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The 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Riva del Garda, Italy / Aug 28th - Sept 1st

Poster sessions

Poster maximum size: 95 x 192,5 (height) cm.
Poster authors should contact the Registration Desk for logistic info at least 2 h before their poster session starts (lunch time is suggested)

Wednesday 30th August 17:30-19:30

Cognitive Modeling

Agents with Anticipatory Behaviors: To Be Cautious in a Risky Environment
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone, Michele Piunti

AI and Music: Toward a Taxonomy of Problem Classes
Oliver Kramer, Benno Stein, Jürgen Wall

Using Emotions for Behaviour-Selection Learning
Maria Malfaz, Miguel Ángel Salichs

Contraints and Search

Efficient Handling of Complex Local Problems in Distributed Constraint Optimization
David Burke, Kenneth Brown

Visualization for Analyzing Trajectory-Based Metaheuristic Search Algorithms
Steven Halim, Roland Yap, Hoong Chuin Lau

Bipolar Preference Problems
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Stefano Bistarelli

A Connectivity Constraint using Bridges
Patrick Prosser, Chris Unsworth

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Finding Instances of Deduction and Abduction in Clinical Experimental Transcripts
Maria Amalfi, Katia Lo Presti, Alessandro Provetti, Franco Salvetti

A Semantics for Active Logic
Mikael Asker, Jacek Malec

An Alternative Inference for Qualitative Choice Logic
Salem Benferhat, Daniel Le Berre, Karima Sedki

On the Existence of Answer Sets in Normal Extended Logic Programs
Martin Caminada, Chiaki Sakama

Smoothed Particle Filtering for Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Theodore Charitos

Goal Revision for a Rational Agent
Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi, Leila Amgoud

A Redundancy-based Method for Relation Instantiation from the Web
Viktor de Boer, Maarten van Someren, Bob J. Wielinga

Norms with Deadlines in Dynamic Deontic Logic
Robert Demolombe, Philippe Bretier, Vincent Louis

Adaptive Multi-Agent Programming in GTGolog
Alberto Finzi, Thomas Lukasiewicz

Formalizing Complex Task Libraries in Golog
Alfredo Gabaldon

Automated Deduction for Logics of Default Reasoning
Laura Giordano, Valentina Gliozzi, Nicola Olivetti, Gian Luca Pozzato

Reasoning about Motion Patterns
Björn Gottfried

Applying OPRMs to Recursive Probability Models
Catherine Howard, Markus Stumptner

Variable Forgetting in Preference Relations over Propositional Domains
Jerome Lang, Philippe Besnard, Pierre Marquis

Two Orthogonal Biases for Choosing the Intensions of Emerging Concepts in Ontology Refinement
Francesca Lisi, Floriana Esposito

Computing Possible and Necessary Winners from Incomplete Partially-Ordered Preferences
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent Venable, Toby Walsh

What's a Head without a Body?
Torsten Schaub, Christian Anger, Martin Gebser, Tomi Janhunen

Irrelevant Updates of Nonmonotonic Knowledge Bases
Jan Sefranek, Jozef Siska

Decision Making in Large-Scale Domains: A Case Study
Mikhail Soutchanski, Huy Pham, John Mylopoulos

Towards a Logic of Agency and Actions with Duration
Nicolas Troquard, Laure Vieu

Model Based Reasoning

Better Debugging through More Abstract Observations
Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner

Logic Profiling for Multicriteria Rating on Web Pages
Alessandra Mileo

An Empirical Analysis of the Complexity of Model-Based Diagnosis
Gregory Provan

Planning and Scheduling

The Incompleteness of Planning with Volatile External Information
Tsz-Chiu Au, Dana Nau

Cost-Optimal Symbolic Planning with State Trajectory and Preference Constraints
Stefan Edelkamp

A Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving Technique for Large Markov Decision Processes
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib

Integrating Off-line and On-line Schedulers
Riccardo Rasconi, Nicola Policella, Amedeo Cesta

Environment-Driven Skeletal Plan Execution for the Medical Domain
Peter Votruba, Andreas Seyfang, Michael Paesold, Silvia Miksch

Time Constrained VRP: An Agent Environment-Perception Model
Mahdi Zargayouna

Robotics/Perception

On Packing 2D Irregular Shapes
Alexandros Bouganis, Murray Shanahan

Aliasing Maps for Robot Global Localization
Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingaretti

On Interfacing with an Ubiquitous Robotic System
Donatella Guarino, Alessandro Saffiotti

Leaf Classification using Navigation-Based Skeletons
Georgios Sakellariou, Murray Shanahan

