The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on
Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology
/ May 25-27, 2005
Muroran, Japan

WSTST’05 Technical Sponsors

Satellite Venture Business Laboratory, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan)

Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology (Japan)

JSPS International meeting series (Japan)

WSTST’05 – Organization

Honorary Chair
Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA
International Advisory Board
James Keller, University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S.A.
Cihan H. Dagli, University of Missouri-Rolla, U.S.A.
Hidenori Kimura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Fumio Harashima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, U.S.A.

General Co-Chairs
Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Seppo J. Ovaska, HelsinkiUniversity of Technology, Finland
Ajith Abraham, Chung-AngUniversity, Republic of Korea

Program Co-Chairs
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Akimoto Kamiya, Kushiro National College of Technology, Japan
Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Tadashi Momono, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Finance Co-Chairs
Noriaki Kaneki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Hironobu Kamimura, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Publications Co-Chairs
Mario Köppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany

Takashi Uozumi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Isao Tokuda, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Web Co-Chairs
Andy AuYeung, Oklahoma State University, USA
Wakio Oka, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Noriyuki ishii, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Shungo Tanemura, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Masahiro Nakazawa, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Stream Chairs
Intelligent Hybrid Systems
Clarence W. de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada
Fusion of Soft Computing and Hard Computing
Akimoto Kamiya, Kushiro National College of Technology, Japan
Data Mining and Decision Support Systems
Kate Smith, Monash University, Australia
Chance Discovery
Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Intelligent Agent-Based Systems, Cognitive and Reactive Distributed Artifcial Intelligence (Complex Systems)
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Internet Modeling
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, U.S.A.
Humanized Computational Intelligence
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Medicine and Biology
Takashi Uozumi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Business and Management
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Artificial Societies
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Civil and Environment Engineering
Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

International Program Committee
Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
Soumya Banerjee, Institute of Management Studies, India
Anrew Bonarini, Plitecnico di Milano, Italy
Costa Branco P J, stituto Superior Technico, PortugalIn
Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Federal University of São Carlos
Andre C PL Ferreira de Carvalho, University of San Paulo, Brazil
Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, China
Sung Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, U.S.A.
Raj Dasgupta, University of Nebraska, USA
Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Mark J. Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.
Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Maria Ganzha, Private Higher Educational Institute , Poland
Xiao-Zhi Gao, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Tom Gedeon, Murdoch University, Australia
Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Sajjad Haider, George Mason University, USA
Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain
Hiromitu Hikita, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Frank Hoffmann, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Hitoshi Iba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Ken-ichi Itakura, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
R.P. Jagadeesh Chandra Bose, India
Akimoto Kamiya, Kushiro National College of Technology, Japan
Joarder Kamruzzaman, Monash University, Australia
Stephen Kercel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
Mario Koppen, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
William B. Langdon, University College London, U.K.
Kyungmi Lee, Griffith University, Australia
Z. Nakao, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Hironori Okii, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Seppo J. Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Nikhil .R. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Vasile Palade, Oxford University, U.K.
Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA
Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada
Tuan Pham, Griffith University, Australia
Wenyu Qu, JASIST, Japan
Daniel Rodic, Nam Tech, South Africa
Rajkumar Roy, Cranfield University, U.K.
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, University of Chile, Chile
Sugata Sanyal, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Jianming Shi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Zhaohao Sun, University of Wollongong, Australia
Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
Cong Tran, University of South Australia, Australia
Takashi Uozumi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Berend Vanderzwaag, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Marley Vellasco, PUC-RJ, Brazil
Brijesh Verma, Griffith University, Australia
Fernando J. Von Zuben , State University of Campinas, Brazil
Donald C. Wunsch II. New Mexico State University,U.S.A.
Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, U.S.A.
Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan

Honorary Chairs Welcome Message

Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, U.S.A.

