8. PRICAI 2004: Auckland, New Zealand

Invited Talks

• Richard H. Lathrop:
  Biomedical Artificial Intelligence. 1
  
• Carles Sierra:
  Electronics Institutions: Methodology of Multi-agent Systems Development. 2
  
• Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, Henry A. Rowley:
  The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval. 3-12
  

AI Foundations. Logic and Reasoning

• Victor Jauregui, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Y. Foo:
  On the Intended Interpretations of Actions. 13-22
  
• Peep Küngas:
  Temporal Linear Logic for Symbolic Agent Negotiation. 23-32
  
• Qingfeng Chen, Shichao Zhang:
  Dealing with Inconsistent Secure Messages. 33-42
  
• Yasuyuki Shirai, Ryuzo Hasegawa:
  Answer Set Computation Based on a Minimal Model Generation Theorem Prover. 43-52
  
• Gérard Ligozat, Jochen Renz:
  What Is a Qualitative Calculus? A General Framework. 53-64
  
• Jochen Renz, Debasis Mitra:
  Qualitative Direction Calculi with Arbitrary Granularity. 65-74
  
• Susumu Katayama:
  Power of Brute-Force Search in Strongly-Typed Inductive Functional Programming Automation. 75-84
  
• Longbing Cao, Chao Luo, Dan Luo, Li Liu:
  Ontology Services-Based Information Integration in Mining Telecom Business Intelligence. 85-94
  

AI Foundations. Planning

• Naoto Mukai, Jun Feng, Toyohide Watanabe:
  Indexing Approach for Delivery Demands with Time Constraints. 95-103
  
• David Mould, Michael C. Horsch:
  An Hierarchical Terrain Representation for Approximately Shortest Paths. 104-113
  
• Roberto S. Legaspi, Raymund Sison, Masayuki Numao:
  MSIP: Agents Embodying a Category-Based Learning Process for the ITS Tutor to Self-improve Its Instructional Plans. 114-123
  

AI Foundations. Constraint Satisfaction

• Abdellah Idrissi, Ahlem Ben Hassine:
  Circuit Consistencies. 124-133
  
• Matthew Beaumont, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar, Michael J. Maher:
  Solving Over-Constrained Temporal Reasoning Problems Using Local Search. 134-143
  
• Stuart Bain, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar:
  Methods of Automatic Algorithm Generation. 144-153
  
• Arun K. Pujari, T. Adilakshmi:
  A Novel Heuristic to Solve IA Network by Convex Approximation and Weights. 154-163
  
• Vincent Tam, Jack Ho, Alvin C. M. Kwan:
  Applying An Improved Heuristic Based Optimiser to Solve a Set of Challenging University Timetabling Problems: An Experience Report. 164-172
  
• Anbulagan:
  Extending Unit Propagation Look-Ahead of DPLL Procedure. 173-182
  

AI Foundations. Machine Learning

• Yonglei Zhou, Changshui Zhang, Jingchun Wang:
  Extended Nearest Feature Line Classifier. 183-190
  
• Dan Vance, Anca L. Ralescu:
  Sifting the Margin - An Iterative Empirical Classification Scheme. 191-200
  
• Gang Li, Honghua Dai, Yiqing Tu, Tarkan Kurt:
  Accelerating Linear Causal Model Discovery Using Hoeffding Bounds. 201-210
  
• Yusuke Suzuki, Takayoshi Shoudai, Satoshi Matsumoto, Tetsuhiro Miyahara:
  Polynomial Time Inductive Inference of Ordered Tree Languages with Height-Constrained Variables from Positive Data. 211-220
  
• Duncan Potts:
  Fast Incremental Learning of Linear Model Trees. 221-230
  
• Seiichi Ozawa, Shaoning Pang, Nikola Kasabov:
  A Modified Incremental Principal Component Analysis for On-Line Learning of Feature Space and Classifier. 231-240
  

