Note: Title Page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Table of Contents - Part III -- Neural Network Applications -- Generalized Logistic Regression Models Using Neural Network Basis Functions Applied to the Detection of Banking Crises -- Introduction -- Description of the Hybrid Methodologies Proposed -- Binary Logistic Regression (LR) -- Logistic Regression Using Initial Covariates and Product Units (LRIPU) and Radial Basis Functions (LRIRBF) -- Computational Experiments and Results -- Alternative Statistical and Artificial Intelligence Methods Used for Comparison Purposes -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Design and Evaluation of Neural Networks for an Embedded Application -- Introduction -- Method -- Evaluation Parameters -- Behaviour on Specific Data Subsets -- Training Strategies -- Results on the Target Platform -- Classifier Selection -- Conclusion -- References -- Component Stress Evaluation in an Electrical Power Distribution System Using Neural Networks -- Introduction -- Normal Behavior Models -- Anomaly Detection by the Normal Behavior Models and Stress Evaluation -- Detection of Anomalous Behavior in Circuit Breakers by Self-organised Maps -- Conclusions -- References -- Combining Adaptive with Artificial Intelligence and Nonlinear Methods for Fault Tolerant Control -- Introduction -- Background -- Model Reference Adaptive Control -- Neural Networks -- Genetics Algorithms -- Sliding Mode Control -- Proposed Scheme -- Experiments and Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Recognition and Generation of Sentences through Self-organizing Linguistic Hierarchy Using MTRNN -- Introduction -- Language Learning Model -- Language Learning Experiment -- Experimental Procedure -- Results -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Neural Dynamic Matrix Control Algorithm with Disturbance Compensation -- Introduction. , Model Predictive Control Algorithms -- Neural Dynamic Matrix Control -- Optimisation of the Control Policy -- Simulation Results -- Conclusions -- References -- New Frontiers in Data Analysis, Optimization and Visualization for Bioinfomatics and Neuroscience -- The Fuzzy Gene Filter: An Adaptive Fuzzy Inference System for Expression Array Feature Selection -- Introduction -- GeneRanking -- Classical Gene Ranking Techniques -- Fuzzy Gene Filter -- Comparative Metrics -- Separability Index -- Cross-Validation -- Implementation -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent Network Management for Healthcare Monitoring -- Introduction -- The Multi-agent System for Safety Critical Processes -- The NM-WSN Application Development Overview -- The Three-Tier NM Organisational Model -- Event Correlation Techniques -- Conclusion and Future Plans -- References -- S.cerevisiae Complex Function Prediction with Modular Multi-Relational Framework -- Introduction -- Modular Multi-Relational Framework Applied to Yeast Complex Function Prediction -- Results and Discussion -- Experimental Design -- Results and Analysis -- Conclusions and Further Work -- References -- Integrative Data Mining in Functional Genomics of Brassica napus and Arabidopsis thaliana -- Introduction -- The Biological Problems and Solutions -- Endosperm of Brassica napus -- Defense Response in Arabidopsis thaliana -- Results -- Endosperm of Brassica napus -- Defense Response in Arabidopsis thaliana -- Result Integration into the Knowledge Base -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Data Integration and Knowledge Discovery in Life Sciences -- Introduction -- Integrative Approach to Informative Gene Identification from Gene Expression Data -- A Multi-strategy Approach with Integration of Prior Knowledge. , Transcriptomics and Proteomics Integration: A Framework Using Global Proteomic Discovery to Complement Transcriptomics Discovery -- Integrative Data Analysis for Gene Set Biomarker and Disease Target Discovery -- Conclusion -- References -- Computer Assisted Identification, Segmentation and Quantification of Synapses in the Cerebral Cortex -- Introduction -- Background -- System Description -- 3D Navigation -- 3D Synapse Segmentation -- 3D Synapse Reconstruction -- Implementation Description -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Association Rules to Identify Receptor and Ligand Structures through Named Entities Recognition -- Introduction -- Contextualization -- RDD Characteristics -- Data Collection -- Annotation -- Data Mining -- Preprocessing -- Mining -- Post-processing -- Application and Results -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- A Model for Generating Synthetic Dendrites of Cortical Neurons -- Introduction -- Dendritic Morphologies of Pyramidal Cells -- Methodological Approach -- Dendrite Sampler -- Model