| Data Mining and Automated Learning | |
| Clustering | |
| Clustering by Similarity in an Auxiliary Space | p. 3 |
| Analyses on the Generalised Lotto-Type Competitive Learning | p. 9 |
| A New Methodology to Compare Clustering Algorithms | p. 565 |
| Extended K-means with an Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters | p. 17 |
| An Interactive Approach to Building Classification Models by Clustering and Cluster Validation | p. 23 |
| A New Distributed Algorithm for Large Data Clustering | p. 29 |
| A New Nonhierarchical Clustering Procedure for Symbolic Objects | p. 35 |
| Classification | |
| Quantization of Continuous Input Variables for Binary Classification | p. 42 |
| Information-Based Classification by Aggregating Emerging Patterns | p. 48 |
| Boosting the Margin Distribution | p. 54 |
| Detecting a Compact Decision Tree Based on an Appropriate Abstraction | p. 60 |
| A New Algorithm to Select Learning Examples from Learning Data | p. 71 |
| Data Ranking Based on Spatial Partitioning | p. 78 |
| Association Rules and Fuzzy Rules | |
| Logical Decision Rules : Teaching C4.5 to Speak Prolog | p. 85 |
| Visualisation of Temporal Interval Association Rules | p. 91 |
| Lithofacies Characteristics Discovery from Well Log Data Using Association Rules | p. 97 |
| Fuzzy Hydrocyclone Modelling for Particle Separation Using Fuzzy Rule Interpolation | p. 103 |
| A Data-Driven Fuzzy Approach to Robot Navigation Among Moving Obstacles | p. 109 |
| Learning Systems | |
| Best Harmony Learning | p. 116 |
| Observational Learning with Modular Networks | p. 126 |
| Finding Essential Attributes in Binary Data | p. 133 |
| A Heuristic Optimal Reduct Algorithm | p. 139 |
| A Note on Learning Automata Based Schemes for Adaptation of BP Parameters | p. 145 |
| Factor and Correlation Analysis | |
| A Note on Covariances for Categorical Data | p. 150 |
| A General Class of Neural Networks for Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis | p. 158 |
| Generalised Canonical Correlation Analysis | p. 164 |
| Integrating KPCA with an Improved Evolutionary Algorithm for Knowledge Discovery in Fault Diagnosis | p. 174 |
| Temporal Data Mining | |
| Temporal Data Mining Using Multilevel-Local Polynomial Models | p. 180 |
| First Experiments for Mining Sequential Patterns on Distributed Sites with Multi-Agents | p. 187 |
| Nonlinear and Noisy Time Series Prediction Using a Hybrid Nonlinear Neural Predictor | p. 193 |
| Genetic Programming Prediction of Solar Activity | p. 199 |
| Interpretation of the Richardson Plot in Time Series Representation | p. 206 |
| Financial Engineering | |
| Wavelet Methods in PDE Valuation of Financial Derivatives (Keynote Paper) | p. 215 |
| Fast Algorithms for Computing Corporate Default Probabilities | p. 239 |
| Variance-Penalized Reinforcement Learning for Risk-Averse Asset Allocation | p. 244 |
| Applying Mutual Information to Adaptive Mixture Models | p. 250 |
| Stability Analysis of Financial Ratios | p. 256 |
| Modeling of the German Yield Curve by Error Correction Neural Networks | p. 262 |
| Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines in Financial Time Series Forecasting | p. 268 |
| $(epsilon$)-Descending Support Vector Machines for Financial Time Series Forecasting | p. 274 |
| Classifying Market States with WARS | p. 280 |
| "Left Shoulder" Detection in Korea Composite Stock Price Index Using an Auto-Associative Neural Network | p. 286 |
| Intelligent Agents | |
| A Computational Framework for Convergent Agents (Keynote Paper) | p. 295 |
| Multi-agent Integer Programming | p. 301 |
| Building an Ontology for Financial Investment | p. 308 |
| A Multi-Agent Negotiation Algorithm for Load Balancing in CORBA-Based Environment | p. 314 |
| Existence of Minority in Multi-agent Systems Using Voronoi Tessellation | p. 320 |
| Combining Exploitation-Based and Exploration-Based Approach in Reinforcement Learning | p. 326 |
| A Probabilistic Agent Approach to the Traffic Jam Problem | p. 332 |
| Round-Table Architecture for Communication in Multi-agent Softbot Systems | p. 338 |
| Mobile Agents for Reliable Migration in Networks | p. 344 |
| Internet Applications | |
| A Construction of the Adapted Ontology Server in EC | p. 355 |
| A Design and Implementation of Cyber Banking Process and Settlement System for Internet Commerce | p. 361 |
| A Shopping Agent That Automatically Constructs Wrappers for Semi-Structured Online Vendors | p. 368 |
| Real-Time Web Data Mining and Visualisation | p. 374 |
| WebGuide: Filtering and Constraining Site Browsing through Web Walker Techniques | p. 380 |
| Topic Spotting on News Articles with Topic Repository by Controlled Indexing | p. 386 |
| Validating the Behavior of Self-interested Agents in an Information Market Scenario | p. 392 |
| Discovering User Behavior Patterns in Personalized Interface Agents | p. 398 |
| An Agent-Based Personalized Search on a Multi-Search Engine Based on Internet Search Service | p. 404 |
| A Case-Based Transformation from HTML to XML | p. 410 |
| Persistent DOM: An Architecture for XML Repositories in Relational Databases | p. 416 |
| Multimedia Processing | |
| Video Processing | |
| Automatic News Video Caption Extraction and Recognition | p. 425 |
| Advanced Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithms for Motion Estimation in Video Coding | p. 431 |
| News Content Highlight via Fast Caption Text Detection on Compressed Video | p. 443 |
| Texture-Based Text Location for Video Indexing | p. 449 |
| Video Segmentation by Two Measures and Two Thresholds | p. 455 |
| Image Processing | |
| Ink Retrieval from Handwritten Documents | p. 461 |
| An Off-Line Recognizer for Hand-Written Chinese Characters | p. 467 |
| Bayesian Learning for Image Retrieval Using Multiple Features | p. 473 |
| A Content-Based Image Retrieval Method Using Third-Order Color Feature Relations | p. 479 |
| Hierarchical Discriminant Regression for Incremental and Real-Time Image Classification | p. 484 |
| Distinguishing Real and Virtual Edge Intersection in Pairs of Uncalibrated Images | p. 490 |
| Stereo Correspondence Using GA-Based Segmentation | p. 497 |
| Special Sessions | |
| Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Agent-Based Computational Finance | |
| How Adaptive Agents in Stock Market Perform in the Presence of Random News: A Genetic Algorithm Approach | p. 505 |
| Learning of Virtual Dealers in an Artificial Market: Comparison with Interview Data | p. 511 |
| Toward an Agent-Based Computational Modeling of Bargaining Strategies in Double Auction Markets with Genetic Programming | p. 517 |
| Combining Ordinal Financial Predictions with Genetic Programming | p. 532 |
| Data Analysis and Financial Modeling | |
| Applying Independent Component Analysis to Factor Model in Finance | p. 538 |
| Web-Based Cluster Analysis System for China and Hong Kong's Stock Market | p. 545 |
| Arbitrage-Free Asset Pricing in General State Space | p. 551 |
| A Tabu Search Based Algorithm for Clustering Categorical Data Sets | p. 559 |
| A New Methodology to Compare Clustering Algorithms | p. 565 |
| Author Index | p. 571 |
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