KES-IDT 2011 - Hybrid Intelligent Decision Technologies: Approaches and Applications

An invited session entitled 'Hybrid Intelligent Decision Technologies: Approaches and Applications' is organized in the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Decision
Technologies (KES-IDT-11).

The Symposium will take place in Piraeus, Greece (July 20-22, 2011) and is organised by Waseda University, Japan, and KES International. The accepted papers will be published by
Springer Verlag, as book chapters in a volume of the KES-Springer Smart Innovations, Systems and Technologies series.

The URL of the Symposium website is http://idt-11.kesinternational.org/index.php.

A call for papers for the specific invited session can be found in
http://www.intelhealthphysicslab.gr/el/hmeres-erey....

The PROSE online system will be used to manage the submission and review process.
The submission deadline is March 1.

In the following, detailed information concerning the invited session is presented.


Title of Session: Hybrid Intelligent Decision Technologies: Approaches and Applications

Name of Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Name of Co-Chairs: Constantinos Koutsojannis, TEI of Patras, Greece

Jim Prentzas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece


Details of Session:


This special session is intended to become a forum for exchanging experience and ideas among researchers and practitioners who are dealing with combining intelligent methods in order to enhance decision making. The combination of different intelligent methods is a very active research area in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The aim is to create integrated or hybrid methods that benefit from each of their components. It is generally believed that complex decision making problems can be easier solved with such integrated or hybrid methods. Different types of integrated approaches have been developed. Several of the existing methods combine what are called soft computing methods (e.g. fuzzy logic, neural networks and genetic algorithms) either among themselves or with more traditional AI technologies such as logic and rules. Another stream of efforts integrates case-based reasoning and machine learning with soft computing and traditional AI methods. Yet another integrates agent-based approaches with logic and also non-symbolic approaches. Some of the combinations have been extensively used like neuro-symbolic methods combining neural networks with symbolic methods, neuro-fuzzy methods combining neural networks and fuzzy methods, and methods combining rule-based and case-based reasoning. Integrated or hybrid methods have enhanced decision making in many areas such as medicine, biology and bioinformatics, e-learning, finance, legal reasoning, crisis management, failure analysis, industry, data networks, evaluation, prediction and several others.

Topics of interest in the context of improving some aspect of decision making include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Neuro-Symbolic Approaches/Systems
- Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches/Systems
- Case-Based Reasoning Integrations
- Genetic Algorithms Integrations
- Fuzzy-Evolutionary Systems
- Hybrid Knowledge Representation Approaches/Systems
- Integrations of Neural Networks
- Intelligent Agents Integrations
- Hybrid and Distributed Ontologies
- Combinations and Web Intelligence
- Combinations and Web Mining

Applications of integrated or hybrid methods to support decision making in areas such as the following:
- e-Commerce
- e-Business
- e-Learning
- Medicine & Health Care
- Bioinformatics and Biology
- Legal Reasoning
- Data Networks
- Finance
- Robotics
- Crisis Management
- Modelling and Prediction
- Industry
- Military applications

Website URL: http://www.intelhealthphysicslab.gr/

Email & Contact Details:

Constantinos Koutsojannis
Assistant Professor
Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Patras,
Department of Physiotherapy
Psaron 6
Aigion, 25100
Greece
Phone: +30-2691062850
Fax: +30-2691022058
Email: ckoutsog-AT-teipat.gr

Jim Prentzas
Assistant Professor
Democritus University of Thrace,
Department of Education Sciences in Pre-School Age
Nea Chili,
Alexandroupolis, 68100
Greece
Phone: +30-25510-30086
Email: dprentza-AT-psed.duth.gr

Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
Assistant Professor
University of Patras,
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics
Patras, 26500
Greece
Phone: +30-2610-960374
Fax: +30-2610-960321
Email: ihatz-AT-ceid.upatras.gr