Francesco Masulli Sushmita Mitra Gabriella Pasi (Eds.)

Applications of Fuzzy Sets Theory

7th International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications, WILF 2007 Camogli, Italy, July 7-10, 2007 Proceedings

4u Springer Table of Contents

Advances in Fuzzy Set Theory

From Fuzzy Beliefs to Goals 1 Cilia da Costa Pereira and Andrea G.B. Tettamanzi

Information Entropy and Co-entropy of Crisp and Fuzzy Granulations 9 Daniela Bianucci, Gianpiero Cattaneo, and Davide Ciucd

Possibilistic Linear Programming in Blending and Transportation Planning Problem 20 Bilge Bilgen

Measuring the Interpretive Cost in Fuzzy Logic Computations 28 Pascual Julian, Gines Moreno, and Jaime Penabad

A Fixed-Point Theorem for Multi-valued Functions with an Application to Multilattice-Based Logic Programming 37 Jesus Medina, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, and Jorge Ruiz-Calvino

Contextualized Possibilistic Networks with Temporal Framework for Knowledge Base Reliability Improvement 45 Marco Grasso, Michele Lavagna, and Guido Sangiovanni

Reconstruction of the Matrix of Causal Dependencies for the Fuzzy Inductive Reasoning Method . 53 Guido Sangiovanni and Michele Lavagna

Derivative Information from Fuzzy Models 61 Paulo Salgado and Fernando Gouveia

The Genetic Development of Uninorm-Based Neurons 69 Angelo Ciaramella, Witold Pedrycz, and Robertfi Tagliaferri

Using Visualization Tools to Guide Consensus in Group Decision Making 77 Sergio Alonso, Enrique Herrera- Viedma, Francisco Javier Cabrerizo, Carlos Porcel, and A.G. Lopez-Herrera

Reconstruction Methods for Incomplete Fuzzy Preference Relations: A Numerical Comparison 86 Matteo Brunelli, Michele Fedrizzi, and Silvio Giove XII Table of Contents Fuzzy Information Access and Retrieval

Web User Profiling Using Fuzzy Clustering 94 Giovanna Castellano, Fabrizio Mesto, Michele Minunno, and Maria Alessandra Torsello

Exploring the Application of Fuzzy Logic and Data Fusion Mechanisms in QAS 102 Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo and Hans Ulrich Christensen

Fuzzy Indices of Document Reliability 110 Cilia da Costa Pereira and Gabriella Pasi

Fuzzy Ontology, Fuzzy Description Logics and Fuzzy-OWL 118 Silvia Calegari and Davide Ciucci

Fuzzy Machine Learning

An Improved Weight Decision Rule Using SNNR and Fuzzy Value for Multi-modal HCI 127 Jung-Hyun Kim and Kwang-Seok Hong

DWT-Based Audio Watermarking Using Support Vector Regression and Subsampling 136 Xiaojuan Xu, Hong Peng, and Chengyuan He

Improving the Classification Ability of DC* Algorithm 145 Corrado Mencar, Arianna Consiglio, Giovanna Castellano, and Anna Maria Fanelli ,

Combining One Class Fuzzy KNN's 152 Vito Di Gesu and Giosue Lo Bosco

Missing Clusters Indicate Poor Estimates or Guesses of a Proper Fuzzy Exponent 161 Ulrich Mb'ller

An Analysis of the Rule Weights and Fuzzy Reasoning Methods for Linguistic Rule Based Classification Systems Applied to Problems with Highly Imbalanced Data Sets 170 Alberto Fernandez, Salvador Garcia, Francisco Herrera, and Maria Josi del Jesus

Fuzzy Clustering for the Identification of Hinging Hyperplanes Based Regression Trees 179 Tamas Kenesei, Balazs Feil, and Janos Abonyi • Table of Contents XIII

Evaluating Membership Functions for Fuzzy Discrete SVM 187 Carlotta Orsenigo and Carlo Vercellis

Improvement of Jarvis-Patrick Clustering Based on Fuzzy Similarity.... 195 Agnes Vathy-Fogarassy, Attila Kiss, and Janos Abonyi

Fuzzy Rules Generation Method for Pattern Recognition Problems 203 Dmitry Kropotov and Dmitry Vetrov __.

