PRICAI 2008: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Constraints.- Statistical Model for Japanese Abbreviations.- A Novel Heuristic Algorithm for Privacy Preserving of Associative Classification.- Time-Frequency Analysis of Vietnamese Speech Inspired on Chirp Auditory Selectivity.- Meta-level Control of Multiagent Learning in Dynamic Repeated Resource Sharing Problems.- Ontology-Based Natural Query Retrieval Using Conceptual Graphs.- Optimal Multi-issue Negotiation in Open and Dynamic Environments.- The Density-Based Agglomerative Information Bottleneck.- State-Based Regression with Sensing and Knowledge.- Some Results on the Completeness of Approximation Based Reasoning.- KT and S4 Satisfiability in a Constraint Logic Environment.- Clustering with Feature Order Preferences.- Distributed Memory Bounded Path Search Algorithms for Pervasive Computing Environments.- Using Cost Distributions to Guide Weight Decay in Local Search for SAT.- Fault Resolution in Case-Based Reasoning.- Constrained Sequence Classification for Lexical Disambiguation.- Map Building by Sequential Estimation of Inter-feature Distances.- Document-Based HITS Model for Multi-document Summarization.- External Force for Active Contours: Gradient Vector Convolution.- Representation = Grounded Information.- Learning from the Past with Experiment Databases.- An Argumentation Framework Based on Conditional Priorities.- Knowledge Supervised Text Classification with No Labeled Documents.- Constrained Local Regularized Transducer for Multi-Component Category Classification.- Low Resolution Gait Recognition with High Frequency Super Resolution.- NIIA: Nonparametric Iterative Imputation Algorithm.- Mining Multidimensional Data through Element Oriented Analysis.- Evolutionary Feature Selections for Face Detection System.- A Probabilistic Approach to the Interpretation of Spoken Utterances.- Regular Papers.- Towards Autonomous Robot Operation: Path Map Generation of an Unknown Area by a New Trapezoidal Approximation Method Using a Self Guided Vehicle and Shortest Path Calculation by a Proposed SRS Algorithm.- Exploring Combinations of Ontological Features and Keywords for Text Retrieval.- Instance Management Problems in the Role Model of Hozo.- Advancing Topic Ontology Learning through Term Extraction.- Handling Unknown and Imprecise Attribute Values in Propositional Rule Learning: A Feature-Based Approach.- Fuzzy Knowledge Discovery from Time Series Data for Events Prediction.- Evolution of Migration Behavior with Multi-agent Simulation.- Constraint Relaxation Approach for Over-Constrained Agent Interaction.- Structure Extraction from Presentation Slide Information.- Combining Local and Global Resources for Constructing an Error-Minimized Opinion Word Dictionary.- An Improvement of PAA for Dimensionality Reduction in Large Time Series Databases.- Stability Margin for Linear Systems with Fuzzy Parametric Uncertainty.- An Imperative Account of Actions.- Natural Language Interface Construction Using Semantic Grammars.- Exploiting the Role of Named Entities in Query-Oriented Document Summarization.- A Probabilistic Model for Understanding Composite Spoken Descriptions.- Fuzzy Communication Reaching Consensus under Acyclic Condition.- Probabilistic Nogood Store as a Heuristic.- Semantic Filtering for DDL-Based Service Composition.- Prediction of Protein Functions from Protein Interaction Networks: A Naïve Bayes Approach.- Multi-class Support Vector Machine Simplification.- A Syntactic-based Word Re-ordering for English-Vietnamese Statistical Machine Translation System.- A Multi-modal Particle Filter Based Motorcycle Tracking System.- Bayesian Inference on Hidden Knowledge in High-Throughput Molecular Biology Data.- Personalized Search Using ODP-based User Profiles Created from User Bookmark.- Domain-Driven Local Exceptional Pattern Mining for Detecting Stock Price Manipulation.- A Graph-Based Method for Combining Collaborative and Content-Based Filtering.- Hierarchical Differential Evolution for Parameter Estimation in Chemical Kinetics.- Differential Evolution Based on Improved Learning Strategy.- SalienceGraph: Visualizing Salience Dynamics of Written Discourse by Using Reference Probability and PLSA.- Learning Discriminative Sequence Models from Partially Labelled Data for Activity Recognition.- Feature Selection for Clustering on High Dimensional Data.- Availability of Web Information for Intercultural Communication.- Short Papers.- Mining Weighted Frequent Patterns in Incremental Databases.- Revision of Spatial Information by Containment.- Joint Power Control and Subcarrier Allocation in MC - CDMA Systems - An Intelligent Search Approach.- Domain-Independent Error-Based Simulation for Error-Awareness and Its Preliminary Evaluation.- A Characterization of Sensitivity Communication Robots Based on Mood Transition.- Recommendation Algorithm for Learning Materials That Maximizes Expected Test Scores.- A Hybrid Kansei Design Expert System Using Artificial Intelligence.- Solving the Contamination Minimization Problem on Networks for the Linear Threshold Model.- A Data-Driven Approach for Finding the Threshold Relevant to the Temporal Data Context of an Alarm of Interest.- Branch and Bound Algorithms to Solve Semiring Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Image Analysis of the Relationship between Changes of Cornea and Postmortem Interval.- Context-Based Term Frequency Assessment for Text Classification.- Outlier Mining on Multiple Time Series Data in Stock Market.- Generating Interactive Facial Expression of Communication Robots Using Simple Recurrent Network.- Effects of Repair Support Agent for Accurate Multilingual Communication.- Towards Adapting XCS for Imbalance Problems.- Personalized Summarization Agent Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization.- Interactive Knowledge Acquisition and Scenario Authoring.- Reconstructing Hard Problems in a Human-Readable and Machine-Processable Way.- Evolving Intrusion Detection Rules on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- On the Usefulness of Interactive Computer Game Logs for Agent Modelling.- An Empirical Study on the Effect of Different Similarity Measures on User-Based Collaborative Filtering Algorithms.- Using Self-Organizing Maps with Learning Classifier System for Intrusion Detection.- New Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Solving Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem.- Continuous Pitch Contour as an Improvement Feature for Music Information Retrieval by Humming/Singing.- Classification Using Improved Hybrid Wavelet Neural Networks.- Online Classifier Considering the Importance of Attributes.- An Improved Tabu Search Algorithm for 3D Protein Folding Problem.- Transferring Knowledge from Another Domain for Learning Action Models.- Texture and Target Orientation Estimation from Phase Congruency.- Query Classification and Expansion for Translation Mining Via Search Engines.