11. AI 1996: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ai/1996,
  editor    = {Gordon I. McCalla},
  title     = {Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 11th Biennial Conference
               of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence,
               AI '96, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 21-24, 1996, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {Canadian Conference on AI},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {1081},
  year      = {1996},
  isbn      = {3-540-61291-2},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Knowledge Representation I: Constraints

• John Anderson, Mark Evans: Constraint-Directed Improvisation for Complex Domains. 1-13
• Michael J. Dent, Robert E. Mercer: A New Model of Hard Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems. 14-25
• Rattana Wetprasit, Abdul Sattar, Lina Khatib: Reasoning with Multi-Point Events. 26-40
• John A. Allen, Steven Minton: Selecting the Right Heuristic Algorithm: Runtime Performance Predictors. 41-53

Knowledge Representation II: Actions

• Charles Elkan: Reasoning about Unknown, Counterfactual, and Nondeterministic Actions in First-Order Logic. 54-68
• Craig Boutilier, Moisés Goldszmidt: The Frame Problem and Bayesian Network Action Representation. 69-83

Natural Language I: Generation

• Eli Hagen, Adelheit Stein: Automatic Generation of a Complex Dialogue History. 84-96
• Fred Popowich: A Chart Generator for Shake and Bake Machine Translation. 97-108
• Liliana Ardissono, Robin Cohen: Extending the Role of user Feedback in Plan Recognition and Response Generation for Advice-Giving Systems: An Initial Report. 109-120

Natural Language II: Understanding

• H. Altay Güvenir, Aysegül Tunç: Corpus-Based Learning of Generalized parse Tree Rules for Translation. 121-132
• Udo Hahn, Michael Strube: PARSETALK about Functional Anaphora. 133-145

Applications I: Intelligent Information Filtering

• Richard C. Bodner, Fei Song: Knowledge-Based Approaches to Query Expansion in Information Retrieval. 146-158
• Robert C. Holte, John Ng Yuen Yan: Inferring What a User Is Not Interested in. 159-171

Applications II: Industrial Strength

• Bryan M. Kramer, John Mylopoulos, Michael E. Benjamin, Q. B. Chou, Peter Ahn, John Opala: Developing an Expert System Technology for Industrial Process Control: An Experience Report. 172-186
• Daniel Charlebois, David G. Goodenough, Stan Matwin, A. S. (Pal) Bhogal, Hugh Barclay: Planning and Learning in a Natural Resource Information System. 187-199

Knoeledge Representation III: Agents

• Brahim Chaib-draa: A Hierarchical Model of Agent Based on Skill, Rules, and Knowledge. 200-212
• Yang Xiang: Semantics of Multiply Selectioned Bayesian Networks for Cooperative Multi-agent Distributed Interpretation. 213-226

Learning I: Induction

• Karan Bhatia, Charles Elkan: LPMEME: A Statistical Method for Inductive Logic Programming. 227-239
• Riverson Rios, Stan Matwin: Efficient Induction of Recursive Prolog Definitons. 240-248
• Yuh-Jyh Hu: Constructive Induction: A Preprocessor. 249-256

Learning II: Challenging Domains and Problems

• Mark D. Pendrith, Malcolm R. K. Ryan: Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Control Applications. 257-270
• Wai Lam, Snehasis Mukhopadhyay: A Two-Level Approach to Learning in Nonstationary Environments. 271-283
• Charles X. Ling, Handong Wang: Learning Classifications from Multiple Sources of Unsupervised Data. 284-295

Knowledge Representation IV: Reasoning

• Zuoquan Lin: Paraconsistent Circumscription. 296-308
• Thodoros Topaloglou: Efficient Algorithms for Qualitative Reasoning about Imprecise Space. 309-322
• Fausto Giunchiglia, Roberto Sebastiani, Adolfo Villafiorita, Toby Walsh: A General Purpose Reasoner for Abstraction. 323-335
• Andrew Fall: Reference Constraints and Individual Level Inheritance. 336-348

Learning III: Techniques and Issues

• Takeshi Koshiba: Decision Tree Learning Systems with Switching Evaluators. 349-361
• Chris Thornton: Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away. 362-374

Knowledge Representation V: Search

• Yukio Ohsawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka: A Polynomial-Time Predicate-Logic Hypothetical Reasoning by Networked Bubble Propagation Method. 375-387
• Richard J. Wallace: Enhancing Maximum Satisfiablility Algorithms with Pure Literal Strategies. 388-401
• Joseph C. Culberson, Jonathan Schaeffer: Searching with Pattern Databases. 402-416

Knowledge Representation VI: Techniques for Application

• Sunil J. Noronha, Stan Szpakowicz: Negoplan: A System for Logic-Based Decision Modelling. 417-428
• Brock Barber, Howard J. Hamilton: Attribute Selection Strategies fro Attribute-Oriented Generalization. 429-441
• Suhayya Abu-Hakima: Automating Model Acquisition by Fault Knowledge Re-Use: Introducing the Diagnostic Remodeler Algorithm. 442-456

Invited Talks

• Martha E. Pollack: Planning Algorithms and Planning Problems (Abstract). 457