Computational Intelligence. Computational Learning

• Jun-Cheol Jeon, Kee-Young Yoo:
  An Evolutionary Approach to the Design of Cellular Automata Architecture for Multiplication in Elliptic Curve Cryptography over Finite Fields. 241-250
  
• William D. Smart, Mengjie Zhang:
  Probability Based Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification. 251-261
  
• Jian-Hung Chen, Hung-Ming Chen, Shinn-Ying Ho:
  Design of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers Using an Intelligent Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm. 262-271
  
• Tae-Seung Lee, Ho-Jin Choi:
  Elastic Learning Rate on Error Backpropagation of Online Update. 272-281
  
• Hyeyoung Park, Masato Inoue, Masato Okada:
  Learning Dynamics of Neural Networks with Singularity - Standard Gradient vs. Natural Gradient. 282-291
  
• Guo-Zheng Li, Jie Yang, Guo-Ping Liu, Li Xue:
  Feature Selection for Multi-class Problems Using Support Vector Machines. 292-300
  
• Tiffany Ya Tang, Gordon I. McCalla:
  Beyond Learners' Interest: Personalized Paper Recommendation Based on Their Pedagogical Features for an e-Learning System. 301-310
  

Computational Intelligence. Bayesian Network

• Sarah George, Ingrid Zukerman, Michael Niemann:
  An Anytime Algorithm for Interpreting Arguments. 311-321
  

Computational Intelligence. Evolutionary Computing

• Kevin B. Korb, Lucas R. Hope, Ann E. Nicholson, Karl Axnick:
  Varieties of Causal Intervention. 322-331
  
• Myung-Won Kim, Joung Woo Ryu:
  Species Merging and Splitting for Efficient Search in Coevolutionary Algorithm. 332-341
  
• Taejin Park, Kwang Ryel Ryu:
  Exploiting Unexpressed Genes for Solving Large-Scaled Maximal Covering Problems. 342-351
  
• Xiaoshu Hang, Honghua Dai:
  Combining Extension Matrix and Integer Programming for Optimal Concept Learning. 352-360
  
• J. P. Bekmann, Achim G. Hoffmann:
  HeurEAKA - A New Approach for Adapting GAs to the Problem Domain. 361-372
  
• Chunguo Wu, Wei Xiang, Yanchun Liang, Chunguang Zhou:
  A Modified Integer-Coding Genetic Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problem. 373-380
  
• Jörg Denzinger, Tim Williams:
  Using Evolutionary Learning of Behavior to Find Weaknesses in Operating Systems. 381-390
  
• Hyeun-Jeong Min, Sung-Bae Cho:
  Creative 3D Designs Using Interactive Genetic Algorithm with Structured Directed Graph. 391-400
  
• Sin Kuk Kang, Eun Yi Kim, Hang Joon Kim:
  Spatiotemporal Parameter Adaptation in Genetic Algorithm-Based Video Segmentation. 401-410
  
• Eun Yi Kim, Keechul Jung:
  Object Detection and Removal Using Genetic Algorithms. 411-421
  

Computational Intelligence. Neural Networks

• Fevzullah Temurtas, Nejat Yumusak, Rustu Gunturkun, Hasan Temurtas, Osman Cerezci:
  Elman's Recurrent Neural Networks Using Resilient Back Propagation for Harmonic Detection. 422-428
  
• V. Kavitha, K. S. Easwarakumar:
  Neural Based Steganography. 429-435
  
• Yongping Zhang, Ruili Wang:
  Neural Network Combines with a Rotational Invariant Feature Set in Texture Classification. 436-444
  

Computational Intelligence. Fuzzy Logic

• Paul Snow:
  What Concrete Things Does Fuzzy Propositional Logic Describe?. 445-453
  
• M. Shamim Khan, Sebastian W. Khor:
  A Framework for Fuzzy Rule-Based Cognitive Maps. 454-463
  
• TaeYong Kim, Jong-Soo Choi:
  Discontinuity Enhancement Using Fuzziness in DCT Blocks. 464-473
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Data Mining

