4. EUSFLAT Conference 2003: Zittau, Germany

Invited Lectures

• Lotfi A. Zadeh:
  From search engines to question-answering systems - the need for new tools. 3-5
  
• Siegfried Gottwald:
  Fuzzy relation equations and approximate solutions. Some recent results. 6-11
  
• Krassimir T. Atanassov:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy sets: past, present and future. 12-19
  
• Rudolf Seising:
  From communication networks to fuzzy sets. 20-21
  

Special Sessions

Special Session 1: Fuzzy Approaches to Information Retrieval and Information Access on the Web

• Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Gabriella Pasi:
  Fuzzy approaches to access information on the web: recent developments and research trends. 25-31
  
• Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Eduardo Peis, Jesus Canelon Herrera, Karina Anaya:
  Evaluating the informative quality of web documents using fuzzy linguistic techniques. 32-37
  
• Slawomir Zadrozny, Janusz Kacprzyk:
  Linguistically quantified thresholding strategies for text categorization. 38-42
  
• Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefano Paraboschi, Marco Pesenti, Pierangela Samarati, Sergio Zara:
  Fuzzy logic techniques for reputation management in anonymous peer-to-peer systems. 43-48
  
• Miguel Delgado, Maria J. Martín-Bautista, Daniel Sánchez, José-María Serrano, María Amparo Vila Miranda:
  Association rules and fuzzy association rules to find new query terms. 49-53
  
• Vicenç Torra, Sergi Lanau, Sadaaki Miyamoto:
  Fuzzy clustering for indexing in the GAMBAL information retrieval system. 54-58
  
• Vincenzo Loia, Witold Pedrycz, Sabrina Senatore:
  Proximity fuzzy clustering for web context analysis. 59-62
  
• Pablo J. Garcés, José A. Olivas, Francisco P. Romero:
  Conceptual matching in web search using FIS-CRM for representing documents. 63-66
  
• Asma Brini, Mohand Boughanem:
  Relevance feedback: introduction of partial assessments for query expansion. 67-72
  
• Christophe Marsala, Marcin Detyniecki:
  Fuzzy data mining for video. 73-78
  

Special Session 2: Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

• Brian Carse, Anthony G. Pipe, Ingo Renners, Adolf Grauel, Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta, Fernando Jiménez, Gracia Sánchez, Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera, Fernando A. C. Gomide, Igor Walter, Antonio González, Raúl Pérez:
  Current issues and future directions in evolutionary fuzzy systems research. 81-87
  
• Eugenio Aguirre, Antonio González, Raúl Pérez:
  An inductive approach for learning fuzzy relation rules. 88-93
  
• Antonio F. Gómez-Skarmeta, Fernando Jiménez, Gracia Sánchez:
  Improving interpretability in approximative fuzzy models via multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. 94-99
  
• Francisco Herrera, Francisco Alfredo Márquez, Antonio Peregrín:
  Genetic adaption of rule connectives and conjunction operators in fuzzy rule based systems: an experimental comparative study. 100-104
  
• Rafael Alcalá, Jesús Alcalá-Fdez, Jorge Casillas, Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera:
  Genetic learning of accurate TS models based on local fuzzy prototyping. 105-108
  
• Ingo Renners, Adolf Grauel:
  Modeling high interest areas in descriptive TS fuzzy rule based systems. 109-113
  
• Igor Walter, Fernando A. C. Gomide:
  Genetic fuzzy systems to evolve coordination strategies in competitive distributed systems. 114-119
  
• Anthony G. Pipe, Brian Carse:
  Fuzzy logic and the Pittsburgh classifier system for mobile robot control. 120-125
  
• Joaquín Cañada Bago, Jorge Aguilera, Juan R. Velasco, Luis Magdalena:
  Genetic fuzzy controllers: from simulated based learning to a real application. 126-131
  

Special Session 3: Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Related Concepts

• Anna Pankowska, Maciej Wygralak:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy sets - an alternative look. 135-140
  
• Florentin Smarandache:
  Definiton of neutrosophic logic - a generalization of the intuitionistic fuzzy logic. 141-146
  
• Gianpiero Cattaneo, Davide Ciucci:
  Generalized negations and intuitionistic fuzzy sets - a criticism to a widely used terminology. 147-152
  
