Symposium Programme IIS'2001

Program Committee

• Prof. dr hab. Zdzisław Bubnicki, Instytut Sterowania i Techniki Systemów Politechniki Wrocławskiej
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Choraœ, Akademia Techniczno-Rolnicza w Bydgoszczy
• Prof. dr hab. Piotr Dembiński, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN - chairman
• Prof. dr hab. Ludosław Drelichowski, Akademia Techniczno-Rolnicza w Bydgoszczy
• Płk dr hab. inż. Czesław Flanek, Akademia Obrony Narodowej
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Zdzisław Hippe, Politechnika Rzeszowska
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Olgierd Hryniewicz, Instytut Badań Systemowych PAN
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Józef Korbicz, Politechnika Zielonogórska
• Prof. dr hab. Jacek Koronacki, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN, Polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych,
• Prof. dr hab. Witold Kosiński, Polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych, Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN
• Dr inż. Maciej Michalewicz, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN - scientific secretary
• Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN
• Prof. dr Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN 
• Dr inż. Paweł Nowacki, Polsko-Japońska Wyższa Szkoła Technik Komputerowych
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Zdzisław Pawlak, Komitet Badań Naukowych
• Prof. dr Zbigniew Raœ, University of North Carolina, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN
• Prof. dr hab. Henryk Rybiński, Instytut Informatyki Politechniki Warszawskiej
• Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Skowron,Instytut Matematyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza w Krakowie
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Alicja Wakulicz-Deja, Instytut Informatyki Stosowanej, Uniwersytetu Œląskiego
• Prof. dr hab. Jan Węglarz, Instytut Informatyki Politechniki Poznanskiej
• Prof. dr hab. inż. Stefan Węgrzyn, Instytut Informatyki Teoretycznej i Stosowanej PAN
• Doc. dr hab. inż. Sławomir Wierzchoń, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN
• Prof. dr hab.inż. Krzysztof Zieliński, Akademia Górniczo Hutnicza w Krakowie
• (+)Prof. dr hab. Jan Żytkow , University of North Carolina, Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN

Time and Place

Available Support for Presentation

• Overhead projector for transparencies
• Digital projector connected with a computer
• A pentium-computer under MS-Windows (Millenium) with Power-Point 2000, MS Word 2000

8.00-8.45 - Breakfast

• 8.45-9.00 - Opening Address

Session: Rule and Decision Tree Acquisition

Chairman: Prof. Piotr Dembiński

• 9.00 - 9.30
  Guido Cervone , Liviu Panait , Ryszard S. Michalski :
  Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA
  "The Development of the AQ20 Learning System and Initial Experiments"

• 9.30 - 10.00
  Cezary Głowiński , Ryszard S. Michalski :
  Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, USA
  "Discovering Multi Head Attributional Rules in Large Databases"

• 10.00 - 10.15
  Nguyen Son :
  Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics, Warsaw University, Warszawa
  "On Efficient Construction of Decision Trees from Large Databases"

• 10.15 - 10.30
  Krzysztof Skowroński ¹ , Cezary Kośmider ¹ , Andrzej Jodłowski :
  ¹ Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa
  ² Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Exploring discretization algorithms"

10.30-11.00 - Coffee break

Session: Unsupervised Learning

Chairman: Prof. Ryszard Michalski

• 11.00 - 11.30
  (+)Jan Żytkow , Daniel Arredondo , (presented by M.Kłopotek) :
  Computer Science Dept. University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC, USA
  "Mining the Preference Relations and Preference Graphs"

• 11.30 - 12.00
  Włodzisław Duch , Karol Grudziński :
  Department of Computer Methods, Mikolaj Kopernik University, Toruń
  "Ensambles of Similarity-based Models"

• 12.00 - 12.30
  Mieczysław A. Kłopotek :
  Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Taxonomy Building: Cases or Attributes ?"

