Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Agents.- A Principled Modular Approach to Construct Flexible Conversation Protocols.- Balancing Robotic Teleoperation and Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue Environments.- Emotional Pathfinding.- Natural Language.- Combining Evidence in Cognate Identification.- Term-Based Clustering and Summarization of Web Page Collections.- The Frequency of Hedging Cues in Citation Contexts in Scientific Writing.- Learning.- Finding Interesting Summaries in GenSpace Graphs Efficiently.- Naïve Bayes with Higher Order Attributes.- Preliminary Study of Attention Control Modeling in Complex Skill Training Environments.- The Reconstruction of the Interleaved Sessions from a Server Log.- On Customizing Evolutionary Learning of Agent Behavior.- Towards Efficient Training on Large Datasets for Genetic Programming.- A Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm Based on Quick Sort.- Knowledge-Rich Contexts Discovery.- Intrinsic Representation: Bootstrapping Symbols from Experience.- Sequential Consolidation of Learned Task Knowledge.- Constraint Satisfaction and Search.- Resolvent Clause Weighting Local Search.- A Hybrid Schema for Systematic Local Search.- Constraint Satisfaction Methods for Information Personalization.- On Selection Strategies for the DPLL Algorithm.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- The Structural Model Interpretation of the NESS Test.- Spatio-temporal Reasoning for Vague Regions.- Average Case Self-Duality of Monotone Boolean Functions.- Uncertainty.- Detecting Deception in Intelligent Systems I: Activation of Deception Detection Tactics.- A Decision-Theoretic Graphical Model for Collaborative Design on Supply Chains.- Feature Selection by Bayesian Networks.- Neural Networks.- Radial Basis Function Network Pruning by Sensitivity Analysis.- A Chaotic Neural Network for theMaximum Clique Problem.- Wavelet Network with OLS Optimization for Speech Signal Processing.- Short/Position Papers.- Multi-attribute Decision Making in a Complex Multiagent Environment Using Reinforcement Learning with Selective Perception.- Multi-agent Trail Making for Stigmergic Navigation.- A Decision-Theoretic Algorithm for Bundle Purchasing in Multiple Open Ascending-Price Auctions.- The Use of Increasingly Specific User Models in the Design of Mixed-Initiative Systems.- Evaluating a Smart Recommender for an Evolving E-learning System: A Simulation-Based Study.- Generation of Demand Feedback in Intelligent Tutors for Programming.- Using Language to Determine Success in Negotiations: A Preliminary Study.- Distributed Data Mining vs. Sampling Techniques: A Comparison.- Binary Decision Tree Using Genetic Algorithm for Recognizing Defect Patterns of Cold Mill Strip.- Genetic Algorithm-Induced Optimal Blackjack Strategies in Noisy Settings.- Robust Semantic for an Evolved Genetic Algorithm-Based Machine Learning.- A Hybrid Neural-Markov Approach for Learning to Compose Music by Example.- Exploring Case-Based Bayesian Networks and Bayesian Multi-nets for Classification.- Feature Extraction of Handwritten Symbols Using Fuzzy Logic.- Artificial Aging of Faces by Support Vector Machines.- Solving Dynamic CSPs.- Histogram Arc Consistency as a Value Ordering Heuristic.- Knowledge Provenance.- A Unified Action Language Framework.- An Automatic Evaluation Framework for Improving a Configurable Text Summarizer.- An Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Aviation Safety Reports.- Modelling Singularity in Vision to Learn Rotation Invariance toward Recognition.- Graduate Student Symposium.- Two Set-Theoretic Approaches to the Semantics of Adjective-Noun Combinations.- Comparison ofPermutation-Based and Binary Representation in a Genetic Algorithm for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction.- Time-Sensitive Sampling for Spam Filtering.- Comparison of Parallel and Serial Genetic Algorithms for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction.- Performance Evaluation of Agent Toolkits.- Software Agents in CVW.- Constraint Directed Dynamic Backtracking.- Scheduling Using Constraint-Directed Search.- Extending Montague Semantics for Use in Natural-Language Database-Query Processing.- An Investigation of Grammar Design in Natural-Language Speech Recognition.- Genetic Algorithm Based OSPF Network Routing Using LEDA.- A Multi-agent System for Semantic Information Retrieval.- Decision Mining with User Preference.- Coarsening Classification Rules on Basis of Granular Computing.