2. EUSFLAT Conference 2001: Leicester, UK

Keynote Presentations

• Lotfi A. Zadeh:
  PNL: Precisiated natural language and its impact on scientific theories. 1-1
  
• Klaus-Peter Adlassnig:
  Fuzzy systems in medicine. 2-5
  
• Rudolf Kruse:
  Information mining. 6-9
  

Ordinary Sessions

Session OS1

• José Manuel Cadenas, M. C. Garrido, J. J. Hernandez:
  Fuzzy modelling using fuzzy mathematical programming. 10-13
  
• M. Kelarestaghi, Mohamed Slimane, Nicole Vincent:
  Introduction of fuzzy logic in the hidden markov models. 14-16
  
• Armando Blanco, David A. Pelta, José L. Verdegay:
  Learning about FANS behaviour: Knapsack problems as a test case. 17-21
  
• José Javier Astrain, Jesús E. Villadangos, José Ramón González de Mendívil, José Ramón Garitagoitia, Federico Fariña:
  Adjusting fuzzy automata for string similarity measuring. 22-25
  

Session OS2

• Huseyin Seker, Michael O. Odetayo, Dobrila Petrovic, Raouf N. Gorgui-Naguib, Freddie C. Hamdy:
  Statistical and soft feature evaluation indices for prostate cancer prognostic factor assessment. 26-29
  
• Ana María Nieto Morote, Francisco Ruz Vila, Eliseo Gómez-Senent:
  A new method for weighting criteria determination with fuzzy pairwise comparison. 30-33
  
• Félix Díaz-Hermida, Alberto Bugarín, Purificación Cariñena, Senén Barro:
  A general framework for probabilistic approaches to fuzzy quantification. 34-37
  

Session OS3

• Miguel Delgado, Nicolas Marín Ruíz, Daniel Sánchez, María Amparo Vila Miranda:
  Towards a linguistic approach to assess fuzzy association rules. 38-41
  
• Bin Zhang, Shenglong Dong, Jingcheng Wang, Jianmin Zhang, Huihe Shao:
  Getting complete rulebase from recorded data. 42-46
  
• José Galindo, Juan Miguel Medina:
  FTSQL2: Fuzzy time in relational databases. 47-50
  
• Francesc Esteva, Pere Garcia, Lluis Godo:
  Fuzzy similarity-based models in case-based reasoning. 51-54
  

Session OS4

• Abel A. Cuadrado Vega, Ignacio Díaz Blanco, Alberto B. Diez González, Faustino Obeso, Juan A. González:
  Fuzzy inference maps for condition monitoring with self-organizing maps. 55-58
  
• Eduard Montseny, Pilar Sobrevilla:
  On fuzzy rule-based algorithms for image segmentation using gray-level histogram analysis. 59-62
  
• Anna Maria Massone, Léonard Studer, Francesco Masulli:
  Possibilistic rings detection for RICH pattern recognition. 63-66
  
• Enrique Frías-Martínez, Julio Gutiérrez-Ríos, Felipe Fernández-Hernández:
  Real-time full-programmable fuzzy processor on an Intel Pentium III. 67-70
  

Session OS5

• Luiz Fernando Loureiro Legey, Heloisa Firmo Kazay:
  Fuzzy robustness analysis. 71-74
  
• Enric Hernández, Jordi Recasens:
  Growing decision trees in the presence of indistinguishability: observational decision trees. 75-78
  
• Eulalia Szmidt, Janusz Kacprzyk:
  Analysis of consensus under intuitionistic fuzzy preferences. 79-82
  
• Elpiniki Papageorgiou, Chrysostomos D. Stylios, Peter P. Groumpos:
  Learning algorithms for fuzzy cognitive maps. 83-88
  

Session OS6

• Kamal Smimou, Suresh Bhatt, Darren W. Dahl:
  Fuzzy analytical hierarchy process in new product screening. 89-92
  
• Francisco Jose Moreno-Velo, Iluminada Baturone, Santiago Sánchez-Solano, Angel Barriga Barrios:
  Xfuzzy 3.0: a development environment for fuzzy systems. 93-96
  
• Eduardo Magaña, Jesús E. Villadangos, José Javier Astrain:
  Traffic estimation in high-speed communication networks using fuzzy systems. 97-100
  
• Uwe Wagner:
  Risk assessment in natural disasters with fuzzy probabilities. 101-104
  
• Isis Truck, Herman Akdag, Amel Borgi:
  A symbolic approach for colorimetric alterations. 105-108
  

Session OS7

• Juan Moreno García, Luis Jimenez Linares:
  A direct linguistic induction method for systems. 109-112
  