In my capacity as Honorary Chair, It is my pleasure and privilege to extend a very warm welcome to participants in the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology. The workshop has a special significance for me. First, because it is held in Japan, a country for which I have deep admiration and affection. Japan was the first country in the world to take interest in fuzzy set theory, and ever since hasplayed a leading role in the development and applications of fuzzytheory and fuzzy logic. And second,becausetheWorkshop is being held at Muroran Institute of Technology, an academic institution which has played and is continuing to play a leading role in promoting research and education in soft computing and its applications. I should like to take this opportunity to pay a personal tribute to Professor Yasuhiko Dote, his colleagues and the administrationof the Institute for contributing so much and in so many important ways to the advancement of soft computing in Japan and world.

Soft computing is transdisciplinary in spirit and substance. Its genesis was the realization that to deal with the complex problems which arise in the conception and design of intelligent systems, it is necessary to marshall all of the intellectual resources at our disposal. This realization led to the formation of an alliance of methodologies whose principal members are fuzzy logic, neurocomputing,evolutionary
computing,probabilistic computing,chaotic computing and machine learning.An important understanding which underlies this alliance is that, in general, superior performance can be achieved through the use of constituent methodologies of soft computing in combination rather than in a stand-alone mode. This understanding is reflected in the program of the Workshop.
Soft computing is more than an alliance of methodologies. It is also an alliance of researchers working in different fields and in different countries, united by a quest for progress through cooperation and exchange of ideas.On behalf of all of the participants I should like to express our deep appreciation to Professor Dote, his associates and the administration of the Institute for organizing and hosting a
Workshop that advances soft computing and fosters international cooperation.
Lotfi A. Zadeh

WSTST’05 Chair’s Welcome Message

The stage for the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST’05) has been set. On behalf of the WSTST’05 program committee, we wish to extend a very warm welcome to the conference and Muroran in May 2005. The conference program committee has organized an exciting and invigorating program comprising presentations from distinguished experts in the field, and important and wide-ranging contributions on state-of-the-art research that provide new insights into current cutting edge results on ‘Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology’. WSTST’05 is built on the success of the previous three events held in Muroran, Japan namely the IEEE International Workshop on Neuro Fuzzy Control, in 1993; IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry, in 1996 and the IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing in Industry, in 1999.

Soft Computing (SC) has an evolving collection of methodologies, which is aimed to exploit tolerance for imprecision uncertainty, and partial truth to achieve robustness, tractability, and low cost. SC provides attractive opportunity to represent the ambiguity in human thinking with real life uncertainty. Fuzzy logic (FL), Neural Networks (NN), and Evolutionary Computation (EC) were the core methodologies of soft computing. Later chaos computing, fractal theory, wavelet transformation, cellular automaton, percolation models, and immune network theory were added to enhance soft computing. However, they should not be viewed as competing with each other, but synergistic and complementary, instead. SC was actually the combination or fusion of each methodology which yielded new computational capabilities (hybrid systems). Soft computing is currently causing a paradigm shift (breakthrough) in science and technology.

The main themes addressed by this conference are:

  • Intelligent hybrid systems
  • Fusion of soft computing and hard computing
  • Data mining and decision support systems
  • Intelligent agent-based systems (complex systems), cognitive and reactive distributed AI systems
  • Internet modeling
  • Human interface
  • Chance discovery
  • Applications in image and speech signal processing, prediction, and control, robotics, biology and medicine, business and management, artificial societies, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and materials and environment engineering

WSTST’05 is hosted by Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan and is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, World Federation on Soft Computing, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan), Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology (Japan), JSPS International meeting series (Japan), and Life-Oriented Software Laboratory (Satellite Venture Business Laboratory), Muroran Institute of Technology (Japan).

The technical program of WSTST’05 comprises of nearly 140 papers including 7 invited special sessions. The conference program committee had a very challenging task of choosing high quality submissions. Each paper was peer reviewed by at least three or more independent referees of the program committee and the papers were selected based on the referee recommendations. The papers offers stimulating insights into emerging intelligent technologies and their applications in Internet security, chance discovery, humanized computational intelligence, web intelligence, data mining, image processing, swarm intelligence, optimization and so on. WSTST’05 is blessed to have the presence of Professor Lotfi Zadeh (Father of fuzzy logic and soft computing) as the main plenary speaker of WSTST’05. Besides, the following speakers will also deliver keynote addresses during WSTST’05.

  • Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
  • Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, USA
  • Hideyuki Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan
  • Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Krzysztof Cios, University of Colorado, USA
  • Zhiliang Wang, University of Science and Technology, China
  • Kensuke Kawai, Toshiba Co., Japan

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the authors and members of the program committee that has made this conference a success. Finally, we hope that you will find these proceedings to be a valuable resource in your professional, research, and educational activities whether you are a student, academic, researcher, or a practicing professional.

General Co-Chairs

Yasuhiko Dote, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Seppo J. Ovaska, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Ajith Abraham, Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea

Program Co-Chairs
Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan
Akimoto Kamiya, Kushiro National College of Technology, Japan
Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

May 2005

WSTST’05 - Program at a Glance

The program for this conference consists of a morning session, and an afternoon session, each of 4 hours duration arranged in 4 parallel tracks over three days (Wednesday, May 25, Thursday, May 26 and Friday, May 27), 5- 8 papers of 15

minutes duration each will be presented in each session (duration 1.5 – 3 hours). There will be over 100 papers presented at the conference. Ten plenary lectures are presented by distinguished researchers in the field of soft computing. Conference banquet will be held on Thursday after the evening session.

Venue of WSTST’05 will be ‘Houraiden’ which is located at 1-1-64 Miyanomori-cho, Muroran, Japan.

Phone: +81 143 44 3338, Fax:+81 143 44 7726

Overview of WSTST’05 Conference Programme

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
08:00-16:00 / Registration
09:00-09:15 / Welcome greetings Room A
09:15-10:15 / Plenary Session I ( Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA)Room A
10:15-10:45 / Tea/Coffee Break
10:45–13:00 / Session 1.1 Room A / Session 1.2 RoomB / Session 1.3
Room C / Session 1.4
Room D
13:00–14:00 / Lunch
14:00-15:00 / Plenary Session II (Kensuke Kawai, Toshiba Corporation, Japan) Room A
15:00-16:00 / Plenary Session III (Hideyuki Takagi ,Kyushu University, Japan)Room A
16:00-16:30 / Tea/Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 / Session 1.5/1.6 Room A / Session 1.7
Room B / Session 1.8
Room C1 / Session 1.9
Room C2
Thursday, May 26, 2005
08:30-16:00 / Registration
09:00-10:00 / Plenary Session IV (Antony Satyadas, IBM Corporation, USA)Room A
10:00-11:00 / Plenary Session V (Toru Yamaguchi, Tokyo Metropolitan Insti. of Tech.,Japan)
Room A
11:00-11:30 / Tea/Coffee Break
11:30–13:00 / Session 2.1
Room A / Session 2.2
Room B / Session 2.3
Room C / Session 2.4
Room D
13:00–14:00 / Lunch
14:00-15:00 / Plenary Session VI ( Dong Hwa Kim, Hanbat National University, Korea )
Room A
15:00-16:00 / Plenary Session VII ( Takeshi Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan)Room A
16:00–16:30 / Tea/Coffee break
16:30-18:30 / Session 2.5
Room A / Session 2.6
Room B / Session2.7
Room C
19:00-21:00 / Conference Banquette
Friday, May 27, 2005
08:30-13:00 / Registration
09:00-10:00 / Plenary Session VIII (Wang Zhiliang, Tsinghua University, China)Room A
10:00-11:00 / Plenary Session – IX (Azuma Ohuchi, Hokkaido University, Japan)Room A
11:00-11:30 / Tea/Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 / Session 3.1
Room A / Session 3.2
Room B / Session3.3
Room C / Session 3.4
Room D
13:00: 14:00 / Lunch
14:00-15:00 / Plenary Session X (Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan) Room A
15:00-15:30 / Tea/Coffee break
15:30-18:00 / Session 3.5
RoomA /
Session 3.6
RoomB
18:00: 18:15 / Concluding remarks, Room A

