STAIRS 2006: Proceedings of the Third Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium

290 Pages·2006·3.15 MB·English

by  A. Perini

STAIRS 2006
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STAIRS 2006
Proceedings of the Third Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium
Edited by
Loris Penserini
ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Pavlos Peppas
University of Patras, Greece
and
Anna Perini
ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
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Preface
STAIRS 2006 is the third European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, an interna-
tional meeting aimed at AI researchers, from all countries, at the beginning of their
career: PhD students or people holding a PhD for less than one year.
A total of 59 papers were submitted from 22 different countries: Australia, Austria,
Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
México, Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, UK, USA.
The areas of the submitted and accepted papers/posters ranges form traditional AI
areas, such as Knowledge Representation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Proc-
essing, Constraints, Planning and Scheduling, Agents, to AI applications, such as Se-
mantic Web, Data Clustering for medical application, E-learning.
The program committee decided to accept 20 full papers, which amounts to an ac-
ceptance rate of 33.8%, and 15 posters.
The STAIRS 2006 best paper award, sponsored by IOS, goes to Giorgos Flouris,
Dimitris Plexousakis, and Grigoris Antoniou for their paper:
On Generalizing the AGM Postulate
Congratulations!
The symposium programme includes two invited talks and technical sessions in
which the accepted papers and posters will be presented and discussed.
We thank the authors, the PC members and the additional reviewers for making
STAIRS 2006 a high-quality scientific event. We would like also to thank EasyChair
for the courtesy license of its conference management software.
STAIRS 2006 has benefited from ECAI 2006 in terms of administration support,
grants, and sponsorship.
June 2006 Loris Penserini
Pavlos Peppas
Anna Perini
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Symposium Chairs
Loris Penserini, SRA, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras, Greece
Anna Perini, SRA, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Programme Committee
Eyal Amir, USA Maurice Pagnucco, Australia
Anbulagan A, Australia Loris Penserini, Italy
Grigoris Antoniou, Greece Mikhail Prokopenko, Australia
Silvia Coradeschi, Sweden Jochen Renz, Australia
Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Italy Panagiotis Rondogiannis, Greece
Jim Delgrande, Canada Andrea Sboner, Italy
Sofoklis Efremidis, Greece Torsten Schaub, Germany
Norman Foo, Australia Luca Spalazzi, Italy
Rosella Gennari, Italy Steffen Staab, Germany
Dina Goren-Bar, Israel Geoff Sutcliffe, USA
Renata Guizzardi, Italy Armando Tacchella, Italy
Costas Koutras, Greece Valentina Tamma, UK
Ornella Mich, Italy Thanassis Tiropanis, Greece
Dunja Mladenic, Slovenia Isabel Trancoso, Portugal
Leora Morgenstern, USA George Vouros, Greece
Abhaya Nayak, Australia Renata Wassermann, Brazil
Antreas Nearchou, Greece Mary-AnneWilliams,Australia
Eva Onaindia, Spain Nirmalie Wiratunga, UK
Mehmet Orgun, Australia
Additional Reviewers
Christian Anger Randy Goebel Amandine Orecchioni
Paolo Busetta Giancarlo Guizzardi Nikolaos Papaspyrou
João Paulo Carvalho Lars Karlsson Joana L. Paulo
Sutanu Chakraborti Kathrin Konczak Eugene Santos
Alfredo Gabaldon Rahman Mukras Josef Urban
Manolis Gergatsoulis Christos Nomikos
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Contents
Preface v
Loris Penserini, Pavlos Peppas and Anna Perini
Conference Organization vii
FULL PAPERS
Agents
Cognitive Learning with Automatic Goal Acquisition 3
Josef Kittler, Mikhail Shevchenko and David Windridge
Semantics of Alan 14
Francesco Pagliarecci
A Compact Argumentation System for Agent System Specification 26
Insu Song and Guido Governatori
Social Responsibility Among Deliberative Agents 38
Paolo Turrini, Mario Paolucci and Rosaria Conte
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Base Extraction for Fuzzy Diagnosis of Mental Retardation Level 50
Alessandro G. Di Nuovo
Tuning the Feature Space for Content-Based Music Retrieval 62
Aleksandar Kovačević, Branko Milosavljević and Zora Konjović
Personalizing Trust in Online Auctions 72
John O’Donovan, Vesile Evrim, Barry Smyth, Dennis McLeod and
Paddy Nixon
Information Systems
An Hybrid Soft Computing Approach for Automated Computer Design 84
Alessandro G. Di Nuovo, Maurizio Palesi and Davide Patti
FUNEUS: A Neurofuzzy Approach Based on Fuzzy Adaline Neurons 96
Constantinos Koutsojannis and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
Empirical Evaluation of Scoring Methods 108
Luca Pulina
Knowledge Representation
Binarization Algorithms for Approximate Updating in Credal Nets 120
Alessandro Antonucci, Marco Zaffalon, Jaime S. Ide and Fabio G. Cozman