15th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Canberra - Australia
December 2nd - 6th, 2002

Associated Events 30th Nov-2nd Dec

 

Associated Events, Workshops, and Tutorials

 

Venue: University House, Australian National University, Canberra.

 

Nov-30

 

Saturday

 

 

The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Logic (AAL)

All day, University House, Meeting Room

 

The 6th Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems

All day, University House, Hall Room

Dec-01

 

Sunday

 

 

The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Logic (AAL)

All day, University House, Meeting Room

 

The 6th Australia-Japan Joint Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems

All day, University House, Hall Room

Dec-02

 

Monday

 

 

The Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Logic (AAL)

Morning, University House, Hall Room

 

The Australasian Workshop on Computational Logic (AWCL)

Afternoon, University House, Hall Room

 

 

 

Conference workshop: Natural Language Technology

All day, University House, Meeting Room

 

Conference tutorial: Prof Mircea GH. Negoita  (Cancelled)

 

 

Conference tutorial: Assoc Prof David Dowe (Cancelled)

 

 

 

Dec-03

 

Tuesday

 

 

The Australasian Workshop on Computational Logic (AWCL)

Morning, University House, Seminar Room A&B

 

 

 

Conference workshop: Data Mining

All day, University House, Meeting Room

 

 

 

Conference tutorial: Prof Ming Li

Afternoon, University House, Terrace Room

 

 


The Main Conference

Venue:  Rydges (Lakeside) Canberra, London Circuit, CANBERRA ACT 2600, AUSTRALIA

Tuesday 3rd December, 2002

1800 – 2000

Conference Reception: Rydges Hotel

Wednesday 4th December, 2002

0900 – 0910

Conference Opening Session (John Lloyd and Hussein Abbass)

0910 – 1010

Plenary Talk 1: (Chair Abdul Sattar)

Peter van Beek: Constraint Programming

1010 – 1030

Morning Tea

1030 – 1230

Natural Language

Chair: Kyongho Min

Knowledge Repr.

Chair: John Debenham

Evol. Comp.

Chair: Ruhul Sarker

1230 – 1440

Poster Session and Lunch

1440 – 1500

Afternoon Tea

1500 – 1700

Mach. Learn. App

Chair:GrahamWilliams

Agents

Chair: Chengqi Zhang

Intelligent Sys.

Chair: Raj Gopalan

Thursday 5th December, 2002

0900 – 1000

Plenary Talk 2:  (Chair Bob McKay)

Ming Li: Building Tools to Mine Molecular Sequence Data  

1000 – 1020

Morning Tea

1020 – 1220

Bayesian Class.

Chair: David Dowe

Deduction

Chair: John Slaney

ANN

Chair: Dimitrios Karas

1340 – 1440

Lunch

1340 – 1440

Plenary Talk 3:  (Chair Hussein Abbass)

Chrystopher Nehaniv: Social Learning and Imitation in Animals & Artifacts  

1440 – 1500

Afternoon Tea

1500 – 1700

RL

Chair: John Oommen

Constraints

Chair: Peter van Beek

ANN App

Chair: David Cornforth

1900 – 2100

Conference Dinner: Rydges Hotel

Friday 6th December, 2002

0900 – 1000

Plenary Talk 4:  (Chair John Lloyd)

Zoltan Somogyi: Declarative Programming

1000 – 1020

Morning Tea

1020 – 1220

Learning Theory

Chair: Rohan Baxter

Satisfiability

Chair: John Thornton

ANN App

Chair: Vic Ciesielski

1220 – 1340

Lunch

1340 – 1440

Plenary Talk 5:  (Chair John Slaney)

Bernhard Nebel: The Philosophical Soccer Player

1440 – 1500

Afternoon Tea

1500 – 1700

Learning Theory

Chair: H. Sato

Fuzzy Reasoning

Chair:Mircea Negoita

Miscellaneous Chair: Bob McKay

 

A.     Wednesday 1030-1230: Natural language and information retrieval

 

24

1.      Debbie Richards, Kathrin Boettger, Oscar Aguilera

A Controlled Language to Assist Conversion of Use Case Descriptions into Concept Lattices

63

2.      Kyongho Min, William H. Wilson, Yoo-Jin Moon

Preferred Document Classification for a Highly Inflectional/Derivational Language

94

3.      Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskitti, Ying Ying Wen

Experiments in Query Paraphrasing for Information Retrieval

 

B.     Wednesday 1030-1230: Knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning

 

23

4.      Marina De Vos, Dirk Vermeir

Dynamic Decision Making in Logic Programming and Game Theory

40

5.      Akira Fusaoka

On a Linear Representation Theory for Quantitative Belief Change

70

6.      Chuchang Liu, Maris Ozols

Trust in Secure Communication Systems - the Concept, Representations, and Reasoning Techniques

82

7.      Jane Brennan, Eric Martin

Foundations for a Formalism of Nearness

 

C.     Wednesday 1030-1230: Evolutionary algorithms

 

