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INFORMATION SCIENCES 2007
Proceedings of the 10th Joint Conference

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 18 - 24 July 2007


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
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Invited Papers
THERMODYNAMIC MODEL OF INFORMATION PROCESSING IN BRAIN DYNAMICS
WALTER J FREEMAN
1
RESEMBLANCE, PERCEPTION, ANALOGY
BERNADETTE BOUCHON-MEUNIER
9
UPDATING BINDING MOAD — DATA MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION WORKFLOW
MARK L. BENSON, RICHARD D. SMITH, NICKOLAY A. KHAZANOV, HEATHER A. CARLSON, BRANDON DIMCHEFF and PETER DRESSLAR
14
DATA MINING APPLICATION FOR TIME-SERIES DATA
KATSUTOSHI YADA
21
Medical Differential Diagnosis from the Viewpoint of Rough Sets
Shusaku Tsumoto
28
SCENARIO MAPS FOR CHANCE DISCOVERY: TOOLS FOR DATA BASED DECISION
YUKIO OHSAWA
35
Workshop Papers
THE VISUAL SYSTEM: A "CHICKEN AND EGG" PROBLEM SOLVED
H. JOHN CAULFIELD and ANDREW R. PARKER
49
DYNAMIC LOGIC AND NEURODYNAMICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
LEONID I. PERLOVSKY
57
DYNAMIC INTERACTION NETWORKS FOR MODELLING AND DISCOVERY OF BRAIN DYNAMICS AT DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL LEVELS
NIKOLA KASABOV
64
NEURODYNAMICS IN AUDTIORY CATEGORY LEARNING
FRANK W. OHL
67
Of Tapestries, Ponds and RAIN: Toward Mesoscopic Neurodynamics on Excitable Media
René Doursat
73
PHASE TRANSITION IN BRAINS – ARE THEY REAL AND WHAT IS THEIR ROLE IN INTELLIGENCE?
ROBERT KOZMA
74
BRAIN OPERATIONAL SPACE-TIME AND OPERATIONAL MODULES
ANDREW A. FINGELKURTS, ALEXANDER A. FINGELKURTS and CARLOS F.H. NEVES
82
YINYANG BIPOLAR UNIVERSAL MODUS PONENS (BUMP) – A FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF NON-LINEAR BRAIN DYNAMICS FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
WEN-RAN ZHANG
89
7th Atlantic Symposium on Computational Biology & Genome Informatics (CBGI)
CBGI-I
Iterative Learning with Feature Update for Extracting Sentences Containing Protein Function Information
Kazunori Miyanishi, Masaaki Takeuchi, Tomonobu Ozaki and Takenao Ohkawa
96
Extraction of functional sites by iterative computation of protein-protein similarity by using important local structures and interaction networks
Keisuke Imada, Yoshiki Miwa, Tomonobu Ozaki and Takenao Ohkawa
103
DISCOVERING MAXIMIZED PROGRESSIVE HIGH-ORDER PATTERNS IN BIOSEQUENCES
THOMAS W.H. LUI and DAVID K.Y. CHIU
110
ENHANCED MUTUAL CORRELATION OF SECONDARY STRUCTURE ELEMENTS FOR MULTIPLE STRUCTURE ALIGNMENT
RUEI-HSIANG CHANG, LEE-JYI WANG, JIAN-MING CHEN and TUN-WEN PAI
116
CBGI-II
IDENTIFYING CORRELATIONS BETWEEN GENES AND TRANSCRIPTION CO-FACTORS USING GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES
AMITAVA KARMAKER, EDWARD A. SALINAS, STEPHEN E. HARRIS and STEPHEN KWEK
123
GENETIC CORRELATION ANALYSIS IN HUMAN LEUKEMIA DISEASE USING BAYESIAN FACTOR
LINGCHU YU, PAUL Y. CAO, ALADE TOKUTA and PAUL P. WANG
130
DESIGN OF A NANO-IMU WITH CHEMICAL RECORDING
MARIA E. TANNER and JONATHAN M. PROTZ
137
FUZZY CAUSAL MAPPING (F-CMAP) - A PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP A NEW SYSTEMS BIOLOGY TOOL
GABRIEL WEINREB and YINGJUN CAO
144
2nd International Workshop on Chance Discovery & Data Mining (CDDM)
CDDM-I
Contingency Matrix Theory I – Statistical Independence and Rank
Shusaku Tsumoto
157
Risk Mining
Shusaku Tsumoto
164
Evaluation of Learning Algorithms to Construct Valid Rule Evaluation Models Based on Objective Indices
Hidenao Abe, Shusaku Tsumoto, Miho Ohsaki and Takahira Yamaguchi
171
CDDM-II
BUSINESS APPLICATION OF SEQUENCE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE IN THE SUPERMARKET
KATSUTOSHI YADA
178
COMPLETENESS OF INFERENCE AND EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF ATTRIBUTE-DEPENDENCY FORMULAS FOR TABULAR DATA
R. BELOHLAVEK and V. VYCHODIL
183
EFFICIENT SUPPORT COUNTING OF CANDIDATE ITEMSETS FOR ASSOCIATION RULE MINING
HSIN-WEI LIN, DON-LIN YANG, WEI-CHENG LIAO and JUNGPIN WU
190
RESTORING MISSING NETWORK NODES FEATURING IN RELEVANCE-TO-VISIBILITY RATIO
YOSHIHARU MAENO, YUKIO OHSAWA and TAKAICHI ITO
197
A SEMI-AUTOMATIC FITNESS ASSIGNMENT APPROACH FOR DESIGNING PRODUCTS WITH INTERACTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS
FANG-CHENG HSU, TZONG-HENG CHI and REUAY-CHING PAN
