Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Front Matter....Pages -
Constraint Satisfaction, Complexity, and Logic....Pages 1-2
Dynamic Discovery, Invocation and Composition of Semantic Web Services....Pages 3-12
Data Brokers: Building Collections through Automated Negotiation....Pages 13-22
P2P-DIET: Ad-hoc and Continuous Queries in Peer-to-Peer Networks Using Mobile Agents....Pages 23-32
Taxonomy-Based Annotation of XML Documents: Application to eLearning Resources....Pages 33-42
Precise Photo Retrieval on the Web with a Fuzzy Logic\\Neural Network-Based Meta-search Engine....Pages 43-53
Intelligent Web Prefetching Based upon User Profiles – The WebNaut Case....Pages 54-62
An Intelligent System for Aerial Image Retrieval and Classification....Pages 63-71
Computationally Intelligent Methods for Mining 3D Medical Images....Pages 72-81
Text Area Identification in Web Images....Pages 82-92
A Mixed Reality Learning Environment for Geometry Education....Pages 93-102
A Multi-criteria Protocol for Multi-agent Negotiations....Pages 103-111
Clustering XML Documents by Structure....Pages 112-121
Music Performer Verification Based on Learning Ensembles....Pages 122-131
Using the k -Nearest Problems for Adaptive Multicriteria Planning....Pages 132-141
Focused Crawling Using Temporal Difference-Learning....Pages 142-153
A Meta-classifier Approach for Medical Diagnosis....Pages 154-163
Learning In-between Concept Descriptions Using Iterative Induction....Pages 164-173
Splitting Data in Decision Trees Using the New False-Positives Criterion....Pages 174-182
Efficient Training Algorithms for the Probabilistic RBF Network....Pages 183-190
Using k -Nearest Neighbor and Feature Selection as an Improvement to Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 191-200
Feature Deforming for Improved Similarity-Based Learning....Pages 201-209
Incremental Mixture Learning for Clustering Discrete Data....Pages 210-219
A Cost Sensitive Technique for Ordinal Classification Problems....Pages 220-229
Pap-Smear Classification Using Efficient Second Order Neural Network Training Algorithms....Pages 230-245
Towards an Imitation System for Learning Robots....Pages 246-255
Gene Selection via Discretized Gene-Expression Profiles and Greedy Feature-Elimination....Pages 256-266
Automatic Detection of Abnormal Tissue in Bilateral Mammograms Using Neural Networks....Pages 267-275
Feature Selection for Robust Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 276-281
An Intelligent Tool for Bio-magnetic Signal Processing....Pages 282-290
Hierarchical Bayesian Networks: An Approach to Classification and Learning for Structured Data....Pages 291-300
Fuzzy Automata for Fault Diagnosis: A Syntactic Analysis Approach....Pages 301-310
A Discussion of Some Intuitions of Defeasible Reasoning....Pages 311-320
Knowledge Representation Using a Modified Earley’s Algorithm....Pages 321-330
Fuzzy Causal Maps in Business Modeling and Performance-Driven Process Re-engineering....Pages 331-341
Construction and Repair: A Hybrid Approach to Search in CSPs....Pages 342-351
Arc Consistency in Binary Encodings of Non-binary CSPs: Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation....Pages 352-361
Inherent Choice in the Search Space of Constraint Satisfaction Problem Instances....Pages 362-370
Part-of-Speech Tagging in Molecular Biology Scientific Abstracts Using Morphological and Contextual Statistical Information....Pages 371-380
A Name-Matching Algorithm for Supporting Ontology Enrichment....Pages 381-389
Text Normalization for the Pronunciation of Non-standard Words in an Inflected Language....Pages 390-399
Multi-topic Information Filtering with a Single User Profile....Pages 400-409
Exploiting Cross-Document Relations for Multi-document Evolving Summarization....Pages 410-419
Diagnosing Transformer Faults with Petri Nets....Pages 420-431
Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Radial Basis Function Networks....Pages 432-438
Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Optimal Reconfiguration of Radial Distribution System (RDS)....Pages 439-446
A Multi-agent System for Microgrids....Pages 447-455
Automated Medical Image Registration Using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm....Pages 456-465
Adaptive Rule-Based Facial Expression Recognition....Pages 466-475
Locating Text in Historical Collection Manuscripts....Pages 476-485
Semi-automatic Extraction of Semantics from Football Video Sequences....Pages 486-495
Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems....Pages 496-504
Synthetic Characters with Emotional States....Pages 505-514
Control and Autonomy for Intelligent Virtual Agent Behaviour....Pages 515-524
Reflex Movements for a Virtual Human: A Biology Inspired Approach....Pages 525-534
Integrating miniMin-HSP Agents in a Dynamic Simulation Framework....Pages 535-544
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