16. FLAIRS Conference 2003: St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Ingrid Russell, Susan M. Haller (Eds.): Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, May 12-14, 2003, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. AAAI Press 2003 ISBN 1-57735-177-0
Agents
Virgil Andronache, Matthias Scheutz: Growing Agents - An Investigation of Architectural Mechanisms for the Specification of "Developing" Agent Architectures. 2-6
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Charis Kaskiris, Ron van Hoof: Advantages of Brahms for Specifying and Implementing a Multiagent Human-Robotic Exploration System. 7-11

James F. Kramer, Matthias Scheutz: GLUE - A Component Connecting Schema-based Reactive to Higher-level Deliberative Layers for Autonomous Agents. 22-26
G. Michael Youngblood, Lawrence B. Holder: Evaluating Human-Consistent Behavior in a Real-time First-person Entertainment-based Artificial Environment. 32-38
AI Architectures
Karthik Gopalratnam, Diane J. Cook: Active LeZi: An Incremental Parsing Algorithm for Sequential Prediction. 38-42
Sira Panduranga Rao, Diane J. Cook: Improving the Performance of Action Prediction through Identification of Abstract Tasks. 43-47
Changwoo Yoon, James K. Massey, William H. Donnelly, Douglas D. Dankel II: Design and Implementation of Anatomic Pathology Database System. 48
AI in Aerospace
Shawn M. Doherty: Human-Centered Design in Synthetic Teammates for Aviation: The Challenge for Artificial Intelligence. 54-56
Mark L. Hanson, Paul G. Gonsalves: Automated Data Fusion and Situation Assessment in Space Systems. 57-61
Walt Truszkowski, Sidney C. Bailin: Agent-based Spectral Analysis Automation (SAA) for On-board Science Data Processing. 62-66
AI in Medicine
Constantin F. Aliferis, Ioannis Tsamardinos, P. Massion, Alexander R. Statnikov, Nafeh Fananapazir, Douglas P. Hardin: Machine Learning Models for Classification of Lung Cancer and Selection of Genomic Markers Using Array Gene Expression Data. 67-71
Prashant Doshi, Lloyd Greenwald, John R. Clarke: Using Bayesian Networks for Cleansing Trauma Data. 72-76
Rajai El Dajani, Maryvonne Miquel, Paul Rubel: Multilayer Perceptrons for Time Series Prediction: A Case Study on Heart Signals. 77-81
Icham Sefion, Abdel Ennaji, Marc Gailhardou: ADEMA : A System to Help Physicians in the Asthma Health Care. 82-86
Frank Tobin, Igor Goryanin: Some AI Considerations in the Mathematical Modeling of Large Biological Pathways. 87-91
Xiaojing Yuan, Xiaohui Yuan, Fan Yang, Jing Peng, Bill P. Buckles: Gene Expression Classification: Decision Trees vs. SVMs. 92-97
Automated Reasoning

Bo Hu, Inés Arana, Ernesto Compatangelo: Inference Fusion: A Hybrid Approach to Taxonomic Reasoning. 103-107
Case-Based Reasoning
William Cheetham: Lessons Learned using CBR for Customer Support. 114-118
Luc Lamontagne, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme: Using Statistical Word Associations for the Retrieval of Strongly-Textual Cases. 124-128
David B. Leake, Raja Sooriamurthi: Dispatching Cases versus Merging Case-Bases: When MCBR Matters. 129-133
Derry O'Sullivan, David C. Wilson, Barry Smyth: Preserving Recommender Accuracy and Diversity in Sparse Datasets. 139-143
David W. Patterson, Niall Rooney, Mykola Galushka: Efficient Retrieval for Case-Based Reasoning. 144-149
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Bassant El Bagoury: A Case-Based Adaptation Model for Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis Using Neural Networks. 155-160
Computing with Emotions in Multiagent Systems
Jessica Faivre, Roger Nkambou, Claude Frasson: Toward Empathetic Agents in Tutoring Systems. 161-165
Boris Galitsky: Using Mental Simulator for Emotional Rehabilitation of Autistic Patients. 166-171
Constraint Solving and Programming
Romuald Debruyne, Gérard Ferrand, Narendra Jussien, Willy Lesaint, Samir Ouis, Alexandre Tessier: Correctness of Constraint Retraction Algorithms. 172-176