204
CDDM-III
SEARCH ENGINE WITH TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION
MANABU SUZUKI and LUKAS PICHL
211
SCENARIO PLANNING DERIVES FROM VALUE BASED INTERACTIVE PROCESSING FRAMEWORK
CHAO-FU HONG, MENG-YUAN SUNG, FANG-CHENG HSU, LEUO-HONG WANG and YAN-RU LI
217
RFID TAGS WITHOUT CUSTOMER ID WORK FOR CHANCE DISCOVERY
YUKIO OHSAWA, TAKUMA HOSODA, TAKESHI UI, MISATO UEDA and HIROFUMI TANAKA
224
6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Economics & Finance (CIEF)
CIEF-I: Hybrid Models and Systems
AN APPLICATION OF CREDIT RISK CLASSIFICATION THROUGH INVERTED HIERARCHICAL NEURO-FUZZY BSP SYSTEMS IN A BRAZILIAN BANK
MARCELO FRANÇA CORRÊA, MARLEY VELLASCO and RICARDO TANSCHEIT
233
STUDY ON NEW HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK
WEI GAO
240
USING WAVELET DECOMPOSED ANALYSIS IN NEURAL NETWORKS TO FORECAST EURO EXCHANGE RATE
JUI-FANG CHANG and MEI-JUNG CHIEN
247
CIEF-II: Behavioral Finance
RELATION BETWEEN INVESTORS' BEHAVIORAL BIAS AND THE USEFULNESS OF TRADING VOLUME
KOTARO MIWA and KAZUHIRO UEDA
254
APPLYING SEM TO EXAMINE THE INFORMATION ASYMMETRY IN TAIWANESE SERVICE BANKING
HSIU-CHEN CHANG, GOW-LIANG HUANG and CHANG-HSI YU
267
CIEF-III: Artificial Neural Network
Estimating the Conditional Density of Returns Based on Neural Network
Qianru Li, Christopher Fawson, Christophe Tricaud and Yangquan Chen
274
THE IMPACT OF BOND RATING ANNOUNCEMENTS ON DAILY US CORPORATE STOCKS RETURNS: AN EVENT STUDY USING NEURAL NETWORKS APPROACH
MEIR REFAEL
281
A Constructive Learning Procedure
RAY TSAIH
288
CIEF-IV: Financial Data Forecasting and Analysis (1)
MEASURING CASHFLOW-AT-RISK FOR NON-FINANCIAL FIRMS IN TAIWAN
MENG-FEN HSIEH, JIANG-FA LI, KUANG-HUA HSU and I-CHIEH TSEN
295
Establishment Forecasting Enterprise Financial Distress Model using Rough Fuzzy ANN Method
Min-Chang Lee, Jui-Fang Chan and Jung-Fang Chen
302
THE CHAOS PHENOMENA IN AN ANTICIPATED MARKET
CHIH-WEI LEE and CHENG-KUN KUO
309
CIEF-V: Manuel Graña
GLOBAL CYCLE LIMIT OF COUPLED ITERATIVE SYSTEMS
TOMOHIRO NAKAJIMA and LUKAS PICHL
316
Semicontinuity of the Solution mapping of ∊-Vector Equilibrium Problem
Yeong-Cheng Liou
323
THE EFFECTS OF LIBERALIZATION OF THE TRADING OF RICE TOWARDS FACTOR DEMAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: THE CASE OF CHINA
Chang-Hsing Chang
330
CIEF-VI: Special session: Fuzzy Management and Decision
A FUZZY RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL FOR ONLINE GAME COMPANY TO CHOOSE GAME SOFTWARE SUPPLIER AS A STRATEGIC ALLIANCES PARTNER: A CASE OF TAIWAN
Yang-Cheng Lu, Yaw-Chu Chen and Kuei-Lun Chang
341
FUZZY AGREEMENT FOR NETWORK SERVICE CONTRACTS
Davide Bacciu, Leonardo Badia and Alessio Botta
349
A ONE-TO-MANY DYNAMIC NEGOTIATION STRATEGY MODEL BASED ON FUZZY THEORY
PING-WEN CHEN, TING-KAI HWANG and YUNG-MING LI
356
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR STOCK INVESTMENT USING A HYBRID MODEL OF NEURAL NETWORK AND FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM
GUO-HUA HUANG, CHE-CHERN LIN and SHING-HWANG DOONG
363
APPLYING FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION METHOD TO SELECT PRICING STRATEGY OF TAIWAN ONLINE GAME INDUSTRY
Yaw-Chu Chen, Chih-Hung Yang and Kuei-Lun Chang
369
CIEF-VII: Special session: Fuzzy Management and Decision
PROBLEM LOANS AND BANK EFFICIENCIES: A QUANTILE REGRESSION ANALYSIS
CHUANG-MIN CHAO and HSIAO-CHIH LIN
376
THE BEST OVERSAMPLING PROPORTION AND VARIABLES SELECTION PROCEDURE IN THE PREDICTIVE MODEL OF PROBABILITY OF DEFAULT OF PERSONAL CONSUMER LOANS
TE-HSIN LIANG, JIAN-BANG LIN and JIA-JIA LIAO
383
A STUDY ON ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS WITH APPLICATION TO STOCK INVESTMENT USING MIXED MODEL OF TECHNICAL INDICES AND VOLUME INFORMATION
WEI-SHENG LEE and CHE-CHERN LIN
390
A STUDY OF MEDICAL EFFICIENCY AND MEDICAL FINANCIAL COST MANAGEMENT: AN EXAMPLE ON THE INTEGRATION WITH THE DIVISIBLE NUMBER VISUAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
SHUO-FEN HSU, CHIH-MING KUNG, YU-HUA YAN and SHIH-CHIEH FANG
397
CIEF-VIII: Agent-based Computational Economics (1)
A MULTI-AGENT-BASED ARCHITECTURE FOR ENTERPRISE CUSTOMER AND SUPPLIER COOPERATION CONTEXT-AWARE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS
XIANG LIU
404
