TECHNICAL PROGRAM NAFIPS-TARDEC Session* Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:00 AM Visitor Check-in at Badge Office (Bldg. 232, Gate 38) Continental Breakfast and TARDEC Seminar Sign-In TARDEC Bldg 200A-Auditorium 10:00 AM TARDEC Welcome - Dr. Grant Gerhart. Session Chair: Tom Meitzler 10:10 AM From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems—The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance and Deduction Lotfi A. Zadeh, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley 10:50 AM BREAK 11:00 AM Arming the Robotic Solder with Fuzzy Logic Ronald R Yager, Machine Intelligence Institute 11:40 AM LUNCH- Bldg. 200A Cafeteria (Box Lunches Provided) 12:10 PM Standard Fuzzy Arithmetic and Constrained Fuzzy Arithmetic George J. Klir, Department of Systems Science & Industrial Eng., Binghamton University (SUNNY) 12:50 PM Fuzzy-Neural Computing and the Development of Intelligent Systems: Theory and Industrial Applications Madan M. Gupta, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan 1:30 PM BREAK 1:40 PM Hybrid Fuzzy Systems: Classification and Prediction Applications Piero P. Bonissone, General Electric Global Research 2:20 PM Soft Computing for Sensor and Algorithm Fusion Jim Keller, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Missouri-Columbia 3:00 PM BREAK 3:10 PM Panel Discussion: The Importance of Fuzzy Logic Applications to the US Army and Homeland Defense Tom Meitzler, Moderator Panelists: Lotfi A. Zadeh, Ronald R Yager, George J. Klir, Madan M. Gupta, Piero P. Bonissone, Jim Keller, and Dimitar Filev 4:00PM Closing Remarks *This session is open to US citizens only. Thursday, June 23, 2005, 08:30AM – 10:00AM Plenary Session I 8:30 AM The Concept of a Generalized Constraint—A Bridge from Natural Languages to Mathematics Lofti A. Zadeh 9:15 AM Generalized Information Theory: Emerging Crossroads of Fuzziness and Probability George J. Klir Thursday, June 23, 2005, 10:10AM – 12:15PM TAM11 - Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Prognostics and Health Management, Chairs: George Vachtsevanos and Ana Del Amo, Room: Petit I 10:10 AM Reasoning about Uncertainty in Prognosis: A Confidence Prediction Neural Network Approach Taimoor Khawaja, George Vachtsevanos and Becky Wu 10:35 AM Fuzzy Inference and Fusion for Health State Diagnosis of Hydraulic Pumps and Motors Sanket Amin, Carl Byington and Matthew Watson 11:00 AM General Reasoning System for Health Management Ana Del Amo, Kirby Keller and Kevin Swearingen 11:25 AM FUMSTM Artificial Intelligence Technologies including Fuzzy Logic for Automatic Decision Making Nigel Wakefield, Peter Knight, Ken Bryant and Hesham Azzam 11:50 AM Two Approaches to Data-Driven Design of Evolving Fuzzy Systems: eTS and FLEXFIS Plamen Angelov, Edwin Lughofer and Erich-Peter Klement TAM12 - Special Session on Soft Computing in Medical Imaging, Chair: Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Room: Petit II 10:10 AM Uncertain Decision-Making Schemes for Knowledge-Based Anatomical Landmark Localization (K-BALL) Mohammad-Reza Siadat, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh and Kost Elisevich 10:35 AM Soft Computing Approaches to Computer Aided Decision Making for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Mostafa Ghannad Rezaie, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Mohammad-Reza Siadat and Kost Elisevich 11:00 AM Neural Network Scoring of Spots in X-Gal and leu Plates Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Russell Finley Jr. and Farshad Fotouhi 11:25 AM Non-Rigid Registration using Free-Form Deformation for Prostate Images Niki Abolhassani and Abbas Samani 11:50 AM Automated Registration and Classification Techniques for Interval Change Analysis in Mammography Lubomir Hadjiiski, Heang-Ping Chan, Berkman Sahiner and Mark Helvie TAM13 - Special Session on Information Theory and Its Applications, Chair: Kari Sentz, Room: Michigan IV 10:10 AM Measuring Uncertainty Associated with Convex Sets of Probability Distributions: A New Approach George Klir 10:35 AM Fault Tree Uncertainty Quantification using Probabilities and Belief Structures on Basic and Non-Basic Events Kari Sentz and Alyson Wilson 11:00 AM Blind Source Separation with Possibilistic Variables Thaddeus Shannon 11:25 AM Consensus and Dissention: Theory and Properties Mark Wierman and William Tastle 11:50 AM How the Concept of Information as Average Number of "Yes"-"No" Questions (Bits) Can Be Extended to Intervals, P-Boxes, and more General Uncertainty Vladik Kreinovich, Gang Xiang and Scott Ferson TAM14 - Special Session on History of Fuzzy Sets, Chair: Rudolf Seising and Christian Schuh, Room: Michigan III 10:10 AM Fuzzy Sets and their Application in Medicine Christian Schuh 10:35 AM The 40th Anniversary of Fuzzy Sets: A New View on System Theory Rudolf Seising 11:00 AM The Evolution of