17. ISMIS 2008: Toronto, Canada

Invited Papers

• Yijun Yu, Alexei Lapouchnian, Sotirios Liaskos, John Mylopoulos, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite:
  From Goals to High-Variability Software Design. 1-16
  
• Xiaoxin Yin, Jiawei Han:
  Exploring the Power of Heuristics and Links in Multi-relational Data Mining. 17-27
  
• Michael Lowry:
  Intelligent Software Engineering Tools for NASA's Crew Exploration Vehicle. 28-37
  

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - Foundations

• Benjamin X. Wang, Nathalie Japkowicz:
  Boosting Support Vector Machines for Imbalanced Data Sets. 38-47
  
• José-Luis Polo, Fernando Berzal, Juan Carlos Cubero Talavera:
  Class-Oriented Reduction of Decision Tree Complexity. 48-57
  
• Simon Marcellin, Djamel A. Zighed, Gilbert Ritschard:
  Evaluating Decision Trees Grown with Asymmetric Entropies. 58-67
  
• Annalisa Appice, Michelangelo Ceci, Donato Malerba, Savino Saponara:
  Stepwise Induction of Logistic Model Trees. 68-77
  
• Nicola Di Mauro, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito:
  Stochastic Propositionalization for Efficient Multi-relational Learning. 78-83
  
• Hidenao Abe, Shusaku Tsumoto:
  Analyzing Behavior of Objective Rule Evaluation Indices Based on Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. 84-89
  

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - Advances

• Tapio Elomaa, Petri Lehtinen, Matti Saarela:
  Obtaining Low-Arity Discretizations from Online Data Streams. 90-99
  
• Elie Prudhomme, Stéphane Lallich:
  Maps Ensemble for Semi-Supervised Learning of Large High Dimensional Datasets. 100-110
  
• Aída Jiménez, Fernando Berzal, Juan C. Cubero:
  Mining Induced and Embedded Subtrees in Ordered, Unordered, and Partially-Ordered Trees. 111-120
  
• Vassiliki A. Koutsonikola, Athena Vakali, Antonios Mpalasas, Michael Valavanis:
  A Structure-Based Clustering on LDAP Directory Information. 121-130
  
• Frédéric Flouvat, Fabien De Marchi, Jean-Marc Petit:
  iZi: A New Toolkit for Pattern Mining Problems. 131-136
  
• Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato, Floriana Esposito:
  A Multi-relational Hierarchical Clustering Method for DatalogKnowledge Bases. 137-142
  
• Jan Rauch, Milan Simunek:
  LAREDAM - Considerations on System of Local Analytical Reports from Data Mining. 143-149
  
• Lucantonio Ghionna, Gianluigi Greco, Antonella Guzzo, Luigi Pontieri:
  Outlier Detection Techniques for Process Mining Applications. 150-159
  

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - Mining Changes and Actionable Patterns

• Seunghyun Im, Zbigniew W. Ras:
  Action Rule Extraction from a Decision Table: ARED. 160-168
  
• Li-Shiang Tsay, Zbigniew W. Ras:
  Discovering the Concise Set of Actionable Patterns. 169-178
  
• Michelangelo Ceci, Annalisa Appice, Costantina Caruso, Donato Malerba:
  Discovering Emerging Patterns for Anomaly Detection in Network Connection Data. 179-188
  
• Tim K. Cocx, Walter A. Kosters, Jeroen F. J. Laros:
  Temporal Extrapolation within a Static Clustering. 189-195
  
• Corrado Loglisci, Donato Malerba:
  Discovering Explanations from Longitudinal Data. 196-202
  

Logic for Artificial Intelligence

• Neil V. Murray, Erik Rosenthal:
  Reduced Implicate/Implicant Tries. 203-214
  
• Juan Frausto Solís, Felix Martinez-Rios:
  Golden Ratio Annealing for Satisfiability Problems Using Dynamically Cooling Schemes. 215-224
  
• Luciano Caroprese, Ester Zumpano:
  Modeling Cooperation in P2P Data Management Systems. 225-235
  
