MICAI 2009: Guanajuato, Mexico

Invited Talks

• Dieter Hutter:
  Semantic Management of Heterogeneous Documents. 1-14
  

Logic and Reasoning

• Mauricio Osorio, Juan Carlos Nieves:
  Possibilistic Well-Founded Semantics. 15-26
  

Ontologies, Knowledge Management and Knowledge-Based Systems

• Ana B. Rios-Alvarado, Ricardo Marcelín-Jiménez, R. Carolina Medina Ramírez:
  ACO for Solving the Distributed Allocation of a Corporate Semantic Web. 27-38
  
• Verónica Borja Macías, Pilar Pozos Parra:
  Implementing PS-Merge Operator. 39-50
  

Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning

• Francisco Elizalde, Luis Enrique Sucar, Julieta Noguez, Alberto Reyes:
  Generating Explanations Based on Markov Decision Processes. 51-62
  
• Xiangdong An, Nick Cercone:
  Compiling Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks: A Comparative Study. 63-74
  
• Juan Frausto Solís, Elizabeth Santiago D., Jaime Mora-Vargas:
  Cosine Policy Iteration for Solving Infinite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes. 75-86
  
• Pablo H. Ibargüengoytia, Roberto Liñan, Enrique Betancourt:
  Transformer Diagnosis Using Probabilistic Vibration Models. 87-98
  
• Israel Lopez, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn:
  Intelligent Aircraft Damage Assessment, Trajectory Planning, and Decision-Making under Uncertainty. 99-111
  
• Arturo Ramírez, Francisco González Acuña, Alejandro González Romero, René Alquézar, Enric Hernández, Amador Roldán Aguilar, Ian García Olmedo:
  A Scrabble Heuristic Based on Probability That Performs at Championship Level. 112-123
  

Natural Language Processing

• Hector Llorens, Borja Navarro, Estela Saquete Bosó:
  From Semantic Roles to Temporal Information Representation. 124-135
  
• Hiram Calvo, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto:
  Dependency Language Modeling Using KNN and PLSI. 136-144
  
• Sofía N. Galicia-Haro, Alexander F. Gelbukh:
  Supervised Recognition of Age-Related Spanish Temporal Phrases. 145-156
  
• Adelina Escobar-Acevedo, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez, Luis Villaseñor Pineda:
  Using Nearest Neighbor Information to Improve Cross-Language Text Classification. 157-164
  
• Esaú Villatoro-Tello, Luis Villaseñor Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez:
  Ranking Refinement via Relevance Feedback in Geographic Information Retrieval. 165-176
  

Data Mining

• Alberto Ochoa, Beatriz Loranca, Omar Ochoa:
  A Complex Networks Approach to Demographic Zonification. 177-188
  
• Nibaldo Rodríguez, Orlando Duran, Broderick Crawford:
  Multiscale Functional Autoregressive Model for Monthly Sardines Catches Forecasting. 189-200
  
• Daniel-Alejandro García-López, Héctor-Gabriel Acosta-Mesa:
  Discretization of Time Series Dataset with a Genetic Search. 201-212
  
• Huberto Ayanegui-Santiago, Orion Fausto Reyes-Galaviz, Alberto Chávez-Aragón, Federico Ramírez-Cruz, Alberto Portilla, Luciano García-Bañuelos:
  Mining Social Networks on the Mexican Computer Science Community. 213-224
  

Machine Learning

• Elva Díaz, Eunice Ponce de Leon, Pedro Larrañaga, Concha Bielza:
  Probabilistic Graphical Markov Model Learning: An Adaptive Strategy. 225-236
  
• Ariel García-Gamboa, Neil Hernández-Gress, Miguel González-Mendoza, Jaime Mora-Vargas:
  Support Vector Optimization through Hybrids: Heuristics and Math Approach. 237-245
  

Pattern Recognition

• Julio Cesar Martínez Romo, Francisco Javier Luna Rosas, Miguel Mora-González:
  On-Line Signature Verification Based on Genetic Optimization and Neural-Network-Driven Fuzzy Reasoning. 246-257
  
• Margarita E. Gómez-Mayorga, Francisco J. Gallegos Funes, José M. de la Rosa-Vazquez, Rene Cruz-Santiago, Volodymyr I. Ponomaryov:
  Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer Using the Median M-Type Radial Basis Function (MMRBF) Neural Network. 258-267
  
