Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 2003 7th International Conference, KES 2003 Oxford, UK, September 3-5, 2003 Proceedings, Part II Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series

During recent decades we have witnessed not only the introduction of automation into the work environment but we have also seen a dramatic change in how automation has influenced the conditions of work. While some 30 years ago the addition of a computer was considered only for routine and boring tasks in support of humans, the balance has dramatically shifted to the computer being able to perform almost any task the human is willing to delegate. The very fast pace of change in processor and information technology has been the main driving force behind this development. Advances in automation and especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) have enabled the formation of a rather unique team with human and electronic members. The team is still supervised by the human with the machine as a subordinate associate or assistant, sharing responsibility, authority and autonomy over many tasks. The requirement for teaming human and machine in a highly dynamic and unpredictable task environment has led to impressive achievements in many supporting technologies. These include methods for system analysis, design and engineering and in particular for information processing, for cognitive and complex knowledge [1] engineering .

Advances on Adaptive Resonance Theory and Applications.- Putting the Utility of Match Tracking in Fuzzy ARTMAP Training to the Test.- An ART-Based Hybrid Network for Medical Pattern Classification Tasks with Missing Data.- Combining Support Vector Machines and ARTMAP Architectures for Natural Classification.- ART-Based Neuro-fuzzy Modelling Applied to Reinforcement Learning.- AFC: ART-Based Fuzzy Classifier.- Intelligent Decision Support Making Systems.- Intelligent Assistance, Retrieval, Reminder and Advice for Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision-Making.- Facilitating Electronic Business Planning with Decision Making Support Systems.- Critical Context for Decision Making: A Modeling Approach Based on a Re-planning Tool.- A Framework to Assess Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems.- An Information Market for Multi-agent Decision Making: Observations from a Human Experiment.- Classification of Decision-Behavior Patterns in Multivariate Computer Log Data Using Independent Component Analysis.- Design, Integration and Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Control System for the Improvement of the Monitoring and Quality Control Process in the Manufacturing of Metal Casting Components.- Developing Intelligent Decision Support Systems: A Bipartite Approach.- Fuzzy Support Systems for Discretionary Judicial Decision Making.- Intelligent Decision Making Support through Just-in-Time Knowledge Management.- Integrating Simulation and Argumentation in Organizational Decision Making.- Neural Networks for Vision - Biological and Artificial.- Perceptual Grouping to Motion Direction and Speed in Apertures.- Assignment of Figural Side to Contours Based on Symmetry, Parallelism, and Convexity.- Neural Network Model Restoring Partly Occluded Patterns.- Face Localization in the Neural Abstraction Pyramid.- A Model for Selective Visual Attention Based on Discrete Scale-Spaces.- A Trainable Object-Detection Method Using Equivalent Retinotopical Sampling and Fisher Kernel.- Self-Organizing Feature Maps for HMM Based Lip-Reading.- A Convolutional Neural Network VLSI for Image Recognition Using Merged/Mixed Analog-Digital Architecture.- Promoting Smart User-Centred Approaches in Innovative Teaching and Learning.- Making Intelligent Learning Technologies Meaningful: Practical Lessons Learnt from Public Administration Training Programs in South Africa and Canada.- Using Communication Preference and Mapping Learning Styles to Teaching Styles in the Distance Learning Intelligent Tutoring System – WISDeM.- Evaluation of Discussions in Online Classrooms.- Web-Based Synchronized Multimedia System Design for Teaching/Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language.- An Integrated Courseware Usability Evaluation Method.- Development of a Level-Based Instruction Model in Web-Based Education.- AI Techniques in Web-Based Educational Systems.- Using Fuzzy Techniques to Model Students in Web-Based Learning Environments.