BCS SGAI
The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
AI-2008: The Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference
Cambridge, UK, 9th-11th December 2008
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Papers Accepted for the Technical Stream

Regular Papers (for oral presentation)

Best Refereed Technical Paper (sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)
(Chair: Prof. Max Bramer)

On the Classification Performance of TAN and General Bayesian Networks
Michael G. Madden (College of Engineering & Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

SESSION 1a: CBR AND CLASSIFICATION (Chair: Dr. Nirmalie Wiratunga)

Code Tagging and Similarity-based Retrieval with myCBR
Th. R. Roth-Berghofer and D. Bahls (DFKI GmbH/TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Sparse Representations for Pattern Classification using Learned Dictionaries
Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Karthikeyan N. Ramamurthy and Andreas Spanias (Arizona State University, USA)

Qualitative Hidden Markov Models for Classifying Gene Expression Data
Z. Ibrahim, A. Tawfik and A. Ngom (University of Windsor, UK)

Description Identification and the Consistency Problem
E.N. Smirnov (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), N.Y. Nikolaev (London University, UK) and G.I. Nalbantov (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

SESSION 1b: AI TECHNIQUES (Chair: Dr. Tony Allen)

Analysing the Effect of Demand Uncertainty in Dynamic Pricing with EAs
Siddhartha Shakya (Intelligent Systems Research Centre, BT Group, UK), Fernando Oliveira (Warwick Business School, UK), Gilbert Owusu (Intelligent Systems Research Centre, BT Group, UK)

Restart-Based Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Alfonsas Misevicius, (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)

Constraint Satisfaction and Fixes: Revisiting Sisyphus VT
Trevor Runcie, Peter Gray and Derek Sleeman (University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)

On a Control Parameter Free Optimisation Algorithm
Lars Nolle, (School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, UK)

SESSION 2: ARGUMENTATION AND NEGOTIATION (Chair: Dr. Miltos Petridis)

PISA - Pooling Information from Several Agents: Multiplayer Argumentation from Experience
M. Wardeh, T. Bench-Capon and F. Coenen (University of Liverpool, UK)

Agent-Based Negotiation in Uncertain Environments
J.Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), and C. Sierra (Spanish Scientific Research Council)

Automated Bilateral Negotiation and Bargaining Impasse
Fernando Lopes and A.Q. Novais (INETI, Portugal) and Helder Coelho (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

SESSION 3: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (Chair: Prof. Adrian Hopgood)

Exploring Design Space For An Integrated Intelligent System
N. Hawes and J. Wyatt and A. Sloman (University of Birmingham, UK)

A User-Extensible and Adaptable Parser Architecture
John Tobin and Carl Vogel (School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

The Reactive-Causal Architecture: Introducing an Emotion Model along with Theories of Needs
Ali Orhan Aydın, Mehmet Ali Orgun and Abhaya Nayak (Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

Automation of the Solution of Kakuro Puzzles
R. P. Davies, P. A. Roach, and S. Perkins (University of Glamorgan, UK)

SESSION 4: FROM MACHINE LEARNING TO E-LEARNING (Chair: Dr. Frans Coenen)

The Bayesian Learning Automaton - Empirical Evaluation with Two-Armed Bernoulli Bandit Problems
O.-C. Granmo (University of Agder, Norway)

Discovering Implicit Intention-Level Knowledge from Natural-Language Texts
John Atkinson (Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile), Anita Ferreira (Department of Spanish Linguistics, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile) and Elvis Aravena

EMADS: An Extendible Multi-Agent Data Miner
Kamal Ali Albashiri, Frans Coenen and Paul Leng (University of Liverpool, UK)

Designing a Feedback Component of Intelligent Tutoring System for Foreign Language
Anita Ferreira (Department of Spanish Linguistics, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile) and John Atkinson (Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)

SESSION 5: DECISION MAKING (Chair: Dr. Frans Coenen)

An Algorithm for Anticipating Future Decision Trees from Concept-Drifting Data
Mirko Boettcher (University of Magdeburg, Germany), Martin Spott (Intelligent Systems Research Centre, BT Group, UK), Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany)

Polarity Assignment to Causal Information Extracted from Financial Articles Concerning Business Performance of Companies
Hiroyuki Sakai and Shigeru Masuyama (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)

ReduxExp: An Open-source Justification-based Explanation Support Server
Th. R. Roth-Berghofer and F. Mittag (DFKI GmbH/TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)

Short Papers (for poster presentation)

Immunity-based hybrid evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective optimization
E.Y.C. Wong (Orient Overseas Container Line Limited), H.S.C. Yeung and H.Y.K. Lau (The University of Hong Kong)

Parallel Induction of Modular Classification Rules
F.Stahl, M.Bramer and M.Adda (University of Portsmouth, UK)

Transform Ranking: a New Method of Fitness Scaling in Genetic Algorithms
A. A. Hopgood (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) and A. Mierzejewska (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland)

Architecture of Knowledge-based Function Approximator
Hassab Elgawi Osman (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Applying Planning Algorithms to Argue in Cooperative Work
Ariel Monteserin, Silvia Schiaffino and Analia Amandi (ISISTAN Research Institute, UNCPBA, Tandil, Argentina - CONICET, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina)

Universum Inference and Corpus Homogeneity
Carl Vogel, Gerard Lynch and Jerom Janssen (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

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BCS SGAI
The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
AI-2008: The Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference
Cambridge, UK, 9th-11th December 2008