Uncertainty and Intelligent Systems

Application of linear utility theory to belief functions.- A new approach to introducing semantics and subjectivity in approximate reasoning.- Belief functions versus probability functions.- Inference via belief qualified if - Then rules based on compatibility relations and possibility theory.- Fixed point theorems for fuzzy mappings.- Convergence properties of classes of decomposable measures.- Some geometrical properties of trapezoidal functions for their association with linguistic labels leading to a reduced 2-D representation.- Decidability and recursive enumerability for fuzzy subsets.- Stability of linguistic modifiers compatible with a fuzzy logic.- Some maximum likelihood estimators for the fuzzy linear model.- On orderings of fuzzy numbers.- An alternative semantics for linguistic variables.- Suboptimum decoding using Kullback principle.- The choice of sample size in estimating entropy according to a stratified sampling.- Information measures from rate-distortion theories.- Piecewise linear fuzzy quantities : A way to implement fuzzy information into expert systems and fuzzy databases.- Sets and uncertainty in relational databases.- Answering queries addressed to the rule base of a deductive database.- A model for the management of imprecise queries in relational databases.- Constructive learning with continuous-valued attributes.- A model for learning by source control.- Controlling inductive search in rigel learning system.- Uncertainty in a numeric concept discovery system.- On generating linguistic rules for fuzzy models.- Learning driven by the concepts structure.- Checking a rule base with certainty factor for incompleteness and inconsistency.- Modeling experiential knowledge with procedural schemata of holistic perception.- Congruence of structures in urban knowledge representation.- Time representation: An example.- Fuzzy qualitative modeling.- Knowledge representation systems syntactic methods.- A logical approach to deal with incomplete causal