ATTRACTION AND COOPERATION IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS
ELPIDA TZAFESTAS
411
Introducing a new job contract into the Labor Market: An agent-based computational approach
Zach Lewkovicz and Jean-Daniel Kant
418
CIEF-IX: Financial Data Forecasting and Analysis (2)
STATE SPACE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONAL ECONOMIES: THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES
IGOR PODLUBNY, TOMAS SKOVRANEK, DAGMAR BEDNAROVA and IVO PETRAS
425
A DATA MINING APPROACH TO THE PREDICTION OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS OF CHINESE LISTED COMPANIES
XINPING SONG, YU LUO and YONGSHENG DING
432
MODELING PERSISTENCE, ASYMMETRY, AND DYNAMIC CORRELATIONS IN EXCHANGE RATES: NUMERAIRE CURRENCIES DO MATTER
KIN-YIP HO
438
SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS IN HIGH FREQUENCY TIME-SERIES DATA
TING YU, LONGBING CAO, YUMING OU and CHENGQI ZHANG
445
CIEF-X: Genetic Algorithms
A SIMULATED EVOLUTION COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
LI TONG and LI LI
452
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT BY GENETIC ALGORITHMS WITH ERROR MODELING
C. ARANHA and H. IBA
459
INDEX FUND OPTIMIZATION USING A STANDARD GENETIC ALGORITHM AND A HEURISTIC LOCAL SEARCH
YUKIKO ORITO, MANABU TAKEDA and HISASHI YAMAMOTO
466
STRATEGY PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION USING COMBINATION GA
JIAH-SHING CHEN, JIA-LI HOU and SHIH-MIN WU
473
CIEF-XI: Special session: Innovative Computing on Finance (2)
FORECASTING OF VALUE AT RISK BY USING PERCENTILE OF CLUSTER METHOD
HAE-CHING CHANG, CHENG-TE CHEN and CHIN-SHAN HSIEH
480
A SEMI-SUPERVISED BAYESIAN CLUSTERING WITH AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL BASED FOR TIME SERIES DATA
TSAIR-CHUAN LIN
487
CIEF-XII: Trading Strategies
ARBITRAGE AMONG EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS: AN APPLICATION OF COINTEGRATION
MING-HUA CHIEN
494
Entropy Rate and Profitability of Technical Analysis: Experiments on the NYSE US 100 Stocks
Nicolas NAVET and Shu-Heng CHEN
501
Assessing the Risk and Return of Financial Trading Systems - a Large Deviation Approach
Nicolas NAVET and René SCHOTT
508
DAY-TRADING RULES DEVELOPMENT BY GENETIC PROGRAMMING
C. ARANHA, O. KASAI, U. UCHIDE and H. IBA
515
CIEF-XIII: Agent-based Computational Economics (2)
MODEL OF HETEROGENEOUS MARKET WITH INTRINSIC RANDOMNESS
YUYING GAO and GERARDO BENI
522
PRIVACY IN A MULTI-STAGE GAME – AN EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING APPROACH
SUMIT JOSHI, YU-AN SUN and POORVI VORA
529
EVOLUTION OF VOTERS PREFERENCES AND PARTY LEARNING
JIE-SHIN LIN
536
CIEF-XIV: Portfolio Management and Derivative Pricing
Optimal Annuity Planning under Uncertain Lifetime
Zhisheng Li and Aparna Gupta
543
VALUATION OF A CDO USING COPULAS
GOW-HSING KING, YUYO LAI and YUH-DAUH LYUU
550
THE ANALYSIS OF A VARIABLE DEFAULT BOUNDARY TO THE PRICING OF VULNERABLE EUROPEAN OPTIONS
CHIH-YAO LO, YU-TENG CHANG and PIN-CHANG CHEN
557
PRICING ASIAN OPTIONS WITH CORRELATED CREDIT RISK
CHUEH-YUNG TSAO and CHAO-CHING LIU
564
OPERATIONALLY EFFICIENT FRAMEWORK FOR THE DISCOVERY OF MARKET-NEUTRAL PORTFOLIO STRATEGIES BASED ON COMBINATION OF BOOSTING AND MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION
VALERIY V. GAVRISHCHAKA, NIKOLAI HLEBNIKOV and VALERY BYKOV
571
CIEF-XV: Financial Time series Forecasting by Artificial Neural Network
EURO/USD CURRENCY OPTION VALUATION COMBINING TWO ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS AND THREE VOLATILITIES
JOHN WEI-SHAN HU and CHUN-HUNG CHANG
578
MYOPIC LEARNING STRATEGY FOR NEURODYNAMIC TIME SERIES PREDICTION
CHIU-CHE TSENG
585
Studying the Effect that a Linear Transformation has on the Time-Series Prediction Ability of an Evolutionary Neural Network
JANE BINNER, QUN BO CHEN and GRAHAM KENDALL
592
CIEF-XVI: Special session: Security of Intelligent Agents
NON-REPUDIATED AGENT BASED MOBILE PAYMENT SYSTEMS VIA PROXY CERTIFICATES MECHANISM
CHUNG-MING OU
601
ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC) MECHANISM WITH ATTRIBUTE CERTIFICATES FOR MOBILE AGENT SYSTEMS
CHUNG-MING OU and C.R. OU
608
CIEF-XVIII: Evolutionary Computation and Applications
A STUDY ON THE APPLICATION OF THE ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ON THE VAN POOL PROBLEM
HSIEN-MING CHIU and SHU-FANG YANG
