Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems

Innovations in Chance Discovery.- Discourse Analysis of Communication Generating Social Creativity.- Value Cognition System as Generalization of Chance Discovery.- Temporal Logic for Modeling Discovery and Logical Uncertainty.- Evaluation of a Classification Rule Mining Algorithm Based on Secondary Differences.- Communication between Living and Scientific Knowledge as Chance Discovery.- Advanced Knowledge-Based Systems.- Automatically Estimating and Updating Input-Output Tables.- Context-Aware User and Service Profiling by Means of Generalized Association Rules.- An ETL Tool Based on Semantic Analysis of Schemata and Instances.- Knowledge Source Discovery: An Experience Using Ontologies, WordNet and Artificial Neural Networks.- Path Planning Knowledge Modeling for a Generic Autonomous Robot: A Case Study.- System Models for Goal-Driven Self-management in Autonomic Databases.- -SQE: A Query Engine for Answering Range Queries over Incomplete Spatial Databases.- Multi-Agent Negotiation and Coordination: Models and Applications.- An Agent-Mediated Collaborative Negotiation in E-Commerce: A Case Study in Travel Industry.- The Role of Ontology in Modelling Autonomous Agent-Based Systems.- Multi-Agent Systems in Quantum Security for Modern Wireless Networks.- Innovations in Intelligent Systems (I).- Tolerance Classes in Measuring Image Resemblance.- Capillary Blood Vessel Tortuosity Measurement Using Graph Analysis.- Image Features Based on Local Hough Transforms.- Capillary Abnormalities Detection Using Vessel Thickness and Curvature Analysis.- Intelligent Technology Approach to Management Engineering.- A Hybrid Method of Biological Computation and Genetic Algorithms for Resolving Process-Focused Scheduling Problems.- Searching Cliques in a Fuzzy Graph Based on an Evolutionary and Biological Method.- A Biologically Intelligent Encoding Approach to a Hierarchical Classification of Relational Elements in a Digraph.- A Bio-inspired Evolutionary Approach to Identifying Minimal Length Decision Rules in Emotional Usability Engineering.- Determining Workstation Groups in a Fixed Factory Facility Based on Biological Computation.- A Fuzzy Risk Assessment in Software Development Defuzzified by Signed Distance.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-function Worker Assignment Problem.- Evidential Reasoning Based on DNA Computation.- Dynamic Tracking System through PSO and Parzen Particle Filter.- Data Mining and Service Science for Innovation.- Text Mining for Customer Enquiries in Telecommunication Services.- Defuzzification Using Area Method on L ??? Space.- Agent-Based In-Store Simulator for Analyzing Customer Behaviors in a Super-Market.- Detecting Temporal Patterns of Importance Indices about Technical Phrases.- Recommender System for Music CDs Using a Graph Partitioning Method.- Optimization of Budget Allocation for TV Advertising.- Knowledge-Based Systems for e-Business.- Cover All Query Diffusion Strategy over Unstructured Overlay Network.- Extracting the Potential Sales Items from the Trend Leaders with the ID-POS Data.- A Study on Comprehending the Intention of Administrative Documents in the Field of e-Government.- Decision Making Process for Selecting Outsourcing Company Based on Knowledge Database.- Intelligent QA Systems Using Semantic Expressions.- The Effective Extraction Method for the Gap of the Mutual Understanding Based on the Egocentrism in Business Communications.- Innovations in Intelligent Systems (II).- Deriving Electrical Dependencies from Circuit Topologies Using Logic Grammar.- A Fast Nearest Neighbor Method Using Empirical Marginal Distribution.- Effects of Kurtosis for the Error Rate Estimators Using Resampling Methods in Two Class Discrimination.- Reasoning about External Environment from Web Sources.- An Agent Control Method Based on Variable Neighborhoods.- Counselor, a Data Mining Based Time Estimation for Software Maintenance.- An Integrated Knowledge Adaption Framework for Case-Based Reasoning Systems...

The two-volume set LNAI 5711 and LNAI 5712 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Sysetms, KES 2009, held in Santiago de Chile in September 2009.

The 153 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are: fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems, agent systems, knowledge based and expert systems, miscelleanous generic intelligent systems topics, intelligent vision and image processing, knowledge management, ontologies and data mining, web intelligence, text and multimedia mining and retrieval, other advanced knowledge-based systems, innovations in chance discovery, advanced knowledge-based systems, multi-agent negotiation and coordination, innovations in intelligent systems, intelligent technology approach to management engineering, data mining and service science for innovation, knowledge-based systems for e-business, video surveillance, social networks, advanced engineering design techniques for adaptive systems, knowledge technology in learning support, advanced information system for supporting personal activity, design of intelligent society, knowledge-based interface systems, knowledge-based multi-criteria decision support, soft computing techniques and their applications, immunity-based systems. The book also includes three keynote speaker plenary presentations.