6. SMPS 2012: Konstanz, Germany
Rudolf Kruse, Michael R. Berthold, Christian Moewes, María Angeles Gil, Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski, Olgierd Hryniewicz (Eds.): Synergies of Soft Computing and Statistics for Intelligent Data Analysis, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, SMPS 2012, Konstanz, Germany, October 4-6, 2012. Springer 2013 Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 190 ISBN 978-3-642-33041-4
Invited Papers
Christian Borgelt: Soft Pattern Mining in Neuroscience. 3-10
Lawrence O. Hall: Exploring Big Data with Scalable Soft Clustering. 11-15
Hannu Toivonen, Oskar Gross, Jukka M. Toivanen, Alessandro Valitutti: On Creative Uses of Word Associations. 17-24
Foundations
Sébastien Destercke, Violaine Antoine: Combining Imprecise Probability Masses with Maximal Coherent Subsets: Application to Ensemble Classification. 27-35
Erik Quaeghebeur: The CONEstrip Algorithm. 45-54
Alessandro Ferrero, Marco Prioli, Simona Salicone, Barbara Vantaggi: 2D Probability-Possibility Transformations. 63-72
Tommaso Flaminio, Lluis Godo Lacasa: A Note on the Convex Structure of Uncertainty Measures on MV-algebras. 73-81
Xuecheng Liu, Shoumei Li: Cumulative Distribution Function Estimation with Fuzzy Data: Some Estimators and Further Problems. 83-91
Marek T. Malinowski: On Equations with a Fuzzy Stochastic Integral with Respect to Semimartingales. 93-101
Statistical Methods
Ángela Blanco-Fernández, Ana Colubi, Marta García-Bárzana, Manuel Montenegro: A Linear Regression Model for Interval-Valued Response Based on Set Arithmetic. 105-113
Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani: A Proposal of Robust Regression for Random Fuzzy Sets. 115-123
Ana Belén Ramos-Guajardo, María Asunción Lubiano, Gil González-Rodríguez: Bootstrap Comparison of Statistics for Testing the Homoscedasticity of Random Fuzzy Sets. 125-133
Sara de la Rosa de Sáa, María Angeles Gil, María Teresa López García, María Asunción Lubiano: Fuzzy Rating vs. Fuzzy Conversion Scales: An Empirical Comparison through the MSE. 135-143
Li Guan, Shoumei Li: A Law of Large Numbers for Exchangeable Random Variables on Nonadditive Measures. 145-152
Gholamreza Hesamian, Seyed Mahmood Taheri: Credibility Theory Oriented Sign Test for Imprecise Observations and Imprecise Hypotheses. 153-163
Xia Wang: A Note on Large Deviations of Random Sets and Random Upper Semicontinuous Functions. 165-172
Rui Jorge Almeida, Nalan Bastürk, Uzay Kaymak, João Miguel da Costa Sousa: Conditional Density Estimation Using Fuzzy GARCH Models. 173-181


Shahram Shahraki, Mohammad Reza Akbarzadeh-Tutunchy: Continuous Gaussian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm. 211-218
Bülent Tütmez, Uzay Kaymak: Regional Spatial Analysis Combining Fuzzy Clustering and Non-parametric Correlation. 219-227
Alfonso García-Pérez: The p-value Line: A Way to Choose from Different Test Results. 229-236
Moritz Gschwandtner, Peter Filzmoser: Outlier Detection in High Dimension Using Regularization. 237-244
Karel Hron, Peter Filzmoser: Robust Diagnostics of Fuzzy Clustering Results Using the Compositional Approach. 245-253
Jana Jurecková, Radim Navrátil: Rank Tests under Uncertainty: Regression and Local Heteroscedasticity. 255-261
Marco Turchi, Domenico Perrotta, Marco Riani, Andrea Cerioli: Robustness Issues in Text Mining. 263-272
Beatriz Sinova, Gil González-Rodríguez, Stefan Van Aelst: An Alternative Approach to the Median of a Random Interval Using an L 2 Metric. 273-281
Andrea Wiencierz, Marco E. G. V. Cattaneo: An Exact Algorithm for Likelihood-Based Imprecise Regression in the Case of Simple Linear Regression with Interval Data. 293-301
Mathematical Aspects

Fabrizio Durante, Enrico Foscolo, Miroslav Sabo: A Spatial Contagion Test for Financial Markets. 313-320
Piotr Jaworski: On Copulas and Differential Inclusions. 321-329
Jan-Frederik Mai, Matthias Scherer, Natalia Shenkman: An Analytical Characterization of the Exchangeable Wide-Sense Geometric Law. 331-340
Wolfgang Trutschnig: Some Smoothing Properties of the Star Product of Copulas. 349-357
Marek Gagolewski: Statistical Hypothesis Test for the Difference between Hirsch Indices of Two Pareto-Distributed Random Samples. 359-367
Davide Martinetti, Antonio Lucadamo, Susana Montes: How to Introduce Fuzzy Rationality Measures and Fuzzy Revealed Preferences into a Discrete Choice Model. 369-377
David Sikora, Martin Stepnicka, Lenka Vavrickova: Fuzzy Rule-Based Ensemble Forecasting: Introductory Study. 379-387
Angelo Gilio, Giuseppe Sanfilippo: Conjunction, Disjunction and Iterated Conditioning of Conditional Events. 399-407
Gernot D. Kleiter: Ockham's Razor in Probability Logic. 409-417
Jirina Vejnarová: Evidential Networks from a Different Perspective. 429-436
Engineering
Balasubramaniam Jayaram, Frank Klawonn: Generalised Median Polish Based on Additive Generators. 439-448
Janusz Kacprzyk, Slawomir Zadrozny: Grasping the Content of Web Servers Logs: A Linguistic Summarization Approach. 449-457
Arif ul Maula Khan, Ralf Mikut, Brigitte Schweitzer, Carsten Weiss, Markus Reischl: Automatic Tuning of Image Segmentation Parameters by Means of Fuzzy Feature Evaluation. 459-467
Ruben D. M. A. Pereira, João Miguel da Costa Sousa, Susana M. Vieira, Shane R. Reti, Stan N. Finkelstein: Modified Sequential Forward Selection Applied to Predicting Septic Shock Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit. 469-477
Raouia Ayachi, Nahla Ben Amor, Salem Benferhat: Possibilistic Local Structure for Compiling Min-Based Networks. 479-487
Vandna Jowaheer, Brajendra C. Sutradhar, Zhaozhi Fan: Inferences in Binary Regression Models for Independent Data with Measurement Errors in Covariates. 499-505
Mark Last, Alexandra Zhmudyak, Hezi Halpert, Sugato Chakrabarty: Multi-dimensional Failure Probability Estimation in Automotive Industry Based on Censored Warranty Data. 507-515
Aljoscha Klose, Jan Wendler, Jörg Gebhardt, Heinz Detmer: Resolution of Inconsistent Revision Problems in Markov Networks. 517-524
Christian Moewes, Rudolf Kruse, Bernhard A. Sabel: Analysis of Dynamic Brain Networks Using VAR Models. 525-532
Fabian Schmidt, Martin Spott: Visualising Temporal Item Sets: Guided Drill-Down with Hierarchical Attributes. 533-541
Jukka Corander, Timo Koski, Tatjana Pavlenko, Annika Tillander: Bayesian Block-Diagonal Predictive Classifier for Gaussian Data. 543-551
Alexander Lepskiy: Stochastic Measure of Informativity and Its Application to the Task of Stable Extraction of Features. 553-561
Thomas A. Runkler: Merging Partitions Using Similarities of Anchor Subsets. 573-581



