9:00 Registration

9:30 Opening Session

• Aida Valls, General Chair, MDAI 2006
• Josep Domingo, General Chair, MDAI 2006
• Vicenç Torra, Program Committee co-chair, MDAI 2006
• Yasuo Narukawa, Program Committee co-chair, MDAI 2006

10:00 Plenary talk:

• J. Dujmovic (San Francisco State University, USA), Chair: V. Torra
  Asymmetric and Compound Preference Aggregators

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 Session M1: Decision: Applications Chair: D. Riaño

• Evaluating model construction methods with objective rule evaluation indices to support human experts
  H. Abe, S. Tsumoto, M. Ohsaki, T. Yamaguchi
• A multicriteria fuzzy decision system to sort contaminated soils
  M. Garcia, E. López, V. Kumar, A. Valls
• A comparing method of two team behaviours in the simulation coach competititon
  J. A. Iglesias, A. Ledezma, A. Sanchis
• On the use of tools based on fuzzy set theories in parametric software cost estimation
  F. J. Crespo, Ó. Marbán
• Using fuzzy set theory to assess country-of-origin effects on the formation of product attitude
  K. Brijs, K. Vanhoof, T. Brijs, D. Karlis

13:15 Lunch time (planned near the conference site)

15:00 Plenary talk:

• J. Sabater (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia, Spain), Chair: J. Domingo
  Towards the next generation of computational trust and reputation models

16:15 Break

16:30 Session M2: Aggregation Operators and Fuzzy Measures - I Chair: R. Mesiar

• Non-monotonic fuzzy measures and intuitionistic fuzzy sets
  Y. Narukawa, V. Torra
• A defuzzification method of fuzzy numbers induced from weighted aggregation operations
  Y. Yoshida
• Classifying Fuzzy Measures
  L. Garmendia

18:30 Guided tour to Tarragona

8:30 Session T1-A: Decision - I Chair: H. Abe

• Preference modeling by rectangular bilattices
  O. Arieli, C. Cornelis, G. Deschrijver
• Measuring the specificity of fuzzy sets on infinite domains
  L. Garmendia, A. Salvador
• An agent negotiation engine for collaborative decision making
  T. Wanyama, B. H. Far
• Learning causal bayesian networks from observations and experiments: a decision theoretic approach
  S. Meganck, P. Leray, B. Manderick

08:30 Session T1-B: Clustering Chair: Y. Endo

• Clustering and aggregation of web query session data for user profiling
  D. Nettleton
• Path bitmap indexing for retrieval of XML documents
  J,-M. Lee, B.-Y. Hwang
• On fuzzy c-means for data with tolerance
  R. Murata, Y. Endo, H. Haruyama, S. Miyamoto
• Towards automatic generation of interpretation as a tool for modelling decisions
  K. Gibert, A. Perez Bonilla

10:00 Plenary talk:

• M. Sugeno (Doshisha University, Japan), Chair: Y. Narukawa
  Computational models of language toward brain-style computing

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 Session T2: Aggregation Operators and Fuzzy Measures - II Chair: Y. Yoshida

• Decision aggregation in an agent-based financial investment planning system
  Z. Zhang
• Generated universal fuzzy measures
  R. Mesiar, A. Mesiarová, L. Valásková
• Aggregation of valued relations applied to association rule interestingness measures
  J.-P. Barthélemy, A. Legrain, P. Lenca, B. Vaillant
• On the relationship between the quantifier threshold and OWA operators
  L. Troiano, R. R. Yager
• On a characterization of IF probability
  J. Petrovicova, B. Riecan

13:15 Lunch time (planned near the conference site)

15:00 Session T3: Information Fusion Chair: L. Troiano

• Fusion of sensory information, internal models, and policy in autonomic computing systems
  B. Barry, J. Strassner
• OEGMerge: a case-based model for merging ontologies
  M. Fernandez-Lopez, A. Gomez-Perez, J. A. Ramos
• Concurrent fusion via sampling and LinOP-aggregation for medical data
  A. Holland, M. Fathi

16:00 Session T4: Learning - I Chair: E. Herrera-Viedma

• Bayesian correction for SNP ascertainment bias
  M. M. Abad-Grau, P. Sebastiani
• Improving fuzzy rule-based decision models by means of a genetic 2-tuples based tuning and the rule selection
  R. Alcalá, J. Alcalá-Fdez, F. J. Berlanga, M. J. Gacto, F. Herrera
• An application of support vector machine to companies' financial distress prediction
  X.-F. Hui, J. Sun
• On the use of variable-size fuzzy clustering for classification
  V. Torra, S. Miyamoto

19:30 Reception in Tarragona Town Hall

21:00 Conference dinner

09:00 Session W1-A: Learning - II Chair: K. Gibert

• Probabilistic verification of uncertain systems using bounded-parameter markov decision processes
  D. Wu, X. Koutsoukos
• Embedding sample points relevance in linear SVM classification
  B. Apolloni, D. Malchiodi
• Toward the development of a population model by a multi-agent simulator
  K. Hirayama

9:00 Session W1-B: Decision - II Chair: F. Herrera

• Strategies to manage ignorance situations in multiperson decision making problems
  S. Alonso, E. Herrera-Viedma, F. Chiclana, F. Herrera, C. Porcel
• The pairwise comparison model: the multiplicative and the additive approach
  A. J. Herencia-Leva, M. T. Lamata, C. Perez-Melendez
• Simultaneous decision networks with multiple objectives as support for strategic planning
  I. Blecic, A. Cecchini, G. A. Trunfio

10:00 Plenary talk:

• S. Greco (University of Catania, Italy), Chair: V. Torra
  Dominance-based rough set approach to case-based reasoning

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 Session W2-A: Learning - III Chair: D. Nettleton

• Reducing the amount of input data in traffic sign classification
  A. Granados, A. Ledezma, G. Gutierrez, A. Sanchis
• Modality argumentation programming
  J. C. Nieves, U. Cortes

11:30 Session W2-B: Privacy and risk assessment Chair: F. Sebé

• Integrated fuzzy approach for system modeling and risk assessment
  V. Kumar, M. Schuhmacher, M. Garcia
• Watermarking non-numerical databases
  A. Solanas, J. Domingo-Ferrer
• New approach to the re-identification problem using neural networks
  J. Nin, V. Torra

12:40 Closing remarks

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