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