| New challenges in the world wide wisdom web (W4) research | p. 1 |
| Grounding to the real world - architecture for ubiquitous computing | p. 7 |
| Data mining : fast algorithms vs. fast results | p. 12 |
| Knowledge discovery services and tools on grids | p. 14 |
| Space decomposition in data mining : a clustering approach | p. 24 |
| Time series rule discovery : tough, not meaningless | p. 32 |
| Mining diagnostic rules with taxonomy from medical databases | p. 40 |
| Comparing simplification methods for model trees with regression and splitting nodes | p. 49 |
| Goodness-of-fit measures for induction trees | p. 57 |
| PDL with maximum consistency monitors | p. 65 |
| Comparing and merging ontologies : a concept type hierarchy approach | p. 75 |
| Integrating information under lattice structure | p. 83 |
| Functional ontology for intelligent instruments | p. 88 |
| Constructing an ontology based on hub words | p. 93 |
| Integration of heterogeneous, imprecise and incomplete data : an application to the microbiological risk assessment | p. 98 |
| Intelligent protein 3D structure retrieval system | p. 108 |
| Cognitive vision systems in medical applications | p. 116 |
| An automated school timetabling system using hybrid intelligent techniques | p. 124 |
| Representing audio data by FS-trees and adaptable TV-trees | p. 135 |
| A framework of rough sets based rule generation in non-deterministic information systems | p. 143 |
| Granular computing based on rough sets, quotient space theory, and belief functions | p. 152 |
| Searching for the complex decision reducts : the case study of the survival analysis | p. 160 |
| Clustering supermarket customers using rough set based Kohonen networks | p. 169 |
| Multi-rough sets and generalizations of contexts in multi-contexts information systems | p. 174 |
| Metanews : an information agent for gathering news articles on the web | p. 179 |
| Enacting an agent-based digital self in a 24x7 web services world | p. 187 |
| Light-weight agents for e-learning environments | p. 197 |
| Towards a pragmatic methodology for open multi-agent systems | p. 206 |
| Using similarity to implement distributed ubiquitous software services | p. 211 |
| MIC : algebraic agent environment | p. 216 |
| Using the SPACE intermediate model to help to implement agents | p. 221 |
| Belief revision and text mining for adaptive recommender agents | p. 226 |
| NETMARK : a schema-less extension for relational databases for managing semi-structured data dynamically | p. 231 |
| Program generation for application domain users by selecting model candidates | p. 242 |
| Traffic sign recognition in disturbing environments | p. 252 |
| Design patterns in intelligent systems | p. 262 |
| Temporal feature extraction from temporal information systems | p. 270 |
| Parallel ant colony systems | p. 279 |
| Some case-refinement strategies for case-based criminal summary judgments | p. 285 |
| G-STRIPS - a generalized STRIPS system for handling state change over dynamic domains | p. 292 |
| Classifying document titles based on information inference | p. 297 |
| Building topic maps using a text mining approach | p. 307 |
| Improving the performance of text classifiers by using association features | p. 315 |
| Korean document summarization using topic phrases extraction and locality-based similarity | p. 320 |
| Improving naive Bayes text classifer with modified EM algorithm | p. 326 |
| Mining environmental texts of images in web pages for image retrieval | p. 334 |
| Towards a contextual content of ontologies | p. 339 |
| An email classifier based on resemblance | p. 344 |
| The characterization on the uniqueness of answer set for prioritized logic programs | p. 349 |
| A new approach to constraint inductive logic programming | p. 357 |
| Extending the CLP engine for reasoning under uncertainty | p. 365 |
| Logic for multi-path message forwarding networks for mobile agents | p. 374 |
| [theta]-subsumption and resolution : a new algorithm | p. 384 |
| Supporting e-consent on health data by logic | p. 392 |
| Towards the theory of relaxed unification | p. 397 |
| Probability logic modeling of knowledge discovery in databases | p. 402 |
| Constructing extensions of Bayesian classifiers with use of normalizing neural networks | p. 408 |
| Fuzzy multiset model for information retrieval and clustering using a kernel function | p. 417 |
| Validation of fuzzy partitions obtained through fuzzy C-means clustering | p. 422 |
| Generating fuzzy thesaurus by degree of similarity in fuzzy covering | p. 427 |
| Design of iconic language interface for semantic based Korean language generation | p. 433 |
| Incremental feature extraction based on empirical kernel map | p. 440 |
| On lookahead heuristics in decision tree learning | p. 445 |
| Empirical evaluation of dissimilarity measures for time-series multiscale matching | p. 454 |
| First-order rules mining guided by information gain | p. 463 |
| Simultaneous row and column partitioning : evaluation of a heuristic | p. 468 |
| Partial prefix sum method for large data warehouses | p. 473 |
| Spatio-temporal association mining for un-sampled sites | p. 478 |
| Development of generic search method based on transformation invariance | p. 486 |
| Hierarchical ordering for approximate similarity ranking | p. 496 |
| Space transformation based approach for effective content-based image retrieval | p. 501 |
| Collaborative filtering - safe and sound? | p. 506 |
| RNA structure as permutation : a GA approach comparing different genetic sequencing operators | p. 511 |
| Evolutionary computation for optimal ensemble classifier in lymphoma cancer classification | p. 521 |
| Floorplan design using improved genetic algorithm | p. 531 |
| Some enhancements in genetic learning : a case study on initial population | p. 539 |
| Comparing hierarchical Markov networks and multiply sectioned Bayesian networks | p. 544 |
| Constraint propagation to semantic web services discovery | p. 554 |
| Reasoning in data integration systems : why LAV and GAV are siblings | p. 562 |
| Design of an adaptive web merchandising system using data mining | p. 572 |
| Minutiae extraction from fingerprint images using run-length code | p. 577 |
| Endpoint detection of isolated Korean utterances for bimodal speech recognition in acoustic noisy environments | p. 585 |
| Enhanced active shape models with global texture constraints for image analysis | p. 593 |
| Discovering structures in video databases | p. 598 |
| Theoretical evaluation of ring-based architectural model for middle agents in agent-based system | p. 603 |
| Multi-attributes-based negotiation agent and e-marketplace in customer-to-customer electronic commerce | p. 608 |
| A feature analysis framework for evaluating multi-agent system development methodologies | p. 613 |
| Decentralized control (obligations and permissions in virtual communities of agents) | p. 618 |
| An intelligent agent for automatic course adaptation | p. 623 |
| An exploration of bugs and debugging in multi-agent systems | p. 628 |
| A framework for building competency-based systems dedicated to human resource management | p. 633 |
| Extracting the most discriminant subset from a pool of candidates to optimize discriminant classifier training | p. 640 |
| Knowledge engineering of intelligent sales-recruitment system using multi-layered agent methodology | p. 646 |
| The KAMET II methodology : a modern approach for building diagnosis-specialized knowledge-based systems | p. 652 |
| A formal approach to describing action concepts in taxonomical knowledge bases | p. 657 |
| An efficient algorithm for computing core attributes in database systems | p. 663 |
| Similarity graphs | p. 668 |
| Image-based flame control of a premixed gas burner using fuzzy logics | p. 673 |
| Intelligent pattern recognition by feature selection through combined model of DWT and ANN | p. 678 |
| Applying neural networks to study the mesoscale variability of oceanic boundary currents | p. 684 |
| Dialog planning and domain knowledge modeled in terms of tasks and methods : a flexible framework for dialog managing | p. 689 |
| Author index | p. 695 |
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