Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems. Applications [electronic resource] : 13th International Conference, IPMU 2010, Dortmund, Germany, June 28–July 2, 2010. Proceedings, Part II / edited by Eyke Hüllermeier, Rudolf Kruse, Frank Hoffmann.

Data Analysis Applications -- Data-Driven Design of Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems for Predicting NOx Emissions -- Coping with Uncertainty in Temporal Gene Expressions Using Symbolic Representations -- Olive Trees Detection in Very High Resolution Images -- A Fast Recursive Approach to Autonomous Detection, Identification and Tracking of Multiple Objects in Video Streams under Uncertainties -- Soft Concept Hierarchies to Summarise Data Streams and Highlight Anomalous Changes -- Using Enriched Ontology Structure for Improving Statistical Models of Gene Annotation Sets -- Predicting Outcomes of Septic Shock Patients Using Feature Selection Based on Soft Computing Techniques -- Obtaining the Compatibility between Musicians Using Soft Computing -- Consistently Handling Geographical User Data -- Intelligent Databases -- A Model Based on Outranking for Database Preference Queries -- Incremental Membership Function Updates -- A New Approach for Comparing Fuzzy Objects -- Generalized Fuzzy Comparators for Complex Data in a Fuzzy Object-Relational Database Management System -- The Bipolar Semantics of Querying Null Values in Regular and Fuzzy Databases -- Describing Fuzzy DB Schemas as Ontologies: A System Architecture View -- Using Textual Dimensions in Data Warehousing Processes -- Information Fusion -- Uncertainty Estimation in the Fusion of Text-Based Information for Situation Awareness -- Aggregation of Partly Inconsistent Preference Information -- Risk Neutral Valuations Based on Partial Probabilistic Information -- A New Contextual Discounting Rule for Lower Probabilities -- The Power Average Operator for Information Fusion -- Performance Comparison of Fusion Operators in Bimodal Remote Sensing Snow Detection -- Color Recognition Enhancement by Fuzzy Merging -- Towards a New Generation of Indicators for Consensus Reaching Support Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets -- Decision Support -- Multiagent Decision Making, Fuzzy Prevision, and Consensus -- A Categorical Approach to the Extension of Social Choice 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.