MICAI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2006 5th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Apizaco, Mexico, November 13-17, 2006, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series

Artificial Intelligence Arrives to the 21st Century.- Artificial Intelligence Arrives to the 21st Century.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Properties of Markovian Subgraphs of a Decomposable Graph.- Pre-conceptual Schema: A Conceptual-Graph-Like Knowledge Representation for Requirements Elicitation.- A Recognition-Inference Procedure for a Knowledge Representation Scheme Based on Fuzzy Petri Nets.- Inference Scheme for Order-Sorted Logic Using Noun Phrases with Variables as Sorts.- Answer Set General Theories and Preferences.- A Framework for the E-R Computational Creativity Model.- Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control.- First-Order Interval Type-1 Non-singleton Type-2 TSK Fuzzy Logic Systems.- Fuzzy State Estimation of Discrete Event Systems.- Real-Time Adaptive Fuzzy Motivations for Evolutionary Behavior Learning by a Mobile Robot.- Fuzzy-Based Adaptive Threshold Determining Method for the Interleaved Authentication in Sensor Networks.- A Fuzzy Logic Model for Software Development Effort Estimation at Personal Level.- Reconfigurable Networked Fuzzy Takagi Sugeno Control for Magnetic Levitation Case Study.- Automatic Estimation of the Fusion Method Parameters to Reduce Rule Base of Fuzzy Control Complex Systems.- A Fault Detection System Design for Uncertain T-S Fuzzy Systems.- Uncertainty and Qualitative Reasoning.- An Uncertainty Model for a Diagnostic Expert System Based on Fuzzy Algebras of Strict Monotonic Operations.- A Connectionist Fuzzy Case-Based Reasoning Model.- Error Bounds Between Marginal Probabilities and Beliefs of Loopy Belief Propagation Algorithm.- Applications of Gibbs Measure Theory to Loopy Belief Propagation Algorithm.- A Contingency Analysis of LeActiveMath’s Learner Model.- Constructing Virtual Sensors Using Probabilistic Reasoning.- Solving Hybrid Markov Decision Processes.- Comparing Fuzzy Naive Bayes and Gaussian Naive Bayes for Decision Making in RoboCup 3D.- Using the Beliefs of Self-Efficacy to Improve the Effectiveness of ITS: An Empirical Study.- Qualitative Reasoning and Bifurcations in Dynamic Systems.- Evolutionary Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence.- Introducing Partitioning Training Set Strategy to Intrinsic Incremental Evolution.- Evolutionary Method for Nonlinear Systems of Equations.- A Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimizer Hybridized with Scatter Search.- Neural Networks.- An Interval Approach for Weight’s Initialization of Feedforward Neural Networks.- Aggregating Regressive Estimators: Gradient-Based Neural Network Ensemble.- The Adaptive Learning Rates of Extended Kalman Filter Based Training Algorithm for Wavelet Neural Networks.- Multistage Neural Network Metalearning with Application to Foreign Exchange Rates Forecasting.- Genetic Optimizations for Radial Basis Function and General Regression Neural Networks.- Complexity of Alpha-Beta Bidirectional Associative Memories.- A New Bi-directional Associative Memory.- Optimization and Scheduling.- A Hybrid Ant Algorithm for the Airline Crew Pairing Problem.- A Refined Evaluation Function for the MinLA Problem.- ILS-Perturbation Based on Local Optima Structure for the QAP Problem.- Application of Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming Approach to Supply Chain Distribution Network Design Problem.- Route Selection and Rate Allocation Using Evolutionary Computation Algorithms in Multirate Multicast Networks.- A Polynomial Algorithm for 2-Cyclic Robotic Scheduling.- A New Algorithm That Obtains an Approximation of the Critical Path in the Job Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Quay Crane Scheduling Method Considering Interference of Yard Cranes in Container Terminals.- Comparing Schedule Generation Schemes in Memetic Algorithms for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Sequence Dependent Setup Times.- A Fuzzy Set Approach for Evaluating the Achievability of an Output Time Forecast in a Wafer Fabrication Plant.- Machine Learning and Feature Selection.- How Good Are the Bayesian Information Criterion and the Minimum Description Length Principle for Model Selection? A Bayesian Network Analysis.- Prediction of Silkworm Cocoon Yield in China Based on Grey-Markov Forecasting Model.- A Novel Hybrid System with Neural Networks and Hidden Markov Models in Fault Diagnosis.- Power System Database Feature Selection Using a Relaxed Perceptron Paradigm.- Feature Elimination Approach Based on Random Forest for Cancer Diagnosis.- On Combining Fractal Dimension with GA for Feature Subset Selecting.- Locally Adaptive Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction.- Classification.- Fuzzy Pairwise Multiclass Support Vector Machines.- Support Vector Machine Classification Based on Fuzzy Clustering for Large Data Sets.