WSTST’05 Programme

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Registration

Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room A

Welcome Greetings

Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM (Plenary Session - 1), Room A

Towardsa Generalized Theory of Uncertainty

Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA (Honorary Chair of WSTST’05)

Tea/Coffee Break: 10:15 – 10:45 AM

Parallel Technical Sessions: Wednesday, May 25, 2005,10:45 AM – 01:00 PM

Session 1.1 (Room A): Neural Networks,

Chair: Ivan Villaverde

Prediction of MHC class II Epitopes Using Fourier Analysis and Support Vector Machines

Jing Huang, Feng Shi

Cooperative Fuzzy Hint Acquisition for Industrial Redundant Robots to Avoid the Joint Limits

Samy F.M. Assal, Keigo Watanabe, Kiyotaka Izumi

Neural Classification of E.coli Promoters Using Selected DNA Profiles

Paul C. Conilione, Dianhui Wang

Effects of Noise on the Dynamics of Biological Neuron Models

Deepak Mishra, Abhishek Yadav, Sudipta Ray, Prem K. Kalra

Morphological Neural Networks for Real-time Vision Based Self-Localization

Ivan Villaverde, Sergio Ibaez, F. X. Albizuri, Manuel Graa

Multiple Mobile Robots Navigation in a Cluttered Environment Using Neuro-Fuzzy Controller

Hamdi A. Awad, Magdi A. Koutb, Mohamed A. Al-zorkany

Session 1.2 (Room B): Agent Based Systems

Chair: Hidenori Kawamura

Effect of Congestion Reduction with Agents’ Coordination in Theme Par Kataoka k Problem

Takashi Kataoka, Hidenori Kawamura, Koichi Kurumatani, Azuma Ohuchi

Applied Immune Algorithm to Search Optimum Compositions of Solid-state Catalysts

Harumi Matsui, Yuko Ishiwaka, Junya Kobayashi, Osamu Konishi

Improving the Robustness of Reinforcement Learning for a Multi-Robot System Environment

Toshiyuki Yasuda, Kazuhiro Ohkura

Charateristic Analysis of Agents in Adaptive Consensus Formation

Hiroaki Oumi, Tamotsu Mitamura, Masahito Kurihara, Takafumi Oohori, Takeshi Yoshikawa

GPS Log Mining Method for Tourism Activity Analysis

Mitsuyoshi Nagao, Hidenori Kawamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Azuma Ohuchi

Massive Multi-Agent Simulation in 3D

Masaru Aoyagi, Akira Namatame

On Constructing Hokkaido Sculpture Web

Hajime Saito, Makoto Nishimura, Azuma Ohuchi

Entropy and Mutual Information Analysis of Collective Behavior in Slim Mold Model

Koji Nishikawa, Hidenori Kawamura, Azuma Ohuchi

Session 1.3 (Room C): Web Intelligence

Chair: Trevor P.Martin

Online Decision Support and Transactional System: A study of web-based technologies

Haamid Kazemi Manshady, Wei Dai

A Semantic Knowledge Model for Agent-based Network Management System

Sameera Abar, Hideaki Hatori, Toru Abe, Tetsuo Kinoshita

Design and Implementation of Context-Aware Orchestration Server

Gwyduck Yeom, Dugki Min

Mining the Web by a Potential Hub-and-Authority First Approach

Leuohong Wang, Tongwen Lee

An Incremental Algorithm to find Asymmetric Word Similarities for Fuzzy Text Mining

T.P. Martin, M. Azmi-Murad

Session 1.4 (Room D): Evolutionary Algorithms, Search and Optimization

Chair: Ales Kepert

Semantic Model for Circular DNA-Based Memory

Yusei Tsuboi, Zuwairie Ibrahim, Osamu Ono

Binary Factor Analysis with Genetic Algorithms

Ales Keprt, Vaclav Snasel

GA-ICA Algorithms applied to Image Processing