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  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2008, 13-15 July 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 2008

Opening Remarks

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  Stuart Harvey Rubin, Shu-Ching Chen: Forward.

Keynote 1

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  Lotfi A. Zadeh: Computation with imprecise probabilities.

Keynote 2

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  Hojjat Adeli: Inventing the future of neurology: Integrated wavelet-chaos-neural network models for knowledge discovery and automated EEG-based diagnosis of neurological disorders.

Panel Session

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  Stuart Harvey Rubin, Shu-Ching Chen, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Hojjat Adeli, Mohammad Rifaie, Gordon K. Lee, Kang Zhang, Reda Alhajj, Gary D. Boetticher, Du Zhang: Panel: The role of information search and retrieval in economic stimulation.

Databases I

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  Taher Naser, Reda Alhajj, Mick J. Ridley: Reengineering XML into object-oriented database. 1-6
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  Chia-Chu Chiang, Coskun Bayrak: Modeling role-based access control using a relational database tool. 7-10
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  Brian Harrington, Robert P. Brazile, Kathleen M. Swigger: Using a search engine to query a relational database. 11-16

Optimization and Search

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  Masaya Yoshikawa, Hidekazu Terai: Route selection algorithm based on integer operation Ant Colony Optimization. 17-21
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  Qian Zhang, Ze Dong, Pu Han, Zhongli Wu, Fang Gao: Optimization of controllers in the thermal system using initial pheromone distribution in Ant Colony Optimization. 22-27
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  Hamid Reza Golmakani, Elnaz Jalilipour Alishah: Portfolio selection using an artificial immune system. 28-33

Web Services

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  Lu Chen, Randy Chow: Web service composition based on integrated substitution and adaptation. 34-39
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  Xutao Du, Chunxiao Xing, Lizhu Zhou: Reachability analysis of Web service interfaces. 40-45
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  Ken Q. Pu, Ying Zhu: Modeling and synthesis of service composition using tree automata. 46-51

Databases II

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  Moshe Itshak, Yair Wiseman: AMSQM: Adaptive multiple super-page queue management. 52-57
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  Mohammad Rifaie, Keivan Kianmehr, Reda Alhajj, Mick J. Ridley: Data warehouse architecture and design. 58-63
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  Chin-Hui Lai, Duen-Ren Liu: Mining knowledge flow for modeling the information needs of task-based groups. 64-69

Biological Applications

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  Abu H. M. Kamal, Xingquan Zhu, Abhijit S. Pandya, Sam Hsu, Yong Shi: An empirical study of supervised learning for biological sequence profiling and microarray expression data analysis. 70-75
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  Wei-bang Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Hua Zhong: An unsupervised protein sequences clustering algorithm using functional domain information. 76-81
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  Simina Vasilache, Rebecca Smith, Soo-Yeon Ji, Kayvan Najarian, Toan Huynh: Outcome prediction in traumatic pelvic injuries using maximum similarity and quality measures. 82-85

Intelligent Agents

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  Hyun Ko, Seungwok Han, Ung-Mo Kim, Hee Yong Youn: A new agent characterization model and grouping method for multi-agent system. 86-91
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  Jin Park, Du Zhang, Meiliu Lu: An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans. 92-97
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  Adriana Leite, Rosario Girardi, Uiratan Cavalcante: An ontology for Multi-Agent Domain and Application Engineering. 98-103

Software Reuse

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  Xujian Zhao, Peiquan Jin, Lihua Yue: Research on the COM-based reusability of evaluating models. 104-109
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  Gordon S. Novak Jr.: Coupling data understanding with software reuse. 110-115
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  Yair Wiseman, Joel Isaacson, Eliad Lubovsky: Eliminating the threat of kernel stack overflows. 116-121

Biomedical Applications

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  Ryan T. K. Lin, Hong-Jie Dai, Yue-Yang Bow, Min-Yuh Day, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Lian Hsu: Result identification for biomedical abstracts using Conditional Random Fields. 122-126
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  Dorin Carstoiu, Alexandra Cernian, Adriana Olteanu: Biomedical data correlation and reuse in analyzing the efficiency of rehabilitation treatment. 127-130
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  Eija Haapalainen, Perttu Laurinen, Pekka Siirtola, Juha Röning, Hannu Kinnunen, Heidi Jurvelin: Exercise energy expenditure estimation based on acceleration data using the linear mixed model. 131-136

