ICTAI 06' Program Schedule
Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport, Arlington, VA
November 13-15, 2006

 
Keynote Speeches
Models and Methods for Discovering Automatable Activity Segments in a ServiceˇVOriented Environment  (Slides)
Prof. C.V. Ramamoorthy, University of California, Berkeley
 
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
 
Toward Human-Level Machine Intelligence  (Slides)
Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh, Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS University of California, Berkeley; Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing)
 
Secondary Structure Prediction: Helix, Sheet and Coil, Which method is accurate? Which is more efficient?
Prof. Allam Appa Rao, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
 

 
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General Schedule

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

Session 15 : Data Mining III

Session Chair : Ji Zhang, Dalhousie University

Preserving Patterns in Bipartite Graph Partitioning

Authors: Tianming Hu, Chao Qu, Chew Lim Tan and Sam Yuan Sung

Collaborative Filtering for Multi-class Data Using Belief Net Algorithms

Authors: Xiaoyuan Su and Taghi Khoshgoftaar

Mining Maximum Length Frequent Itemsets: A Summary of Results

Authors: Qian Fu, Tianming Hu, Xiaonan Wang and Sam Yuan Sung

On The Relationships Between Clustering and Spatial Co-location Mining

Authors: Yan Huang and Pusheng Zhang

3:30 - 3:45pm

Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 16 :  Learning and Patterns

Session Chair : Ryszard Michalski, George Mason University

The AQ21 Natural Induction Program for Pattern Discovery: Initial Version and its Novel Features

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

A Briefing Tool that Learns Individual Report-writing Behavior

Authors:  Mohit Kumar, Nikesh Garera and Alexander Rudnicky

Outlier Detection Using Random Walks

Authors: H. D. K. Moonesinghe and Pang-Ning Tan

Automated AI Planning and Code Pattern Based Code Synthesis

Authors: Jicheng Fu, Farokh Bastani and I-Ling Yen

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 17 :  Computer and Wireless Networks

Session Chair : Yun Peng, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Algorithm for Detection with Localization of Multi-targets in Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks

Authors: Jaechan Lim, Jinseok Lee and Sangjin Hong

A A* based solution for a Constraint Optimization Problem in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Authors: Abdellah Idrissi, Chu Min Li and Jean Frédéric Myoupo

A New Intelligent Traffic Shaper for High Speed Networks

Authors: Iman Shames, Nima Najmaei, Mohammad Zamani and A. A. Safavi

A Descend-Based Evolutionary Approach to Enhance Position Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors: Vincent Tam, Steve Cheng and K.S. Lui

3:45 - 5:45pm

Presentations

Session 18 :  Knowledge Management

Session Chair : Babak Forouraghi, Saint Josephˇ¦s University

The Knowledge Puzzle: An Integrated Approach of Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Knowledge Management

Authors: Amal Zouaq, Roger Nkambou and Claude Frasson

An Approximation to Mean-shift via Swarm Intelligence

Authors: Mani Thomas and Chandra Kambhamettu

Use of AI in Query Optimization of Relational Databases

Authors: Amit Goyal and Laurentiu Vasiliu

Hierarchical Language Models for Expert Finding in Enterprise Corpora

Authors: Desislava Petkova and W. Bruce Croft

6:30 - 8:30pm

Keynote Speech :  Toward Human-Level Machine Intelligence

Prof. Lofti A. Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley

Conference Banquet

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

8:30 - 9:30am

Keynote Speech : Secondary Structure Prediction: Helix, Sheet and Coil, Which method is accurate? Which is more efficient?

