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AIAI 2004: First IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations

> First IFIP International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
> The Symposium on Professional Practice in AI

 

TC12 - Artificial Intelligence
WG 12.5 - Artificial Intelligence Applications

Room for AIAI Conference: Verdi
Room for " The Symposium on Professional Practice in AI " : Oratorio

Conference co-Chairs: John Debenham (Sydney U. of Technology, Australia) and Eunika Mercier-Laurent (EML Conseil, France)

Programme Committee co-Chairs: Max Bramer (U. of Portsmouth, UK) and Vladan Devedzic (U. of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

 

AIAI incorporates both a collection of refereed papers, and selected papers in the special stream
"The Symposium on Professional Practice in AI"

 

Programme

Monday 23 August 2004

13h30 - 15h: Applications 1

Chair: Max Bramer (U. Portsmouth, UK)

Artificial Intelligence Systems in Micromechanics - Felipe Lara-Rosano, Ernst Kussul, Tatiana Baidyk, Leopoldo Ruiz, Alberto Caballero and Graciela Velasco (CCADET, UNAM, Mexico)

Integrating two Artificial Intelligence Theories in a Medical Diagnosis Application - Hadrian Peter (U. the West Indies, Barbados), Wayne Goodridge (Dalhousie U., Canada)

Artificial Intelligence and Law - Hugo Cesar Hoeschl, Vânia Barcellos (Juridical Intelligence and Systems Institute, Brazil)

Virtual Market Environment for Trade - Paul Bogg, Peter Dalmaris (Sydney U. of Technology, Australia)

 

15h30 - 17h: Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems

Chair: Timo Honkela (Helsinki U. Technology, Finland)

An Artificial Neural Networks Approach to the Estimation of Physical Stellar Parameters - Alejandra Rodríguez, Iciar Carricajo, Carlos Dafonte, Bernardino Arcay and Minia Manteiga (U. A Coruña, Spain)

Evolutionary Robot Behaviors Based on Natural Selection and Neural Networks - Jingan Yang (Hefei U. Technology, China), Yanbin Zhuang (Changzhou Institute of Technology, China) and Hongyan Wang (Hefei U. Technology , . China)

Control of Overhead Crane by Fuzzy-PID with Genetic Optimisation - A. Soukkou (U. Skikda, Algeria), A.Khellaf (U. Ferhat Abbas-Sétif, Algeria) and S.Leulmi (U. Skikda, Algeria)

Creative Design of Fuzzy Logic Controller - Lotfi Hamrouni and Adel M. Alimi (U. Sfax, Tunisia)

On-Line Extraction of Fuzzy Rules in a Wastewater Treatment Plant - Jose Victor Ramos (Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal), Carlos Gonçalves (Sociedade Portuguesa de Papel, Portugal), Antonio Dourado (U. Coimbra, Portugal)

 

Tuesday 24 August 2004

10h30 - 12h: Agents

Chair: Vagan Terziyan (U. Jyvaskyla, Finland)

An Autonomous Intelligent Agent Architecture Based on Constructivist AI - Filipo Studzinski Perotto, Rosa Maria Vicari and Luís Otávio Álvares (UFRGS, Brazil)

Finding Manufacturing Expertise using Ontologies and Cooperative Agents - Olga Nabuco, Mauro F. Koyama and Francisco E. D. Pereira (Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Brazil), Khalil Drira (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Using Agents in the Exchange of Product Data - Udo Kannengiesser and John S. Gero (U. Sydney, Australia)

 

13h30 - 15h: Applications 2

Chair: Olivier de Mouzon (IRIT, France)

Deductive Diagnosis of Digital Circuits - J. J. Alferes, F. Azevedo, P. Barahona and C. V. Damásio (CENTRIA, Portugal), T. Swift (SUNY, USA)

A Pervasive Identification and Adaptation System for the Smart House - Paulo F. F. Rosa, Sandro S. Lima, Wagner T. Botelho (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil), Alexandre F. Nascimento (Military Region, Brazil) and Max Silva Alaluna (Military Institute of Engineering, Brazil)

Comparison of NASA Emergent Systems - Christopher Rouff and Amy Vanderbilt (SAIC, USA), Walt Truszkowski, James Rash, Michael Hinchey (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)

Online Possibilistic Diagnosis Based on Expert Knowledge for Engine Dyno Test Benches - O. de Mouzon (IRIT, France), X. Guérandel (DRT ISI, France), D. Dubois, H. Prade (IRIT, France) and S. Boverie (Siemens VDO Automotive SAS, France)

 

15h30 - 17h30: Theory

Chair: John Debenham (Sydney U. of Technology, Australia)

Knowledge Base Structure: Understanding Maintenance - John Debenham (Sydney U. of Technology, Australia )

