Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning — IDEAL 2000. Data Mining, Financial Engineering, and Intelligent Agents: Second International Conference Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China, December 13–15, 2000 Proceedings

Clustering by Similarity in an Auxiliary Space....Pages 3-8
Analyses on the Generalised Lotto-Type Competitive Learning....Pages 9-16
Extended K-means with an Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters....Pages 17-22
An Interactive Approach to Building Classiffication Models by Clustering and Cluster Validation....Pages 23-28
A New Distributed Algorithm for Large Data Clustering....Pages 29-34
A NEW NONHIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING PROCEDURE FOR SYMBOLIC OBJECTS....Pages 35-41
Quantization of Continuous Input Variables for Binary Classification....Pages 42-47
Information-Based Classification by Aggregating Emerging Patterns....Pages 48-53
Boosting the Margin Distribution....Pages 54-59
Detecting a Compact Decision Tree Based on an Appropriate Abstraction....Pages 60-70
A New Algorithm to Select Learning Examples from Learning Data....Pages 71-78
Data Ranking Based on Spatial Partitioning....Pages 78-84
Logical Decision Rules: Teaching C4.5 to Speak Prolog....Pages 85-90
Visualisation of Temporal Interval Association Rules....Pages 91-96
Lithofacies Characteristics Discovery from Well Log Data Using Association Rules....Pages 97-102
Fuzzy Hydrocyclone Modelling for Particle Separation Using Fuzzy Rule Interpolation....Pages 103-108
A Data-Driven Fuzzy Approach to Robot Navigation Among Moving Obstacles....Pages 109-115
Best Harmony Learning....Pages 116-125
Observational Learning with Modular Networks....Pages 126-132
Finding Essential Attributes in Binary Data....Pages 133-138
A Heuristic Optimal Reduct Algorithm....Pages 139-144
A Note on Learning Automata Based Schemes for Adaptation of BP Parameters....Pages 145-151
A Note on Covariances for Categorical Data....Pages 152-157
A General Class of Neural Networks for Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis....Pages 158-163
Generalised Canonical Correlation Analysis....Pages 164-173
Integrating KPCA with an Improved Evolutionary Algorithm for Knowledge Discovery in Fault Diagnosis....Pages 174-179
Temporal Data Mining Using Multilevel-Local Polynomial Models....Pages 180-186
First Experiments for Mining Sequential Patterns on Distributed Sites with Multi-Agents....Pages 187-192
Nonlinear and Noisy Time Series Prediction Using a Hybrid Nonlinear Neural Predictor....Pages 193-198
Genetic Programming Prediction of Solar Activity....Pages 199-205
Interpretation of the Richardson Plot in Time Series Representation....Pages 206-211
Wavelet Methods in PDE Valuation of Financial Derivatives....Pages 215-238
Fast Algorithms for Computing Corporate Default Probabilities....Pages 239-243
Variance-Penalized Reinforcement Learning for Risk-Averse Asset Allocation....Pages 244-249
Applying Mutual Information to Adaptive Mixture Models....Pages 250-255
Stability Analysis of Financial Ratios....Pages 256-261
Modeling of the German Yield Curve by Error Correction Neural Networks....Pages 262-267
Feature Selection for Support Vector Machines in Financial Time Series Forecasting....Pages 268-273
 ε -Descending Support Vector Machines for Financial Time Series Forecasting....Pages 274-279
Classifying Market States with WARS....Pages 280-285
“Left Shoulder” Detection in Korea Composite Stock Price Index Using an Auto-Associative Neural Network....Pages 286-291
A Computational Framework for Convergent Agents....Pages 295-300
Multi-agent Integer Programming....Pages 301-306
Building an Ontology for Financial Investment....Pages 308-313
A Multi-Agent Negotiation Algorithm for Load Balancing in CORBA-Based Environment....Pages 314-319
Existence of Minority in Multi-Agent Systems using Voronoi Tessellation....Pages 320-325
Combining Exploitation-Based and Exploration-Based Approach in Reinforcement Learning....Pages 326-331
A Probabilistic Agent Approach to the Trafic Jam Problem....Pages 332-337
Round-Table Architecture for Communication in Multi-agent Softbot Systems....Pages 338-343
Mobile Agents for Reliable Migration in Networks....Pages 344-351
A Construction of the Adapted Ontology Server in EC....Pages 355-360
A Design and Implementation of Cyber Banking Process and Settlement System for Internet Commerce....Pages 361-367
A Shopping Agent That Automatically Constructs Wrappers for Semi-Structured Online Vendors....Pages 368-373
Real-time Web Data Mining and Visualisation....Pages 374-379
 Web Guide : Filtering and Constraining Site Browsing through Web Walker Techniques....Pages 380-385
Topic Spotting on News Articles with Topic Repository by Controlled Indexing....Pages 386-391
Validating the Behavior of Self-Interested Agents in an Information Market Scenario....Pages 392-397
Discovering User Behavior Patterns in Personalized Interface Agents....Pages 398-403
An Agent-Based Personalized Search on a Multi-search Engine Based on Internet Search Service....Pages 404-409
A Case-Based Transformation from HTML to XML....Pages 410-415
Persistent DOM: An architecture for XML repositories in relational databases....Pages 416-421
Automatic News Video Caption Extraction and Recognition....Pages 425-430
Advanced Multilevel Successive Elimination Algorithms for Motion Estimation in Video Coding....Pages 431-442
News Content Highlight via Fast Caption Text Detection on Compressed Video....Pages 443-448
Texture-based Text Location for Video Indexing....Pages 449-454
Video Segmentation by Two Measures and Two Thresholds....Pages 455-460
Ink Retrieval from Handwritten Documents....Pages 461-466
An Off-Line Recognizer for Hand-Written Chinese Characters....Pages 467-472
Bayesian Learning for Image Retrieva Using Multiple Features....Pages 473-478
A Content-Based Image Retrieval Method Using Third- Order Color Feature Relations....Pages 479-483
Hierarchical Discriminant Regression for Incremental and Real-Time Image Classification....Pages 484-489
Distinguishing Real and Virtual Edge Intersection in Pairs of Uncalibrated Images....Pages 490-496
Stereo Correspondence Using GA-Based Segmentation....Pages 497-502
How Adaptive Agents in Stock Market Perform in the Presence of Random News: A Genetic Algorithm Approach....Pages 505-510
Learning of Virtual Dealers in an Artificial Market: Comparison with Interview Data....Pages 511-516
Toward an Agent-Based Computational Modeling of Bargaining Strategies in Double Auction Markets with Genetic Programming....Pages 517-531
Combining Ordinal Financial Predictions with Genetic Programming....Pages 532-537
Applying Independent Component Analysis to Factor Model in Finance....Pages 538-544
Web-Based Cluster Analysis System for China and Hong Kong’s Stock Market....Pages 545-550
Arbitrage-Free Asset Pricing in General State Space....Pages 551-558
A Tabu Search Based Algorithm for Clustering Categorical Data Sets....Pages 559-564
A New Methodology to Compare Algorithms....Pages 565-570