27

8.      Thomas Loveard, Vic Ciesielski

Genetic Programming for Classification: An Analysis of Convergence Behaviour

71

9.      David Cornforth

Evolution in the Orange Box: A New Approach to the Sphere-packing Problem in CMAC-based Neural Networks

80

10.  Andrew P. Kosoresow , Matthew P. Johnson

Finding Worst-case Instances of, and Lower Bounds for, Online Algorithms Using Genetic Algorithms

5

11.  Dianhui Wang, Tharam S. Dillon

Theoretical Foundation for Nonlinear Edge-preserving Regularised Learning Image Restoration

 

D.    Wednesday 1500-1600: Machine learning applications

 

51

12.  Masafumi Matsuhara, Kenji Araki, Koji Tochinai

Effectiveness for Machine Translation Method using Inductive Learning on Number Representation

85

13.  Graham Williams, Rohan Baxter, Chris Kelman, Chris Rainsford, Hongxing He, Lifang Gu, Deanne Vickers, Simon Hawkins

Estimating Episodes of Care using Linked Medical Claims Data

 

E.     Wednesday 1500-1700: Agents

 

9

14.  Wayne Wobcke

Intention and Rationality for PRS-like Agents

11

15.  Hee Suk Seo, Tae Ho Cho

Modeling and Simulation for Detecting a Distributed Denial of Dervice Attack

18

16.  John Debenham

Knowledge-driven Processes can be Managed

21

17.  Juei-Nan Chen, Yueh-Min Huang, William C. Chu

Adaptive Multi-agent Decision Making using Analytical Hierarchy Process

 

F.      Wednesday 1500-1700: Intelligent systems

 

55

18.  Rob Sherwood, Steve Chien, Rebecca Castano, Gregg Rabideau

Autonomous Planning and Scheduling on the TechSat 21 Mission

66

19.  Mark Ashmore, Nick Barnes

Omni-drive Robot Motion on Curved Paths: The Fastest Path between Two Points is not a Straight Line

76

20.  Raj P. Gopalan, Grant Lee

Indexing of Image Databases using Untrained 4D Holographic Memory Model

30

21.  Zaiping Chen, Qiang Gao, Chao Dong, Hongjin Liu, Peng Zhang, Zhenlin Xu

The Flux-oriented Control of an Induction Machine utilizing an On-line Controller Parameter Adaptation Scheme

 

G.    Thursday 1020-1220: Bayesian reasoning and classification

 

15

22.  Mike Dowman

Modelling the Acquisition of Colour Words

54

23.  Lucas R. Hope, Kevin B. Korb

    Bayesian Information Reward

91

24.  Kyung-Yong Jung, Jung-Hyun Lee

Prediction of User Preference in Recommendation System using Associative User Clustering and Bayesian Estimated Value

 

95

25.  Sarah George, Ingrid Zukerman

Argument Interpretation using Minimum Message Length

 

H.    Thursday 1020-1220: Deduction

 

42

26.  Seungyeob Choi, Manfred Kerber

Semantic Selection for Resolution in Clause Graphs

61

27.  Jeremy Dawson, Rajeev Gore

Machine-checking the Timed Interval Calculus

116

28.  Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner

Modeling Programs with Unstructured Control Flow for Debugging

 

I.       Thursday 1020-1220: Neural networks

 

6

29.  Shuxiang Xu, Ming Zhang

An Adaptive Activation Function for Higher Order Neural Networks

45

30.  Sun Jian, Shen Rui-Min, Yang Fan

An Adaptive Learning Algorithm aimed at improving RBF Network Generalization Ability

25

31.  Zaiping Chen, Jun Li, Youjun Yue, Qiang Gao, Hui Zhao, Zhenlin Xu

A Neural Network Online Training Algorithm based on Compound Gradient Vector

90

32.  Cheol-Ki Kim, Eui-Young Cha

Applications of Wavelet Transform and Artificial Neural Networks to Pattern Recognition for Environmental Monitoring

 

J.      Thursday 1500-1630: Reinforcement learning

 

3

33.  J.B. Gao, S.R. Gunn, J.S. Kandola

Adapting Kernels by Variational Approach in SVM

52

34.  Katja Verbeeck, Ann Nowe, Tom Lenaerts, Johan Parent

Learning to reach the Pareto Optimal Nash Equilibrium as a Team

78

35.  Weidong Zhou, Richard Coggins

Computation Models of the Amygdala and the Orbitofrontal Cortex: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning System for Robotic Control

 


K.    Thursday 1500-1700: Constraints and scheduling

 

33

36.  Petra Hofstedt

A General Approach for building Constraint Languages

120

37.  Aditya Ghose, Peter Harvey

Metric SCSPs: Partial Constraint Satisfaction via Semiring CSPs augmented with Metrics

43

38.  Peter Wilke, Matthias Groebner, Norbert Oster

A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for School Timetabling

93

39.  Wensheng Yao, Baiyan Li, Jinyuan You

Genetic Scheduling on Minimal Processing Elements in the Grid

 

L.     Thursday 1500-1700: Neural net applications I

 