Learning Bayesian Metanetworks from Data with Multilevel Uncertainty - Vagan Terziyan (U. Jyvaskyla, Finland), Oleksandra Vitko (Kharkov National U. Radioelectronics, Ukraine)

Using Organizational Structures Emergence for Maintaining Functional Integrity in Embedded Systems Networks - Jean-Paul Jamont and Michel Occello (INP Grenoble, France)

Efficient Attribute Reduction Algorithm - Zhongzhi Shi, Shaohui Liu, Zheng Zheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Using Relative Logic for Pattern Recognition - Juliusz L. Kulikowski (Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Poland)

 

Wednesday 25 August 2004

10h30 - 12h: Intelligent Tutoring and Collaboration

Chair: Janette Cardoso (IRIT-UT1, France)

MathTutor: A Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring System - Janette Cardoso (IRIT-UT1, France), Guilherme Bittencourt, Luciana B. Frigo, Eliane Pozzebon, Adriana Postal (UFSC, Brazil)

Analysis and Intelligent Support of Learning Communities in Semi-structured Discussion Environments - Andreas Harrer (U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

An Adaptive Assessment System to Evaluate Student Ability Level - Antonella Carbonaro, Giorgio Casadei, Simone Riccucci (U. Bologna, Italy)

Forming the Optimal Team of Experts for Collaborative Work - Achim P. Karduck and Amadou Sienou (Furtwangen U. Applied Sciences, Germany)

 

13h30 - 15h: Internet

Chair: Pierre-Yves Schobbens (U. Namur, Belgium)

Impact on Performance of Hypertext Classification of Selective Rich HTML Capture - Houda Benbrahim and Max Bramer (U. Portsmouth, UK)

Introducing a Star Topology into Latent Class Models for Collaborative Filtering - Gabriela Polcicova (Slovak U. Technology, Slovak Republic), Peter Tino (U. Birmingham, UK)

Dialoguing With an Online Assistant in a Financial Domain: The VIP-Advisor Approach - Josefa Z. Hernandez, and Ana Garcia-Serrano (Technical U. Madrid, Spain), Javier Calle (Carlos III U., Spain)

An Agency for Semantic-Based Automatic Discovery of Web Services - Simona Colucci, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, (Polytechnic Bari, Italy), Francesco M. Donini (U. Tuscia, Italy), Marina Mongiello, Giacomo Piscitelli, Gianvito Rossi (Polytechnic Bari, Italy)

 

15h30 - 17h: Genetic Algorithms

Chair: Zdzislaw Bubnicki (Wroclaw Technical U., Poland)

GESOS : A Multi-objective Genetic Tool for Project Management Considering Technical and Non-technical Constraints - Claude Baron, Samuel Rochet (LESIA, INSA, France) and Daniel Esteve (LAAS, CNRS, France)

Using Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search Parallel Models to Solve the Scheduling Problem - Pedro Pinacho, Mauricio Solar, Mario Inostroza and Rosa Muñoz (U. Santiago, Chile)

Modelling Document Categories by Evolutionary Learning of Text Centroids - Jose Ignacio Serrano and Maria Dolores Del Castillo (Instituto de Automática Industrial, Spain)

 

Thursday 26 August 2004

10h30 - 12h:

Chair: John Debenham (Sydney U. Technology, Australia)

Invited talk  

Yesterday, Today and Future of AI Applications - New Challenges for Research - Eunika Mercier-Laurent (EML Conseil, France), with the participation of Jean Rohmer (Thales Communications, France)

13h30 - 15h: Ontologies and Data Mining

Chair: Eunika Mercier-Laurent (EML Conseil, France)

ODEval: a Tool for Evaluating RDF(S), DAML+OIL and OWL Concept Taxonomies - O. Corcho, A. Gómez-Pérez, R. Gónzalez-Cabero and M.C. Suárez-Figueroa (U. Polytechnic Madrid, Spain)

Air - A Platform for Intelligent Systems - Dragan Djuric, Dragan Gasevic (U. Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro), Violeta Damjanovic (Postal Savings Bank, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro)

SwissAnalyst: Data Mining Without the Entry Ticket - Olivier Povel (Portia SA, Switzerland), Christophe Giraud-Carrier (ELCA Informatique SA, Switzerland)

Data Mining by MOUCLAS Algorithm for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization from Well Logging Data - Yalei Hao, Markus Stumptner (U. South Australia, Australia), Gerald Quirchmayr (U. Vienna, Austria) and Qing He (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

 

15h30 - 17h30: Reasoning and Scheduling

Chair: Martin Geiger (U. Nottingham, UK)

Verification of Procedural Reasoning Systems (PRS) Programs Using Coloured Petri Nets (CPN) - Ricardo W. de Araujo and Adelardo A.D. de Medeiros (U. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

