Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Proceedings of the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence

This book is a collection of 45 accepted papers originally submitted for the 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence (ACIA). It also includes a brief summary of two papers from invited speakers. The Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence was foun...

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Main Authors Sandri, S, Sànchez-Marrè, M, Cortés, U
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London Sage Publications Ltd 2009
Edition1
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ISBN1607500612
9781607500612

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Table of Contents:
  • mWater: A Sandbox for Agreement Technologies -- Logics, Constraint Satisfaction and Qualitative Reasoning -- Secure and Optimal Base Contraction in Graded Lukasiewicz Logics -- A Cryptographic Solution for Private Distributed Simple Meeting Scheduling -- On Solving MaxSAT Through SAT -- AC3-OP: An Arc-Consistency Algorithm for Arithmetic Constraints -- Stability of Solutions in Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- A Boost in Exchange Rate Forecasting: Qualitative Variables, Technical Indicators and Parameters Selection -- A Similarity Calculus for Comparing Qualitative Shape Descriptions -- Natural Language -- A New Lexical Chain Algorithm Used for Automatic Summarization -- Seeking Acronym Definitions: A Web-Based Approach -- AI Real-World Applications -- Neuro-Fuzzy Approach for the Characterization of Building Materials -- Reward System for Completing FAQs -- Reasoning About Actions for the Management of Urban Wastewater Systems: Preliminary Report -- Human-Like Heuristics in Scrabble -- Frequency Selection for the Diagnostic Characterization of Human Brain Tumours -- Fault Detection and Identification in a Fuel Cell System -- Approaches to Hospital Process Management -- REST Web Services in Collaborative Work Environments -- A Formal Model of Competence-Based Assessment -- Subject Index -- Author Index
  • Title page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Contents -- Invited Talks -- Scientific and Technological Challenges of Musical Interest -- How Great Apes Think -- Robotics, Vision and Perception -- Evaluation of the SIFT Object Recognition Method in Mobile Robots -- Terrain Classification for Outdoor Mobile Robots Using PCA -- Generic Object Recognition in Urban Image Databases -- Text Detection in Urban Scenes -- Measuring Interest of Human Dyadic Interactions -- Appearance-Based SLAM for Mobile Robots -- Patch Growing: Object Segmentation Using Spatial Coherence of Local Patches -- A First Approach to Activity Recognition Using Topic Models -- Coordination Motion-Tasks Using Actual Robot Dynamics -- Shout and Act -- Machine Learning -- The Paradox of the Mitigant Trajectories: Consequences on Interpretation of Dynamical Patterns -- Multi-Scale Multi-Resolution Stacked Sequential Learning -- Using a Simulated Annealing to Enhance Learning in Adjustment Processes -- Collaborative Agent-Based Learning for Brain Tumour Diagnosis -- Classification Using Intelligent Approaches. An Example in Social Assistance -- On In-Vitro and In-Vivo IVUS Data Fusion -- Dynamic Adaptive Case Library for Continuous Domains -- Multi-Agents Systems -- A Formalization of Trust Alignment -- Contract Formation Through Preemptive Normative Conflict Resolution -- Interaction, Observance or Both? Study of the Effects on Convention Emergence -- 2-LAMA Architecture vs. BitTorrent Protocol in a Peer-to-Peer Scenario -- J-MADeM, an Open-Source Library for Social Decision-Making -- Anytime Reasoning Mechanism for Conversational Agents -- Coherence as an Inclusive Notion of Rationality -- Towards a Secure, Group-Oriented and Efficient Framework for Intelligent Virtual Environments -- Customization of an Agent-Based Medical System