Artificial Intelligence Research and Development

✍ Scribed by Cecilio Angulo, Lluis Godo

• Publisher: IOS Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 452
• Series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 163
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed.... Last year the 50th anniversary of the Dartmouth AI project proposal by McCarthy, Minsky, Rochester and Shannon was celebrated. Years later, and following similar traditions of a number of AI associations, a call was launched in 1997 by the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) to organize an annual conference to promote synergies in the research community of its influence, the seeder for the 1st Catalan Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCIA98) which took place in Tarragona on October 1998. The editors are very glad to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Conference of the ACIA (CCIA07) in Sant Julià de Lòria (Andorra), October 2526th, 2007. The good health of the Catalan AI community and its influence area is witnessed by the representative selection of papers gathered in this book and presented at CCIA07. The book is organized according to the different areas in which the papers were distributed for their presentation during the conference, namely: Constraint Satisfaction, Agents, Data Processing, Case-Based Reasoning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Uncertainty and Fuzziness, Robotics, and Applications. The editors believe that all the papers collected in this volume can be of interest to any computer scientist or engineer interested in AI.

✦ Table of Contents

Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Invited Talks......Page 13
Sequential Prediction Under Incomplete Feedback......Page 15
Beyond the User: A Review of Socially Aware Computing......Page 18
Constraint Satisfaction......Page 21
An Efficient Estimation Function for the Crew Scheduling Problem......Page 23
What Is a Real-World SAT Instance?......Page 31
Mendelian Error Detection in Complex Pedigrees Using Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Techniques......Page 41
Distributed Meeting Scheduling......Page 50
Agents......Page 59
The Impact of Betweenness in Small World Networks on Request for Proposal Coalition Formation Problems......Page 61
On the Multimodal Logic of Elementary Normative Systems......Page 69
Agents and Clinical Guidelines: Filling the Semantic Gap......Page 79
A Monitor for Digital Business Ecosystems......Page 89
Confidence Management in FIPA Environments: Agent Unique Representation......Page 99
Completing the Virtual Analogy of Real Institutions via iObjects......Page 107
Appraisal Variance Estimation in the ART Testbed Using Fuzzy Corrective Contextual Filters......Page 116
Punishment Policy Adaptation in a Road Junction Regulation System......Page 124
Scholar Agent: Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Publication Selection on Congresses and Journals......Page 132
Data Processing......Page 143
Modeling Problem Transformations Based on Data Complexity......Page 145
Semantic Blocking for Record Linkage......Page 153
Case Based Reasoning......Page 163
Explanation of a Clustered Case Memory Organization......Page 165
Assessing Confidence in Cased Based Reuse Step......Page 173
Computer Vision......Page 181
Efficient Tracking of Objects with Arbitrary 2D Motions in Space-Variant Imagery......Page 183
Ground Plane Estimation Based on Virtual Camera Rotation......Page 193
Weighted Dissociated Dipoles for Evolutive Learning......Page 201
Blood Detection in IVUS Longitudinal Cuts Using AdaBoost with a Novel Feature Stability Criterion......Page 209
A Colour Space Based on the Image Content......Page 217
An Evaluation of an Object Recognition Schema Using Multiple Region Detectors......Page 225
An Input Panel and Recognition Engine for On-Line Handwritten Text Recognition......Page 235
Georeferencing Image Points Using Visual Pose Estimation and DEM......Page 245
Natural Language Processing......Page 255
Semantic Disambiguation of Taxonomies......Page 257
POP2.0: A Search Engine for Public Information Services in Local Government......Page 267
Automatic Reading of Aeronautical Meteorological Messages......Page 275
Uncertainty and Fuzziness......Page 283
Maximum and Minimum of Discrete Fuzzy Numbers......Page 285
A Fuzzy Rule-Based Modeling of the Sociology of Organized Action......Page 293
Multidimensional OWA Operators in Group Decision Making......Page 303
Reasoning About Actions Under Uncertainty: A Possibilistic Approach......Page 312
Ranking Features by Means of a Qualitative Optimisation Process......Page 322
Robotics......Page 333
Tactical Modularity in Cognitive Systems......Page 335
Using the Average Landmark Vector Method for Robot Homing......Page 343
Distance Sensor Data Integration and Prediction......Page 351
Applications......Page 361
Neural Network Modeling of a Magnetorheological Damper......Page 363
Knowledge Discovery in a Wastewater Treatment Plant with Clustering Based on Rules by States......Page 371
Forecasting New Customers' Behaviour by Means of a Fuzzy Unsupervised Method......Page 380
Integrating a Feature Selection Algorithm for Classification of Voltage Sags Originated in Transmission and Distribution Networks......Page 388
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for DS-CDMA Pseudonoise Sequence Design in a Multiresolutive Acquisition......Page 396
Renewable Energy for Domestic Electricity Production and Prediction of Short-Time Electric Consumption......Page 404
An Argument-Based Approach to Deal with Wastewater Discharges......Page 412
Analysis of Common Cause Failure in Redundant Control Systems Using Fault Trees......Page 420
Kalman Filters to Generate Customer Behavior Alarms......Page 428
A Knowledge Discovery Methodology for Identifying Vulnerability Factors of Mental Disorder in an Intellectually Disabled Population......Page 438
Author Index......Page 449