The purpose of this volume is to foster and present new directions and so- tionsinbroadlyperceivedintelligentsystems.Theemphasisisonconstructive approaches that can be of utmost important for a further progress and imp- mentability. The volume is focused around a crucial prerequisite for developing and implementing intelligent systems, namely to computationally represent and manipulate knowledge (both theory and information), augmented by an ab- ity to operationally deal with large-scale knowledge bases, complex forms of situation assessment, sophisticated value-based modes of reasoning, and - tonomic and autonomous system behaviours. These challenges exceed the capabilities and performance capacity of c- rent open standards, approaches to knowledge representation, management and system architectures. The intention of the editors and contributors of this volume is to present tools and techniques that can help in ?lling this gap. New system architectures must be devised in response to the needs of exhibiting intelligent behaviour, cooperate with users and other systems in problemsolving,discovery,access,retrievalandmanipulationofawidevariety of data and knowledge, and reason under uncertainty in the context of a knowledge-based economy and society.

presents new directions and solutions in broadly perceived intelligent systems

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This volume provides a source wherein academics, researchers and practitioners may derive high-quality, original and state-of-the-art papers describing theoretical aspects, systems architectures, analysis and design tools and techniques, and implementation experiences in intelligent systems where information and knowledge management should be mainly characterised as a net-centric infrastructure riding on the fifth wave of "distributed intelligence".

An urgent need for editing such a volume has occurred as a result of vivid discussions and presentations at the "IEEE-IS' 2006 The 2006 Third International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems" held in London, UK, at the University of Westminster in the beginning of September, 2006. This book is a compilation of many valuable inspiring works written by both the conference participants and some other experts in this new and challenging field.

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Intelligent-Enterprises and Service Orchestration.- Applying Data Mining Algorithms to Calculate the Quality of Service of Workflow Processes.- Utilisation Organisational Concepts and Temporal Constraints for Workflow Optimisation.- Extending the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem for Disruption Management.- Intelligent Search and Querying.- On the Evaluation of Cardinality-Based Generalized Yes/No Queries.- Finding Preferred Query Relaxations in Content-Based Recommenders.- Imprecise Analogical and Similarity Reasoning about Contextual Information.- Fuzzy Sets and Systems.- A Method for Constructing V. Young's Fuzzy Subsethood Measures and Fuzzy Entropies.- An Incremental Learning Structure Using Granular Computing and Model Fusion with Application to Materials Processing.- Switched Fuzzy Systems: Representation Modelling, Stability Analysis, and Control Design.- On Linguistic Summarization of Numerical Time Series Using Fuzzy Logic with Linguistic Quantifiers.- Biomedical and Health Care Systems.- Using Markov Models for Decision Support in Management of High Occupancy Hospital Care.- A Decision Support System for Measuring and Modelling the Multi-Phase Nature of Patient Flow in Hospitals.- Real-Time Individuation of Global Unsafe Anomalies and Alarm Activation.- Support Vector Machines and Neural Networks as Marker Selectors in Cancer Gene Analysis.- An Intelligent Decision Support System in Wireless-Capsule Endoscopy.- Knowledge Discovery and Management.- Formal Method for Aligning Goal Ontologies.- Smart Data Analysis Services.- Indexing Evolving Databases for Itemset Mining.- Likelihoods and Explanations in Bayesian Networks.- Towards Elimination of Redundant and Well Known Patterns in Spatial Association Rule Mining.- Alternative Method forIncrementally Constructing the FP-Tree.- Intuitonistic Fuzzy Sets and Systems.- On the Intuitionistic Fuzzy Implications and Negations.- On the Probability Theory on the Atanassov Sets.- Dilemmas with Distances Between Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets: Straightforward Approaches May Not Work.- Fuzzy-Rational Betting on Sport Games with Interval Probabilities.- Atanassov's Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets in Classification of Imbalanced and Overlapping Classes.- Representation of Value Imperfection with the Aid of Background Knowledge: H-IFS.- Tracking Systems.- Tracking of Multiple Target Types with a Single Neural Extended Kalman Filter.- Tracking Extended Moving Objects with a Mobile Robot.- A Bayesian Solution to Robustly Track Multiple Objects from Visual Data.