• Pablo Carmona, Juan Luis Castro, Jose Manuel Zurita:
  Learning maximal structure fuzzy rules with exceptions. 113-117
  
• Jorge Casillas, Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera:
  A cooperative coevolutionary algorithm for jointly learning fuzzy rule bases and membership functions. 118-121
  

Session OS8

• Jonathan Rossiter, Tru H. Cao, Trevor P. Martin, James F. Baldwin:
  Imprecise belief updating for uncertain user modelling. 122-125
  
• Farley S. M. Nobre, Simon J. Steiner:
  Fuzzy logic in organization analysis and control. 126-129
  

Session OS9 - Canceled

Session OS10

• Jon Williams, Nigel Steele:
  Imprecision of the elements of fuzzy eigenvectors of pairwise comparison matrices in fuzzy AHP. 131-134
  
• Xudong Luo:
  The construction of compensation aggregation operators. 135-140
  
• Sergio Bellido, Elena Castiñeira, Susana Cubillo:
  On fuzzy inference by the least squares method. 141-144
  
• Brunella Gerla:
  Divisible MV-algebras as an algebraic model for fuzzy control. 145-148
  
• Xudong Luo, Ho-fung Leung, Jimmy Ho-Man Lee:
  Weighted/prioritized compensatory aggregation. 149-155
  

Session OS11

• Manuel A. Gadeo Martos, Juan R. Velasco Pérez:
  Optimization of evolutionary strategies to achieve knowledge in faded temporal fuzzy logic controllers. 156-159
  
• Sebastian García Galán, Joaquín Cañada Bago, Jorge Aguilera, Luis Magdalena:
  Fuzzy charge controller for stand-alone photovoltaic systems. 160-163
  
• Matthew J. Knight, Robert Sutton, David F. Jenkins:
  Fuzzy model based sliding mode control of a linear precision motion control system. 164-167
  
• Mirko Navara, Jakub Stastný:
  Enhancement of Mamdani fuzzy controller. 168-170
  
• A. González-Cantos, Jesús Iván Maza, Javier Aracil, Aníbal Ollero:
  Analysis of the backing up fuzzy control of truck-trailers using the qualitative theory of dynamic systems. 171-174
  

Session OS12

• Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  Refining aggregation operations in finite ordinal scales. 175-178
  
• Kemal Kilic, I. Burhan Türksen:
  N-dimensional structure identification and fuzzy reasoning. 179-182
  
• Olivier de Mouzon, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  Extensions of the fuzzy pattern matching approach to diagnosis. 183-186
  
• Manuel Laguía, Juan Luis Castro:
  Similarity relations based on distances as fuzzy concepts. 187-190
  
• Ramón Fuentes-González, Pedro J. Burillo, Gaspar Mayor:
  On fuzzy orderings of crisp and fuzzy intervals. 191-194
  

Session OS13

• Brian Carse, Anthony G. Pipe:
  X-FCS: a fuzzy classifier system using accuracy based fitness - first results. 195-198
  
• Stefan Chanas, Dorota Kuchta:
  A new approach to fuzzy goal programming. 199-201
  
• Patrick Bosc, Ludovic Lietard:
  Introducing the aggregate "count" into flexible queries. 202-205
  
• Mohammad Rohmanuddin:
  The similarity of a class of adaptive fuzzy controllers and a time dependent single rule controller of Takagi-Sugeno model. 206-209
  
• Catalin Amza, Peter R. Innocent:
  Bones detection from chicken breast meat using a competitive hopfield neural network and fuzzy filtering. 210-213
  

Session OS14

• Antoaneta Serguieva, John Hunter, Tatiana Kalganova:
  Soft computing in investment appraisal. 214-219
  
• Hong Sheng Qi, W. B. Rowe, Andrew Day:
  Fuzzy contact and interface temperature in engineering tribology. 220-223
  
• Joan Bas, Xavier Alberti, Ana I. Pérez-Neira:
  A DSP-based fuzzy system for real-time interference cancellation in DS-SS systems. 224-227
  
• Jérôme Lair:
  Evidence theory for data co-exploitation. Application for service life assessment of building products. 229-232
  

Session OS15

• Stefan Chanas, Didier Dubois, Pawel Zielinski:
  Criticality analysis in activity networks under incomplete information. 233-236
  
• Rafael Alcalá, Jorge Casillas, Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera:
  Linguistic modeling with weighted double-consequent fuzzy rules based on cooperative coevolution. 237-240
  
