AI*IA 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 8th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, September, 2003 : Proceedings

by Turini, Franco; Cappelli, Amedeo; Turini, Franco

• ISBN13: 9783540201199
• ISBN10: 354020119X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2003, held in Pisa, Italy in September 2003.The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and reasoning, soft computing, machine learning, data mining, intelligent agents, planning, robotics, natural language processing, and applications in various fields.

Table of Contents

A Complete Subsumption Algorithm	p. 1
Temporal Decision Trees for Diagnosis: An Extension	p. 14
Obligations as Social Constructs	p. 27
Automatically Decomposing Configuration Problems	p. 39
Bridging the Gap between Horn Clausal Logic and Description Logics in Inductive Learning	p. 53
A Methodology for the Induction of Ontological Knowledge from Semantic Annotations	p. 65
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in a Logical Framework	p. 78
On Managing Temporal Information for Handling Durative Actions in LPG	p. 91
An Abductive Proof Procedure Handling Active Rules	p. 105
Back Propagation through Cyclic Structures	p. 118
A Neural Architecture for Segmentation and Modelling of Range Data	p. 130
A Combination of Support Vector Machines and Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction	p. 142
Adaptive Allocation of Data-Objects in the Web Using Neural Networks	p. 154
Improving the SLA Algorithm Using Association Rules	p. 165
Incremental Induction of Rules for Document Image Understanding	p. 176
Explaining Bagging with Monte Carlo Theory	p. 189
Pairwise Data Clustering Using Monotone Game Dynamics	p. 201
Abduction in Classification Tasks	p. 213
MQL: An Algebraic Query Language for Knowledge Discovery	p. 225
Preprocessing and Mining Web Log Data for Web Personalization	p. 237
Multi-relational Structural Bayesian Classifier	p. 250
Specifying and Verifying Systems of Communicating Agents in a Temporal Action Logic	p. 262
Combining Intelligent Agents and Animation	p. 275
An Abductive Interpretation for Open Agent Societies	p. 287
Reasoning about Conversation Protocols in a Logic-Based Agent Language	p. 300
Distributed Intelligent Management of Active Networks	p. 312
Planning under Uncertainty in Linear Time Logic	p. 324
Planning with Fuzzy Resources	p. 336
Planning by Abstraction Using HW[actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 349
The Role of Different Solvers in Planning and Scheduling Integration	p. 362
Evolving the Neural Controller for a Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects on the Basis of Tactile Sensors	p. 375
An Early Cognitive Approach to Visual Motion Analysis	p. 385
Content Based Image Retrieval for Unsegmented Images	p. 398
A Mechanism of Coalition Formation in the Metaphor of Politics Multiagent Architecture	p. 410
Image-Based Monte-Carlo Localisation without a Map	p. 423
Making Explicit the Hidden Semantics of Hierarchical Classifications	p. 436
Sub-symbolic Encoding of Words	p. 449
A Relation-Based Schema for Treebank Annotation	p. 462
Personalized Recommendation of TV Programs	p. 474
A Simulation-Based Decision Support System for Forest Fire Fighting	p. 487
Knowledge Maintenance and Sharing in the KM Context: The Case of P-Truck	p. 499
A CSP-Based Interactive Decision Aid for Space Mission Planning	p. 511
E-mail Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices: The ifMail Prototype and its Experimental Evaluation	p. 523
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Clinical Guidelines: The GLARE Approach	p. 536
Two Paradigms for Natural-Language Processing	p. 548
Robotics and AI: From Intelligent Robots to Neuro-robotics	p. 549
Author Index	p. 551
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