Date: Fri, 1 Oct 99 15:34:47 EDT
From: Weiyi Meng <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Participation
The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on
Tools with Artificial Intelligence
http://opal.cs.binghamton.edu/~wu/ICTAI.htm
Chicago IL, November 9-11, 1999
Advance Program
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society
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Tuesday, November 9, 1999
9:15 - 9:30: Opening Remarks
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9:30 - 10:30:
Keynote Speech Session
Web Metrology: The Measurement of Information on the Web
C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute
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10:30 - 10:50: Coffee break
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10:50 - 12:20: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 1A: Intelligent Tutoring System
Session Chair: Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
Towards a Computationally Intelligent Lesson Adaptation for a
Distance Learning Course, G. Magoulas, K. Papanikolaou,
M. Grigoriadou
A Practical Student Model in an Intelligent Tutoring System,
Y. Zhou, M. Evens (short paper)
Managing Inference Process in Student Modelling for Intelligent
Tutoring Systems, R. Nkambou (short paper)
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Session 1B: Machine Learning/Genetic Algorithm
Session Chair: Yi Shang
GraGA: A Graph Based Genetic Algorithm for Airline Crew
Scheduling, H. Ozdemir, C. Mohan (short paper)
Using Knowledge-based System with Hierarchical Architecture to
Guide the Search of Evolutionary Computation, X. Jin, R. Reynolds
Examplar-based Prototype Selection for a Multi-Strategy Learning
System, P. Njiwoua, E. Nguifo (short paper)
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Session 1C: Soft Computing
Session Chair: Chilukuri K. Mohan
Dynamical Causal Net - An Extension of Fuzzy Cognitive Map
Y. Miao, Z. Liu, S. Li, C. K. Siew (short paper)
Cognitive Packet Networks, E. Gelenbe, Z. Xu, E. Seref (invited)
Using Parallel Techniques to Improve the Computational
Efficiency of Evidential Combination, X. Hong, K. Adamson,
W. Liu (short paper)
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12:20 - 2:00: Lunch Break
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2:00 - 3:00: Keynote Speech Session
Managing and Mining Multimedia Databases
Bhavani Thuraisingham
Mitre
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3:00 - 3:20: Coffee Break
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3:20 - 5:20: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 2A: AI and Software Engineering
Session Chair: Jeffrey Tsai
Structuring Requirements Specifications through Goals
Interactions, J. Lee, N-L. Xue, K-H. Hsu, Y-Y. Fangjang
Using an Artificial Intelligence Approach to Build an Automated
Program Understanding/Fault Localization Tool
I. Burnstein, F. Saner, Y. Limpiyakorn
A Formal Basis for Consistency, Evolution and Rationale
Management in Requirements Engineering, A. Ghose
Intelligent Web Representatives, D. Sapp, Y. Shang (short paper)
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Session 2B: Data Mining
Session Chair: Bamshad Mobasher
HOT: Heuristics for Oblique Trees, V. S. Iyengar
Mining Fuzzy Quantitative Association Rules, W. Zhang
(short paper)
Neural Data Mining for Credit Card Fraud Detection
R. Brause, T. Langsdorf, M. Hepp (short paper)
Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Data Mining Tool C5
M. Lu, D. Zhang, H. Xu, K. Lau, L. Lu (short paper)
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Session 2C: Image and Vision
Session Chair: Alexis Delis
An Expert System for Automatic Facial Expression based on Dual
Facial Views, M. Pantic, L.J.M. Rothkrantz (short paper)
Face Detection and Its Applications in Intelligent and Focused
Image Retrieval, Z. Zhang, R. K. Srihari, A. Rao (short paper)
An Agent Framework for Automated Medical Imaging Interpretation,
M. Popescu, Y. Shang (short paper)
A Software Tool for Real-Time Low Level Vision, D. Goldman,
N. Bourbakis (invited)
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Wednesday, November 10, 1999
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8:40 - 9:40: Keynote Speech Session
Process Aware Systems
John Salasin
Darpa
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9:40 - 10:00: Coffee Break
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10:00 - 12:00: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 3A: Logic and Reasoning
Session Chair: Weining Zhang
Two-sided Hypotheses Generation for Abductive Analogical Reasoning,
A. Abe
A Family of Delphi Components for Case-Based Reasoning,
H. Bergstrvm
On a Deductive Reasoning Model and Method for Uncertainty,
M. Suzuki, T. Matsushima, S. Hirasawa (short paper)
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Session 3B: Video and Image
Session Chair: Nikolaos Bourbakis
A Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Support for Modeling
and Querying Video Data, E. Ardizzone, M-S. Hacid
Augmented Transition Networks as Video Browsing Models for
Multimedia Databases and Multimedia Information Systems,
S-C. Chen, S. Sista, M-L. Shyu, R. L. Kashyap
Exploring Color Histograms in Spatial Dimensions in Content-based
Image Retrieval, A. Rao, R. Srihari, Z. Zhang (short paper)
Efficiently Detecting Arbitrary Shaped Clusters in Image Databases
D. Yu, S. Chatterjee, A. Zhang (invited)
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Session 3C: Search and Constraint Satisfaction (I)
