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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2006. The book presents 36 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers together with abstracts of 5 invited talks, carefully reviewed and selected from 564 papers submitted. The papers offer a wealth of new results in knowledge discovery in databases and address all current issues in the area.

The book deals with the mathematical model of coalitional cooperation based on vague knowledge of its expected outcomes. This reality is described by the model of coalitional game (with or without transferable utility) in which the expected pay-offs are represented by fuzzy quantities or by fuzzy sets of real-valued vectors. This approach to the fuzziness in the bargaining is new and completes the existing literature on this topic by alternative views. The presentation does not demand deeper tha...

This introduction to Automata and formal languages is designed specifically to be accessible to students with minimal mathematical background. It provides a chapter-length review of the prerequisite mathematical preliminaries; begins with an initially low level of mathematics avoiding rigorous demonstrations where possible in favour of precisely stated theorems and definitions, and arguments that are motivational rather than mathematically complete or elegant. It is designed for students on an i...

This monograph is a follow up to the author's classic text Boolean-Valued Models and Independence Proofs in Set Theory, providing an exposition of some of the most important results in set theory obtained in the 20th century--the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice. Aimed at research students and academics in mathematics, mathematical logic, philosophy, and computer science, the text has been extensively updated with expanded introductory material, new chapters, and...

Making Sense of Inner Sense 'Terra cognita' is terra incognita. It is difficult to find someone not taken abackand fascinated by the incomprehensible but indisputable fact: there are material systems which are aware of themselves. Consciousness is self-cognizing code. During homo sapiens's relentness and often frustrated search for self-understanding various theories of consciousness have been and continue to be proposed. However, it remains unclear whether and at what level the problems...

Graham Solomon, to whom this collection is dedicated, went into hospital for antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in Oc- ber, 2001. Three days later, on Nov. 1, he died of a massive stroke, at the age of 44. Solomon was well liked by those who got the chance to know him-it was a revelation to ?nd out, when helping to sort out his a?airs after his death, how many "friends" he had whom he had actually never met, as his email included correspondence with philosophers around the world running sometimes...

The papers contained in this volume were presented at the third international Workshop on Implementing Automata, held September 17{19,1998, at the U- versity of Rouen, France. Automata theory is the cornerstone of computer science theory. While there is much practical experience with using automata, this work covers diverse - eas,includingparsing,computationallinguistics,speechrecognition,textsear- ing,device controllers,distributed systems, andprotocolanalysis.Consequently, techniques that have...

Nowadays, developers have to face the proliferation of hardware and software environments, the increasing demands of the users, the growing number of p- grams and the sharing of information, competences and services thanks to the generalization ofdatabasesandcommunication networks. Aprogramisnomore a monolithic entity conceived, produced and ?nalized before being used. A p- gram is now seen as an open and adaptive frame, which, for example, can - namically incorporate services not foreseen by th...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, TPHOL '96, held in Turku, Finland, in August 1996.The 27 revised full papers included together with one invited paper were carefully selected from a total of 46 submissions. The topics addressed are theorem proving technology, proof automation and decision procedures, mechanized theorem proving, extensions of higher order logics, integration of external tools, novel appli...

This book constitutes the thoroughly revised post-workshop proceedings of the first annual workshop held under the auspices of the ESPRIT Working Group 21900 TYPES in Aussois, France in December 1996. The 18 revised full papers presented in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 30 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop. All current aspects of type theory and type systems and their applications to program verification and theorem proving are addressed; the proof systems...

The present monograph intends to establish a solid link among three fields: fuzzy set theory, information retrieval, and cluster analysis. Fuzzy set theory supplies new concepts and methods for the other two fields, and provides a common frame­ work within which they can be reorganized. Four principal groups of readers are assumed: researchers or students who are interested in (a) application of fuzzy sets, (b) theory of information retrieval or bibliographic databases, (c) hierarchical clusteri...

Diagrams are widely used in reasoning about problems in physics, mathematics and logic, but have traditionally been considered to be only heuristic tools and not valid elements of mathematical proofs. This book challenges this prejudice against visualisation in the history of logic and mathematics and provides a formal foundation for work on natural reasoning in a visual mode. The author presents Venn diagrams as a formal system of representation equipped with its own syntax and semantics and sp...