Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2003, Beja, Portugal, December 4-7, 2003. Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2003, held in Beja, Portugal in December 2003.

The 29 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 119 submissions. In accordance with the five constituting workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on artificial life and evolutionary algorithms, constraint and logic programming systems, extraction of knowledge from databases, multi-agent systems and AI for the Internet, and natural language processing and text retrieval.

Author(s): Alexander Bockmayr (auth.), Fernando Moura Pires, Salvador Abreu (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2902
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003

Language: English
Pages: 508
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Programming Techniques; Computation by Abstract Devices; Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval

Front Matter....Pages -
Constraint Programming in Computational Molecular Biology....Pages 1-1
Computational Creativity....Pages 2-2
From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Circuits....Pages 3-3
An Introduction to Object-Oriented RuleML....Pages 4-4
Learning from Networks of Examples....Pages 5-5
Grammar Induction and Adaptive Information Disclosure....Pages 6-6
Understanding Implicit Language Structures....Pages 7-7
Performance Issues in Prolog Applications....Pages 8-8
Optimization of Logistic Processes in Supply-Chains Using Meta-heuristics....Pages 9-23
Evolutionary Neural Network Learning....Pages 24-28
Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution....Pages 29-42
A Particle Swarm Data Miner....Pages 43-53
Yerkes-Dodson Law in Agents’ Training....Pages 54-58
SAPPO: A Simple, Adaptable, Predator Prey Optimiser....Pages 59-73
Evolutionary Neuroestimation of Fitness Functions....Pages 74-83
A Resource Sharing Model to Study Social Behaviours....Pages 84-88
Improving Self-Confidence: An Advise-Based Evolutionary Model....Pages 89-100
Solving Set Partitioning Problems with Global Constraint Propagation....Pages 101-115
Heuristic-Based Backtracking for Propositional Satisfiability....Pages 116-130
On the BEAM Implementation....Pages 131-135
YapDss: An Or-Parallel Prolog System for Scalable Beowulf Clusters....Pages 136-150
Experimental Evaluation of a Caching Technique for ILP....Pages 151-155
jcc: Integrating Timed Default Concurrent Constraint Programming into Java ....Pages 156-170
BAYES-NEAREST: A New Hybrid Classifier Combining Bayesian Network and Distance Based Algorithms....Pages 171-183
A Data Mining Approach to Credit Risk Evaluation and Behaviour Scoring....Pages 184-188
Influence of kNN-Based Load Forecasting Errors on Optimal Energy Production....Pages 189-203
Creating User-Adapted Design Recommender System through Collaborative Filtering and Content Based Filtering....Pages 204-208
Is the UCI Repository Useful for Data Mining?....Pages 209-223
Improving the Efficiency of ILP Systems....Pages 224-228
Reorganizing News Web Pages for Mobile Users....Pages 229-243
Learning Semi Naïve Bayes Structures by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms....Pages 244-258
Learning Action Theories with Ramifications....Pages 259-263
Mining Low Dimensionality Data Streams of Continuous Attributes....Pages 264-278
Adaptation to Drifting Concepts....Pages 279-293
Border Detection on Remote Sensing Satellite Data Using Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 294-307
Predicting Harmful Algae Blooms....Pages 308-312
Improving Progressive Sampling via Meta-learning....Pages 313-323
Distributed Learning Agents in Urban Traffic Control....Pages 324-335
The Chatbot Feeling – Towards Animated Emotional ECAs....Pages 336-340
Using CLIPS to Detect Network Intrusions....Pages 341-354
Model for Dialogue between Informational Agents....Pages 355-359
A Possibilistic Logic Modeling of Autonomous Agents Negotiation....Pages 360-365
Towards Individual Power Design....Pages 366-378
An Architecture for a Rational Reactive Agent....Pages 379-393
An Evolvable Rule-Based E-mail Agent....Pages 394-408
Automatic Summarization Based on Principal Component Analysis....Pages 409-413
A Constraint Grammar Based Question Answering System for Portuguese....Pages 414-418
Mining Generalized Character n-Grams in Large Corpora....Pages 419-423
A Methodology to Create Ontology-Based Information Retrieval Systems....Pages 424-434
A Preliminary Approach to the Multilabel Classification Problem of Portuguese Juridical Documents....Pages 435-444
Synonymy for Query Expansion in Information Search....Pages 445-449
Web Information Retrieval with Result Set Clustering....Pages 450-454
ASdeCopas: A Syntactic-Semantic Interface....Pages 455-459
Automatic Selection of Table Areas in Documents for Information Extraction....Pages 460-465
Mandarin Question Sentence Detection: A Preliminary Study....Pages 466-478
Acquiring Semantic Classes to Elaborate Attachment Heuristics....Pages 479-487
Managing Dialog in a Natural Language Querying System....Pages 488-501
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