. 413-418
  
• Tomás Horváth, Peter Vojtás:
  Fuzzy Induction via Generalized Annotated Programs. 419-433
  
• Carlo Combi, Barbara Oliboni, Rosalba Rossato:
  Evaluating Fuzzy Association Rules on XML Documents. 435-448
  

Plenary Talk

• Jong-Hwan Kim:
  Ubiquitous Robot. 451-459
  

Fuzzy Image Processing

• Anwar M. Mirza, Badre Munir:
  Combining Fuzzy Logic and Kriging for Image Enhancement. 463-473
  
• Dirk Lühning:
  Optical Quality Control of Coated Steel Sheets Using Fuzzy Grey Scale Correlograms. 475-480
  

Plenary Talk

• Eyke Hüllermeier:
  Fuzzy Methods in Knowledge Discovery. 483
  

Invited Session: Evolutionary Algorithms

• Antonio J. Fernández, Javier González Jiménez:
  Action Games: Evolutive Experiences. 487-501
  
• Maribel García Arenas, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, Gustavo Romero, Fatima Rateb, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós:
  Co-evolving Multilayer Perceptrons Along Training Sets. 503-513
  
• Francisco Fernández, Marco Tomassini:
  Improving Parallel GA Performances by Means of Plagues. 515-523
  
• Carlos Cotta:
  Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction under the HPNX Model. 525-534
  

Invited Session Aggregation Operators

• Juliana Mordelová:
  Quasi-Copulas on Discrete Scales. 537-544
  
• Radko Mesiar:
  Basic Classification of Aggregation Operators and Some Construction Methods. 545-553
  
• Tatiana Rückschlossová:
  Homogeneous Aggregation Operators. 555-563
  
• Erich-Peter Klement, Anna Kolesárová:
  1-Lipschitz Aggregation Operators, Quasi-Copulas and Copulas with Given Opposite Diagonal. 565-571
  
• Yasuo Narukawa, Vicenç Torra:
  Fuzzy Measures and Choquet Integral on Discrete Spaces. 573-581
  

Neural Networks

• Héctor Allende, Rodrigo Salas, Romina Torres, Claudio Moraga:
  Modular Neural Network Applied to Non-Stationary Time Series. 585-598
  
• Igor N. Aizenberg, Claudio Moraga, Dmitriy Paliy:
  A Feedforward Neural Network based on Multi-Valued Neurons. 599-612
  
• Jerzy Martyna:
  Least-Squares Support Vector Machines for Scheduling Transmission in Wireless Networks. 613-619
  
• Man-Wook Han, Peter Kopacek:
  Neural Networks for the Control of Soccer Robots. 621-628
  

Neuro-Fuzzy Systems

• Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy, Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Peter Otto:
  Universal Approximator Employing Neo-Fuzzy Neurons. 631-640
  
• Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Yevgen Gorshkov, Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy, Andreas Stephan:
  Combined Learning Algorithm for a Self-Organizing Map with Fuzzy Inference. 641-650
  
• Jerzy Martyna:
  Fuzzy/Neural Connection Admission Controller for Multimedia Traffic in Wireless ATM Networks. 651-666
  

Fuzzy Mathematics

• Martin Kalina:
  Limits of Functional Sequences in the Concept of Nearness Relations. 669-676
  
• Beloslav Riecan:
  On the Law of Large Numbers on IFS Events. 677-680
  
• Pavol Král:
  An Axiomatic Approach to Cardinalities of IF Sets. 681-691
  

Fuzzy Optimization

• Tatiana Starostina, Stephan Dempe:
  Sensitivity Analysis for Fuzzy Shortest Path Problem. 695-702
  
• Leonid S. Bershtein, Alexander Bozhenyuk, Igor Rozenberg:
  Fuzzy Coloring of Fuzzy Hypergraph. 703-711
  
• Fernando Jiménez, Gracia Sánchez, José Manuel Cadenas, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta, José L. Verdegay:
  Nonlinear Optimization with Fuzzy Constraints by Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. 713-722
  

Poster Contributions

• Bohdan S. Butkiewicz:
  Comparison of Reasoning for Fuzzy Control. 725-731
  
• Jürgen Paetz:
  Evolving Scientific Knowledge. 733-738
  
• Alexander Sokolov, Michael Wagenknecht:
  Coding of Chaotic Orbits with Recurrent Fuzzy Systems. 739-746
  
• Zenon A. Sosnowski, Jaroslaw S. Walijewski:
  Genetic-Based Tuning of Fuzzy Dempster-Shafer Model. 747-755
  
• Modjtaba Rouhani, M. J. Solaymanpour, Naser Nematbakhsh:
  A Novel Design for Classifying Multi-Field Internet Packets Using Neural Networks. 757-761
  
• Alexander Holland:
  Modeling Uncertainty in Decision Support Systems for Customer Call Center. 763-770
  
• Navid Seifipour, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj:
  A New GA-Based Real Time Controller for the Classical Cart-Pole Balancing Problem. 771-786
  
• Ahmet Yardimci, N. Hadimioglu, Z. Bigat, S. Ozen:
  Depth Control of Desflurane Anesthesia with an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy System. 787-796
  
• Ahmet Yardimci, O. Celik:
  Ultrasound Intensity and Treatment Time Fuzzy Logic Control System for Low Cost Effective Ultrasound Therapy Devices. 797-807