Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 7th International Conference, KES 2003, Oxford, UK, September 2003. Proceedings, Part II

Front Matter....Pages -
Putting the Utility of Match Tracking in Fuzzy ARTMAP Training to the Test....Pages 1-6
An ART-Based Hybrid Network for Medical Pattern Classification Tasks with Missing Data....Pages 7-15
Combining Support Vector Machines and ARTMAP Architectures for Natural Classification....Pages 16-21
ART-Based Neuro-fuzzy Modelling Applied to Reinforcement Learning....Pages 22-29
AFC: ART-Based Fuzzy Classifier....Pages 30-36
Intelligent Assistance, Retrieval, Reminder and Advice for Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making....Pages 37-44
Facilitating Electronic Business Planning with Decision Making Support Systems....Pages 45-51
Critical Context for Decision Making: A Modeling Approach Based on a Re-planning Tool....Pages 52-58
A Framework to Assess Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems....Pages 59-65
An Information Market for Multi-agent Decision Making: Observations from a Human Experiment....Pages 66-72
Classification of Decision-Behavior Patterns in Multivariate Computer Log Data Using Independent Component Analysis....Pages 73-79
Design, Integration and Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Control System for the Improvement of the Monitoring and Quality Control Process in the Manufacturing of Metal Casting Components....Pages 80-86
Developing Intelligent Decision Support Systems: A Bipartite Approach....Pages 87-93
Fuzzy Support Systems for Discretionary Judicial Decision Making....Pages 94-100
Intelligent Decision Making Support through Just-in-Time Knowledge Management....Pages 101-106
Integrating Simulation and Argumentation in Organizational Decision Making....Pages 107-114
Perceptual Grouping to Motion Direction and Speed in Apertures....Pages 115-122
Assignment of Figural Side to Contours Based on Symmetry, Parallelism, and Convexity....Pages 123-130
Neural Network Model Restoring Partly Occluded Patterns....Pages 131-138
Face Localization in the Neural Abstraction Pyramid....Pages 139-146
A Model for Selective Visual Attention Based on Discrete Scale-Spaces....Pages 147-154
A Trainable Object-Detection Method Using Equivalent Retinotopical Sampling and Fisher Kernel....Pages 155-161
Self-Organizing Feature Maps for HMM Based Lip-Reading....Pages 162-168
A Convolutional Neural Network VLSI for Image Recognition Using Merged/Mixed Analog-Digital Architecture....Pages 169-176
Making Intelligent Learning Technologies Meaningful: Practical Lessons Learnt from Public Administration Training Programs in South Africa and Canada....Pages 177-184
Using Communication Preference and Mapping Learning Styles to Teaching Styles in the Distance Learning Intelligent Tutoring System – WISDeM....Pages 185-192
Evaluation of Discussions in Online Classrooms....Pages 193-200
Web-Based Synchronized Multimedia System Design for Teaching/Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language....Pages 201-207
An Integrated Courseware Usability Evaluation Method....Pages 208-214
Development of a Level-Based Instruction Model in Web-Based Education....Pages 215-221
Using Fuzzy Techniques to Model Students in Web-Based Learning Environments....Pages 222-229
The Use of Conceptual Graphs for Interactive Student Modelling and Adaptive Web Explanations....Pages 230-237
Supporting Collaborative Knowledge Building with Intelligent Agents....Pages 238-244
Providing Personalised Recommendations in a Web-Based Education System....Pages 245-251
A Rule-Based Formalism for Describing Collaborative Adaptive Courses....Pages 252-259
User Modeling on Adaptive Web-Based Learning Communities....Pages 260-266
Preventing Student Dropout in Distance Learning Using Machine Learning Techniques....Pages 267-274
Evaluation of an Intelligent Web-Based Language Tutor....Pages 275-281
Domain Knowledge Acquisition and Plan Recognition by Probabilistic Reasoning....Pages 282-289
Web Based Education as a Result of AI Supported Classroom Teaching....Pages 290-296
From Web-Based Educational Systems to Education on the Web: On the Road to the Adaptive Web....Pages 297-303
Qubit Neural Network and Its Efficiency....Pages 304-310
Performance of Adaptive Beamforming by Using Complex-Valued Neural Network....Pages 311-317
Quaternion Neural Network and Its Application....Pages 318-324
Building Up of a Pen Oriented Human-Software Interface with Complex-Valued Spiking Machines....Pages 325-331