• Shichao Zhang, Li Liu, Jingli Lu, Yuming Ou:
  Is Minimum-Support Appropriate to Identifying Large Itemsets? 474-484
  
• Baoyao Zhou, Siu Cheung Hui, Alvis Cheuk M. Fong:
  An Efficient Approach for Mining Periodic Sequential Access Patterns. 485-494
  
• Byeong Man Kim, Qing Li, Jong-Wan Kim, Jinsoo Kim:
  A New Collaborative Recommender System Addressing Three Problems. 495-504
  
• Kyung-shik Shin, Hyun-jung Kim, Suhn-beom Kwon:
  A GA-Based Fuzzy Decision Tree Approach for Corporate Bond Rating. 505-514
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Classification and Cluster

• Colin Keng-Yan Tan:
  Text Classification Using Belief Augmented Frames. 515-523
  
• Tadachika Ozono, Toramatsu Shintani, Takayuki Ito, Tomoharu Hasegawa:
  A Feature Selection for Text Categorization on Research Support System Papits. 524-533
  
• Shu-Chuan Chu, John F. Roddick, Che-Jen Su, Jeng-Shyang Pan:
  Constrained Ant Colony Optimization for Data Clustering. 534-543
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Case-Based Reasoning

• Yan Fu, Qiang Yang, Charles X. Ling, Haipeng Wang, Dequan Li, Ruixiang Sun, Hu Zhou, Rong Zeng, Yiqiang Chen, Simin He, Wen Gao:
  A Kernel-Based Case Retrieval Algorithm with Application to Bioinformatics. 544-553
  
• Anna Wills, Ian Watson:
  Building a Case-Based Reasoner for Clinical Decision Support. 554-562
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Information Retrieval

• Hui Yang, Minjie Zhang, Zhongzhi Shi:
  Association-Rule Based Information Source Selection. 563-574
  
• Xuezhong Zhou, Zhaohui Wu:
  Distributional Character Clustering for Chinese Text Categorization. 575-584
  
• Xiaoying Gao, Peter Andreae, Richard Collins:
  Approximately Repetitive Structure Detection for Wrapper Induction. 585-594
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Agent Technology

• Wayne Wobcke:
  Model Theory for PRS-Like Agents: Modelling Belief Update and Action Attempts. 595-604
  
• Raymond Y. K. Lau, Siu Y. Chan:
  Towards Belief Revision Logic Based Adaptive and Persuasive Negotiation Agents. 605-614
  
• Minhong Wang, Huaiqing Wang:
  Agents and Web Services Supported Business Exception Management. 615-624
  
• Martin K. Purvis, Mariusz Nowostawski, Stephen Cranefield, Marcos De Oliveira:
  Multi-agent Interaction Technology for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Electronic Trading Environments. 625-634
  
• Takenobu Tokugana, Kotaro Funakoshi, Hozumi Tanaka:
  K₂: Animated Agents that Understand Speech Commands and Perform Actions. 635-643
  
• Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Claude Sammut:
  InCA: A Mobile Conversational Agent. 644-653
  
• Jong-Wan Kim, Hee-Jae Kim, Sin-Jae Kang, Byeong Man Kim:
  Determination of Usenet News Groups by Fuzzy Inference and Kohonen Network. 654-663
  
• Margaret E. Jefferies, Wenrong Weng, Jesse T. Baker, Michael Mayo:
  Using Context to Solve the Correspondence Problem in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping. 664-672
  
• Pattara Kiatisevi, Vuthichai Ampornaramveth, Haruki Ueno:
  Knowledge-Based Interactive Robot: System Architecture and Dialogue Manager. 673-682
  

AI Methodologies and Systems. Robotics

• Sylvia C. Wong, Bruce A. MacDonald:
  Complete Coverage by Mobile Robots Using Slice Decomposition Based on Natural Landmarks. 683-692
  
• Diedrich Wolter, Longin Jan Latecki:
  Shape Matching for Robot Mapping. 693-702
  
