Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : Third International Conference, MDAI 2006, Tarragona, Spain, April 3-5, 2006, Proceedings /

Invited Talks -- Asymmetric and Compound Preference Aggregators -- Computational Models of Language Toward Brain-Style Computing -- Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach to Case-Based Reasoning -- Towards the Next Generation of Computational Trust and Reputation Models -- Regular Papers -- Preference Modeling by Rectangular Bilattices -- Strategies to Manage Ignorance Situations in Multiperson Decision Making Problems -- An Agent Negotiation Engine for Collaborative Decision Making -- Learning Causal Bayesian Networks from Observations and Experiments: A Decision Theoretic Approach -- The Pairwise Comparison Model: The Multiplicative and the Additive Approach -- Simultaneous Decision Networks with Multiple Objectives as Support for Strategic Planning -- Evaluating Model Construction Methods with Objective Rule Evaluation Indices to Support Human Experts -- A Multicriteria Fuzzy Decision System to Sort Contaminated Soils -- A Comparing Method of Two Team Behaviours in the Simulation Coach Competition -- On the Use of Tools Based on Fuzzy Set Theories in Parametric Software Cost Estimation -- Using Fuzzy Set Theory to Assess Country-of-Origin Effects on the Formation of Product Attitude -- Non-monotonic Fuzzy Measures and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets -- A Defuzzification Method of Fuzzy Numbers Induced from Weighted Aggregation Operations -- Dependent OWA Operators -- Decision Aggregation in an Agent-Based Financial Investment Planning System -- Generated Universal Fuzzy Measures -- Aggregation of Valued Relations Applied to Association Rule Interestingness Measures -- On the Relationship Between the Quantifier Threshold and OWA Operators -- Integrated Fuzzy Approach for System Modeling and Risk Assessment -- Watermarking Non-numerical Databases -- New Approach to the Re-identification Problem Using Neural Networks -- Bayesian Correction for SNP Ascertainment Bias -- An Application of Support Vector Machine to Companies’ Financial Distress Prediction -- Probabilistic Verification of Uncertain Systems Using Bounded-Parameter Markov Decision Processes -- Modality Argumentation Programming -- Feature Selection in SVM Based on the Hybrid of Enhanced Genetic Algorithm and Mutual Information -- Improving Fuzzy Rule-Based Decision Models by Means of a Genetic 2-Tuples Based Tuning and the Rule Selection -- Path Bitmap Indexing for Retrieval of XML Documents -- A Modified Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm for Differentiation in MRI of Ophthalmology -- On Fuzzy c-Means for Data with Tolerance -- On the Use of Variable-Size Fuzzy Clustering for Classification.