Contents -- Part 1 -- General Chair's Welcome Message -- KES 2002 Conference Organisation -- KEYNOTE SPEECHES -- Querying Databases Containing Imprecise Information: on Some Perspectives -- Social Intelligence Design and Communicative Reality -- Computational Intelligence and Infrastructure Security -- GENERAL SESSION PAPERS -- A Competitive Node Decaying Method for Artificial Neural Networks -- Medical and Technical Evaluation of a CBR Therapy Adviser -- Case-based Reasoning for Predicting the Temporal Spread of Infectious Diseases -- Knowledge Modeling for the Design of a KBS in the Functional Size Measurement Domain -- Using Convolutional Neural Network for Character Recognition in Automatic Form Processing System -- Task Reallocation in Multiagent Systems based on Vickrey Auctioning -- Evolutionary Optimisation of Technical Options for Manufacturing Industry -- Applying Neural Network based Novelty Detection to Industrial Machinery -- A CALS Approach to Adaptive Web Training using Fuzzy Hypermedia Model -- Automatic Construction of Action Knowledge-Base for Mobile Robot using GA -- Technogenetic Base for Creation of Engineering Systems -- The Trainable Expert System: A New Approach to Process Control -- A Knowledge-based Web Site for Agriculture -- A Measure of Fuzziness in Rough Sets -- A New IDCT Solution using a RISC Processor for Architecture -- Permutation Scheduling using Population Learning Algorithm -- On the Notion of Compliance in Critiquing Intelligent Design Assistants: Isomorphic Representations of General Norms and Exceptions -- An Integration of Fuzzy and Two-valued Logics on Spatial Depiction -- Formalization of Expert AH Model for Machine Learning -- A Rule-based Tracking System for Video Surveillance Applications -- Combined Features for Classifying Diffuse Lung Opacities in Thin-Section Computed Tomography Images.

Communicating Agent in Mobile Agent Network -- Ontological Approach to Electronic Payment Systems -- AI Application in Secure Database Systems -- Gas Turbine Faults: Detection, Isolation and Assessment using Neural Networks -- Cluster Discriminant Analysis for Feature Space Visualization -- Outlier Detection Data Mining using Cluster Discriminant Analysis - Data Mining from Medical Data -- Coordinated Reasoning with Inference Fusion -- Structure Discovery in Text Collections -- Using the Topological Tree for Skin Lesion Structure Description -- Advanced Fault Diagnosis using Genetic Algorithm for Gas Turbine Engines -- A Knowledge Management System Enabling Regional Innovation -- Traffic-dependent Routing based on Self-Adaption -- A Methodology for the Elicitation of Redesign Knowledge -- Monitoring the Conformance of Connections to the Traffic Contract of ATM Networks using Fuzzy Logic -- Sampled Data Classifiers -- Text Mining Framework based on Graph-based Text Representation -- Human Movement Tracking using Self-organization Model -- Web-based Occupant Feedback for Building Energy Management Systems -- Improved Algorithms for Knight's Tour Problems using Neural Networks -- Modification of PCNN for a Moving Object Segmentation -- E-Maintenance and Business Intelligence for High Voltage Power Network Components -- Missing Value Estimation by Local Minor Components -- Preprocessing Time Series using Complexity Pursuit -- The Scale Invariant Map and Maximum Likelihood Hebbian Learning -- Case-based Reasoning for Reuse of Software Designs -- Discrete-Time American Options Evaluated by Weighting Functions -- Local Nearest Neighbor by Competition -- Fusing and Modelling Sensors using Neural Networks for Low Cost Multi-Sensor Robotics Systems -- Extended Knowledge Model of Parametric Design for Concurrent Engineering.