• Takehisa Yairi:
  Covisibility-Based Map Learning Method for Mobile Robots. 703-712
  

AI Specific Application Areas. Bioinformatics

• Si-Ho Yoo, Sung-Bae Cho:
  Optimal Gene Selection for Cancer Classification with Partial Correlation and k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier. 713-722
  
• Je-Gun Joung, Sok June Oh, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Prediction of the Risk Types of Human Papillomaviruses by Support Vector Machines. 723-731
  
• Jin-Wu Nam, Wha-Jin Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Computational Methods for Identification of Human microRNA Precursors. 732-741
  
• In-Hee Lee, Sun Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang:
  Multi-objective Evolutionary Probe Design Based on Thermodynamic Criteria for HPV Detection. 742-750
  

AI Specific Application Areas. Image Processing and Computer Vision

• Yuzhong Wang, Jie Yang, Ningsong Peng:
  Synergism in Color Image Segmentation. 751-759
  
• Dake Zhou, Xin Yang:
  Face Recognition Using Direct-Weighted LDA. 760-768
  
• Dake Zhou, Xin Yang:
  Face Recognition Using Enhanced Fisher Linear Discriminant Model with Facial Combined Feature. 769-777
  
• Yuzhong Wang, Jie Yang:
  Gradient Vector Flow Snake with Embedded Edge Confidence. 778-786
  
• Tae-Yong Kim, Jihun Park, Seong-Whan Lee:
  Object Boundary Edge Selection for Human Body Tracking Using Level-of-Detail Canny Edges. 787-796
  
• Qing Xu, Jie Yang, Siyi Ding:
  Unsupervised Multiscale Image Segmentation Using Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Tree. 797-804
  
• Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West:
  Adaptive Model for Foreground Extraction in Adverse Lighting Conditions. 805-811
  
• Hyun-Hwa Oh, Sung-Il Chien:
  Improvement of Binarization Method Using a Water Flow Model for Document Images with Complex Backgrounds. 812-822
  
• Joo-Hwee Lim, Jesse S. Jin:
  Learning and Integrating Semantics for Image Indexing. 823-832
  
• Anjin Park, Keechul Jung:
  PDA-Based Text Localization System Using Client/Server Architecture. 833-842
  
• Jong-Hak Lee, Sang-gug Park, Soo-joong Kim:
  Vision Technique for the Recognition of Billet Characters in the Steel Plant. 843-851
  

AI Specific Application Areas. Natural Language Processing

• Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter:
  Tagging Medical Documents with High Accuracy. 852-861
  
• Hilda Ho, Kyongho Min, Wai-Kiang Yeap:
  Pronominal Anaphora Resolution Using a Shallow Meaning Representation of Sentences. 862-871
  
• Alistair Knott, Ian Bayard, Peter Vlugter:
  Multi-agent Human-Machine Dialogue: Issues in Dialogue Management and Referring Expression Semantics. 872-881
  
• Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka:
  Coherent Arrangement of Sentences Extracted from Multiple Newspaper Articles. 882-891
  
• Sehyeong Cho:
  Improvement of Language Models Using Dual-Source Backoff. 892-900
  

AI Specific Application Areas. Speech Understanding and Interaction

• David Chow, Waleed H. Abdulla:
  Speaker Identification Based on Log Area Ratio and Gaussian Mixture Models in Narrow-Band Speech: Speech Understanding / Interaction. 901-908
  
• Kazushi Ishihara, Tomohiro Nakatani, Tetsuya Ogata, Hiroshi G. Okuno:
  Automatic Sound-Imitation Word Recognition from Environmental Sounds Focusing on Ambiguity Problem in Determining Phonemes. 909-918
  
• Ki-Young Lee, Jong Kuk Kim, Myung Jin Bae:
  Statistical Pitch Conversion Approaches Based on Korean Accentual Phrases. 919-927
  

