This is the fifteenth volume in the Research and Development in Expert Systems series. The series is essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments and opportunities in this very important field.
The Applications stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Expert System VI
Technical Programme Chairperson’s Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 : Technical Keynote Address
Chapter 2 : Best Technical Paper
Session 1 : Ontological Frameworks
Chapter 3 : Exploiting Knowledge Ontology for Managing Parallel Workflow Systems
Chapter 4 : A Generic Ontology for Spatial Reasoning
Chapter 5 : Knowledge Modelling for a Generic Refinement Framework
Session 2 : Knowledge Base Development
Chapter 6 : CG-SQL: A Front-End Language for Conceptual Graph Knowledge Bases
Chapter 7 : Constraint-Based Knowledge Acquisition and Verification for Planning
Chapter 8 : Coping With Poorly Understood Domains: The Example of Internet Trust
Session 3 : Classifiers
Chapter 9 : Pruning Boosted Classifiers With a Real Valued Genetic Algorithm
Chapter 10 : On Rule Interestingness Measures
Chapter 11 : MVC – A Preprocessing Method to Deal With Missing Values
Session 4 : Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches
Chapter 12 : Alarm Analysis With Logic and Multilevel Flow Models
Chapter 13 : Learning Full Pitch Variation Patterns With Neural Nets
Chapter 14 : A Neural Network Based Approach to Objective Voice Quality Assessment
Chapter 15 : Review Paper Case-Based Reasoning is a Methodology not a Technology
Author Index