| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
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| A Light-Weight Multi-Agent System Manages 802.11 Mesh Networks | p. 3 |
| Decisions with multiple simultaneous goals and uncertain causal effects | p. 13 |
| Agent Based Frequent Set Meta Mining: Introducing EMADS | p. 23 |
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| On the evaluation of MAS development tools | p. 35 |
| Information-Based Planning and Strategies | p. 45 |
| Teaching Autonomous Agents to Move in a Believable Manner within Virtual Institutions | p. 55 |
| Data Mining | |
| Mining Fuzzy Association Rules from Composite Items | p. 67 |
| P-Prism: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Scaling up Classification Rule Induction | p. 77 |
| Applying Data Mining to the Study of Joseki | p. 87 |
| A Fuzzy Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines Approach to Hypertext Categorization | p. 97 |
| Neural Networks | |
| Estimation of Neural Network Parameters for Wheat Yield Prediction | p. 109 |
| Enhancing RBF-DDA Algorithm's Robustness: Neural Networks Applied to Prediction of Fault-Prone Software Modules | p. 119 |
| Learning | |
| A Study with Class Imbalance and Random Sampling for a Decision Tree Learning System | p. 131 |
| Answer Extraction for Definition Questions using Information Gain and Machine Learning | p. 141 |
| Batch Reinforcement Learning for Controlling a Mobile Wheeled Pendulum Robot | p. 151 |
| Knowledge Management | |
| Optimizing Relationships Information in Repertory Grids | p. 163 |
| Modeling Stories in the Knowledge Management Context to Improve Learning Within Organizations | p. 173 |
| Knowledge Modeling Framework for System Engineering Projects | p. 183 |
| Foundations | |
| Machines with good sense: How can computers become capable of sensible reasoning? | p. 195 |
| Making Use of Abstract Concepts - Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence | p. 205 |
| Making Others Believe What They Want | p. 215 |
| Foundation for Virtual Experiments to Evaluate Thermal Conductivity of Semi- and Super-Conducting Materials | p. 225 |
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| Intelligent Systems Applied to Optimize Building's Environments Performance | p. 237 |
| A Comparative Analysis of One-class Structural Risk Minimization by Support Vector Machines and Nearest Neighbor Rule | p. 245 |
| Estimation of the Particle Size Distribution of a Latex using a General Regression Neural Network | p. 255 |
| Intelligent Advisory System for Designing Plastics Products | p. 265 |
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| Modeling the Spread of Preventable Diseases: Social Culture and Epidemiology | p. 277 |
| An Intelligent Decision Support System for the Prompt Diagnosis of Malaria and Typhoid Fever in the Malaria Belt of Africa | p. 287 |
| Detecting Unusual Changes of Users Consumption | p. 297 |
| Techniques | |
| Optimal Subset Selection for Classification through SAT Encodings | p. 309 |
| Multi-objective Model Predictive Optimization using Computational Intelligence | p. 319 |
| An Intelligent Method for Edge Detection based on Nonlinear Diffusion | p. 329 |
| Semantic Web | |
| A Survey of Exploiting WordNet in Ontology Matching | p. 341 |
| Using Competitive Learning between Symbolic Rules as a Knowledge Learning Method | p. 351 |
| Knowledge Conceptualization and Software Agent based Approach for OWL Modeling Issues | p. 361 |
| Representation, Reasoning and Search | |
| Context Search Enhanced by Readability Index | p. 373 |
| Towards an Enhanced Vector Model to Encode Textual Relations: Experiments Retrieving Information | p. 383 |
| Efficient Two-Phase Data Reasoning for Description Logics | p. 393 |
| Some Issues in Personalization of Intelligent Systems: An Activity Theory Approach for Meta Ontology Development | p. 403 |
| Short Papers | |
| Smart communications network management through a synthesis of distributed intelligence and information | p. 415 |
| An Abductive Multi-Agent System for Medical Services Coordination | p. 421 |
| A New Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks with Integer Weights and Quantized Non-linear Activation Functions | p. 427 |
| Neural Recognition of Minerals | p. 433 |
| Bayesian Networks Optimization Based on Induction Learning Techniques | p. 439 |
| Application of Business Intelligence for Business Process Management | p. 445 |
| Learning Life Cycle in Autonomous Intelligent Systems | p. 451 |
| A Map-based Integration of Ontologies into an Object-Oriented Programming Language | p. 457 |
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