Risk Management and Social Networks

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  Satoshi Takahashi, Muhammad Dzulqarnain bin Muhammad Nasir, Takayuki Fujimoto, Tokuro Matsuo: Risk management education support system in company. 137-142
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  Chunying Zhou, Huajun Chen, Tong Yu: Social network mashup: Ontology-based social network integration for statistic learning. 143-146
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  Yun Zhang, Boqin Feng: Effective browsing of personal Tag space in social tagging systems. 147-152

Web Intelligence

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  Shuxin Zhao, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon: Knowledge extraction from web-based application source code: An approach to database reverse engineering for ontology development. 153-159
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  Claudio Bertoli, Valter Crescenzi, Paolo Merialdo: Crawling programs for wrapper-based applications. 160-165
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  Nader Mohamed, Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Imad Jawhar: A generic notification system for Internet information. 166-171

Question Answer System

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  Cheng-Lung Sung, Cheng-Wei Lee, Hsu-Chun Yen, Wen-Lian Hsu: An alignment-based surface pattern for a question answering system. 172-177
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  Chorng-Shyong Ong, Min-Yuh Day, Wen-Lian Hsu: Development of an evaluation model for Question Answering Systems. 178-183
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  Ryan T. K. Lin, Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Hong-Jie Dai, Min-Yuh Day, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Lian Hsu: Biological question answering with syntactic and semantic feature matching and an improved mean reciprocal ranking measurement. 184-189

Data Handling

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  Andres Folleco, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse, Lofton A. Bullard: Identifying learners robust to low quality data. 190-195
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  Erik Wilde, Yiming Liu: Lightweight linked data. 196-201
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  Chris Seiffert, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse: Hybrid sampling for imbalanced data. 202-207

Natural Language Processing

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  Shih-Hung Wu, Yu-Te Li: Curate a transliteration corpus from transliteration/translation pairs. 208-213
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  Phavy Ouk, Ye Kyaw Thu, Mitsuji Matsumoto, Yoshiyori Urano: A word-based predictive text entry method for Khmer language. 214-219
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  Roumen Kountchev, Stuart Harvey Rubin, Mariofanna G. Milanova, Vladimir Todorov, Roumiana Kountcheva: Extraction of objects contours for body language study. 220-225

Design Patterns and Web

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  Jing Dong, Yongtao Sun, Yajing Zhao: Compound record clustering algorithm for design pattern detection by decision tree learning. 226-231
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  Milos Kudelka, Václav Snásel, Ondrej Lehecka, Eyas El-Qawasmeh: Web content mining using web design patterns. 232-237
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  Allan Chan, Nancy Situ, Kim Wong, Keivan Kianmehr, Reda Alhajj: Fuzzy querying of nested XML. 238-243

Data Mining I

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  Xutong Liu, Chang-Tien Lu, Feng Chen: An entropy-based method for assessing the number of spatial outliers. 244-249
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  Gamgarn Somprasertsri, Pattarachai Lalitrojwong: Automatic product feature extraction from online product reviews using maximum entropy with lexical and syntactic features. 250-255
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  Peerapon Vateekul, Mei-Ling Shyu: A conflict-based confidence measure for associative classification. 256-261

Document Engineering

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  Nacim Fateh Chikhi, Bernard Rothenburger, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles: Authoritative documents identification based on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. 262-267
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  Masahiro Shibata, Tomomi Nishiguchi, Yoichi Tomiura: A method for automatically generating proper responses to user's utterances in open-ended conversation by retrieving documents on the web. 268-273
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  Jaewook Kim, Yun Peng, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Albert Jones: A layered approach to semantic similarity analysis of XML schemas. 274-279

Software Design

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  Qunzhi Zhou, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, Ramakrishna Soma: Towards an integrated modeling and simulation framework for freight transportation in metropolitan areas. 280-285
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  Citlalih Gutierrez Estrada, Sergio Diaz Zagal, Martin de Jesus Nieto Perez, Itzel Abundez Barrera, Rocio Elizabeth Pulido Alba, Mauro Sanchez Sanchez, René Arnulfo García-Hernández: Analysis methodology for project design utilizing UML. 286-289
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  Behrouz H. Far, Vani Mudigonda, Abdel Halim Elamy: A General Purpose Software Evaluation System. 290-295

Data Mining II

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  Xiaoyuan Su, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Xingquan Zhu: VCI predictors: Voting on classifications from imputed learning sets. 296-301
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  Yun Zhang, Boqin Feng, Lianmeng Liu: Robust Self-Splitting Competitive learning for data clustering. 302-307
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  Rajesh Natarajan, B. Shekar: Tightness: A novel heuristic and a clustering mechanism to improve the interpretation of association rules. 308-313