• Jaume Casasnovas:
  Scalar equipotency and fuzzy bijections. 241-244
  
• Stefan Chanas, Adam Kasperski:
  Possible optimality of solutions in a single machine scheduling problem with fuzzy parameters. 245-248
  

Session OS16

• Bernard De Baets, Hans De Meyer:
  The Frank t-norm family in fuzzy similarity measurement. 249-252
  
• Hans De Meyer, Bernard De Baets, Saskia Janssens:
  Similarity measurement on leaf-labelled trees. 253-256
  
• Enric Trillas, Claudi Alsina:
  On the joint verification of Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens in fuzzy logic. 257-260
  
• Hans De Meyer, Bernard De Baets, Sándor Jenei:
  A generalization of stochastic and fuzzy transitivity for reciprocal fuzzy relations. 261-264
  

Session OS17

• Özer Ciftcioglu, S. Durmisevic:
  Fuzzy logic in architectural design. 265-268
  
• Paulo Alfonso Bracarense Costa, Rogério Cid Bastos, Abraham Kandel:
  Fuzzy approach to meta-analysis. 269-272
  
• Jesús Medina, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Peter Vojtás:
  Similarity-based unification: a multi-adjoint approach. 273-276
  

Session OS18

• Alexandros Mouzakitis, Geoff Roberts:
  Autonomous robot behaviours for co-operative agents using fuzzy logic and subtractive clustering. 277-280
  
• Dongbing Gu, Huosheng Hu:
  Fuzzy behaviour learning for sony legged robots. 281-288
  
• Rainer Hampel, Nasredin Chaker:
  Validation of the control quality of characteristic field based fuzzy controllers. 289-295
  
• Anne L. Nortcliffe:
  Multi-regional fuzzy control for a pH neutralisation process. 295-300
  

Special Sessions

Special Session SS1 - Fuzzy Modelling

• Reinhard Guthke, Wolfgang Schmidt-Heck, Ralph Berkholz:
  Data mining based hybrid modelling and experimental design for bioprocess optimisation. 301-304
  
• Heinrich J. Rommelfanger:
  Fuzzy logic based decision support systems. 305-307
  
• Vicenç Torra:
  Applying aggregation operators to data mining: modelling using quasi-weighted means. 308-311
  
• Alexander Gegov:
  Intelligent modelling of the indoor climate in buildings by soft computing. 312-315
  

Special Session SS2 - Modelling and Intelligent Control

• Richard Thompson, Arthur L. Dexter:
  Thermal comfort control based on fuzzy decision making. 316-319
  
• Da Ruan, Davide Roverso, Paolo F. Fantoni:
  Computational intelligence approaches for parametric estimation and feature extraction of power spectral density. 320-323
  
• R. A. Buswell, Plamen P. Angelov, Jonathan A. Wright:
  Transparency and simplification of rule-based models for on-line adaptation. 324-327
  
• Ivan Kalaykov:
  Fuzzy hardware for fast process control and fuzzy decision making. 328-331
  

Special Session SS3a - Statistics with Fuzzy Data

• Volker Krätschmer:
  Fuzzy-statistics with vague concepts. 332-335
  
• Luis J. Rodríguez-Muñiz, Miguel López-Díaz:
  Decision influence diagrams with fuzzy random variables. 336-339
  
• Andreas Wünsche:
  Conditional expectation and fuzzy regression. 340-343
  

Special Session SS3b - Statistics with Fuzzy Data

• Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Edyta Mrówka:
  Fuzzy quering and random data. 344-347
  
• Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski:
  Estimation of the mean lifetime from vague data. 348-351
  
• Manuel Montenegro, María Rosa Casals, Ana Colubi, María Angeles Gil:
  Testing the expected value of a fuzzy random variable. A discussion. 352-355
  

Special Session SS4 - Fuzzy Relations

• Joan Jacas, Jordi Recasens:
  The group of isometries of an indistinguishablity operator. 356-359
  
• Ulrich Bodenhofer, Josef Küng:
  Enriching vague queries by fuzzy orderings. 360-364
  
• Anna Maria Radzikowska, Etienne E. Kerre:
  Towards studying of fuzzy information relations. 365-368
  
• Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Kerre:
  Approximate equality is no fuzzy equality. 368-371
  
• Vilém Novák:
  Granularity via properties: the logical approach. 372-376
  

Special Session SS5 - Data Mining and Multimedia Systems

• Andreas Nürnberger, Aljoscha Klose:
  Interactive retrieval of multimedia objects based on self-organising maps. 377-380
  
• Henrik Legind Larsen:
  Fuzzy data mining of term associations for flexible query answering. 381-384
  