- The Use of Conceptual Graphs for Interactive Student Modelling and Adaptive Web Explanations.- Supporting Collaborative Knowledge Building with Intelligent Agents.- Providing Personalised Recommendations in a Web-Based Education System.- A Rule-Based Formalism for Describing Collaborative Adaptive Courses.- User Modeling on Adaptive Web-Based Learning Communities.- Preventing Student Dropout in Distance Learning Using Machine Learning Techniques.- Evaluation of an Intelligent Web-Based Language Tutor.- Domain Knowledge Acquisition and Plan Recognition by Probabilistic Reasoning.- Web Based Education as a Result of AI Supported Classroom Teaching.- From Web-Based Educational Systems to Education on the Web: On the Road to the Adaptive Web.- Complex-Valued Neural Networks.- Qubit Neural Network and Its Efficiency.- Performance of Adaptive Beamforming by Using Complex-Valued Neural Network.- Quaternion Neural Network and Its Application.- Building Up of a Pen Oriented Human-Software Interface with Complex-Valued Spiking Machines.- Pitch-Asynchronous Overlap-Add Waveform-Concatenation Speech Synthesis by Using a Phase-Optimizing Neural Network.- A Data-Reusing Gradient Descent Algorithm for Complex-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks.- Some Properties of the Network Consisting of Two Complex-Valued Nagumo-Sato Neurons.- Knowledge Based Computer Assisted Systems for Health Care.- Ontology-Based Medical Information Service System.- Abstraction of Long-Term Changed Tests in Mining Hepatitis Data.- A Classification Capability of Reflective Neural Networks in Medical Databases.- A Classification Method of Medical Database by Immune Multi-agent Neural Networks with Planar Lattice Architecture.- Physiological Simulation by Integrating a Circulatory System Model with Beat-by-Beat Hemodynamics.- Collimation Detection in Digital Radiographs Using Plane Detection Hough Transform.- Automated Cerebral Arteries Segmentation and Diameter Measurement of Aneurysm from MR Angiograms.- Data Mining for Seeking Relationships between Sickness Absence and Japanese Worker’s Profile.- Clinical Decision Support System Applied the Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Intelligent Human Computer Interaction Systems.- Emotion Generating Calculations Based on Hidden Markov Model.- Support System for Analysis of Student’s Motivation in Group Learning.- Personalization of Help System Output in the Framework of Everyday Language Computing.- A Description Method of Syntactic Rules on Japanese Filmscript.- Knowledge Structure for Acquiring Personal Taste Information.- A Proposal of Kansei Description for Multimedia Contents.- Interactive Navigation for Problem-Solving Oriented Learning Processes.- Multi-objective Decision Making by AHP and Its Application to Personal Preference Retrieval System.- Interactive Design Support System by Customer Evaluation and Genetic Evolution: Application to Eye Glass Frame.- Immunity-Based Systems.- Towards an Immunity-Based System for Detecting Masqueraders.- Noisy Channel and Reaction-Diffusion Systems: Models for Artificial Immune Systems.- Immunity-Based Approaches for Self-Monitoring in Distributed Intrusion Detection System.- Idiotypic Network Model for Feature Extraction in Pattern Recognition – Effect of Diffusion of Antibody.- Mechanism of a Transient but Long-Lasting Immune Memory Function on a Self/Non-Self Boundary.- A Proposal of Immune Multi-agent Neural Networks and Its Application to Medical Diagnostic System for Hepatobiliary Disorders.- Intelligent Knowledge-Based Interface Systems (I).- Development of an ESP E-learning Tool Using In-House Corpora.- Evaluation of Learning Support System for Agent-Based C Programming.- EM Algorithm for Cleaning of Answers Generated by an E-learning System.- Reinforcement Learning Methods to Handle Actions with Differing Costs in MDPs.- Intelligent Knowledge-Based Interface Systems (II).- Extraction of Face Parts by Using Flesh Color and Boundary Images.- Web Type CAI System with Dynamic Text Change from Database by Understanding.- A Study on Saccadic Eye Movements at the Mutual Gazing.- Direction Selective Artificial Vision Model and the Layout for Analog VLSI.- Knowledge-Based and Cognitive Neuroscience Systems for Future Humanoid Robot Development.- Cognitive Humanoid Robots Based on Complex Kinematic Features.- A Multi-layered Hierarchical Architecture for a Humanoid Robot.- Active Detection of Anomalous Region as Primitive Processing for Visual Object Segregation.