Stephan Frank, Petra Hofstedt, Pierre R. Mai: Meta-S: A Strategy-Oriented Meta-Solver Framework. 177-181
Arnaud Lallouet, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, AbdelAli Ed-Dbali: Language, Definition and Optimal Computation of CSP Approximations. 182-186
Nicoleta Neagu, Stefano Bistarelli, Boi Faltings: On the Computation of Local Interchangeability in Soft Constraint Satisfaction Problems. 187-191
Samir Ouis, Narendra Jussien, Patrice Boizumault: k-relevant Explanations for Constraint Programming. 192-196
Hana Rudová: Soft CLP (FD). 202-207
Evaluation of Intelligent Systems
Valerie Barr: A Proposed Model for Effective Verification of Natural Language Generation Systems. 208-212
Hans-Werner Kelbassa, Rainer Knauf: The Rule Retranslation Problem and the Validation Interface. 213-217
Hans-Werner Kelbassa: Selection of Optimal Rule Refinements. 218-222
Rainer Knauf, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Setsuo Tsuruta: Utilizing Validation Experience for System Validation. 223-228
Genetic Algorithms
Ralph Morelli, Ralph Walde: A Word-Based Genetic Algorithm for Cryptanalysis of Short Cryptograms. 229-233
Geoff Nitschke: Emergence of Cooperation in a Multiple Predator, Single Prey Game. 234-238
Jian Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Bill P. Buckles: Sample Complexity of Real-Coded Evolutionary Algorithms. 239-244
Information Retrieval


George E. Nasr, Celine Badr: BUC Algorithm for Iceberg Cubes: Implementation and Sensitivity Analysis. 255-260
Integrated Intelligent Systems
David Al-Dabass, David J. Evans, Siva Sivayoganathan: Hierarchical Causal Parameter Abduction in Integral-Hybrid Logic Nets. 261-265
James P. Buckley, Jennifer Seitzer, Yongzhi Zhang, Yi Pan: Logical Identities Applied to Knowledge Discovery in Databases. 266-270
Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Luís C. Lamb, Krysia Broda, Dov M. Gabbay: Distributed Knowledge Representation in Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems: A Case Study. 271-275
George Ghinea, George D. Magoulas, Andrew O. Frank: Intelligent Protocol Adaptation for Enhanced Medical e-Collaboration. 276-280
Chung Hee Hwang, Noel Massey, Bradford W. Miller, Kari Torkkola: Hybrid Intelligence for Driver Assistance. 281-285
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Yannick Toussaint, Shadi Al Shehabi: A Hybrid Classification Method for Database Contents Analysis. 286-292
Integrating Emotion and Cognition in Formal Models
Gertjan J. Burghouts, Dirk Heylen, Mannes Poel, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt: An Action Selection Architecture for an Emotional Agent. 293-297
Horacio L. Arló-Costa: Integrating Emotion and Rationality in Behavioral Models of Decision Making. 303-308
Knowledge Acquisition
Ioannis N. Kouris, Christos Makris, Athanasios K. Tsakalidis: An Improved Algorithm for Mining Association Rules Using Multiple Support Values. 309-313
Ritesh Mehta, Diane J. Cook, Lawrence B. Holder: Identifying Inhabitants of an Intelligent Environment Using a Graph-Based Data Mining System. 314-318
Knowledge-Based Knowledge Management
David B. Leake, Ana Gabriela Maguitman, Thomas Reichherzer: Topic Extraction and Extension to Support Concept Mapping. 325-329
Angelina A. Tzacheva, Zbigniew W. Ras: Discovering Non-Standard Semantics of Semi-Stable Attributes. 330-335
Machine Learning
Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Dorin Marcu: Improving the Representation Space through Exception-Based Learning. 336-340
Sandeep Goel, Manfred Huber: Subgoal Discovery for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Using Learned Policies. 346-350
Istvan Jonyer, Lawrence B. Holder, Diane J. Cook: MDL-Based Context-Free Graph Grammar Induction. 351-355
David R. Musicant, Vipin Kumar, Aysel Ozgur: Optimizing F-Measure with Support Vector Machines. 356-360