• Andrzej W. Przybyszewski:
  Interactions between Rough Parts in Object Perception. 236-245
  

Autonomic and Evolutionary Computation

• Xingguang Peng, Xiaoguang Gao:
  A Multi-objective Optimal Approach for UAV Routing in Reconnaissance Mission with Stochastic Observation Time. 246-255
  
• Alan J. Barton, Julio J. Valdés:
  Hybrid Unsupervised/Supervised Virtual Reality Spaces for Visualizing Gastric and Liver Cancer Databases: An Evolutionary Computation Approach. 256-261
  
• Elizabeth Montero, María Cristina Riff Rojas:
  Self-calibrating Strategies for Evolutionary Approaches that Solve Constrained Combinatorial Problems. 262-267
  

Soft Computing

• Allel HadjAli, Olivier Pivert:
  Towards Fuzzy Query Answering Using Fuzzy Views - A Graded-Subsumption-Based Approach. 268-277
  
• Krzysztof Ciesielski, Mieczyslaw A. Klopotek, Slawomir T. Wierzchon:
  Term Distribution-Based Initialization of Fuzzy Text Clustering. 278-287
  
• Patrick Bosc, Allel HadjAli, Olivier Pivert:
  Cooperative Answering to Flexible Queries Via a Tolerance Relation. 288-297
  
• Keivan Kianmehr, Mohammed Al-Shalalfa, Reda Alhajj:
  Effectiveness of Fuzzy Discretization for Class Association Rule-Based Classification. 298-308
  
• Fernando Bobillo, Umberto Straccia:
  Towards a Crisp Representation of Fuzzy Description Logics under Lukasiewicz Semantics. 309-318
  
• Feifei Xu, Yiyu Yao, Duoqian Miao:
  Rough Set Approximations in Formal Concept Analysis and Knowledge Spaces. 319-328
  
• Laura Cruz Reyes, José Francisco Delgado Orta, Juan Javier González Barbosa, Jose Torres-Jimenez, Héctor Joaquin Fraire Huacuja, Bárbara Abigail Arrañaga Cruz:
  An Ant Colony System Algorithm to Solve Routing Problems Applied to the Delivery of Bottled Products. 329-338
  

Databases and Data Warehouses

• Chun Jin, Jaime G. Carbonell:
  Predicate Indexing for Incremental Multi-Query Optimization. 339-350
  
• Jarek Gryz, Qiong Wang, Xiaoyan Qian, Calisto Zuzarte:
  SQL Queries with CASE Expressions. 351-360
  
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea:
  Top-Down Compression of Data Cubes in the Presence of Simultaneous Multiple Hierarchical Range Queries. 361-374
  
• Navin Viswanath, Rajshekhar Sunderraman:
  Degrees of Exclusivity in Disjunctive Databases. 375-380
  
• Nikos Papadakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Grigoris Antoniou, Manolis Daskalakis, Yannis Christodoulou:
  The Ramification Problem in Temporal Databases: A Solution Implemented in SQL. 381-388
  

Digital Library

• Charbel Julien, Lorenza Saitta:
  Image Databases Browsing by Unsupervised Learning. 389-398
  
• Peng Wu, Sandra Carberry, Daniel Chester, Stephanie Elzer:
  Decision Tree Induction for Identifying Trends in Line Graphs. 399-409
  
• Charbel Julien:
  Automatic Handling of Digital Image Repositories: A Brief Survey. 410-416
  
• Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete, Manuel Gómez, Carlos J. Martín-Dancausa:
  Development of the XML Digital Library from the Parliament of Andalucía for Intelligent Structured Retrieval. 417-423
  

Intelligent Information Retrieval

• Bing Zhou, Yiyu Yao:
  Evaluating Information Retrieval System Performance Based on Multi-grade Relevance. 424-433
  
• Qinmin Hu, Xiangji Huang:
  A Dynamic Window Based Passage Extraction Algorithm for Genomics Information Retrieval. 434-444
  
