Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Dialogue Act Classification in a Spoken Dialogue System.- Distributed Non-binary Constraints.- Dynamic User Modeling in a System for Personalization of Web Contents.- Embracing Causality in Inducing the Effects of Actions.- Employing TSK Fuzzy Models to Automate the Revision Stage of a CBR System.- Enhancing Consistency Based Diagnosis with Machine Learning Techniques.- Exploiting Disambiguated Thesauri for Information Retrieval in Metadata Catalogs.- Face Detection with Active Contours Using Color Information.- Formal Verification of Molecular Computational Models in ACL2: A Case Study.- Fuzzy Logic Based Torque Ripple Minimization in Switched Reluctance Motors.- Generating Random Orthogonal Polygons.- Genetic Programming for Automatic Generation of Image Processing Algorithms on the CNN Neuroprocessing Architecture.- Heuristic Based Sampling in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: An Initial Approach.- Heuristic Rules and Genetic Algorithms for Open Shop Scheduling Problem.- Hybrid Approach Based on Temporal Representation and Classification Techniques Used to Determine Unstable Conditions in a Blast Furnace.- Kernel Functions over Orders of Magnitude Spaces by Means of Usual Kernels. Application to Measure Financial Credit Risk.- Negotiation Support in Highly-Constrained Trading Scenarios.- Normalized Cyclic Edit Distances: An Efficient Algorithm.- On the Heuristic Performance of Perimeter Search Algorithms.- Plug&Play Object Oriented Bayesian Networks.- Real-Time Extensions in Multi-agent Communication.- Representing Canonical Models as Probability Trees.- Robust Aggregation of Expert Opinions Based on Conflict Analysis and Resolution.- Rotation-Based Ensembles.- SACEME: An Authoring Tool for Knowledge Acquisition Using Techniques of Programming by Examples.- Scatter Search for the Feature Selection Problem.- Social Analysis of Multi-agent Systems with Activity Theory.- SoftComputing Techniques Applied to Catalytic Reactions.- Sports Image Classification through Bayesian Classifier.- Text Mining Using the Hierarchical Syntactical Structure of Documents.- The Synergy of GA and Fuzzy Systems for Multidimensional Problem: Application to Time Series Prediction.- Time-Series Prediction: Application to the Short-Term Electric Energy Demand.- Towards a Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation for Asthma Treatment.- Towards a Generic Multiagent Model for Decision Support: Two Case Studies.- Towards Biresiduated Multi-adjoint Logic Programming.- Using the Geometrical Distribution of Prototypes for Training Set Condensing.- X-Learn: An Intelligent Educational System Oriented towards the Net.- Selected Papers from the 5th Sessions on Technology Transfer of Artificial Intelligence (TTIA03).- A Neuro-fuzzy Decision Model for Prognosis of Breast Cancer Relapse.- An Interactive Train Scheduling Tool for Solving and Plotting Running Maps.- Application of Evolutionary Computation Techniques to the Optimal Short-Term Scheduling of the Electrical Energy Production.- Integration of a Generic Diagnostic Tool in Virtual Environments for Procedural Training.- TAPLI: An Adaptive Web-Based Learning Environment for Linear Programming.