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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen

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Mohand-Sa¨id Hacid Zbigniew W. Ra´s Djamel A. Zighed Yves Kodratoff (Eds.)

Foundations of Intelligent Systems 13th International Symposium, ISMIS 2002 Lyon, France, June 27-29, 2002 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Mohand-Sa¨id Hacid Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, UFR d’Informatique 8, boulevard Niels Bohr, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Zbigniew W. Ra´s University of North Carolina, Dept. of Computer Science College of IT, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA E-mail:[email protected] Djamel A. Zighed Université Lumière Lyon 2, Bˆat. L. Equipe de Recherche en Ingénierie des Connaissances 5, avenue Pierre Mendes-France, 69676 Bron Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Yves Kodratoff Université Paris Sud, LRI, Bˆat. 490 91405 Orsay Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Foundations of intelligent systems : 13th international symposium ; proceedings / ISMIS 2002, Lyon, France, June 27 - 29, 2002. Mohand-Saïd Hacid ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Tokyo : Springer, 2002 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2366 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-43785-1 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3, H.2.8, H.4, H.5.2, K.4.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-43785-1 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP-Berlin, Stefan Sossna e.K. Printed on acid-free paper SPIN 10870326 06/3142 543210

Preface This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems – ISMIS 2002, held in Lyon, France, 27-29 June, 2002. The symposium was organized by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, the Université Lumière Lyon 2, l’Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, and hosted by the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. The ISMIS conference series was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since then it has been held in Charlotte (North Carolina), Knoxville (Tennessee), Tur