Artificial Intelligence and Innovations 2007: From Theory to Applications

Theoretical Advances in AI.- An Evolving Oblique Decision Tree Ensemble Architecture for Continuous Learning Applications.- Clustering Improves the Exploration of Graph Mining Results.- Robustness of learning techniques in handling class noise in imbalanced datasets.- A Wrapper for Reweighting Training Instances for Handling Imbalanced Data Sets.- Solving Traveling Salesman Problem Using Combinational Evolutionary Algorithm.- Graph Based Workflow Validation.- Intelligent Internet Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications.- Resource sharing in multi-agent systems through multi-stage negotiation.- Increasing interactivity in IPTV using MPEG-21 descriptors.- Dynamic Reliability Assessment of Multiple Choice Tests in distributed E-Leaning Environments: A Case Study.- Service Decomposition and Task Allocation in Distributed Computing Environments.- Classification of Web Documents using Fuzzy Logic Categorical Data Clustering.- Measuring Expert Impact on Learning how to Play a Board Game.- Intelligent Systems in Electronic Healthcare.- A Web Based System Enabling Distributed Access and Intelligent Processing of Bioinformatics Data in Grid Environments.- ANDROMEDA: A MATLAB Automated cDNA Microarray Data Analysis Platform.- Mining Interesting Clinico-Genomic Associations: The HealthObs Approach.- Patient Fall Detection using Support Vector Machines.- A web-based service for improving conformance to medication treatment and patient-physician relationship.- AI in Business and Finance.- Informed Agents Integrating Data Mining and Agency.- Agents Methodologies for e-Chartering Market design.- Applications of Nature-Inspired Intelligence in Finance.- Staff Performance Appraisal using Fuzzy Evaluation.- Extraction of Cause Information from Newspaper Articles Concerning Business Performance.- A fast parallel algorithm for frequent itemsets mining.- Applications of AI in Industry and Daily Round.- Genetic Algorithms for Municipal Solid Waste Collection and Routing Optimization.- A Multi-Agent Design for a Home Automation System dedicated to power management.- Domain of impact for agents collaborating in a baggage handling system.- Prediction of the collapse modes of PVC cylindrical shells under compressive axial loads using Artificial Neural Networks.- Applications of AI in Communications and Networks.- An Intelligent CASE Tool for Porting Mobile Java Applications.- A Knowledge-based Service Creation and Execution Framework for Adapting Composite Wireless IP Services.- Efficient Fair TDMA Scheduling In Wireless Multi-Hop Networks.- ANN Prediction Models for Outdoor SIMO Millimeter Band System.- Intelligent Processing of Audiovisual Content.- Gender Classification Based on FeedForward Backpropagation Neural Network.- Hardware Natural Language Interface.- Robustness of Non-Exact Multi-Channel Equalization in Reverberant Environments.- Combining Finite State Machines and LDA for Voice Activity Detection.- Performance Evaluation of TreeQ and LVQ Classifiers for Music Information Retrieval.- Image Compression with Competitive Networks and Pre-fixed Prototypes.- On the use of spatial relations between objects for image classification.- A Knowledge Engineering Approach for Complex Violence Identification in Movies.- 3D Tracking of Multiple People Using Their 2D Face Locations.- Multimodal emotion recognition from expressive faces, body gestures and speech.- Semantic Multimedia Analysis based on Region Types and Visual Context.- Mimicking adaptation processes in the human brain with neural network retraining.