PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, August 9-13, 2004. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Biomedical Artificial Intelligence....Pages 1-1
Electronics Institutions: Methodology of Multi-agent Systems Development....Pages 2-2
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval....Pages 3-12
Indexing Approach for Delivery Demands with Time Constraints....Pages 95-103
An Hierarchical Terrain Representation for Approximately Shortest Paths....Pages 104-113
MSIP: Agents Embodying a Category-Based Learning Process for the ITS Tutor to Self-improve Its Instructional Plans....Pages 114-123
Circuit Consistencies....Pages 124-133
Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search....Pages 134-143
Methods of Automatic Algorithm Generation....Pages 144-153
A Novel Heuristic to Solve IA Network by Convex Approximation and Weights....Pages 154-163
Applying An Improved Heuristic Based Optimiser to Solve a Set of Challenging University Timetabling Problems: An Experience Report....Pages 164-172
Extending Unit Propagation Look-Ahead of DPLL Procedure....Pages 173-182
On the Intended Interpretations of Actions....Pages 13-22
Temporal Linear Logic for Symbolic Agent Negotiation....Pages 23-32
Dealing with Inconsistent Secure Messages....Pages 33-42
Answer Set Computation Based on a Minimal Model Generation Theorem Prover....Pages 43-52
What Is a Qualitative Calculus? A General Framework....Pages 53-64
Qualitative Direction Calculi with Arbitrary Granularity....Pages 65-74
Power of Brute-Force Search in Strongly-Typed Inductive Functional Programming Automation....Pages 75-84
Ontology Services-Based Information Integration in Mining Telecom Business Intelligence....Pages 85-94
Extended Nearest Feature Line Classifier....Pages 183-190
Sifting the Margin – An Iterative Empirical Classification Scheme....Pages 191-200
Accelerating Linear Causal Model Discovery Using Hoeffding Bounds....Pages 201-210
Polynomial Time Inductive Inference of Ordered Tree Languages with Height-Constrained Variables from Positive Data....Pages 211-220
Fast Incremental Learning of Linear Model Trees....Pages 221-230
A Modified Incremental Principal Component Analysis for On-Line Learning of Feature Space and Classifier....Pages 231-240
An Evolutionary Approach to the Design of Cellular Automata Architecture for Multiplication in Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Finite Fields....Pages 241-250
Probability Based Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification....Pages 251-261
Design of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Using an Intelligent Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm....Pages 262-271
Elastic Learning Rate on Error Backpropagation of Online Update....Pages 272-281
Learning Dynamics of Neural Networks with Singularity – Standard Gradient vs. Natural Gradient....Pages 282-291
Feature Selection for Multi-class Problems Using Support Vector Machines....Pages 292-300
Beyond Learners’ Interest: Personalized Paper Recommendation Based on Their Pedagogical Features for an e-Learning System....Pages 301-310
An Anytime Algorithm for Interpreting Arguments....Pages 311-321
Varieties of Causal Intervention....Pages 322-331
Species Merging and Splitting for Efficient Search in Coevolutionary Algorithm....Pages 332-341
Exploiting Unexpressed Genes for Solving Large-Scaled Maximal Covering Problems....Pages 342-351
Combining Extension Matrix and Integer Programming for Optimal Concept Learning....Pages 352-360
HeurEAKA – A New Approach for Adapting GAs to the Problem Domain....Pages 361-372
A Modified Integer-Coding Genetic Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problem....Pages 373-380
Using Evolutionary Learning of Behavior to Find Weaknesses in Operating Systems....Pages 381-390
Creative 3D Designs Using Interactive Genetic Algorithm with Structured Directed Graph....Pages 391-400
Spatiotemporal Parameter Adaptation in Genetic Algorithm-Based Video Segmentation....Pages 401-410
Object Detection and Removal Using Genetic Algorithms....Pages 411-421
Elman’s Recurrent Neural Networks Using Resilient Back Propagation for Harmonic Detection....Pages 422-428
Neural Based Steganography....Pages 429-435
