ECAI-2002 Table of Contents

	Abstract	Paper
Author Index
Keyword Index
Preface
Agents & Distributed AI
Toward an Automatically Generated Theory of Coordination — Empirical Explorations Eun Gyung Kim, Nicholas V. Findler	pp.3-7
SouthamptonTAC: Designing a Successful Trading Agent Minghua He, Nicholas R. Jennings	pp.8-12
Multi-agent models for searching Pareto optimal solutions to the problem of forming and dynamic restructuring of coalitions Caillou Philippe, Aknine Samir, Pinson Suzanne	pp.13-17
Avoiding Resource Conflicts in Intelligent Agents John Thangarajah, Michael Winikoff, Lin Padgham, Klaus Fischer	pp.18-22
Polynomial algorithms for clearing multi-unit single-item and multi-unit combinatorial reverse auctions Viet Dung Dang, Nicholas R. Jennings	pp.23-27
On Modal Logic Interpretations of Games Paul Harrenstein, Wiebe van der Hoek, John Jules Meyer, Cees Witteveen	pp.28-32
Situated Cooperative Agents: a Powerful Paradigm for MRI Brain Scans Segmentation Nathalie Richard, Michel Dojat, Catherine Garbay	pp.33-37
An argumentation-based Semantics for Agent Communication Languages Leila Amgoud, Nicolas Maudet, Simon Parsons	pp.38-42
Verification of Protocols for Automated Negotiation Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham	pp.43-47
Adaptive Combination of Behaviors in an Agent Olivier Buffet, Alain Dutech, François Charpillet	pp.48-52
Agents and Their Cities Patricia Charlton, David Bonnefoy, Nicolas Lhuillier	pp.53-57
Engineering Issues in Inter-Agent Dialogues Nikos Karacapilidis, Pavlos Moraitis	pp.58-62
Building Trading Agents: Challenges and Strategies Maria Fasli, Ioannis Korres, Michael Michalakopoulos, George Rallidis	pp.63-67
How Situated Agents can Learn to Cooperate by Monitoring their Neighbors' Satisfaction Jerome Chapelle, Olivier Simonin, Jacques Ferber	pp.68-72
Competing in a Queue for Resource Allocations among Non-Cooperative Agents Pinata Winoto, Tiffany Ya Tang	pp.73-77
Case-based Reasoning
Strong, Fuzzy and Smooth Hierarchical Classification for Case-Based Problem Solving Jean Lieber	pp.81-85
Recommendation Engineering David McSherry	pp.86-90
Cognitive Modelling
Grounded Models as a Basis for Intuitive and Deductive Reasoning: the Acquisition of Logical Categories Josefina Sierra-Santibanez	pp.93-97
A multi-agent and emergent approach to learner modelling Carine Webber, Sylvie Pesty, Nicolas Balacheff	pp.98-102
An Intelligent Inference Approach for User Interaction Modeling in a Generic Agent Based Interface System Yanguo Jing, Nick Taylor, Keith Brown	pp.103-107
Constraint Satisfaction, Search
Stochastic Constraint Programming Toby Walsh	pp.111-115
Synthesis of Object Models from Partial Models: A CSP Perspective Marco Alberti, Evelina Lamma	pp.116-120
Arc Consistency in SAT Ian P Gent	pp.121-125
Progressive Focusing Search Nicolas Prcovic, Bertrand Neveu	pp.126-130
Pseudo-tree Search with Soft Constraints Javier Larrosa, Pedro Meseguer, Martí Sánchez	pp.131-135
An Algorithm for Multi-Criteria Optimization in CSPs Marco Gavanelli	pp.136-140
An Empirical Study of the Stable Marriage Problem with Ties and Incomplete Lists Ian Gent, Patrick Prosser	pp.141-145
A Theoretical Framework for Constraint Hierarchy Solvers Roman Bartak	pp.146-150
Computing Minimal Conflicts for Rich Constraint Languages Jakob Mauss, Mugur Tatar	pp.151-155
How to Establish Arc-Consistency by Reactive Agents Ahlem Ben Hassine, Khaled Ghédira	pp.156-160
Combining hypertree, bicomp, and hinge decomposition Georg Gottlob, Martin Hutle, Franz Wotawa	pp.161-165
