Artificial Intelligence Research and Development

Title page......Page 2
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Invited Talks......Page 14
Sequential Prediction Under Incomplete Feedback......Page 16
Beyond the User: A Review of Socially Aware Computing......Page 19
Constraint Satisfaction......Page 22
An Efficient Estimation Function for the Crew Scheduling Problem......Page 24
What Is a Real-World SAT Instance?......Page 32
Mendelian Error Detection in Complex Pedigrees Using Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Techniques......Page 42
Distributed Meeting Scheduling......Page 51
Agents......Page 60
The Impact of Betweenness in Small World Networks on Request for Proposal Coalition Formation Problems......Page 62
On the Multimodal Logic of Elementary Normative Systems......Page 70
Agents and Clinical Guidelines: Filling the Semantic Gap......Page 80
A Monitor for Digital Business Ecosystems......Page 90
Confidence Management in FIPA Environments: Agent Unique Representation......Page 100
Completing the Virtual Analogy of Real Institutions via iObjects......Page 108
Appraisal Variance Estimation in the ART Testbed Using Fuzzy Corrective Contextual Filters......Page 117
Punishment Policy Adaptation in a Road Junction Regulation System......Page 125
Scholar Agent: Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Publication Selection on Congresses and Journals......Page 133
Data Processing......Page 144
Modeling Problem Transformations Based on Data Complexity......Page 146
Semantic Blocking for Record Linkage......Page 154
Case Based Reasoning......Page 164
Explanation of a Clustered Case Memory Organization......Page 166
Assessing Confidence in Cased Based Reuse Step......Page 174
Computer Vision......Page 182
Efficient Tracking of Objects with Arbitrary 2D Motions in Space-Variant Imagery......Page 184
Ground Plane Estimation Based on Virtual Camera Rotation......Page 194
Weighted Dissociated Dipoles for Evolutive Learning......Page 202
Blood Detection in IVUS Longitudinal Cuts Using AdaBoost with a Novel Feature Stability Criterion......Page 210
A Colour Space Based on the Image Content......Page 218
An Evaluation of an Object Recognition Schema Using Multiple Region Detectors......Page 226
An Input Panel and Recognition Engine for On-Line Handwritten Text Recognition......Page 236
Georeferencing Image Points Using Visual Pose Estimation and DEM......Page 246
Natural Language Processing......Page 256
Semantic Disambiguation of Taxonomies......Page 258
POP2.0: A Search Engine for Public Information Services in Local Government......Page 268
Automatic Reading of Aeronautical Meteorological Messages......Page 276
Uncertainty and Fuzziness......Page 284
Maximum and Minimum of Discrete Fuzzy Numbers......Page 286
A Fuzzy Rule-Based Modeling of the Sociology of Organized Action......Page 294
Multidimensional OWA Operators in Group Decision Making......Page 304
Reasoning About Actions Under Uncertainty: A Possibilistic Approach......Page 313
Ranking Features by Means of a Qualitative Optimisation Process......Page 323
Robotics......Page 334
Tactical Modularity in Cognitive Systems......Page 336
Using the Average Landmark Vector Method for Robot Homing......Page 344
Distance Sensor Data Integration and Prediction......Page 352
Applications......Page 362
Neural Network Modeling of a Magnetorheological Damper......Page 364
Knowledge Discovery in a Wastewater Treatment Plant with Clustering Based on Rules by States......Page 372
Forecasting New Customers' Behaviour by Means of a Fuzzy Unsupervised Method......Page 381
Integrating a Feature Selection Algorithm for Classification of Voltage Sags Originated in Transmission and Distribution Networks......Page 389
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for DS-CDMA Pseudonoise Sequence Design in a Multiresolutive Acquisition......Page 397
Renewable Energy for Domestic Electricity Production and Prediction of Short-Time Electric Consumption......Page 405
An Argument-Based Approach to Deal with Wastewater Discharges......Page 413
Analysis of Common Cause Failure in Redundant Control Systems Using Fault Trees......Page 421
Kalman Filters to Generate Customer Behavior Alarms......Page 429
A Knowledge Discovery Methodology for Identifying Vulnerability Factors of Mental Disorder in an Intellectually Disabled Population......Page 439
Author Index......Page 450