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Communications in Computer and Information Science 854
Information Processing
and Management of
Uncertainty in
Knowledge-Based Systems
Theory and Foundations
17th International Conference, IPMU 2018
Cádiz, Spain, June 11–15, 2018
Proceedings, Part II
123
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Jesús Medina Inma P.Cabrera
Universidad deCádiz Universidad deMálaga
Cádiz,Cadiz Málaga, Málaga
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Manuel Ojeda-Aciego Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Universidad deMálaga LIP6
Málaga, Málaga UniversitéPierre etMarie Curie, CNRS
Spain Paris
France
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Universidad deGranada RonaldR. Yager
Granada IonaCollege
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DavidA.Pelta
Universidad deGranada
Granada
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To Lotfi A. Zadeh
Preface
These are the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Pro-
cessing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2018.
The conference was held during June 11–15, in Cádiz, Spain.
The IPMU conference is organized every two years with the aim of bringing
together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and
aggregation of information in intelligent systems. Since 1986, the IPMU conference
has been providing a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and
practitioners working in these areas and related fields.
This IPMU edition held special meaning since one of its co-founders,
Lotfi A. Zadeh, passed away on September 6, 2017. To pay him a well-deserved
tribute, and in memory of his long relationship with IPMU participants, a special
plenary panel was organized to discuss the scientific legacy of his ideas. Renowned
researchers and Lotfi’s good friends made up the panel: it was chaired by
Ronald Yager, while Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Didier Dubois, Janusz Kacprzyk,
Rudolf Kruse, Rudolf Seising, and Enric Trillas acted as panelists. Besides this, a
booklet of pictures with Lotfi Zadeh and friends was compiled and distributed at the
conference.
Following the IPMU tradition, the Kampé de Fériet Award for outstanding contri-
butions to the field of uncertainty and management of uncertainty was presented. Past
winners of this prestigious award were Lotfi A. Zadeh (1992), Ilya Prigogine (1994),
Toshiro Terano (1996), Kenneth Arrow (1998), Richard Jeffrey (2000),
Arthur Dempster (2002), Janos Aczel (2004), Daniel Kahneman (2006), Enric Trillas
(2008),JamesBezdek(2010),MichioSugeno(2012),VladimirN.Vapnik(2014),and
Joseph Y. Halpern (2016). In this 2018 edition, the award was given to Glenn Shafer
(Rutgers University, Newark, USA) for his seminal contributions to the mathematical
theory of evidence and belief functions as well as to the field of reasoning under
uncertainty. The so-called Dempster–Shafer theory, an alternative to the theory of
probability, has been widely applied in engineering and artificial intelligence.
The program consisted of the keynote talk of Glenn Shafer, as recipient of the
Kampé de Feriet Award, five invited plenary talks, two round tables, and 30 special
sessions plus a general track for the presentation of the 190 contributed papers that
were authored by researchers from more than 40 different countries. The plenary
presentations were given by the following distinguished researchers: Gloria Bordogna
(IREA CNR – Institute for the Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment of the
Italian National Research Council), Lluis Godo (Artificial Intelligence Research
Institute of the Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain), Enrique
Herrera-Viedma (Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence,
University of Granada, Spain), Natalio Krasnogor (School of Computing Science at
Newcastle University, UK), and Yiyu Yao (Department of Computer Science,
University of Regina, Canada).
VIII Preface
The conference followed a single-blind review process, respecting the usual
conflict-of-interest standards. The contributions were reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Moreover, the conference chairs further checked the contributions in those
cases were conflicting reviews were obtained. Finally, the accepted papers are pub-
lished in three volumes: Volumes I and II focus on “Theory and Foundations,” while
Volume III is devoted to “Applications.”
The organization of the IPMU 2018 conference was possible thanks to the assis-
tance, dedication, and support of many people and institutions. In particular, this
renowned international conference owes its recognition to the great quality of the
contributions.Thankyouverymuchtoalltheparticipantsfortheircontributionstothe
conference and all the authors for the high quality of their submitted papers. We are
also indebted to our colleagues, members of the Program Committee, and the orga-
nizers of special sessions on hot topics, since the successful organization of this
international conference would not have been possible without their work. They and
the additional reviewers were fundamental in maintaining the excellent scientific
quality of the conference. We gratefully acknowledge the local organization for the
effortsinthesuccessfuldevelopmentofthemultipletasksthatagreateventlikeIPMU
involves.
