24. FLAIRS Conference 2012: Marco Island, Florida, USA

General Conference

• Preface.
  
• Florida AI Research Society.
  
• Conference Committees.
  
• Invited Talks.
  
• Bryan Auslander, Kalyan Moy Gupta, David William Aha:
  Maritime Threat Detection Using Probabilistic Graphical Models.
  
• Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark G. Lee, Behzad Bordbar:
  Semantic Analysis of English Specification of OCL.
  
• Lukás Chrpa, Thomas Leo McCluskey, Hugh Osborne:
  Reformulating Planning Problems: A Theoretical Point of View.
  
• Timothy Michael Dockins, Manfred Huber:
  Social Influence Modeling for Utility Functions in Model Predictive Control.
  
• Sam John Estrem, Kurt D. Krebsbach:
  AIRS: Anytime Iterative Refinement of a Solution.
  
• Samantha Finn, Eni Mustafaraj:
  Real-Time Filtering for Pulsing Public Opinion in Social Media.
  
• Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Erik T. Mueller:
  Question Answering in Natural Language Narratives Using Symbolic Probabilistic Reasoning.
  
• Wayne Iba:
  Searching for Better Performance on the King-Rook-King Chess Endgame Problem.
  
• Saad Ahmad Khan, Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, Shane Parker, Ladislau Bölöni:
  Modeling the Interaction Between Mixed Teams of Humans and Robots and Local Population for a Market Patrol Task.
  
• Pradyot Korupolu V. N., Manimaran Sivasamy Sivamurugan, Balaraman Ravindran:
  Instructing a Reinforcement Learner.
  
• Colin M. Potts, Kurt D. Krebsbach:
  Iterative-Expansion A.
  
• Mohammad R. Raeesi N., Ziad Kobti:
  A Knowledge-Migration-Based Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm to Solve Job Shop Scheduling.
  
• Abhik Ray, Lawrence B. Holder:
  Efficiency Improvements for Parallel Subgraph Miners.
  
• Michael A. Schuh, Rafal A. Angryk, John W. Sheppard:
  Evolving Kernel Functions with Particle Swarms and Genetic Programming.
  
• Carlos E. Seminario, David C. Wilson:
  Robustness and Accuracy Tradeoffs for Recommender Systems Under Attack.
  
• Ahmad Abu Shanab, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Randall Wald:
  Robustness of Threshold-Based Feature Rankers with Data Sampling on Noisy and Imbalanced Data.
  
• Dezhao Song, Jeff Heflin:
  A Pruning Based Approach for Scalable Entity Coreference.
  
• Rui Sun, Elliot Moore II:
  Empirical Study of Dimensional and Categorical Emotion Descriptors in Emotional Speech Perception.
  
• Yu-Ting Yang, Andrew Quitmeyer, Brian Hrolenok, Harry Shang, Dinh Bao Nguyen, Tucker R. Balch, Terrance Medina, Cole Sherer, Maria Hybinette:
  Ant Hunt: Towards a Validated Model of Live Ant Hunting Behavior.
  
• Eisa Alanazi, Malek Mouhoub:
  Arc Consistency for CP-Nets under Constraints.
  
• Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo:
  A Heuristic for Hybrid Planning with Preferences.
  
• Camille Besse, Alireza Bakhtiari, Luc Lamontagne:
  Forecasting Conflicts Using N-Grams Models.
  
• Asma Minyaoui, Faiez Gargouri:
  Iterative Ontology Selection Guided by User for Building Domain Ontologies.
  
• Marcus Carlos Oladell, Manfred Huber:
  Symbol Generation and Grounding for Reinforcement Learning Agents Using Affordances and Dictionary Compression.
  
• Javier Snaider, Stan Franklin:
  Integer Sparse Distributed Memory.
  

Affective Computing

• Rafael A. Calvo:
  Special Track on Affective Computing.
  
• Sharifa Alghowinem, Roland Goecke, Michael Wagner, Julien Epps, Michael Breakspear, Gordon Parker:
  From Joyous to Clinically Depressed: Mood Detection Using Spontaneous Speech.
  
• Candice Burkett, Fazel Keshtkar, Arthur C. Graesser, Haiying Li:
  Constructing a Personality-Annotated Corpus for Educational Game based on Leary's Rose Framework.
  
• Ricardo A. Calix:
  Emotion Expression 3-D Synthesis From Predicted Emotion Magnitudes.
  
• Kévin Darty, Nicolas Sabouret:
  Emotion Oriented Programming: Computational Abstractions for AI Problem Solving.
  
• Jens Hoefinghoff, Josef Pauli:
  Decision Making Based on Somatic Markers.
  
• Ronald M. Lee, Elizabeth Dominguez Campillo, Gregory Diaz:
  Virtual Facework Trainer: Use of Offendable Bots for Learning Cross-Cultural (Im)Politeness.
  
• Christine L. Lisetti, Ugan Yasavur, Claudia de Leon, Reza Amini, Ubbo Visser, Naphtali Rishe:
  Building an On-Demand Avatar-Based Health Intervention for Behavior Change.
  
