IFIP AI 2008: Milano, Italy

Agents 1

• Ante Prodan, John K. Debenham:
  A Light-Weight Multi-Agent System Manages 802.11 Mesh Networks. 3-12
  
• Paulo Trigo, Helder Coelho:
  Decisions with multiple simultaneous goals and uncertain causal effects. 13-22
  
• Kamal Ali Albashiri, Frans Coenen, Paul H. Leng:
  Agent Based Frequent Set Meta Mining: Introducing EMADS. 23-32
  

Agents 2

• Emilia Garcia, Adriana Giret, Vicente J. Botti:
  On the evaluation of MAS development tools. 35-44
  
• John K. Debenham:
  Information-Based Planning and Strategies. 45-54
  
• Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Marc Esteva, John K. Debenham:
  Teaching Autonomous Agents to Move in a Believable Manner within Virtual Institutions. 55-64
  

Data Mining

• M. Sulaiman Khan, Maybin K. Muyeba, Frans Coenen:
  Mining Fuzzy Association Rules from Composite Items. 67-76
  
• Frederic T. Stahl, Max A. Bramer, Mo Adda:
  P-Prism: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Scaling up Classification Rule Induction. 77-86
  
• Michiel Helvensteijn:
  Applying Data Mining to the Study of Joseki. 87-96
  
• Houda Benbrahim, Max Bramer:
  A Fuzzy Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines Approach to Hypertext Categorization. 97-106
  

Neural Networks

• Georg Ruß, Rudolf Kruse, Martin Schneider, Peter Wagner:
  Estimation of Neural Network Parameters for Wheat Yield Prediction. 109-118
  
• Miguel E. R. Bezerra, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Paulo J. L. Adeodato, Silvio R. L. Meira:
  Enhancing RBF-DDA Algorithm's Robustness: Neural Networks Applied to Prediction of Fault-Prone Software Modules. 119-128
  

Learning

• Ronaldo C. Prati, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Maria Carolina Monard:
  A Study with Class Imbalance and Random Sampling for a Decision Tree Learning System. 131-140
  
• Carmen Martínez-Gil, A. López-López:
  Answer Extraction for Definition Questions using Information Gain and Machine Learning. 141-150
  
• Andrea Bonarini, Claudio Caccia, Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli:
  Batch Reinforcement Learning for Controlling a Mobile Wheeled Pendulum Robot. 151-160
  

Knowledge Management

• Enrique Calot, Paola Britos, Ramón García-Martínez:
  Optimizing Relationships Information in Repertory Grids. 163-172
  
• Stefania Bandini, Federica Petraglia, Fabio Sartori:
  Modeling Stories in the Knowledge Management Context to Improve Learning Within Organizations. 173-182
  
• Olfa Chourabi, Yann Pollet, Mohamed Ben Ahmed:
  Knowledge Modeling Framework for System Engineering Projects. 183-192
  

Foundations

• Júnia Coutinho Anacleto Silva, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Eliane N. Pereira, Alexandre Mello Ferreira, Alessandro José Francisco Carlos:
  Machines with good sense: How can computers become capable of sensible reasoning? 195-204
  
• Jörg Cassens, Rebekah Wegener:
  Making Use of Abstract Concepts-Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Ambient Intelligence. 205-214
  
• Guido Boella, Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi, Leendert van der Torre:
  Making Others Believe What They Want. 215-224
  
• R. M. Bhatt, R. P. Gairola:
  Foundation for Virtual Experiments to Evaluate Thermal Conductivity of Semi- and Super-Conducting Materials. 225-234
  

Applications 1

• Enrique Sierra, Alejandro Hossian, Darío Rodríguez, M. García-Martínez, Paola Britos, Ramón García-Martínez:
  Intelligent Systems Applied to Optimize Building's Environments Performance. 237-244
  
• George G. Cabral, Adriano L. I. Oliveira:
  A Comparative Analysis of One-class Structural Risk Minimization by Support Vector Machines and Nearest Neighbor Rule. 245-254
  
• Georgina Stegmayer, J. Vega, L. Gugliotta, Omar Chiotti:
  Estimation of the Particle Size Distribution of a Latex using a General Regression Neural Network. 255-264
  
• U. Sancin, B. Dolsak:
  Intelligent Advisory System for Designing Plastics Products. 265-274
  

Applications 2

• Ahmed Y. Tawfik, Rana R. Farag:
  Modeling the Spread of Preventable Diseases: Social Culture and Epidemiology. 277-286
  
• A. B. Adehor, P. R. Burrell:
  An Intelligent Decision Support System for the Prompt Diagnosis of Malaria and Typhoid Fever in the Malaria Belt of Africa. 287-296
  
• Paola Britos, Hernan Grosser, Darío Rodríguez, Ramón García-Martínez:
  Detecting Unusual Changes of Users Consumption. 297-306
  

Techniques

• Fabrizio Angiulli, Stefano Basta:
  Optimal Subset Selection for Classification through SAT Encodings. 309-318
  
• Hirotaka Nakayama, Yeboon Yun:
  Multi-objective Model Predictive Optimization using Computational Intelligence. 319-328
  
• Célia A. Zorzo Barcelos, V. B. Pires:
  An Intelligent Method for Edge Detection based on Nonlinear Diffusion. 329-338
  

Semantic Web

• Feiyu Lin, Kurt Sandkuhl:
  A Survey of Exploiting WordNet in Ontology Matching. 341-350
  
• Fedja Hadzic, Tharam S. Dillon:
  Using Competitive Learning between Symbolic Rules as a Knowledge Learning Method. 351-360
  
• Shuxin Zhao, Pornpit Wongthongtham, Elizabeth Chang, Tharam S. Dillon:
  Knowledge Conceptualization and Software Agent based Approach for OWL Modeling Issues. 361-370
  

Representation, Reasoning and Search

• Pavol Návrat, Tomas Taraba, Anna Bou Ezzeddine, Daniela Chudá:
  Context Search Enhanced by Readability Index. 373-382
  
• Maya Carrillo, Aurelio López-López:
  Towards an Enhanced Vector Model to Encode Textual Relations: Experiments Retrieving Information. 383-392
  
• Zsolt Zombori:
  Efficient Two-Phase Data Reasoning for Description Logics. 393-402
  
• Daniel E. O'Leary:
  Some Issues in Personalization of Intelligent Systems: An Activity Theory Approach for Meta Ontology Development. 403-412
  

Short Papers

• John K. Debenham, Simeon J. Simoff, J. R. Leaney, Vinod Mirchandani:
  Smart communications network management through a synthesis of distributed intelligence and information. 415-419
  
• Anna Ciampolini, Paola Mello, Sergio Storari:
  An Abductive Multi-Agent System for Medical Services Coordination. 421-425
  
• Yan Yi, Zhang Hangping, Zhou Bin:
  A New Learning Algorithm for Neural Networks with Integer Weights and Quantized Non-linear Activation Functions. 427-431
  
• Mauricio Solar, Patricio Perez, Francisco Watkins:
  Neural Recognition of Minerals. 433-437
  
• Paola Britos, Pablo Felgaer, Ramón García-Martínez:
  Bayesian Networks Optimization Based on Induction Learning Techniques. 439-443
  
• Nenad Stefanovic, Dusan Stefanovic, Milan Misic:
  Application of Business Intelligence for Business Process Management. 445-449
  
• Jorge Salvador Ierache, Ramón García-Martínez, Armando De Giusti:
  Learning Life Cycle in Autonomous Intelligent Systems. 451-455
  
• Kimio Kuramitsu:
  A Map-based Integration of Ontologies into an Object-Oriented Programming Language. 457-461