Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Selection for Robust Detection of Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Using Genetic Algorithms.- An Intelligent Tool for Bio-magnetic Signal Processing.- Knowledge Representation and Search.- Hierarchical Bayesian Networks: An Approach to Classification and Learning for Structured Data.- Fuzzy Automata for Fault Diagnosis: A Syntactic Analysis Approach.- A Discussion of Some Intuitions of Defeasible Reasoning.- Knowledge Representation Using a Modified Earley's Algorithm.- Fuzzy Causal Maps in Business Modeling and Performance-Driven Process Re-engineering.- Construction and Repair: A Hybrid Approach to Search in CSPs.- Arc Consistency in Binary Encodings of Non-binary CSPs: Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation.- Inherent Choice in the Search Space of Constraint Satisfaction Problem Instances.- Natural Language Processing.- Part-of-Speech Tagging in Molecular Biology Scientific Abstracts Using Morphological and Contextual Statistical Information.- A Name-Matching Algorithm for Supporting Ontology Enrichment.- Text Normalization for the Pronunciation of Non-standard Words in an Inflected Language.- Multi-topic Information Filtering with a Single User Profile.- Exploiting Cross-Document Relations for Multi-document Evolving Summarization.- Invited Session: AI in Power System Operation and Fault Diagnosis.- Diagnosing Transformer Faults with Petri Nets.- Short-Term Load Forecasting Using Radial Basis Function Networks.- Reinforcement Learning (RL) to Optimal Reconfiguration of Radial Distribution System (RDS).- A Multi-agent System for Microgrids.- Invited Session: Intelligent Techniques in Image Processing.- Automated Medical Image Registration Using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm.- Adaptive Rule-Based Facial Expression Recognition.- Locating Text in Historical Collection Manuscripts.- Semi-automatic Extraction of Semantics from Football Video Sequences.- Invited Session: Intelligent Virtual Environments.- Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems.- Synthetic Characters with Emotional States.- Control and Autonomy for Intelligent Virtual Agent Behaviour.- Reflex Movements for a Virtual Human: A Biology Inspired Approach.- Integrating miniMin-HSP Agents in a Dynamic Simulation Framework.