• 12.30 - 12.45
  Barbara Dębska :
  Department of Computer Chemistry, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszów
  "Use of Cluster Analysis and Rough Set Approaches in Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals"

13.30-15.00 Lunch

Session: Biologically Motivated Methods

Chairman: Prof. Wojciech Ziarko

• 15.00 - 15.30
  Sławomir T. Wierzchoń :
  Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Multimodal Optimization with Artificial Immune Systems"

• 15.30 - 16.00
  Anna Święcicka ¹ , Franciszek Seredyński ^2,3 , Mariusz Jażdżyk ⁴ :
  ¹ Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Bialystok, Białystok
  ² Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa
  ³ Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  ⁴ Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa
  "Cellular Automata Approach to Scheduling Problem in Case of Modifications of a Program Graph"

• 16.00 - 16.15
  Andrzej Ossowski ¹ , Anna Święcicka ² :
  ¹ Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  ² Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Bialystok, Białystok
  "Multiple-valued Logic Feedback Controlers of Dynamic Systems"

• 16.15 - 16.30
  Michal Karpuk :
  Dept. of Economy and Management, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin
  "Application of Neural Networks for Definition of Parameters of Uniaxial Films on Ellipsometric Measurings"

16.30-17.00 - Coffee break

Session: Learning and Reasoning under Uncertainty

Chairman: Prof. Zbigniew Świątnicki

• 17.00 - 17.30
  Mieczysław A. Kłopotek , Sławomir T. Wierzchoń , Maciej Michalewicz , Marek Bednarczyk , Wiesław Pawłowski , Andrzej Wąsowski :
  Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Bayesian Network Mining System"

• 17.30 - 18.00
  Andrzej Matuszewski , Krzysztof Trojanowski :
  Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Models of Multiple Response Independence"

• 18.00 - 18.15
  Agnieszka Oniœko :
  Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Bialystok, Białystok
  "Evaluation of HEPHAR II System for Diagnosis of Liver Disorders"

• 18.15 - 18.30
  Wojciech Jamroga :
  University of Twente,
  "Changing and Using Beliefs under Incomplete Information"

• 18.30 - 18.45
  Tomasz Łukaszewski :
  Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznań
  "Reasoning in Bayesian Networks with Knowledge Updating"

19.00-20.00 - Dinner

8.00-9.00 - Breakfast

Session: Logical Modeling

Chairman: Prof. Witold Kosiński

• 9.00 - 9.30
  Czesław Daniłowicz , Ngoc Thanh Nguyen :
  Department of Information Systems, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
  "Criteria and Functions for Expert Information Representation Choice"

• 9.30 - 10.00
  Radosław P. Katarzyniak :
  Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
  "A Model for Extracting a Class of Knowledge Operators, Logic Disjunctions and Logic Alternatives from BDI Agents"

• 10.00 - 10.30
  Bartłomiej Śnieżyński :
  Institute of Computer Science, University of Mining and Metallurgic Technology, Kraków
  "Verification of the Logic of Plausible Reasoning"

10.30-11.00 - Coffee break

Session: Logical Calculi in AI

Chairman: Prof. Sławomir Wierzchoń

• 11.00 - 11.30
  Hua Hsueh , Bolesław Mikołajczak :
  Computer and Information Science Department University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA
  "Intelligent Computing Systems with Actors - Parallel Dynamic Programming Algorithm of the Polygon Triangulation Problem"

• 11.30 - 12.00
  Alexander Lyaletski :
  Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Digital Automata Theory Dept., Kiev (Kijow)
  "Quantifier Handling Issues in Computer-Oriented Intuitionistic Calculi"

• 12.00 - 12.30
  Paweł Kieś :
  Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Information Dimension of a Population's Attractor and Population's Entropy"

13.30-15.30 Lunch

16.00-18.00 - Special Session: Software demonstrations

Chairman: Dr. Maciej Michalewicz

• Presentations of software developed by students of Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa (M.Sc. D. Œlęzak)
• Knowledge Acquisition System INLEN, a new version developed in cooperation of George Mason University and Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences (Prof. R.Michalski, Dr. K.Trojanowski)

