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Bernd Reusch
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Computational Intelligence,
Theory and Applications
International Conference
9th Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, Germany,
Sept. 18–20, 2006 Proceedings

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Professor Dr. Bernd Reusch
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Preface

For the 9th time since 1991 we invite researchers to participate in the
Dortmund Fuzzy-Days. I am very glad that our conference has established
itself as an international forum for the discussion of new results in the filed
of Computational Intelligence. Again all papers had to undergo a thorough
review: each one was judged by five referees to guarantee a solid quality of
the programme.
From the beginning of the Fuzzy-Days on Lotfi A. Zadeh felt associated
with the conference. I would like to express my gratitude for his encouragement
and support and I am particularly glad that he once again delivers a keynote
speech. Much to my pleasure Ewa Orlowska, Radko Mesiar together with
Vil´em Nov´ak, Ernesto Damiani together with Tharam Dillon and Nik Kasabov
have also agreed to present new results of their work as keynote speakers.
Many thanks go to my friends Janusz Kacprzyk and Enric Trillas who
together with Lotfi Zadeh again served as honorary chairmen.
Due to my retirement in 2006, these are the last Dortmund Fuzzy Days in
the form we had developed over the years. At this point I have to leave open,
whether we find another forum or not.
I wish to thank all participants of the Dortmund Fuzzy-Days for their
commitment to the conference and the organisers, namely Mrs Ulrike Lippe,

for the excellent job they did. Last but not least, I am obliged to the German
research council for their valuable financial support.
September 2006

Bernd Reusch


Programme Chairs
Bernd Reusch

Programme Committee
Igor Aizenberg
Ulrich Bodenhofer
Arkady Borisov
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Christer Carlsson
Ernesto Damiani
Bernhard De Baets
Didier Dubois
Francesc Esteva
Mario Fedrizzi
Janos Fodor
Siegfried Gottwald
Michel Grabisch
Petr Hajek
Aboul Ella Hassanien
Kaoru Hirota
Eyke H¨
ullermeier
Janusz Kacprzyk

Nik Kasabov
Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Etienne E. Kerre
Jong-Hwan Kim
Frank Klawonn

Erich Peter Klement
Vladik Kreinovich
Rudolf Kruse
Henrik Legind Larsen
Stephan Lehmke
Madjid Fathi
Luis Magdalena
Trevor Martin
Radko Mesiar
Claudio Moraga
Vil´em Nov´ak
Ewa Orlowska
Endre Pap
Witold Pedrycz
Irina Perfilieva
Olivier Pivert
Susanne Saminger
Elie Sanchez
Hideo Tanaka
Enric Trillas
Peter Vojtas
Michael Wagenknecht
Takeshi Yamakawa
Antonio di Nola

Local Organization
Wolfgang Hunscher
Ulrike Lippe
Thomas Wilke


Contents

Plenary Talk
From Search Engines to Question-Answering Systems:
The Problems of World Knowledge, Relevance, Deduction,
and Precisiation
Lotfi A. Zadeh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1

Invited Session: Fuzzy Multiperson and Multicriteria Decisions
Modelling
Session Organiser: Mario Fedrizzi
A Fuzzy Approach to Optimal R&D Project Portfolio
Selection
Christer Carlsson, Robert Full´er, and P´eter Majlender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

5

Choquet Integration and Correlation Matrices in Fuzzy
Inference Systems
R.A. Marques Pereira, P. Serra, R.A. Ribeiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Linguistic Summarization of Some Static and Dynamic

Features of Consensus Reaching
Janusz Kacprzyk, Slawomir Zadro˙zny, and Anna Wilbik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Consistency for Nonadditive Measures: Analytical and
Algebraic Methods
Antonio Maturo, Massimo Squillante, and Aldo Ventre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29


VIII

Contents

Neural Nets
Neuro-Fuzzy Kolmogorov’s Network with a Modified
Perceptron Learning Rule for Classification Problems
Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy, Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Valeriya Poyedyntseva,
and Andreas Stephan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
A Self-Tuning Controller for Teleoperation System using
Evolutionary Learning Algorithms in Neural Networks
Habib Allah Talavatifard, Kamran Razi, and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj 51
A Neural-Based Method for Choosing Embedding Dimension
in Chaotic Time Series Analysis
Sepideh J. Rastin and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
On Classification of Some Hopfield-Type Learning Rules
via Stability Measures
Mohammad Reza Rajati, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Applications I
A New Genetic Based Algorithm for Channel Assignment
Problems
Seyed Alireza Ghasempour Shirazi and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj . . . . . 85