- Optimizing Weighted Kernel Function for Support Vector Machine by Genetic Algorithm.- Decision Forests with Oblique Decision Trees.- Using Reliable Short Rules to Avoid Unnecessary Tests in Decision Trees.- Selection of the Optimal Wavebands for the Variety Discrimination of Chinese Cabbage Seed.- Hybrid Method for Detecting Masqueraders Using Session Folding and Hidden Markov Models.- Toward Lightweight Detection and Visualization for Denial of Service Attacks.- Tri-training and Data Editing Based Semi-supervised Clustering Algorithm.- Knowledge Discovery.- Automatic Construction of Bayesian Network Structures by Means of a Concurrent Search Mechanism.- Collaborative Design Optimization Based on Knowledge Discovery from Simulation.- Behavioural Proximity Approach for Alarm Correlation in Telecommunication Networks.- The MineSP Operator for Mining Sequential Patterns in Inductive Databases.- Visual Exploratory Data Analysis of Traffic Volume.- Computer Vision.- A Fast Model-Based Vision System for a Robot Soccer Team.- Statistics of Visual and Partial Depth Data for Mobile Robot Environment Modeling.- Automatic Facial Expression Recognition with AAM-Based Feature Extraction and SVM Classifier.- Principal Component Net Analysis for Face Recognition.- Advanced Soft Remote Control System Using Hand Gesture.- IMM Method Using Tracking Filter with Fuzzy Gain.- Image Processing and Image Retrieval.- Complete FPGA Implemented Evolvable Image Filters.- Probabilistic Rules for Automatic Texture Segmentation.- A Hybrid Segmentation Method Applied to Color Images and 3D Information.- Segmentation of Medical Images by Using Wavelet Transform and Incremental Self-Organizing Map.- Optimal Sampling for Feature Extraction in Iris Recognition Systems.- Histograms, Wavelets and Neural Networks Applied to Image Retrieval.- Adaptive-Tangent Space Representation for Image Retrieval Based on Kansei.- Natural Language Processing.- Distributions of Functional and Content Words Differ Radically.- Speeding Up Target-Language Driven Part-of-Speech Tagger Training for Machine Translation.- Defining Classifier Regions for WSD Ensembles Using Word Space Features.- Impact of Feature Selection for Corpus-Based WSD in Turkish.- Spanish All-Words Semantic Class Disambiguation Using Cast3LB Corpus.- An Approach for Textual Entailment Recognition Based on Stacking and Voting.- Textual Entailment Beyond Semantic Similarity Information.- On the Identification of Temporal Clauses.- Issues in Translating from Natural Language to SQL in a Domain-Independent Natural Language Interface to Databases.- Information Retrieval and Text Classification.- Interlinguas: A Classical Approach for the Semantic Web. A Practical Case.- A Fuzzy Embedded GA for Information Retrieving from Related Data Set.- On Musical Performances Identification, Entropy and String Matching.- Adaptive Topical Web Crawling for Domain-Specific Resource Discovery Guided by Link-Context.- Evaluating Subjective Compositions by the Cooperation Between Human and Adaptive Agents.- Using Syntactic Distributional Patterns for Data-Driven Answer Extraction from the Web.- Applying NLP Techniques and Biomedical Resources to Medical Questions in QA Performance.- Fast Text Categorization Based on a Novel Class Space Model.- A High Performance Prototype System for Chinese Text Categorization.- A Bayesian Approach to Classify Conference Papers.- An Ontology Based for Drilling Report Classification.- Topic Selection of Web Documents Using Specific Domain Ontology.- Speech Processing.- Speech Recognition Using Energy, MFCCs and Rho Parameters to Classify Syllables in the Spanish Language.- Robust Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Hybrid PCA&LDA.- Hybrid Algorithm Applied to Feature Selection for Speaker Authentication.- Using PCA to Improve the Generation of Speech Keys.- Multiagent Systems.- Verifying Real-Time Temporal, Cooperation and Epistemic Properties for Uncertain Agents.- Regulating Social Exchanges Between Personality-Based Non-transparent Agents.- Using MAS Technologies for Intelligent Organizations: A Report of Bottom-Up Results.- Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Agents Systems Using a Multi-level Net Formalism.- Using AI Techniques for Fault Localization in Component-Oriented Software Systems.- Robotics.- Exploring Unknown Environments with Randomized Strategies.- Integration of Evolution with a Robot Action Selection Model.- A Hardware Architecture Designed to Implement the GFM Paradigm.- Bioinformatics and Medical Applications.- Fast Protein Structure Alignment Algorithm Based on Local Geometric Similarity.- Robust EMG Pattern Recognition to Muscular Fatigue Effect for Human-Machine Interaction.- Classification of Individual and Clustered Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Evolutionary Neural Networks.- Heart Cavity Detection in Ultrasound Images with SOM.- An Effective Method of Gait Stability Analysis Using Inertial Sensors.