Thursday 31st August 17:30-19:30

Distributed AI/Agents

Search Better and Gain More: Investigating New Graph Structures for Multi-Agent Negotiations
Samir Aknine

An Argumentation-Based Framework for Designing Dialogue Strategies
Leila Amgoud, Nabil Hameurlain

A Multiagent System for Scheduling Activities Onboard a Space System
Francesco Amigoni, Simone Faré, Michelle Lavagna, Guido Sangiovanni

Benefits of Combinatorial Auctions with Transformability Relationships
Giovannucci Andrea, Jesus Cerquides, Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar

Count-as Conditionals, Classification and Context
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre

Fair Distribution of Collective Obligations
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre

Proactive Identification of a Physician's Information Needs
Loes Braun, Floris Wiesman, Jaap van den Herik, Arie Hasman

Acyclic Argumentation: Attack = Conflict + Preference
Souhila Kaci, Leendert van der Torre, Emil Weydert

Semantic Knowledge Model and Architecture for Agents in Discrete Environments
Michal Laclavik, Zoltan Balogh, Marian Babik, Emil Gatial, Ladislav Hluchy

Partial Local FriendQ Multiagent Learning: Application to Team Automobile Coordination Problem
Julien Laumonier, Brahim Chaib-draa

Mutual Enrichment for Agents Through Nested Belief Change: A Semantic Approach
Thomas Meyer, Laurent Perrussel, Jean-Marc Jean-Marc

Multi-Agent Least-Squares Policy Iteration
Victor Palmer

Machine Learning

Meta-clustering Gene Expression Data with Positive Tensor Factorizations
Liviu Badea, Doina Tilivea

Identifying Inter-Domain Similarities through Content-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Web-Directories
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dan Goldwasser, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci

Calibrating Probability Density Forecasts with Multi-objective Search
Michael Carney, Padraig Cunningham

Term-Weighting in Information Retrieval using Genetic Programming: A Three Stage Process
Ronan Cummins, Colm O'Riordan

Adaptation Knowledge Discovery from a Case Base
Mathieu d'Aquin, Fadi Badra, Lafrogne Sandrine, Jean Lieber, Amedeo Napoli, Laszlo Szathmary

Polynomial Conditional Random Fields for Signal Processing
Trinh-Minh-Tri Do, Thierry Artières

Stream Clustering Based on Kernel Density Estimation
Stefano Lodi, Gianluca Moro, Claudio Sartori

Version Space Learning for Possibilistic Hypotheses
Henri Prade, Mathieu Serrurier

Ensembles of Grafted Trees
Juan Rodriguez, Jesus Maudes

A Compression-Based Method for Stemmatic Analysis
Teemu Roos, Tuomas Heikkilä, Petri Myllymäki

Patch Learning for Incremental Classifier Design
Rudy Sicard, Thierry Artieres, Eric Petit

Version Space Support Vector Machines
Evgueni Smirnov, Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper, Georgi Nalbantov, Stijn Vanderlooy

Meta-Typicalness Approach to Reliable Classification
Evgueni Smirnov, Stijn Vanderlooy, Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper

Text Sampling and Re-sampling for Imbalanced Authorship Identification Cases
Efstathios Stamatatos

Is Web Genre Identification Feasible?
Benno Stein, Sven Meyer zu Eissen

Natural Language Processing

Adaptive Context-Based Term (Re)Weighting: An Experiment on Single-Word Question Answering
Marco Ernandes, Giovanni Angelini, Marco Gori, Leonardo Rigutini, Franco Scarselli

How to Analyze Free Text Descriptions for Recommending TV Programmes?
Bernd Ludwig, Stefan Mandl

Soft Uncoupling of Markov Chains for Permeable Language Distinction: A New Algorithm
Richard Nock, Pascal Vaillant, Frank Nielsen, Claudia Henry

Tools for Text Mining over Biomedical Literature
Fabio Rinaldi, Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaaljurand, Michael Hess

SUMMaR: Combining Linguistics and Statistics for Text Summarization
Manfred Stede, Heike Bieler, Stefanie Dipper, Arthit Suriyawongkul

Phonetic Spelling and Heuristic Search
Benno Stein, Daniel Curatolo

PAIS

CBR-TM: A new Case-Based Reasoning System for Help-Desk Environments
Juan Angel García-Pardo, Stella Heras Barbera, Rafael Ramos-Garijo, Alberto Palomares, Vicente Julián, Miguel Rebollo, Vicent Botti

Verification of Medical Guidelines using Task Execution with Background Knowledge
Arjen Hommersom, Perry Groot, Peter Lucas, Michael Balser, Jonathan Schmitt