Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence : 18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2005, Bari, Italy, June 22-24, 2005: Proceedings

by Esposito, Floriana

• ISBN13: 9783540265511
• ISBN10: 3540265511
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2005, held in Bari, Italy, in June 2005. The 115 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision, image analysis, speech recognition, robotics, agents, planning, human-computer interaction and natural language processing, reasoning, machine learning, data mining, genetic algorithms, neural networks, decision support and heuristic search, fuzzy logic, knowledge management, and applications.

Table of Contents

Applications of knowledge discovery	p. 1
Spoken language communication with machines : the long and winding road from research to business	p. 6
Motion-based stereovision method with potential utility in robot navigation	p. 16
Object tracking using mean shift and active contours	p. 26
Place recognition system from long-term observations	p. 36
Real-time people localization and tracking through fixed stereo vision	p. 44
Face recognition by kernel independent component analysis	p. 55
Head detection of the car occupant based on contour models and support vector machines	p. 59
A morphological proposal for vision-based path planning	p. 62
A new video surveillance system employing occluded face detection	p. 65
Intelligent vocal cord image analysis for categorizing laryngeal diseases	p. 69
Keyword spotting on hangul document images using two-level image-to-image matching	p. 79
Robust character segmentation system for Korean printed postal images	p. 82
Case based reasoning using speech data for clinical assessment	p. 85
Feature-table-based automatic question generation for tree-based state tying : a practical implementation	p. 95
Speeding up dynamic search methods in speech recognition	p. 98
Conscious robot that distinguishes between self and others and implements imitation behavior	p. 101
Distance-based dynamic interaction of humanoid robot with multiple people	p. 111
Movement prediction from real-world images using a liquid state machine	p. 121
Robot competition using gesture based interface	p. 131
Agent support for a grid-based high energy physics application	p. 134
Feasibility of multi-agent simulation for the trust and tracing game	p. 145
Multi-agent support for distributed engineering design	p. 155
Reliable multi-agent systems with persistent publish/subscribe messaging	p. 165
A strategy-proof mechanism based on multiple auction support agents	p. 175
Automated teleoperation of Web-based devices using semantic Web services	p. 185
Context awarable self-configuration system for distributed resource management	p. 189
A decision support system for inventory control using planning and distributed agents	p. 192
Controlling complex physical systems through planning and scheduling integration	p. 197
Plan execution in dynamic environments	p. 208
Structural advantages for ant colony optimisation inherent in permutation scheduling problems	p. 218
Incrementally scheduling with qualitative temporal information	p. 229
New upper bounds for the permutation flowshop scheduling problem	p. 232
R-tree representations of disaster areas based on probabilistic estimation	p. 236
AI/NLP technologies applied to spacecraft mission design	p. 239
Automatic word spacing in Korean for small memory devices	p. 249
Generating personalized tourist map descriptions	p. 259
Haptic fruition of 3D virtual scene by blind people	p. 269
Ontology-based natural language parser for E-marketplaces	p. 279
Towards effective adaptive information filtering using natural language dialogs and search-driven agents	p. 290
Towards minimization of test sets for human-computer systems	p. 300
Discovering learning paths on a domain ontology using natural language interaction	p. 310
A geometric approach to automatic description of iconic scenes	p. 315
Man-machine interface of a support system for analyzing open-ended questionnaires	p. 318
A holistic approach to test-driven model checking	p. 321
Inferring definite-clause grammars to express multivariate time series	p. 332
Obtaining a Bayesian map for data fusion and failure detection under uncertainty	p. 342
Event handling mechanism for retrieving spatio-temporal changes at various detailed level	p. 353
Fault localization based on abstract dependencies	p. 357
Freeway traffic qualitative simulation	p. 360
LEADSTO : a language and environment for analysis of dynamics by SimulaTiOn	p. 363
Prediction-based diagnosis and loss prevention using model-based reasoning	p. 367
An algorithm based on counterfactuals for concept learning in the semantic Web	p. 370
Classification of ophthalmologic images using an ensemble of classifiers	p. 380
Comparison of extreme learning machine with support vector machine for text classification	p. 390
Endoscopy images classification with kernel based learning algorithms	p. 400
Local bagging of decision stumps	p. 406
Methods for classifying spot welding processes : a comparative study of performance	p. 412
