Wednesday, November 7

Time slot

Section 1

Section 2

08:45-9:00

   Welcome

9:00-10:00

   Invited speaker:  Daniel Cooke, NASA: AI for Space Explorations in the Future

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

 

Multi-Agents

 

10:30-11:00

  Towards Ontological Reconciliation for Agents

  L. Sterling and K. Lister

 

11:00-11:30

  Transaction Oriented Computational Models for Multi-Agent Systems

  K. Ramamohanarao, J. Bailey and P. Busetta

 

11:30-12:00

  Resource Coordination in Single Agent And Multiagent Systems

  G. Edwin and M.T. Cox

 

12:00-12:30

  Smart Cars as Autonomous Agents

  N. Bourbakis and M. Findler

 

12:30:14:00

Lunch

 

Distributed Artificial Intelligence

Genetic Algorithms

14:00-14:30

  Interleaved Backtracking in Distributed Constraint Networks

  Youssef Hamadi

  Dynamic Load-Balancing by a Genetic Algorithm

  William A Greene

14:30-15:00

  A Multi -Agent System to the Common Management of a Renewable    

  Resource: Application to Water Sharing

  Marjorie Le Bars and Jean-Marie Attonaty

  Parallel Genetic Programming for Decision Tree Induction

  Gianluigi Folino, Clara Pizzuti  and Giandomenico Spezzano

15:00-15:30

  Using Software Agents to avoid Collisions Among Multiple Robots

  Markus Jaeger

  New Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for the Frequency Assignment Problem

  Miguel Alabau, Lhassane Idoumghar and Rene Schott

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

 

Reasoning 1

Applications

16:00:16:30

  RaBeCa: A Hybrid Case-Based Reasoning Development Environment

  Ricardo Barz Sovat, S. M. Aluísio and Andre de Carvalho

  Maintaining Credible Dialogs in a VideoBot System: Special Audio     Techniques

  Doug DeGroot

16:30:17:00

  Automatic Knowledge Acquisition from Subject Matter Experts

  Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, Bogdan Stanescu, Dorin Marcu,

  and Cristina Cascaval

  Maximizing Paper Spread in Examination Timetabling Using a Vehicle  

  Routing Method

  Wee-Kit Ho, Andrew Lim and Wee-Chong Oon

17:00-17:30

  Inconsistent Requirements: An Argumentation View

  Laurent Perrussel and Pierre-Jean Charrel

  Artificial Neural Networks in Hydrological Watershed Modeling: Surface  

  Flow Contributions from Ungauged Parts of a Catchment

  Richard Chibanga, J. Berlamont, and J. Vandewalle

 

Thursday, November 8

Time slot

Section 1

Section 2

9:00-10:00

   Invited speaker:  Hiroshi Yamaguchi, NEC Soft: IT Trend in Japan/NEC group

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

 

Reasoning 2

 

10:30-11:00

  Perfect Sequences for Belief Networks Representation

  Radim Jirousek and Jirina Vejnarova

 

11:00-11:30

  A Decentralized Model-Based Diagnostic Tool for Complex Systems

  Yannick Pencole, Marie-Odile Cordier and Laurence Roze

 

11:30-12:00

  Alama/Carne: Implementation of a Time-Situated  Meta-Reasoner

  K. Purang

 

12:00-12:30

  Towards a General Theory for Qualitative Space

  B. A. El-Geresy and Alia Abdelmonty

 

12:30:14:00

Lunch

 

Natural Language Processing 1

Planning

14:00-14:30

  B-Course: A Web Service for Bayesian Data Analysis

  Petri Myllymaki, Tomi Silander, Henry Tirri and Pekka Uronen

  Fast Suboptimal Planning with Nexus States

  Will Briggs and Brad Dawson

14:30-15:00

  An Expert Recommendation System using Concept-based Relevance  

  Discernment

  Takashi Yukawa, Kaname Kasahara, Tsuneaki Kato and Toshiro Kita

  An Architecture for Planning in Uncertain Domains

  Mario E. Asueda and Pablo H. Ibarguengoytia

15:00-15:30

  A Robust Model for Intelligent Text Classification

  Roberto Basili and Alessandro Moschitti

  A Metaheuristic for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows

  Haibing Li and Andrew Lim

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

 

Software Engineering

Data Mining

16:00-16:30

  LOOP - A Language for LP-based AI Applications

  Alin Suciu, Kalman Pusztai, Tudor Muresan and Zslot Simon

  Mining First-order Knowledge Bases for Association Rules

  Hasan Jamil

16:30:17:00

  SHAMASH: An AI Tool for Modeling and Optimizing Business Processes

  David Camacho, Ricardo Aler, Daniel Borrajo and Almudena Sierra-Alonso

  Visualization Support for User-Centered Model Selection in Knowledge   

  Discovery in Databases

  Ho Tu Bao and Nguyen Trong Dung

17:00-17:30

  An On-Line Software Repository for Embedded Systems

  I-Ling Yen, Latifur Khan, R Prabhakaran, Faroukh Bastani and John Linn

  Generation of Propagation Rules for Intentionally Defined Constraints

  Slim Abdennadher and Christophe Rigotti

19:00-21:00

Banquet (Talk:  Doug DeGroot, Leiden University, Netherlands – “Virtual Immortality and the role of Agent Technology”)

 

 

Friday, November 9

Time slot

Section 1

Section 2

9:00-10:00

   Invited speaker: Raymond Mooney, U.T. Austin: Machine Learning for Recommender Systems

 

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

 

Natural Language Processing 2

 

10:30-11:00

  CorefDraw - A Tool for Annotation and Visualization of Coreference  

  Data

  Sanda Harabagiu , Razvan Bunescu and Stefan Trausan-Matu

 

11:00-11:30

  Word Semantics for Information Retrieval: Moving One Step Closer to  

  the Semantic Web

  Rada Mihalcea and Silvana I. Mihalcea

 

11:30-12:00

  High Precision Logic Form Transformation

  Vasile Rus

 

 

 

 

12:00-13:30

Lunch

 

Machine Learning 1

Constraint Satisfaction

13:30-14:00

  An Effective Method for Generating Multiple Linear Regression

  Rules from Artificial Neural Networks

  Rudy Setiono and Arnulfo Palacio Azcarraga

  A New Hybrid Method for Solving Constraint Optimization Problems in

  Anytime Contexts

  Samir Loudni  and Patrice Boizumault

14:00-14:30

  Data Flow Coherence Criteria in ILP Tools

  Smaranda Muresan, Tudor Muresan and Rodica Potolea

  Pickup and Delivery with Time Windows: Algorithms and Test Case  

  Generation

  H. C. Lau and Z. Liang

14:30-15:00

  Comparing Keyword Extraction Techniques for WEBSOM Text  

  Archives

  Arnulfo Palacio Azcarraga and Teddy Yap, Jr.

  Successive Search Method for Valued Constraint Satisfaction and  

  Optimization Problems

  Mohamed Tounsi and Philippe David

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

 

Machine Learning 2

 

15:30-16:00

  Developing Colaborative Golog Agents by Reinforcement Learning

  Ioan Alfred Letia and  Doina Precup

 

16:00-16:30

  Combinatorial Optimization through Statistical Instance-Based  

  Learning

  Orestis Telelis and Panagiotis Stamatopoulos

 

16:30:17:00

  Empirical Study of a Stacking State-Space

  Agapito Ledezma, Ricardo Aler and Daniel Borrajo