Papers Accepted for the Application Stream

Best Refereed Paper

Swing Up and Balance Control of the Acrobot Solved by Genetic Programming
Dimitris C. Dracopoulos and Barry D. Nichols (University of Westminster, UK)

Session A1: Language and Classification

Biologically inspired Continuous Arabic Speech Recognition
N. Hmad and T. Allen (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

A cross-study of Sentiment Classification on Arabic corpora
A. Mountassir, H. Benbrahim and I. Berrada (Mohamed 5 University, Morocco)

Towards the Profiling of Twitter Users for Topic-Based Filtering
Sandra Garcia Esparza, Michael P. O`Mahony and Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Session A2: Recommendation

Content vs. Tags for Friend Recommendation
John Hannon, Kevin McCarthy and Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Collaborative Filtering For Recommendation In Online Social Networks
Steven Bourke, Michael P O`Mahony, Rachel Rafter, Kevin McCarthy and Barry Smyth (University College, Dublin, Ireland)

Unsupervised Topic Extraction for the Reviewer’s Assistant
Ruihai Dong, Markus Schaal, Michael P. O’Mahony, Kevin McCarthy and Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Session A3: Data Mining and Machine Learning

Identification of Correlations Between 3D Surfaces using Data Mining Techniques: Predicting Springback in Sheet Metal Forming
Subhieh El-Salhi, Frans Coenen, Clare Dixon and Muhammad Sulaiman Khan (University of Liverpool, UK)

Towards The Collection of Census Data From Satellite Imagery Using Data Mining: A Study With Respect to the Ethiopian Hinterland
K. Dittakan, F. Coenen, R. Christley (University of Liverpool, UK)

Challenges in Applying Machine Learning to Media Monitoring
M. Lyra (University of Sussex, UK), D. Clarke (Gorkana Group, UK), H. Morgan, J. P. Reffin and D. J. Weir (University of Sussex, UK)

Session A4: Practical Applications and Systems

Adapting Bottom-up, Emergent Behaviour for Character-Based AI in Games
M.Rosenkind, G. Winstanley and A.L. Blake (University of Brighton, UK)

Improving WRF-ARW Wind Speed Predictions using Genetic Programming
Giovanna Martinez-Arellano, Lars Nolle and John Bland (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Optimizing Opening Strategies in a Real-time Strategy Game by a Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm
B.Gmeiner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), G.Donnert, and H.Köstler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

Managing Uncertainties in the Field of Planning and Budgeting – An Interactive Fuzzy Approach
P. Rausch (Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany), H.J. Rommelfanger (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany), M. Stumpf (Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences, Germany), B. Jehle (Noris Treuhand Unternehmensberatung GmbH

Short Papers Accepted for Application Stream Stream (poster presentation)

Comparative Study of One-Class Classifiers for Item-based Filtering
A. S. Lampropoulos and G. A. Tsihrintzis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Hybridization of Adaptive Differential Evolution with BFGS
R. A. Khanum (University of Essex, UK) and M. A. Jan (Kohat University of Science and Technology, Pakistan)