ISBN: 3-540-67557-4
TITLE: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
AUTHOR: Hamilton, Howard J.
TOC:

Games / Constraint Satisfaction
Unifying Single-Agent and Two-Player Search 1
J. Schaeffer and A. Plaat (University of Alberta)
Are Bees Better than Fruitflies? 13
J. van Rijswijck (University of Alberta)
A Constraint Directed Model for Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problems 26
S. Nagarajan, S. Goodwin (University of Regina), and A. Sattar (Griffith University)
Natural Language I
Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract Document Keyphrases 40
K. Barker and N. Cornacchia (University of Ottawa)
Expanding the Type Hierarchy with Nonlexical Concepts 53
C. Barri ere (University of Ottawa) and F. Popowich (Simon Fraser University)
Using Object Influence Areas to Quantitatively Deal with Neighborhood and Perception in Route Descriptions 69
B. Moulin (Laval University), D. Kattani (Defense Research Establishment Valcartier and Laval University), B. Gauthier, and W. Chaker (Laval University)
An Extendable Natural Language Interface to a Consumer Service Database 82
P.P. Kubon, F. Popowich, and G. Tisher (Technical University of British Columbia)
Knowledge Representation
Identifying and Eliminating Irrelevant Instances Using Information Theory 90
M. Sebban and R. Nock (Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane)
Keep It Simple: A Case-Base Maintenance Policy Based on Clustering and Information Theory 102
Q. Yang (Simon Fraser University) and J. Wu (University of Waterloo)
On the Integration of Recursive ALN -Theories 115
A. Vitoria and M. Mamede (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Natural Language II
Collocation Discovery for Optimal Bilingual Lexicon Development 126
S. McDonald (University of Edinburgh), D. Turcato, P. McFetridge, F. Popowich, and J. Toole (Simon Fraser University)
The Power of the TSNLP: Lessons from a Diagnostic Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Parser 138
E. Scarlett and S. Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa)
A Parallel Approach to Unified Cognitive Modeling of Language Processing within a Visual Context 151
C. Hannon and D. Cook (University of Texas at Arlington)
AI Applications
Interact: A Staged Approach to Customer Service Automation 164
Y. Lallement and M.S. Fox (University of Toronto)
Towards Very Large Terminological Knowledge Bases: A Case Study from Medicine 176
U. Hahn and S. Schulz (Freiburg University)
The Use of Ontologies and Meta-knowledge to Facilitate the Sharing of Knowledge in a Multi-agent Personal Communication System 187
R. Liscano (Mitel Corporation), K. Baker, and J. Meech (National Research Council of Canada)
Machine Learning / Data Mining
ASERC  A Genetic Sequencing Operator for Asymmetric Permutation Problems 201
K.C. Wiese (University of British Columbia), S.D. Goodwin, and S. Nagarajan (University of Regina)
CViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Rule Induction 214
J. Han, A. An, and N. Cercone (University of Waterloo)
Learning Pseudo-independent Models: Analytical and Experimental Results 227
Y. Xiang (University of Massachusetts), X. Hu (Fulcrum Technologies Inc.), N.J. Cercone (University of Waterloo), and H.J. Hamilton (University of Regina)
Planning / Theorem Proving / Artificial Life
Learning Rewrite Rules versus Search Control Rules to Improve Plan Quality 240
M.A. Upal (Dalhousie University) and R. Elio (University of Alberta)
Scheduling Methods for Parallel Automated Theorem Proving 254
G. Stenz and A. Wolf (Institut fr Informatik der Technischen Universitt Mnchen)
Simulating Competing Alife Organisms by Constructive Compound Neural Networks 267
J. Yan, N. Tokuda, and J. Miyamichi (Utsunomiya University)
Neural Networks
A Recognition-Based Alternative to Discrimination-Based Multi-layer Perceptrons 280
T. Eavis and N. Japkowicz (DalTech/Dalhousie University)
Accelerated Backpropagation Learning: Extended Dynamic Parallel Tangent Optimization Algorithm 293
A.A. Ghorbani and L. Bayat (University of New Brunswick)
Neural ARX Models and PAC Learning 305
K. Najarian, G.A. Dumont, M.S. Davies, and N.E. Heckman (University of British Columbia)
Posters
Qualitative Descriptors and Action Perception 316
J.-C. Baillie and J.-G. Ganascia (LIP6 - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
A Comparison of Association Rule Discovery and Bayesian Network Causal Inference Algorithms to Discover Relationships in Discrete Data 326
J. Bowes, E. Neufeld, J.E. Greer, and J. Cooke (University of Saskatchewan)
Towards an Automated Citation Classifier 337
M. Garzone and R.E. Mercer (University of Western Ontario)
Typical Example Selection for Learning Classifiers 347
J. Han and N. Cercone (University of Waterloo)
Comparative Study of Neural Network Controllers for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems 357
M.F. Hussin (Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport), B.M. Abouelnasr, and A.A. Shoukry (Alexandria University)
The Iterative Multi-agent Method for Solving Complex Search Problems 369
K. Karimi (University of Regina)
Relational Learning with Transfer of Knowledge Between Domains 379
J. Morin and S. Matwin (University of Ottawa)
Surviving in a Hostile Multi-agent Environment: How Simple Affective States Can Aid in the Competition for Resources 389
M. Scheutz (University of Notre Dame)
Task-Structure Based Mediation: The Travel-Planning Assistant Example 400
Q. Situ and E. Stroulia (University of Alberta)
Considerations on Compositional Update Operators 411
M. Suderman and J. Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
The Degeneration of Relevance in Uncertain Temporal Domains: An Empirical Study 421
A.Y. Tawfik (University of Prince Edward Island) and T. Barrie (University of Toronto)
The Learnability of Naive Bayes 432
H. Zhang, C.X. Ling, and Z. Zhao (University of Western Ontario)
Invited Presentations
Parsing to Meaning, Statistically 442
E. Charniak (Brown University)
Automated Discovery: A Fusion of Multidisciplinary Principles 443
J. Zytkow (University of North Carolina)
Author Index 449
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