Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Reasoning Models.- Components for Case-Based Reasoning Systems.- Analysis of Tensions in a Population Based on the Adequacy Concept.- Qualitative Velocity.- Knowledge Representation Model for Dynamic Processes.- A Decision Case-Based System, That Reasons in Uncertainty Conditions.- Modeling Motion Qualitatively: Integrating Space and Time.- Qualitative Comparison of Temporal Series. QSI.- Integrating 3D Orientation Models.- Improving Reliability in Classification of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Case-Based Reasoning.- Fusion of Qualitative Preferences with Different Vocabularies.- FUTURA: Hybrid System for Electric Load Forecasting by Using Case-Based Reasoning and Expert System.- Constraint Satisfaction.- Minimal and Redundant SAT Encodings for the All-Interval-Series Problem.- PN to CSP Methodology: Improved Bounds.- Disjunction of Non-binary and Numeric Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Machine Learning and Classification.- An Empirical Approach to Discourse Markers by Clustering.- The Role of Interval Initialization in a GBML System with Rule Representation and Adaptive Discrete Intervals.- Feature Subset Selection in an ICA Space.- Validating Distance-Based Record Linkage with Probabilistic Record Linkage.- Evaluating Feature Selection Algorithms.- KDSM Methodology for Knowledge Discovery from Ill-Structured Domains Presenting Very Short and Repeated Serial Measures with Blocking Factor.- On Filtering the Training Prototypes in Nearest Neighbour Classification.- Classification of Abnormal Situations in a Waste Water Treatment Plant.- MultiAgent Systems.- Ant Colonies for the RCPS Problem.- A Multi-agent Architecture Integrating Learning and Fuzzy Techniques for Landmark-Based Robot Navigation.- SIMBA: An Approach for Real-Time Multi-agent Systems.- Cooperative Case Bartering for Case-Based Reasoning Agents.- Integrating the Organ and Tissue Allocation Processes through an Agent-Mediated Electronic Institution.- Computer Vison and Robotics.- Modelling the Acquisition Geometry of a C-Arm Angiography System for 3D Reconstruction.- Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition.- Efficient Path Planning Using Harmonic Functions Computed on a Non-regular Grid.- Image Texture Prediction Using Colour Photometric Stereo.- Region-Boundary Cooperative Image Segmentation Based on Active Regions.- Spherical Panoramas for Pan-Tilt Camera Motion Compensation in Space-Variant Images.- Unsupervised Parameterisation of Gaussian Mixture Models.- Bayesian Classification for Inspection of Industrial Products.- Internal and External Coronary Vessel Images Registration.- Textual Descriptors for Browsing People by Visual Appearance.