{"title":"Generation of accessible worlds under available information","authors":"T. Murai, M. Nakata, M. Shimbo","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725917","url":null,"abstract":"A way of generating accessible worlds is described. For this purpose, the class of the so-called finite uniform Scott-Montague models is introduced and the properties are investigated as well as their relation with ambiguity and inconsistency. With the class of models, the approach is formulated from the point of view of possible-worlds restriction under available information.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131709427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimal HMM filtering and decision feedback equalisation for differential encoded transmission systems","authors":"J. Ford, J. Moore","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725840","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper conditional hidden Markov model (HMM) filters and conditional Kalman filters (KF) are coupled together to improve demodulation of differential encoded signals in noisy fading channels. We present an indicator matrix representation for differential encoded signals and the optimal HMM filter for demodulation. The filter requires O(N/sup 3/) calculations per time iteration, where N is the number of message symbols. Decision feedback equalisation is investigated via coupling the optimal HMM filter for estimating the message, conditioned on estimates of the channel parameters, and a KF for estimating the channel states, conditioned on soft information message estimates. The particular differential encoding scheme examined in this paper is differential phase shift keying. However, the techniques developed can be extended to other forms of differential modulation. The channel model we use allows for multiplicative channel distortions and additive white Gaussian noise. Simulation studies are also presented.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123241020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decentralized two-level 0-1 programming through genetic algorithms with double strings","authors":"K. Niwa, I. Nishizaki, M. Sakawa","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725923","url":null,"abstract":"We consider two-level programming problems in which there are one decision maker (the leader) at the upper level and two or more decision makers (the followers) at the lower level and decision variables of the leader and the followers are 0-1 variables. We assume that there is coordination among the followers while between the leader and the group of all the followers, there is no motivation to cooperate each other, and fuzzy goals for objective functions of the leader and followers are introduced in order to take fuzziness of their judgments into consideration. The leader maximizes the degree of satisfaction and the followers choose in concert so as to maximize a minimum among their degrees of satisfaction. A computational method, which is based on the genetic algorithms, for obtaining a solution to the above mentioned problem is developed. To demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed algorithm, numerical experiments are carried out.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126206165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Maeda, Masao Kajihara, H. Adachi, Atsushi Sawada, Hideaki Takeda, T. Nishida
{"title":"A system for community information sharing and its evaluation at an international conference","authors":"H. Maeda, Masao Kajihara, H. Adachi, Atsushi Sawada, Hideaki Takeda, T. Nishida","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725877","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the requirements for information sharing in a community. We propose the weak information structures to integrate heterogeneous information such as static information (e.g. local sites information) and dynamic information created in word-of-mouth communication. We have developed a system using the weak information structures for community information sharing called InfoCommon and evaluated it at the ICMAS'96 Mobile Assistant Project.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121658770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fusion of evaluation of possibility production function and DEA by introducing a fuzzy goal","authors":"Y. Uemura","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725860","url":null,"abstract":"Efficiency evaluation for every DMU (decision-making unit) in a company is very important. Efficiency evaluation based on the production function is considered. Loglinear production function (Cobb-Douglas model) has been used. This loglinear model evaluates DMU by measuring the average. DEA (data envelopment analysis) is also suitable, as for example in CCR (Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes) and BCC (Banker-Charnes-Cooper) model, but it does not give the lower limit of the production set, only the upper one. We propose the possibility production function by introducing fuzziness into the loglinear production function. As we try to evaluate the efficiency by this possibility production function, efficiency ratings are obtained for the upper and lower limits. Though DEA and fuzzy loglinear model belong to the evaluating method in the sense of including all DMUs' data, DEA obtains lower limit inputs by the present output, and fuzzy loglinear approach obtains the possibility max output by the present inputs. Making full use of the difference of the two approaches, we try to fuse them by introducing the concept of a fuzzy goal. We propose to construct a fuzzy goal by the evaluating ratings for individual outputs by fuzzy loglinear analysis, and introduce this fuzzy goal into DEA. At all, by this fusion we can cover the important weak point in DEA which often evaluates one output and ignores the other outputs, and we can obtain the satisfactory evaluation ratings which considers possibility outputs from the present inputs.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121487054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CommunityBoard: social meeting system able to visualize the structure of discussions","authors":"S. Matsubara, Takeshi Ohguro, F. Hattori","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725880","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed a social meeting system called CommunityBoard which visually displays the discussion structure. Discussions on networks, e.g., by a mailing list, Usenet newsgroup, or online forum, are becoming more and more popular. However, many people have difficulty following and participating in discussions on networks, and one of the reasons is due to a failure to grasp the context of discussions. Previous tools have been insufficient in helping to avoid this failure. In order to solve this problem, we have developed CommunityBoard. Users can avoid confusion and achieve informative discussion. This system provides one integrated view of discussions from three aspects: the speakers, topics and time. The integrated view enables users to easily obtain various information about these aspects at one glance and this leads to lively and productive discussions. An example illustrates the efficiency of CommunityBoard.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116727260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A clustering algorithm using genetic algorithm with competitive individuals","authors":"H. Dozono, S. Hara, Shinji Kawamoto, Y. Noguchi","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.726013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.726013","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a clustering method for profile data based on a genetic algorithm (GA). The GA can be considered as a flexible algorithm by setting up genetic operations and fitness function according to the problem. We propose the competitive GA considering direct competitions between individuals concerning the representative patterns for clusters. Further, we tried some specific genetic operations for clustering problems. The efficiency of this algorithm was examined in the clustering problem of the fluorescence profiles of chromosomes which are measured by digitizing the fluorescence intensities emitted from slit-scanned chromosomes.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133345259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industrial character reader using human cognitive functions","authors":"S. Hata, D. Torigoe, K. Kaida","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725910","url":null,"abstract":"Industrial characters are printed on products to control the production processes and the qualities in production lines. Dotted characters are frequently used for this purpose. Because of the dotted characters' discontinuity, it is difficult to recognize these characters. A human can read these dotted characters without many problems. To introduce this human ability to read dotted characters, a dotted industrial character reading system has been introduced which consists of many parallel procedures to execute human cognitive functions and model based recognition abilities.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"325 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133407772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling relationships between international equity markets using computational intelligence","authors":"A. Burgess","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725946","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the use of computational intelligence techniques for financial forecasting. The econometric concept of cointegration is used as the basis of a class of \"statistical arbitrage\" models. The simple cointegration models are shown to suffer from mis-specifications and non-stationarities which can be alleviated by the use of computational intelligence techniques.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"5 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131833014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passive ranging using image expansion","authors":"Y. Barniv","doi":"10.1109/KES.1998.725854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KES.1998.725854","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a passive-ranging technique based on image-plane object expansion as its distance to the moving camera decreases. The motion and shape of a small window, assumingly found inside the boundaries of some object, is approximated by an affine transformation. The parameters of the transformation matrix-expansion, rotation, and translation-are derived by comparing successive images, and progressively increasing the image time separation. The increased baseline results in a triangulation accuracy which is much improved compared to that currently achievable. The algorithm's performance on flight data is presented.","PeriodicalId":394492,"journal":{"name":"1998 Second International Conference. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems. Proceedings KES'98 (Cat. No.98EX111)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134118260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}