Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (Paperback)

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Data Analysis Applications.- Data-Driven Design of Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems for Predicting NOx Emissions.- Coping with Uncertainty in Temporal Gene Expressions Using Symbolic Representations.- Olive Trees Detection in Very High Resolution Images.- A Fast Recursive Approach to Autonomous Detection, Identification and Tracking of Multiple Objects in Video Streams under Uncertainties.- Soft Concept Hierarchies to Summarise Data Streams and Highlight Anomalous Changes.- Using Enriched Ontology Structure for Improving Statistical Models of Gene Annotation Sets.- Predicting Outcomes of Septic Shock Patients Using Feature Selection Based on Soft Computing Techniques.- Obtaining the Compatibility between Musicians Using Soft Computing.- Consistently Handling Geographical User Data.- Intelligent Databases.- A Model Based on Outranking for Database Preference Queries.- Incremental Membership Function Updates.- A New Approach for Comparing Fuzzy Objects.- Generalized Fuzzy Comparators for Complex Data in a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database Management System.- The Bipolar Semantics of Querying Null Values in Regular and Fuzzy Databases.- Describing Fuzzy DB Schemas as Ontologies: A System Architecture View.- Using Textual Dimensions in Data Warehousing Processes.- Information Fusion.- Uncertainty Estimation in the Fusion of Text-Based Information for Situation Awareness.- Aggregation of Partly Inconsistent Preference Information.- Risk Neutral Valuations Based on Partial Probabilistic Information.- A New Contextual Discounting Rule for Lower Probabilities.- The Power Average Operator for Information Fusion.- Performance Comparison of Fusion Operators in Bimodal Remote Sensing Snow Detection.- Color Recognition Enhancement by Fuzzy Merging.- Towards a New Generation of Indicators for Consensus Reaching Support Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets.- Decision Support.- Multiagent Decision Making, Fuzzy Prevision, and Consensus.- A Categorical Approach to the Extension of Social Choice Functions.- Signatures for Assessment, Diagnosis and Decision-Making in Ageing.- A Default Risk Model in a Fuzzy Framework.- On a Fuzzy Weights Representation for Inner Dependence AHP.- Different Models with Fuzzy Random Variables in Single-Stage Decision Problems.- A Neuro-Fuzzy Decision Support System for Selection of Small Scale Business.- Bond Management: An Application to the European Market.- Estimating the Brazilian Central Bank’s Reaction Function by Fuzzy Inference System.- Fuzzy Systems.- Do Uncertainty and Fuzziness Present Themselves (and Behave) in the Same Way in Hard and Human Sciences?.- Some Notes on the Value of Vagueness in Everyday Communication.- On Zadeh’s “The Birth and Evolution of Fuzzy Logic”.- Complexity and Fuzziness in 20th Century Science and Technology.- Educational Software of Fuzzy Logic and Control.- A Fuzzy Distance between Two Fuzzy Numbers.- On the Jaccard Index with Degree of Optimism in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers.- Negation Functions in the Set of Discrete Fuzzy Numbers.- Trapezoidal Approximation of Fuzzy Numbers Based on Sample Data.- Multiple Products and Implications in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Theory.- Fuzzy Ontology and Information Granulation: An Approach to Knowledge Mobilisation.- Adjoint Pairs on Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets.- Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part I: Interval Approach.- Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part II: Fuzzy and Gradual Interval Approach.- Model Assessment Using Inverse Fuzzy Arithmetic.- New Tools in Fuzzy Arithmetic with Fuzzy Numbers.- Application of Gaussian Quadratures in Solving Fuzzy Fredholm Integral Equations.- Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions of Fuzzy Volterra Integro-differential Equations.- Expansion Method for Solving Fuzzy Fredholm-Volterra Integral Equations.- Solving Fuzzy Heat Equation by Fuzzy Laplace Transforms.- A New Approach for Solving First Order Fuzzy Differential Equation.- Soft Computing Applications.- A Comparison Study of Different Color Spaces in Clustering Based Image Segmentation.- Retrieving Texture Images Using Coarseness Fuzzy Partitions.- A Fuzzy Regional-Based Approach for Detecting Cerebrospinal Fluid Regions in Presence of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions.- Probabilistic Scene Models for Image Interpretation.- Motion Segmentation Algorithm for Dynamic Scenes over H.264 Video.- Using Stereo Vision and Fuzzy Systems for Detecting and Tracking People.- Group Anonymity.- Anonymizing Categorical Data with a Recoding Method Based on Semantic Similarity.- Addressing Complexity in a Privacy Expert System.- Privacy-Protected Camera for the Sensing Web.- Bayesian Network-Based Approaches for Severe Attack Prediction and Handling IDSs’ Reliability.- Structuring and Presenting the Distributed Sensory Information in the Sensing Web.- Evaluation of Privacy Protection Techniques for Speech Signals.- Digital Diorama: Sensing-Based Real-World Visualization.- Personalizing Public and Privacy-Free Sensing Information with a Personal Digital Assistant.- The Open Data Format and Query System of the Sensing Web.- See-Through Vision: A Visual Augmentation Method for Sensing-Web.- Manufacturing Virtual Sensors at Caterpillar, Inc..- Modelling Low-Carbon UK Energy System Design through 2050 in a Collaboration of Industry and the Public Sector.- A Remark on Adaptive Scheduling of Optimization Algorithms.- An Adaptive Fuzzy Model Predictive Control System for the Textile Fiber Industry.- Methodology for Evaluation of Linked Multidimensional Measurement System with Balanced Scorecard.- Predictive Probabilistic and Possibilistic Models Used for Risk Assessment of SLAs in Grid Computing.