RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XXI

"The papers in this volume are the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2004.The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on AI Techniques I and II, CBR and Recommender Systems, Ontologies, Intelligent Agents and Scheduling Systems, Knowledge Discovery in Data and Spatial Reasoning and Image Recognition.This is the twenty-first volume in the Research and Development series. The series is essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field.The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XII. TOC:Extracting Finite Structure from Infinite.- Modelling Shared Extended Mind and Collective Representational Content.- Overfitting in Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection: The Harder You Try the Worse it Gets.- Managing Ontology Versions with a Distributed Blackboard Architecture.- OntoSearch: An Ontology Search Engine.- Case Based Adaptation Using Interpolation over Nominal Values.- Automating the Discovery of Recommendation Rules.- Incremental Critiquing.- A Treebank-Based Case Role Annotation Using An Attributed String Matching.- A Combinatorial Approach to Conceptual Graph Projection Checking.- Implementing Policy Management Through BDI.- Exploiting Causal Independence in Large Bayesian Networks.- A Bargaining Agent Aims to `Play Fair'.- Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Market-Based Agents.- Are Ordinal Representations Effective?- A Framework for Planning with Hybrid Models.- Towards Symbolic Data Mining in Numerical Time Series.- Support Vector Machines of Interval-based Features for Time Series Classification.- Neighbourhood Exploitation in Hypertext Categorization.- Using Background Knowledge to Construct Bayesian Classifiers for Data-Poor Domains.- Interactive Selection of Visual Features through Reinforcement Learning.- Imprecise Qualitative Spatial Reasoning.-Reasoning with Geometric Information in Digital Space.- On Disjunctive Representations of Distributions and Randomization."

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIR'S INTRODUCTION Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK BEST TECHNICAL PAPER Extracting Finite Structure from Infinite LanguageT. McQueen, A. A. Hopgood, T. J. Allen and J. A. Tepper, School of Computing & Informatics, Nottingham Trent University, UK SESSION 1a: AI TECHNIQUES I Modelling Shared Extended Mind and Collective Representational ContentTibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonke and Martijn C. Schut, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Jan Treur, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Utrecht Overfitting in Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection: The Harder You Try the Worse it GetsJohn Loughrey and Pádraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Managing Ontology Versions with a Distributed Blackboard ArchitectureErnesto Compatangelo, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Bruce Scharlau, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen OntoSearch: An Ontology Search EngineYi Zhang, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Derek Sleeman, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK SESSION 1b: CBR AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Case Based Adaptation Using Interpolation over Nominal ValuesBrian Knight, University of Greenwich, UK and Fei Ling Woon, Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Automating the Discovery of Recommendation RulesDavid McSherry, School of Computing and Information Engineering, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Incremental CritiquingJames Reilly, Kevin McCarthy, Lorraine McGinty and Barry Smyth, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland SESSION 2a:AI TECHNIQUES II A Treebank-Based Case Role Annotation Using An Attributed String MatchingSamuel W.K.Chan, Department of Decision Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China A Combinatorial Approach to Conceptual Graph Projection CheckingMadalina Croitoru and Ernesto Compatangelo, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen Implementing Policy Management Through BDISimon Miles, Juri Papay, Michael Luck and Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK Exploiting Causal Independence in Large Bayesian NetworksRasa Jurgelenaite and Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands SESSION 3: INTELLIGENT AGENTS AND SCHEDULING SYSTEMS A Bargaining Agent Aims to `Play Fair'John Debenham, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Market-Based AgentsNadim Haque, Nicholas R. Jennings and Luc Moreau, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Are Ordinal Representations Effective?Andrew Tuson, Department of Computing, City University, UK A Framework for Planning with Hybrid ModelsMax Garagnani, Department of Computing, The Open University, UK SESSION 4: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATA Towards Symbolic Data Mining in Numerical Time SeriesAgustín Santamaría, Technical University of Madrid, Spain; África López-Illescas, High Council for Sports, Madrid, Spain; Aurora Perez-Perez and Juan P. Caraça-Valente, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Support Vector Machines of Interval-based Features for Time Series ClassificationJuan Jose Rodriguez, Universidad de Burgos, Spain