KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 34th Annual German Conference on AI, Berlin, Germany, October 4-7,2011. Proceedings

382 Pages·2011·7.44 MB·English

by  Jörg Hoffmann (auth.)

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7006
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
LNAISeriesEditors
RandyGoebel
UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada
YuzuruTanaka
HokkaidoUniversity,Sapporo,Japan
WolfgangWahlster
DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany
LNAIFoundingSeriesEditor
JoergSiekmann
DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany
Joscha Bach Stefan Edelkamp (Eds.)
KI 2011:Advances in
Artificial Intelligence
34th Annual German Conference on AI
Berlin, Germany, October 4-7, 2011
Proceedings
1 3
SeriesEditors
RandyGoebel,UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada
JörgSiekmann,UniversityofSaarland,Saarbrücken,Germany
WolfgangWahlster,DFKIandUniversityofSaarland,Saarbrücken,Germany
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JoschaBach
Humboldt-UniversityofBerlin
BerlinSchoolofMindandBrain
UnterdenLinden6,10099Berlin,Germany
E-mail:[email protected]
StefanEdelkamp
UniversityofBremen
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P.O.Box330440,28334Bremen,Germany
E-mail:[email protected]
ISSN0302-9743 e-ISSN1611-3349
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DOI10.1007/978-3-642-24455-1
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Preface
TheyearlyGermanConferenceonArtificialIntelligenceisthepremierforumfor
German research in artificial intelligence, and attracts numerous international
guests, too. KI 2011, the 34th event of the series, reflected a long-standing tra-
dition,andcontinuedtomirrorthe trends anddevelopmentsofthe science.The
2011 conference took place in Berlin during October 4–7, in co-location with
INFORMATIK 2011, the 41st Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft fu¨r Infor-
matik, and MATES 2011, the 9th German Conference on Multi-Agent System
Technologies.
Sinceitsinception,artificialintelligencehasbeenatthevanguardofcomputer
science, and today, its applications and methods have become so widespread
andubiquitousthatmostpeoplesimplytakethemforgranted.Itscontributions
have so thoroughly permeated the fabric of our digital lives that they have
become almost invisible. Artificial intelligence has become a mainstay, and is
integrated everywhere from entertainment electronics and Internet technologies
to transport and industry applications, from finance to agriculture, from art
to electronic reading, from cognitive science to medicine. KI 2011 reflected this
by its focus on advances “Towards a Smart World—Evolving Technologies in
Artificial Intelligence.”
This volume contains the technical papers of KI 2011.For the technical pro-
gram, we received 81 submissions, of which the Program Committee accepted
32after a rigorousreview(25 ofthese as full papers,and7 as shortpapers,lim-
ited to five pages). The volume also includes three programmatic contributions
corresponding to invited talks of KI 2011: “Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Planning (But Were Afraid to Ask)” by Jo¨rg Hoffmann, “Why
We Need Evolutionary Semantics” by Luc Steels, and “General Game Playing
in AI Research and Education” by Michael Thielscher. A fourth invited talk by
Sven Koenig concerned“Making Good Decisions: Case Studies in Planning and
Coordination.”
On the first day of the conference, PhD students presented and discussed
theirworkinadoctoralconsortium,whichendedinapaneldiscussiononmeth-
ods, practices and philosophy of artificial intelligence, held by Bernhard Nebel,
University of Freiburg; Franz Baader, TU Dresden; Ulrich Frank, University of
Duisburg-Essen; and Ingo J. Timm, University of Trier.
The 1st German Open in General Game Playing (GO-GGP) was organized
by the competition chairs Peter Kissmann and Tim Federholzner.
VI Preface
In addition to the main program, KI 2011 featured seven workshops with
many additional researchpresentations:
– 5th Workshop on Emotion and Computing—Current Research and Future
Impact. Chair: Dirk Reichardt.
– 6th Workshop on Behavior Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI 2011).
Chairs: Bj¨orn Gottfried and Hamid Aghajan.
– Third Workshop on Dynamics of Knowledge and Belief—Evolving
KnowledgeinTheoryand Applications.Chairs:Gabriele Kern-Isbernerand
Christoph Beierle.
– 26th Workshop on Planning Scheduling, Configuration Design (PuK 2011).
Chairs: Ju¨rgen Sauer, Stefan Edelkamp and Bernd Schattenberg.
– First International Workshop on Algorithmic Intelligence. Chairs: Carsten
Elfers, Rune Jensen, Hartmut Messerschmidt and Rasmus Pagh.
