Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2007, Montreal, Canada, May 28-30, 2007. Proceedings

Yu Zhang (auth.), Ziad Kobti, Dan Wu (eds.)3540726640, 9783540726647, 9783540726654

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2007, held in Montreal, Canada, in May 2007.

The 46 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 260 submissions. The papers are organized in topical section on agents, bioinformatics, classification, constraint satisfaction, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, learning, natural language, and planning.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Modeling Role-Based Agent Team….Pages 1-13
Distributed Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendations Against Shilling Attacks….Pages 14-25
Competition and Coordination in Stochastic Games….Pages 26-37
Multiagent-Based Dynamic Deployment Planning in RTLS-Enabled Automotive Shipment Yard….Pages 38-49
R-FRTDP: A Real-Time DP Algorithm with Tight Bounds for a Stochastic Resource Allocation Problem….Pages 50-60
A Reorganization Strategy to Build Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Systems….Pages 61-72
A Multi-site Subcellular Localizer for Fungal Proteins….Pages 73-85
Selecting Genotyping Oligo Probes Via Logical Analysis of Data….Pages 86-97
Learning the Semantic Meaning of a Concept from the Web….Pages 98-109
On Combining Dissimilarity-Based Classifiers to Solve the Small Sample Size Problem for Appearance-Based Face Recognition….Pages 110-121
A Novel Approach for Automatic Palmprint Recognition….Pages 122-133
ICS: An Interactive Classification System….Pages 134-145
Fast Most Similar Neighbor Classifier for Mixed Data….Pages 146-158
Performance Measures in Classification of Human Communications….Pages 159-170
Cost-Sensitive Decision Trees with Pre-pruning….Pages 171-179
Probability Based Metrics for Locally Weighted Naive Bayes….Pages 180-191
Recurrent Boosting for Classification of Natural and Synthetic Time-Series Data….Pages 192-203
Pattern Classification in No-Limit Poker: A Head-Start Evolutionary Approach….Pages 204-215
Managing Conditional and Composite CSPs….Pages 216-227
Multiagent Constraint Satisfaction with Multiply Sectioned Constraint Networks….Pages 228-240
A Clustering Algorithm Based on Adaptive Subcluster Merging….Pages 241-249
Efficient Algorithms for Video Association Mining….Pages 250-260
Distributed Data Mining in a Ubiquitous Healthcare Framework….Pages 261-271
Constructing a User Preference Ontology for Anti-spam Mail Systems….Pages 272-283
Question Answering Summarization of Multiple Biomedical Documents….Pages 284-295
A Profit-Based Business Model for Evaluating Rule Interestingness….Pages 296-307
Reasoning About Operations on Sets….Pages 308-319
Analytic Results on the Hodgkin-Huxley Neural Network: Spikes Annihilation….Pages 320-331
Improving Importance Sampling by Adaptive Split-Rejection Control in Bayesian Networks….Pages 332-343
Adding Local Constraints to Bayesian Networks….Pages 344-355
On the Use of Possibilistic Bases for Local Computations in Product-Based Possibilistic Networks….Pages 356-368
Reasoning with Conditional Preferences Across Attributes….Pages 369-380
Path Propagation for Inference in Bayesian Networks….Pages 381-392
Problem-Solving Knowledge Mining from Users’ Actions in an Intelligent Tutoring System….Pages 393-404
Incremental Neighborhood Graphs Construction for Multidimensional Databases Indexing….Pages 405-416
Learning Network Topology from Simple Sensor Data….Pages 417-428
Reinforcement Learning in Nonstationary Environment Navigation Tasks….Pages 429-440
On the Stability and Bias-Variance Analysis of Kernel Matrix Learning….Pages 441-451
Query-Based Summarization of Customer Reviews….Pages 452-463
Multi-state Directed Acyclic Graphs….Pages 464-475
Fuzzy Clustering for Topic Analysis and Summarization of Document Collections….Pages 476-488
Creating a Fuzzy Believer to Model Human Newspaper Readers….Pages 489-501
Rethinking the Semantics of Complex Nominals….Pages 502-513
A Hybrid Approach to Improving Automatic Speech Recognition Via NLP….Pages 514-525
Planning in Multiagent Expedition with Collaborative Design Networks….Pages 526-538
Hierarchical Shortest Pathfinding Applied to Route-Planning for Wheelchair Users….Pages 539-550
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