Neural Network Combines with a Rotational Invariant Feature Set in Texture Classification....Pages 436-444
What Concrete Things Does Fuzzy Propositional Logic Describe?....Pages 445-453
A Framework for Fuzzy Rule-Based Cognitive Maps....Pages 454-463
Discontinuity Enhancement Using Fuzziness in DCT Blocks....Pages 464-473
Is Minimum-Support Appropriate to Identifying Large Itemsets?....Pages 474-484
An Efficient Approach for Mining Periodic Sequential Access Patterns....Pages 485-494
A New Collaborative Recommender System Addressing Three Problems....Pages 495-504
A GA-Based Fuzzy Decision Tree Approach for Corporate Bond Rating....Pages 505-514
Text Classification Using Belief Augmented Frames....Pages 515-523
A Feature Selection for Text Categorization on Research Support System Papits....Pages 524-533
Constrained Ant Colony Optimization for Data Clustering....Pages 534-543
A Kernel-Based Case Retrieval Algorithm with Application to Bioinformatics....Pages 544-553
Building a Case-Based Reasoner for Clinical Decision Support....Pages 554-562
Association-Rule Based Information Source Selection....Pages 563-574
Distributional Character Clustering for Chinese Text Categorization....Pages 575-584
Approximately Repetitive Structure Detection for Wrapper Induction....Pages 585-594
Model Theory for PRS-Like Agents: Modelling Belief Update and Action Attempts....Pages 595-604
Towards Belief Revision Logic Based Adaptive and Persuasive Negotiation Agents....Pages 605-614
Agents and Web Services Supported Business Exception Management....Pages 615-624
Multi-agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments....Pages 625-634
 $\\mathcal{K}_\\mathit{2}$ : Animated Agents that Understand Speech Commands and Perform Actions....Pages 635-643
InCA: A Mobile Conversational Agent....Pages 644-653
Determination of Usenet News Groups by Fuzzy Inference and Kohonen Network....Pages 654-663
Using Context to Solve the Correspondence Problem in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping....Pages 664-672
Knowledge-Based Interactive Robot: System Architecture and Dialogue Manager....Pages 673-682
Complete Coverage by Mobile Robots Using Slice Decomposition Based on Natural Landmarks....Pages 683-692
Shape Matching for Robot Mapping....Pages 693-702
Covisibility-Based Map Learning Method for Mobile Robots....Pages 703-712
Optimal Gene Selection for Cancer Classification with Partial Correlation and k -Nearest Neighbor Classifier....Pages 713-722
Prediction of the Risk Types of Human Papillomaviruses by Support Vector Machines....Pages 723-731
Computational Methods for Identification of Human microRNA Precursors....Pages 732-741
Multi-objective Evolutionary Probe Design Based on Thermodynamic Criteria for HPV Detection....Pages 742-750
Synergism in Color Image Segmentation....Pages 751-759
Face Recognition Using Direct-Weighted LDA....Pages 760-768
Face Recognition Using Enhanced Fisher Linear Discriminant Model with Facial Combined Feature....Pages 769-777
Gradient Vector Flow Snake with Embedded Edge Confidence....Pages 778-786
Object Boundary Edge Selection for Human Body Tracking Using Level-of-Detail Canny Edges....Pages 787-796
Unsupervised Multiscale Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Tree....Pages 797-804
Adaptive Model for Foreground Extraction in Adverse Lighting Conditions....Pages 805-811
Improvement of Binarization Method Using a Water Flow Model for Document Images with Complex Backgrounds....Pages 812-822
Learning and Integrating Semantics for Image Indexing....Pages 823-832
PDA-Based Text Localization System Using Client/Server Architecture....Pages 833-842
Vision Technique for the Recognition of Billet Characters in the Steel Plant....Pages 843-851
Tagging Medical Documents with High Accuracy....Pages 852-861
Pronominal Anaphora Resolution Using a Shallow Meaning Representation of Sentences....Pages 862-871
Multi-agent Human-Machine Dialogue: Issues in Dialogue Management and Referring Expression Semantics....Pages 872-881
Coherent Arrangement of Sentences Extracted from Multiple Newspaper Articles....Pages 882-891
Improvement of Language Models Using Dual-Source Backoff....Pages 892-900
Speaker Identification Based on Log Area Ratio and Gaussian Mixture Models in Narrow-Band Speech....Pages 901-908