19.30 - Conference Dinner

8.00-9.00 - Breakfast

Session: Statistical Methods of Unsupervised Learning

Chairman: Prof. Zdzisław Hippe

• 9.00 - 9.30
  Piotr Gawrysiak , Michał Okoniewski , Henryk Rybiński :
  Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa
  "Regression - Yet Another Clustering Method"

• 9.30 - 10.00
  Wiesław Szczesny ^1,2 , Olaf Matyja ¹ :
  ¹ Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  ² Department of Econometrics and Informatics, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warszawa
  "Using Grade Correspondence Analysis to Merge Populations and Detect Latent Orders"

• 10.00 - 10.30
  Alicja Ciok :
  Institute of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  "Significance Testing in the Grade Correspondence Analysis"

10.30-11.00 - Coffee break

Session: Rule Learning Systems in Applications

Chairman: Prof. Zbigniew W. Raś

• 11.00 - 11.30
  Kwei Aryeetey , Wojciech Ziarko , Patricia Tai , Casely Ago :
  University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada
  "Identification of Rules for Brain Metastases and Survival Time Prediction for Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients"

• 11.30 - 12.00
  Jerzy W. Grzymała-Busse , Zdzisław S. Hippe :
  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
  "Melanoma Prediction Using k-Nearest Neighbor and LEM2 Algorithms"

• 12.00 - 12.30
  Alicja A. Wieczorkowska :
  Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa
  "Technologies for Sound Database Indexing: Musical Instrument Classification Methods"

• 12.30 - 12.45
  Zbigniew Świątnicki :
  Institute of Logistics, Military University of Technology, Warszawa
  "Artificial Intelligence in Military Robot Control"

13.30-15.30 Lunch

Session: Genetic Algorithms

Chairman: Prof. Alicja Wakulicz-Deja

• 15.30 - 16.00
  Andrzej Ossowski ¹ , Anna Święcicka ² :
  ¹ Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
  ² Institute of Computer Science, Technical University of Bialystok, Białystok
  "Statistical Genetic Algorithms"

• 16.00 - 16.30
  Andrzej Obuchowicz :
  Department of Robotics and Software Eng., Technical University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra
  "Multi-Dimensional Gaussian and Cauchy Mutations"

• 16.30 - 16.45
  Marcin Forkiewicz , Piotr Jędrzejowicz :
  Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk
  "An Application of Population Based Metaheuristics to Minimizing Schedule Makespan"

• 16.45 - 17.00
  Artur Gola :
  Inst. of Math. and Comput.Science, Pedagogical University of Czestochowa,
  "Edge Detection of Objects in the Medical Pictures with Genetic Algorithms"

• 17.00 - 17.15
  Marcin Chyży , Witold Kosiński :
  Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warszawa
  "Genetic Algorithm for the State Assignment Problem"

18.00-19.00 - Dinner

8.00-9.00 - Breakfast

Session: Isssues in Incompleteness of Knowledge

Chairman: Prof. Jerzy Grzymała-Busse

• 9.00 - 9.30
  Zbigniew Raś :
  Computer Science Dept. University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC, USA
  "The Role of Support and Confidence in Collaborative Query Answering"

• 9.30 - 10.00
  Halina Kwaśnicka , Marcin Ciosmak :
  Computer Science Department, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wrocław
  "Intelligent Techniques in Stock Analysis"

• 10.00 - 10.15
  D Butchvarov , V Geortchev , A Boneva , R Krusteva :
  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
  "High Molecular Mix Surface Pressure Control System"

• 10.15 - 10.30
  Dariusz Kogut :
  Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa
  "Natural Language Processing for WEB Search - Fuzzy Set Approach"

10.30-11.00 - Closing Address

11.00-12.00 Lunch