Pitch-Asynchronous Overlap-Add Waveform-Concatenation Speech Synthesis by Using a Phase-Optimizing Neural Network....Pages 332-339
A Data-Reusing Gradient Descent Algorithm for Complex-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks....Pages 340-350
Some Properties of the Network Consisting of Two Complex-Valued Nagumo-Sato Neurons....Pages 351-357
Ontology-Based Medical Information Service System....Pages 358-365
Abstraction of Long-Term Changed Tests in Mining Hepatitis Data....Pages 366-372
A Classification Capability of Reflective Neural Networks in Medical Databases....Pages 373-379
A Classification Method of Medical Database by Immune Multi-agent Neural Networks with Planar Lattice Architecture....Pages 380-387
Physiological Simulation by Integrating a Circulatory System Model with Beat-by-Beat Hemodynamics....Pages 388-393
Collimation Detection in Digital Radiographs Using Plane Detection Hough Transform....Pages 394-401
Automated Cerebral Arteries Segmentation and Diameter Measurement of Aneurysm from MR Angiograms....Pages 402-409
Data Mining for Seeking Relationships between Sickness Absence and Japanese Worker’s Profile....Pages 410-416
Clinical Decision Support System Applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process....Pages 417-423
Emotion Generating Calculations Based on Hidden Markov Model....Pages 424-431
Support System for Analysis of Student’s Motivation in Group Learning....Pages 432-438
Personalization of Help System Output in the Framework of Everyday Language Computing....Pages 439-445
A Description Method of Syntactic Rules on Japanese Filmscript....Pages 446-453
Knowledge Structure for Acquiring Personal Taste Information....Pages 454-460
A Proposal of Kansei Description for Multimedia Contents....Pages 461-465
Interactive Navigation for Problem-Solving Oriented Learning Processes....Pages 466-473
Multi-objective Decision Making by AHP and Its Application to Personal Preference Retrieval System....Pages 474-480
Interactive Design Support System by Customer Evaluation and Genetic Evolution: Application to Eye Glass Frame....Pages 481-487
Towards an Immunity-Based System for Detecting Masqueraders....Pages 488-495
Noisy Channel and Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Models for Artificial Immune Systems....Pages 496-502
Immunity-Based Approaches for Self-Monitoring in Distributed Intrusion Detection System....Pages 503-510
Idiotypic Network Model for Feature Extraction in Pattern Recognition – Effect of Diffusion of Antibody....Pages 511-518
Mechanism of a Transient but Long-Lasting Immune Memory Function on a Self/Non-Self Boundary....Pages 519-525
A Proposal of Immune Multi-agent Neural Networks and Its Application to Medical Diagnostic System for Hepatobiliary Disorders....Pages 526-532
Development of an ESP E-learning Tool Using In-House Corpora....Pages 533-539
Evaluation of Learning Support System for Agent-Based C Programming....Pages 540-546
EM Algorithm for Cleaning of Answers Generated by an E-learning System....Pages 547-552
Reinforcement Learning Methods to Handle Actions with Differing Costs in MDPs....Pages 553-560
Extraction of Face Parts by Using Flesh Color and Boundary Images....Pages 561-566
Web Type CAI System with Dynamic Text Change from Database by Understanding....Pages 567-572
A Study on Saccadic Eye Movements at the Mutual Gazing....Pages 573-577
Direction Selective Artificial Vision Model and the Layout for Analog VLSI....Pages 578-583
Cognitive Humanoid Robots Based on Complex Kinematic Features....Pages 584-591
A Multi-layered Hierarchical Architecture for a Humanoid Robot....Pages 592-599
Active Detection of Anomalous Region as Primitive Processing for Visual Object Segregation....Pages 600-606
ANNA: An Artificial Neural Network for Attention to Emotional Recognition....Pages 607-614
Attention-Based Robot Control....Pages 615-621
Two Industrial Problems Solved through a Novel Optimization Algorithm....Pages 622-628
Do Neurofuzzy Systems Have Chances in Industrial Applications?....Pages 629-636
Clusterability and Centroid Approximation....Pages 637-646
An Artificial Olfactory System for Quality and Geographical Discrimination of Olive Oils....Pages 647-653
A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Improve Manufacturing Effectiveness....Pages 654-660
Knowledge-Based Mobility Management in All-Mobile Network....Pages 661-667
The Intelligent Agent-Based Control of Service Processing Capacity....Pages 668-674
