Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies: Proceedings of the Second KES International Symposium IDT 2010

Keynote Papers.- Intelligence Analysis as Agent-Assisted Discovery of Evidence, Hypotheses and Arguments.- Intelligent Software for Ecological Building Design.- Decision Making Theory.- Issues in Aggregating AHP/ANP Scales.- An Application of Dominant Method: Empirical Approach to Public Sector Reform.- General Application of a Decision Support Framework for Software Testing Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques.- A Double-Shell Design Approach for Multiobjective Optimal Design of Microgrids.- A Comparison of Dominant AHP/CCM and AHP/ANP.- The Weighted Least Square Method Applied to the Binary and Ternary AHP.- Decision-Making by "Minor ANP" and Classification of the Types.- Improving the E-Store Business Model for Satisfying Customers' Needs Using a Hybrid MCDM Combined DANP with Grey Relational Model.- Advances in Intelligent Decision Systems.- Multi-Agent System Protecting from Attacking with Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- An Implementation of a Multi-attribute Negotiation Protocol for E-Commerce.- A Decision Support System for Ore Blending Cost Optimization Problem of Blast Furnaces.- Intelligent Decision Technologies in Accounting and Finance.- A Study on the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Pricing for Initial Public Offerings: The Application of Artificial Neural Networks.- Combining ICA with Kernel Based Regressions for Trading Support Systems on Financial Options.- Integration of Financial and Non-financial Information for Decision-Making by Using Goal Programming and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process on a Capital Budgeting Investment Case Study.- Optimization-Based Intelligent Techniques in Image Processing.- A Statistical Tailored Image Reconstruction from Projections Method.- Realistic 3D-Modeling of Forest Growth with Natural Effect.- E-commerce and Logistics Management.- A Parallel Simulated Annealing Solution for VRPTW Based on GPU Acceleration.- Evidential Reasoning Approach for MADA under Group and Fuzzy Decision Environment.- Study on the Inventory Forecasting in Supply Chains Based on Rough Set Theory and Improved BP Neural Network.- A Model of Disruption Management for Solving Delivery Delay.- A Real-Time Scheduling Method for a Variable-Route Bus in a Community.- A Fair Transaction Protocol with an Offline Semi-Trusted Third Party.- Impacts of Supply Chain Globalization on Quality Management and Firm Performance: Some Evidences in Shanghai, China.- Intelligent Spatial Decision Analysis.- Analysis of Fuzzyness in Spatial Variation of Real Estate Market: Some Italian Case Studies.- Assessing Macroseismic Data Reliability through Rough Set Theory: Application on Vulture Area (Basilicata, Southern Italy).- Fire Data Analysis and Feature Reduction Using Computational Intelligence Methods.- The Effect of Standardization in Multicriteria Decision Analysis on Health Policy Outcomes.- A Fuzzy Approach to the Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Italy.- Geographical Information Systems and Ontologies: Two Instruments for Building Spatial Analysis Systems.- Real Estate Decision Making Processes and Web-Based Applications: An Integrated Approach.- Geographical and Multi-criteria Approach for Hydro-geological Risk Evaluation in Decision Making Processes.- Analysis of Vulnerability of Road Networks on the Basis of Graph Topology and Related Attribute Information.- Using Intelligent Systems for Decision Support in Health Systems.- Adoption of Open Source Software in Healthcare.- Symbiotic Simulation Decision Support System for Injury Prevention.- Application of Subjective Logic to Health Research Surveys.- A Survey of Text Extraction Tools for Intelligent Healthcare Decision Support Systems.- Ontology-Based KMS and DMSS for Service Systems.- Towards Semantic-Aware and Ontology-Based e-Government Service Integration - An Applicative Case Study of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Scholarship Program.- Using Feature Selection with Bagging and Rule Extraction in Drug Discovery.- Validating and Designing a Service