Construction -- Experimental Results -- Conclusions -- References -- A New Incremental Growing Neural Gas Algorithm Based on Clusters Labeling Maximization: Application to Clustering of Heterogeneous Textual Data -- Introduction -- Clustering Quality Evaluation and Cluster Labeling -- First Experiments and Results -- Novel Adaptations of the IGNG and I2GNG Algorithms -- Conclusion -- References -- Synergies between Network-Based Representation and Probabilistic Graphical Models for Classification, Inference and Optimization Problems in Neuroscience -- Introduction -- Networks -- Probabilistic Modeling of Network Sets -- Classification -- Inference -- Optimization -- NetworkAnalysisofPGMs -- Classification -- Inference -- Optimization -- Applications in Neuroscience -- Applications to Classification Problems. , Applications to Inference Problems -- Applications to Optimization Problems -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Modeling Short-Time Parsing of Speech Features in Neocortical Structures -- Introduction -- The Generalized Neuromorphic Computing Unit -- Neuromorphic Hierarchical Architecture for Speech Processing -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Optimization and Heuristic Search -- Optimizing the Number of Airfoils in Turbine Design Using Genetic Algorithms -- Introduction -- Problem Description -- Genetic Algorithm -- Case Study and Experimental Results -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Branch and Bound Algorithm for a Single Vehicle Routing Problem with Toll-by-Weight Scheme -- Introduction -- Problem Description and Literature -- Lower Bound -- Branch-and-Bound Algorithm -- Computational Experiments -- Conclusions -- References -- Near Optimal Secret Sharing for Information Leakage Maximization -- Introduction -- Problem Formulation -- Problem Formulation of the ATSS Model -- Solution Approach -- The Lagrangean Relaxation-Based Algorithm -- The Lagrangean Relaxation Problem -- Getting Primal Feasible Solutions -- Computation Experiments -- Experiment Environment -- Computation Experiments with the ATSS Model -- Discussion of Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Solving Non-Stationary Bandit Problems by Random Sampling from Sibling Kalman Filters -- Introduction -- The Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Normal Bandit Problem -- Contributions and Paper Organization -- Related Work -- Kalman Filter Based Solution to Non-Stationary Normal Bandit Problems (KF-MANB) -- Empirical Results -- Conclusion and Further Work -- References -- A Learning Automata Based Solution to Service Selection in Stochastic Environments -- Introduction -- Modeling the Problem -- A LA-Based Solution to the ATTP. , The Decision Making Phase -- Experimental Results -- Performance in Static Environments VS Dynamic Environments -- Immunity to the Proportion of Fair Agents -- Conclusion -- References -- AC2001-OP: An Arc-Consistency Algorithm for Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Definitions -- AC2001/3.1 -- AC2001-OP -- Experimental Results -- Domain-Oriented Benchmark Problems -- Random Problems -- Conclusions -- References -- Real Life Applications -- NFC Solution for the Development of Smart Scenarios Supporting Tourism Applications and Surfing in Urban Environments -- Introduction -- A NFC Model for City Navigation -- Augmented Environments with Smart Posters -- Application to Tourism Surfing at Cordoba City -- Discussion and Remarks -- References -- Communication Support Visual Interface for Collaborative Learning -- Introduction -- Approach -- Round-Table Interface -- Focusing Intention for Utterances -- Display Method of Utterances -- System Operation -- Experiment -- Experimental Setting -- Experimental Result -- Conclusion -- References -- Violin Fingering Estimation Based on Violin Pedagogical Fingering Model Constrained by Bowed Sequence Estimation from Audio Input -- Introduction -- Modeling and Classifying the Bowed String -- Adaptation of the Acoustic Model -- Context-Dependent Error Correction -- Rule 1: Consistency of Direction of Pitch/String Change -- Rule 2: Consistency of Magnitude of Pitch/String Change -- Rule 3: Consistency of Bowed Strings on a Mordent -- Violin Fingering Estimation -- Formulation of the Fingering Estimation Problem -- Features -- Experiments -- Experiment 1: Bowed String Estimation -- Experiment 2: Playability of Fingering Estimator -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent Processing of K-Nearest Neighbors Queries Using Mobile Data Collectors in a Location Aware 3D Wireless Sensor Network -- Introduction. , Related Work.

