Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems IEA-98-AIE Benicà ssim, Castellón, Spain, June 1–4, 1998 Proceedings, Volume II

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages -
Neurocybernetics, codes and computation....Pages 1-14
The grand challenge is called: Robotic intelligence....Pages 15-24
A progressive heuristic search algorithm for the cutting stock problem....Pages 25-35
Discovering temporal relationships in databases of newspapers....Pages 36-45
Generic CSP techniques for the job-shop problem....Pages 46-55
A fast and efficient solution to the Capacity Assignment problem using discretized learning automata....Pages 56-65
Using OxSim for path planning....Pages 66-74
Multi-directional search with goal switching for robot path planning....Pages 75-84
Analytical potential fields and control strategies for motion planning....Pages 85-94
Exact geometry and robot motion planning: Speculations on a few numerical experiments....Pages 95-104
An evolutionary and local search algorithm for planning two manipulators motion....Pages 105-114
A genetic algorithm for robust motion planning....Pages 115-121
Coordinated motion of two robot arms for real applications....Pages 122-131
A low-risk approach to mobile robot path planning....Pages 132-141
Generating heuristics to control configuration processes....Pages 142-152
Valuing the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems with fast decision rules....Pages 153-162
Optimal periodic control with environmental application....Pages 163-172
A centralised hierarchical task scheduler for an urban traffic control system based on a multiagent architecture....Pages 173-182
A direct iteration method for global dynamic control of redundant manipulators....Pages 183-191
Design of ship-board control system based on the soft computing conception....Pages 192-199
Expert diagnostic using qualitative data and rule-based inferential reasoning....Pages 200-209
Qualitative event-based expert supervision Part 1: Methodology....Pages 210-219
Qualitative event-based expert supervision Part 2: Distillation start-up condition monitoring....Pages 220-229
Alarm processing and reconfiguration in power distribution systems....Pages 230-241
Behavioral interpretation according to multimodeling representation....Pages 242-251
An intelligent agent to aid in UNIX system administration....Pages 252-260
Process optimisation in an industrial supervision support system....Pages 261-270
MIMO predictive control of temperature and humidity inside a greenhouse using simulated annealing (SA) as optimizer of a multicriteria index....Pages 271-279
Stereo vision-based obstacle and free space detection in mobile robotics....Pages 280-289
Topological modeling with Fuzzy Petri Nets for autonomous mobile robots....Pages 290-299
Supervised reinforcement learning: Application to a wall following behaviour in a mobile robot....Pages 300-309
A communication protocol for clouds of mobile robots....Pages 310-318
Evolving neural controllers for temporally dependent behaviors in autonomous robots....Pages 319-328
GA-based on-line path planning for SAUVIM....Pages 329-338
Incremental building of a model of environment in the context of the McCulloch-Craik\'s functional architecture for mobile robots....Pages 339-352
Telerobotic system based on natural language and computer vision....Pages 353-364
Robust region-based stereo vision to build environment maps for robotics applications....Pages 365-374
A new on-line structure and parameter learning architecture for fuzzy modeling, based on neural and fuzzy techniques....Pages 375-382
An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) approach to control of robotic manipulators....Pages 383-392
Managing the usage experience in a library of software components....Pages 393-402
What can program supervision do for program re-use?....Pages 403-414
Using artificial intelligence planning techniques to automatically reconfigure software modules....Pages 415-426
Use of knowledge-based control for vision systems....Pages 427-436
SOLUTION for a learning configuration system for image processing....Pages 437-447
Machine learning usefulness relies on accuracy and self-maintenance....Pages 448-457
Improving Inductive learning in real-world domains through the identification of dependencies: The TIM Framework....Pages 458-468
From the nearest neighbour rule to decision trees....Pages 469-478
A new self-organizing strategy based on elastic networks for solving the euclidean traveling salesman problem....Pages 479-487
An inductive learning system for rating securities....Pages 488-496
Techniques and knowledge used for adaptation during case-based problem solving....Pages 497-506
Case-base maintenance....Pages 507-516
CBR: Strengths and weaknesses....Pages 517-524
Is CBR a technology or a methodology?....Pages 525-534
An efficient approach to iterative browsing and retrieval for case-based reasoning....Pages 535-546
Case based approach to the construction of a coal molecular structure model....Pages 547-556
Constructing higher order neurons of increasing complexity in cascade networks....Pages 557-563
Interpretable neural networks with BP-SOM....Pages 564-573
Reference pattern weight initialization for equalization....Pages 574-581
Autoassociative neural networks for fault diagnosis in semiconductor manufacturing....Pages 582-592
Supervised training of a neural network for classification via successive modification of the training data - an experimental study....Pages 593-602
An unsupervised training connectionist network with lateral inhibition....Pages 603-611
Temporal difference learning in Chinese Chess....Pages 612-618
Applying object logic programming to design computer strategies in gene scanning....Pages 619-627
Automatic storing and retrieval of large collections of images....Pages 628-637
Alternative communication interface for severely handicapped people based on a multimedia human-computer interaction system....Pages 638-647
Personalizing museum exhibition by mediating agents....Pages 648-657
A combined probabilistic framework for learning gestures and actions....Pages 658-667
Designing workspaces to support collaborative learning....Pages 668-677
Development of a decision support system for integrated water management in river basins....Pages 678-686
An application of an AI methodology to railway interlocking systems using computer algebra....Pages 687-696
Intelligent interpretation of strength data....Pages 697-706
HADES — A knowledge-based system for message interpretation and situation determination....Pages 707-716
Work in progress: Visual specification of knowledge bases....Pages 717-726
WebTutor, a knowlegde based system for evaluation and tutorship....Pages 727-734
Control knowledge and pedagogical aspects of the GET-BITS model....Pages 735-744
Improving behavior arbitration using exploration and dynamic programming....Pages 745-754
Agent based architectures for mastering changes and disturbances in manufacturing....Pages 755-764
Soft computing and hybrid AI approaches to intelligent manufacturing....Pages 765-774
Comparing soft computing methods in prediction of manufacturing data....Pages 775-784
Towards an emergence machine for complex systems simulations....Pages 785-794
Space models and agent-based universe architectures....Pages 795-804
Mobidyc, a generic multi-agents simulator for modeling populations dynamics....Pages 805-814
Development of an ecological decision support system....Pages 815-825
Dynamic process modelling and communication in environment information systems of the third generation....Pages 826-837
Landscape: A knowledge-based system for visual landscape assessment....Pages 838-848
Daily parking of subway vehicles....Pages 849-856
The artificial neural networks in cosmic ray physics experiment; I. Total muon number estimation....Pages 857-866
Static criteria for fuzzy systems quality evaluation....Pages 867-876
WallAid: A knowledge-based system for the selection of earth retaining walls....Pages 877-887
A modular and parametric structure for the substitution redesign of power plants control systems....Pages 888-895
A polysynaptic planar neural network as a model of the myenteric nervous plexus....Pages 896-906
Selection of numerical methods in specific simulation applications....Pages 907-917
Fuzzy adaptive control of the highly nonlinear heat-exchanger plant....Pages 918-927
Back Matter....Pages 928-937
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