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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Soft-Ware 2002, held in Belfast, North Ireland in April 2002. The 24 revised full papers presented together with seven abstracts of invited presentations and the summary of a panel were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. All presentations are devoted to the effective handling of soft issues in the design, development, and operation of computing systems, from an academic research point of view as well as from the point of view of industrial practice. The papers aim at integrating an interdisciplinary range of disciplines including artificial intelligence, information systems, software engineering, and systems engineering.

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Author:   David Bustard ,  Weiru Liu ,  Roy Sterritt
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2002 ed.
Volume:   2311
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.160kg
ISBN:  

9783540434818

ISBN 10:   354043481
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   27 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Technical Session 1.- Overview of Fuzzy-RED in Diff-Serv Networks.- An Architecture for Agent-Enhanced Network Service Provisioning through SLA Negotiation.- Facing Fault Management as It Is, Aiming for What You Would Like It to Be.- Enabling Multimedia QoS Control with Black-Box Modelling.- Technical Session 2.- Using Markov Chains for Link Prediction in Adaptive Web Sites.- Classification of Customer Call Data in the Presence of Concept Drift and Noise.- A Learning System for Decision Support in Telecommunications.- Adaptive User Modelling in an Intelligent Telephone Assistant.- Technical Session 3.- A Query-Driven Anytime Algorithm for Argumentative and Abductive Reasoning.- Proof Length as an Uncertainty Factor in ILP.- Paraconsistency in Object-Oriented Databases.- Decision Support with Imprecise Data for Consumers.- Genetic Programming: A Parallel Approach.- Software Uncertainty.- Technical Session 4.- Temporal Probabilistic Concepts from Heterogeneous Data Sequences.- Handling Uncertainty in a Medical Study of Dietary Intake during Pregnancy.- Sequential Diagnosis in the Independence Bayesian Framework.- Static Field Approach for Pattern Classification.- Inferring Knowledge from Frequent Patterns.- Anytime Possibilistic Propagation Algorithm.- Technical Session 5.- Macro Analysis of Techniques to Deal with Uncertainty in Information Systems Development: Mapping Representational Framing Influences.- The Role of Emotion, Values, and Beliefs in the Construction of Innovative Work Realities.- Managing Evolving Requirements Using eXtreme Programming.- Text Summarization in Data Mining.- Invited Speakers.- Industrial Applications of Intelligent Systems at BTexact.- Intelligent Control of Wireless and Fixed Telecom Networks.- Assertions in Programming: From Scientific Theory to Engineering Practice.- Hybrid Soft Computing for Classification and Prediction Applications.- Why Users Cannot ‘Get What They Want’.- Systems Design with the Reverend Bayes.- Formalism and Informality in Software Development.- Industrial Panel.- An Industrial Perspective on Soft Issues: Successes, Opportunities and Challenges.

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