Note: Title Page -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents - Part I -- Application Systems -- Tabu Search with Consistent Neighbourhood for Strip Packing -- Introduction -- Problem Formulation -- CTS: A Consistent Tabu Search for 2D-SPP -- Solving Scheme -- Search Space: A Direct Representation -- Initial Configuration -- Fitness Function -- Neighborhood and Search Strategy -- Tabu List -- Diversification -- CTS: The General Procedure -- Experimentations -- Experimentation Conditions -- Computational Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Transition State Layer in the Immune Inspired Optimizer -- Introduction -- Knowledge Gathering Process -- The Optimization Algorithm -- The New Transition State Layer -- Results -- Future Work -- References -- Improving Timetable Quality in Scheduled Transit Networks -- Introduction -- Problem Description -- Objective: Quality and Quantity of Transfer Opportunities -- Constraints -- Problem Formulation -- Notations -- Objective: Quality and Quantity of Transfer Opportunities -- Constraints -- Solution Approach -- Search Space and Preprocessing -- Neighborhood - TripShift -- Parameters of Tabu Search for the SbrT -- Experimentations and Numerical Results -- Data Instances -- Numerical Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- An Investigation of IDA* Algorithms for the Container Relocation Problem -- Introduction -- Problem Description -- Existing Approaches -- Notation and Terminology -- Iterative Deepening A* -- Lower Bounds -- Probe Heuristics -- Experiments and Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- MADS/F-Race: Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Meets F-Race -- Introduction -- Combining MADS and F-Race -- A General Overview of MADS -- The Hybrid of F-Race and MADS -- Implementation Details of MADS/F-Race -- Case Study: MADS/F-Race vs. MADS(fixed) -- Comparison of MADS/F-Race to Random MADS(fixed). , The Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation -- Comparison of MADS/F-Race to Tuned MADS(fixed) -- Comparison of MADS/F-Race and I/F-Race -- Conclusions -- References -- Application to Robotics -- An Improvement in Audio-Visual Voice Activity Detection for Automatic Speech Recognition -- Introduction -- Issues in Audio and Visual Voice Activity Detection -- Audio VAD -- Visual VAD -- Audio-Visual VAD -- Improved AV-VAD -- Audio VAD -- Visual VAD -- Audio-Visual VAD -- System Implementation -- HARK-Based Implementation Block -- The Second Layer AV Integration Block -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- References -- Robust Ego Noise Suppression of a Robot -- Introduction -- System Overview -- Multi-channel Noise Reduction System [11] -- Single-Channel Template Subtraction System [4] -- MFT-Based Automatic Speech Recognition System -- Acoustic Feature Extraction -- MFM Generation -- MFT-ASR -- Results -- Summary and Outlook -- References -- Integrating a PDDL-Based Planner and a PLEXIL-Executor into the Ptinto Robot -- Introduction -- Deliberator Layer: PDDL Based-Planner -- Executor System: PLEXIL and Universal Executive -- Control System Architecture -- High Tier: PDDL-Like Planner -- Middle Tier: PLEXIL Executor -- Low Tier: Ptinto Hardware Control -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Finding the Maximal Pose Error in Robotic Mechanical Systems Using Constraint Programming -- Introduction -- Optimization Problem Formulation -- End-Effector Pose without Joint Clearance -- Joint-Clearance Errors -- End-Effector Pose with Joint Clearances -- The End-Effector Pose Error Modeling -- The Maximum End-Effector Pose Error -- Constraint Programming -- Definitions -- Interval Analysis -- The Branch and Bound Algorithm -- Experiments -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Down-Up-Down Behavior Generation for Interactive Robots -- Introduction. , Simulation Theory -- Architecture components -- Down-Up-Down Behavior Generation (DUD) -- Evaluation -- Conclusion -- References -- Music-Ensemble Robot That Is Capable of Playing the Theremin While Listening to the Accompanied Music -- Introduction -- Beat Tracking-Based Theremin Playing Robot -- Essential Functions for Music Robots -- System Architecture -- Algorithm -- Beat Tracking Based on Spectro-temporal Pattern Matching -- Theremin Pitch Control by Regression Parameter Estimation -- Experimental Evaluation -- Implementation on Humanoid Robot HRP-2 -- Experiment 1: The Influence of the Theremin on Beat Tracking -- Experiment 2: Theremin Ensemble with a Human Drummer -- Conclusion -- References -- Applications of Agent-Based Systems -- Self-organisation of an 802.11 Mesh Network -- Introduction -- Measuring Interference Cost -- Adjusting the Channels -- Results and Discussion -- Adjusting the Links -- Reactive Logic -- Second Path Reduction Algorithm -- Results and Discussion -- Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Anomaly