– Workshop on Visibility in Information Spaces and in Geographic Environ-
ments. Chairs: Andreas Henrich, Christoph Schlieder and Ute Schmid.
– Workshop on Context-Aware Intelligent Assistance (CAIA 2011). Chairs:
Stefan Mandl, Bernd Ludwig and Florian Michahelles.
Giorgio Grisetti, Andreas Nu¨chter and Alexander Kleiner offered a full-day
tutorial on “SLAM to the Rescue: A Hands-On Tutorial on Using State-of-the-
Art SLAM Algorithms in Harsh Environments.” Various robotics researchers
fromBerlinuniversitiesprovideddemonstrationsoftheirwork,especiallyVerena
Hafner, Manfred Hild, Clemens Eppner, Daniel Seifert, and their teams.
Theorganizationofaconferencelikethisoneisonlypossiblewiththesupport
of many individuals. First of all, the organizers wish to thank the authors for
their contributions. We had a very strong and competent Program Committee
consistingof75members,whichensuredthateachsubmissionunderwentseveral
thorough and timely reviews.
The KI 2011 conference team included:
– Co-location: Doris F¨ahndrich (TU Berlin)
– Workshop Chair: Bernd Schattenberg (University of Ulm)
– Tutorial Chair: Sebastian Kupferschmid (University of Freiburg)
– Doctorial Consortium Chair: Ren´e Schumann (University of Applied
Sciences Western Switzerland)
– Industry Liaisons: Roman Englert (T-LABs)
We extend our thanks to these and all other people and institutions that
made this happening asuccess,especiallythe Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG), the Gesellschaft fu¨r Informatik (GI), the Technologie-Zentrum Infor-
matik in Bremen (TZI), the Technical University of Berlin, Springer, and the
Elsevier Journal for Artificial Intelligence (AIJ).
August 2011 Joscha Bach
Stefan Edelkamp
Organization
General Chair
Stefan Edelkamp Universita¨t Bremen
Local Chair
Joscha Bach Humboldt-Universita¨t zu Berlin
Workshop Chair
Bernd Schattenberg Universita¨t Ulm
Tutorial Chair
Sebastian Kupferschmid Universita¨t Freiburg
Doctorial Consortium Chair
Ren´e Schumann NII, Tokyo
Program Committee
Klaus-Dieter Althoff University of Hildesheim, Germany
Tamim Asfour Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Amit Banerjee University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Sven Behnke University of Bonn, Germany
Maren Bennewitz University of Freiburg, Germany
Ralph Bergmann University of Trier, Germany
Marc Cavazza University of Teesside, UK
Daniel Cernea University of Kaiserslautern,Germany
Eliseo Clementini University of L’Aquila, Italy
Cristobal Curio Max Planck Institute for Biological
Cybernetics, Germany
Kerstin Dautenhahn University of Hertfordshire, UK
Frank Dylla University of Bremen, Germany
Dominik Endres University of Tu¨bingen, Germany
Florian Eyben Munich University of Technology, Germany
VIII Organization
Udo Frese University of Bremen, Germany
Stefan Funke University of Stuttgart, Germany
Johannes Fu¨rnkranz TU Darmstadt, Germany
Christopher Geib University of Edinburgh, UK
Bjoern Gottfried University of Bremen, Germany
Horst-Michael Gross Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany
Jens-Steffen Gutmann Evolution Robotics, Pasadena,USA
Martin Gu¨nther University of Osnabru¨ck, Germany
Fred Hamker Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Malte Helmert University of Freiburg, Germany
Dominik Henrich University of Bayreuth, Germany
Joachim Hertzberg University of Osnabru¨ck, Germany
Otthein Herzog University of Bremen and Jacobs University
Bremen, Germany
Jo¨rg Hoffmann INRIA, France
Gabriele Kern-Isberner Dortmund University of Technology, Germany
Peter Kissmann University of Bremen, Germany
Alexander Kleiner University of Freiburg, Germany
Roman Kontchakov Birkbeck College, UK
Oliver Kramer University of Oldenburg, Germany
Ralf Krestel Leibniz Universita¨t Hannover, Germany
Rudolf Kruse Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg,
Germany
Torsten Kro¨ger Stanford University, USA
Bogdan Kwolek Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
Kai-Uwe Ku¨hnberger University of Osnabru¨ck, Germany
Gerhard Lakemeyer RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Tobias Lang Freie Universita¨t Berlin, Germany
Hagen Langer University of Bremen, Germany
Volker Lohweg inIT - Institute Industrial IT, Germany