CBR and Micro-Architecture Anti-patterns Based Software Design Improvement - Tie Feng, Jiachen Zhang, Hongyuan Wang and Xian Wang (Jilin U., China)

A Decision Support System (DSS) for the Railway Scheduling Problem - L. Ingolotti, P. Tormos, A. Lova, F. Barber, M.A. Salido, M. Abril (U. Polytechnic Valencia, Spain)

An Interactive Multicriteria Optimisation Approach to Scheduling - Martin Josef Geiger and Sanja Petrovic (U. Nottingham, UK)

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The Symposium on Professional Practice in AI

(A Stream within AIAI-2004)

Programme Committee Chair: John Debenham (Sydney U. of Technology, Australia)

 

Monday 23 August 2004

13h30-15h: Knowledge Management

Scheduling of Industrial Jobs Using an A-Teams Approach - Carlos A. S. Passos and Sara L. A. Fonseca (Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, CenPRA/MCT, Brazil)

KMAI - Knowledge Management with Artificial Intelligence - Marcelo Stopanovski Ribeiro, Eduardo da Silva Mattos, Tânia Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl (IJURIS Florianópolis, Brazil)

Classification of Ideas in an Industrial Innovation Management System -- S. Kopácsi, G.L. Kovács (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary), D. Stokic, A. R. Campos (ATB Institute für angewandte Systechnik Bremen GmbH, Germany)

Document Maps for Competence Management - Timo Honkela (Helsinki U. Technology, Finland), Raimo Nordfors and Raimo Tuuli (Gurusoft, Inc., Finland)

15h30-17h30: Agents

An Architectural Design Approach of a Tutor Agent in a Collaborative Virtual Learning Environment - Bogdan Marin, Axel Hunger, Stefan Werner, Christian Schütz, Sorin Meila (U. Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Complex Brains: Constructing better Minds using Sub-Minds from Biotechnology Authors - Ray Walshe, Mark Humphrys, (Dublin City U, Ireland) Ciarán Ó Leary (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Virtual Laboratory of Robotics Tool of Experimental Investigation - Riadh Besbes and Adel Alimi (ENIS, Tunisia)

Intelligent Traffic Forecasting System using Data Assimilation for use in Traveler Information Systems - Frank P. Terpstra, Arnoud Visser (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Geleyn R. Meijer (LogicaCMG, The Netherlands)

Using an Associate Agent to Improve Human-Computer Collaboration in an E-Market System - Ting Yu, John Debenham (U. Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Tuesday 24 August 2004

10h30-12h: Learning  

Retrieving Content with Agents in Web Service E-Learning Systems - Victor Pankratius, Olivier Sandel, Wolffried Stucky (U. Karlsruhe, Germany)

Creating Student Models to Improve Student Learning - Floriana Esposito, Oriana Licchelli, Giovanni Semeraro (U. Bari, Italy)

Application of Uncertain Variables and Learning Algorithms in a Class of Distributed Knowledge Systems - Zdzislaw Bubnicki

Knowledge Extraction From Time Series Databases - Aurora Perez-Perez, Agustín Santamaría and Juan P. Caraça-Valente (Technical U. Madrid, Spain) África López-Illescas (High Council for Sports, Spain)

13h30-15h: Applications

Application of Fuzzy Logic for the Intelligent Control of Heating System - Vytautas Kaminskas, Raimundas Liutkevicius (Vytautas Magnus U., Lithuania)

Crane Scheduling in Container Terminals: A Hybrid Approach Integrating AI Techniques and OR Models - Guohua Wan (U. Macao, China)

Case-Based Reasoning Systems with Alternative Similarity Functions - Savvas J. Nikolaidis (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece)

A Web-Based Hybrid Intelligent System For Fish Disease Diagnosis - Daoliang Li (China Agricultural U., China), Yanqing Duan (U. Luton, UK), Zetian Fu (China Agricultural U., China)

Should We not Make Room for Non-Persons in Artificial Intelligence? A Position Statement - Colin T Schmidt (Le Mans U., France)

15h30-17h30: Recognition  

An Intelligent Solution for Motion Picture Restoration - G. L. Kovacs, I. Kas, S. Manno (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Toward The Design of Handwriting Recognition System by Neuro-Fuzzy and Beta-Elliptical Approaches - Monji Kherallah, Lobna Haddad, Adel M. Alimi (ENIS, Tunisia) Amar Mitiche (U. Quebec, Canada)

Fast and Reliable Recognition of Human Motion from Motion Trajectories using Wavelet Analysis - Shu-Fai Wong and Kwan-Yee Kenneth Wong (Hong Kong U, Hong Kong)

Utilization of General Nets for Handwriting Analysis - Boyka Gradinarova (Technical U. Varna, Bulgaria), Theodora Bakardjieva (Varna Free U. Bulgaria)

Wednesday 25 August 2004

10h30-12h: Semantics

Schema Mining in XML Documents - Krzysztof Goczyla, Wojciech Waloszek (Gdansk U. Technology, Poland)

Petri Net Infrastructure for the Semantic Web - Dragan Gasevic, Jelena Jovanovic and Vladan Devedzic (U. Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro )

Technical Documentation and Semantic Web Based Methods - Uwe Egly (Vienna U. Technology, Austria), Bernhard Schiemann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), Josef Schneeberger (EDS GmbH, Germany)

Mappings As A Lightweight Ontology System for the World-Wide Web - Kimio Kuramitsu (Kogakuin U., Japan)

13h30-15h: Methods  

Users' Lexical Adaptation in Human-Computer Spoken Dialogue - Virginie Amiel, Ludovic LeBigot (France Télécom, France), Patrice Terrier (Laboratoire Travail et Cognition, France)

Method Engineering the Open Process Framework and Cassiopeia - B. Henderson-Sellers, Q.-N. N. Tran and J. Debenham (U. Technology Sydney, Australia)

Towards an Organizational Intelligent Framework based on Giddens' Structuration Theory A case of using an Organizational Memory - D Ng'ambi (U. Cape Town, South Africa)

How Are SVM Good Kernels - Tarek M Hamdani, Adel M Alimi (ENIS, Tunisia)

Toward Developing Spatial Decision Support System for forest ecosystem revegetation in the Yangtze River Basin - Daoliang Li (China Agricultural U., China), Ioannis Paspaliaris (National Technical U. Athens, Greece)

15h30-17h30: Knowledge Systems

Process of Knowledge Engineering for the Construction of a Tool for Environmental Monitoring with Artificial Intelligence - Filipe C da Costa, Hugo C Hoeschl, Tania CD D'Agostini Bueno (IJURIS Florianópolis, Brazil)

Knowledge-Based Videometric Measurement System - Alexander Reiterer, Uwe Egly, Thomas Eiter, Heribert Kahmen (Vienna U. Technology, Austria)

Knowledge-based Product Derivation Process - Katharina Wolter, Thorsten Krebs (U. Hamburg, Germany), Lothar Hotz (HITeC, Germany), Theo Dirk Meijler (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)

AI-based integration of business intelligence and knowledge management in enterprises - Christian-Andreas Schumann, Stephan Kassel, Claudia Tittmann, Kay Grebenstein (Zwickau U. Applied Sciences, Germany)

A Visual Tool for the Modeling of AUML Specifications Using SPIN - Ivan Romero Hernández and Jean-Luc Koning (INPG, France)

Thursday 26 August 2004

10h30-12h: AIAI Conference Invited talk

Yesterday, Today and Future of AI applications - New challenges for research - Eunika Mercier-Laurent (EML Conseil, France), with the participation of Jean Rohmer (Thales Communications, France)

13h30-15h: Topics

Electronic Forum: Technological modernization of the Brazilian Judiciary POWER - Tania Cristina D'Agostini Bueno, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl, Erica Bezerra Queiroz Ribeiro, Cristina Souza Santos (IJURIS Florianópolis, Brazil)

Computer malingering - Ewa Wreczycka (U. Silesia, Poland)

Solving Engineering Design Problems Using Evolutionary Algorithms - Crina Grosan, Mihai Oltean (Babes-Bolyai U., Romania)

Data Mining Algorithm Prediction - Edwige Fangseu Badjio, François Poulet (ESIEA Recherche, France)

15h30-17h: Techniques

Collaborative Filtering enhanced by Demographic Correlation - Manolis Vozalis, Konstantinos G. Margaritis (U. Macedonia, Greece)

Solving classification problems using Traceless Genetic Programming - Mihai Oltean (Babes-Bolyai U., Romania)

Using Constraint Propagation in the Analysis of Real-Time Systems - Dario Kresic (U. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Organizing Knowledge for Small and Medium Size Enterprises: Towards Nature Imitation - Artur Kotwica, Mieczyslaw L. Owoc (Wroclaw U. Economics, Poland)

Operational Tools for Building Good Timetables - Peter Chan (EQUITIME S.A., France.), Tahar Zemmouri, Michael Hiroux, Georges Weil (U. Joseph Fourier, France)

 

 

 

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We are very proud to present an extremely attractive programme that offers more than six hundred presentations.
This very rich programme offers a large variety of opportunities. Attendees will be able to compose their own menu, by mixing on-the-edge research and state-of-the-practice results in their own field of expertise, together with surveys and prospective views in other domains of interest.
The overall schedule of sessions and the social events have been designed to facilitate fruitful interactions between attendees.

Join us during a week and share l'esprit de Toulouse !

         Jean Claude Laprie

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