Best Refereed Papers

The following have been selected by the conference programme committees as the best 6 refereed papers in each stream at AI-2006. They will be reprinted in a special issue of the international journal Knowledge Based Systems.

Technical Stream

Best Refereed Technical Paper (sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
[32] Verification of Medical Guidelines using Task Execution with Background Knowledge
Hommersom, Arjen, Groot, Perry and Lucas, Peter (University of Nijmegen, NL), Balser, Michael and Schmitt, Jonathan (University of Augsburg, DE)

[4] A Decision Tree-Based Attribute Weighting Filter for Naive Bayes
Hall, M. A. (University of Waikato, NZ)

[7] Initialization method for grammar-guided genetic programming
Garcia-Arnau, Marc, Manrique, Daniel, Rios, Juan and Rodriguez-Paton, Alfonso (U. Politecnica Madrid, Spain)

[36] On-Line Monitoring of Plan Execution: a Distributed Approach
Micalizio, Roberto, Torasso, Pietro (Universita' di Torino, Italy)

[65] A Reusable Commitment Management Service using Semantic Web Technology
Preece, Alun D, Chalmers, Stuart and McKenzie, Craig (University of Aberdeen, UK)

[69] Using AI and Semantic Web Technologies to attack Process Complexity in Open Systems
Thompson, Simon G, Giles, Nick, Gharib,Hamid, Li, Yang and Nguyen, Thuc D

Application Stream

Best Refereed Application Paper
[25] Managing restaurant tables using constraints
Vidotto, Alfio and Brown, Kenneth N (University College Cork, Ireland) and Beck, J Christopher (University of Toronto, Canada)

[10] Use of Data Mining Techniques to Model Crime Scene Investigator Performance
Adderley, Richard (A E Solutions (BI), UK), Bond, John (Northamptonshire Police, UK), Townsley, Michael (University College London, UK)

[20] Bringing Chatbots into Education: Towards Natural Language Negotiation of Open Learner Models Kerly, Alice L (University of Birmingham), Hall, Phil D (Elzware Limited), Bull, Susan (University of Birmingham)

[35] Domain Dependent Distributed Models for Railway Scheduling
Salido, Miguel A., Abril, Montserrat, Barber, Federico, Ingolotti, Laura, Tormos, Pilar and Lova, Antonio (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

[51] Automatic Species Identification of Live Moths: A Case Study in Practical Data Mining
Mayo, Michael (University of Waikato, New Zealand) and Watson, Anna T.

[68] Sass Applied To Optimum Work Roll Profile Selection In The Hot Rolling Of Wide Steel
Nolle, Lars (Nottingham Trent Uni, UK)