Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis

ThesearetheproceedingsofthefourthbiennialconferenceintheIntelligentData Analysisseries. TheconferencetookplaceinCascais,Portugal,13-15September 2001. Thethemeofthisconferenceseriesistheuseofcomputersinintelligent waysindataanalysis,includingtheexplorationofintelligentprogramsfordata analysis. Dataanalytictoolscontinuetodevelop,drivenbythecomputerrevo- tion. Methodswhichwouldhaverequiredunimaginableamountsofcomputing power,andwhichwouldhavetakenyearstoreachaconclusion,cannowbe appliedwitheaseandvirtuallyinstantly. Suchmethodsarebeingdevelopedby avarietyofintellectualcommunities,includingstatistics,arti?cialintelligence, neuralnetworks,machinelearning,datamining,andinteractivedynamicdata visualization. Thisconferenceseriesseekstobringtogetherresearchersstudying theuseofintelligentdataanalysisinthesevariousdisciplines,tostimulate- teractionsothateachdisciplinemaylearnfromtheothers. Soastoencourage suchinteraction,wedeliberatelykepttheconferencetoasingletrackmeeting. Thismeantthat,ofthealmost150submissionswereceived,wewereableto selectonly23fororalpresentationand16forposterpresentation. Inaddition tothesecontributedpapers,therewasakeynoteaddressfromDarylPregibon, invitedpresentationsfromKatharinaMorik,RolfBackhofen,andSunilRao,and aspecial'datachallenge'session,whereresearchersdescribedtheirattemptsto analyseachallengingdatasetprovidedbyPaulCohen. Thisacceptancerate enabledustoensureahighqualityconference,whilealsopermittingustop- videgoodcoverageofthevarioustopicssubsumedwithinthegeneralheading ofintelligentdataanalysis. Wewouldliketoexpressourthanksandappreciationtoeveryoneinvolved intheorganizationofthemeetingandtheselectionofthepapers. Itisthe behind-the-scenese?ortswhichensurethesmoothrunningandsuccessofany conference. Wewouldalsoliketoexpressourgratitudetothesponsors:Fundac" ,ao paraaCienciaeaTecnologia,Minist'eriodaCienciaedaTecnologia,Faculdade deCienciaseTecnologia,UniversidadeNovadeLisboa,Funda,c"aoCalousteG- benkianandIPEInvestimentoseParticipac" ,oesEmpresariais,S. A. September2001 FrankHo?mann DavidJ. Hand NiallAdams GabrielaGuimaraes DougFisher Organization IDA2001wasorganizedbythedepartmentofComputerScience,NewUniversity ofLisbon. ConferenceCommittee GeneralChair: DouglasFisher(VanderbiltUniversity,USA) ProgramChairs: DavidJ. Hand(ImperialCollege,UK) NiallAdams(ImperialCollege,UK) ConferenceChair: GabrielaGuimaraes(NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal) PublicityChair: FrankHoppner(Univ. ofAppl. SciencesEmden,Germany) PublicationChair: FrankHo?mann(RoyalInstituteofTechnology,Sweden) LocalChair: FernandoMoura-Pires(UniversityofEvora,Portugal) AreaChairs: RobertaSiciliano(UniversityofNaples,Italy) ArnoSiebes(CWI,TheNetherlands) PavelBrazdil(UniversityofPorto,Portugal) ProgramCommittee NiallAdams(ImperialCollege,UK) PieterAdriaans(Syllogic,TheNetherlands) RussellAlmond(EducationalTestingService,USA) ThomasBack(InformatikCentrumDortmund,Germany) RiccardoBellazzi(UniversityofPavia,Italy) MichaelBerthold(Tripos,USA) LiuBing(NationalUniversityofSingapore) PaulCohen(UniversityofMassachusetts,USA) PaulDarius(LeuvenUniversity,Belgium) FazelFamili(NationalResearchCouncil,Canada) DouglasFisher(VanderbiltUniversity,USA) KarlFroeschl(UniversityofVienna,Austria) AlexGammerman(RoyalHolloway,UK) AdolfGrauel(UniversityofPaderborn,Germany) GabrielaGuimaraes(NewUniversityofLisbon,Portugal) LawrenceO. Hall(UniversityofSouthFlorida,USA) FrankHo?mann(RoyalInstituteofTechnology,Sweden) AdeleHowe(ColoradoStateUniversity,USA) Klaus-PeterHuber(SASInstitute,Germany) DavidJensen(UniversityofMassachusetts,USA) JoostKok(LeidenUniversity,TheNetherlands) RudolfKruse(UniversityofMagdeburg,Germany) FrankKlawonn(UniversityofAppliedSciencesEmden,Germany) VIII Organization HansLenz(FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany) DavidMadigan(Soliloquy,USA) RainerMalaka(EuropeanMediaLaboratory,Germany) HeikkiMannila(Nokia,Finland) FernandoMouraPires(UniversityofEvora,Portugal) SusanaNascimento(UniversityofLisbon,Portugal) WayneOldford(UniversityofWaterloo,Canada) AlbertPrat...