• Jenny Benois-Pineau, William Dupuy, Dominique Barba:
  Recovering of visual scenarios in movies by motion analysis and grouping spatio-temporal colour signatures of video shots. 385-389
  
• Marcin Detyniecki, Christophe Marsala:
  Fuzzy inductive learning for multimedia mining. 390-393
  
• Nozha Boujemaa, Sabri Boughorbel, Constantin Vertan:
  Soft color signatures for image retrieval by content. 394-401
  

Special Session SS6a - Data Fusion: Theory & Applications

• Mourad Oussalah, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich:
  Reduction to independent variables: from normal distribution to general statistical case to fuzzy. 402-405
  
• Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Witold Pedrycz:
  Towards fusing sophisticated mathematical knowledge and informal expert knowledge: an arbitrary metric can be naturally interpreted in fuzzy terms. 406-409
  
• Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Luc Longpré:
  Second-order uncertainty as a bridge between probabilistic and fuzzy approaches. 410-413
  

Special Session SS6b - Data Fusion: Theory & Applications

• Éric Grégoire, Ahcène Sofiane:
  Fusing syntax and semantics in knowledge fusion. 414-417
  
• Mourad Oussalah, Bev Littlewood, Lorenzo Strigini, Martin Newby:
  Combination of qualitative and quantitative sources of knowledge for risk assessment. 418-421
  
• Mourad Oussalah, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Robin E. Bloomfield, Martin Newby:
  Theoretical foundation for iterative assessment of conditional confidence measures in the framework of conditional measure theoretic-approach. 422-423
  

Special Session SS7 - Medical Systems

• Emmanuel C. Ifeachor, J. S. K. Curnow, Nicholas John Outram, Jonathan F. Skinner:
  Intelligent techniques for handling uncertainty in fetal heart-rate and ECG analysis. 424-429
  
• Chrysostomos D. Stylios, Pamela C. Georgopoulos, Petros P. Groumpos:
  Decision support system for radio therapy based on fuzzy cognitive maps. 431-434
  
• Heidi King, Jon Garibaldi, Simon Rogerson:
  Towards the identification of intelligent systems currently in routine use in medicine and dentistry. 435-438
  

Special Session SS8 - Learning / Adaptive Fuzzy Systems

• Ahmad Lotfi:
  The importance of learning in fuzzy systems. 439-442
  
• Constantin Suciu, Mohan Kansara, John Redgate:
  Fuzzy power factor control in a variable load circuit. 443-446
  
• Lorenzo Brignone, Martin Howarth, S. Sivayoganathan, V. Balendran:
  Adaptive torque control using a connectionist reinforcement learning agent. 447-450
  

Special Session SS9a - Aggregation Operators

• Javier Martín, Gaspar Mayor, Jaume Suñer:
  On binary operations with finite external range. 451-454
  
• Giuseppina Barbieri, Mirko Navara, Hans Weber:
  Strict triangular norms and characterization of T-measures. 455-457
  
• Margarita Mas, Miquel Monserrat, Joan Torrens:
  On left and right uninorms on a finite chain. 458-462
  
• Milan Mares:
  Composition of fuzzy verbal data. 463-465
  
• Erich-Peter Klement, Radko Mesiar, Endre Pap:
  A geometric approach to aggregation. 466-469
  

Special Session SS9b - Aggregation Operators

• Tomasa Calvo, Ana Pradera:
  Some characterizations based on double aggregation operators. 470-474
  
• Tomasa Calvo, Radko Mesiar:
  Stability of aggregation operators. 475-478
  
• Radko Mesiar:
  Scale invariant operators. 479-481
  

Special Session SS10 - Industrial Applications of Fuzzy Control

• Fernando Matía, Agustín Jiménez, Ramón Galán:
  Embedded fuzzy logic in control applications. 482-485
  
• Manuel Olivares, Pedro Albertos, Antonio Sala:
  Iterative learning fuzzy control. 486-489
  
• Diego Alvarez, Juan C. Alvarez, Alberto B. Diez, Juan A. González, Faustino Obeso:
  Slab curvature compensation in a hot rolling mill by means of fuzzy control. 490-493
  
• Elena Garcia, Pablo González de Santos:
  Fuzzy optimization of foot-trajectory profiles in walking machines. 494-497
  
• Teresa de Pedro, Ricardo García Rosa, Carlos González, Jesús Reviejo, José Eugenio Naranjo:
  The alliance of global navigation satellite systems and fuzzy logic in unmanned cars. 498-501
  
• Irina Perfilieva:
  Logical approximation: general approach to the construction of approximating formulas. 502-506