Multi-agent System for Remote Software Operations....Pages 675-682
A Frigate Movement Survival Agent-Based Approach....Pages 683-691
Weasel: A User Guided Enemy Course of Action Generator....Pages 692-696
A Multi-agent System for Executing Group Tasks....Pages 697-703
Knowledge Elicitation and Decision-Modelling for Command Agents....Pages 704-713
The Wargame Infrastructure and Simulation Environment (Wise)....Pages 714-722
Intelligent Agents and Situation Awareness....Pages 723-733
A New MPEG-2 Solution Using a 2nd ALU in the RISC....Pages 734-740
Idea Generation Support System GUNGEN DX II beyond Papers....Pages 741-747
Data Processing Method of Small-Scale Five Senses Communication System....Pages 748-755
A Trial of a Bidirectional Learning Management Tool for Promoting Learning by Mobile Phone....Pages 756-763
Development of a Remote Communication System for Computer Novices and Their Instructors....Pages 764-770
Personalized Environment for Skimming Documents....Pages 771-778
GUNGEN-GO: Real-Time Groupware Development Environment for a Hypermedia System....Pages 779-785
Visualization Methods for Sharing Knowledge Pieces and Relationships Based on Biological Models....Pages 786-793
Functional Imaging of Tinnitus: Seeing of the Unseeable!....Pages 794-799
Brain Signal Source Localization Using a Method Combining BP Neural Networks with Nonlinear Least Squares Method....Pages 800-806
System Identification of the Brain Dynamics by EEG Analysis Using Neural Networks....Pages 807-813
A Neural Network Model for Pattern Recognition....Pages 814-821
A Predictive Feedback Control Model Using NN and NLMS....Pages 822-827
Representing of Dependence Model and Class Testing Using Program Dependence Model....Pages 828-833
Secure Transaction Processing in Multi-expert Systems with Replicated Data....Pages 834-840
Goal-Directed Design for Proactive and Intelligent Device Collaboration....Pages 841-848
Recognition of X-ray Images by Using Revised GMDH-type Neural Networks....Pages 849-855
Low Power Design of the Neuroprocessor....Pages 856-862
Age and Gender Estimation Based on Facial Image Analysis....Pages 863-869
Age and Gender Estimations by Modeling Statistical Relationship among Faces....Pages 870-876
Subjective Age Obtained from Facial Images – How Old We Feel Compared to Others-....Pages 877-881
Robust Facial Parts Detection by Using Four Directional Features and Relaxation Matching....Pages 882-888
Event Detection for a Visual Surveillance System Using Stereo Omni-directional System....Pages 890-896
Mental Workload of Ship’s Navigator....Pages 897-903
Face Tracking System with Fixed CCD and PTZ Camera....Pages 904-910
A Study of Aquatic Toxicity Using Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 911-918
Discovery of Toxicological Patterns with Lazy Learning....Pages 919-926
Discovering Active Regions in Non-redundant Genome Databases....Pages 927-932
Neural Network Application to Eggplant Classification....Pages 933-940
Intelligent Optimal Control of a Biosynthesis Process Using a Neural Network Based Estimator....Pages 941-949
On the Analysis of Neural Networks for Image Processing....Pages 950-957
Development of Methods How to Avoid the Overfitting-Effect within the GeLog-System....Pages 958-966
An Optimal Algorithm for Combining Multivariate Forecasts in Hybrid Systems....Pages 967-972
Probabilistic Neuro-fuzzy Network with Non-conventional Activation Functions....Pages 973-979
An Optimization of Data Mining Algorithms Used in Fuzzy Association Rules....Pages 980-985
Some Test Problems Regarding Intelligent Tutoring Systems....Pages 986-992
A Web-Based Intelligent Forecasting System....Pages 993-999
A Tabu Search-Based Optimization Approach for Process Planning....Pages 1000-1007
Automated Text Classification for Fast Feedback – Investigating the Effects of Document Representation....Pages 1008-1014
A Solution to Billiard Balls Puzzle Using AO Algorithm and Its Application to Product Development....Pages 1015-1022
A Product Model for Mass – Customisation Products....Pages 1023-1029
Embodied Conversational Agents for Presenting Intellectual Multimedia Contents....Pages 1030-1036
Channel Design for Strategic Knowledge Interaction....Pages 1037-1043
Object Tracking and Task Recognition for Producing Interactive Video Content — Semi-automatic Indexing for QUEVICO....Pages 1044-1053
Structural Analysis of Instruction Utterances....Pages 1054-1061
On Personalizing Video Portal System with Metadata....Pages 1062-1069
Environmental Media – In the Case of Lecture Archiving System –....Pages 1070-1076
