Monday, November 13, 2006

8:15 - 8:30am

Welcome 

8:30 - 9:30am

Keynote Speech : Models and Methods for Discovering Automatable Activity Segments in a ServiceˇVOriented Environment

Prof. C.V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley

9:30 - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 1 :  Evolutionary Computing and Genetic Algorithms

Session Chair : Richard Wallace, University College Cork

Adaptive Call Admission Control Based on Enhanced Genetic Algorithm in Wireless/Mobile Network

Authors: Sheng Ling Wang, Yi Bin Hou, Jian Hui Huang and Zhang Qin Huang

A (mu + lambda)-GP Algorithm and its use for Regression Problems

Authors: Eduardo Oliveira Costa and Aurora Pozo

A New Hybrid GA-MDP Algorithm For The Frequency Assignment Problem

Authors: Lhassane Idoumghar and René Schott

Using Correlation to Improve Boosting Technique: An Application for Time Series Forecasting

Authors: Luzia Vidal Souza, Aurora T. Ramirez Pozo and Anselmo Chaves Neto

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 2 : AI in Systems

Session Chair : Farokh B. Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas

Software Engineering Expert System for Global Development

Authors: Dick B. Simmons and Norman K. Ma

A Unified Framework for Defect Data Analysis Using the MBR Technique

Authors: Venkata U.B. Challagulla, Farokh B. Bastani and I-Ling Yen

QoS Adaptive ISHM Systems

Authors: Yansheng Zhang, Jicheng Fu, I-Ling Yen, Farokh Bastani , Ann T. Tai , Savio Chau, Farrokh Vatan and Amir Fijany

Methodology for the Selection of Intelligence Analysis Tools

Authors: Haleh Vafaie  Nichols F. Brown and Lap Truong

Diagnosability Test for Timed Discrete Event Systems

Authors: JiangJing Pan and Shahin Hashtrudi Zad

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 3 : Data Mining I

Session Chair : Yan Huang, University of North Texas

Minimum Spanning Tree Based Clustering Algorithms

Authors: Oleksandr Grygorash, Yan Zhou and Zach Jorgensen

Variables' Behaviour Analyses and Evaluation of their Interaction for Mining Negative and Positive Quantitative Association Rules

Authors: Leïla Nemmiche Alachaher

Empirical Studies on Multilabel Classification

Authors: Shenghuo Zhu

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 4 : AI in Data Mining

Session Chair : Phillip Sheu, University of California, Irvine

Bayesian Classification-based Intelligent-agent Data Management over Grid

Authors:  Chen Jia,  Wu Yue,  Phillip C.Y. Sheu,  Li Ming and Hui Bei

Collateral Representative Subspace Projection Modeling for Supervised Classification

Authors:  Thiago Quirino, Zongxing Xie, Mei-Ling Shyu,  Shu-Ching Chen and LiWu Chang

Sustained Emerging Spatio-Temporal Co-occurrence Pattern Mining: A Summary of Results

Authors:  Mete Celik, Shashi Shekhar, James P. Rogers and James A. Shine

Learning to Predict Salient Regions from Disjoint and Skewed Training Sets

Authors:  Larry Shoemaker, Robert E. Banfield, Lawrence O. Hall, Kevin W. Bowyer and W. Philip Kegelmeyer

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 5 : SAT/Search Algorithms

Session Chair: Sebastian Van Delden, University of South Carolina Upstate

Ant Colony with Stochastic Local Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem

Authors: Malek Mouhoub and Zhijie Wang

Efficient Search using Bitboard Models

Authors: Pablo San Segundo, Ramón Galán, Diego Rodríguez-Losada, Fernando Matía and Agustín Jiménez

Approximating Backdoor Sets Thanks to Local Search

Authors: Paris Lionel, Ostrowski Richard, Saïs Lakhdar and Siegel Pierre

Intelligent Neighborhood Exploration in Local Search Heuristics

Authors: Hakim Mabed, Isabelle Devarenne and Alexandre Caminada

Finding Crucial Subproblems to Focus Global Search

Authors: Susan Epstein and Richard Wallace

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 6 : AI in Pattern Recognition

Sessoin Chair : Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University

The Role of Theory and Experiment in Language Design ˇV A 15 Year Perspective

Authors:  Daniel E. Cooke, Brad Nemanich and J. Nelson Rushton

An Evolutionary Computational Method for N-Connection Subgraph Discovery

Authors:  Enhong Chen, Xujia Chen, Phillip C-Y Sheu and Tieyun Qian

Face Recognition using Multiple Classifiers

Authors:  Pallabi Parveen and Bhavani Thuraisingham

A Method For Associating Patterns Of Motion In Events From Video

Authors:  Nikolaos Bourbakis and George Bebis

Knowledge Integration On-The-Fly in Swarm Intelligent System

Authors:  Robert G. Reynolds and Bin Peng

3:30 - 3:45pm

Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 7 : NLP, Speech and Vision Understanding

Session Chair : Dick B. Simmons, Texas A&M University

Constructing a Simple Visually-Guided Robotic Part-Grasping System with Off-the-Shelf Components

Authors: Sebastian van Delden

Managing Deceitful Arguments with X-Logics

Authors: Geoffroy Aubry and Vincent Risch

Endowing a Virtual Character with Personalization Capabilities

Authors: Eliseo Reategui, Elisa Boff and John A. Campbell

iAIML: a Mechanism to Treat Intentionality in AIML Chatterbots

Authors: Andre Neves, Flavia Barros and Charles Hodges

Graph Grammar Induction on Structural Data for Visual Programming

Authors: Keven Ates, Jacek Kukluk, Lawrence Holder, Diane Cook and Kang Zhang

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 8 : AI in Planning

Session Chair : Daniel Cooke, Texas Tech University

Models and Methods for Discovering Automatable Activity Segments in a Service-Oriented Environment