Max-Product Fuzzy Relational Equations as Inference Engine
for Prediction of Textile Yarn Properties
Yordan Kyosev, Ketty Peeva, Ingo Reinbach, and Thomas Gries . . . . . . . 93
Automatic Defects Classification and Feature Extraction
Optimization
Bernd Kuhlenk¨
otter, Carsten Krewet, and Xiang Zhang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Short-Term Load Forecasting in Power System Using Least
Squares Support Vector Machine
Ganyun LV, Xiaodong Wang and Yuanyuan Jin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Plenary Talk
Fifteen Years of Fuzzy Logic in Dortmund
R. Mesiar and Vil´em Nov´
ak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127


Contents

IX

Invited Session: Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets I
Session Organiser: Krassimir T. Atanassov
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Graphs
R. Parvathi and M.G. Karunambigai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
On Some Intuitionistic Properties of Intuitionistic Fuzzy
Implications and Negations
Trifon A. Trifonov and Krassimir T. Atanassov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Negations
Krassimir T. Atanassov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Invited Session: Soft Computing Techniques for Reputation and
Trust I
Session Organiser: Ernesto Damiani
A Simulation Model for Trust and Reputation System
Evaluation in a P2P Network
Roberto Aringhieri and Daniele Bonomi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
A Fuzzy Trust Model Proposal to Ensure the Identity
of a User in Time
Antonia Azzini and Stefania Marrara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Quantification of the Effectiveness of the Markov Model for
Trustworthiness Prediction
Farookh Khadeer Hussain, Elizabeth Chang, and Tharam S. Dillon . . . . . 191

Applications II
Fuzzy-Genetic Methodology for Web-based Computed-Aided
Diagnosis in Medical Applications
F. de Toro, J. Aroba, J.M. Lopez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Weight Optimization for Loan Risk Estimation with Genetic
Algorithm
Irina Lovtsova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
A Fuzzy Feature Extractor Neural Network and its
Application in License Plate Recognition
Modjtaba Rouhani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223


X

Contents

Invited Session: Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets II

Session Organiser: Krassimir T. Atanassov
Nearest Interval Approximation of an Intuitionistic Fuzzy
Number
Adrian I. Ban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
On Intuitionistic Fuzzy Expert Systems With Temporal
Parameters
Panagiotis Chountas, Evdokiya Sotirova, Boyan Kolev and Krassimir
Atanassov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Generalized Fuzzy Cardinalities of IF Sets
Pavol Kr´
a´l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Invited Session: Soft Computing Techniques for Reputation and
Trust II
Session Organiser: Ernesto Damiani
Towards Usage Policies for Fuzzy Inference Methodologies
for Trust and QoS Assessment
Stefan Schmidt, Robert Steele, Tharam Dillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Simulating a Trust-Based Peer-to-Peer Metadata Publication
Center
Paolo Ceravolo, Alessio Curcio, Ernesto Damiani and Micol Pinelli . . . . 275
The Complex Facets of Reputation and Trust
Karl Aberer, Zoran Despotovic, Wojciech Galuba
and Wolfgang Kellerer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Theory I
Fuzzy Covering Relation and Ordering: An Abstract
Approach
˘ selja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Branimir Se˘

Measures of Differentiability
˘
Martin Kalina and Alexander Sostak
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Lipschitz Continuity of Triangular Norms
Andrea Mesiarov´
a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309


Contents

XI

Plenary Talk
Formal Models of Knowledge Operators: Rough-Set-Style
and Fuzzy-Set-Style Approaches
Ewa Orlowska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Invited Session: Looking at Language with Fuzzy Logic
Session Organiser: Enric Trillas
Using a Fuzzy Model for Combining Search Results from
Different Information Sources to Build a Metasearch Engine
Wiratna S. Wiguna, Juan J. Fern´
andez-´ı´ebar and Ana Garc´ıa-Serrano . . 325
Some Fuzzy Counterparts of the Language uses of And
and Or
Sergio Guadarrama, Eloy Renedo, and Enric Trillas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Fuzzy Sets Versus Language
Enric Trillas, Eloy Renedo, and Sergio Guadarrama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Theory II