Prof. Allam Appa Rao, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India

9:30 - 10:00am

Coffee Break

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 19 : Image Analysis

Session Chair : Lawrence Hall, University of South Florida

A Multi-HMM Approach to ECG Segmentation

Authors:  Julien Thomas, Cdric Rose and Franois Charpillet

Improving the Graph-Based Image Segmentation Method

Authors:  Ming Zhang  and Reda Alhajj

Document Image Dewarping based on Line Estimation for Visually Impaired

Authors:  P.Kakumanu and N. Bourbakis

A Tree Matching Approach for the Temporal Registration of Retinal Images

Authors:  Xinyu Guo, Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 20 : Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence I

Session Chair : Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University                  

Using Boosting Techniques to Improve Software Reliability Models Based on Genetic Programming

Authors:  Eduardo Oliveira Costa, Aurora Pozo and Silvia Regina Vergilio

Assessment of a Multi-Strategy Classifier for an Embedded Software System

Authors:  Taghi Khoshgoftaar and Kehan Gao

A Greedy Search Approach to Co-clustering Sparse Binary Matrices

Authors:  Fabrizio Angiulli, Eugenio Cesario and Clara Pizzuti

Software Aging Prediction Model Based on Fuzzy Wavelet Network with Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

Authors:  Meng Hai Ning, Qi Yong, Hou Di and Chen Ying

A Case-Based Architecture for Temporal Abstraction Configuration and Processing

Authors: Luigi Portinale, Stefania Montani, Alessio Bottrighi, Giorgio Leonardi and Jose' Juarez

10:00 - 12:00noon

Presentations

Session 21 :  Image Recognition and Understanding

Session Chair : Praveen Kakumanu, Wright State University

Adaptive Appearance based Face Recognition

Authors:  Qi Li, Jieping Ye, Min Li and Chandra Kambhamettu

A Local-Global Graph Approach for Facial Expression Recognition

Authors:  P. Kakumanu and N. Bourbakis

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

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

Modeling and Recognition of Gesture Signals in 2D Space: A comparison of NN and SVM approaches

Authors:  Farhad Dadgostar and Chris Messom

Endoscope Tracking using Wavelet-Gravitation Network Incorporated with Kalman Filter

Authors: Vladimir Spinko, Daming Shi and Wan Sing Ng

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 22 : Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence II

Session Chair : Marek Reformat, University of Alberta

A Hybrid Approach to Cleansing Software Measurement Data

Authors: Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Jason Van Hulse and Chris Seiffert

Software Maintenance: Similarity and Inclusion of Rules in Knowledge Extraction

Authors: Marek Reformat, Aashima Kapoor and Nicolino Pizzi

Machine Learning in Value-Based Software Test Data Generation

Authors: Du Zhang

Intelligent Software Measurement System for Automating the Goal-Question-Metrics Process

Authors: Junling Huang and Behrouz H. Far

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 23 :  Machine Learning and Optimization

Session Chair : Aurora Pozo, Universidade Federal do Parana

UNPCC: A Novel Unsupervised Classification Scheme for Network Intrusion Detection

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

Stability of Equilibrium Points and Storage Capacity of Exponential Hopfield Neural Networks

Authors: Mohammad Reza Rajati and Mohammad Bagher Menhaj

Decision Trees for Probability Estimation: An Empirical Study

Authors: Han Liang, Harry Zhang and Yuhong Yan

A Particle Swarm Algorithm for Multiobjective Design Optimization

Authors: Eric Ochlak and Babak Forouraghi

Computing Equilibria of Bimatrix Games using Dominance Heuristics

Authors: Raghav Aras, Alain Dutech and François Charpillet

 

 

 

1:30 - 3:30pm

Presentations

Session 24 : Bioinformatics

Session Chair : Qi Li, Western Kentucky University

Discover Gene Specific Local Co-regulations Using Progressive Genetic Algorithm

Authors:  Ji Zhang, Qigang Gao and Hai Wang

LocalMotif - An In-Silico Approach To Detecting Localized Motifs in Regulatory Sequences

Authors:  Vipin Narang, Wing-Kin Sung and Ankush Mittal

Learning Gene Network Using Conditional Dependence

Authors:  Tie-Fei Liu and Wing-Kin Sung

Motif Discovery as a Multiple-Instance Problem

Authors:  Ya Zhang, Yixin Chen and Xiang Ji