Machine Learning

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  Gary D. Boetticher, Jason Rudisill: Optimizing lineage information in genetic algorithms for producing superior models. 314-318
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  Panayota Papantoni-Kazakos, Abbas K. Zaidi, M. Faraz Rafi: An algorithm for activation timed influence nets. 319-324
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  Ying Jin, Tejaswitha Bhavsar: Incorporating fuzziness into timer-triggers for temporal event handling. 325-329

Knowledge Representation and Reuse

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  Jianmei Guo, Yinglin Wang: Context modeling for knowledge flow. 330-335
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  Éric Grégoire: Using default logic to enhance default logic: preliminary report. 336-340
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  Tokuro Matsuo, Takayuki Fujimoto: Electronic learning support system based on analogy reuse. 341-344

Ontology

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  Yinglin Wang, Xijuan Liu, Junquan Chen: A multi-stage strategy for ontology mapping resolution. 345-350
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  Jyotishman Pathak, Thomas M. Johnson, Christopher G. Chute: Modular ontology techniques and their applications in the biomedical domain. 351-356
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  Arash Shaban-Nejad, Volker Haarslev: An ontology-empowered model for annotating protein-protein interaction data: a case study for budding yeast. 357-362

Workflow Management

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  Fan Sun, Viktor K. Prasanna, Amol Bakshi, Laurent Pianelo: Workflow instance detection: Toward a knowledge capture methodology for smart oilfields. 363-369
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  Li Zhao, Qing Li, Guoqing Wu: Injecting formulized delegation constraints into secure workflow systems. 370-373
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  Qianhui Liang, Stuart Harvey Rubin: Rule randomization for propositional logic-based workflow verification. 374-379

Component-based Methods

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  Rose F. Gamble, Robert Baird, Leigh Flagg, Melody McClure: FACT: A fusion architecture with contract templates for semantic and syntactic integration. 380-385
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  Cong Zhang, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna: Data component based management of reservoir simulation models. 386-392
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  Martin Kunz, Steffen Mencke, Dmytro Rud, Reiner R. Dumke: Empirical-based design - quality-driven assembly of components. 393-397

Data Integration I

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  Shankara B. Subramanya, Baoxin Li, Huan Liu: Robust integration of multiple information sources by view completion. 398-403
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  Ming Zhong, Mengchi Liu, Qian Chen: Modeling heterogeneous data in dataspace. 404-409
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  R. Raja Kumar, J. Indumathi, G. V. Uma: Optimizing PPDM in asynchronous sparse data using random projection. 410-415

Business Computing

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  Li Tan, Shenghan Xu: Model check stochastic supply chains. 416-421
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  Seung-yun Kim: Modeling and analysis of a web-based collaborative enterprise using Petri nets. 422-428
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  Weiyun Ying, Xiu Li, Yaya Xie, Ellis Johnson: Preventing customer churn by using random forests modeling. 429-434

Multimedia

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  Kasturi Chatterjee, Shu-Ching Chen: Hierarchical affinity hybrid tree: A multidimensional index structure to organize videos and support content-based retrievals. 435-440
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  Itzel Abundez Barrera, Citlalih Gutierrez Estrada, Sergio Diaz Zagal, Martin de Jesus Nieto Perez: Segmentation of medical images by region growing. 441-444
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  Masami Shishibori, Satoru Tsuge, Zhang Le, Minoru Sasaki, Yoshiki Uemura, Kenji Kita: A fast retrieval algorithm for the earth mover's distance using EMD lower bounds. 445-450

Networking

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  Deise de Brum Saccol, Nina Edelweiss, Renata de Matos Galante, Marcio Roberto de Mello: Managing application domains in P2P systems. 451-456
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  Omar Gonzalez-Padilla, Félix F. Ramos Corchado, Herwig Unger: RFID composite event definition and detection. 457-462
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  Mais Nijim, Ahmed Abukmail, Adel Ali: An energy efficient framework using non-volatile flash memory for networked storage systems. 463-468

Data Integration II

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  Chia-Hui Chang, Shih-Feng Yang, Che-Min Liou, Mohammed Kayed: Gadget creation for personal information integration on web portals. 469-472
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  Sabah S. Al-Fedaghi: Integration of information needs and seeking. 473-478
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  Saehoon Cheon, Doohwan Kim, Bernard P. Zeigler: DEVS model composition by system entity structure. 479-484