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ISBN 978-953-307-999-8 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com [...]... =Europe and Age =18 -24} -> Three Region=Europe and Gender =Female and Cd =Cute -> Three Region=Asia and Gender=Female and Age =18 -24 -> Four Default -> Three Table 5 Rules generated for the design parameter dp32 Confidence 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 10 0.0% 91. 66% 83.33% 83.33% 80.0% 80.0% 80.0% 0.0% 8 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry and. .. steering-wheel) that were above the support No rule 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Rule Region=Europe and Gender =Female and Cd =Classic -> Three Region=Europe and Gender=Female and Cd=Sporty -> Three Region=Asia and Gender=Female and Cd=Classic -> Four Region =Europe and Age =18 -24 and Cd =Cute -> Three Region =Asia and Gender = Male and Cd =Cool -> Three Region=Asia and Age =18 -24... techniques at automotive testing in a wind tunnel have been discussed in years around 19 90 in various papers of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mercker and Knape (19 89) discussed the ground simulation with a moving belt or with tangential blowing Mercker and Wiedemann (19 90) compared the results obtained at different ground simulation techniques 22 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry. .. M (19 97) Hybrid Kansei engineering system and design support International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, Vol 19 , No 2, pp 81 92, 016 9 814 1 Quinlan, J (19 87) Simplifying decision trees International Journal of Man–Machine Studies, Vol 27, pp 2 21 248 Sun, Y.; Wong, A & Wang, Y (2006) An overview of associative classifier, Proceedings of the 2006 International conference on Data mining, pp 13 8 -14 3,... Part 1 Industrial Production Technology 1 Data Mining and Intelligent Agents for Supporting Mass Customization in the Automotive Industry 1Informatics Efthimia Mavridou1,3, Dimitrios Tzovaras1, Evangelos Bekiaris2, Pavlos Spanidis2, Maria Gemou2 and George Hassapis3 and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 6th km Charilaou – Thermi Rd., P.O Box: 603 61, P.C.: 570 01, Thermi,... project provided the data for our study Those included interview surveys of 14 0 truck drivers and 2 61 car drivers from Europe and Asia (China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, 6 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK) We present a case study on the car customer surveys data Each individual car customer was asked to select... • Creating the WSDL corresponding to each agent service registered with the DF and publishes the service in a UDDI registry if needed 10 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Fig 2 WSIG Architecture (Jade 2008) Two main processes are continuously active in the WSIG web application: i The process responsible for intercepting DF registrations/de-registrations and converting them into suitable... 20 New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Fig 5 Sting support system (left) and truck setup in the 9.5x9.5 test section (right) LLF has two standard support systems (Fig 4 and 5): • A sting support system, to which models are mounted via an internal balance This is mostly used for aircraft and helicopter testing, but is also necessary for cars in combination with the moving belt (moving... Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’ 01) , pp 369–376, San Jose, November 20 01, IEEE Computer Society Press,San Jose California Liu, B.; Hsu, W & Ma, Y (19 98) Integrating Classification and Association Rule Mining, Proceedings of the 4rd International Conference Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-98), pp 80-96, New York, Aug 19 98, AAAI Press, New York USA Nagamashi, M (19 89) Kansei Engineering, Kaibundo... administrating and monitoring the activity of running agents Each running instance of the JADE runtime environment is called a ‘Container’ as it can contain several agents A set of active containers is called a ‘Platform’ A single special Main Container should always be active in a platform and all other containers register with it when they start The Main Container differs from normal containers in . NEW TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Edited by Marcello Chiaberge New Trends and Developments in Automotive Industry Edited by Marcello Chiaberge Published by InTech Janeza. Politecnico di Torino Italy Part 1 Industrial Production Technology 1 Data Mining and Intelligent Agents for Supporting Mass Customization in the Automotive Industry Efthimia Mavridou 1, 3 , Dimitrios. and confidence thresholds. Design parameter 11 dp 12 dp 21 dp 22 dp 31 dp 32 dp 41 dp Numbers of rules generated 14 1 97 14 4 84 12 3 44 11 0 Number of rules above thresholds s =10 % and