- ANNA: An Artificial Neural Network for Attention to Emotional Recognition.- Attention-Based Robot Control.- Industrial Applications of Soft Computing.- Two Industrial Problems Solved through a Novel Optimization Algorithm.- Do Neurofuzzy Systems Have Chances in Industrial Applications?.- Clusterability and Centroid Approximation.- An Artificial Olfactory System for Quality and Geographical Discrimination of Olive Oils.- A Fuzzy Logic Approach to Improve Manufacturing Effectiveness.- Intelligent Mobile Agents in Mobile Networks: All-Mobile Networks.- Knowledge-Based Mobility Management in All-Mobile Network.- The Intelligent Agent-Based Control of Service Processing Capacity.- Multi-agent System for Remote Software Operations.- Command and Control (C2) and Situation Awareness - Reasoning in Intelligent Agents.- A Frigate Movement Survival Agent-Based Approach.- Weasel: A User Guided Enemy Course of Action Generator.- A Multi-agent System for Executing Group Tasks.- Knowledge Elicitation and Decision-Modelling for Command Agents.- The Wargame Infrastructure and Simulation Environment (Wise).- Intelligent Agents and Situation Awareness.- Intelligent Groupware.- A New MPEG-2 Solution Using a 2nd ALU in the RISC.- Idea Generation Support System GUNGEN DX II beyond Papers.- Data Processing Method of Small-Scale Five Senses Communication System.- A Trial of a Bidirectional Learning Management Tool for Promoting Learning by Mobile Phone.- Development of a Remote Communication System for Computer Novices and Their Instructors.- Personalized Environment for Skimming Documents.- GUNGEN-GO: Real-Time Groupware Development Environment for a Hypermedia System.- Visualization Methods for Sharing Knowledge Pieces and Relationships Based on Biological Models.- Intelligent Paradigms in Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering.- Functional Imaging of Tinnitus: Seeing of the Unseeable!.- Brain Signal Source Localization Using a Method Combining BP Neural Networks with Nonlinear Least Squares Method.- System Identification of the Brain Dynamics by EEG Analysis Using Neural Networks.- A Neural Network Model for Pattern Recognition.- A Predictive Feedback Control Model Using NN and NLMS.- Intelligent Systems Design.- Representing of Dependence Model and Class Testing Using Program Dependence Model.- Secure Transaction Processing in Multi-expert Systems with Replicated Data.- Goal-Directed Design for Proactive and Intelligent Device Collaboration.- Recognition of X-ray Images by Using Revised GMDH-type Neural Networks.- Low Power Design of the Neuroprocessor.- Visual Sensing ahd Human Interface for Affective Computing.- Age and Gender Estimation Based on Facial Image Analysis.- Age and Gender Estimations by Modeling Statistical Relationship among Faces.- Subjective Age Obtained from Facial Images – How Old We Feel Compared to Others-.- Robust Facial Parts Detection by Using Four Directional Features and Relaxation Matching.- Event Detection for a Visual Surveillance System Using Stereo Omni-directional System.- Mental Workload of Ship’s Navigator.- Face Tracking System with Fixed CCD and PTZ Camera.- Intelligent Techniques for Biology and Chemistry.- A Study of Aquatic Toxicity Using Artificial Neural Networks.- Discovery of Toxicological Patterns with Lazy Learning.- Discovering Active Regions in Non-redundant Genome Databases.- Neural Network Application to Eggplant Classification.- Intelligent Optimal Control of a Biosynthesis Process Using a Neural Network Based Estimator.- Methods and Applications of Intelligent Hybrid Systems.- On the Analysis of Neural Networks for Image Processing.- Development of Methods How to Avoid the Overfitting-Effect within the GeLog-System.- An Optimal Algorithm for Combining Multivariate Forecasts in Hybrid Systems.- Probabilistic Neuro-fuzzy Network with Non-conventional Activation Functions.- An Optimization of Data Mining Algorithms Used in Fuzzy Association Rules.- Some Test Problems Regarding Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- Knowledge Based Methods and Applications for Product Development.- A Web-Based Intelligent Forecasting System.- A Tabu Search-Based Optimization Approach for Process Planning.- Automated Text Classification for Fast Feedback – Investigating the Effects of Document Representation.- A Solution to Billiard Balls Puzzle Using AO Algorithm and Its Application to Product Development.