9:00 Registration

9:30 Opening Session

• Marta Aymerich, Director, Interministerial Council for Research and Technological Innovation, Government of Catalonia.
• Takahiro Yamauchi, Consul, Consulate General of Japan at Barcelona.
• Vicenç Torra, General Chair, MDAI 2004
• Yasuo Narukawa, co-Chair, MDAI 2004

10:15 Plenary talk:

• Y. Maeda (Fukui U., Japan), Chair: S. Miyamoto
  Introduction to RoboCup Research in Japan

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 Machine Learning and Data Mining Chair: S. Tsumoto

• Stock Price Forecasting: Statistical, Classical and Fuzzy Neural Network Approach
  D. Marcek
• Wavelet Time Shift Properties Integration with Support Vector Machines
  J Gomez, I Melgar, J. Seijas
• A Study on Weighting Training Patterns for fuzzy rule-based classification systems
  T. Nakashima
• A Machine Learning Approach for Modeling Algorithm Performance Predictors
  J. Perez, R. A. Pazos, J. Frausto, L. Cruz, H. Fraire, E. Santiago, N. E. Garcia

13:05 Lunch time (planned near the conference site)

15:00 Applications (I) Chair: S. Sandri

• A Novel Network Traffic Analysis Method based on Fuzzy Association Rules
  X. Yang, W. Yang, M. Zeng, Y. Shi
• Modeling the Distributed Control of the Lower Urinary Tract Using a Multiagent System
  D. Ruiz, J. M. Garcia, F. Macia, A. Soriano
• Mining Diagnostic Taxonomy using Interval-based Similarity from Clinical Databases
  S. Tsumoto

16:00 Applications (II) Chair: I. Kojadinovic

• Combining Multiple Classifiers using Dempster's Rule of Combination for Text Categorization
  Y. Bi, D. Bell, H. Wang, G. Guo, K. Greer
• An Empirical Analysis of Assessment Errors for Weights and Andness in LSP Criteria
  J. J. Dujmovic, W. Y. Fang
• Reliability of LSP Criteria
  J. J. Dujmovic, W. Y. Fang

17:00 Coffee Break

17:20 Late Breaking session Chair: T. Nakashima

• A Multistrategy Approach for Digital Text Categorization
  M. Dolores del Castillo, J. I. Serrano
• A multi-Expert Multi-Criteria Aggregation Model
  G. Canfora, L. Troiano
• On the Central Limit Theorem on IFS-Events
  J. Petrovicova, B. Riecan

18:05 Adjourn

21:00 Conference Dinner: Hotel Le Meridien Barcelona

NOTE: Le Meridien Barcelona is at a walking distance from the conference site

9:30 Plenary talk:

• R. Mesiar (Slovak U. of Techn., Slovakia), Chair: Y. Narukawa
  Fuzzy Integrals

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Aggregation Chair: J. J. Dujmovic

• Unsupervised Aggregation by the Choquet Integral Based on Entropy Functionals: Application to the Evaluation of Students
  I. Kojadinovic
• Preservation of Distinguished Fuzzy Measure Classes by Distortion
  L. Valaskova, P. Struk
• Decision Modelling Using the Choquet Integral
  Y. Narukawa, T. Murofushi

12:00 Student session Chair: H. Imai

• Application of Modified Elitism for the Optical Network Components Selection
  M. A. Dallaali, M. Premaratne
• Application of Controlled Content Crossover to Solve Optical Component Selection Problem with two Constraints
  M. A. Dallaali, M. Premaratne
• Computer Botifarra: simulation and search trees applied to an Imperfect Information Card Game
  C. A. Vallve-Guionnet

12:45 Lunch time (planned near the conference site at 13:00)

15:00 Plenary talk:

• E. Herrera-Viedma (U. Granada, Spain), Chair: V. Torra
  Fuzzy Qualitative Models to Evaluate the Quality on the web

16:00 Linguistic and symbolic models Chair: F. Chiclana

• Measurements of Consensus in Multi-granular Linguistic Group Decision-making
  E. Herrera-Viedma, F. Mata, L. Martinez, F. Chiclana, L. G. Perez
• On Detecting Interactions in Hayashi's Second Method of Quantification
  H. Imai, D. Izawa, K. Yoshida, Y. Sato

16:40 Coffee Break

17:00 Preferences Chair: Y. Yoshida

• A Learning Procedure to Estimate Missing Values in Fuzzy Preference Relations Based on Additive Consistency
  S. Alonso, F. Chiclana, F. Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma
• Decision Making in a Dynamic System Based on Aggregated Fuzzy Preferences
  Y. Yoshida
• Object Positioning Based on Partial Preferences
  J. M. Mateo-Sanz, J. Domingo-Ferrer, V. Torra

18:00 Adjourn

9:30 Plenary talk:

• S. Miyamoto (U. Tsukuba, Japan), Chair: V. Torra
  Multisets and Fuzzy Multisets as a Framework of Information Systems

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Clustering Chair: D. Marcek

• A Comparative Study of Clustering Methods for Long Time-Series Medical Databases
  S. Tsumoto, S. Hirano
• Fuzzy Multiset Model and Methods of Nonlinear Document Clustering for Information Retrieval
  S. Miyamoto, K. Mizutani
• A Feature Weighting Approach to Building Classification Models by Interactive Clustering
  L. Jing, J. Huang, M. K. Ng, H. Rong

12:00 Basic concepts Chair: J. Perez

• A Framework for Representation and Manipulation of Vague Knowledge
  V. N. Huynh, Y. Nakamori
• Comparing Transitive Closure with a New T-transitivization Method
  L. Garmendia, A. Salvador
• On the Interpretation of Some Fuzzy Integrals
  V. Torra, Y. Narukawa

13:00 Closing remarks