11. CCIA 2008: Sant Martí d'Empúries, Spain
Teresa Alsinet, Josep Puyol-Gruart, Carme Torras (Eds.): Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2008, October 22-24, 2008, Sant Martí d'Empúries, Spain. IOS Press 2008 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ISBN 978-1-58603-925-7
Invited Talks
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates: Web Mining or The Wisdom of the Crowds. 3
Hector Geffner: AI at 50: From Programs to Solvers - Models and Techniques for General Intelligence. 4
Agents
Juan M. Alberola, Jose M. Such, Agustín Espinosa, Vicente J. Botti, Ana García-Fornes: Scalable and Efficient Multiagent Platform Closer to the Operating System. 7-15
Estefania Argente, Natalia Criado, Vicente Julián, Vicente J. Botti: Designing Norms in Virtual Organizations. 16-23
David Cabanillas, Steven Willmott, Ulises Cortés: Distributed Barter-Based Directory Services. 24-32
David Cabanillas, Steven Willmott, Ulises Cortés: Trading Paper Clips - An Analysis of "Trading Up" in Artificial Societies without Altruists. 33-40
Ana Casali, Lluis Godo, Carles Sierra: Validation and Experimentation of a Tourism Recommender Agent based on a Graded BDI Model. 41-50
M. Mariela Morveli-Espinoza, Josep Puyol-Gruart: On Partial Deduction and Conversational Agents. 60-69
Ashkan Musavi, Maite López-Sánchez, Jordi Campos Miralles, Marc Esteva: Using Electronic Institutions for Hospitals Chronic Disease Management and Purchasing System. 80-87
Constraints, Satisfiability, and Search
Carlos Ansótegui, Ramón Béjar, Cèsar Fernández, Carles Mateu: How Hard is a Commercial Puzzle: the Eternity II Challenge. 99-108

Albert Corominas, Alberto García-Villoria, Rafael Pastor: Solving the Response Time Variability Problem by means of Multi-start and GRASP metaheuristics. 128-137
Esteban R. Gelso, Sandra M. Castillo, Joaquim Armengol: An algorithm based on structural analysis for model-based fault diagnosis. 138-147
Knowledge and Information Systems
Eva Armengol: Knowledge Discovery with Explained Case-Based Reasoning. 151-160
Angela Chieppa, Karina Gibert, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè: Improving Pseudobagging techniques. 161-169
Karina Gibert, Alejandro García-Rudolph, Alberto García-Molina, Teresa Roig-Rovira, Montserrat Bernabeu, José María Tormos: Knowledge Discovery on the response to neurorehabilitation treatment of patients with Traumatic Brain Injury through an AI&Stats and graphical hybrid methodology. 170-177
Ruben Nicolas, Elisabet Golobardes, Albert Fornells, Sonia Segura, Susana Puig, Cristina Carrera, Joseph Palou, Joseph Malvehy: Using Ensemble-Based Reasoning to Help Experts in Melanoma Diagnosis. 178-185
Fernando Orduña Cabrera, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Jesús Miguel García Gorrostieta, Samuel González López: Ergonomic Advice through Case-Based Reasoning to Avoid Dangerous Positions Adopted Using the Computer. 186-194
Knowledge Representation and Logic
Isaac Pinyol, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Pilar Dellunde: Probabilistic Dynamic Belief Logic for Image and Reputation. 197-205
J. Recasens: Aggregation Operators and Ruled Surfaces. 206-214
Llorenç Roselló, Francesc Prats, Mónica Sánchez, Núria Agell: New Challenges: Group Decision Systems by Means of Entropy Defined through Qualitative Reasoning Structures. 215-222
Machine Learning
Víctor Barrera, Beatriz López, Joaquím Meléndez, Jorge Sánchez: Voltage Sag Source Location From Extracted Rules Using Subgroup Discovery. 225-235
Xavier Berjaga, Joaquím Meléndez, Álvaro Pallarés: Statistical Monitoring of Injection Moulds. 236-243
Núria Macià, Ester Bernadó-Mansilla, Albert Orriols-Puig: On the Dimensions of Data Complexity through Synthetic Data Sets. 244-252
Sergio Morales-Ortigosa, Albert Orriols-Puig, Ester Bernadó-Mansilla: Can Evolution Strategies Improve Learning Guidance in XCS? Design and Comparison with Genetic Algorithms based XCS. 253-261
Francisco J. Ruiz, Cecilio Angulo, Núria Agell: Intersection and Signed-Intersection Kernels for Intervals. 262-270
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications
Isabel Aguiló, Jaume Suñer, Joan Torrens: Representation of discrete quasi-copulas through non-square matrices. 273-282
Xavi Canaleta, Pablo Ros, Alex Vallejo, David Vernet, Agustín Zaballos: A system to extract social networks based on the processing of information obtained from Internet. 283-292
Josep Lluís de la Rosa, Gabriel Alejandro Lopardo, Nicolás Hormazábal, Miquel Montaner: A Negotiation Styles Recommenders Approach Based on Computational Ecology. 293-302
Víctor Muñoz, Javier Murillo: CABRO: Winner Determination Algorithm for Single-unit Combinatorial Auctions. 303-312
Van Giang Tran, Stéphane Grieu, Monique Polit: Nearest neighbor technique and artificial neural networks for short-term electric consumptions forecast. 313-322
David Vernet, Ruben Nicolas, Elisabet Golobardes, Albert Fornells, Carles Garriga, Susana Puig, Joseph Malvehy: Pattern Discovery in Melanoma Domain Using Partitional Clustering. 323-330
Reasoning About Plans, Processes, and Actions
José Carlos Becceneri, Sandra Sandri, Eduardo Fávero Pacheco da Luz: Using ant colony systems with pheromone dispersion in the traveling salesman problem. 333-341
Robotics
Guillem Alenyà, Carme Torras: Monocular object pose computation with the foveal-peripheral camera of the humanoid robot Armar-III. 355-362
Juan Carlos Peris, J. Plana, M. Teresa Escrig: Representing Qualitative Trajectories by Autonomous Mobile Robots. 380-387
Arturo Ribes, Arnau Ramisa, Ramon López de Mántaras, Ricardo Toledo: Object-based Place Recognition for Mobile Robots Using Panoramas. 388-397
Uncertainty in AI

Esteban R. Gelso, Sandra M. Castillo, Joaquim Armengol: An interval-based approach for fault isolation and identification in continuous dynamic systems. 421-429
Vicenç Torra: Effects of orness and dispersion on WOWA sensitivity. 430-437