Vinay N. Papudesi, Manfred Huber: Learning from Reinforcement and Advice Using Composite Reward Functions. 361-365
Choh-Man Teng: A Comparison of Standard and Interval Association Rules. 371-375
Ioannis Tsamardinos, Constantin F. Aliferis, Alexander R. Statnikov: Algorithms for Large Scale Markov Blanket Discovery. 376-381
Natural Language Processing
Susan M. Haller, Barbara Di Eugenio: Minimal Text Structuring to Improve the Generation of Feedback in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. 382-386
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Steven J. Maiorano: Multi-Document Summaries Based on Semantic Redundancy. 387-391
Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Keyword Extraction from a Single Document using Word Co-occurrence Statistical Information. 392-396
Alessandro Moschitti, Paul Morarescu, Sanda M. Harabagiu: Open Domain Information Extraction via Automatic Semantic Labeling. 397-401
Cheng Niu, Wei Li, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Srihari: Orthographic Case Restoration Using Supervised Learning Without Manual Annotation. 402-406
Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Mitsuru Ishizuka: Sentence Extraction by Spreading Activation with Refined Similarity Measure. 407-411
Robert T. Olszewski: Bayesian Classification of Triage Diagnoses for the Early Detection of Epidemics. 412-416
Anca Pascu, François-Gilles Carpentier: Object Determination Logic Quantification - A System for Natural Language Processing. 417-421
Phanni Penumatsa, Matthew Ventura, Brent A. Olde, Donald R. Franceschetti, Arthur C. Graesser: The Right Threshold Value: What Is the Right Threshold of Cosine Measure When Using Latent Semantic Analysis for Evaluating Student Answers? 422-426
Takashi Yukawa, Sen Yoshida, Kazuhiro Kuwabara: A Vector Space Equalization Scheme for a Concept-based Collaborative Information Retrieval System. 427-432
Neural Network Applications
Michael Georgiopoulos, Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos, Madan Bharadwaj: Experimental Comparisons of Semi-Supervised and Supervised ART Classifiers (Invited Talk). 433
Seppo J. Karrila, Neil R. Euliano: On Proper Handling of Multi-collinear Inputs and Errors-in-Variables with Explicit and Implicit Neural Models. 439-443
Sergio Roa, Fernando Niño: Classification of Natural Language Sentences using Neural Networks. 444-449
Spatiotemporal Reasoning
Thomas Bittner: Indeterminacy and Rough Approximation. 450-454
David Gabelaia, Roman Kontchakov, Agi Kurucz, Frank Wolter, Michael Zakharyaschev: On the Computational Complexity of Spatio-Temporal Logics. 460-464
Hans W. Guesgen: When Regions Start to Move. 465-469
Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder: Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval with Graph-Based Qualitative Reference Models. 470-474
Xiaohui Yuan, Jian Zhang, Xiaojing Yuan, Bill P. Buckles: Low Level Fusion of Imagery Based on Dempster-Shafer Theory. 475-480
Uncertain Reasoning
Salem Benferhat, Rania El Baida, Frédéric Cuppens: A Possibilistic Logic Encoding of Access Control. 481-485
Boris Brandherm: An Extension of the Differential Approach for Bayesian Network Inference to Dynamic Bayesian Networks. 486-490
Mats Danielson, Love Ekenberg, Jim Johansson: Decision Evaluation of Three Flood Management Strategies. 491-495
Carmel Domshlak, Solomon Eyal Shimony: Efficient Probabilistic Reasoning in Bayes Nets with Mutual Exclusion and Context Specific Independence. 496-500
Judy Goldsmith, Alex Dekhtyar, Wenzhong Zhao: Can Probabilistic Databases Help Elect Qualified Officials? 501-505
Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Wilhelm Rödder: Belief Revision and Information Fusion in a Probabilistic Environment. 506-510
Laurent Perrussel: Revising Contextual Theories. 511-515
Y. Xiang: Parameterization of Pseudo-independent Models. 521-525



