Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems

Functions.- Signatures for Assessment, Diagnosis and Decision-Making in Ageing.- A Default Risk Model in a Fuzzy Framework.- On a Fuzzy Weights Representation for Inner Dependence AHP.- Different Models with Fuzzy Random Variables in Single-Stage Decision Problems.- A Neuro-Fuzzy Decision Support System for Selection of Small Scale Business.- Bond Management: An Application to the European Market.- Estimating the Brazilian Central Bank's Reaction Function by Fuzzy Inference System.- Fuzzy Systems.- Do Uncertainty and Fuzziness Present Themselves (and Behave) in the Same Way in Hard and Human Sciences?.- Some Notes on the Value of Vagueness in Everyday Communication.- On Zadeh's "The Birth and Evolution of Fuzzy Logic".- Complexity and Fuzziness in 20th Century Science and Technology.- Educational Software of Fuzzy Logic and Control.- A Fuzzy Distance between Two Fuzzy Numbers.- On the Jaccard Index with Degree of Optimism in Ranking Fuzzy Numbers.- Negation Functions in the Set of Discrete Fuzzy Numbers.- Trapezoidal Approximation of Fuzzy Numbers Based on Sample Data.- Multiple Products and Implications in Interval-Valued Fuzzy Set Theory.- Fuzzy Ontology and Information Granulation: An Approach to Knowledge Mobilisation.- Adjoint Pairs on Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets.- Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part I: Interval Approach.- Optimistic Arithmetic Operators for Fuzzy and Gradual Intervals - Part II: Fuzzy and Gradual Interval Approach.- Model Assessment Using Inverse Fuzzy Arithmetic.- New Tools in Fuzzy Arithmetic with Fuzzy Numbers.- Application of Gaussian Quadratures in Solving Fuzzy Fredholm Integral Equations.- Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions of Fuzzy Volterra Integro-differential Equations.- Expansion Method for Solving Fuzzy Fredholm-Volterra Integral Equations.- Solving Fuzzy Heat Equation by Fuzzy Laplace Transforms.- A New Approach for Solving First Order Fuzzy Differential Equation.- Soft Computing Applications.- A Comparison Study of Different Color Spaces in Clustering Based Image Segmentation.- Retrieving Texture Images Using Coarseness Fuzzy Partitions.- A Fuzzy Regional-Based Approach for Detecting Cerebrospinal Fluid Regions in Presence of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions.- Probabilistic Scene Models for Image Interpretation.- Motion Segmentation Algorithm for Dynamic Scenes over H.264 Video.- Using Stereo Vision and Fuzzy Systems for Detecting and Tracking People.- Group Anonymity.- Anonymizing Categorical Data with a Recoding Method Based on Semantic Similarity.- Addressing Complexity in a Privacy Expert System.- Privacy-Protected Camera for the Sensing Web.- Bayesian Network-Based Approaches for Severe Attack Prediction and Handling IDSs' Reliability.- Structuring and Presenting the Distributed Sensory Information in the Sensing Web.- Evaluation of Privacy Protection Techniques for Speech Signals.- Digital Diorama: Sensing-Based Real-World Visualization.- Personalizing Public and Privacy-Free Sensing Information with a Personal Digital Assistant.- The Open Data Format and Query System of the Sensing Web.- See-Through Vision: A Visual Augmentation Method for Sensing-Web.- Manufacturing Virtual Sensors at Caterpillar, Inc..- Modelling Low-Carbon UK Energy System Design through 2050 in a Collaboration of Industry and the Public Sector.- A Remark on Adaptive Scheduling of Optimization Algorithms.- An Adaptive Fuzzy Model Predictive Control System for the Textile Fiber Industry.- Methodology for Evaluation of Linked Multidimensional Measurement System with Balanced Scorecard.- Predictive Probabilistic and Possibilistic Models Used for Risk Assessment of SLAs in Grid Computing.