• Rui Sun, Elliot Moore II:
  Investigating the Robustness of Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for Emotion Recognition in Noisy Conditions.
  

Applied Natural Language Processing

• Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing.
  
• Philip M. McCarthy, Nicholas D. Duran, Lucille M. Booker:
  The Devil Is in the Details: New Directions in Deception Analysis.
  
• Eduardo Blanco, Dan I. Moldovan:
  Finding Associations between People.
  
• Erik Cambria, Catherine Havasi, Amir Hussain:
  SenticNet 2: A Semantic and Affective Resource for Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis.
  
• Hans Chalupsky:
  Story-Level Inference and Gap Filling to Improve Machine Reading.
  
• Scott A. Crossley, Zhiqiang Cai, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Syntagmatic, Paradigmatic, and Automatic N-Gram Approaches to Assessing Essay Quality.
  
• Ali Reza Ebadat, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot:
  Proper Noun Semantic Clustering Using Bag-of-Vectors.
  
• Ioana Hulpus, Conor Hayes, Marcel Karnstedt, Derek Greene:
  An Eigenvalue-Based Measure for Word-Sense Disambiguation.
  
• Michael C. Komisin, Curry I. Guinn:
  Identifying Personality Types Using Document Classification Methods.
  
• Haiying Li, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser, Ying Duan:
  A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Word Uses with LIWC.
  
• Mihai C. Lintean, Vasile Rus:
  Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics.
  
• René Alejandro Venegas:
  Automatic Coherence Profile in Public Speeches of Three Latin American Heads-of-State.
  
• Fadi A. Zaraket, Jad Makhlouta:
  Arabic Cross-Document NLP for the Hadith and Biography Literature.
  
• Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark G. Lee, Behzad Bordbar, Ahsan Ali Chaudhri:
  Addressing Semantic Ambiguities in Natural Language Constraints.
  
• Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara:
  A Linguistic Analysis of Expert-Generated Paraphrases.
  
• Niall Rooney, Hui Wang, Fiona Browne:
  Applying Kernel Methods to Argumentation Mining.
  

AI, Cognitive Semantics

• Ismaïl Biskri:
  Special Track on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Logic.
  
• Christian Cote, Richard Dapoigny, Caroline Wintergerst:
  Enhancing Publication Description with Resources Metadata.
  
• Jean-Pierre Desclés:
  Lexical Meanings Analysed by Means of Typed Applicative Representations.
  
• Tzu-Keng Fu, Oliver Kutz:
  The Analysis and Synthesis of Logic Translation.
  
• Matthias Gerner:
  Propositional Attitudes in Non-Compositional Logic.
  
• Vladislav Kubon, Markéta Lopatková:
  Studying Formal Properties of a Free Word Order Language.
  
• Michel A. Paquette:
  Speech Acts, Dialogues and the Common Ground.
  

AI Education

• Jim Marshall:
  Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education.
  
• Frank Klassner, James Peyton-Jones, Kurt Lehmer:
  Genetic Algorithms with Lego Mindstorms and Matlab.
  
• Sambit Bhattacharya, Bogdan D. Czejdo, Nicolas Perez:
  Research Modules for Undergraduates in Machine Learning for Automatic Gesture Classification.
  

Case-Based Reasoning

• Michael W. Floyd:
  Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning.
  
• Michael William Floyd, Mehmet Vefa Bicakci, Babak Esfandiari:
  Case-Based Learning by Observation in Robotics Using a Dynamic Case Representation.
  
• Vahid Jalali, David Leake:
  Customizing Question Selection in Conversational Case-Based Reasoning.
  
• Santiago Ontañón:
  Case Acquisition Strategies for Case-Based Reasoning in Real-Time Strategy Games.
  
• Santiago Ontañón, Enric Plaza:
  Toward a Knowledge Transfer Model of Case-Based Inference.
  
• Eoin Hurrell, Alan F. Smeaton, Barry Smyth:
  Interactivity and Multimedia in Case-Based Recommendation.
  

Cognition and AI

• Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah:
  Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence: Comparing Human Capability and Experience with Today's Computer Models.
  
• Hans Werner Guesgen, Darren Kessell:
  Gestural Control of Household Appliances for the Physically Impaired.
  
• Tzu-Keng Fu:
  A Formal Bi-Logic Framework for the Mental Processes.
  
• Ridhika Malik, Nandan Parameswaran, Udayan Ghose:
  Rule Based Event Management Systems.
  
• Felicitas Mokom, Ziad Kobti:
  Learning Artifact Capabilities Via a Hybrid Ontology.
  
• Stellan Ohlsson, Robert H. Sloan, György Turán, Daniel Uber, Aaron Urasky:
  An Approach to Evaluate AI Commonsense Reasoning Systems.
  

Data Mining

• David Bisant:
  Special Track on Data Mining.
  
• Juan M. Banda, Rafal A. Angryk, Petrus C. Martens:
  Quantitative Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Solar Image Archives.
  
• William Eberle, Lawrence B. Holder, Beverly Massengill:
  Graph-Based Anomaly Detection Applied to Homeland Security Cargo Screening.
  