Discretization Oriented to Decision Rules Generation -- Video-based Human Shape Detection by Deformable Templates and Neural Network -- Loubeth: Assistant-Agent Negotiation System for E-Commerce -- A Framework to Analyze and Compare Knowledge Management Tools -- Cooperative Games in a Stochastic Environment -- Forecasting the IBOVESPA using NARX Networks -- Intelligent Support to Knowledge Sharing through the Articulation of Class Schemas -- A Novel Input Representation for ANN-based Features Recognition -- Model-based Process Oriented Knowledge Management: The PROMOTE Approach -- Application of Neural Network for Prediction of Temporal Variation of Magnetic Field Near Power Lines -- Image Quality Evaluation -- The Schein Rank Concept for Coding and Decoding Fuzzy Relations -- Case-based Reasoning as a Heuristic Selector in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Problems -- INVITED SESSION PAPERS -- Session 1. Organiser: N. Baba: Intelligent Systems Utilizing Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms -- Lips Extraction with Template Matching by Genetic Algorithms -- High-Speed Face Search by Threshold Value Determination Method using Neural Networks -- Drift Ice Detection in Remote Sensing Images using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms -- A System Identification Method using Expanded Neural Networks -- A System Identification Method using a Hybrid-type Genetic Algorithm -- Session 2. Organiser: N. Baba: Utilization of Soft Computing Techniques for Financial Markets -- Network Competitive Strategies in Financial Engineering -- Utilization of Soft Computing Techniques for Dealing in the TOPIX and the NIKKEI-225 -- Financial Decision Aid based on Heuristics and Fuzzy Logic -- Session 4. Organiser: M.S. Bartlett: Learning in Vision -- Multiplicative Updates for Unsupervised and Contrastive Learning in Vision.

Extra-Label Information: Experiments with View-based Classification -- Activity Bubbles and Natural Image Sequences -- Session 5. Organisers: H.-C. Huang and T.-Y. Chen: Knowledge-based Intelligent Watermarking and Signal Processing -- A Gain-Shape VQ based Watermarking Technique with Modified Visual Secret Sharing Scheme -- On the Scene Classification for the Automated Generation of Hierarchical Contents from Broadcasting TV News -- An Embedding Algorithm for Multiple Watermarks -- Genetic Watermark Techniques based on Spatial Domain -- BTC-Immunized Watermarking using Local Homogeneity for Pixel Selection -- Session 7. Organiser: G. Castellano: Knowledge-based Neurocomputing Systems -- Knowledge-based Neurocomputing for Operational Decision Support -- Based Neuro-Symbolic Hybrid System in Asymmetric Sigma-Pi Connections for Treatment of Gradual Rules -- Classifier Combination Techniques and Support Vector Machine: An Application to Character Recognition -- KERNEL: A System for Knowledge Extraction and Refinement by Neural Learning -- Session 9. Organiser: C. Faucher: Classification in Knowledge-based Systems -- The Role of Classification(s) in Distributed Knowledge Management -- Using Prototypes for Classification in Case-based Medical Expert Systems -- Incremental Development of a Hierarchical Classification System using an Object-Oriented Database Management System (OODBMS) -- Session 11. Organiser: P. Frasconi: Machine Learning in Bioinformatics -- A Neural Network-based Method for Predicting the Disulfide Connectivity in Proteins -- Genome Comparisons based on Profiles of Metabolic Pathways -- A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Solving the Protein Structure Prediction Problem -- Supervised Gene Expression Data Analysis using Support Vector Machines and Multi-Layer Perceptrons -- Knowledge Discovery for Gene Regulatory Regions Analysis.

Session 12. Organiser: J. Gasós: Advanced E-Commerce Applications -- Improving Customer Relation, a Knowledge-based Approach -- COGITO: A Conversational Agent Supporting its Users' Search Strategies -- Personalised Configuration of Products and Services in Co-Operating Markets -- A Framework for Internet Data Collection based on Intelligent Agents - Achieved Results -- Session 14. Organiser: V. Giménez Martínez: Artificial Neural Networks and Adaptive Systems for the Information Technologies -- An Adaptive Procedure to Implement an Optimal General Delta Model -- Visual Analysis of Self-organizing Maps -- Performance of Supervised ART Artificial Neural Networks with Different Parameter Vigilance Dynamics -- Neural Control of Simultaneous Chaotic Systems -- Enhanced Neural Networks as Taylor Series Approximations -- Session 15. Organiser: G. Gini: Data Mining and Knowledge Management for Scientific Data -- Finding and Using Global Implications for the Association Rule Problem -- A Comparison of Probabilistic, Neural, and Fuzzy Modeling in Ecotoxicity -- Mining from Medical Data: Case-Studies in Meningitis and Stomach Cancer Domains -- Session 20. Organiser: R. Hamabe: Intelligent Image Coding and Image Processing -- Image Quality Evaluation -- Video Coding based upon Learning Motion Vector Quantization -- Image Compression using DWT for Mobile System -- Blur Effect in Image Interfaces -- Session 21. Organisers: J. Hasebrook and G. Doeben-Henisch: Self Learning and the Learning Self: Technologies for the Learning Exploitation -- Knowledge Robots for Knowledge Workers: Self-Learning Agents Connecting Information and Skills -- Flexible Diagram Generation from Tagged Texts -- Control Architecture for Implementing Intelligent Non-Player Characters in Online Computer Games.

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