• Gianpiero Cattaneo, Davide Ciucci:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy sets or orthopair fuzzy sets? 153-158
  
• Chris Cornelis, Krassimir T. Atanassov, Etienne E. Kerre:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy sets and interval-valued fuzzy sets: a critical comparison. 159-163
  
• Glad Deschrijver, Etienne E. Kerre:
  A method for constructing non t-representable intuitionistic fuzzy t-norms satisfying the residuation principle. 164-167
  
• Michal Baczynski:
  On some properties of intuitionistic fuzzy implications. 168-171
  
• Piotr Nowak:
  Monotone measures of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 172-176
  
• Krassimir T. Atanassov, Gabriella Pasi, Ronald R. Yager, Vassia Atanassova:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy graph interpretations of multi-person multi-criteria decision making. 177-182
  
• Deng-Feng Li, Jian-Bo Yang:
  A multiattribute decision making approach using intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 183-186
  
• Javier Montero, Daniel Gómez:
  Preferences, classification and intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 187-192
  
• Yingjie Yang, Robert John:
  Grey systems and interval valued fuzzy sets. 193-197
  
• Wieslaw A. Dudek:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy n-ary systems. 198-205
  
• Eulalia Szmidt, Janusz Kacprzyk:
  A measure of similarity for intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 206-209
  
• Beloslav Riecan:
  A descriptive definiton of the probability on intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 210-213
  
• Krassimir T. Atanassov, Boyan E. Djakov, J. A. Alexieva, Trifon Trifonov, Gordon R. Jones:
  A generalized net model of a material-processing reactor equipped with chromatic monitoring and control based on intuitionistic fuzzy evaluation of the chromaticity. 214-217
  
• Georgi Gluhchev, Krassimir T. Atanassov, Stefan Todorov Hadjitodorov, Eulalia Szmidt, Anthony G. Shannon:
  Intuitionistic fuzzy generalized net model of the process of handwriting analysis. 218-222
  
• Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski:
  Distances and orderings in a family of intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. 223-227
  
• Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Edyta Mrówka:
  Flexible querying via intuitionistic fuzzy sets. 228-231
  

Special Session 4: Mathematics and Methodology of Soft Computing with Applications

• Jorma K. Mattila:
  On modifiers based on n-placed functions. 235-238
  
• Paavo Kukkurainen:
  Fuzzy subgroups applied to subgroups of the group of Moebius transformations. 239-241
  
• Pasi Luukka, Kalle Saastamoinen:
  Fuzzy similarity based classification in normal Lukasiewicz algebra with geometric and harmonic mean. 242-245
  
• Kalle Saastamoinen, Pasi Luukka:
  Comparison of the use of different similarities based on T-norms in the classification tasks. 246-247
  

Special Session 5: Fuzzy Relations

• Ulrich Bodenhofer:
  On the preservation of monotonicity by extended mappings. 251-254
  
• Susana Díaz, Susana Montes, Bernard De Baets:
  Transitivity of fuzzy strict preference relations in absence of incomparability. 255-258
  
• Michal Sabo:
  The role and properties of rule relevancy in fuzzy inference process. 259-262
  
• Vladimír Janis:
  Nearness and uniform convergence. 263-265
  
• Martin Kalina:
  Nearness relations and topology. 266-269
  
• Branimir Seselja, Andreja Tepavcevic:
  Cut equivalence of fuzzy relations. 270-273
  

Special Session 6: Aggregation Operators

• Radko Mesiar:
  Aggregation operators 2003. 277-280
  
• Margarita Mas, Miquel Monserrat, Joan Torrens:
  QL-implications on a finite chain. 281-284
  
• Anna Kolesárová:
  On the operator equation A + B = Sigma. 285-288
  
• Andrea Mesiarová, Peter Viceník:
  Cancellative t-norms. 289-291
  
• Bernard De Baets, Hans De Meyer, Bart De Schuymer:
  Self-dual types of cycle-transitivity. 292-295
  
• Hans De Meyer, Bernard De Baets, Bart De Schuymer:
  Transitive comparison of marginal probability distributions. 296-299
  
