Proceedings

Eighth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Barcelona, Spain September 10-12, 2008

Edited by Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain Ajith Abraham, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Mario Köppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Jose Manuel Bénitez, University of Granada, Spain

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Eighth International Conferenceon Hybrid Intelligent Systems

HIS 2008Table of Contents

Welcome from the HIS 2008 General Chairs..................................................................................xviii

Welcome from the HIS 2008 Program Chairs...................................................................................xx

Welcome from the HIS 2008 Workshops and Special SessionsChair..........................................................................................................................................................................xxi

Welcome from the HIS 2008 Industrial Track and Exhibition Chairs ..............................xxii

Conference Committees.............................................................................................................................xxiii

Program Committees.....................................................................................................................................xxv

Additional Reviewers....................................................................................................................................xxix

Workshops and Special Sessions Committees............................................................................xxx

Technical Co-Sponsors and Sponsors............................................................................................xxxii

Plenary Keynotes..........................................................................................................................................xxxiii

Invited Papers

Evolutionary Computer Vision: A Taxonomic Tutorial .................................................................................................1

Sefano Cagnoni

Binary Connectives in Fuzzy Logic ...............................................................................................................................7

Imre J. Rudas and János Fodor

Regular Papers of the Main Conference

Metaheuristics and Optimization

Ant Colony Optimization for Continuous Domains: Application to Reservoir

Operation Problems ......................................................................................................................................................13

Abbas Afshar and Shahrbanou Madadgar

A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Single Objective Trans-Dimensional

Optimization Problems .................................................................................................................................................19

Hemant Kumar Singh, Amitay Isaacs, Tapabrata Ray, and Warren Smith

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Ranking of Weighted Strategies in the Two-Player Games with Fuzzy Entries of

the Payoff Matrix ........................................................................................................................................................186

Elisabeth Rakus-Andersson, Maria Salomonsson, and Hang Zettervall

Value-at-Risk Estimation with Fuzzy Histograms .....................................................................................................192

R. J. Almeida and U. Kaymak

Information Systems

A Model for Semantic Service Matching with Leftover and Missing Information ...................................................198

Christian Sánchez and Leonid Sheremetov

A Scheme for Simplification of Entity Networks for Fusion of Unstructured Data ..................................................204

Xinghu Zhang, Hian-Beng Lee, and Ho-Keong Chan

Modeling and Building an Ontology for Neuropediatric Physiotherapy Domain ......................................................210

Luciana V. Castilho, Heitor S. Lopes, and César A. Tacla

Hybrid Fuzzy Modelling

Hybrid Genetic-Fuzzy Optimization of a Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller ................................................................216

Nohe Ramon Cazarez-Castro, Luis T. Aguilar, and Oscar Castillo

Fuzzy Case-Based System for Classification Tasks on Missing and Noisy Data ......................................................222

Yanet Rodríguez, Carlos Morell, Ricardo Grau, Maria M. García, and Bernard De Baets

An Experiment on the Description of Sequences of Fuzzy Perceptions ....................................................................228

Gracian Trivino and Albert van der Heide

A New Approach to Design of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems ......................................................................234

Babak Rezaee

Context-Sensitive Clustering in the Design of Fuzzy Models ....................................................................................240

Tatiane Marques Nogueira and Heloisa de Arruda Camargo

Fuzzy Expert System for Determining the Criticality of Activities in Mega Projects ...............................................246

Javad Jassbi, Hasan Jafari, and Sohrab Khanmohammadi

Visualizing the Hybridizations between the Fuzzy Logic Field and the Other

Soft-Computing Techniques .......................................................................................................................................252

A.G. López-Herrera, M.J. Cobo, E. Herrera-Viedma, and F. Herrera

Investigation of Fuzzy Models for the Valuation of Residential Premises Using

the KEEL Tool ............................................................................................................................................................258

Tadeusz Lasota, Jacek Mazurkiewicz, Bogdan Trawinski, and Krzysztof Trawinski

A Hybrid Optimization Method for Fuzzy Classification Systems ............................................................................264

X. Wang, X.Z. Gao, and S.J. Ovaska

Fast Multiobjective Genetic Rule Learning Using an Efficient Method

for Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems Identification .......................................................................................................272

Marco Cococcioni, Beatrice Lazzerini, and Francesco Marcelloni

A Multi-Objective Genetic Approach to Concurrently Learn Partition Granularity

and Rule Bases of Mamdani Fuzzy Systems ..............................................................................................................278

Michela Antonelli, Pietro Ducange, Beatrice Lazzerini, and Francesco Marcelloni

Improved Semantic Mapping and SOM Applied to Document Organization ...........................................................284

Renato Fernandes Correa and Teresa Bernarda Ludermir

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