615
A STUDY OF APPLYING GHSOM ON EXPERTISE MANAGEMENT
JEN-YING SHIH
621
APPLYING GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO IMPROVE FORECASTING BY GAUSSIAN PROCESSES
TZAI-DER WANG and COLIN FYFE
628
10th International Conference on Computer Science & Informatics (CSI)
CSI-0: AI and Computer Game Playing
BEST PLAY IN FANORONA LEADS TO DRAW
MAARTEN P.D. SCHADD, MARK H.M. WINANDS, JOS W.H.M. UITERWIJK, H. JAAP VAN DEN HERIK and MAURICE H.J. BERGSMA
635
Enhanced Realization Probability Search
MARK H.M. WINANDS and YNGVI BJÖRNSSON
643
REFINEMENT AND COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF CHESS
A. CINCOTTI, H. IIDA and J. YOSHIMURA
650
PROGRESSIVE STRATEGIES FOR MONTE-CARLO TREE SEARCH
G.M.J.B. CHASLOT, M.H.M. WINANDS, J.W.H.M. UITERWIJK, H.J. VAN DEN HERIK and B. BOUZY
655
MONTE-CARLO GO TACTIC SEARCH
PEIGANG ZHANG and KEH-HSUN CHEN
662
CSI-I: Pervasive Computing & Communications
AN ONTOLOGICAL PROXY AGENT FOR WEB INFORMATION PROCESSING
SHENG-YUAN YANG
671
LIGHTWEIGHT RTPS MIDDLEWARE FOR DISTRIBUTED SCADA SYSTEM
LING ZHANG, YONG SUN and MING ZHANG
678
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPLIT-MERGE TREE ALGORITHMS FOR ANTI-COLLISION IN RFID SYSTEMS
BIH-YAW SHIH, WAN-I LEE and TA-WEI LO
686
CSI-II: Pervasive Computing & Communications
MOBILE DATABASE SYSTEM FOR JAVA PHONES
WEN-YEN WANG and CHUAN-WEN CHIANG
692
PRIORITY-BASED NETWORK QUALITY OF SERVICE
ANIMESH DALAKOTI, NINA PICONE, BEHROOZ A. SHIRAZ, WEN-ZHAN SONG and ALI HURSON
699
Self-Organising Wireless Backbone System for Pervasive Communities
Heiko Kopp, Martin Krohn and Djamshid Tavangarian
706
CSI-III: Graph Theory and Applications
CONNECT-THE-DOTS IN A GRAPH AND BUFFON'S NEEDLE ON A CHESSBOARD: TWO PROBLEMS IN ASSISTED NAVIGATION
MINGHUI JIANG and VLADIMIR KULYUKIN
713
FLOORPLAN BINARY TREE: A CANONICAL REPRESENTATION FOR FLOORPLAN
CHIA-PIN R. LIU
720
CSI-IV: Graph Theory and Applications
On-Line Construction of a Minimal Elimination Tree of a Tree
Sheng-Lung Peng, Mu-Yin Chi and Jhu-Jyun Kang
727
DOUBLE DOMINATION ON WEIGHTED GRAPHS
ABNER CHIH-YI HUANG, WILLIAM CHUNG-KUNG YEN and CHUAN-YI TANG
734
CSI-V: VLSI Design Automation and Hardware Design/Test
ON HANDLING OF INCREMENTAL FLOORPLANNING FOR 3D ICS
YUCHUN MA, XIN LI, XIANLONG HONG and SHEQIN DONG
741
SUBSTRATE NOISE DRIVEN FLOORPLANNING FOR MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT CONSIDERING SYMMETRY CONSTRAINT
JIAYI LIU, SHEQIN DONG, DI LONG, YUCHUN MA and XIANLONG HONG
748
ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR VLSI FLOORPLANNING WITH CLUSTERING CONSTRAINT
CHUAN-WEN CHIANG
755
CSI-VI: Software and Applications
REUSE – WHAT HAS CHANGED IN FIFTEEN YEARS?
RONALD J. LEACH
762
ANALYST-USER DIVERGENCE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY UNDER IQA APPROACH
CHWEN-YEA LIN, KWO-TING FANG, SU-SUI LIN and KUO-HIEN HUANG
769
ASSOCIATE WALKING PROBLEM WITH MOVEMENT PATTERNS
CHIU-CHE TSENG
776
CSI-VII: Networking and Distributed Systems
ON READABILITY CATEGORIZATION OF JAPANESE TEXT
JOE NARITA and LUKAS PICHL
783
HIERARCHY KEYWORD SEARCH IN AN XML DOCUMENT
JEANG-KUO CHEN and JEN-PENG HSU
790
FEATURE DISCREIZATION BY SUPPORT VECTOR CLUSTERING
BRESLEY LIM, XIANG LI, JING BING ZHANG and DAMING SHI
797
BI-DIRECTIONAL, SPEECH-FUNCTIONAL, REAL-TIME AUTOMATIC MANAGEMENT CONTROL-SYSTEM OF NURSING CENTER IN HOSPITAL WARDS
CHUN-LIANG HSU
804
A PERSONALIZED SERVICE ARCHITECTURE BASED ON DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING – RETURN CHANNEL TERRESTRIAL (DVB-RCT) SYSTEM
YU-CHENG CHEN, YOU-SHENG LIU and YUEH-MIN HUANG
811
8th International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition & Image Processing (CVPRIP)
CVPRIP-I
FUZZY MARKOV RANDOM FIELD IMAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM AND COMPARATIVE STUDY
LIMING HU, H. D. CHENG and XIANGJUN SHI
818
FUZZY WATERSHED METHOD FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION
MING ZHANG, LING ZHANG and H. D. CHENG
825
AN AUTOMATIC METHOD FOR CONTOUR DETECTION OF BREAST LESIONS FROM ULTRASOUND IMAGES
XIAOFANG LIU and DANSONG CHENG
833
Active Appearance Model Construction: Implementation notes
Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, Wilfried Philips and Aleksandra Pizurica
840
CVPRIP-II
SHAPE SELECTION BY THE SEGMENTATION OF BOUNDARY INTO LINES AND CURVES
