Trends in Applied Intelligent Systems

Machines.- On the Application of Planning and Scheduling Techniques to E-Learning.- A Fuzzy ANP Model for Evaluating E-Learning Platform.- An Ontology-Based Expert System and Interactive Tool for Computer-Aided Control Engineering Education.- Bioinformatics and Biomedical Applications.- Exploiting Taxonomical Knowledge to Compute Semantic Similarity: An Evaluation in the Biomedical Domain.- Estimating Class Proportions in Boar Semen Analysis Using the Hellinger Distance.- Analysis of the Inducing Factors Involved in Stem Cell Differentiation Using Feature Selection Techniques, Support Vector Machines and Decision Trees.- An Environment for Data Analysis in Biomedical Domain: Information Extraction for Decision Support Systems.- Constructive Neural Networks to Predict Breast Cancer Outcome by Using Gene Expression Profiles.- Class Imbalance Methods for Translation Initiation Site Recognition.- Computer Vision.- On-Line Unsupervised Segmentation for Multidimensional Time-Series Data and Application to Spatiotemporal Gesture data.- Robust People Segmentation by Static Infrared Surveillance Camera.- Building Digital Ink Recognizers Using Data Mining: Distinguishing between Text and Shapes in Hand Drawn Diagrams.- Relief Patterned-Tile Classification for Automatic Tessella Assembly.- Using Remote Data Mining on LIDAR and Imagery Fusion Data to Develop Land Cover Maps.- Face Recognition Using Curvelet Transform.- Context Information in Intelligent Systems.- A Regulatory Model for Context-Aware Abstract Framework.- Ambient Intelligence Application Scenario for Collaborative e-Learning.- Strategies for Inference Mechanism of Conditional Random Fields for Multiple-Resident Activity Recognition in a Smart Home.- Methodology to Achieve Accurate Non Cooperative Target Identification Using High Resolution Radar and a Synthetic Database.- Modeling Spatial-Temporal Context Information in Virtual Worlds.- Recognition and Interpretation on Talking Agents.- Control, Simulation, and Modeling.- Supervisory Control and Automatic Failure Detection in Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems.- Data-Driven Prognosis Applied to Complex Vacuum Pumping Systems.- Design Issues and Approach to Internet-Based Monitoring and Control Systems.- Simul-EMI II: An Application to Simulate Electric and Magnetic Phenomena in PCB Designs.- Networked Control System Design on the Basis of Two Disk Mixed Sensitivity Specifications.- Data Mining.- A Study of Detecting Computer Viruses in Real-Infected Files in the n-Gram Representation with Machine Learning Methods.- Data Mining Strategies for CRM Negotiation Prescription Problems.- Mining Concept-Drifting Data Streams Containing Labeled and Unlabeled Instances.- Exploring the Performance of Resampling Strategies for the Class Imbalance Problem.- ITSA???: An Effective Iterative Method for Short-Text Clustering Tasks.- Mining Interestingness Measures for String Pattern Mining.- Data Preprocessing in Data Mining.- Analyzing the Impact of the Discretization Method When Comparing Bayesian Classifiers.- Improving Incremental Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection by Using Re-ranking.- Information Extraction from Helicopter Maintenance Records as a Springboard for the Future of Maintenance Text Analysis.- A Preliminary Study on the Selection of Generalized Instances for Imbalanced Classification.- Feature Selection Applied to Data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.- Decision Support Systems.- FastXplain: Conflict Detection for Constraint-Based Recommendation Problems.- Empirical Knowledge Engineering: Cognitive Aspects in the Development of Constraint-Based Recommenders.- Adaptive Utility-Based Recommendation.- Hybrid Integration of Reasoning Techniques in Suspect Investigation.- Ontology-Based Expert System for Home Automation Controlling.- Ontology Applied in Decision Support System for Critical Infrastructures Protection.- Learning User Preferences to Maximise Occupant Comfort in Office Buildings.- A Decision Support Tool for Evaluating Loyalty and Word-of-Mouth Using Model-Based Knowledge Discovery.- An Argumentation-Based BDI Personal Assistant.- Distributed Problem Solving with Artificial Intelligence Techniques.- Challenges of Distributed Model-Based Diagnosis.- A Distributed Algorithm for the Multi-Robot Task Allocation Problem.- Comparison between Deterministic and Meta-heuristic Methods Applied to Ancillary Services Dispatch.- Domain-Dependent Planning Heuristics for Locating Containers in Maritime Terminals.- Robust Solutions in Changing Constraint Satisfaction Problems.