• Douglas E. Galarus, Rafal A. Angryk, John W. Sheppard:
  Automated Weather Sensor Quality Control.
  
• Susan P. Imberman, Michael E. Kress, Daniel P. McCloskey:
  Using Frequent Pattern Mining To Identify Behaviors In A Naked Mole Rat Colony.
  
• Eric Belanga Bell, Eric J. Marshall, Ryan Hull, Keith Fligg, Antonio Sanfilippo, Don Daly, Dave W. Engel:
  Classifying Scientific Performance on a Metric-by-Metric Basis.
  

Games and Entertainment

• David Hunter Hale:
  Special Track on Games and Entertainment.
  
• Roman Barták, Filip Dvorak, Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Daniel Toropila:
  When Planning Should Be Easy: On Solving Cumulative Planning Problems.
  
• William P. Birmingham, Shane Rose, Gregory Miller, Matthew Mahan:
  Effect of Latency on Pursuit Problems.
  
• D. Hunter Hale, G. Michael Youngblood:
  Generating Texture Aware Spatial Decompositions.
  

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• Robert G. M. Hausmann:
  Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems.
  
• Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan:
  Tutor Modeling Versus Student Modeling.
  
• Stephen Bruce Blessing, Shrenik Devasani, Stephen B. Gilbert:
  Evaluating ConceptGrid: An Authoring System for Natural Language Responses.
  
• Sidney K. D'Mello, Arthur C. Graesser:
  Malleability of Students' Perceptions of an Affect-Sensitive Tutor and Its Influence on Learning.
  
• Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester:
  Analyzing Posture and Affect in Task-Oriented Tutoring.
  
• G. Tanner Jackson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Danielle S. McNamara:
  A Comparison of Gains between Educational Games and a Traditional ITS.
  
• Christopher Michael Mitchell, Eunyoung Ha, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester:
  Recognizing Effective and Student-Adaptive Tutor Moves in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue.
  
• Natalie K. Person, Andrew Olney, Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair Lehman:
  Interactive Concept Maps and Learning Outcomes in Guru.
  
• Yumeng Qiu, Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan:
  Towards Data Driven Model Improvement.
  
• Rod D. Roscoe, Danica Kugler, Scott A. Crossley, Jennifer L. Weston, Danielle S. McNamara:
  Developing Pedagogically-Guided Threshold Algorithms for Intelligent Automated Essay Feedback.
  
• Joachim Schramm, Sven Strickroth, Nguyen-Thinh Le, Niels Pinkwart:
  Teaching UML Skills to Novice Programmers Using a Sample Solution Based Intelligent Tutoring System.
  
• Sunayana Sitaram, Jack Mostow:
  Mining Data from Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor to Analyze Development of Children's Oral Reading Prosody.
  
• Cameron Carpenter, Leticia Osterberg, Geoff Sutcliffe:
  SAMHT - Suicidal Avatars for Mental Health Training.
  
• Yuanpeng Li, Jack Mostow:
  Evaluating and Improving Real-Time Tracking of Children's Oral Reading.
  

Robotics and Human Robot Interaction

• Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction.
  
• Eric Aaron, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Foster Nichols:
  Adaptive Obstacle Representations for Dynamical Navigation.
  
• Ramon A. Cardona, David S. Touretzky:
  Leg Design for a Praying Mantis Robot.
  
• Joaquin Arturo Pockels, Ashwin Iyengar, David S. Touretzky:
  Graphical Display of Search Trees for Transparent Robot Programming.
  
• Owen Paul Watson, David S. Touretzky:
  Small Scale Manipulation with the Calliope Robot.
  
• Elvra Rebecca Caldwell, Elva J. Jones:
  Using Robotics to Achieve Meaningful Research Skills in Robotics.
  
• Jennifer Gregory, Ayanna Howard, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Wii Nunchuk Controlled Dance Pleo! Dance! to Assist Children with Cerebral Palsy by Play Therapy.
  
• Ebrima Jobe, James McLurkin, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  R-One Swarm Robot: Developing the Accelerometer and Gyroscope.
  
• Emmanuel Johnson, Edwin Olson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Robot Localization Using Overhead Camera and LEDs.
  
• Dekita Moon, Paul Rybski, Cheryl Swanier, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke:
  Snackbot: The Process to Engage in Human-Robot Conversation.
  

Uncertain Reasoning

• Cory J. Butz:
  Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning.
  
• Michael Robert Glass, Ken Barker:
  Focused Grounding for Markov Logic Networks.
  
• Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito:
  Asymptotic Maximum Entropy Principle for Utility Elicitation under High Uncertainty and Partial Information.
  
• Souhila Kaci:
  A Postulate-Based Analysis of Comparative Preference Statements.
  
• Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, Andrew Klapper:
  On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information.
  
• Nico Potyka:
  Towards a General Framework for Maximum Entropy Reasoning.
  
• Christoph Beierle, Gabriele Kern-Isberner:
  Conditional Objects Revisited: Variants and Model Translations.
  
• Geng Wang, Zuoquan Lin:
  A Model-Theoretic Semantics for Two-Sided Argumentation.
  

Poster Abstracts

• Poster Abstracts.
  

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