Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering

A large international conference, Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering, was held in Hong Kong, March 21–23, 2007, under the International MultiConf- ence of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS) 2007.

A Metamodel-Assisted Steady-State Evolution Strategy for Simulation-Based Optimization.- Automatically Defined Groups for Knowledge Acquisition from Computer Logs and Its Extension for Adaptive Agent Size.- Robust Hybrid Sliding Mode Control for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using Output Recurrent CMAC.- A Dynamic GA-Based Rhythm Generator.- Evolutionary Particle Swarm Optimization: A Metaoptimization Method with GA for Estimating Optimal PSO Models.- Human-Robot Interaction as a Cooperative Game.- Swarm and Entropic Modeling for Landmine Detection Robots.- Iris Recognition Based on 2D Wavelet and AdaBoost Neural Network.- An Improved Multiclassifier for Soft Fault Diagnosis of Analog Circuits.- The Effect of Background Knowledge in Graph-Based Learning in the Chemoinformatics Domain.- Clustering Dependencies with Support Vectors.- A Comparative Study of Gender Assignment in a Standard Genetic Algorithm.- PSO Algorithm for Primer Design.- Genetic Algorithms and Heuristic Rules for Solving the Nesting Problem in the Package Industry.- MCSA-CNN Algorithm for Image Noise Cancellation.- An Integrated Approach Providing Exact SNP IDs from Sequences.- Pseudo-Reverse Approach in Genetic Evolution.- Microarray Data Feature Selection Using Hybrid GA-IBPSO.- Discrete-Time Model Representations for Biochemical Pathways.- Performance Evaluation of Decision Tree for Intrusion Detection Using Reduced Feature Spaces.- Novel and Efficient Hybrid Strategies for Constraining the Search Space in Frequent Itemset Mining.- Detecting Similar Negotiation Strategies.- Neural Networks Applied to Medical Data for Prediction of Patient Outcome.- Prediction Method for Real Thai Stock Index Based on Neurofuzzy Approach.- Innovative Technology Management System with Bibliometrics in the Context of Technology Intelligence.- Cobweb/IDX: Mapping Cobweb to SQL.- Interoperability of Performance and Functional Analysis for Electronic System Designs in Behavioural Hybrid Process Calculus (BHPC).- Partitioning Strategy for Embedded Multiprocessor FPGA Systems.- Interpretation of Sound Tomography Image for the Recognition of Ganoderma Infection Level in Oil Palm.- A Secure Multiagent Intelligent Conceptual Framework for Modeling Enterprise Resource Planning.- On Generating Algebraic Equations for A5-Type Key Stream Generator.- A Simulation-Based Study on Memory Design Issues for Embedded Systems.- SimDiv: A New Solution for Protein Comparison.- Using Filtering Algorithm for Partial Similarity Search on 3D Shape Retrieval System.- Topic-Specific Language Model Based on Graph Spectral Approach for Speech Recognition.- Automatic Construction of FSA Language Model for Speech Recognition by FSA DP-Matching.- Density: A Context Parameter of Ad Hoc Networks.- Integrating Design by Contract Focusing Maximum Benefit.- Performance Engineering for Enterprise Applications.- A Framework for UML-Based Software Component Testing.- Extending the Service Domain of an Interactive Bounded Queue.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to Cluster Detection.- Transforming the Natural Language Text for Improving Compression Performance.- Compression Using Encryption.