Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Invited Talks.- Constraint Satisfaction, Complexity, and Logic.- Dynamic Discovery, Invocation and Composition of Semantic Web Services.- Information Management.- Data Brokers: Building Collections through Automated Negotiation.- P2P-DIET: Ad-hoc and Continuous Queries in Peer-to-Peer Networks Using Mobile Agents.- Taxonomy-Based Annotation of XML Documents: Application to eLearning Resources.- Precise Photo Retrieval on the Web with a Fuzzy Logic\Neural Network-Based Meta-search Engine.- Intelligent Web Prefetching Based upon User Profiles - The WebNaut Case.- An Intelligent System for Aerial Image Retrieval and Classification.- Computationally Intelligent Methods for Mining 3D Medical Images.- Text Area Identification in Web Images.- A Mixed Reality Learning Environment for Geometry Education.- A Multi-criteria Protocol for Multi-agent Negotiations.- Clustering XML Documents by Structure.- Machine Learning.- Music Performer Verification Based on Learning Ensembles.- Using the k-Nearest Problems for Adaptive Multicriteria Planning.- Focused Crawling Using Temporal Difference-Learning.- A Meta-classifier Approach for Medical Diagnosis.- Learning In-between Concept Descriptions Using Iterative Induction.- Splitting Data in Decision Trees Using the New False-Positives Criterion.- Efficient Training Algorithms for the Probabilistic RBF Network.- Using k-Nearest Neighbor and Feature Selection as an Improvement to Hierarchical Clustering.- Feature Deforming for Improved Similarity-Based Learning.- Incremental Mixture Learning for Clustering Discrete Data.- A Cost Sensitive Technique for Ordinal Classification Problems.- Pap-Smear Classification Using Efficient Second Order Neural Network Training Algorithms.- Towards an Imitation System for Learning Robots.- Data Miningand Diagnosis.- Gene Selection via Discretized Gene-Expression Profiles and Greedy Feature-Elimination.- Automatic Detection of Abnormal Tissue in Bilateral Mammograms Using Neural Networks.- Feature Selection for Robust Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Genetic Algorithms.- An Intelligent Tool for Bio-magnetic Signal Processing.- Knowledge Representation and Search.- Hierarchical Bayesian Networks: An Approach to Classification and Learning for Structured Data.- Fuzzy Automata for Fault Diagnosis: A Syntactic Analysis Approach.- A Discussion of Some Intuitions of Defeasible Reasoning.- Knowledge Representation Using a Modified Earley's Algorithm.- Fuzzy Causal Maps in Business Modeling and Performance-Driven Process Re-engineering.- Construction and Repair: A Hybrid Approach to Search in CSPs.- Arc Consistency in Binary Encodings of Non-binary CSPs: Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation.- Inherent Choice in the Search Space of Constraint Satisfaction Problem Instances.- Natural Language Processing.- Part-of-Speech Tagging in Molecular Biology Scientific Abstracts Using Morphological and Contextual Statistical Information.- A Name-Matching Algorithm for Supporting Ontology Enrichment.- Text Normalization for the Pronunciation of Non-standard Words in an Inflected Language.- Multi-topic Information Filtering with a Single User Profile.- Exploiting Cross-Document Relations for Multi-document Evolving Summarization.- Invited Session: AI in Power System Operation and Fault Diagnosis.- Diagnosing Transformer Faults with Petri Nets.- Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Radial Basis Function Networks.- Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Optimal Reconfiguration of Radial Distribution System (RDS).- A Multi-agent System for Microgrids.- Invited Session:Intelligent Techniques in Image Processing.- Automated Medical Image Registration Using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm.- Adaptive Rule-Based Facial Expression Recognition.- Locating Text in Historical Collection Manuscripts.- Semi-automatic Extraction of Semantics from Football Video Sequences.- Invited Session: Intelligent Virtual Environments.- Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems.- Synthetic Characters with Emotional States.- Control and Autonomy for Intelligent Virtual Agent Behaviour.- Reflex Movements for a Virtual Human: A Biology Inspired Approach.- Integrating miniMin-HSP Agents in a Dynamic Simulation Framework.