Neuro-Fuzzy Systems Detlef Nauck and Andreas Nürnberger 11:25 AM Foundations of a Set Theory for Fuzzy Sets. 40 years of Development Siegfried Gottwald 11:50 AM Application Issues of Industrial Soft Computing Systems Arthur Kordon TAM15 - Special Session on Fuzzy Logic Applications to computing the probability of detection of military vehicles and Homeland Defense, Chair: Thomas Meitzler, Room: Grande III 10:10AM A Comparison of Mamdani and Sugeno Methods for Modeling Visual Perception Thomas J. Meitzler and Euijung Sohn 10:35AM A Modular Neural-Fuzzy Controller for Autonomous Reactive Navigation James L. Overholt, Gregory R. Hudas and K. C. Cheok 11:00 AM Fuzzy Variant of a Statistical Test Point Kalman Filter Gregory Hudas, James Overholt and K.C. Cheok 11:25 AM Missions, Sensors and Software Considerations for Fuzzy Robotic Systems W.J. Smuda and G.R. Gerhart Thursday, June 23, 2005, 5:00 PM – 6:20 PM TPM11 - Modeling I, Chair: Thomas Whalen, Room: Petit I 5:00 PM Estimating a Random Walk using Fuzzily Recent Data Thomas Whalen and G. Peter Zhang 5:20 PM Approximate Joke Similarity Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack 5:40 PM Enhanced Multivariable TS Fuzzy Modeling in Neural Network Perspective Özer Ciftcioglu and I.S. Sariyildiz 6:00 PM Enhanced Multivariable Fuzzy Modeling Supported by RBF Network Özer Ciftcioglu and I.S. Sariyildiz TPM12 - Medical Applications I, Chair: Cathy Helgason, Room: Petit II 5:00 PM Basic Macrotextures Structure Detection in Corneal Images using Fuzzy Techniques Pilar Sobrevilla, Eduard Montseny and Susana Alvarez 5:20 PM Fuzzy Logic and Cellular Automata Allow Individual Differences in Clinical Response to be Measured Thomas Jobe and Cathy Helgason 5:40 PM Scouting for Imprecise Temporal Associations to Support Effectiveness of Drugs during Clinical Trials Giovanni Vincenti, Robert Hammell and Goran Trajkovski 6:00 PM Support Vector Machines with Evolutionary Feature Weights Optimization for Biomedical Data Classification Bo Jin and Yan-Qing Zhang TPM13 - Fuzzy Control Theory I, Chair: Janos Grantner, Room: Michigan IV 5:00 PM A Sliding Mode Fuzzy Controller for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems Bin Xu, Shunmugham Pandian and Fred Petry 5:20 PM Developing a New Fuzzy Controller Mansoor Doostfatemeh and Stefan C. Kremer 5:40 PM Design of a Reconfigurable State Transition Algorithm for Fuzzy Automata Janos Grantner, Paolo Tamayo, Ramakrishna Gottipati and George Fodor 6:00 PM Neuro-fuzzy Learning of Strategies for Optimal Control Problems Kaivan Kamali, Lijun Jiang, John Yen and K.W. Wang TPM14 - Pattern Recognition and Clustering I, Chair: Yubao Chen, Room: Michigan III 5:00 PM A Multiclassification Model Based on FSVMs Bao Qing Hu, Jie Yang and Ju Lin He 5:20 PM A Modified Competitive Agglomeration for Relational Data Algorithm Lisa Gandy, Shahram Rahimi and Bidyut Gupta 5:40 PM Effect of Data Weighting Methods on the Performance of Fuzzy Classification Systems Tomoharu Nakashima, Yasuyuki Yokota, Hisao Ishibuchi and Andrzej Bargiela 6:00 PM Genetic Algorithm and Fuzzy C-Means Based Multi-Voting Classification Scheme in Data Mining Mingwen Ou, Yubao Chen and Elsayed Orady Friday, June 24, 2005, 08:00AM – 9:30AM Plenary Session II 8:00 AM Soft Computing for Intelligence Analysis and Security Decisions Ronald R. Yager 8:45 AM OWA Operators for Gene Product Similarity, Clustering, and Knowledge Discovery James M. Keller Friday, June 24, 2005, 09:40AM – 10:55AM FAM11 - Special Session on Hybrid Intelligent Systems Using Soft Computing I, Chairs: Oscar Castillo and Patricia Mellin, Room: Petit I 09:40AM Combining Fuzzy and PID Control for an Unmanned Helicopter Edgar N. Sanchez, Hector M. Becerra and Carlos M. Velez 10:05AM Image Complexity Measure: A Human Criterion Free Approach Mario Chacon and Alma Corral 10:30AM Evolutionary Computing for Optimizing Type-2 Fuzzy Systems in Intelligent Control of Non-Linear Dynamic Plants Oscar Castillo, Gabriel Huesca and Fevrier Valdez FAM12 - Special Session on Soft Computing in Supply Chain Design and Management, Chair: Oleg Gusikhin, Room: Petit II 09:40AM Using Data Mining to Improve Supplier Release Stability Michael Cavaretta, Gloria Chou and Bardia Madani 10:05AM An Analysis of the 2004 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition. Christopher Kiekintveld and Michael Wellman 10:30AM Towards a Multi-agent Dynamic Supply Chain Simulator for Analysis and Decision Support Leonid Sheremetov, Luis Rocha-Mier and Ildar Batyrshin FAM13 - Special Session on Rough Sets and Granular Computing I, Chairs: T.Y. Lin and Shusaku Tsumoto, Room: Michigan IV 09:40AM On the Degree of the Dependence in a Contingency Matrix Shusaku Tsumoto and Shoji Hirano 10:05AM Formal Concept Analysis and Hierarchical Classes Analysis Yaohua Chen and Yiyu Yao 10:30AM Divide and Conquer in Granular Computing