Benedikt Lo¨we Universiteit van Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Katja Markert University of Leeds, UK
Robert Mattmu¨ller University of Freiburg, Germany
B¨arbel Mertsching GET Lab, PaderbornUniversity, Germany
Hartmut Messerschmidt University of Bremen, Germany
Bernd Michaelis Otto von Guericke University Mageburg,
Germany
Ralf Mo¨ller Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Oliver Niggemann inIT - Institute Industrial IT, Germany
Justus Piater University of Innsbruck, Austria
Felix Putze Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jochen Renz Australian National University, Australia
Gerhard Rigoll Munich University of Technology, Germany
Alessandro Saffiotti O¨rebro University, Sweden
Organization IX
Ju¨rgen Sauer University of Oldenburg, Germany
Bernd Schattenberg Ulm University, Germany
Malte Schilling International Computer Science Institute,
Berkeley, USA
Ute Schmid University of Bamberg, Germany
Lutz Schr¨oder DFKI Bremen and University of Bremen,
Germany
Carsten Schuermann IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ren´e Schumann National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Jan-Georg Smaus University of Freiburg, Germany
Luciano Spinello University of Freiburg, Germany
Steffen Staab University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Cyrill Stachniss University of Freiburg, Germany
Rainer Stiefelhagen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Ingo J. Timm University of Trier, Germany
Rudolph Triebel University of Oxford, UK
Toby Walsh NICTA and UNSW, Australia
Thomas Wiemann University of Osnabru¨ck, Germany
Dirk Wollherr Munich University of Technology, Germany
Diedrich Wolter University of Bremen, Germany
Stefan W¨olfl University of Freiburg, Germany
Additional Reviewers
Alhalah, Ziad IJsselmuiden, Joris Ruß, Georg
Althoff, Daniel Janssen, Frederik Ryll, Markus
Bach, Kerstin Jung, Jean Christoph Schauerte, Boris
Banerjee, Amit Maier, Daniel Schiffer, Stefan
Bengtson, Jesper Martiny, Karsten Stanczyk, Bartlomiej
Besold, Tarek Richard Maye, Jerome Steinbrecher, Matthias
Bienvenu, Meghyn Moewes, Christian Stommel, Martin
Breidt, Martin Mu¨ller, Steffen Storandt, Sabine
Eisner, Jochen Newo, Rgis Stricker, Ronny
Elfers, Carsten Oezcep, Oezguer Szedmak, Sandor
Eyerich, Patrick Paris, Jeff Volkhardt, Michael
Ferrein, Alexander Passenberg,Benjamin Wandelt, Sebastian
Goncharov,Sergey Paulheim, Heiko Ziegelmann, Mark
Held, Pascal Pfeifer, Niki
Hornung, Armin Rohrmu¨ller, Florian
Table of Contents
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Planning
(But Were Afraid to Ask)......................................... 1
J¨org Hoffmann
Why We Need Evolutionary Semantics ............................. 14
Luc Steels
General Game Playing in AI Research and Education................. 26
Michael Thielscher
ConversationalAgents in a Virtual World ........................... 38
Peter Adolphs, Anton Benz, Nu´ria Bertomeu Castello´,
Xiwen Cheng, Tina Klu¨wer, Manfred Krifka, Alexandra Strekalova,
Hans Uszkoreit, and Feiyu Xu
Dependency Graphs as a Generic Interface between Parsers and
Relation Extraction Rule Learning ................................. 50
Peter Adolphs, Feiyu Xu, Hong Li, and Hans Uszkoreit
Evaluation and Comparison Criteria for Approaches to Probabilistic
Relational Knowledge Representation............................... 63
Christoph Beierle, Marc Finthammer, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, and
Matthias Thimm
Segmentation of Action Streams Human Observers vs. Bayesian
Binning......................................................... 75
Dominik Endres, Andrea Christensen, Lars Omlor, and
Martin A. Giese
Speedy Local Search for Semi-Supervised Regularized Least-Squares.... 87
Fabian Gieseke, Oliver Kramer, Antti Airola, and Tapio Pahikkala
Model-Based Object Recognition from 3D Laser Data ................ 99
Martin Gu¨nther, Thomas Wiemann, Sven Albrecht, and
Joachim Hertzberg
SwarmIntelligenceforMedicalVolumeSegmentation:TheContribution
of Self-reproduction .............................................. 111
Robert Haase, Hans-Joachim B¨ohme, Daniel Zips, and
Nasreddin Abolmaali
Efficient Sequential Clamping for Lifted Message Passing.............. 122
Fabian Hadiji, Babak Ahmadi, and Kristian Kersting