Outliers Detection in Selected Fuzzy Regression Models 211 Barbara Gladysz and Dorota Kuchta

Possibilistic Clustering in Feature Space 219 Maurizio Filippone, Francesco Masulli, and Stefano Rovetta

Fuzzy Architectures and Systems

OpenAdap.net: Evolvable Information Processing Environment 227 Alessandro E.P. Villa and Javier Iglesias

Binary Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers Trained by Nonlinear Quantum Circuits •. 237 Massimo Panella and Giuseppe Martinelli

Digital Hardware Implementation of High Dimensional Fuzzy Systems ' 245 Pablo Echevarria, M. Victoria Martinez, Javier Echanobe, Inis del Campo, and Jose M. Tarela

Optimization of Hybrid Electric Cars by Neuro-Fuzzy Networks 253 Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli, Antonello Rizzi, Massimo Panella, and Claudia Bettiol

Fuzzy fc-NN Lung Cancer Identification by an Electronic Nose 261 Rossella Blatt, Andrea Bonarini, Elisa Calabro, Matteo Delia Torre, Matteo Matteucci, and Ugo Pastorino

Efficient Implementation of SVM Training on Embedded Electronic Systems 269 Paolo Gastaldo, Giovanni Parodi, Sergio Decherchi, and Rodolfo Zunino

A Possible Approa.ch to Cope with Uncertainties in Space Applications 277 Michele Lavagna and Guido Sangiovanni XIV Table of Contents

Special Session on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets: Recent Advances

Fuzzy Measures: Collectors of Entropies 285 Doretta Vivona and Maria Divari

Some Problems with Entropy Measures for the Atanassov Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets ,., 291 Eulalia Szmidt and Janusz Kacprzyk

Twofold Extensions of Fuzzy Datalog 298 Agnes Achs

Combs Method Used in an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic Application 306 Jon E. Ervin and Sema E. Alptekin

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Spatial Relationships in Mobile GIS Environment 313 Mohammad Reza Malek, Farid Karimipour, and Saeed Nadi

A Two-Dimensional Entropic Approach to Intuitionistic Fuzzy Contrast Enhancement ,. 321 Ioannis K. Vlachos and George D. Sergiadis

Intuitionistic Fuzzy Histogram Hyperbolization for Color Images 328 Ioannis K. Vlachos and George D. Sergiadis

Special Session on Soft Computing in Image Processing

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in Homeland Security Applications 335 Giovanni B. Garibotto

A Genetic Algorithm Based on Eigen Fuzzy Sets for Image Reconstruction 342 Ferdinando Di Martino and Salvatore Sessa

Fuzzy Metrics Application in Video Spatial Deinterlacing 349 Julio Riquelme, Samuel Morillas, Guillermo Peris-Fajarne's, and Dolores Castro S Fuzzy Directional-Distance Vector Filter 355 Samuel Morillas, Valentin Gregori, Julio Riquelme, • Beatriz Defez, and Guillermo Peris-Fajarnis Table of Contents XV

Color Texture Segmentation with Local Fuzzy Patterns and Spatially Constrained Fuzzy C-Means 362 Przemyslaw Gorecki and Laura Caponetti

A Flexible System for the Retrieval of Shapes in Binary Images 370 Gloria Bordogna, Luca Ghilardi, Simone Milesi, and Marco Pagani

Fuzzy C-Means Segmentation on Brain MR Slices Corrupted by RF-Inhomogeneity <•' 378 Edoardo Ardizzone, Roberto Pirrone, and Orazio Gambino

Dilation and Erosion of Spatial Bipolar Fuzzy Sets 385 Isabelle Bloch

About the Embedding of Color Uncertainty in CBIR Systems 394 Fabio Di Donna, Lucia Maddalena, and Alfredo Petrosino

Evolutionary Cellular Automata Based-Approach for Edge Detection . . . 404 Sihem Slatnia, Mohamed Batouche, and Kamal E. Melkemi

Special Session Third International Workshop on Cross-Language Information Processing (CLIP 2007) The Multidisciplinary Facets of Research on Humour ' 412 Rada Mihalcea

Multi-attribute Text Classification Using the Fuzzy Borda Method and Semantic Grades 422 Eugene Levner, David Alcaide, and Joaquin Sicilia

Approximate String Matching Techniques for Effective CLIR Among Indian Languages 430 Ranbeer Makin, Nikita Pandey, Prasad Pingali, and Vasudeva Varma

Using Translation Heuristics to Improve a Multimodal and Multilingual Information Retrieval System 438 Miguel Angel Garcia-Cumbreras, Maria Teresa Martin-Valdivia, Luis Alfonso Urena-Lopez, Manuel Carlos Diaz-Galiano, and Arturo Montejo-Rdez &

Ontology-Supported Text Classification Based on Cross-Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation 447 Dan Tufis and Svetla Koeva

Opinion Analysis Across Languages: An Overview of and Observations from the NTCIR6 Opinion Analysis Pilot Task 456 David Kirk Evans, Lun-Wei Ku, Yohei Seki, Hsin-Hsi Chen, and Noriko Kando XVI Table of Contents

Some Experiments in Humour Recognition Using the Italian Wikiquote Collection 464 Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso

Recognizing Humor Without Recognizing Meaning 469 Jonas Sjobergh and Kenji Araki '

