Table Of ContentApplications and Innovations in Intelligent
Systems VII
Springer-Verlag London Ltd
Richard Ellis, Mike Moulton
and Frans Coenen (Eds)
Applications and Innovatiosn
in Intelligent Systems VII
Proceedinsg of ES9,9 the Nineteenht SGES Internationla
Conferenec on Knowledeg Based Systems and Applied
Artificial Intelligenc,e Cambridg,e Decembre 1999
fij) Springer
Richard Ellis, BSc, MSc
Crew Services Ltd, Fairfield House, Kingston Crescent, Portsmouth, UK
Mike Moulton, BSc
Department of Accounting and Management Science, Portsmouth Business School,
University ofPortsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Frans Coenen, PhD
Department of Computer Science, University ofLiverpool, Chadwick Building,
Liverpool, UK
ISBN 978-1-4471-0465-0
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Applications and innovations in intelligent systems VII :
Proceedings ofES99, the nineteenth SGES International
Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied
Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, December 1999
1. Expert systems (Computer science) - Congresses
2. Intelligent control systems -Congresses
I. EIIis, Richard II. Moulton, Michael III. Coenen, Frans
N. British Computer Society. Specia1ist Group on Expert
Systems. International conference on Knowledge Based
Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence (19th: 1999)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ES99CONFERENCECOMMITTEE
DrFransCoenen,UniversityofLiverpool (Conference Chairman)
DrRobertMilne,IntelligentApplicationsLtd(DeputyConferenceChairman)
DrIanWatson,SalfordUniversity(TutorialandWorkshop Co-ordinator)
RichardEllis,CrewServicesLtd(ApplicationProgrammeChair)
MikeMoulton,UniversityofPortsmouth(DeputyApplicationProgrammeChair)
ProfessorMaxBramer,UniversityofPortsmouth(TechnicalProgrammeChair)
AnnMacintosh,NapierUniversity(Deputy TechnicalProgrammeChair)
APPLICATION PROGRAMMECOMMITTEE
RichardEllis (Chair)
MikeMoulton (DeputyChair)
RickMagaldi
PeterHerdman
APPLICATION PROGRAMMEREFEREES
RajanAmin(ERATechnologyLtd)
ArnoldvandeBrug(CompaqLtd)
PaulChung(LoughboroughUniversity)
FransCoenen(UniversityofLiverpool)
BillEdisbury(Npower)
RichardEllis(CrewServicesLtd)
JohnGordon(NorthWestAI ApplicationsGroup)
PeterHerdman(ArjoWiggins)
ChrisKirkham (BruneIUniversity)
RickMagaldi(BritishAirways)
RobertMilne(IntelligentApplicationsLtd)
AlanMontgomery(IntegralSolutionsLtd)
MikeMoulton(UniversityofPortsmouth)
MikeBushnell(NationalGrid)
QiangShen(UniversityofEdinburgh)
PaulSlater(Compaq)
RalphTraphoener(TechnicalInnovation)
IanWatson(UniversityofSalford)
RichardWheeler(Starlab)
CONTENTS
APPLICATIONPROGRAMMECHAIRMAN'SINTRODUCTION
R.K.Ellis ix
BESTREFEREEDAPPLICATIONPAPER
Sky'sTheLimit,APersonalTVListingsServicefortheDigitalTVAge
B.Smyth andP. Cotter 3
SESSION1:KNOWLEDGEANDPROCESSMANAGEMENT
PracticalApproachestoKnowledgeManagement
J.L. Gordon, C.Smith, S.Scott,1.McBriar,S. Walbank, G. Bain, and
P. Unsworth :............................................................................................. 17
CapabilityModellingandKnowledgeManagement
J. StaderandA.Macintosh 33
AMulti-AgentSystemforEmergentProcessManagement
J.Debenham 51
CreatingKnowledgeMapsbyExploitingDependentRelationships
J.L. Gordon 63
SESSION2:ENGINEERINGAPPLICATIONS
TowardsTheApplicationofCaseBasedReasoningtoDecision-Makingin
ConcurrentProductDevelopment(ConcurrentEngineering)
RU.Haque, R.A. Belecheanu,R.J. BarsonandK.S. Pawar 81
CBRSystemsforInterpretationofEddy-CurrentandUltrasonicNDTData
J.JarmulakandE.J.M. Giling 102
ImprovedModellingandControlofOilandGasTransportFacility
OperationsUsingArtificialIntelligence
M. Neuroth, P.MacConnell,F.Stronach andP. Vamplew 119
AI Planning:SolutionsforRealWoddProblems
R.S.Aylett, G.]. Petley,P.W.H. Chung,R Chen,J. Soutterand
D.W. Edwards 137
SESSION3:DECISIONSUPPORTAPPLICATIONS
RealTimeTacticalDecisionSupportForaMaritimeAircraft
A.McLachlan, R. Thorn, P.Millington andD.Pears 155
Case-BasedReasoningforNutritionConsulting
M.A.L. The, R.C.Bell, K.G. Camargo,R. Weber, A.Martinsand