Building State-of-the-Art SAT Solvers Inês Lynce, João Marques-Silva	pp.166-170
Genetic Algorithms
Improving the Evolutionary Coding for Machine Learning Tasks Jesus S. Aguilar-Ruiz, Jose C. Riquelme, Carmelo Del Valle	pp.173-177
Evolving Bidding Strategies for Multiple Auctions Patricia Anthony, Nicholas R. Jennings	pp.178-182
The Use of a Genetic Algorithm in the Calibration of Estuary Models S. Passone, P.W.H. Chung, V. Nassehi	pp.183-187
Evolutionary Computation in MAS design Carles Sierra, Jordi Sabater, Jaume Agusti, Pere Garcia	pp.188-192
Using Multiobjective Genetic Programming to Infer Logistic Polynomial Regression Models Andrew Hunter	pp.193-197
Boltzmann Machine for Population-Based Incremental Learning Arnaud Berny	pp.198-202
Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Based Systems
Context Refinement - Investigating the Rule Refinement Completeness of SEEK/SEEK2 Hans-Werner Kelbassa	pp.205-209
Design as Interactions of Problem Framing and Problem Solving Martin Dzbor, Zdenek Zdrahal	pp.210-214
The Epistemology of Scheduling Problems Enrico Motta, Dnyanesh Rajpathak, Zdenek Zdrahal, Rajkumar Roy	pp.215-219
CAKE: A Computer-Aided Knowledge Engineering Technique Patrick Doherty, Witold Lukaszewicz, Andrzej Szalas	pp.220-224
Personalising On-Line Configuration of Products and Services Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Anna Goy, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Meyer, Giovanna Petrone, Ralph Schaefer, Wilken Schuetz, Markus Zanker	pp.225-229
CLIME: Lessons Learned in Legal Information Serving Radboud Winkels, Alexander Boer, Rinke Hoekstra	pp.230-234
Similarity Between Queries in a Mediator Alain Bidault, Christine Froidevaux, Brigitte Safar	pp.235-239
Knowledge Representation for Program Reuse Sabine Moisan	pp.240-244
Case Retrieval of Software Designs using WordNet Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nuno Seco, Paulo Carreiro, José L. Ferreira, Carlos Bento	pp.245-249
Updating a Hybrid Rule Base with Changes to its Symbolic Source Knowledge Jim Prentzas, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	pp.250-254
Knowledge Representation
Extending and Unifying Chronicle Representation with Event Counters Christophe Dousson	pp.257-261
The Complexity of Checking Redundancy of CNF Propositional Formulae Paolo Liberatore	pp.262-266
Compilation and Approximation of Conjunctive Queries by Concept Descriptions Francois Goasdoue, Marie-Christine Rousset	pp.267-271
Expressivity and Control in Limited Reasoning Marcelo Finger, Renata Wassermann	pp.272-276
Optimised Reasoning for SHIQ Ian Horrocks, Ulrike Sattler	pp.277-281
Automatic Learning in Proof Planning Mateja Jamnik, Manfred Kerber, Martin Pollet	pp.282-286
Approximating Propositional Knowledge with Affine Formulas Bruno Zanuttini	pp.287-291
Hypothesising Object Relations from Image Transitions Paulo Santos, Murray Shanahan	pp.292-296
A Graph-Based Knowledge Representation Language for Concept Description Alexandre Delteil, Catherine Faron	pp.297-301
Querying semistructured data using a rule-oriented XML query language Tadeusz Pankowski	pp.302-306
Sensing and revision in a modal logic of belief and action Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin	pp.307-311
Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Reasoning with RCC-8 and Allen's Interval Calculus: Computational Complexity Alfonso Gerevini, Bernhard Nebel	pp.312-316
Reasoning about spatio-temporal relations at different levels of granularity Thomas Bittner	pp.317-321
Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery, Datamining