Minimum spanning trees in hierarchical multiclass support vector machines generation	p. 422
One-class classifier for HFGWR ship detection using similarity-dissimilarity representation	p. 432
Improving the readability of decision trees using reduced complexity feature extraction	p. 442
Intelligent Bayesian classifiers in network intrusion detection	p. 445
Analyzing multi-level spatial association rules through a graph-based visualization	p. 448
Data mining for decision support : an application in public health care	p. 459
A domain-independent approach to discourse-level knowledge discovery from texts	p. 470
An efficient subsequence matching method based on index interpolation	p. 480
A meteorological conceptual modeling approach based on spatial data mining and knowledge discovery	p. 490
Mining generalized association rules on biomedical literature	p. 500
Mining information extraction rules from datasheets without linguistic parsing	p. 510
An ontology-supported data preprocessing technique for real-life databases	p. 521
A fuzzy genetic algorithm for real-world job shop scheduling	p. 524
Pareto-optimal hardware for digital circuits using SPEA	p. 534
Application of a genetic algorithm to nearest neighbour classification	p. 544
Applying genetic algorithms for production scheduling and resource allocation : special case : a small size manufacturing company	p. 547
An efficient genetic algorithm for TSK-type neural fuzzy identifier design	p. 551
Hardware architecture for genetic algorithms	p. 554
Node-depth encoding for evolutionary algorithms applied to multi-vehicle routing problem	p. 557
Novel approach to optimize quantitative association rules by employing multi-objective genetic algorithm	p. 560
GMDH-type neural network modeling in evolutionary optimization	p. 563
Predicting construction litigation outcome using particle swarm optimization	p. 571
Self-organizing radial basis function network modeling for robot manipulator	p. 579
A SOM based approach for visualization of GSM network performance data	p. 588
Using an artificial neural network to improve predictions of water levels where tide charts fail	p. 599
Canonical decision model construction by extracting the mapping function from trained neural networks	p. 609
Detecting fraud in mobile telephony using neural networks	p. 613
An intelligent medical image understanding method using two-tier neural network ensembles	p. 616
The coordination of parallel search with common components	p. 619
A decision support tool coupling a causal model and a multi-objective genetic algorithm	p. 628
Emergent restructuring of resources in ant colonies : a swarm-based approach to partitioning	p. 638
The probabilistic heuristic in local (PHIL) search meta-strategy	p. 648
Search on transportation network for location-based service	p. 657
A specification language for organisational performance indicators	p. 667
A new crowded comparison operator in constrained multiobjective optimization for capacitors sizing and siting in electrical distribution systems	p. 678
A two-phase backbone-based search heuristic for partial MAX-SAT - an initial investigation	p. 681
An algorithm for peer review matching using student profiles based on fuzzy classification and genetic algorithms	p. 685
Pose-invariant face detection using edge-like blob map and fuzzy logic	p. 695
A fuzzy logic-based approach for detecting shifting patterns in cross-cultural data	p. 705
Minimal knowledge anonymous user profiling for personalized services	p. 709
Formal goal generation for intelligent control systems	p. 712
MoA : OWL ontology merging and alignment tool for the semantic Web	p. 722
Optimizing RDF storage removing redundancies : an algorithm	p. 732
Complementing search engines with text mining	p. 743
A decision support approach to modeling trust in networked organizations	p. 746
An integrated approach to rating and filtering Web content	p. 749
Collaborative case-based preference elicitation	p. 752
Complex knowledge in the environmental domain : building intelligent architectures for water management	p. 762
An expert system for the oral anticoagulation treatment	p. 773
Formal verification of control software : a case study	p. 783
GRAPE : an expert review assignment component for scientific conference management systems	p. 789
A nurse scheduling system based on dynamic constraint satisfaction problem	p. 799
A semi-autonomous wheelchair with HelpStar	p. 809
ST-modal logic to correlate traffic alarms on Italian highways : project overview and example installations	p. 819
Train rescheduling algorithm which minimizes passengers' dissatisfaction	p. 829
Case-based reasoning for financial prediction	p. 839
The generation of automated learner feedback based on individual proficiency levels	p. 842
A geographical virtual laboratory for the recomposition of fragments	p. 845
A meta-level architecture for strategic reasoning in naval planning	p. 848
A support method for qualitative simulation-based learning system	p. 851
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