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IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Negotiation as Creative Social Interaction Using Concept Hierarchies
Negotiation is a process that ranges from international issues to common society interactions. We present approaches to facilitate the process by exploring alternative spaces for t...
Frederick E. Petry, Ronald R. Yager
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Attribute Value Selection Considering the Minimum Description Length Approach and Feature Granularity
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a new approach to automatic attribute and granularity selection for building optimum regression trees. The method is based on the minimum descr...
Kemal Ince, Frank Klawonn
IPMU
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Keeping Secrets in Possibilistic Knowledge Bases with Necessity-Valued Privacy Policies
Controlled Query Evaluation (CQE) is a logical framework for the protection of secrets in databases. In this article, we extend the CQE framework to possibilistic logic: knowledge ...
Lena Wiese
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Evidential Combination of Multiple HMM Classifiers for Multi-script Handwritting Recognition
In this work, we focus on an improvement of a multi-script handwritting recognition system using a HMM based classifiers combination. The improvement relies on the use of Dempster-...
Yousri Kessentini, Thomas Burger, Thierry Paquet
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using Uncertainty Information to Combine Soft Classifications
The classification of remote sensing images performed with different classifiers usually produces different results. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the outputs of ...
Luisa M. S. Gonçalves, Cidália C. Fo...
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On Nonparametric Predictive Inference for Ordinal Data
Abstract. Nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) is a powerful frequentist statistical framework based only on an exchangeability assumption for future and past observations, mad...
Frank P. A. Coolen, Pauline Coolen-Schrijner, Taha...
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Link Prediction Problem in Bipartite Networks
We define and study the link prediction problem in bipartite networks, specializing general link prediction algorithms to the bipartite case. In a graph, a link prediction functio...
Jérôme Kunegis, Ernesto William De Lu...
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On Elementary Extensions in Fuzzy Predicate Logics
Our work is a contribution to the model-theoretic study of equality-free fuzzy predicate logics. We give a characterization of elementary equivalence in fuzzy predicate logics usin...
Pilar Dellunde, Francesc Esteva
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Credal Sets Approximation by Lower Probabilities: Application to Credal Networks
Abstract. Credal sets are closed convex sets of probability mass functions. The lower probabilities specified by a credal set for each element of the power set can be used as cons...
Alessandro Antonucci, Fabio Cuzzolin
IPMU
2010
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Short-Time Prediction Based on Recognition of Fuzzy Time Series Patterns
This article proposes knowledge-based short-time prediction methods for multivariate streaming time series, relying on the early recognition of local patterns. A parametric, well-i...
Gernot Herbst, Steffen F. Bocklisch