An Attribute Weight Setting Method for k-NN Based Binary Classification using Quadratic Programming Lu Zhang, Frans Coenen, Paul Leng	pp.325-329
AREX – Classification Rules Extracting Algorithm Based on Automatic Programming Vili Podgorelec, Peter Kokol, Ivan Rozman	pp.330-334
Music Performer Recognition Using an Ensemble of Simple Classifiers Efstathios Stamatatos, Gerhard Widmer	pp.335-339
Effective Stacking of Distributed Classifiers Grigorios Tsoumakas, Ioannis Vlahavas	pp.340-344
A new clustering algorithm based on the ants chemical recognition system Nicolas Labroche, Nicolas Monmarche, Gilles Venturini	pp.345-349
An Incremental Algorithm for Tree-shaped Bayesian Network Learning Josep Roure Alcobé	pp.350-354
Learning Information Extraction Rules: An Inductive Logic Programming approach James Stuart Aitken	pp.355-359
On the Representation and Combination of Evidence in Instance-Based Learning Eyke Hüllermeier	pp.360-364
Reinforcement Learning Integrated with a Non-Markovian Controller Istvan Szita, Balint Takacs, Andras Lorincz	pp.365-369
Multiple and Partial Periodicity Mining in Time Series Databases Christos Berberidis, Walid G. Aref, Mikhail Atallah, Ioannis Vlahavas, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid	pp.370-374
Object Identity as Search Bias for Pattern Spaces Francesca A. Lisi, Stefano Ferilli, Nicola Fanizzi	pp.375-379
On Determinism Handling While Learning Reduced State Space Representations Fernando Fernandez, Daniel Borrajo	pp.380-384
Mining maximal frequent itemsets by a boolean approach Ansaf Salleb, Zahir Maazouzi, Christel Vrain	pp.385-389
Semi Supervised Logistic Regression Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari	pp.390-394
Multi-Pattern Wrappers for Relation Extraction from the Web Benjamin Habegger, Mohamed Quafafou	pp.395-399
From Margins to Probabilities in Multiclass Learning Problems Andrea Passerini, Massimiliano Pontil, Paolo Frasconi	pp.400-404
Model-based Reasoning
Modelling Contextual Meta-Knowledge in Temporal Model Based Diagnosis J. Palma, R. Marín	pp.407-411
Dealing with Discontinuities in the Qualitative Simulation of Genetic Regulatory Networks Hidde de Jong, Jean-Luc Gouzé, Céline Hernandez, Michel Page, Tewfik Sari, Hans Geiselmann	pp.412-416
Can AI help to improve debugging substantially? Debugging Experiences with Value-Based Models Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner, Dominik Wieland, Franz Wotawa	pp.417-421
Towards an Integrated Debugging Environment Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner, Dominik Wieland, Franz Wotawa	pp.422-426
Diagnosis of Discrete-Event Systems with Model-Based Prospection Knowledge Roberto Garatti, Gianfranco Lamperti, Marina Zanella	pp.427-431
Natural Language Processing
Parsing Natural Language using Guided Local Search Michael Daum, Wolfgang Menzel	pp.435-439
Saliency and the Attentional State in Natural Language Generation Chris Reed	pp.440-444
Adaptivity in Web-Based CALL Galia Angelova, Svetla Boytcheva, Ognian Kalaydjiev, Stefan Trausan-Matu, Preslav Nakov, Albena Strupchanska	pp.445-449
A lexical network and an algorithm to find words from definitions Dominique Dutoit, Pierre Nugues	pp.450-454
Natural Language Texts for a Cognitive Vision System Michael Arens, Artur Ottlik, Hans-Hellmut Nagel	pp.455-459
Towards Answer Extraction: An application to Technical Domains Fabio Rinaldi, James Dowdall, Michael Hess, Diego Molla, Rolf Schwitter	pp.460-464
Anything to Clarify? Report Your Parsing Ambiguities! Kerstin Bücher, Michael Knorr, Bernd Ludwig	pp.465-469