Authors:  C. V. Ramamoorthy

The Culebra Algorithm for Path Planning and Obstacle Avoidance in Kat-5

Authors:  Jorge Nagel, Paul G. Trepagnier, Chris Koutsougeras, Powell M. Kinney and Matthew Dooner

A Social Transformation Emergence of Knowledge Society

Authors:  Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Darius Mahdjoubi and Chittor V. Ramamoorthy

The Source and Seat of Creativity in Human Beings: A Position Paper

Authors:  Sumit Ghosh

Constrained Global Optimization by Constraint Partitioning and Simulated Annealing

Authors:  Benjamin W. Wah, Yixin Chen and Andrew Wan

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 9 : CSP

Session Chair : Janusz Wojtusiak, George Mason University

Solving Symmetrical CSPs with An Asymmetrical Cost Function

Authors: Florent Verroust and Nicolas Prcovic

Optimal Basic Block Instruction Scheduling for Multiple-Issue Processors using Constraint Programming

Authors: Abid Malik, Jim McInnes and Peter van Beek

Robust Controllability of Temporal Constraint Networks under Uncertainty

Authors: Hoong Chuin Lau, Jia Li and Roland Yap

(No)good Recording and ROBDDs for Solving Structured (V)CSPs

Authors: Karim Boutaleb, Philippe Jégou and Cyril Terrioux

Heuristic Policy Analysis and Efficiency Assessment in Constraint Satisfaction Search

Authors: Richard Wallace

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

8:30 - 9:30am

Keynote Speech : Adaptive Service-Oriented Application Architecture and System Engineering

Dr. Raymond Paul, CIO, Joint Staff and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Networks and Information Integration (NII), Department of Defense, USA

9:30 - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 10 : Learning  Algorithms

Session Chair : Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University

Condition Matrix based Genetic Programming for Rule Learning

Authors: Wang Jin Feng, Lee Kin Hong and Leung Kwong Sak

Multi-Criterion Active Learning in Conditional Random Fields

Authors:  Christopher T. Symons, Nagiza F. Samatova, Ramya Krishnamurthy, Byung H. Park, Tarik Umar, David Buttler, Terence Critchlow and David Hysom

Intelligent Optimization via Learnable Evolution Model

Authors: Ryszard S. Michalski, Janusz Wojtusiak and Kenneth A. Kaufman

MI-Winnow: A New Multiple-Instance Learning Algorithm

Authors:  Sharath Cholleti, Sally Goldman and Rouhollah Rahmani

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 11 : Data Mining II

Session Chair : JinFeng Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sequence Mining Without Sequences: a New Way for Privacy Preserving

Authors: Stephanie Jacquemont, Francois Jacquenet and Marc Sebban

Interval Data Clustering with Applications

Authors: Wei Peng and Tao Li

A Greedy Search Approach to Co-clustering Sparse Binary Matrices

Authors: Fabrizio Angiulli, Eugenio Cesario and Clara Pizzuti

An Improved Genetic Algorithm for Spatial Clustering

Authors: Dajun Dai and Tonny Oyana

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 12 : Planning and Scheduling

Session Chair : Atul Kanaujia, Rutgers University

Modeling Workflow Systems with Genetic Planner and Scheduler

Authors: Kairon Freitas Guimarães, Fabiano Ribeiro Alves and Márcia Aparecida Fernandes

An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Course Timetabling

Authors: Lien-Fu Lai, Nien-Lin Hsueh, Liang-Tsung Huang and Tien-Chun Chen

Classifying Business Processes for Domain Engineering

Authors: Hafedh Mili, Mohand Frendi, Guitta Bou Jaoude, Louis Martin and Guy Tremblay

A Hybrid MIP/Heuristic Model for Experience Based Driver Assignment

Authors: Hoong Chuin Lau, Ramesh Thangarajoo and Kien Ming Ng

Incremental Filtering Algorithms for Precedence and Dependency Constraints

Authors: Roman Barták and Ondřej Čepek

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 13 : Learning and Inference

Session Chair : Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University

Improve Decision Trees for Probability-Based Ranking for Lazy Learners

Authors:  Han Liang and Yuhong Yan

Learning Ambiguities using Bayesian Mixture of Expert

Authors:  Atul Kanaujia and Dimitris Metaxas

Belief Update in Bayesian Networks Using Uncertain Evidence

Authors:  Rong Pan, Yun Peng and Zhongli Ding

Selecting and Composing Web Services through Iterative Reformulation of Functional Specifications

Authors: Jyotishman Pathak, Samik Basu, Robyn Lutz and Vasant Honavar

A Clique Tree Propagation Algorithm for Bayesian Networks with Second-Order Uncertainties

Authors: Maurizio Borsotto, Weihong Zhang, Emir Kapanci, Avi Pfeffer and Christopher Crick

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 14 : Fuzzy Logic and Agent Systems

Session Chair : Hafedh Mili, University du Quebec a Montreal

A Hybrid Recogniser for Handwritten Symbols Based on Fuzzy Logic and Self-Organizing Maps

Authors: Alex Cronin, John A. Fitzgerald and Tahar Kechadi

Eliminating Redundant and Less-Informative RSS News Articles Based on Word Similarity and A Fuzzy Equivalence Relation

Authors: Ian Garcia and Yiu-Kai Ng

Polynomial Regression with Automated Degree: A Function Approximator for Autonomous Agents

Authors: Daniel Stronger and Peter Stone

PID-filtered Negotiation for Decision Making in Dynamic Coverage Problem

Authors: Satoshi Kataoka

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations