Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Iberamia 2008: 11th Ibero-american Conference on Ai, Lisbon, Portugal, October 14-17, 2008, Proceedings

by Geffner, Hecto; Prada, Rui; Alexandre, Isabel Machado; David, Nuno

• ISBN13: 9783540883081
• ISBN10: 3540883088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2008, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in October 2008.The 46 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Knowledge Representation; Planning and Scheduling; Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization; Probabilistic Reasoning; Machine Learning; Multiagent Systems; Natural Language Processing; Intelligent Information Systems and NLP; Robotics; and Applications.

Table of Contents

Knowledge Representation
Topology and Knowledge of Multiple Agents	p. 1
A Propositional Dynamic Logic Approach for Order of Magnitude Reasoning	p. 11
Quantum-Based Belief Merging	p. 21
Planning and Scheduling
A Study of Schedule Robustness for Job Shop with Uncertainty	p. 31
A Synergy of Planning and Ontology Concept Ranking for Semantic Web Service Composition	p. 42
Towards the Use of XPDL as Planning and Scheduling Modeling Tool: The Workflow Patterns Approach	p. 52
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
A Heuristic Method for Balanced Graph Partitioning: An Application for the Demarcation of Preventive Police Patrol Areas	p. 62
Using Indexed Finite Set Variables for Set Bounds Propagation	p. 73
Probabilistic Reasoning
Extension of Bayesian Network Classifiers to Regression Problems	p. 83
Transfer Learning for Bayesian Networks	p. 93
Machine Learning
A Dipolar Competitive Neural Network for Video Segmentation	p. 103
Geodesic Generative Topographic Mapping	p. 113
Rough Evolutionary Fuzzy System Based on Interactive T-Norms	p. 123
K-Means Initialization Methods for Improving Clustering by Simulated Annealing	p. 133
Data Reduction Method for Categorical Data Clustering	p. 143
A Multi-measure Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Time Series Classification	p. 153
Detection of Anomalies in Large Datasets Using an Active Learning Scheme Based on Dirichlet Distributions	p. 163
The SKM Algorithm: A K-Means Algorithm for Clustering Sequential Data	p. 173
Multiagent Systems
Ensuring Time in Real-Time Commitments	p. 183
Hybrid Multi-agent Architecture (HoCa) Applied to the Control and Supervision of Patients in Their Homes	p. 193
Mixing Greedy and Evolutive Approaches to Improve Pursuit Strategies
The Evolution of Negotiation and Impasse in Two-Party Multi-issue Bargaining	p. 213
Characters with Character	p. 223
Natural Language Processing
Automatic Generalization of a QA Answer Extraction Module Based on Semantic Roles	p. 233
A Multilingual Application for Automated Essay Scoring	p. 243
Combining Frequent and Discriminating Attributes in the Generation of Definite Descriptions	p. 252
A Machine Learning Approach to Portuguese Pronoun Resolution	p. 262
Text Classification on Embedded Manifolds	p. 272
An Improved Connectionist Translator between Natural Languages	p. 282
Intelligent Information Systems and NLP
A Framework for Information Retrieval Based on Fuzzy Relations and Multiple Ontologies	p. 292
Recommendation System for Automatic Recovery of Broken Web Links	p. 302
Conceptual Subtopic Identification in the Medical Domain	p. 312
Real-Time Open-Domain QA on the Portuguese Web	p. 322
Hyponymy Extraction and Web Search Behavior Analysis Based on Query Reformulation	p. 332
Semantics of Place: Ontology Enrichment	p. 342
Explicit Dynamic User Profiles for a Collaborative Filtering Recommender System	p. 352
Text Retrieval through Corrupted Queries	p. 362
Robotics
Dynamic Velocity Field Angle Generation for Obstacle Avoidance in Mobile Robots Using Hydrodynamics	p. 372
Motion Planning for Cooperative Multi-robot Box-Pushing Problem	p. 382
Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping Using Self Biddings	p. 392
Coordinated Multi-robot Exploration with SRT-Radial	p. 402
On the Selection of a Classification Technique for the Representation and Recognition of Dynamic Gestures	p. 412
Applications
A Fuzzy Hybrid Intelligent System for Human Semen Analysis	p. 422
Genetic Programming for Predicting Protein Networks	p. 432
Fragmentation and Frontier Evolution for Genetic Algorithms Optimization in Music Transcription	p. 442
Applying Genetic Programming to Civil Engineering in the Improvement of Models, Codes and Norms	p. 452
Author Index	p. 461
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