MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guanajuato, México, November 9-13, 2009 Proceedings

by Hernandez Aguirre, Arturo; Borja, Raul Monroy; Garcia, Carlos Alberto Reyes

• ISBN13: 9783642052576
• ISBN10: 3642052576
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2009, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2009.The 63 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and reasoning, ontologies, knowledge management and knowledge-based systems, uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing, robotics, planning and scheduling, fuzzy logic, neural networks, intelligent tutoring systems, bioinformatics and medical applications, hybrid intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Semantic Management of Heterogeneous Documents	p. 1
Logic and Reasoning
Possibilistic Well-Founded Semantics	p. 15
Ontologies, Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Systems
ACO for Solving the Distributed Allocation of a Corporate Semantic Web	p. 27
Implementing PS-Merge Operator	p. 39
Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning
Generating Explanations Based on Markov Decision Processes	p. 51
Compiling Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks: A Comparative Study	p. 63
Cosine Policy Iteration for Solving Infinite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes	p. 75
Transformer Diagnosis Using Probabilistic Vibration Models	p. 87
Intelligent Aircraft Damage Assessment, Trajectory Planning, and Decision-Making under Uncertainty	p. 99
A Scrabble Heuristic Based on Probability That Performs at Championship Level	p. 112
Natural Language Processing
From Semantic Roles to Temporal Information Representation	p. 124
Dependency Language Modeling Using KNN and PLSI	p. 136
Supervised Recognition of Age-Related Spanish Temporal Phrases	p. 145
Using Nearest Neighbor Information to Improve Cross-Language Text Classification	p. 157
Ranking Refinement via Relevance Feedback in Geographic Information Retrieval	p. 165
Data Mining
A Complex Networks Approach to Demographic Zonification	p. 177
Multiscale Functional Autoregressive Model for Monthly Sardines Catches Forecasting	p. 189
Discretization of Time Series Dataset with a Genetic Search	p. 201
Mining Social Networks on the Mexican Computer Science Community	p. 213
Machine Learning
Probabilistic Graphical Markov Model Learning: An Adaptive Strategy	p. 225
Support Vector Optimization through Hybrids: Heuristics and Math Approach	p. 237
Pattern Recognition
On-Line Signature Verification Based on Genetic Optimization and Neural-Network-Driven Fuzzy Reasoning	p. 246
Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer Using the Median M-Type Radial Basis Function (MMRBF) Neural Network	p. 258
Quasi-invariant Illumination Recognition for Appearance-Based Models, Taking Advantage of Manifold Information and Non-uniform Sampling	p. 268
Computer Vision and Image Processing
Automatic Camera Localization, Reconstruction and Segmentation of Multi-planar Scenes Using two Views	p. 280
The Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform for Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms	p. 292
Denoising Intra-voxel Axon Fiber Orientations by Means of ECQMMF Method	p. 303
A Profilometric Approach for 3D Reconstruction Using Fourier and Wavelet Transforms	p. 313
Vector Quantization Algorithm Based on Associative Memories	p. 324
Robotics
A Two-Stage Relational Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions for Real Service Robots	p. 337
People Detection by a Mobile Robot Using Stereo Vision in Dynamic Indoor Environments	p. 349
Planning and Scheduling
SAT Encoding and CSP Reduction for Interconnected Alldiff Constraints	p. 360
Phase Transition in the Bandwidth Minimization Problem	p. 372
Planning for Conditional Learning Routes	p. 384
A New Backtracking Algorithm for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Variable Strength	p. 397
Pipelining Memetic Algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction, and Local Search for Course Timetabling	p. 408
Fuzzy Logic
Fuzzy Relational Compression Applied on Feature Vectors for Infant Cry Recognition	p. 420
Parametric Operations for Digital Hardware Implementation of Fuzzy Systems	p. 432
Fuzzy Logic for Combining Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithms: Preliminary Results	p. 444
Optimization of Type-2 Fuzzy Integration in Modular Neural Networks Using an Evolutionary Method with Applications in Multimodal Biometry	p. 454
Neural Networks
st-Alphabets: On the Feasibility in the Explicit Use of Extended Relational Alphabets in Classifier Systems	p. 466
Comparison of Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine Dynamic Models for State Estimation in Semiautogenous Mills	p. 478
Using Wolfe's Method in Support Vector Machines Learning Stage	p. 488
Direct Adaptive Soft Computing Neural Control of a Continuous Bioprocess via Second Order Learning	p. 500
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
A Kohonen Network for Modeling Students' Learning Styles in Web 2.0 Collaborative Learning Systems	p. 512
Teaching-Learning by Means of a Fuzzy-Causal User Model	p. 521
Inferring Knowledge from Active Learning Simulators for Physics	p. 533
Bioinformatics and Medical Applications
Leukocyte Recognition Using EM-Algorithm	p. 545
An Automaton for Motifs Recognition in DNA Sequences	p. 556
Hybrid Intelligent Systems
A New Method for Optimal Cropping Pattern	p. 566
MultiQuenching Annealing Algorithm for Protein Folding Problem	p. 578
Outlier Detection with a Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Method	p. 590
Wind Speed Forecasting Using a Hybrid Neural-Evolutive Approach	p. 600
Hybridization of Evolutionary Mechanisms for Feature Subset Selection in Unsupervised Learning	p. 610
Evolutionary Algorithms
A Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Multimodal Optimization Based on Electrostatic Interaction	p. 622
Ranking Methods for Many-Objective Optimization	p. 633
Why Unary Quality Indicators are Not Inferior to Binary Quality Indicators	p. 646
Using Copulas in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms	p. 658
Redistricting by Square Cells	p. 669
Finding Minimal Addition Chains with a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm	p. 680
Linear Wind Farm Layout Optimization through Computational Intelligence	p. 692
Building Blocks and Search	p. 704
An Analysis of Recombination in Some Simple Landscapes	p. 716
An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search	p. 728
Author Index	p. 741
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