Ebook: PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012. Proceedings

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativity support, decision theory, evolutionary computation, game playing, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge mining and acquisition, knowledge representation and logic, linked open data and semantic web, machine learning and data mining, multimedia and AI, natural language processing, robotics, social intelligence, vision and perception, web and text mining, web and knowledge-based system.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativity support, decision theory, evolutionary computation, game playing, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge mining and acquisition, knowledge representation and logic, linked open data and semantic web, machine learning and data mining, multimedia and AI, natural language processing, robotics, social intelligence, vision and perception, web and text mining, web and knowledge-based system.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativity support, decision theory, evolutionary computation, game playing, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge mining and acquisition, knowledge representation and logic, linked open data and semantic web, machine learning and data mining, multimedia and AI, natural language processing, robotics, social intelligence, vision and perception, web and text mining, web and knowledge-based system.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Systems Biology Powered by Artificial Intelligence....Pages 1-1
Preference Reasoning and Aggregation: Between AI and Social Choice....Pages 2-2
Economical Operation of Thermal Generating Units Integrated with Smart Houses....Pages 3-14
Hierarchical Training of Multiple SVMs for Personalized Web Filtering....Pages 15-26
Citation Based Summarisation of Legal Texts....Pages 27-39
A Novel Video Face Clustering Algorithm Based on Divide and Conquer Strategy....Pages 40-52
A Hybrid Local Feature for Face Recognition....Pages 53-63
Ontology Querying Support in Semantic Annotation Process....Pages 64-75
Learning to Achieve Socially Optimal Solutions in General-Sum Games....Pages 76-87
Incorporating Fairness into Agent Interactions Modeled as Two-Player Normal-Form Games....Pages 88-99
Semi-Supervised Discriminatively Regularized Classifier with Pairwise Constraints....Pages 100-111
Outdoor Situation Recognition Using Support Vector Machine for the Blind and the Visually Impaired....Pages 112-123
Mining Rules for Rewriting States in a Transition-Based Dependency Parser....Pages 124-132
The Comparison of Stigmergy Strategies for Decentralized Traffic Congestion Control: Preliminary Results....Pages 133-145
Life-Logging of Wheelchair Driving on Web Maps for Visualizing Potential Accidents and Incidents....Pages 146-156
Texture Feature Extraction Based on Fractional Mask Convolution with Ces?ro Means for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 157-169
Possibilistic Reasoning in Multi-Context Systems: Preliminary Report....Pages 170-179
A Two-Step Zero Pronoun Resolution by Reducing Candidate Cardinality....Pages 180-193
Hybrid Techniques to Address Cold Start Problems for People to People Recommendation in Social Networks....Pages 194-205
An Improved Particle Swarm Optimisation for Image Segmentation of Homogeneous Images....Pages 206-217
A Regression-Based Approach for Improving the Association Rule Mining through Predicting the Number of Rules on General Datasets....Pages 218-228
A Real-Time, Multimodal, and Dimensional Affect Recognition System....Pages 229-240
Representing Reach-to-Grasp Trajectories Using Perturbed Goal Motor States....Pages 241-249
TSX: A Novel Symbolic Representation for Financial Time Series....Pages 250-261
Genetic-Optimized Classifier Ensemble for Cortisol Salivary Measurement Mapping to Electrocardiogram Features for Stress Evaluation....Pages 262-273
Information Bottleneck with Local Consistency....Pages 274-284
A D-S Theory Based AHP Decision Making Approach with Ambiguous Evaluations of Multiple Criteria....Pages 285-296
Synthesizing Image Representations of Linguistic and Topological Features for Predicting Areas of Attention....Pages 297-311
Stigmergic Modeling for Web Service Composition and Adaptation....Pages 312-323
Recognizing Human Gender in Computer Vision: A Survey....Pages 324-334
Web-Based Mathematics Testing with Automatic Assessment....Pages 335-346
Content-Based Collaborative Filtering for Question Difficulty Calibration....Pages 347-358
Natural Language Opinion Search on Blogs....Pages 359-371
Buy It - Don’t Buy It: Sentiment Classification on Amazon Reviews Using Sentence Polarity Shift....Pages 372-385
Generation of Chord Progression Using Harmony Search Algorithm for a Constructive Adaptive User Interface....Pages 386-399
A Local Distribution Net for Data Clustering....Pages 400-410
Improving Multi-label Classification Using Semi-supervised Learning and Dimensionality Reduction....Pages 411-422
Generic Multi-Document Summarization Using Topic-Oriented Information....Pages 423-434