AI Specific Application Areas. Poster Papers

• Alain Gaetan Njimolu Anyouzoa, Theo D'Hondt:
  On the Stability of a Dynamic Stochastic Capacity Pricing Scheme for Resource Allocation in a Multi-agent Environment. 928-929
  
• Seong-Bae Park, Jangmin O, Sang-Jo Lee:
  Part-of-Speech Tagging and PP Attachment Disambiguation Using a Boosted Maximum Entropy Model. 930-931
  
• Vincent Tam, M. C. Kwan:
  Solving Pickup and Delivery Problems with Refined Construction and Repair Heuristics. 932-933
  
• Danyu Liu, Alan P. Sprague:
  Mining Multi-dimensional Data with Visualization Techniques. 934-935
  
• Pei Yang, Yang Gao, Zhaoqian Chen, Shifu Chen:
  Believability Based Iterated Belief Revision. 936-937
  
• Behzad Moshiri, Farhad Besharati, Abdrreza Dehghani Tafti, Ali Akhavan Bitaghsir:
  On Designing a Reduced-Order Fuzzy Observer. 938-939
  
• Yoon-Yong Jeong, Yong Ho Hwang, Hyun-Ki Hong:
  Using Factorization Algorithm for 3D Reconstruction over Long Un-calibrated Sequences. 940-941
  
• Xiaoyue Feng, Yanchun Liang, Yanfeng Sun, Heow Pueh Lee, Chunguang Zhou, Yan Wang:
  A Hybrid Algorithm for Combining Forecasting Based on AFTER-PSO. 942-943
  
• Ryutaro Ichise, Masahiro Hamasaki, Hideaki Takeda:
  A Multi-strategy Approach for Catalog Integration. 944-945
  
• Hans P. van Ditmarsch:
  Some Game Theory of Pit. 946-947
  
• Tony A. Meyer:
  Dynamically Determining Affect During Scripted Dialogue. 948-949
  
• Hajime Sawamura, Wataru Kawakami:
  Knowledge and Argument Transformation for Arguing Mobile Agents. 950-952
  
• Yuval Marom, Ingrid Zukerman:
  Improving Newsgroup Clustering by Filtering Author-Specific Words. 953-954
  
• Vincent W. Tam, Simon Koo, Kozo Sugiyama:
  Evolving Artificial Ant Systems to Improve Layouts of Graphical Objects. 955-956
  
• Evelio J. González, Alberto F. Hamilton, Lorenzo Moreno, Roberto L. Marichal, Vanessa Muñoz:
  MASCONTROL: A MAS for System Identification and Process Control. 957-958
  
• Gamhewage C. de Silva, Michael J. Lyons, Nobuji Tetsutani:
  Vision Based Acquisition of Mouth Actions for Human-Computer Interaction. 959-960
  
• Yuanjie Zheng, Jie Yang, Yue Zhou:
  Unsupervised Image Segmentation with Fuzzy Connectedness. 961-962
  
• Yoon Ho Cho, Chan Young Kim, Deok-Hwan Kim:
  Personalized Image Recommendation in the Mobile Internet. 963-964
  
• Asim Karim, Syed Imran Jami, Irfan Ahmad, S. Mansoor Sarwar, Zartash Afzal Uzmi:
  Clustering IP Addresses Using Longest Prefix Matching and Nearest Neighbor Algorithms. 965-966
  
• Han-Saem Park, Si-Ho Yoo, Sung-Bae Cho:
  A Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm for Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles. 967-968
  
• Andre L. C. Barczak:
  Evaluation of a Boosted Cascade of Haar-Like Features in the Presence of Partial Occlusions and Shadows for Real Time Face Detection. 969-970
  
• Patrick Peursum, Hung Hai Bui, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West:
  Classifying Human Actions Using an Incomplete Real-Time Pose Skeleton. 971-972
  
• Boonserm Kijsirikul, Narong Boonsirisumpun, Yachai Limpiyakorn:
  Multiclass Support Vector Machines Using Balanced Dichotomization. 973-974
  