Automatic Sound-Imitation Word Recognition from Environmental Sounds Focusing on Ambiguity Problem in Determining Phonemes....Pages 909-918
Statistical Pitch Conversion Approaches Based on Korean Accentual Phrases....Pages 919-927
On the Stability of a Dynamic Stochastic Capacity Pricing Scheme for Resource Allocation in a Multi-agent Environment....Pages 928-929
Part-of-Speech Tagging and PP Attachment Disambiguation Using a Boosted Maximum Entropy Model....Pages 930-931
Solving Pickup and Delivery Problems with Refined Construction and Repair Heuristics....Pages 932-933
Mining Multi-dimensional Data with Visualization Techniques....Pages 934-935
Believability Based Iterated Belief Revision....Pages 936-937
On Designing a Reduced-Order Fuzzy Observer....Pages 938-939
Using Factorization Algorithm for 3D Reconstruction over Long Un-calibrated Sequences....Pages 940-941
A Hybrid Algorithm for Combining Forecasting Based on AFTER-PSO....Pages 942-943
A Multi-strategy Approach for Catalog Integration....Pages 944-945
Some Game Theory of Pit....Pages 946-947
Dynamically Determining Affect During Scripted Dialogue....Pages 948-949
Knowledge and Argument Transformation for Arguing Mobile Agents....Pages 950-952
Improving Newsgroup Clustering by Filtering Author-Specific Words....Pages 953-954
Evolving Artificial Ant Systems to Improve Layouts of Graphical Objects....Pages 955-956
MASCONTROL: A MAS for System Identification and Process Control....Pages 957-958
Vision Based Acquisition of Mouth Actions for Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 959-960
Unsupervised Image Segmentation with Fuzzy Connectedness....Pages 961-962
Personalized Image Recommendation in the Mobile Internet....Pages 963-964
Clustering IP Addresses Using Longest Prefix Matching and Nearest Neighbor Algorithms....Pages 965-966
A Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles....Pages 967-968
Evaluation of a Boosted Cascade of Haar-Like Features in the Presence of Partial Occlusions and Shadows for Real Time Face Detection....Pages 969-970
Classifying Human Actions Using an Incomplete Real-Time Pose Skeleton....Pages 971-972
Multiclass Support Vector Machines Using Balanced Dichotomization....Pages 973-974
Time Series Pattern Discovery by Segmental Gaussian Models....Pages 975-976
A Model for Identifying the Underlying Logical Structure of Natural Language....Pages 977-978
A Reputation-Based Trust Model for Agent Societies....Pages 979-980
A Model of Rhetorical Structure Analysis of Japanese Texts and Its Application to Intelligent Text Processing: A Case for a Smart Help System....Pages 981-982
Explicit State Duration HMM for Abnormality Detection in Sequences of Human Activity....Pages 983-984
An Augmentation Hybrid System for Document Classification and Rating....Pages 985-986
Study and Comparison of 3D Face Generation....Pages 987-988
Stable Solutions Dealing with Dynamics in Scheduling Based on Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problems....Pages 989-990
Analyzing Emotional Space in Sensitivity Communication Robot “Ifbot”....Pages 991-992
Human-Centric Approach for Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 993-994
Complexity of Coordinating Autonomous Planning Agents....Pages 995-996
An Approach for Multirelational Ontology Modelling....Pages 997-998
SNR-Invariant Normalization of the Covariance Measure for Template Matching....Pages 999-1000
Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller Applied to Gas Metal Arc Welding System....Pages 1001-1002
Qualitative Spatial Arrangements and Natural Object Categories as a Link Between 3D-Perception and Speech....Pages 1003-1004
Integrating Feature Information for Improving Accuracy of Collaborative Filtering....Pages 1005-1006
An Ordered Preprocessing Scheme for Data Mining....Pages 1007-1008
Spatial Function Representation and Retrieval....Pages 1009-1010
Fuzzy Project Scheduling with Multiple Objectives....Pages 1011-1012
A New Approach for Applying Support Vector Machines in Multiclass Problems Using Class Groupings and Truth Tables....Pages 1013-1014
Imitation of Bee Reproduction as a Crossover Operator in Genetic Algorithms....Pages 1015-1016
An Intelligent Robot Navigation System Based on Neuro-Fuzzy Control....Pages 1017-1018
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