Intelligent Ethical Wealth Planner: A Multi-agent Approach....Pages 435-446
Scalable Text Classification with Sparse Generative Modeling....Pages 447-457
UPM-3D Facial Expression Recognition Database(UPM-3DFE)....Pages 458-469
Probabilistic Reasoning in DL-Lite....Pages 470-479
A Semantics Driven User Interface for Virtual Saarlouis....Pages 480-491
Fuzzified Game Tree Search – Precision vs Speed....Pages 492-503
Processing Incomplete Temporal Information in Controlled Natural Language....Pages 504-515
Opinion Target Extraction for Short Comments....Pages 516-527
Managing the Complexity of Large-Scale Agent-Based Social Diffusion Models with Different Network Topologies....Pages 528-539
Building Detection with Loosely-Coupled Hybrid Feature Descriptors....Pages 540-551
Towards Optimal Cooperative Path Planning in Hard Setups through Satisfiability Solving....Pages 552-563
A New Algorithm for Multilevel Optimization Problems Using Evolutionary Strategy, Inspired by Natural Adaptation....Pages 564-576
Hamming Selection Pruned Sets (HSPS) for Efficient Multi-label Video Classification....Pages 577-588
Hierarchical Workflow Management in Wireless Sensor Network....Pages 589-600
Multimodal Biometric Person Authentication Using Fingerprint, Face Features....Pages 601-612
Explaining Subgroups through Ontologies....Pages 613-624
Automatic Keyword Extraction from Single-Sentence Natural Language Queries....Pages 625-636
Model Combination for Support Vector Regression via Regularization Path....Pages 637-648
Subspace Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis for Small Sample Size Problems....Pages 649-660
A Particle Swarm Optimisation Based Multi-objective Filter Approach to Feature Selection for Classification....Pages 661-672
Exploiting Independent Relationships in Multiagent Systems for Coordinated Learning....Pages 673-685
A Model of Intention with (Un)Conditional Commitments....Pages 686-697
Group Polarization: Connecting, Influence and Balance, a Simulation Study Based on Hopfield Modeling....Pages 698-709
Combined Optimal Wavelet Filters with Morphological Watershed Transform for the Segmentation of Dermoscopic Skin Lesions....Pages 710-721
Predicting Academic Emotions Based on Brainwaves, Mouse Behaviour and Personality Profile....Pages 722-727
Extraction of Chinese Multiword Expressions Based on Artificial Neural Network with Feedbacks....Pages 728-733
Intelligent Situation Awareness on the EYECANE....Pages 734-739
The Use of Sound Symbolism in Sentiment Classification....Pages 740-745
Enhancing Malay Stemming Algorithm with Background Knowledge....Pages 746-752
Using Tagged and Untagged Corpora to Improve Thai Morphological Analysis with Unknown Word Boundary Detections....Pages 753-758
Image Retrieval Using Most Similar Highest Priority Principle Based on Fusion of Colour and Texture Features....Pages 759-764
Computational Intelligence for Human Interactive Communication of Robot Partners....Pages 765-770
Healthy or Harmful? Polarity Analysis Applied to Biomedical Entity Relationships....Pages 771-776
Semi-automatic Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds Skeleton without Explicit Computation for Critical Points....Pages 777-782
Implementation of Automatic Nutrient Calculation System for Cooking Recipes Based on Text Analysis....Pages 783-788
A Feature Space Alignment Learning Algorithm....Pages 789-794
An Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Approach to Computer Go Controller Synthesis....Pages 795-800
Mining Frequent Itemsets with Dualistic Constraints....Pages 801-806
Extraction of Semantic Relation Based on Feature Vector from Wikipedia....Pages 807-813
Investigating Individual Decision Making Patterns in Games Using Growing Self Organizing Maps....Pages 814-819
Automatic Multi-document Summarization Based on New Sentence Similarity Measures....Pages 820-825
Using Common-Sense Knowledge in Generating Stories....Pages 826-831
Context-Based Interaction Design for Smart Homes....Pages 832-837
A Visual Approach for Classification Based on Data Projection....Pages 838-843
On Modelling Emotional Responses to Rhythm Features....Pages 844-849
Harnessing Wikipedia Semantics for Computing Contextual Relatedness....Pages 850-856
Chinese Morphological Analysis Using Morpheme and Character Features....Pages 857-860
An Improved Recommender Based on Hidden Markov Model....Pages 861-865
Event Recognition in Parking Lot Surveillance System....Pages 866-869
Heuristics- and Statistics-Based Wikification....Pages 870-874
Identification and Visualisation of Pattern Migrations in Big Network Data....Pages 875-878
Improving Top-N Recommendations with User Consuming Profiles....Pages 879-882
Towards Providing Music for Academic and Leisurely Activities of Computer Users....Pages 883-886
Overlapping Community Discovery via Weighted Line Graphs of Networks....Pages 887-890
Community Structure Based Node Scores for Network Immunization....Pages 891-894
Back Matter....Pages 895-898
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