Non-verbal Human Communication Using Avatars in a Virtual Space....Pages 1077-1084
Adjustment of Nonverbal Conversational Signals from Embodied Agents in Dialogues....Pages 1085-1092
Toward the Human Communication Efficiency Monitoring from Captured Audio and Video Media in Real Environments....Pages 1093-1100
Toward a Mutual Adaptive Interface: An Interface and a User Induce and Utilize the Partner’s Adaptation....Pages 1101-1108
Neural Network Theory and Recent Neuroanatomical Findings Indicate that Inadequate Nitric Oxide Synthase Will Cause Autism....Pages 1109-1114
From Dopamine to Psychosis: A Computational Approach....Pages 1115-1121
Preoccupation with a Restricted Pattern of Interest in Modelling Autistic Learning....Pages 1122-1129
The CODAM Model and Deficits of Consciousness I: CODAM....Pages 1130-1139
CODAM and Deficits of Consciousness II: Schizophrenia and Neglect/Extinction....Pages 1140-1148
A Neurocomputational Model of Early Psychosis....Pages 1149-1155
Schizophrenia Positive Symptoms Interpreted as Cognitive Hallucinations....Pages 1156-1163
Selfreparing Neural Networks: A Model for Recovery from Brain Damage....Pages 1164-1171
Dopaminergic Noise Control of Memory in Psychic Aparatus Functioning....Pages 1172-1179
Contour Based Superquadric Tracking....Pages 1180-1186
2D Qualitative Recognition of SymGeon Aspects....Pages 1187-1194
Accelerated Bundle Adjustment in Multiple-View Reconstruction....Pages 1195-1201
Learning Method Objects for Knowledge-Driven Environments....Pages 1202-1207
Open Web-Based Learning Environments and Knowledge Forums to Support Disabled People....Pages 1208-1215
A Model Conception for Learner Profile Construction and Determination of Optimal Scenario in Intelligent Learning Systems....Pages 1216-1222
Adaptive Learning Scenarios in Intelligent Instructional Environment....Pages 1223-1228
Content Modeling in Intelligent Instructional Environments....Pages 1229-1234
Human Factors that Affected the Benchmarking of NAFIS: A Case Study....Pages 1235-1244
A Study on Performance Evaluation of the Liveness Detection for Various Fingerprint Sensor Modules....Pages 1245-1253
Intelligent Management of Multimodal Biometric Transactions....Pages 1254-1260
An Experimental Study on Measuring Image Quality of Infant Fingerprints....Pages 1261-1269
A Study of the User Interface in Biometric Verification Based on the Characteristics of Human Signature Checking....Pages 1270-1276
Knowledge Model of a Therapy Administration Task – Applied to an Agricultural Domain....Pages 1277-1283
Acquisition and Representation of Causal and Temporal Knowledge in Medical Domains....Pages 1284-1290
Extended Models of Dynamic Selection Using Ontological Elements – Application to Design and Image Analysis Problems....Pages 1291-1298
Experiences in Reusing Problem Solving Methods – An Application in Constraint Programming....Pages 1299-1306
Problem-Solving Analysis for the Budgeting Task in Furniture Industry....Pages 1307-1313
Collecting, Analyzing and Interpreting Data for User Model Acquisition in Open Web-Based Adaptive Collaborative Environment....Pages 1314-1320
Some Issues about the Representation and Exploitation of Imprecise Temporal Knowledge for an AI Planner....Pages 1321-1328
On Selecting and Scheduling Assembly Plans Using Constraint Programming....Pages 1329-1336
Dynamic versus Static Student Models Based on Bayesian Networks: An Empirical Study....Pages 1337-1344
Knowledge Acquisition in PROSTANET – A Bayesian Network for Diagnosing Prostate Cancer....Pages 1345-1350
Construction of a Development Environment for GPMs Based on OO Analysis Patterns....Pages 1351-1356
Using Electronic Documents for Knowledge Acquisition and Model Maintenance....Pages 1357-1364
Design of a Validation Tool Based on Design Patterns for Intelligent Systems....Pages 1365-1372
Knowledge Base Development....Pages 1373-1380
KB-Grid: Towards Building Large-Scale Knowledge System in Semantic Web....Pages 1381-1388
First Steps towards an Ontology for Astrophysics....Pages 1389-1395
Cellular Automata Model Based on Multiagent Techniques....Pages 1396-1404
Extraction of Rules by Heterogeneous Agents Using Automatically Defined Groups....Pages 1405-1411
Data Mining for Distributed Databases with Multiagents....Pages 1412-1418
Applying Self-Organizing Agents to University Class Scheduling....Pages 1419-1425
Emergence in Agents with Different Internal Time Frames....Pages 1426-1432
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