YUAN-FEI CHENG
847
DISCRIMINATION OF OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS USING FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
WEN JU, JUAN SHAN, CHANGHUI YAN and H. D. CHENG
854
DESCRIMINATION OF DISEASE-RELATED NON-SYNONYMOUS SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM USING FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
JUAN SHAN, WEN JU, CHANGHUI YAN and H. D. CHENG
861
A NOVEL DOMINANT COLOR DESCRIPTOR AND ITS APPLICATIONS
RUI MIN and H. D. CHENG
868
CVPRIP-III
Inversion detection in English text documents A new approach
ALI YOUSEFI and HAMID PILEVAR
875
A STRUCTURAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD IN TEXT DOCUMENT IMAGES
Hamid Pilevar
881
DETERMINING THE SKEW AND SCALE IN IMAGES OF COMPTON-WOLLAN-BENNETT IONIZATION CHAMBER RECORDINGS
G. R. DREVIN, H. MORAAL and K. G. MCCRACKEN
888
A COMPARISON BETWEEN 2D AND 3D HURST OPERATORS FOR ANALYZING VOLUMETRIC DATA
MOTOFUMI T. SUZUKI and YOSHITOMO YAGINUMA
895
CVPRIP-IV
PART-LEVEL 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM
WEIWEI XING, WEIBIN LIU and BAOZONG YUAN
902
THE ALGORITHM OF IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON REAL-TIME DYNAMIC SCENE
X. S. YU and X. L. TANG
909
ADAPTIVE BACKGROUND MIXTURE MODEL AND SHADOW REMOVAL FOR TRAFFIC IMAGES
ZHONGLI WANG and XIANGLONG TANG
916
Face Cyclographs for Recognition
Guodong Guo and Charles R. Dyer
923
CVPRIP-V
AN IMPROVED APPROACH FOR VEHICLE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
YUXUAN WANG, H. D. CHENG and CHRIS GLAZIER
930
A NON-INTRUSIVE APPROACH TO GAZE ESTIMATION
STEPHEN BIALKOWSKI, ZEB JONHSON, KATHRYN MORGAN, XIAOJUN QI and DONALD H. COOLEY
937
DYNAMIC GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR PROVIDING ARTIFICIAL VOCAL ABILITY TO THE DUMB
ARVIND RAMANA and SUBRAMANIAN SWAMINATHAN
944
AN ADAPTIVE LEARNING MODEL FOR SHADOW REMOVING IN A SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
YINGHUA HE and KUNLONG ZHANG
950
A NEW METHOD FOR ATHLETE POSE MEASUREMENT IN MONOCULAR VIDEO
YUBO LI, XIANGLONG TANG, JIAFENG LIU and WEI ZHAO
957
CVPRIP-VI
APPLICATION OF APPROXIMATION AND INTERPOLATION METHODS FOR THE RECONSTITUTION OF MISSING DATA IN PIXEL-LINES IMAGE FILES
FATEN BEN HASSINE
966
SPORTS IMAGE CLASSIFICATION BASED ON HIERARCHICHAL MULTI-SVM BAGGING NETWORK
RONGRONG JI, HONGXUN YAO, PENGFEI XU and ZHEN ZHANG
973
USING PINNED TRANSFORMS TO REDUCE GIBBS'S PHENOMENON ERROR
G. R. DREVIN
980
IMAGE PIXEL-FUSION FOR REMOTELY-SENSED IMAGERY USING WAVELET AND PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
CLYDE SHAVERS and ROBERT LI
987
CVPRIP-VII
PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE A SOFT COMPUTING TOOL FOR DENOISING IMAGES
VIDYA SAGAR CHINTAKINDI, SHYAM S. PATTNAIK, SWAPNA DEVI, G. V. R. S. SASTRY, P. K. PATRA, O. P. BAJPAI and MALAY DUTTA
995
HIGHER TRANSPARENCY DIGITAL IMAGE WATERMARKING BY TCHEBICHEF MOMENTS
S. M. ELSHOURA and D. B. MEGHERBI
1002
IMAGE RETRIEVAL BASED ON RELEVANCE FEEDBACK USING FUZZY SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
RUI MIN and H. D. CHENG
1009
EXPLOITING IMAGE ANNOTATION AND KEYWORD RETRIEVAL LOGS FOR CBIR, FROM KEYWORD CATEGORIZATION ASPECT
RONGRONG JI, HONGXUN YAO, JICHENG WANG, ZHEN ZHANG and PENGFEI XU
1016
12th International Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology (FTT)
FTT-I
EVALUATING AUTO-ID SYSTEMS USING FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHICAL PROCESS
ALP USTUNDAG, EMRE CEVIKCAN and SELCUK CEBI
1023
MODELLING FUZZY COGNITIVE MAP BY ELECTRICAL AND CHEMICAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS
GERMANO RESCONI
1029
A DESIGN APPROACH TO CREATE MIXED SHOP LAYOUTS
ORHAN FEYZİOĞLU and ERDEM ZENGIN
1036
THE TOPSIS METHOD WITH INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SETS
TING-YU CHEN and CHUEH-YUNG TSAO
1043
A FUZZY APPROACH TO MULTICRITERIA MULTIFACILITY LOCATION PROBLEMS
MAHDI BASHIRI and SEYED JAVAD HOSSEINI NEZHAD
1050
FTT-II
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY TOPSIS METHOD ON DISTANCE MEASURES
TING-YU CHEN and CHUEH-YUNG TSAO
1057
FUZZY MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TOOLS
ORHAN FEYZIOĞLU and GÜLÇIN BÜYÜKÖZKAN
1064
VARIATION OF INTERVAL-VALUED COEFFICIENTS IN INTERVAL LINEAR PROGRAMMING