• Diego González, Luis Carlos Altamirano:
  Quasi-invariant Illumination Recognition for Appearance-Based Models, Taking Advantage of Manifold Information and Non-uniform Sampling. 268-279
  

Computer Vision and Image Processing

• Mario Santés, Javier Flavio Vigueras:
  Automatic Camera Localization, Reconstruction and Segmentation of Multi-planar Scenes Using Two Views. 280-291
  
• Jose Manuel Mejía Muñoz, Humberto de J. Ochoa Domínguez, Osslan Osiris Vergara-Villegas, Vianey Guadalupe Cruz Sánchez, Leticia Ortega Maynez:
  The Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform for Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms. 292-302
  
• Alonso Ramirez-Manzanares, Mariano Rivera, James C. Gee:
  Denoising Intra-voxel Axon Fiber Orientations by Means of ECQMMF Method. 303-312
  
• Jesus Carlos Pedraza Ortega, Efren Gorrostieta Hurtado, Juan Manuel Ramos Arreguin, Sandra Luz Canchola-Magdaleno, Marco Antonio Aceves-Fernandez, Manuel Delgado-Rosas, Ruth Angelica Rico-Hernandez:
  A Profilometric Approach for 3D Reconstruction Using Fourier and Wavelet Transforms. 313-323
  
• Enrique Guzmán, Oleksiy B. Pogrebnyak, Cornelio Yáñez, Pablo Manrique:
  Vector Quantization Algorithm Based on Associative Memories. 324-336
  

Robotics

• Julio H. Zaragoza, Eduardo F. Morales:
  A Two-Stage Relational Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions for Real Service Robots. 337-348
  
• José Alberto Méndez-Polanco, Angélica Muñoz-Meléndez, Eduardo F. Morales:
  People Detection by a Mobile Robot Using Stereo Vision in Dynamic Indoor Environments. 349-359
  

Planning and Scheduling

• Frédéric Lardeux, Eric Monfroy, Frédéric Saubion, Broderick Crawford, Carlos Castro:
  SAT Encoding and CSP Reduction for Interconnected Alldiff Constraints. 360-371
  
• Nelson Rangel-Valdez, Jose Torres-Jimenez:
  Phase Transition in the Bandwidth Minimization Problem. 372-383
  
• Lluvia Morales, Luis A. Castillo, Juan Fernández-Olivares:
  Planning for Conditional Learning Routes. 384-396
  
• Josue Bracho-Rios, Jose Torres-Jimenez, Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello:
  A New Backtracking Algorithm for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Variable Strength. 397-407
  
• Santiago E. Conant-Pablos, Dulce J. Magaña-Lozano, Hugo Terashima-Marín:
  Pipelining Memetic Algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction, and Local Search for Course Timetabling. 408-419
  

Fuzzy Logic

• Orion Fausto Reyes-Galaviz, Carlos A. Reyes García:
  Fuzzy Relational Compression Applied on Feature Vectors for Infant Cry Recognition. 420-431
  
• Antonio Hernández Zavala, Ildar Z. Batyrshin, Imre J. Rudas, Luis A. Villa Vargas, Oscar Camacho Nieto:
  Parametric Operations for Digital Hardware Implementation of Fuzzy Systems. 432-443
  
• Fevrier Valdez, Patricia Melin, Oscar Castillo:
  Fuzzy Logic for Combining Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithms: Preliminary Results. 444-453
  
• Denisse Hidalgo, Patricia Melin, Guillermo Licea, Oscar Castillo:
  Optimization of Type-2 Fuzzy Integration in Modular Neural Networks Using an Evolutionary Method with Applications in Multimodal Biometry. 454-465
  

Neural Networks

• Carlos D. Toledo-Suárez:
  st-Alphabets: On the Feasibility in the Explicit Use of Extended Relational Alphabets in Classifier Systems. 466-477
  
• Gonzalo Acuña, Millaray Curilem:
  Comparison of Neural Networks and Support Vector Machine Dynamic Models for State Estimation in Semiautogenous Mills. 478-487
  
• Juan Frausto Solís, Miguel González-Mendoza, Roberto López-Díaz:
  Using Wolfe's Method in Support Vector Machines Learning Stage. 488-499
  
