Advances in Artificial Intelligence

An argumentation based framework for defeasible and qualitative reasoning.- Well-behaved IDL theories.- Epistemic conditional logics.- A Hybrid Formal Theory of plan recognition and its implementation.- Algorithms ? for ?-standard state graphs: Results about termination and admissibility.- Regression by classification.- A generic model of cognitive agent to develop open systems.- Coordination among individually-motivated agents: An evolutionary approach.- Adaptive Hierarchical Censored Production Rule-based system: A genetic algorithm approach.- Finding optimal representations using the crossover correlation coefficient.- An evolutionary algorithm for resource-constrained project scheduling and multiple execution modes.- Evaluating the robustness and scalability of revision-based natural language generation.- Semi-automatic anaphora resolution in portable natural language interfaces.- A discourse model for gist preservation.- Iterative curve organisation with the EM algorithm.- Model-Based pose proposal for 2-D object recognition.- TARCA - An integrated system for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.- Intelligent Distributed Environmental Decision Support System.- Object-oriented algorithm for combining dichotomic belief functions.- Automatic bottom-up analysis and transformation of logic programs.- A temporal extension to the Parsimonious Covering Theory.- Biological inspirations in neural network implementations of Autonomous Agents.- Intelligent Tutoring Systems modelled through the mental states.- Fundamentals of fuzzy logic and its hardware implementation.- Status & challenges for coordination technology: An AI perspective.- Combining natural language understanding and information retrieval for flexible hypertext navigation.- Numerical models for the treatment of imperfect information in knowledge-based systems.- Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Functional approach x agents approach.- The case-based reasoning paradigm: perspective, technologyand