Some Properties of Fuzzy Languages
Claudio Moraga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
General Form of Lattice Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets
Andreja Tepavˇcevi´c and Marijana Gorjanac Ranitovi´c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
A Note on Generated Pseudo-Operations with Two
Parameters as a base for the Generalized Pseudo-Laplace
Type Transform
ˇ
Ivana Stajner-Papuga
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Theory III
Fuzzy All-Pairs Shortest Paths Problem
ˇ
Miloˇs Seda
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Optimal Toll Charges in a Fuzzy Flow Problem
Stephan Dempe and Tatiana Starostina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Modified Interval Global Weights in AHP
Tomoe Entani and Hideo Tanaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415


XII

Contents

Plenary Talk
Fuzzy Approaches to Trust Management
Elizabeth Chang, Ernesto Damiani, and Tharam Dillon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Invited Session: Complex-Valued Neural Networks
Session Organiser: Igor Aizenberg
Proposal of Holographic 3D-Movie Generation Using
Coherent Neural-Network Interpolation
Akira Hirose and Tomoaki Higo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
Blur Identification Using Neural Network for Image
Restoration
Igor Aizenberg, Dmitriy Paliy, Claudio Moraga and Jaakko Astola . . . . . 441
Solving the Parity n Problem and Other Nonlinearly
Separable Problems Using a Single Universal Binary Neuron
Igor Aizenberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Some Novel Real/Complex-Valued Neural Network Models
Ramamurthy Garimella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Theory IV
Extending the Fuzzy Rule Interpolation “FIVE” by Fuzzy
Observation
Szilveszter Kov´
acs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Fuzzy Rule Interpolation Based on Polar Cuts
Zsolt Csaba Johany´
ak and Szilveszter Kov´
acs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Approximate Reasoning Using Fodor’s Implication
Adrian Giurca and Ion Iancu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

Plenary Talk
Brain-, Gene-, and Quantum-Inspired Computational
Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities
Nikola Kasabov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 521

Contents

XIII

Invited Session: Intelligent Data Mining
Session Organiser: Arkady Borisov
Incremental Learning for E-mail Classification
Sigita Misina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
Reduction of Search Space for Instance-Based Classifier
Combination
Anatoly Sukov and Arkady Borisov . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Invited Session: Preferences and Decisions
Session Organiser: Janos Fodor
Linguistic Matrix Aggregation Operators: Extensions of the
Borda Rule
Jos´e Luis Garc´ıa-Lapresta, Bonifacio Llamazares and
Miguel Mart´ınez-Panero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Evolutionary Algorithms
An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Biobjective QAP
Istvan Borgulya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
On a Hill-Climbing Algorithm with Adaptive Step Size:
Towards a Control Parameter-Less Black-Box Optimisation
Algorithm
Lars Nolle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Self-Adaptive Baldwinian Search in Hybrid Genetic
Algorithms

Tarek A. El-Mihoub, Adrian A. Hopgood, Lars Nolle and
Alan Battersby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Intragenerational Mutation Shape Adaptation
Stefan Berlik and Bernd Reusch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Theory V
The Choquet-Integral as an Aggregation Operator in
Case-Based Learning
Eyke H¨
ullermeier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615


XIV

Contents

Fuzzy Sets and Multicriteria Decision Making
R. Mesiar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning for Routing in Wireless
Sensor Networks
Jerzy Martyna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
Outlier Resistant Recursive Fuzzy Clustering Algorithms
Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy, Illya Kokshenev, Yevgen Gorshkov, and
Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

Invited Session: Fuzzy Sets – 40 years after
Session Organiser: Irina Perfilieva, Vil´
em Nov´
ak
Fuzzy Set Theory – 40 Years of Foundational Discussions

Siegfried Gottwald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Fuzzy Control – Expectations, Current State,
and Perspectives
Mirko Navara and Milan Petr´ık . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Fuzzy Sets in Categories of Sets with Similarity Relations
Jiˇr´ı Moˇckoˇr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
Fuzzy Sets as a Special Mathematical Model of Vagueness
Phenomenon
Vil´em Nov´
ak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules from Logical Point of View
Irina Perfilieva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691