- A Product Model for Mass – Customisation Products.- Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence.- Embodied Conversational Agents for Presenting Intellectual Multimedia Contents.- Channel Design for Strategic Knowledge Interaction.- Object Tracking and Task Recognition for Producing Interactive Video Content — Semi-automatic Indexing for QUEVICO.- Structural Analysis of Instruction Utterances.- On Personalizing Video Portal System with Metadata.- Environmental Media – In the Case of Lecture Archiving System –.- Non-verbal Human Communication Using Avatars in a Virtual Space.- Adjustment of Nonverbal Conversational Signals from Embodied Agents in Dialogues.- Toward the Human Communication Efficiency Monitoring from Captured Audio and Video Media in Real Environments.- Toward a Mutual Adaptive Interface: An Interface and a User Induce and Utilize the Partner’s Adaptation.- Neural Network Models of Brain Disease, Plasticity and Rehabilitation.- Neural Network Theory and Recent Neuroanatomical Findings Indicate that Inadequate Nitric Oxide Synthase Will Cause Autism.- From Dopamine to Psychosis: A Computational Approach.- Preoccupation with a Restricted Pattern of Interest in Modelling Autistic Learning.- The CODAM Model and Deficits of Consciousness I: CODAM.- CODAM and Deficits of Consciousness II: Schizophrenia and Neglect/Extinction.- A Neurocomputational Model of Early Psychosis.- Schizophrenia Positive Symptoms Interpreted as Cognitive Hallucinations.- Selfreparing Neural Networks: A Model for Recovery from Brain Damage.- Dopaminergic Noise Control of Memory in Psychic Aparatus Functioning.- Soft Computing Techniques for 3D Computer Vision.- Contour Based Superquadric Tracking.- 2D Qualitative Recognition of SymGeon Aspects.- Accelerated Bundle Adjustment in Multiple-View Reconstruction.- Knowledge Based E-learning.- Learning Method Objects for Knowledge-Driven Environments.- Open Web-Based Learning Environments and Knowledge Forums to Support Disabled People.- A Model Conception for Learner Profile Construction and Determination of Optimal Scenario in Intelligent Learning Systems.- Adaptive Learning Scenarios in Intelligent Instructional Environment.- Content Modeling in Intelligent Instructional Environments.- Knowledge Engineering at the User Interface for Intelligent Biometric Processing.- Human Factors that Affected the Benchmarking of NAFIS: A Case Study.- A Study on Performance Evaluation of the Liveness Detection for Various Fingerprint Sensor Modules.- Intelligent Management of Multimodal Biometric Transactions.- An Experimental Study on Measuring Image Quality of Infant Fingerprints.- A Study of the User Interface in Biometric Verification Based on the Characteristics of Human Signature Checking.- Advances on Knowledge Engineering.- Knowledge Model of a Therapy Administration Task – Applied to an Agricultural Domain.- Acquisition and Representation of Causal and Temporal Knowledge in Medical Domains.- Extended Models of Dynamic Selection Using Ontological Elements – Application to Design and Image Analysis Problems.- Experiences in Reusing Problem Solving Methods – An Application in Constraint Programming.- Problem-Solving Analysis for the Budgeting Task in Furniture Industry.- Collecting, Analyzing and Interpreting Data for User Model Acquisition in Open Web-Based Adaptive Collaborative Environment.- Some Issues about the Representation and Exploitation of Imprecise Temporal Knowledge for an AI Planner.- On Selecting and Scheduling Assembly Plans Using Constraint Programming.- Dynamic versus Static Student Models Based on Bayesian Networks: An Empirical Study.- Knowledge Acquisition in PROSTANET – A Bayesian Network for Diagnosing Prostate Cancer.- Construction of a Development Environment for GPMs Based on OO Analysis Patterns.- Using Electronic Documents for Knowledge Acquisition and Model Maintenance.- Design of a Validation Tool Based on Design Patterns for Intelligent Systems.- Knowledge Base Development.- KB-Grid: Towards Building Large-Scale Knowledge System in Semantic Web.- First Steps towards an Ontology for Astrophysics.- Emergence and Self-organization in Agent Systems.- Cellular Automata Model Based on Multiagent Techniques.- Extraction of Rules by Heterogeneous Agents Using Automatically Defined Groups.- Data Mining for Distributed Databases with Multiagents.- Applying Self-Organizing Agents to University Class Scheduling.- Emergence in Agents with Different Internal Time Frames.