Papers Accepted for the Application Stream

Regular Papers (for oral presentation)

Best Application Paper (Chair: Dr. Tony Allen)

Wireless LAN Load-Balancing with Genetic Algorithms
Ted Scully and Kenneth N. Brown (Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland)

SESSION 1 MACHINE LEARNING 1 (Chair: Prof. Adrian Hopgood)

Computer Vision Systems for Manufacturing of Micro Workpieces
T.Baidyk and E.Kussul (National Autonomous University of Mexico), O.Makeyev (Clarkson University, USA)

Recognition of Swallowing Sounds Using Time-Frequency Decomposition and Limited Receptive Area Neural Classifier
O.Makeyev, E.Sazonov, St.Schuckers and P.Lopez-Meyer (Clarkson University, USA), T.Baidyk (National Autonomous University of Mexico), E.Melanson (University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA), M.Neuman (Michigan Technological University, USA)

Visualization of Agriculture Data Using Self-Organizing Maps
Georg Ruß and Rudolf Kruse (Otto-von-Guericke-Univ. Magdeburg, Germany), Martin Schneider (Agri Con GmbH, Germany), Peter Wagner (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

SESSION 2A MACHINE LEARNING 2 (Chair: Rosemary Gilligan)

Graph-based image classification by weighting scheme
Chuntao Jiang and Frans Coenen (University of Liverpool, UK)

A Machine Learning Application for Classification of Chemical Spectra
M.G. Madden (College of Engineering & Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), T. Howley (Analyze IQ Limited, Galway, Ireland)

Learning to rank order - a distance-based approach
M.Dobrska, H.Wang and W.Blackburn (University of Ulster, UK)

SESSION 2B WEB TECHNOLOGIES (Chair: Alice Kerly)

Deploying Embodied AI into Virtual Worlds
D.J.H.Burden (Daden Limited)

Using Ontology Search Engines to support Users and Intelligent Systems solving a range of tasks
Derek Sleeman, Edward Thomas and Andy Aiken (University of Aberdeen, UK)

Information Management for Unmanned Systems: Combining DL-Reasoning with Publish/Subscribe
H. Moser (University of Stuttgart, Germany), T. Reichelt (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany), N. Oswald and S. Förster (EADS Military Air Systems, Germany)

SESSION 3 INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (Chair: Richard Ellis)

Silog: Speech Input Logon
Sergio Grau, Tony Allen and Nasser Sherkat (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

An Electronic Tree Inventory for Arboriculture Management
R.J. Tait, T.J. Allen, N. Sherkat, and M. Bellett-Travers, (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Conversational Agents in E-Learning
A.Kerly (University of Birmingham, UK), R.Ellis (Elzware Ltd, UK) and S.Bull (University of Birmingham, UK)

SESSION 5 AI IN HEALTHCARE (Chair: Kirsty Bradbook)

Breast cancer diagnosis based on evolvable fuzzy classifiers and feature selection
S.Lekkas and L.Mikhailov (University of Manchester, UK)

Executing Medical Guidelines on the Web: Towards Next Generation Healthcare
M. Arguello (University of Manchester, UK), J. Des (Complexo Hospitalario de Ourense, Spain), M.J. Fernandez-Prieto (University of Salford, UK), R. Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and H. Paniagua (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

A Hybrid Constraint Programming Approach for Nurse Rostering Problems
Rong Qu and Fang He (University of Nottingham, UK)

Using Evolved Fuzzy Neural Networks for Injury Detection from Isokinetic Curves
J. Couchet, J. M. Font and D. Manrique (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Short Papers (for poster presentation)

An evolutionary approach to simulated football free kick optimisation
M.Rhodes and S.Coupland (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)

An Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Implementation of Electronic Commerce
Anoop Kumar Srivastava (Institute of Engineering & Technology, India)

Hybrid System for the Inventory of the Cultural Heritage using Voice Interface for Knowledge acquisition
Stefan du Château, Danielle Boulanger, Eunika Mercier-Laurent (MODEME, IAE Research Center, Lyon University)