Applications III
Synthesizing Adaptive Navigational Robot Behaviours
Using a Hybrid Fuzzy A* Approach
Antony P. Gerdelan and Napoleon H. Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
Fuzzy Impulse Noise Reduction Methods for Color Images
Stefan Schulte, Mike Nachtegael, Val´erie De Witte, Dietrich Van der
Weken, and Etienne E. Kerre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711
Use of Variable Fuzzy Sets Methods for Desertification
Evaluation
Wu Li, Guo Yu, Chen Shouyu, and Zhou Huicheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721


Contents

XV

A Fuzzy Ultrasonic System for Estimating Degradation

of Insulating Oil
Yutaka Hata, Kensuke Iseri, Syoji Kobashi, Katsuya Kondo, and
Kazuhiko Taniguchi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733
A Genetic Algorithm-Based Fuzzy Inference System
in Prediction of Wave Parameters
M. Zanganeh, S.J. Mousavi, A. Etemad-Shahidi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Poster Contributions
Estimation of Degree of Polymerisation and Residual Age
of Transformers Based on Furfural Levels in Insulating Oil
Through Generalized Regression Neural Networks
K.S. Madhavan, T.S.R. Murthy, and R. Sethuraman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751
Fuzzy Shortest Paths in Fuzzy Graphs
Amir Baniamerian and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
Improving Vegas Algorithm Using PID and Fuzzy PID
Controllers
Aria Shahingohar, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, Mehdi Karrari,
and Mohammad Hossein Yaghamae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765
A Fuzzy-Based Automation Level Analysis in Irrigation
Equipment
Mohsen Davoudi, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, and Mehdi Davoudi . . . . . 777
Motorized Skateboard Stabilization Using Fuzzy Controller
Mohsen Davoudi, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj, and Mehdi Davoudi . . . . . 789
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801


List of Contributors

Karl Aberer
Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale

de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland

Igor Aizenberg
Texas A&M University-Texarkana
P.O. Box 5518 2600 N. Robison Rd.
Texarkana, Texas 75505 USA

Roberto Aringhieri
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Via Bramante 65, Crema I-26013
Italy

J. Aroba
Department of Electronic
Engineering and Computer Science
University of Huelva, Spain

Jaakko Astola
Tampere University of Technology
Institute for Signal Processing
TICSP
Tampere University of Technology,
P.O. Box 553
Tampere FIN-33101, Finland


Krassimir T. Atanassov

CLBME – Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, P.O. Box 12
Sofia-1113, Bulgaria


Antonia Azzini
Universit`a degli Studi
di Milano
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione, via Bramante 65
26013 Crema (CR), Italy


Adrian I. Ban
Department of Mathematics
and Informatics,
University of Oradea
Universitatii 1, 410087 Oradea
Romania


Amir Baniamerian
Department of Electrical
Engineering, AmirKabir
University of Technology



XVIII List of Contributors

Alan Battersby
School of Computing
and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham
NG11 8NS, UK

Stefan Berlik
Siegen University
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
57068 Siegen, Germany

Yevgeniy Bodyanskiy
Control Systems Research
Laboratory, Kharkiv National
University of Radioelectronics
14, Lenin Av., Kharkiv 61166,
Ukraine

Daniele Bonomi
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
via Bramante 65
Crema I-26013, Itlay


Christer Carlsson
Institute for Advanced Management

Systems Research, ˚
Abo Akademi
University
Lemmink¨ainengatan 14B
˚
Abo, FIN-20520, Finland

Paolo Ceravolo
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy

Elizabeth Chang
Curtin University
Perth, Australia

Shouyu Chen
Water Resource Research Group
School of Civil Engineering
and Architecture
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024, China
Panagiotis Chountas
University of Westminster-Health
Care Computing Group
HSCS, Northwick Park
London, HA1 3TP, UK

Istvan Borgulya
University of Pecs
Faculty of Business and Economics
H-7621 Pecs, Rakoczi ut 80


Alessio Curcio
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy


Arkady Borisov
Department of Modelling
and Simulation
Riga Technical
University Kalku iela 1, Riga LV
1658, Latvia

Ermesto Damiani
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy



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Mehdi Davoudi
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Imam Hossein University


Tomoe Entani
Kochi University
2-5-1 Akebono Kochi
780-8520, Japan


Mohsen Davoudi
Department of Electrical
Engineering, AIU
Tehran South University
Tehran, Iran