WealsoacknowledgethesupportreceivedfromdifferentareasoftheUniversityof
Cádiz,includingtheDepartmentofMathematics,thePhDPrograminMathematics,the
Vice-Rectorate ofInfrastructuresandPatrimony,andtheVice-Rectorate forResearch;
the International Global Campus of Excellence of the Sea (CEI(cid:1)Mar) led by the
University of Cádiz and composed of institutions of three different countries; the
EuropeanSocietyforFuzzyLogicandTechnology(EUSFLAT);andtheSpringerteam
who managed the publication of these proceedings. Finally, J. Medina,
M. Ojeda-Aciego, J. L. Verdegay, I. Cabrera, and D. Pelta acknowledge the support
of the following research projects: TIN2016-76653-P, TIN2015-70266-C2-P-1,
TIN2014-55024-P, TIN2017-86647-P, and TIN2017-89023-P (Spanish Ministery of
Economy and Competitiveness, including FEDER funds).
June 2018 Jesús Medina
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego
Irina Perfilieva
José Luis Verdegay
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier
Ronald R. Yager
Inma P. Cabrera
David A. Pelta
Organization
General Chair
Jesús Medina Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Program Chairs
Manuel Ojeda-Aciego Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Irina Perfilieva University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
José Luis Verdegay Universidad de Granada, Spain
Executive Directors
Bernadette LIP6 - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Paris,
Bouchon-Meunier France
Ronald R. Yager Iona College, USA
Sponsors and Publicity Chair
Martin Stepnicka University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Special Sessions Chair
Inma P. Cabrera Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Publication Chair
David A. Pelta Universidad de Granada, Spain
Local Organizing Committee
María José Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Benítez-Caballero
María Eugenia Cornejo Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Juan Carlos Díaz-Moreno Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
David Lobo Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Óscar Martín-Rodríguez Universidad de Granada, Spain
Eloísa Ramírez-Poussa Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
X Organization
International Advisory Board
Anne Laurent Lorenza Saitta
Benedetto Matarazzo Luis Magdalena
Christophe Marsala Manuel Ojeda-Aciego
Enric Trillas Maria Amparo Vila
Eyke Hüllermeier Maria Rifqi
Giulianella Coletti Marie-Jeanne Lesot
João Paulo Carvalho Mario Fedrizzi
José Luis Verdegay Miguel Delgado
Julio Gutierrez-Rios Olivier Strauss
Laurent Foulloy Salvatore Greco
Llorenç Valverde Uzay Kaymak
Program Committee
Michal Baczynski, Poland Francisco Herrera, Spain
Rafael Bello-Pérez, Cuba Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Spain
Jim Bezdek, USA Ludmilla Himmelspach, Germany
Isabelle Bloch, France Janusz Kacprzyk, Poland
Ulrich Bodenhofer, Austria Uzay Kaymak, The Netherlands
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, France James Keller, USA
Humberto Bustince, Spain Laszlo Koczy, Hungary
Inma P. Cabrera, Spain Vladik Kreinovich, USA
Joao Carvalho, Portugal Tomas Kroupa, Italy
Giulianella Coletti, Italy Rudolf Kruse, Germany
Oscar Cordon, Spain Christophe Labreuche, France
Inés Couso, Spain Weldon A. Lodwick, USA
Keeley Crockett, UK Jean-Luc Marichal, Luxembourg
Fabio Cuzzolin, UK Trevor Martin, UK
Bernard De Baets, Belgium Sebastian Massanet, Spain
Guy De Tré, Belgium Gaspar Mayor, Spain
Sébastien Destercke, France Jesús Medina, Spain
Antonio Di Nola, Italy Radko Mesiar, Slovakia
Didier Dubois, France Ralf Mikut, Germany
Fabrizio Durante, Italy Enrique Miranda, Spain
Francesc Esteva, Spain Javier Montero, Spain
Juan C. Figueroa-García, Colombia Jacky Montmain, France
Sylvie Galichet, France Serafín Moral, Spain
Lluis Godo, Spain Zbigniew Nahorski, Poland
Fernando Gomide, Brazil Pavel Novoa, Ecuador
Gil González-Rodríguez, Spain Vilem Novak, Czech Republic
Michel Grabisch, France Hannu Nurmi, Finland
Przemysław Grzegorzewski, Poland Manuel Ojeda-Aciego, Spain
Lawrence Hall, USA Gabriella Pasi, Italy