LUN YU, MINGZHI CHEN and SHUILI CHEN
1069
FUZZY LOGIC FOR DISTRIBUTION FEEDER MODELING AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM CALCULATIONS
Shyi-Wen Wang
1076
FTT-III
MODELLING NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES USING FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS
GÜLÇIN BÜYÜKÖZKAN
1083
ANALYZING DEMAND VARIABILITY THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN USING FUZZY REGRESSION AND GREY GM(1,1) FORECASTING MODELS
HAKAN TOZAN and OZALP VAYVAY
1088
THE APPLICATION OF FUZZY MULTIPLE CRITERIA TO ASSESS THE SELECTION OF SUPPLIERS FROM DEALERS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF PLASTICS INDUSTRY
JAO-HONG CHENG, CHEN-YU LEE, CHI-YU SHU and ZHISHENG CHEN
1094
IMPORTANCE OF THE RANKING METHOD USED IN FUZZY MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING
DILEK KAPTANOGLU
1101
FTT-IV
A FRAMEWORK TO EVALUATE E-LEARNING PRODUCTS: A CASE STUDY IN TURKEY
S. EMRE ALPTEKİN and ETHEM TOLGA
1108
A FUZZY APPROACH FOR PARALLEL MACHINE SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AND ITS APPLICATION IN AN ENGINE VALVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS
O. ENGIN, Ş. GÖZEN and C. KAHRAMAN
1115
THE ASSESMENT OF CANDIDATE FOR NURSE POSITION VIA FUZZY TOPSIS
EMRE CEVIKCAN, SELCUK CEBI and IHSAN KAYA
1120
A MODEL FOR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT OF CRM USING FUZZY ANALYTICAL HIERARCY PROCESS SCORING
BAŞAR ÖZTAYŞİ, MEHMET SERDAR KILINÇ and AHMET FAHRI ÖZOK
1125
FTT-V
LINGUISTIC SENSORY EVALUATION MODEL IN MULTIGRANULAR LINGUISTIC CONTEXTS
L. MARTÍNEZ, M. ESPINILLA and L. G. PÉREZ
1130
FUZZY CONTROL ANALYSIS FOR A SELF-SUSTAINING BICYCLE
YING-JEN CHEN and WEN-JUNE WANG
1137
FUZZY LOGIC BASED LINEAR INTERPOLATION METHODS IN IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION
HSIANG-CHIEH CHEN and WEN-JUNE WANG
1144
0-1 FUZZY GOAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO MULTIOBJECTIVE WASTE PAPER COLLECTION METHOD SELECTION
ZIYA ULUKAN and YESIM KOP
1151
FTT-VI
A WEB-BASED E-COMMERCE SYSTEM BASED ON INTELLIGENT AGENT AND CASE BASED REASONING
WALAA H. AL-ASHMAWAY, A.B. EL-SISI, HAMED M. NASSAR and NABIL A. ISMAIL
1158
A MAX–MIN ANT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-MODE RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED PROJECT SCHEDULING
CHUAN-WEN CHIANG, YU-QING HUANG and WEN-YEN WANG
1165
ADAPTIVE LEARNING OF ASSIMILATION AND ACCOMMODATION FOR INTELLIGENT AGENT SYSTEM
JONG YIH KUO and KAI CHUN CHANG
1172
FTT-VII
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING BASED GUI TO EVALUATE PARTIAL SUPERVISION EFFECTS ON PROTOTYPES SPATIAL LOCALIZATION IN FUZZY CLUSTERING
ALBERTO AMATO, VINCENZO DI LECCE and WITOLD PEDRYCZ
1179
Estimating Null Values in Relational Database Systems with Fuzzy Genetic Algorithms
Meng-Ying Chou, Chi-Hua Wang and Chin-Tzong Pang
1186
NEW ENTROPY CLUSTERING ANALYSIS METHOD BASED ON ADAPTIVE LEARNING
CHING-HSUE CHENG and LIANG-YING WEI
1196
COMPARISON ON UNIVERSAL APPROXIMATION OF FUZZY SYSTEMS WITH π AND TRIANGLE MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS
XIANYAN ZHANG and NAIYAO ZHANG
1203
FTT-VIII
ON CONSTRUCTION OF MRAP-SEQUENCES
R. BELOHLAVEK and V. VYCHODIL
1210
MULTIVALUED DEPENDENCIES IN VAGUE RELATIONAL DATABASES
FAXIN ZHAO and Z. M. MA
1217
A VISION-BASED FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR THE BACKING-UP SYSTEM
WEI-CHENG WANG and RONGSHUN CHEN
1224
FTT-IX
DATA SELECTION BASED ON FUZZY CLUSTERING
DONGHAI GUAN, WEIWEI YUAN, YOUNG-KOO LEE, ANDREY GAVRILOV and SUNGYOUNG LEE
1231
IMPROVED INTERVAL VALUED FUZZY REASONING WITH EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING
ASLI ÇELIKYILMAZ and I. BURHAN TÜRKŞEN
1238
FTT-X
H-Vague Groups
Kiran R. Bhutani and John N. Mordeson
1245
CHARACTERIZATIONS OF L-EXTREMALLY DISCONNECTED SPACES
Ji-Shu Cheng and Shui-Li Chen
1252
FTT-XI
RISK EVALUATION OF AN ERP PROJECT USING FUZZY EXTENDED AHP
ECE ÜNLÜYILDIZ and H. ZIYA ULUKAN
1259
LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BY USING FUZZY METRIC DISTANCE METHOD
YILDIZ ESRA ALBAYRAK and YASEMIN CLAIRE ERENSAL
1266
FTT-XII
IMPROVING PERFORMANCE CMAC WITH GBF
HUNG-CHING LU and CHENG-HUNG TSAI
1273
GENERAL FUZZY REGRESSION USING LEAST SQUARES METHOD
SEUNG HOE CHOI and JIN HEE YOON
1280
ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER WITH FUZZY HUMAN RATING FEEDBACK
H. CHRIS TSENG and THIEN-ANH PHAM
1285
AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO FIND THE SET OF K-SPANNING TREES WITH LOWEST COSTS IN GRAPHS WITH FUZZY PARAMETERS
TIAGO A. ALMEIDA and AKEBO YAMAKAMI
1292
FTT-XIII
MULTI-ATTRIBUTE GROUP DECISION MAKING ON REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT UNDER FUZZY ENVIRONMENT
SELÇUK ÇEBİ
1299
SELECTION OF AN ERP SOFTWARE SYSTEM BY USING FUZZY VIKOR
ÖZLEM İNCE
1305
LEARNING PROCESSES AND THEIR FUZZY CAPABILITY ANALYSES
İHSAN KAYA and CENGİZ KAHRAMAN
1312
A FUZZY STATISTICAL MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHOD FOR SUPPLIER SELECTION
SEZI CEVIK ONAR and CENGIZ KAHRAMAN
1317
A FUZZY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SUPPLIER PRE-ASSESSMENT IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY
NEVIN KARAARSLAN and EMIN GUNDOGAR
1323
FTT-XIV
INTRODUCING A NEW PAIR OF DIFFERENTIABLE FUZZY NORMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO FUZZY RELATIONAL FUNCTION APPROXIMATION
ARYA AGHILI ASHTIANI and MOHAMMAD-BAGHER MENHAJ
1329
ON EXTENSION ASYMPTOTICALLY LACUNARY STATISTICAL EQUIVALENT SEQUENCES OF FUZZY NUMBERS
EKREM SAVAŞ
1336
AN INTERVAL LATTICE MODEL
WEN ZHOU, ZONGTIAN LIU, YING LIU and YAN ZHAO
1342
A CHOQUET INTEGRAL REGRESSION MODEL BASED ON A NEW FUZZY MEASURE
HSIANG-CHUAN LIU, WEN-CHIH LIN and WEI-SHENG WENG
1349
FTT-XVI
FUZZY APPROACH METHOD FOR CONCEPT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS BASED ON FLMP AND ISM WITH APPLICATION IN COGNITION DIAGNOSIS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA
JENG-MING YIH, YUAN-HORNG LIN and WEN-LIANG HUNG
1356
APPROXIMATE MINIMIZATION OF FUZZY AUTOMATA
R. BELOHLAVEK and M. KRUPKA
1363
FTT-XVII
CARRYING CAPACITY OF WATER RESOURCES BASED ON THE RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL OF WATER SHORTAGE — A CASE STUDY OF YIWU CITY
LIHUA FENG, ZHANGLIN MAO, XIANCHAN ZHAO, YUNFENG HUA, YUEJUAN ZHU, CHIZE ZHU, XINGCAI ZHANG and GAOYUAN LUO
1370
FUZZY SPECIFICATION IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
V. LOPEZ and J. MONTERO
1377
On the Use of Syntactic Possibilistic Fusion for Computing Optimistic Qualitative Decisions
S. BENFERHAT, Hadja Faiza KHELLAF-HANED, Aicha MOKHTARI and Ismahane ZEDDIGHA
1384
FTT-XVIII
CAUSALITY IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS: AN INDUCTIVE APPROACH USING BAYES' RULE
SHIH-CHUAN CHENG, JOHN N. MORDESON, ADAM D. GRIESER and TERRY D. CLARK
1391
FUZZY C-MEAN ALGORITHM BASED ON MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES AND BETTER INITIAL VALUES
HSIANG-CHUAN LIU, JENG-MING YIH and SHIN-WU LIU
1398
FUZZY CLUSTERING WITH NEW SEPARABLE CRITERION
HSIANG-CHUAN LIU, DER-BANG WU and HSIU-LAN MA
1405
FUZZY SUBSETHOOD, FUZZY IMPLICATION, AND CAUSALITY
MARK J. WIERMAN, JOHN N. MORDESON, TERRY D. CLARK and JENNIFER M. LARSON
1412
FTT-XIX
The Pseudo Gradient Search and a Penalty Technique Used in Classifications
J. Jumadinova and Z. Wang
1419
INTELLIGENT QUERIES BASED ON FUZZY SET THEORY AND SQL
TIEN-CHIN WANG, HSIEN-DA LEE and CHUN-MING CHEN
1426
WEB USER PROFILING USING RELATIONAL FUZZY CLUSTERING
G. CASTELLANO, A.M. FANELLI and M. A. TORSELLO
1433
FRAUD DETECTION USING AN ADAPTIVE NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM IN MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
ADEM KARAHOCA, SENAY YALCIN, CENGIZ KAHRAMAN and MERT SANVER
1440
5th International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia & Ambient Intelligence (IMAI)
IMAI-I: Ambient and Multimedia Intelligence
ENGINEERING AMBIENT VISUAL SENSORS
G.M.P. O'HARE, M.J. O'GRADY, R. JURDAK, C. MULDOON, NOEL E. O'CONNOR, CIARÁN Ó CONAIRE and PHILIP KELLY
1447
USING BLUETOOTH & GPS METADATA TO MEASURE EVENT SIMILARITY IN SENSECAM IMAGES
DARAGH BYRNE, BARRY LAVELLE, AIDEN R. DOHERTY, GARETH J.F. JONES and ALAN F. SMEATON
1454
Model Driven Compression of 3-D Tele-Immersion Data
Jyh-Ming Lien and Ruzena Bajcsy
1461
DISCOVERING SHARED MELODIES IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
LLOYD SMITH, XIAONA REN and RICHARD MEDINA
1468
A Novel Video Object Tracking Method based on Wavelet Descriptor Matching
XIAODONG KONG, QINGSHAN LUO, GUIHUA ZENG and JIANPING FAN
1475
IMAI-II: Innovative Ambient and Multimedia Application
INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS FOR ASSISTANCE TO ELDERS IN DAILY LIFE ACTIVITIES – A NOVEL APPROACH
MEHDI NAJJAR and HABIB HAMAM
1482
INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM BASED ON SEMANTIC MULTIMEDIA BROWSING AND RETRIEVAL
YAN LIU and CHUN KONG REYNOLD CHENG
1489
COMMERCIAL VIDEO RETRIEVAL WITH VIDEO-BASED BAG OF WORDS
JINQIAO WANG, HANQING LU, LINGYU DUAN and JESSE S. JIN
1496
IMAI-III: Advances in 3D and Video Technologies for Ambient Intelligence
PEOPLE IDENTIFICATION ACROSS AMBIENT CAMERA NETWORKS
DATONG CHEN, ASHOK BHARUSHA and HOWARD WACTLAR
1503
A PERFORMANCE TRAINING ROOM WITH ADVANCED 3D TECHNOLOGIES IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT
JACKY CHAN and HOWARD LEUNG
1510
Dense 3D Modeling Using Consistency-Based Feature Point Evolution
Wende Zhang and Tsuhan Chen
1517
TOWARDS AUTOMATED RETRIEVAL OF CONTINUOUSLY CAPTURED MULTIMEDIA AT HOME
G. C. DE SILVA and K. AIZAWA
1524
IMAI-IV: Multimedia Computing, Transmission and Coding
PREDICTION ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED IN GRID LIKE ARCHITECTURE FOR STREAMING SYSTEM
BO LI and DEPEI QIAN
1531
RESEARCH OF REAL-TIME VIDEO TRANSMISSION IN MULTIMEDIA REMOTE SYSTEM
JINGJING DAI and RUIMIN HU
1538
THE METHOD OF DOCUMENT FRAGMENT CLASSIFYING
BINGLONG LI and QINGXIAN WANG
1545
MANIFOLD LEARNING BASED LOCOMOTION ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
HUIYANG QU and HAU SAN WONG
1552
A SAD-OPTIMIZED FAST SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR BLOCK MOTION ESTIMATION IN VIDEO CODING
XUQING XIAO, RUIMIN HU, RUOLIN RUAN and LI ZHU
1559
8th International Conference on Natural Computing (NC)
NC-I
CONSTRUCTING THE RSA PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOSYSTEM ON A DNA-BASED COMPUTER
WENG-LONG CHANG, MICHAEL (SHAN-HUI) HO and MINYI GUO
1566
CONSTRUCTING BIO-MOLECULAR DATABASES ON A DNA-BASED COMPUTER
WENG-LONG CHANG, MICHAEL (SHAN-HUI) HO and MINYI GUO
1573
AFFECTIVE COMPUTING AS A COMPONENT OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
I. CEARRETA, J.M. LÓPEZ, K. LÓPEZ DE IPIÑA, C. HERNANDEZ, N. GARAY, M. GRAÑA and A. ÁLVAREZ
1580
MODULAR DESIGN FOR NEURAL COMPUTING PROBLEMS
H. CHRIS TSENG and ARKADY EPSHTEYN
1587
NC-II
COMMUNICATION AS A MODEL FOR CROSSOVER IN GENETIC ALGORITHMS
CHRIS STANTON, HAYLEY BORCK and HOLGER MAUCH
1594
NC-III
FUZZY LATTICE CLUSTERING USING WEIGHTED COSINE
AL CRIPPS and NGHIEP NGUYEN
1603
FUZZY LATTICE REASONING (FLR) IMPLIES A GRANULAR ENHANCEMENT OF THE FUZZY-ARTMAP CLASSIFIER
VASSILIS G. KABURLASOS and S. E. PAPADAKIS
1610
m-GFAM: An elegant approach to genetically optimize Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural Network Architectures
Assem Kaylani, Michael Georgiopoulos, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi and Georgios Anagnostopoulos
1617
Lattice Independence, Autoassociative Morphological Memories and unsupervised segmentation of Hyperspectral Images
M. Graña, J.L. Jimenez and C. Hernandez
1624
EFFICIENT AUTONOMOUS ENDMEMBER DETERMINATION USING LATTICE AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES
GERHARD X. RITTER, MARK S. SCHMALZ and GONZALO URCID
1632
NC-IV
GRANULAR GRAPH CLUSTERING IN THE WEB
VASSILIS G. KABURLASOS, LEFTERIS MOUSSIADES and ATHENA VAKALI
1639
INDUCTION OF CLASSIFICATION RULES FROM HISTOGRAMS
S. E. PAPADAKIS and VASSILIS G. KABURLASOS
1646
A SURVEY OF INTERNET APPLICATIONS USING FUZZY LOGIC AND NEURAL NETWORKS
H. CHRIS TSENG and THO TRUONG NGUYEN
1653
FUZZY CLUSTERING OF WEB BLOGS WITH NEURAL NETWORKS
H. CHRIS TSENG and CHI SHU HO
1660
5th Symposium on Photonics, Networking & Computing (PNC)
ENERGY-EFFICIENT SCHEDULING USING PINWHEEL AND IMPRECISE COMPUTATION MODEL FOR UNI-PROCESSOR AND MULTI-PROCESSOR REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
K. VENKATESH and SANTHI BASKARAN
1667
A COST-EFFECTIVE MINIMUM CYCLE COVER ALGORITHM IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH AUTOMATIC PROTECTION SWITCHING
I-SHYAN HWANG, FEI-HUNG LIN and ZEN-DER SHYU
1677
MODEL-DEPENDENT SCHEME FOR REAL-TIME COMPUTING SYSTEM
YI CHEN, GE GAO and RUIMIN HU
1684
NOTE ON CONVEX POLYGONS
K. HANUMA REDDY
1691
Contingency Matrix Theory II – Pseudo Statistical Independence
Shusaku Tsumoto
1698
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