Contents:

• Uncertainty Management:
• Data Mining by the Self-Organizing Map Method (T Kohonen)
• Toward a Theory of Fuzzy Veristic Variables (R R Yager)
• A Generalizing Look at Sigma Counts of Fuzzy Sets (M Wygralak)
• A Qualitative Approach for Processing Uncertainty (H Seridi & H Akdag)
• A Simple Possibilistic Modelization of Measurement Uncertainty (V Lasserre et al.)
• Analogy as a Basis of Various Forms of Approximate Reasoning (B Bouchon-Meunier et al.)
• Extension of Totally Coherent Interval-Valued Probability Assessments (A Gilio & S Ingrassia)
• Systems Modelling:
• Modelling, Simulation and Behavior Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with a New Fuzzy–Fractal–Genetic Approach (O Castillo & P Melin)
• Supervisory Fuzzy Controller (J J Buckley & T Feuring)
• Hierarchical Fuzzy Logic Control (M Mohammadian & R J Stonier)
• Learning and Optimization:
• A Machine Learning Technique for Helping the Knowledge Acquisition Process (J L Castro et al.)
• Use of Attribute Selection Criteria in Decision Trees in Uncertain Domains (B Crémilleux & C Robert)
• Mass Assignment Based Induction of Linguistic Decision Trees (J F Baldwin et al.)
• Using Maximum Entropy to Estimate Missing Information in Tree-Like Causal Networks (G R Garside et al.)
• Why Leximin FCSPs are So Hard for Local Search (J Moura Pires et al.)
• Neural Relevance Feedback for Information Retrieval (F Crestani)
• GA-P-Based Feature Selection and Classification Combining Different Methods of Texture Analysis (F Cano et al.)
• Applications:
• Data Fusion Using a Multi-Agent Architecture Application to Artillery Localization (S Gatepaille et al.)
• Fuzzy Decision Trees to Extract Features of Odorous Molecules (C Marsala et al.)
• Document Retrieval from Multiple Sources of Information (G Pasi & R R Yager)
• The Progressing of Fuzzy-Logic Control Applications to the Belgian Reactor 1 (D Ruan)
• Audit Risk Assessment: An Imperfect Knowledge-Based Model (C Lesage)
• Operational Risk Measurement in Financial Institutions: A Fuzzy Logic Approach (S Scandizzo)