• Michel Grabisch, Christophe Labreuche:
  The Choquet integral for 2-additive bi-capacities. 300-303
  
• Michel Grabisch, Christophe Labreuche:
  Capacities on lattices and k-ary capacities. 304-307
  
• Radko Mesiar, Susanne Saminger:
  Commuting aggregation operators. 308-311
  
• Tomasa Calvo, Radko Mesiar:
  Fusion with quantitative weights. 312-317
  
• Saskia Janssens, Bernard De Baets, Hans De Meyer:
  Some meta-theorems on fuzzy cardinalities and their application. 318-321
  

Special Session 7: Fuzzy Logic and Logistics

• Alexander Holland:
  Bayesian networks for transport decision scenarios. 325-328
  
• Alexander Holland:
  Planning time restricted logistic tours with fuzzy logic. 329-334
  

Regular Contributed Papers

Fuzzy Control

• Oleksandr Sokolov:
  Multirelational linguistic models. 337-342
  
• Juan Moreno García, Luis Jiménez, Jose Jesus Castro-Schez, L. R. Luis Rodriguez Benitez:
  Modelling with temporal fuzzy chains. 343-348
  
• Pavel Osmera:
  Evolvable fuzzy controllers using parallel evolutionary algorithms. 349-354
  
• Basil M. Al-Hadithi, Fernando Matía, Agustín Jiménez:
  Fuzzy control for a liquid level system. 355-360
  
• Kamil Svancara, Petr Pivoñka:
  The issue of quantization effect in direct implementation of adaptive LQ controller with NN identification into PLC. 361-366
  

Fuzzy Neural Networks

• Petr Krupanský, Petr Pivoñka, Jiri Dohnal:
  Stability of backpropagation learning rule. 369-374
  
• Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Illya Kokshenev, Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy:
  An adaptive learning algorithm for a neo fuzzy neuron. 375-379
  
• Atoosa P.-J. Thunem:
  Fuzzy-neuro risk assessment of distributed real-time systems through formal and object-oriented systems modelling. 380-385
  
• Klaus Dalinghaus, Tillman Weyde:
  Structure recognition on sequences with a neuro-fuzzy-system. 386-391
  
• Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Yevgen Gorshkov, Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy:
  Resource-allocating probabilistic neuro-fuzzy network. 392-395
  
• Andreas Kirschner:
  The use of NNPLS algorithm for on-line calibration monitoring. 396-401
  
• Amer Noureldin, Gerhard Lappus:
  Radial basic function networks for atmospheric Cycloid combustion process modelling. 402-403
  
• Dusan Marcek:
  Signal processing and neural network models for economic time series. 404-407
  
• Arup Kumar Nandi:
  Prediction of surface roughness in ultraprecision turning using fuzzy logic. 408-413
  
• Abdolreza Joghataie:
  Neuro-finite element static analysis of structures by assembling elemental neuro-modelers. 414-419
  

Fuzzy Relations

• Irina Georgescu:
  A fuzzy analysis of a Richter theorem in fuzzy consumers. 423-428
  
• Joan Jacas, Jordi Recasens:
  Aggregating non-finite families of T-transitive relations. 429-432
  
• Dionis Boixader, Lluis Godo:
  Possibility relations: the hidden face of fuzzy preorders. 433-436
  
• Dorota Kuchta:
  User-tailored fuzzy relations between intervals. 437-441
  

Decision Making and Optimization

• Milos Seda, Jiri Dvorak:
  A framework for multicriteria selection based on measuring query responses. 445-450
  
• Michael Wagenknecht, Iryna Fadyeyeva:
  On bicriterial decisions in well-drilling processes using fuzzy logic. 451-455
  
• Luisa L. Lazzari, María Silvia Moriñigo:
  Analysis of multi-product break-even with uncertain information. 456-460
  

Fuzzy Heuristics and Rule Bases

• Pablo Carmona, Juan Luis Castro, Jose Manuel Zurita:
  Open-loop fuzzy modeling: a comparison and a proposal. 463-467
  
• Eyke Hüllermeier:
  Instance-based collaborative filtering with fuzzy labels. 468-473
  