Amir Farshad Etemad-Shahidi
Department of Civil Engineering
Iran University of Science
and Technology, Tehran, Iran


Stephan Dempe
Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science

TU Bergakademie Freiberg
09596 Freiberg, Germany

Zoran Despotovic
DoCoMo Communications
Laboratories Europe
Munich, Germany

Francisco de Toro Negro
Signal Theory, Telematics
and Communications Department
University of Granada, Spain


Juan J. Fern´
andez-T´
ebar
Intelligent Systems Research Group
(ISYS-GSI)
Facultad de Inform´
atica
Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid

Robert Full´
er
Department of Operations Research
E¨
otv¨
os Lor´and University
P´

azm´any P´eter set´any 1c
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

Wojciech Galuba
Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale
de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland


Tharam S. Dillon
Faculty of Information Technology,
University of Technology, Sydney
NSW Australia


LV Ganyun
Department of Information Science
and Engineering,
Zhejiang Normal University
Beishan Road 269
321004 Jinhua, China
Ganyun

Tarek El-Mihoub
School of Computing
and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham
NG11 8NS, UK

Jos´
e Luis Garc´ıa-Lapresta
Department of de Econom´ıa
Aplicada (Matem´
aticas)
PRESAD Research Group
Universidad de Valladolid
Spain



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List of Contributors

Ana Garc´ıa-Serrano
Intelligent Systems
Research Group (ISYS-GSI)
Facultad de Inform´
atica
Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid

Ramamurthy Garimella
International Institute of Information
Technology, Hyderabad
Gachibowli, Hyderabad
AP, India

Antony P. Gerdelan

Computer Science
Institute of Information
and Mathematical Sciences
Massey University
Auckland, New Zealand

Seyed Alireza Ghasempour
Shirazi
Information and Communications
Technology Faculty
P.O. Box 16315-746, Tehran, Iran


Yevgen Gorshkov
Control Systems Research
Laboratory, Kharkiv National
University
of Radioelectronics, 14
Lenin Av., Kharkiv 61166
Ukraine

Siegfried Gottwald
Leipzig University, Institute for
Logic and Philosophy of Science
Beethovenstrausse 15
04107 Leipzig, Germany

Thomas Gries
Institute for Textile Technology
RWTH Aachen University

Eilfschornsteinstr. 18
52062 Aachen, Germany
Department of Textiles
Technical University of Sofia
Bul. Kliment Ohridski 8
Sofia-1000, Bulgaria

Adrian Giurca
Institute of Informatics
Brandenburg University
of Technology at Cottbus
Germany


Sergio Guadarrama
Departamento de Inteligencia
Artificial
Universidad Polit´ecnica
de Madrid 28660
Boadilla del Monte
Madrid, Spain


Marijana Gorjanac-Ranitovi´
c
Faculty of Education
University of Novi Sad
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia and Mongenegro

Yu Guo
Water Resource Research Group
School of Civil Engineering
and Architecture
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024 China


List of Contributors

Yutaka Hata
Division of Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha
Himeji 671-2280, Japan

Tomoaki Higo
Department of Electronic
Engineering, The University
of Tokyo 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Akira Hirose
Department of Electronic
Engineering, The University
of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

Adrian Hopgood
School of Computing
and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham
NG11 8NS, UK

Eyke H¨
ullermeier
Fakult¨
at f¨
ur Informatik
Otto-von-Guericke-Universit¨
at
Magdeburg, Germany

-magdeburg.de
Farookh Khadeer Hussain
School of Information Systems
Curtin University of Technology
P.O. Box U 1987
Perth, WA, 6107 Australia

edu.au

XXI

Mehdi Karrari
Department of Electrical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology

M.G. Karunambigai
Department of Mathematics
Vellalar College for Women
Erode 638052, Tamilnadu, India

Etienne E. Kerre
Fuzziness and Uncertainty
Modelling Research Unit
Department of Applied Mathematics
and Computer Science
Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S9
9000 Gent, Belgium
/>Boyan Kolev
CLBME - Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, Bl. 105, Sofia-1113
Bulgaria
e-mails: ,

Ion Iancu
Faculty of Mathematics and
Computer Science, University
of Craiova, Romania
I
Kensuke Iseri
Division of Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha
Himeji 671-2280, Japan
Yuanyuan Jin

Nanjing Micro One Electronics Inc.
11F Huaxin Building, 9 Guanjiaqiao
210005 Nanjin, China