• Rory A. Lewis, Wenxin Jiang, Zbigniew W. Ras:
  Mining Scalar Representations in a Non-tagged Music Database. 445-454
  
• Alicja Wieczorkowska, Elzbieta Kolczynska:
  Identification of Dominating Instrument in Mixes of Sounds of the Same Pitch. 455-464
  
• Shengli Wu, Qili Zhou, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng:
  Performance Weights for the Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval. 465-470
  
• Martin Labský, Vojtech Svátek:
  Combining Multiple Sources of Evidence in Web Information Extraction. 471-476
  

Text Mining

• Traian Rebedea, Stefan Trausan-Matu:
  Autonomous News Clustering and Classification for an Intelligent Web Portal. 477-486
  
• Ahmad El Sayed, Hakim Hacid, Djamel A. Zighed:
  On Determining the Optimal Partition in Agglomerative Clustering of Documents. 487-496
  
• Troels Andreasen, Henrik Bulskov, Thomas Vestskov Terney:
  Ontological Summaries through Hierarchical Clustering. 497-507
  
• Suman Saha, C. A. Murthy, Sankar K. Pal:
  Classification of Web Services Using Tensor Space Model and Rough Ensemble Classifier. 508-513
  

Intelligent Information Systems

• Simone A. Ludwig:
  Agent-Based Assistant for e-Negotiations. 514-524
  
• Guoli Ding, Robert F. Lax, Jianhua Chen, Peter P. Chen, Brian D. Marx:
  Local Soft Belief Updating for Relational Classification. 525-534
  
• Ioannis Rousidis, George Tzagkarakis, Dimitris Plexousakis, Yannis Tzitzikas:
  On a Probabilistic Combination of Prediction Sources. 535-544
  
• David A. Maluf, Chen-jung Hsu, Peter B. Tran, David Tran:
  Effective Document-Oriented Telemetry Data Compression. 545-551
  

Knowledge Representation and Integration

• Dennis Hooijmaijers, Markus Stumptner:
  Improving Integration with Subjective Combining of Ontology Mappings. 552-562
  
• Piotr Gawrysiak, Grzegorz Protaziuk, Henryk Rybinski, Alexandre Delteil:
  Text Onto Miner - A Semi Automated Ontology Building System. 563-573
  
• Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell:
  Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System. 574-584
  
• Ahmed Alasoud, Volker Haarslev, Nematollaah Shiri:
  An Effective Ontology Matching Technique. 585-590
  
• Joaquín Pérez, Laura Cruz, Rodolfo A. Pazos, Vanesa Landero N., Gerardo Reyes Salgado, José Crispín Zavala Díaz, Héctor J. Fraire H., Verónica Pérez:
  A Causal Approach for Explaining Why a Heuristic Algorithm Outperforms Another in Solving an Instance Set of the Bin Packing Problem. 591-598
  

Web Service and Intelligence

• Lyes Dekar, Hamamache Kheddouci:
  A Graph b-Coloring Based Method for Composition-Oriented Web Services Classification. 599-604
  
• Domenico Redavid, Luigi Iannone, Terry R. Payne, Giovanni Semeraro:
  OWL-S Atomic Services Composition with SWRL Rules. 605-611
  
• Cory J. Butz, Pawan Lingras, Ken Konkel:
  A Web-Based Interface for Hiding Bayesian Network Inference. 612-617
  

Applications

• Dongwan Hong, Jongkeun Lee, Sang-Kyoon Hong, Jeehee Yoon, Sanghyun Park:
  Extraction of Informative Genes from Integrated Microarray Data. 618-627
  
• Kitty S. Y. Chiu, Keith C. C. Chan:
  Using Data Mining for Dynamic Level Design in Games. 628-637
  
• Shujing Wang, Yan Zhang:
  A Logic Programming Based Framework for Security Protocol Verification. 638-643
  
• Manuel Mejía-Lavalle:
  Applying Cost Sensitive Feature Selection in an Electric Database. 644-649