Computational Humour: Utilizing Cross-Reference Ambiguity for Conversational Jokes 477 Hans Wim Tinholt and Anton Nijholt

Special Session Fourth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics Biostatistics (CIBB 2007)

Dataset Complexity and Gene Expression Based Cancer Classification 484 Oleg Okun and Helen Priisalu

A Novel Hybrid GMM/SVM Architecture for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction 491 Emad Bahrami Samani, M. Mehdi Homayounpour, and Hong Gu

A Graph Theoretic Approach to Protein Structure Selection 497 Marco Vassura, Luciano Margara, Piero Fariselli, and Rita Casadio

Time-Series Alignment by Non-negative Multiple Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis 505 Bernd Fischer, Volker Roth, and Joachim M. Buhmann

Generative Kernels for Gene Function Prediction Through Probabilistic Tree Models of Evolution 512 Luca Nicotra, Alessio Micheli, and Antonina Starita

Liver Segmentation from CT Scans: A Survey 520 Paola Campadelli and Elena Casiraghi

Clustering Microarray Data with Space Filling Curves 529 Dimitrios Vogiatzis and Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

Fuzzy Ensemble Clustering for DNA Microarray Data Analysis 537 Roberto Avogadri and Giorgio Valentini

Signal Processing in Comparative Genomics 544 - Matteo Ri and Giulio Pavesi Table of Contents XVII

PCA Based Feature Selection Applied to the Analysis of the International Variation in Diet 551 Faraz Bishehsari, Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, Reza Malekzadeh, Renato Mariani-Costantini, Gennaro Miele, Francesco Napolitano, Giancarlo Raiconi, Roberto Tagliaferri, and Fabio Verginelli

Evaluating Switching Neural Networks for Gene Selection 557 Francesca Ruffino, Massimiliano Costacurta, and Marco Muselli

Analysis of Proteomic Spectral Data by Multi Resolution Analysis and Self-Organizing Maps 563 Frank-Michael Schleif, Thomas Villmann, and Barbara Hammer

A Cost-Sensitive Approach to Feature Selection in Micro-Array Data Classification 571 Andrea Bosin, Nicoletta Dessi, and Barbara Pes

Liknon Feature Selection for Microarrays 580 Erinija Pranckeviciene and Ray Somorjai

An Alternative Splicing Predictor in C.Elegans Based on Time Series Analysis i 588 Michele Ceccarelli and Antonio Maratea

Cancer Classification Based on Mass Spectrometry 596 Yihui Liu

Computational Proteomics of Biomolecular Interactions in Sequence and Structure Space of the Tyrosine Kinome: Evolutionary Constraints and Protein Conformational Selection Determine Binding Signatures of Cancer Drugs 604 Gennady M. Verkhivker

Learning Transcriptional Regulatory Networks with Evolutionary Algorithms Enhanced with Niching 612 Cidric Auliac, Florence d'Alchi-Buc, and Vincent, Frouin

Towards a Personalized Schedule with Triplex Vaccine 620 Francesco Pappalardo, Santo Motta, Pier Luigi Lollini, Emilio Mastriani, and Marzio Pennisi

Solving Protein Structures Using Molecular Replacement Via Protein Fragments ' 627 Jayavardhana Gubbi, Michael Parker, and Marimuthu Palaniswami XVIII Table of Contents

An Interactive Tool for the Management and Visualization of Mass-Spectrometry Proteomics Data 635 Mario Cannataro, Giovanni Cuda, Marco Gaspari, and Pierangelo Veltri

Smart Sequence Similarity Search(S4) System 643 Zhuo Chen, Arturo Concepcion, Anthony Metcalf, Arokiya Joseph, and Laurence Bohannan

Prediction of over Represented Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Co-regulated Genes Using Whole Genome Matching Statistics 651 Giulio Pavesi and Federico Zambelli

Unsupervised Haplotype Reconstruction and LD Blocks Discovery in a Hidden Markov Framework 659 Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Giovanni Malerba, Luciano Xumerle, Vittorio Murino, and Pier Franco Pignatti

Multi-class Protein Fold Recognition Through a Symbolic-Statistical Framework 666 Marenglen Biba, Floriana Esposito, Stefano Ferilli, Teresa M.A. Basile, and Nicola Di Mauro

Assessment of Common Regions and Specific Footprints of DNA Copy Number Aberrations Across Multiple Affymetrix SNP Mapping Arrays 674 Roberta Spinelli, Ingrid Cifol'a, Stefano Ferrero, Luca Beltrame, Paolo Mocarelli, and Cristina Battaglia

Locally Adaptive Statistical Procedures.for the Integrative Analysis on Genomic and Transcriptional Data 682 Mattia Zampieri, Ingrid Cifola, Dario Basso, Roberta Spinelli, Luca Beltrame, Clelia Peano, Cristina Battaglia, and Silvio Bicciato

Author Index 691