• David A. Pelta, Alejandro Sancho-Royo, José L. Verdegay:
  On the design of metaheuristic algorithms using fuzzy rules. 474-479
  
• Petr Dostál, Bronislav Chramcov, Jaroslav Baláte:
  Soft computing and control of district heating system. 480-484
  
• Ildar Z. Batyrshin, Aleksandra Panova:
  On convex-concave perception based functions. 485-490
  
• Ildar Z. Batyrshin:
  Perception based functions with boundary conditions. 491-496
  
• A. Ya. Kuziomin, A. O. Havrilov, Vladimir Drobynskyy:
  Genetic algorithm in expert system of choice in the investment projects. 497-501
  
• Stefan Berlik:
  A polymorphical mutation operator for evolution strategies. 502-505
  
• Sylvie Galichet, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade:
  Fuzzy interpolation and level 2 gradual rules. 506-511
  
• Pim van den Broek:
  Comparison of two approaches to approximated reasoning. 512-516
  
• Irina Perfilieva:
  Solvability of a system of fuzzy relation equations: Easy to check conditions. 517-522
  
• Antonín Dvorák, Vilém Novák:
  Inconsistencies in linguistic descriptions from the point of view of fuzzy logic. 523-528
  
• Irina Perfilieva:
  Fuzzy transforms and universal approximation. 529-533
  
• Antony Waldock, Brian Carse, Chris Melhuish:
  A hierarchical fuzzy rule-based learning system based on an information theoretic. 534-538
  
• Kemal Kilic, Özge Uncu, I. Burhan Türksen:
  A Type 2 fuzzy system modelling algorithm. 539-543
  
• Oleksandr Sokolov, O. Radivonenko, N. Bakumenko:
  Analysis and data processing at the stage of conceptual designing of compex objects. 544-549
  
• Ignacio J. Blanco, Olga Pons, José-María Serrano, María Amparo Vila Miranda:
  Deduction in a GEFRED database using Datalog. 550-553
  
• Hilde Vernieuwe, Bernard De Baets:
  Relational Takagi-Sugeno models for rainfall-discharge modeling. 554-557
  
• Sebastian Beck, Ralf Mikut, Jens Jäkel, Georg Bretthauer:
  Decision-theoretic approaches in fuzzy rule generation for diagnosis and fault detection problems. 558-563
  
• Serge Guillaume, Luis Magdalena, Miguel Ángel Sotelo, Luis Miguel Bergasa, Ramón Flores, Manuel Ocaña:
  Expert and induced knowledge for intelligent motion analysis of ground robots. 564-569
  
• G. Sementsov, I. Chygur:
  Fuzzy identification of rock layers with anomalous pressure. 570-573
  

Fuzzy Scheduling

• Adam Kasperski:
  The fuzzy single machine scheduling problem - some general properties. 577-581
  
• Barbara Gladysz, Dorota Kuchta:
  Minimisation of the expected weighted number of jobs being late with fuzzy processing time in a one machine system. 582-585
  
• Pawel Zielinski:
  Latest starting times and floats of activities in network with uncertain durations. 586-591
  
• Przemyslaw Kobylanski, Michal Kulej:
  Vehicle routing and scheduling with fuzzy time windows and fuzzy goal. 592-596
  

Fuzzy Logics

• Petr Hájek:
  Fleas and fuzzy logic: a survey. 599-603
  
• Ana Pradera, Enric Trillas, Claudio Moraga:
  Clarifying Elkan's theoretical result. 604-608
  
• Francesc Esteva, Àngel García-Cerdaña, Carles Noguera:
  On definability of maximum in left-continuous t-norms. 609-613
  
• Rostislav Horcík:
  A note on the structure of PiMTL-chains and left-continuous cancellative T-norms. 614-618
  
• Vilém Novák:
  From fuzzy type theory to fuzzy intensional logic. 619-623
  
• Martina Danková:
  Extensionality and continuity. 624-629
  
• Vilém Novák:
  Approximation abilities of perception-based logical deduction. 630-635
  
• Zuzana Haniková:
  On the complexity of propositional logics with an involutive negation. 636-639
  
• Jesús Medina, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego:
  Homogenizing multi-adjoint logic programs. 640-644
  