• Shuichiro Imahara, Makoto Sato, Akihiko Nakase:
  Time Series Pattern Discovery by Segmental Gaussian Models. 975-976
  
• Vasile Rus, Alex Fit-Florea:
  A Model for Identifying the Underlying Logical Structure of Natural Language. 977-978
  
• Yuk-Hei Lam, Zili Zhang, Kok-Leong Ong:
  A Reputation-Based Trust Model for Agent Societies. 979-980
  
• Noriko Ito, Toru Sugimoto, Shino Iwashita, Ichiro Kobayashi, Michio Sugeno:
  A Model of Rhetorical Structure Analysis of Japanese Texts and Its Application to Intelligent Text Processing: A Case for a Smart Help System. 981-982
  
• Sebastian Lühr, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West, Hung Hai Bui:
  Explicit State Duration HMM for Abnormality Detection in Sequences of Human Activity. 983-984
  
• Richard Dazeley, Byeong Ho Kang:
  An Augmentation Hybrid System for Document Classification and Rating. 985-986
  
• Mark Chan, Patrice Delmas, Georgy L. Gimel'farb, Chia-Yen Chen, Philippe Leclercq:
  Study and Comparison of 3D Face Generation. 987-988
  
• Hiromitsu Hattori, Toramatsu Shintani, Atsushi Isomura, Takayuki Ito, Tadachika Ozono:
  Stable Solutions Dealing with Dynamics in Scheduling Based on Dynamic Constraint Satisfaction Problems. 989-990
  
• Masayoshi Kanoh, Shohei Kato, Hidenori Itoh:
  Analyzing Emotional Space in Sensitivity Communication Robot "Ifbot". 991-992
  
• Mariko Narumi, Michita Imai:
  Human-Centric Approach for Human-Robot Interaction. 993-994
  
• Adriaan ter Mors, Jeroen Valk, Cees Witteveen:
  Complexity of Coordinating Autonomous Planning Agents. 995-996
  
• Pedro José Vivancos Vicente, Rafael Valencia-García, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar, Fernando Martín-Rubio:
  An Approach for Multirelational Ontology Modelling. 997-998
  
• Jong Dae Kim:
  SNR-Invariant Normalization of the Covariance Measure for Template Matching. 999-1000
  
• Mahdi Jalili-Kharaajoo:
  Brain Emotional Learning Based Intelligent Controller Applied to Gas Metal Arc Welding System. 1001-1002
  
• Reinhard Moratz, Michael Wünstel, Robert Ross:
  Qualitative Spatial Arrangements and Natural Object Categories as a Link Between 3D-Perception and Speech. 1003-1004
  
• Hyungil Kim, Juntae Kim, Jonathan L. Herlocker:
  Integrating Feature Information for Improving Accuracy of Collaborative Filtering. 1005-1006
  
• Laura Cruz, Joaquín Pérez, Vanesa Landero N., Elizabeth S. del Angel, Victor M. Álvarez, Verónica Pérez:
  An Ordered Preprocessing Scheme for Data Mining. 1007-1008
  
• Yutaka Matsuo, Akira Takagi, Shigeyoshi Hiratsuka, Kôiti Hasida, Hideyuki Nakashima:
  Spatial Function Representation and Retrieval. 1009-1010
  
• Hongqi Pan, Chung-Hsing Yeh:
  Fuzzy Project Scheduling with Multiple Objectives. 1011-1012
  
• Mauricio Kugler, Hiroshi Matsuo, Akira Iwata:
  A New Approach for Applying Support Vector Machines in Multiclass Problems Using Class Groupings and Truth Tables. 1013-1014
  
• Ali Karci:
  Imitation of Bee Reproduction as a Crossover Operator in Genetic Algorithms. 1015-1016
  
• Osama Fathy Hegazy, Aly A. Fahmy, Osama Mosaad El Refaie:
  An Intelligent Robot Navigation System Based on Neuro-Fuzzy Control. 1017-1018
  

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