Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Invited Papers.- Decision-Rule Solutions for Data Mining with Missing Values.- Getting Computer Systems to Function as Team Players (Abstract).- Knowledge Engineering and Case Based Reasoning.- Case-Based Management of Software Engineering Experienceware.- Handling Cases and the Coverage in a Limited Quantity of Memory for Case-Based Planning Systems.- Integrating Rules and Cases in Learning via Case Explanation and Paradigm Shift.- PersonalSearcher: An Intelligent Agent for Searching Web Pages.- JEOPS - The Java Embedded Object Production System.- Planning and Scheduling.- Global and Local Search for Scheduling Job Shop with Parallel Machines.- Knowledge-Based Interactive Scheduling of Multiproduct Batch Plants.- Petriplan: A New Algorithm for Plan Generation (Preliminary Report).- Distributed AI and Multi-agent Systems.- Using and Evaluating Adaptive Agents for Electronic Commerce Negotiation.- Dependence Based Coalitions and Contract Net: A Comparative Analysis.- A Multiagent Systems Theory of Meaning Based on the Habermas/ Bühler Communicative Action Theory.- Scheduling Meetings through Multi-agent Negotiation.- Agents Working on the Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources in Distributed Healthcare Environments.- Solving Conflicting Beliefs with a Distributed Belief Revision Approach.- MOISE: An Organizational Model for Multi-agent Systems.- Evolving Populations of Agents with Personalities in the Minority Game.- Dynamic Social Knowledge: A Comparative Evaluation.- AI in Education and Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- MArCo: Using Meta-cognitive Conflicts to Provoke Strategic Changes.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Sharing Resource-Sensitive Knowledge Using Combinator Logics.- Compiling Default Theory into Extended Logic Programming.- AnnotatedTemporal Logics ?*?.- Representing Belief Revision through Default Theories.- Admissibility Proofs for the LCS* Algorithm.- Representing Operational Knowledge by Contextual Graphs.- Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition.- Linguistic Relations Encoding in a Symbolic- Connectionist Hybrid Natural Language Processor.- A Linear-Bayes Classifier.- L-VIBRA: Learning in the VIBRA Architecture.- A New Distributed Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Multiple Objective Optimization Problems.- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.- Generating Text Summaries through the Relative Importance of Topics.- Cognitive Multi-agent Systems for Integrated Information Retrieval and Extraction over the Web.- Natural Language Processing.- Definite Descriptions in an Information Extraction System.- Summary Generation and Evaluation in SumUM.- Extracting Equivalents from Aligned Parallel Texts: Comparison of Measures of Similarity.- Robotics.- FutBot: A Vision System for Robotic Soccer.- Applying the ARTIS Agent Architecture to Mobile Robot Control.- On the Use of Option Policies for Autonomous Robot Navigation.- Heuristic Algorithm for Robot Path Planning Based on Real Space Renormalization.- A Robust Exploration and Navigation Approach for Indoor Mobile Robots Merging Local and Global Strategies.- Computer Vision.- Structural Learning from Iconic Representations.- Uncertainty and Fuzzy Systems.- Tuple Relational Calculus for Paraconsistent Databases.- A Methodology for Multiple-Fault Diagnosis Based on the Independent Choice Logic.- Advances in Qualitative Decision Theory: Refined Rankings.- Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks.- A Soft Computing Approach for Toxicity Prediction.- Analysis and Comparison of Recurrent Neural Networks for the Identification of a Pilot Plant DistillationColumn.- Multiple Populations Guided by the Constraint-Graph for CSP.- An Hybrid Evolutive-Genetic Strategy for the Inverse Fractal Problem of IFS Models.- A New Measure for the Bandwidth Minimization Problem.- Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in Optimization Programs Using an Evolutionary Approach.