74

40.  Dianhui Wang, N.K. Lee, T.S. Dillon, N.J. Hoogenraad

Protein Sequences Classification using Modular RBF Neural Networks

75

41.  Sun Jie, G.S. Hong, M. Rahman, Y.S. Wong

Feature Extraction and Selection in Tool Condition Monitoring System

84

42.  D.A. Karras, B.G. Mertzios

A Robust Meaning Extraction Methodology using Supervised Neural Networks

86

43.  Yakov Frayman, Bernard F. Rolfe, Geoffrey I. Webb

Solving Regression Problems using Competitive Ensemble Models

 

M.  Friday 1020-1220: Learning theory I

 

88

44.  Satoshi Matsumoto, Takayoshi Shoudai, Tetsuhiro Miyahara, Tomoyuki Uchida

Learning of Finite Unions of Tree patterns with Internal Structured Variables from Queries

89

45.  Raj P. Gopalan, Yudho Giri Sucahyo

TreeITL-Mine: Mining Frequent Itemsets using Pattern Growth, Tid Intersection and Prefix Tree

92

46.  Dongmo Zhang, Norman Foo

Convergency of Learning Process

97

47.  Michael Bain

Structured Features from Concept Lattices for Unsupervised Learning and Classification

 

N.    Friday 1020-1220: Satisfiability reasoning

 

8

48.  John Thornton, Wayne Pullan, Justin Terry

Towards Fewer Parameters for SAT Clause Weighting Algorithms

77

49.  Olena Kravchuk, Wayne Pullan, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar

An Investigation of Variable Relationships in 3-SAT

101

50.  Andrew Slater

Modelling More Realistic SAT Problems

115

51.  John Thornton, Stuart Bain, Abdul Sattar, Duc Nghia Pham

A Two Level Local Search for MAX-SAT Problems with Hard and Soft Constraints

 

O.    Friday 1020-1220: Neural net applications II

 

96

52.  D.A. Karras, V. Zorkadis

Strong Pseudorandom Bit Sequence Generators using Neural Network Techniques and Their Evaluation for Secure Communications

53

53.  Mohammed Shakeel Laghari

Surface Feature Recognition of Wear Debris

100

54.  D.A. Karras, B.G. Mertzios

Improved Defect Detection using Novel Wavelet Feature Extraction Involving Principal Component Analysis and Neural Network Techniques

 

P.      Friday 1500-1700: Learning theory II

 

38

55.  Laura Kornienko, David L. Dowe, David W. Albrecht

Message Length Formulation of Support Vector Machines for Binary Classification - A Preliminary Scheme

60

56.  Peter J. Tan, David L. Dowe

MML Inference of Decision Graphs with Multi-way Joins

69

57.  Yudi Agusta, David L. Dowe

MML Clustering of Continuous-valued data Using Gaussian and t Distributions

108

58.  S-W. Kim, B.J. Oommen

Optimizing Kernel-based Nonlinear Subspace Methods using Prototype Reduction Schemes

 


Q.    Friday 1500-1600: Fuzzy reasoning

 

4

59.  Cong Tran, Ajith Abraham, Lakhmi Jain

Adaptation of a Mamdani Fuzzy Inference System using Neuro-genetic Approach for Tactical Air Combat Decision Support System

16

60.  Dragos Arotaritei, Mircea Gh. Negoita

Optimization of Recurrent Algebraic Fuzzy-NN by GA with Variable Length Genotype

 

R.    Friday 1500-1600: Miscellaneous  

 

68

61.  Piet van Remortel, Tom Lenaerts, Bernard Manderick

Lineage and Induction in the Development of Evolved Genotypes for Non-uniform 2D CAs.

46

62.  Peng Han, Ruimin Shen, Fan Yang, Qiang Yang

The Application of Case Based Reasoning on Q&A System

 

S.      Posters

 

20

63.  K W Chau, F Albermani, S L Chan

Development of an Intelligent Tutoring System on Design of Liquid Retaining Structures

28

64.  K W Chau, C T Cheng

Real-time Prediction of Water Stage with Artificial Neural Network Approach

41

65.  Manfred Kerber, Martin Pollet

On the Design of Mathematical Concepts

56

66.  Chuchang Liu, Martin Ozols

Consistency of Trust Theories

57

67.  Alan McCabe

An Artificially Intelligent Sports Tipper

58

68.  Marianne Brown

Selecting Semantics for use with Semantic Pruning of Linear Deductions

67

69.  Kwokwing Chau

Calibration of Flow and Water Quality Modelling using Genetic Algorithm

72

70.  Herbert Jelinek, David Cornforth, Patricia Waley, Eduardo Fernandez, Wayne Robinson

A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches for the Automated Classification of Dementia

79

71.  Guido Governatori, Vineet Padmanabhan, Abdul Sattar

A Defeasible Logic of Policy-based Intention

83

72.  Roby J Richer, Dan R Corbett

A Self-organizing Territorial Approach to Multi-robot Search and Surveillance

87

73.  K A Mohamed, A Datta, R Kozera

Knowledge-based Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction in Resource Allocation Problems

99

74.  Hidetomo Nabeshima, Koji Iwanuma, Katsumi Inoue

Effective SAT Planning by Speculative Computation