XXII

List of Contributors

Zsolt Csaba Johany´
ak
Department of Information
Technology, GAMF Faculty
Kecskem´et College
Kecskem´et, H-6001 Pf. 91
Hungary

Janusz Kacprzyk
Systems Research Institute
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Newelska 6
01-447 Warsaw
Poland

Martin Kalina
Department Mathematics
Slovak University of Technology
Radlinsk´eho 11, Sk-813 68 Bratislava,
Slovakia

Mehdi Karrari
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Amirkabir University
of Technology
Tehran, Iran

Nikola Kasabov
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand

Wolfgang Kellerer
DoCoMo Communications
Laboratories Europe
Munich, Germany

Syoji Kobashi
Division of Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha
Himeji 671-2280, Japan


Illya Kokshenev
Control Systems Research
Laboratory, Kharkiv National
University of Radioelectronics,
14, Lenin Av., Kharkiv 61166
Ukraine

Vitaliy Kolodyazhniy
Control Systems Research
Laboratory, Kharkiv National
University of Radioelectronics
14, Lenin Av., Kharkiv 61166,
Ukraine

Katsuya Kondo
Division of Computer Engineering
Graduate School of Engineering
University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha
Himeji 671-2280, Japan

Szilveszter Kov´
acs
Department of Information
Technology, University of Miskolc
Miskolc-Egyetemv´
aros, Miskolc
H-3515, Hungary

Pavol Kr´
al
Faculty of Economics
Matej Bel University
Tajovsk´eho 10, 975 90 Bansk´a
Bystrica

Carsten Krewet

Robotics Research Institute
Industrial Robotics and Handling
Systems Otto-Hahn-Str.8
Dortmund University
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany


List of Contributors XXIII

Bernd Kuhlenk¨
otter
Robotics Research Institute
Industrial Robotics and Handling
Systems Otto-Hahn-Str.8
Dortmund University
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
bernd.kuhlenkoetter@uni
-dortmund.de
Yordan Kyosev
Institute for Textile Technology
RWTH Aachen University
Eilfschornsteinstr. 18
52062 Aachen, Germany
Department of Textiles
Technical University of Sofia,
Bul. Kliment Ohridski 8
Sofia-1000, Bulgaria

Wu Li
Water Resource Research Group

School of Civil Engineering
and Architecture
Dalian University of Technology
Dalian 116024, China
wuli
Bonifacio Llamazares
Department of de Econom´ıa
Aplicada (Matem´
aticas)
PRESAD Research Group
Universidad de
Valladolid, Spain

J.M. Lopez
Signal Theory, Department
of Telematics and Communications
University of Granada, Spain

Irina Lovtsova
Department of Modelling
and Simulation
Riga Technical University
1 Kalku Street, Riga, LV - 1658,
Latvia

K.S. Madhavan
Corporate Research
and Development
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Hyderabad, India

P´
eter Majlender
Institute for Advanced
Management Systems Research
˚
Abo Akademi University
Lemmink¨ainengatan 14B
˚
Abo FIN-20520, Finland

Ricardo Marques Pereira
Dipartimento di Informatica
e Studi Aziendali
Universit`a di Trento
Via Inama 5, TN 38100 Trento,
Italia

Stefania Marrara
Universit`a degli Studi
di Milano
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione, via Bramante 65,
26013 Crema (CR), Italy

Miguel Mart´ınez-Panero
Department of de Econom´ıa
Aplicada (Matem´
aticas)
PRESAD Research Group

Universidad de Valladolid
Spain



XXIV List of Contributors

Jerzy Martyna
Institute of Computer Science
Jagiellonian University
ul. Nawojki 11
30-072 Cracow, Poland


Nachtegael Mike
Ghent University, Fuzziness and
Uncertainty Modelling Research
Unit, Department of Applied
Mathematics and Computer Science
Krijgslaan 281-S9, 9000 Gent
Belgium
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Antonio Maturo
University “G. d’Annunzio”
of Chieti – Pescara
Department of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
Campus Universitario
via dei Vestini 31
66013 Chieti, Italy

Sigita Misina
Department of Modelling
and Simulation
Riga Technical University
1 Kalku Street
Riga, LV- 1658, Latvia


Mohammad Bagher Menhaj
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology
Tehran, Iran