Predicting the Components of German Nominal Compounds Marco Baroni, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost	pp.470-474
Processing information of geogaphical databases within a dialogue system : a pivot system vincent maya	pp.475-479
Acquisition of conceptual domain dictionaries via decision tree learning Roberto Basili, Maria Teresa Pazienza, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto	pp.480-484
Empirical investigation of fast text classification over linguistic features Roberto Basili, Alessandro Moschitti, Maria Teresa Pazienza	pp.485-489
Neural Networks
Chaotic Time Series Prediction with Neural Networks - Comparison of Several Architectures Rafal Mikolajczak, Jacek Mandziuk	pp.493-497
Neuro-Fuzzy Knowledge Representation for Toxicity Prediction of Organic Compounds Ciprian-Daniel Neagu, Emilio Benfenati, Giuseppina Gini, Paolo Mazzatorta, Alessandra Roncaglioni	pp.498-502
Non-negative matrix factorization extended by sparse code shrinkage and weight sparsification non-negative matrix factorization algorithms Botond Szatmary, Barnabas Poczos, Julian Eggert, Edgar Koerner, Andras Lorincz	pp.503-507
Enhancing First-Pass Attachment Prediction Fabrizio Costa, Paolo Frasconi, Vincenzo Lombardo, Patrick Sturt, Giovanni Soda	pp.508-512
A Simple Algorithm for Learning Stable Machines Savina Andonova, André Elisseeff, Theodoros Evgeniou, Massimiliano Pontil	pp.513-517
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Defeasible Logic with Dynamic Priorities Grigoris Antoniou	pp.521-525
Uncontroversial Default Logic Paolo Liberatore	pp.526-530
Linking Makinson and Kraus-Lehmann-Magidor preferential entailments Yves Moinard	pp.531-535
Notions of Attack and Justified Arguments for Extended Logic Programs Ralf Schweimeier, Michael Schroeder	pp.536-540
Iterated revision and the axiom of recovery: A unified treatment via epistemic states Samir Chopra, Aditya Ghose, Thomas Meyer	pp.541-545
Feature Integration as an Operation of Theory Change Hannah Harris, Mark Ryan	pp.546-550
Network-based Truth Maintenance System Subrata Das, David Lawless	pp.551-555
Philosophical Foundations
Robot Free Will James Anderson	pp.559-563
A Pragmatic Theory of Induction John Bell	pp.564-568
Planning
Extending FF to Numerical State Variables Joerg Hoffmann	pp.571-575
Solving Power Supply Restoration Problems with Planning via Symbolic Model Checking Piergiorgio Bertoli, Alessandro Cimatti, John Slaney, Sylvie Thiebaux	pp.576-580
Combining Two Heuristics to Solve a Supply Chain Optimization Problem Hoong Chuin Lau, Yuyue Song	pp.581-585
A Temporal Planning System for Durative Actions of PDDL2.1 Antonio Garrido, Maria Fox, Derek Long	pp.586-590
Representation of decision-theoretic plans as sets of symbolic decision rules Niels Peek	pp.591-595
Supporting goal based interaction with dynamic intelligent environments Thomas Heider, Thomas Kirste	pp.596-600
Prestigous Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS)
DAI-DEPUR: An Environmental Decision Support System for the control and supervison of Municipal WasteWater Treatment Plants Ulises Cortes, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Miquel Sanchez-Marre, Joaquim Comas, Christian Cortes, Manel Poch	pp.603-607
Personalized Adaptive Navigation for Mobile Portals Barry Smyth, Paul Cotter	pp.608-612
Benefits of a Knowledge-based System for Parenteral Nutrition Support: a Report after 5 Years of Routine Daily Use Werner Horn, Christian Popow, Silvia Miksch, Andreas Seyfang	pp.613-617