• Adolfo R. de Soto, Conrado A. Capdevila, Eva Cuervo Fernández:
  An XML vocabulary for soft computing. 645-650
  

Fuzziness and Probability

• Cédric Baudrit, Didier Dubois, Hélène Fargier:
  Propagation of uncertainty involving imprecision and randomness. 653-658
  
• Nicholas J. Randon, Jonathan Lawry:
  Fuzzy models for prediction based on random set semantics. 659-664
  
• Tomás Kroupa:
  On construction of joint observable on Lukasiewicz tribe. 665-668
  
• Zdenek Karpisek, Karel Slavicek:
  Two fuzzy probability measures. 669-674
  
• Bohdan S. Butkiewicz:
  Fuzzy-evidence approach to uncertainty modelling and reliability. 675-678
  
• J. F. Baldwin, E. Di Tomaso:
  Bayesian networks for continuous values and uncertainty in the learning process. 679-682
  
• Eduard Montseny, Pilar Sobrevilla, Pere Marès Martí:
  Edge orientation-based fuzzy Hough transform (EOFHT). 683-688
  

Fuzzy Cardinality, Measures and Integrals

• Maciej Wygralak:
  Cardinalities of fuzzy sets with triangular norms. 691-696
  
• Krzysztof Dyczkowski:
  Singularity and fuzziness of fuzzy sets. 697-701
  
• Pavol Král:
  On the cardinality of fuzzy sets. 702-704
  
• Jaume Casasnovas:
  Fuzzy cardinality of equivalent fuzzy subgroups. 705-708
  
• Susana Cubillo, Sergio Bellido:
  A first approximation to Ng - coherence measures. 709-713
  
• Hideyuki Imai, Vicenç Torra:
  On a modeling of decision making with a twofold integral. 714-717
  
• Yasuo Narukawa, Vicenç Torra:
  Generalization of the twofold integral and its interpretation. 718-722
  

Fuzzy Clustering and Classification

• Paolo Corsini, Laura De Dosso, Beatrice Lazzerini, Francesco Marcelloni:
  A system based on a modified version of the FCM algorithm for profiling web users from access log. 725-729
  
• Frank Klawonn, Frank Höppner:
  An alternative approach to the fuzzifier in fuzzy clustering to obtain better clustering. 730-734
  
• Dirk Lühning:
  Fuzzy classification of water pressure test curves. 735-738
  

Medical Applications

• Danuta Rutkowska:
  Perception-based systems for medical diagnosis. 741-746
  
• Giovanna Castellano, Ciro Castiello, Anna Maria Fanelli, C. Leone:
  Diagnosis of dermatological diseases by a neuro-fuzzy system. 747-750
  
• Keith Wills, Robert Ivor John, Peter R. Innocent, Sarah Lake:
  Modelling nursing intuition - a non-deterministic approach. 751-755
  

Further Applications

• O. Ph. Mikhal, Oleg Grigorievich Rudenko:
  Local-parallel technology of fuzzy information processing. 759-760
  
• Boris Izyumov:
  Application of f-regression method to fuzzy classification problem. 761-766
  
• Seyed Jamshid Mousavi, Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam, Fakhri Karray:
  Deriving reservoir operating rules via fuzzy regression and ANFIS. 767-772
  
• José Javier Astrain, P. J. Menéndez, Jesús E. Villadangos, J. Domínguez:
  Improving mobile communication systems QoS by using fuzzy automata. 773-778
  

Fuzzy Graphs

• Leonid S. Bershtein, Alexander V. Bozhenuk:
  Estimation of ismorphism degree of fuzzy graphs. 781-784
  
• Tatiana Starostina:
  Using component division criterion for fuzzy system vitality analysis. 785-788
  
• Jacek Kluska, Zbigniew Hajduk:
  Hardware implementation of a fuzzy Petri net based on VLSI digital circuits. 789-793
  

Tutorials

• Robert Babuska:
  Advances in fuzzy control: from heuristic control to modern model-based approaches. 797-797
  
• Holger Kantz:
  Time series analysis in reconstructed phase spaces. 798-798
  
• Da Ruan:
  Lessons learned from computational intelligence in nuclear application. 799-802