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This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 19th International
Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems—ISMIS 2011, held
in Warsaw, Poland, June 28-30, 2011. The symposium was organized by the
Institute of Computer Science at Warsaw University of Technology. ISMIS is a
conference series that started in 1986. Held twice every three years, ISMIS provides
an international forum for exchanging scientific, research, and technological
achievements in building intelligent systems.
The following major areas were selected for ISMIS 2011: theory and applications
of rough sets and fuzzy sets, knowledge discovery and data mining,
social networks, multi-agent systems, machine learning, mining in databases and
warehouses, text mining, theoretical issues and applications of intelligent Web,
applications of intelligent systems, inter alia in sound processing, biology and
medicine.
Out of 131 submissions, 71 contributed papers were accepted for publication
by the international Program Committee with help of additional external
referees. Every paper was assigned to three reviewers. Initially, some of these
papers were conditionally approved subject to revision and then re-evaluated. In
addition, four plenary talks were given by Jaime Carbonell, Andrzej Czy?zewski,
Donato Malerba, and Luc De Raedt. Four special sessions were organized: Special
Session on Rough Sets, devoted to the Memory of Zdzislaw Pawlak, Special
Session on Challenges in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, devoted to the
Memory of Jan Z? ytkow, Special Session on Social Networks, and Special Session
on Multi-Agent Systems.
The ISMIS conference was accompanied by the data mining contest on Music
Information Retrieval, and Industrial Session on Emerging Intelligent Technologies
in Industry, as well as a post-conference workshop, devoted to SYNAT,
which is a large scientific Polish project funded by the National Centre for Research
and Development (NCBiR), aiming at creating a universal hosting and
scientific content storage and sharing platform for academia, education, and open
knowledge society.
We wish to express our thanks to all the ISMIS 2011 reviewers, and to the
invited speakers. Our thanks go to the organizers of special sessions, namely,
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse (Special Session on Rough Sets), Shusaku Tsumoto (Special
Session on Challenges in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), Hakim
Hacid (Special Session on Social Networks), and Barbara Dunin-K eplicz (Special
Session on Multi-Agent Systems). |
