Papers Accepted for the Technical Stream

Best Refereed Technical Paper (sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

Reusing JessTab Rules in Protégé (x)
Corsar, D. and Sleeman, D. (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Session 1a: Information Learning, Integration and Management

Chair: Tony Allen

Robot Docking Based on Omnidirectional Vision and Reinforcement Learning (x)
Muse, D.A. and Weber, C. (University of Sunderland, UK)

Global EM Learning of Finite Mixture Models using the Greedy Elimination Method
Chan, Z.S.H. and Kasabov, N. (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)
NOTE: This paper will be presented during the poster session at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday December 13th.

Tracking Drifting Concepts by Time Window Optimisation
Koychev, I. (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria) and Lothian, R. (The Robert Gordon University, UK)

Hierarchical knowledge-oriented specification for formation integration
Croitoru, M. and Compatangelo, E. (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Session 1b: AI and the World Wide Web

Chair: Alun Preece

The Semantic Web as a Linguistic Resource (x)
Mellish, C. and Sun, X. (University of Aberdeen, UK)

A Distributed CBR Framework through Semantic Web Services
Recio-García, J.A., Díaz-Agudo, B. and González-Calero, P. (Complutense University, Spain).

Using Simple Ontologies to Build Personal Webs of Knowledge
Kotis, K. (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Modeling Navigation Patterns of Visitors of Unstructured Websites
Balog, K., Hofgesang, P.I. and Kowalczyk, W. (Free University Amsterdam,NL)

Session 2: Networks and Biologically Motivated AI

Chair: Adrian Hopgood

Exploring the Noisy Threshold Function in Designing Bayesian Networks
Jurgelenaite, R., Lucas, P. and Heskes, T. (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

A Biologically Motivated Neural Network Architecture for the Avoidance of Catastrophic Interference
Addison, J.F.D., Arevian, G.Z. and MacIntyre, J. (University of Sunderland, UK)

Fast Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) via Constrained Multi-Parent Recombination
Chan, Z.S.H. and Kasabov, N. (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)
NOTE: This paper will be presented during the poster session at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday December 13th.

An additional paper 'The Impact of Rule Ranking on the Quality of Associative Classifiers' by Thabtah, F, Cowling, P. and Peng, Y (University of Bradford, UK) from Session 5a will be presented at the end of this session.

Session 3: Multi-Agent Systems

Chair: Frans Coenen

A Trading Agent for a Multi-Issue Clearing House
Debenham, John (UTS, Australia)

An Approach to the Agent-Based ANN Training (x)
Czarnowski, I. (Maritime University, Poland)

Session 4: Case Based Reasoning

Chair: Nirmalie Wiratunga

Collaborative Recommending using Formal Concept Analysis (x)
du Boucher-Ryan, P. and Bridge, D. (University College Cork, Ireland)

Using Case Differences for Regression in CBR Systems
McDonnell, N. and Cunningham, P. (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Refinement in Case Based Reasoning
Díaz-Agudo, B., Gómez-Martín, M.A, Gómez-Martín, P.P. and González-Calero, P. (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Recommendation Knowledge Discovery
McSherry, D. and Stretch, C. (University of Ulster)

Session 5a: Knowledge Discovery in Data

Chair: Max Bramer

Improved Methods for Extracting Frequent Itemsets from Interim-Support Trees
Coenen, F., Leng, P. (University of Liverpool, UK), Pagourtzis, A. and Souliou, D. (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) and Rytter, W. (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA and University of Warsaw, Poland)

Reliable Instance Classification with Version Spaces
Smirnov, E.N., Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, I.G. (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and Georgi N.I. (Rotterdam University, The Netherlands)

The Impact of Rule Ranking on the Quality of Associative Classifiers
Thabtah, F, Cowling, P. and Peng, Y (University of Bradford, UK)
NOTE: This paper will be presented at the end of session 2.

Session 5b: Reasoning and Decision Making

Chair: Andrew Tuson

Acting Irrationally to Improve Performance in Stochastic Worlds
Belavkin, R.V. (Middlesex University, UK)

On the Use of OBDDs in Model Based Diagnosis: an Approach Based on the Partition of the Model (x)
Torta, G.and Torasso, P. (Universita' di Torino, Italy)

Issues in Designing Tutors for Games of Incomplete Information: a Bridge Case Study
Kemp, R.H. and McKenzie, B. (Massey University, New Zealand)

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning with Uncertainty
Elgeresy, B.A. (University of Glamorgan, UK) and Abdelmoty, A.I. (Cardiff University).

Note: × indicates SGAI recognition award