Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000 Montéal, Quebec, Canada, May 14–17, 2000 Proceedings

Unifying Single-Agent and Two-Player Search....Pages 1-12
Are Bees Better than Fruitflies?....Pages 13-25
A Constraint Directed Model for Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problems....Pages 26-39
Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract Document Keyphrases....Pages 40-52
Expanding the Type Hierarchy with Nonlexical Concepts....Pages 53-68
Using Object Influence Areas to Quantitatively Deal with Neighborhood and Perception in Route Descriptions....Pages 69-81
An Extendable Natural Language Interface to a Consumer Service Database....Pages 82-89
Identifying and Eliminating Irrelevant Instances Using Information Theory....Pages 90-101
Keep It Simple: A Case-Base Maintenance Policy Based on Clustering and Information Theory....Pages 102-114
Collocation Discovery for Optimal Bilingual Lexicon Development....Pages 115-125
The Power of the TSNLP: Lessons from a Diagnostic Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Parser....Pages 126-137
A Parallel Approach to Unified Cognitive Modeling of Language Processing within a Visual Context....Pages 138-150
Interact: A Staged Approach to Customer Service Automation....Pages 151-163
Towards Very Large Terminological Knowledge Bases: A Case Study from Medicine....Pages 164-175
The Use of Ontologies and Meta-knowledge to Facilitate the Sharing of Knowledge in a Multi-agent Personal Communication System....Pages 176-186
ASERC - A Genetic Sequencing Operator for Asymmetric Permutation Problems....Pages 187-200
CViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Rule Induction....Pages 201-213
Learning Pseudo-independent Models: Analytical and Experimental Results....Pages 214-226
Learning Rewrite Rules versus Search Control Rules to Improve Plan Quality....Pages 227-239
Scheduling Methods for Parallel Automated Theorem Proving....Pages 240-253
Simulating Competing Alife Organisms by Constructive Compound Neural Networks....Pages 254-266
A Recognition-Based Alternative to Discrimination-Based Multi-layer Perceptrons....Pages 267-279
Accelerated Backpropagation Learning: Extended Dynamic Parallel Tangent Optimization Algorithm....Pages 280-292
Neural ARX Models and PAC Learning....Pages 293-304
Qualitative Descriptors and Action Perception....Pages 305-315
A Comparison of Association Rule Discovery and Bayesian Network Causal Inference Algorithms to Discover Relationships in Discrete Data....Pages 316-325
Towards an Automated Citation Classifier....Pages 326-336
Typical Example Selection for Learning Classifiers....Pages 337-346
Comparative Study of Neural Network Controllers for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems....Pages 347-356
The Iterative Multi-agent Method for Solving Complex Search Problems....Pages 357-368
Relational Learning with Transfer of Knowledge Between Domains....Pages 369-378
Surviving in a Hostile Multi-agent Environment: How Simple Affective States Can Aid in the Competition for Resources....Pages 379-388
Task-Structure Based Mediation: The Travel-Planning Assistant Example....Pages 389-399
Considerations on Compositional Update Operators....Pages 400-410
The Degeneration of Relevance in Uncertain Temporal Domains: An Empirical Study....Pages 411-420
The Learnability of Naive Bayes....Pages 421-431
Parsing to Meaning, Statistically....Pages 432-441
Automated Discovery: A Fusion of Multidisciplinary Principles....Pages 442-442
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