Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery

The two volume set LNAI 3613 and LNAI 3614 constitutes the refereedproceedings of the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Systems andKnowledge Discovery, FSKD 2005, held in Changsha, China, in August 2005 as a joint event in federation with the First International Conference on Natural Computation ICNC 2005 (LNCS volumes 3610, 3611, and 3612). The program committee selected 206 carefully revised full papers and 127 short papers for presentation in two volumes from 1249 submissions. The first volume includes all the contributions related to fuzzy theory and models, uncertainty management and probabilistic methods in data mining, approximate reasoning, axiomatic foundation, fuzzy classifiers, fuzzy clustering, fuzzy database mining and information retrieval, information fusion, neuro-fuzzy systems, fuzzy control, fuzzy hardware, knowledge visualization and exploration, sequential data analysis, parallel and distributed data mining, and rough sets. The second volume deals with dimensionality reduction, pattern recognition and trend analysis, other topics in FSKD methods, mining of spatial, textual, image and time-series data, fuzzy systems in bioinformatics and bio-medical engineering, in expert system and informatics, and in pattern recognition and diagostics; knowledge discovery in bioinformatics, bio-medical engineering, and in expert system and informatics; active information gathering on the web, and neural and fuzzy computation in cognitive computer vision.