• Ieroham S. Baruch, Carlos-Roman Mariaca-Gaspar, Josefina Barrera-Cortés:
  Direct Adaptive Soft Computing Neural Control of a Continuous Bioprocess via Second Order Learning. 500-511
  

Intelligent Tutoring Systems

• Ramon Zatarain-Cabada, Maria Lucia Barrón-Estrada, Leopoldo Zepeda-Sánchez, Guillermo Sandoval, J. Moisés Osorio-Velásquez, Eduardo Urías Barrientos:
  A Kohonen Network for Modeling Students' Learning Styles in Web 2.0 Collaborative Learning Systems. 512-520
  
• Alejandro Peña Ayala:
  Teaching-Learning by Means of a Fuzzy-Causal User Model. 521-532
  
• Julieta Noguez, Luis Neri, Víctor Robledo-Rella, Karla Muñoz:
  Inferring Knowledge from Active Learning Simulators for Physics. 533-544
  

Bioinformatics and Medical Applications

• Mario Chirinos Colunga, Oscar Sánchez Siordia, Stephen J. Maybank:
  Leukocyte Recognition Using EM-Algorithm. 545-555
  
• Gerardo Perez, Yuridia P. Mejia, Ivan Olmos, Jesus A. Gonzalez, Patricia Sánchez, Candelario Vázquez:
  An Automaton for Motifs Recognition in DNA Sequences. 556-565
  

Hybrid Intelligent Systems

• Juan Frausto Solís, Alberto Gonzalez-Sanchez, Monica Larre:
  A New Method for Optimal Cropping Pattern. 566-577
  
• Juan Frausto Solís, Xavier Soberon-Mainero, Ernesto Liñán-García:
  MultiQuenching Annealing Algorithm for Protein Folding Problem. 578-589
  
• Manuel Mejía-Lavalle, Ricardo Gómez Obregón, Atlántida Sánchez Vivar:
  Outlier Detection with a Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Method. 590-599
  
• Juan J. Flores, Roberto Loaeza, Héctor Rodríguez, Erasmo Cadenas:
  Wind Speed Forecasting Using a Hybrid Neural-Evolutive Approach. 600-609
  
• Dolores Torres, Eunice Ponce de Leon, Aurora Torres, Alberto Ochoa, Elva Díaz:
  Hybridization of Evolutionary Mechanisms for Feature Subset Selection in Unsupervised Learning. 610-621
  

Evolutionary Algorithms

• Julio Barrera, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
  A Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Multimodal Optimization Based on Electrostatic Interaction. 622-632
  
• Mario Garza-Fabre, Gregorio Toscano Pulido, Carlos A. Coello Coello:
  Ranking Methods for Many-Objective Optimization. 633-645
  
• Giovanni Lizárraga, Marco Jimenez Gomez, Mauricio A. Garza Castañon, Jorge Acevedo-Davila, Salvador Botello Rionda:
  Why Unary Quality Indicators Are Not Inferior to Binary Quality Indicators. 646-657
  
• Rogelio Salinas-Gutiérrez, Arturo Hernández Aguirre, Enrique Raúl Villa Diharce:
  Using Copulas in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. 658-668
  
• Miguel Angel Gutiérrez-Ándrade, Eric Alfredo Rincón García:
  Redistricting by Square Cells. 669-679
  
• Alejandro León-Javier, Nareli Cruz Cortés, Marco A. Moreno-Armendariz, Sandra Orantes-Jiménez:
  Finding Minimal Addition Chains with a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm. 680-691
  
• José-Francisco Herbert-Acero, Jorge-Rodolfo Franco-Acevedo, Manuel Valenzuela-Rendón, Oliver Probst-Oleszewski:
  Linear Wind Farm Layout Optimization through Computational Intelligence. 692-703
  
• Alexis Lozano, Víctor Mireles, Daniel Monsivais, Christopher R. Stephens, Sergio Antonio Alcalá, Francisco Cervantes:
  Building Blocks and Search. 704-715
  
• David A. Rosenblueth, Christopher R. Stephens:
  An Analysis of Recombination in Some Simple Landscapes. 716-727
  
• Edgar Galván López, Riccardo Poli:
  An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search. 728-739