R.M. Barcia 180
VIII
DataMiningattheWestMidlandsPolice:AStudyofBogusOfficial
Burglaries
R.AdderleyandP.B.Musgrove 191
UsingDataMiningtoImproveClinicalDecisionSupport
K.B. Burn-Thornton, S.1. Thorpe andJ. Attenborough 204
SESSION4:SUPPORTAPPLICATIONS
MultipleAlgorithmsforFraudDetection
R. WheelerandS.Aitken 219
AppliedArtificialIntelligence:ARiskManagementProbleminTrade
Finance
S. Dalton 232
ConstraintsandGeneticAlgorithmtoSolveTransportScheduling
F.Arshad,A.Bl-RhalibiandG.Kelleher 248
SHAMASHAKnowledge-BasedSystemforBusinessProcessReengineering
D. Camacho, R.Aler,D.Borrajo,J.1. GiraldezandA.Sierra 269
SESSION5:ENGINEERINGANDMANAGEMENTAPPLICATIONS
ConditionMonitoringofGroundAnchoragesUsinganArtificialNeural
NetworkandWaveletTechniques
A. Starkey,J. Penman andA.A.Rodger 283
AnIntelligentControlSystemforFabricationofOpticalFilters
D.A.Linkens,M.F. AbbodandJ.Metcalfe 291
Neuro-FuzzyandRegressionTechniquesforCNCThermalError
Compensation
W. Dixon, Q.Mehdi,N. Gough andJ.Pitchford 304
AI-BasedSpeedTransducerlessControlofElectromechanicalDrives
P.MacConnen F. StronachandPVas 323
AuthorIndex 347
APPLICATION PROGRAMME CHAIRMAN'S INTRODUalON
R.K.ELLIS
CrewServicesLtd, Portsmouth, UK
The papers in this Volumewere presentedin the ApplicationStream ofES99, the
19thInternational Conference ofthe British Computer Society's Specialist Group
on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in
Cambridge,UKinDecember1999.
The papers describe deployed or developing applications of intelligent system
technology, and have been selected' for their value to others involved in the
developingandfieldingofpracticalAIbasedsystems.
Authors submitting papers to the Application Stream were asked to address a
rangeoffeatures, includingadescriptionoftheproblembeingaddressed, theway
the application was built, the problems encountered and the practical and
business benefits achieved. The call for papers received a strong response, and
this volume contains twenty one papers covering a wide range of application
domainsandtechnologies.
All papers received were scrutinisedbyat least two referees, who offered overall
assessments and detailed comments both to the authors and to the Application
Programme Committee. In the case of controversial papers, or where more
detailedspecialistknowledgewasrequired, theviewsofadditionalexpertreferees
weresoughtbeforedecisionsweremade. Twentyone paperswerefinallyselected
for theconference.
AnumberofcandidatesfortheBestRefereedApplicationPaperwereputforward
by the referees, and these were considered by the Application Programme
Committee. "Sky's the Limit", the paper by BarrySmyth and Paul Cotter was a
deserving winner. Special mention must, however, also go to Richard Wheeler
and Stuart Aitken for their paper "Multiple Algorithms for Fraud Detection",
which was highly commended by the Programme Committee and ran a close
second.
The range ofpapersin thisvolumeclearlyillustratesthebreadthofapplicationof
intelligent system techniques across many domains in industry, commerce and
government. The papershighlightthewayinwhich newtechniqueswere applied
and the difficulties encountered, and the benefits realised or expected. Many
papers illustrate the growing trend of applications to combine a number of AI
techniques, as well as the integration ofAI elementswith conventional computer
systems.
The Applications and Innovations series, ofwhich this is the seventh volume, is
now a well established source of information documenting the success of
intelligentsystems in solving realworld problems in the UK, Europe and the rest
oftheworld.
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I should like to thank the other members of the Application Programme
Committeeandthe refereesfor theirassistance inassessingandselectingpapers,
and also LinsayTurbert and Thelma Williams for their invaluable support in the
complexadministrativeprocessofcompilingavolumesuchasthis.
RichardEllis
ApplicationProgrammeChairman,ES99
BEST REFEREED APPLICATION PAPER