A Framework for Rapid Development of Advanced Web-based Configurator Applications Liliana Ardissono, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Friedrich, Dietmar Jannach, Markus Zanker, Ralph Schaefer	pp.618-622
International Insurance Traffic with Software Agents Chris van Aart, Kris Van Marcke, Ruurd Pels, Jan Smulders	pp.623-627
IDD: Integrating Diagnosis in the Design of automotive systems Claudia Picardi, Rosanna Bray, Fulvio Cascio, Luca Console, Philippe Dague, David Millet, Bernd Rehfus, Peter Struss, Christian Vallée	pp.628-632
Programme driven music radio Conor Hayes, Padraig Cunningham, Patrick Clerkin, Marco Grimaldi	pp.633-637
Alarm Correlation in Traffic Monitoring and Control Systems: A Knowledge-Based Approach Stefania Bandini, Davide Bogni, Sara Manzoni	pp.638-642
A Neural Network Approach for Forestal Fire Risk Estimation Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas, Elena Hernandez Pereira, Juan Canda, Eulogio Jimenez, Jose Luis Legido, Susana Muñiz, Cristina Paz-Andrade, Maria Inmaculada Paz-Andrade	pp.643-647
Fault diagnosis of a continuous process using imprecise quantitative knowledge and causal models Bruno Heim, Sylviane Gentil, Sylvie Cauvin, Louise Travé-Massuyes, Bertrand Braunschweig	pp.648-652
AI on the Ocean: the RoboSail Project Martijn L. van Aartrijk, Claudio P. Tagliola, Pieter W. Adriaans	pp.653-657
Online Diagnosis of Engine Dyno Test Benches: A Possibilistic Approach Serge Boverie, Didier Dubois, Xavier Guérandel, Olivier de Mouzon, Henri Prade	pp.658-662
Reasoning About uncertainty
Propagation of Multiple Observations in QPNs Revisited Silja Renooij, Linda C. van der Gaag, Simon Parsons	pp.665-669
Graph partitioning techniques for Markov Decision Processes decomposition Regis Sabbadin	pp.670-674
On the Complexity of the MPA Problem in Probabilistic Networks Hans L. Bodlaender, Frank van den Eijkhof, Linda C. van der Gaag	pp.675-679
Building Bayesian Networks through Ontologies Eveline M. Helsper, Linda C. van der Gaag	pp.680-684
Possibilistic logic representation of preferences: relating prioritized goals and satisfaction levels expressions Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, Souhila Kaci, Henri Prade	pp.685-689
Bayesian Network Modelling by Qualitative Patterns Peter Lucas	pp.690-694
Bayesian Networks for Probabilistic Weather Prediction A.S. Cofiño, R. Cano, C. Sordo, J.M. Gutiérrez	pp.695-699
Robotics
Anchoring Action Representation to Perception in a Mobile Robot Antonio Chella, Marcello Frixione, Salvatore Gaglio	pp.703-707
Learning to Ground Fact Symbols in Behavior-Based Robots Joachim Hertzberg, Herbert Jaeger, Frank Schönherr	pp.708-712
MIP: A New Hybrid Multi-Agent Architecture for the Coordination of a Robot Colony Activities Antonio Chella, Rosario Sorbello, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Salvatore Vitabile	pp.713-717
Vision
A Deformation Tolerant Version of the Generalized Hough Transform for Image Retrieval Marco Anelli, Alessandro Micarelli, Enver Sangineto	pp.721-725
Shape Analysis and Classification using Landmarks: Polygonal Wavelet Transform Roberto Marcondes Cesar Jr, Celina Maki Takemura	pp.726-730
Pixel-based Behavior Learning louis Hugues, Alexis Drogoul	pp.731-735
Deriving Textual Descriptions of Road Traffic Queues from Video Sequences Ralf Gerber, Hans-Hellmut Nagel, Heiko Schreiber	pp.736-740
Modeling Interaction Using Learnt Qualitative Spatio-Temporal Relations and Variable Length Markov Models Aphrodite Galata, Anthony G. Cohn, Derek Magee, David Hogg	pp.741-745
Author Index
Keyword Index