Detection in Noisy and Irregular Time Series: The "Turbodiesel Charging Pressure" Case Study -- Introduction -- The Case Study -- Off-Line Labeling -- On-Line Filtering -- Conclusions and Related Work -- References -- Safe Learning with Real-Time Constraints: A Case Study -- Introduction -- Hybrid Automata and Safety Verification -- Modeling -- Robotic Setup and Software Agents -- Control Agents as Hybrid Automata -- Empirical Analysis -- Discussion and Related Works -- References -- Intelligent Training in Control Centres Based on an Ambient Intelligence Paradigm -- Introduction -- A Multi-Agent System for Space Services -- On-Board Autonomy through Automated P& -- S Technology -- Spacecraft with On-Board Planning Capabilities -- The Joscar Timeline-Based Package -- Using Joscar for Onboard Replanning. , A Practical Case: Running the Demonstrator -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Injecting On-Board Autonomy in a Multi-Agent System for Space Service Providing -- Introduction -- A Multi-Agent System for Space Services -- On-Board Autonomy through Automated P& -- S Technology -- Spacecraft with On-Board Planning Capabilities -- The JOSCAR Timeline-Based Package -- Using JOSCAR for Onboard Replanning -- A Practical Case: Running the Demonstrator -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Applications to Business and Financial Markets -- Solving Portfolio Optimization Problem Based on Extension Principle -- Introduction -- The Problem -- The Solution Procedure -- Upper Bound V^U_\alpha -- Lower Bound V^L_\alpha -- Conclusion -- References -- Knowledge-Based Framework for Workflow Modelling: Application to the Furniture Industry -- Introduction -- Knowledge-Based Workflow Framework -- Price Estimation in Custom-Designed Furniture Industry -- Estimate Processing Times -- Product Design -- Assign Material Cost -- Assign Manufacturing Cost -- Framework Evaluation -- Conclusions -- References -- Decision Trees in Stock Market Analysis: Construction and Validation -- The Problem -- The Object Attribute Table -- Financial Indicators -- Processing of Financial Indicators: Transformed Data -- The Decision Trees -- Validation of the Decision Trees -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- An Intelligent System for Gathering Rates of Local Taxes on the Web -- Introduction -- Industrial Motivation -- Lack of Technological Solutions -- Summary of the Paper -- Methodological Issues -- From Legal Documents to Database Records -- Novelties in the Database Population Procedure -- From a Case Study to an Architecture Proposal -- Evidences -- Generalising the Approach -- Related Work and Employed Methods -- Conclusions and Further Work. , References -- Intelligent Systems in Long-Term Forecasting of the Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Price in the Spanish Market -- Introduction -- CO2RBFN for Time Series Forecasting -- Other Forecasting Methods -- Experimentation and Results -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Applied Intelligent Systems for Future Classroom -- Processing Common Sense Knowledge to Develop Contextualized Computer Applications -- Introduction -- Processing Common Sense Knowledge -- Generator Module of ConceptNet -- Contexteller -- Steps to Create a Story -- Case Study -- Conclusions -- References -- Estimating the Difficulty Level of the Challenges Proposed in a Competitive e-Learning Environment -- Introduction -- The Adaptive QUESTOURnament System -- Genetic Algorithm to Estimate the Difficulty Level of the Challenges -- Design of the Genetic Algorithm -- The Fitness Function -- Experiments and Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Automatic Assessment of Students' Free-Text Answers with Support Vector Machines -- Introduction -- Architecture Overview -- Methods -- Data Preprocessing -- Feature Extraction -- SVM Classification -- Experiments and Results -- Experimental Data -- Evaluation Metric -- Experimental Results and Discussions -- Conclusion -- References -- On the Application of Planning and Scheduling Techniques to E-Learning -- Introduction and Motivation -- Mapping E-Learning to a Planning and Scheduling Model -- Planning and Scheduling Learning Routes -- Planning Stage -- Scheduling Stage -- Experimental Results -- Conclusions -- References -- A Fuzzy ANP Model for Evaluating E-Learning Platform -- Introduction -- Related Works -- The Methodology -- E-Learning Factors -- Fuzzy ANP Application -- Real Cases -- Conclusions -- References -- An Ontology-Based Expert System and Interactive Tool for Computer-Aided Control Engineering Education -- Introduction. , Domain of Study and Objectives of the Application.

