Advanced Information Processing

Preface: The Scope of Chance Discovery. Part I: Chance Dicovery in the Complex Real World: Modeling the Process of Chance Discovery; Decisions by Chances and on Chances; Predicition, Forecasting, and Chance Discovery; Self-Organizing Complex Systems; Anatomy of Rare Events in a Complex Adaptive System. Part II: Key 1 -- Communications for Chance Discovery: Human-to-Human Communication for Chance Discovery in Business; Topic Diffusion in a Community; Dimensional Representations of Knowledge in Online Community; Discovery of Tacit Knowledge and Topical Ebbs and Flows; Agent Communications for Chance Discovery; Logics of Argumentation for Chance Discovery. Part III: Key 2 -- Perceptions for Context-Shifting: Awareness and Imagination of Hidden Factors and Rare Events; Effects of Scenic Information; The Storification of Chances; The Prepared Mind: The Role of Representational Change in Chance Discovery; Abduction and Analogy in Chance Discovery. Part IV: Key 3 -- Computer-Aided Chance Discoveries: Active Mining with Visual Human-Interface; Key Graph: Visualized Structure among Event Clusters; Discovering Deep Building Blocks for Competent Genetic Algorithms. Part V: Keys Combined to Applications: Enhancing Daily Conversations; Chance Discoveries from WWW; Detection of Earthquake Risks; Application to Questionnaire Analysis; Chance Discovery for Consumers; Application to Understanding Consumer's Latent Desires. Author Index, Subject Index.