Papers Accepted for the Application Stream

Best Refereed Application Paper

Case-Based Reasoning Investigation of Therapy Inefficacy
Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany, Olga Vorobieva, Sechenow Institute in St.Petersburg, Russia

SESSION 1: APPLIED AI IN INFORMATION PROCESSING

Hybrid search algorithm applied to the colour quantisation problem
Lars Nolle and Gerald Schaefer, School of Computing and Informatics, The Nottingham Trent University, UK

The Knowledge Bazaar
Brian Craker, Becoms Ltd and Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool, UK

Generating Feedback Reports for Adults Taking Basic Skills Tests
Ehud Reiter and Sandra Williams, University of Aberdeen, Lesley Crichton, Cambridge Training and Development Ltd, UK

A Neural Network Approach to Predicting Stock Exchange Movements using External Factors
Michael G.Madden and Niall O'Connor, NUI Galway, Ireland

SESSION 2: TECHNIQUES FOR APPLIED AI

A Fuzzy Rule-Based Approach for the Collaborative Formation of Design Structure Matrices
Kostas M.Saridakis and Argiris J.Dentsoras, University of Patras, Greece

Geometric Proportional Analogies In Topographic Maps: Theory and Application
Emma-Claire Mullally and Diarmuid P.O’Donoghue, NUI Maynooth, Amy J. Bohan and
Mark T.Keane, University College Dublin, Ireland

Experience with Ripple-Down Rules
Paul Compton, University of NSW, Lindsay Peters, Glenn Edwards and Tim Lavers, Pacific Knowledge Systems, Autralia

Applying Bayesian Networks for Meteorological Data Mining
Estevam R Hruschka Jr, UFSCar - Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Eduardo R Hruschka, UNISANTOS - Universidade Catolica de Santos, Nelson F F Ebecken, COPPE/UFRJ - Universidade Fedearl do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

SESSION 4: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

WISE Expert: An Expert System for Monitoring Ship Cargo Handling
T. R. Addis, University of Portsmouth, J. J. Townsend Addis, Clarity Support Ltd, R. Gillett, L3-Ship Analytics International

A Camera-Direction Dependent Visual-Motor Coordinate Transformation for a Visually Guided Neural Robot
Cornelius Weber, David Muse, Mark Elshaw and Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK

An Application Of Artificial Intelligence To The Implementation Of Virtual Automobile Manufacturing Enterprise
Anoop Srivastava, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

SESSION 5: MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

Web-based Medical Teaching using a Multi-Agent System
Victor Alves and Neves, José ,Universidade do Minho, Luís Nelas, Radiconsult s.a., Filipe Marreiros, Centro de Computação Gráfica, Portugal

Building an Ontology and Knowledge Base of the Human Meridian-Collateral System
C.G. Cao, and Y.F. Sui, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The Effect of Principal Component Analysis on Machine Learning Accuracy with High Dimensional Spectral Data
Tom Howley, Michael G. Madden, Marie-Louise O'Connell and Alan Ryder, N.U.I. Galway, Ireland