Note: Title Page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Table of Contents - Part II -- Engineering Knowledge and Semantic Systems -- Improving Effectiveness of Query Expansion Using Information Theoretic Approach -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Co-occurrence Approach -- Information-Theoretic Approach -- Description of Our Methodology -- Experiments -- Conclusions and Future Works -- References -- Defining Coupling Metrics among Classes in an OWL Ontology -- Introduction -- Our Contribution -- Related Work -- Our Proposal -- Case Study -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Enterprise 2.0 and Semantic Technologies for Open Innovation Support -- Introduction -- Innovation Meets Enterprise 2.0 and Semantic Technologies -- Actors and Tools in the Corporate Scenario -- Innovation Process Stages and Idea Lifecycle -- The Individual Layer -- The Indirect Interaction Layer -- The Direct Interaction Layer -- Implementation Issues -- Evaluation Issues -- Conclusions and Future Work -- References -- Algorithmic Decision of Syllogisms -- Introduction -- Categorical Syllogisms -- Syllogistic Propositions -- Syllogistic Figures -- Algorithmic Representation -- Set-Theoretical Analysis -- Arithmetic Representation -- Algorithmic Decision -- Statistics about the Syllogistic System -- Fuzzy Syllogistic System -- Recognising Fallacies and Fuzzy Syllogistic Reasoning -- Conclusion -- References -- Matching Multilingual Tags Based on Community of Lingual Practice from Multiple Folksonomy: A Preliminary Result -- Introduction -- Semantic Grounding of Tags -- Identifying Individual Intelligence -- Tag-Based Information Retrieval -- Experimentation -- Evaluation of Multilingual Tag Matching -- Evaluation of Multilingual Resource Retrieval -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks and Future Work -- References -- Ensemble Learning: Methods and Applications. , Multiclass Mineral Recognition Using Similarity Features and Ensembles of Pair-Wise Classifiers -- Introduction -- One Stage Classifiers -- Two Stage Classifiers -- Pair-Wise Classifiers -- Fusion Methods -- Data -- Results -- Conclusions and Remarks -- References -- Ensembles of Probability Estimation Trees for Customer Churn Prediction -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Probability Estimation Trees -- Ensemble Classification -- Lift -- Experimental Validation -- Data -- Experimental Settings -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Evolving Ensembles of Feature Subsets towards Optimal Feature Selection for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Clustering -- Introduction -- Related Work on Feature Selection and Feature Ranking -- The Unsupervised Scenario -- The Semi-supervised Scenario -- Constructing an Ensemble of Near-Optimal Feature Subsets -- The Unsupervised Scenario -- The Semi-supervised Scenario -- Feature Selection -- Experiments -- Conclusion -- References -- Building a New Classifier in an Ensemble Using Streaming Unlabeled Data -- Random Projections for SVM Ensembles -- Introduction -- Random Projections -- Experiments -- Kappa-Error Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- Introduction -- Ensemble Approach for Streaming Unlabeled Data -- Suspicious Streaming Data -- Ensemble Method Using Suspicious Streaming Samples -- Experiments -- Results on Synthetic Streaming Data -- Results on Intrusion Detection Data -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Rotation Forest on Microarray Domain: PCA versus ICA -- Introduction -- Rotation Forest -- Experimental Setting -- Experimental Results -- Conclusions -- References -- An Empirical Study of Multilayer Perceptron Ensembles for Regression Tasks -- Introduction -- Experimental Settings -- Results -- Diversity-Error Diagrams -- Conclusions -- References. , Ensemble Methods and Model Based Diagnosis Using Possible Conflicts and System Decomposition -- Introduction -- Possible Conflicts for On Line CBD and System Decomposition -- Time Series Classifiers for Fault Identification -- Attribute and Class Selection via Possible Conflicts -- A Case Study -- Experimental Evaluation -- Conclusions and Further Work -- References -- Evolutionary Computation and Applications -- Entropy-Based Evaluation Relaxation Strategy for Bayesian Optimization Algorithm -- Introduction -- Related Work -- Entropy Measurement of Populations -- Entropy-Based Evaluation Relaxation Strategy for Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (eBOA) -- The Algorithm -- On-Demand Evaluation Strategy (ODES) -- Sporadic Evaluation -- Experiments and Discussion -- Test Problems -- Experimental Results -- Conclusion -- References -- A New Artificial Immune System for Solving the Maximum Satisfiability Problem -- Introduction -- Problem Formulation -- Artificial Immune Systems -- The Proposed Approach -- Experimental Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Power-Aware Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization for Application Mapping on NoC Platforms -- Introduction -- IP Assignment and Mapping Problems -- Task Graph and IP Repository Models -- Power-Aware Multi-objective Evolutionary Approach -- Representation -- Assignment Evaluation -- Mapping Evaluation -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- A Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm for Solving the Weighted Ring Arc Loading Problem -- Introduction -- WRALP Definition -- The Proposed Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- A Parallel Genetic Algorithm on a Multi-Processor System-on-Chip -- Introduction -- Multi-Processor System-on-Chip Platform -- Parallel Genetic Algorithm -- Topology Strategies -- Simulation Results -- Conclusions -- References. , The Influence of Using Design Patterns on the Process of Implementing Genetic Algorithms -- Introduction -- Genetic Algorithms -- Design Patterns -- Evaluation Methods -- The GATATest System -- Evaluation Study -- Summary -- References -- Fuzzy Systems and Applications -- Obtaining Significant Relations in L-Fuzzy Contexts -- Introduction -- Use of Linguistic Labels in L-Fuzzy Contexts -- Linguistic Variables -- Obtaining L-Fuzzy Contexts with Significant Relations -- L-Fuzzy Contexts with Anomalous Values -- Use of the Labels Associated with Objects and Attributes in L-Fuzzy Contexts with Anomalous Values -- Replacement of the Erroneous Values -- Conclusions -- References -- Knowledge Extraction Based on Fuzzy Unsupervised Decision Tree: Application to an Emergency Call Center -- Introduction -- Emergency Call Center Problem -- Decision Trees -- Unsupervised Decision Trees -- Fuzzy Clustering -- Quality Indexes -- Methodology -- Data Gathering and Pre-processing -- Initial Features Selection and Fuzzification -- FUDT Construction -- Experimental Results of FUDT -- Conclusions -- References -- Optimization of Embedded Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems in Wireless Sensor Network Nodes -- Introduction -- Distributed Architecture for Fuzzy Rule-Based System Embedded in Wireless Sensor Network -- Fuzzy Rule-Based System Embedded in Sensor Modular Structure Description -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- An Algorithm for Online Self-organization of Fuzzy Controllers -- Introduction -- Online Self-organization of Fuzzy Controllers -- Stage One: Adaptation of the Rule Consequents -- Stage Two: Modification of the Topology -- Simulation Results -- Conclusions -- References -- A Mechanism of Output Constraint Handling for Analytical Fuzzy Controllers -- Introduction -- Mechanism of Output Constraint Handling -- Simulation Experiments -- Summary -- References. , Analysis of the Performance of a Semantic Interpretability-Based Tuning and Rule Selection of Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems by Means of a Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm -- Introduction -- A Semantic Interpretability Index -- MFs Displacement Measure (δ) -- MFs Lateral Amplitude Rate Measure (γ) -- MFs Area Similarity Measure (ρ) -- Semantics Based Interpretability Index: Gm3m -- MOEA for Rule Selection and Tuning of FRBSs -- Coding Scheme and Initial Gene Pool -- Objectives -- Crossover and Mutation -- Main Characteristics of TSSP2−SI -- Analysis of the Performance of the Combined Action of Both, Rule Selection and Tuning -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Testing for Heteroskedasticity of the Residuals in Fuzzy Rule-Based Models -- Introduction -- Heteroskedasticity in Time Series Modeling -- Fuzzy Rule-Based Models for Time Series Analysis -- Test of Homoscedasticity of the Residuals of an FRBM -- Empirical Evaluation -- Conclusions and Final Remarks -- References -- Heuristic Methods and Swarm Intelligence for Optimization -- Heuristic Methods Applied to the Optimization School Bus Transportation Routes: A Real Case -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- The School Bus Problem -- The School Bus Problem -- Experiments and Results -- Results -- Conclusions and Future Works -- References -- Particle Swarm Optimization in Exploratory Data Analysis -- Introduction -- Particle Swarm Optimization -- PSO in Exploratory Data Analysis -- Principal Component Analysis -- Exploratory Projection Pursuit -- Principal Component Analysis with Q-Learning -- Topology Preserving Manifolds -- Conclusion -- References -- Using the Bees Algorithm to Assign Terminals to Concentrators -- Introduction -- Terminal Assignment Problem -- Bees Algorithm -- Results -- Conclusions -- References -- Multicriteria Assignment Problem -- Introduction -- Problem Statement. , Solving Scheme.