Radko Mesiar
Slovak University of Technology
Radlinsk´eho 11
81368 Bratislava
Institute for Research
and Application of Fuzzy Modelling
University of Ostrava
Czech Republic


Andrea Mesiarov´
a
Mathematical Institute of SAS
ˇ anikova 49

Stef´
81473 Bratislava
Slovakia


Jiˇ
r´ı Moˇ
ckoˇ
r
University of Ostrava
Institute for Research
and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling
30, dubna 22, 701 03 Ostrava 1
Czech Republic

Claudio Moraga
Department Computer Science
University of Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
European Centre for Soft
Computing, E-33600 Mieres
Asturias, Spain
,

Seyed Jamshid Mousavi
Department of Civil Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology
Tehran, Iran

T.S.R. Murthy

Corporate Research
and Development
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Hyderabad, India


List of Contributors

Mirko Navara
Center for Machine Perception
Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical
Engineering, Czech Technical
University
Technick´a 2, CZ-166 27
Prague, Czech Republic

Lars Nolle
School of Computing
and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Clifton Lane, Nottingham
NG11 8NS, UK

Ewa Orlowska
National Institute
of Telecommunications
Warsaw

Dmitriy Paliy

Tampere University of Technology
Institute for Signal Processing
TICSP, Tampere University
of Technology, P.O. Box 553
Tampere FIN-33101
Finland

R. Parvathi
Department of Mathematics
Vellalar College for Women
Erode 638052, Tamilnadu, India

Ketty Peeva
Technical University of Sofia
Faculty of Applied Mathematics
and Informatics
Sofia-1000, P.O. Box 384
Bulgaria

XXV

Irina Perfilieva
Institute for Research
and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling
University of Ostrava
30, dubna 22, 701 03 Ostrava 1,
Czech Republic

Milan Petr´ık
Center for Machine Perception

Department of Cybernetics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University
Technick´a 2, CZ-166 27
Prague, Czech Republic

Micl Pinelli
Dipartimento di Tecnologie
dell’Informazione
Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Milano, Italy

Valeriya Poyedyntseva
Department of Enterprise Economy
Kharkiv National Automobile
and Highway University
25, Petrovskiy Street
Kharkiv 61002, Ukraine

Mohammad Reza Rajati
Computational Intelligence
and Control Research Center
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Amirkabir University
of Technology, 524 Hafez Ave.
Tehran 15914, Iran

Sepideh J. Rastin
Department of Electrical

and Control Engineering
South Tehran Azad
Islamic University, Tehran, Iran



XXVI List of Contributors

Kamran Razi
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Tehran

Ingo Reinbach
Institute for Textile Technology
RWTH Aachen University
Eilfschornsteinstr. 18
52062 Aachen, Germany

Modjtaba Rouhani
Department of
Electrical Engineering
Azad University at Gonabad
Gonabad, Iran
modjtaba
Stefan Schmidt
University of Technology
Sydney, P.O. Box 123
Broadway, NSW 2007
Australia

Department of Textiles
Technical University of Sofia
Bul. Kliment Ohridski 8
Stefan Schulte
Sofia-1000, Bulgaria
Fuzziness and Uncertainty
Modelling Research Unit
Department of Applied Mathematics
Eloy Renedo
and Computer Science
Departamento de Inteligencia
Ghent University
Artificial
Krijgslaan 281-S9,
Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid
9000 Gent, Belgium
28660 Boadilla del Monte

Madrid, Spain
ˇ
Miloˇ
s Seda

Brno University of Technology
Bernd Reusch
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Automation and
Dortmund University

Computer Science
44221 Dortmund, Germany
Technick´a 2, 616 69 Brno,

Czech Republic

Napoleon H. Reyes
Computer Science
Institute of Information
and Mathematical Sciences
Massey University
Auckland, New Zealand

Rita Almeida Ribeiro
Instituto de Desenvolvimento
de Novas Tecnologias UNINOVA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre 2829-516
Caparica, Portugal


Paulo J.A. Serra
Instituto de Desenvolvimento
de Novas Tecnologias UNINOVA
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre 2829-516
Caparica, Portugal

ˇ selja
Branimir Seˇ

Department of Mathematics and
Informatics
University of Novi Sad, Trg D.
Obradovi´ca 4, 21000 Novi Sad
Serbia and Mongenegro