Session Chair: Ming-Syan Chen
On the Fine Structure of Large Search Spaces, C. Gomes, B. Selman
A Strong Local Consistency for Constraint Satisfaction,
R. Debruyne
Solving Hard Satisfiability Problems: A Unified Algorithm Based
on Discrete Lagrange Multipliers, Z. Wu, B. Wah
Removing Node and Edge Overlapping in Graph Layouts by A
Modified EGENET Solver, V. Tam
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12:00 - 1:30: Lunch Break
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1:30 - 2:30: Keynote Speech Session
Title TBA
Dave Hislop
Army Research Laboratory
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2:40 - 4:10: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 4A: Neural Networks
Session Chair: Rudiger Brause
Mining Typhoon Knowledge with Neural Networks,
Z. Zhou, S. Chen, Z. Chen (short paper)
NeuroFuzzy Approaches for Advanced Hearing Devices,
R.Gao, Y. Liu, S. Basseas, L.Tsoukalas (invited)
Signal Trend Identification with Neural Networks Fuzzy Methods,
X. Wang and L. Tsoukalas (invited)
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Session 4B: Database
Session Chair: Weiyi Meng
On the Use of Genetic Algorithms in Database Client Clustering
J-H. Park, V. Kanitkar, A. Delis, R. Uma (short paper)
Query Reification based Approach for Object-Oriented Query
Formulation Aid, A. Seriai, M. Oussalah
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Session 4C: Data Mining
Session Chair: Chengwen Liu
Autonomous Filter Engine based on Knowledge Acquisition from
the Web, L. Lancieri, P. Agostini, N. Saillard, S. Legouix
(short paper)
Capturing User Access Patterns in the Web for Data Mining,
I-Y. Lin, X-M. Huang, M.-S. Chen (short paper)
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4:10 - 4:30: Coffee Break
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4:30 - 6:30: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 5A: Agent
Session Chair: Robert Reynolds
SAMON: Communication, Cooperation and Learning of Mobile
Autonomous Robotic Agents, E. Eberbach, S. Phoha
An In-Service Agent Monitoring and Analysis System
Z. Cui, B. Odgers, M. Schroeder
An Architecture for Designing Distributed Spoken Dialogue
Interface, C. Allen, S. Stoecklin, P. Bobbie, Q. Chen, P. Wu
An Agent-based Approach to Developing Intelligent Virtual
Reality-based Training Systems, F. Lin, C-J. Su, M. Tseng
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Session 5B: Machine Learning
Session Chair: Richard Hull
An Unsupervised Collaborative Learning Method to Refine
Classification Hierarchies, C. Wemmert, P. Cancarski, J. Korczak
An Engine for Cursive Handwriting Interpretation, G. Qian
Monitoring of Aircraft Operation Using Statistics and Machine
Learning, F. Famili, S. Letourneau
Controlled Flux Results in Stable Decision Trees, D. Kalles,
A. Papagelis
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Session 5C: Planning and Scheduling
Session Chair: Jonathan Lee
Mobile Robotics Planning using Abstract Markov Decision
Processes, P. Laroche, F. Charpillet, R. Schott
A Hybrid Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem,
W-K. Ho, A. Lim (short paper)
A Dynamic Scheduling Benchmark: Design, Implementation and
Performance Evaluation, B. Hamidzadeh, N. Kee
A Generic Task Strategy for Solving Routine Decision Making
Problems, R. Fox (short paper)
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7:00 - 9:00: Banquet
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Thursday, November 11, 1999
9:00 - 10:00: Keynote Speech Session
Engineering of Intelligent Agent Systems
Jeffrey Tsai
University of Illinois at Chicago
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10:00 - 10:20: Coffee Break
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10:20 - 12:20: 3 Parallel Paper Sessions
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Session 6A: Search and Constraint Satisfaction (II)
Session Chair: Dimitris Kalles
Search Strategies for Hybrid Search Spaces, C. Gomes, B. Selman
Fast and Efficient Searching of Multimedia Databases Using
Holographic Memory, P. Berra, P. Mitkas, S. Zhong (invited)
Box Consistency through Weak Box Consistency, L. Granvilliers,
F. Goualard, F. Benhamou
Constrained Simulated Annealing with Applications in Nonlinear
Constrained Global Optimization, B. Wah, T. Wang
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Session 6B: Information Retrieval
Session Chair: Zhongfei Zhang
Ontology Based Personalized Search, A. Pretschner, S. Gauch
Dynamic Email Organization via Relevance Categories, K. Mock
A New Study on Using HTML Structures to Improve Retrieval
M. Cutler, H. Deng, S. Manicaan, W. Meng (short paper)
Learning to Identify Interesting Links in Intelligent
Information Discovery, D. Fragoudis, S. Likothanassis
(short paper)
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Session 6C: Knowledge-Base/Knowledge Representation
Session Chair: Du Zhang
Neurules: Improving the Performance of Symbolic Rules,
I. Hatzilygeroudis, J. Prentzas
Overcoming the Christmas Tree Syndrome, E. Gregoire
On the Sufficiency of Limited Testing for Knowledge Based
Systems, T. Menzies, B. Cukic
VERITAS - An Application for Knowledge Verification,
J. Santos, C. Ramos, Z. Vale, A. Marques (short paper)
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12:20 - 2:00: Lunch Break
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2:00 - 3:30: Panel
The Role and Impact of Intelligent Agents in the Internet
Moderator: N. Bourbakis (SUNY-Binghamton)
Panelists: F. Bastani (UTD), C.V. Ramamoorthy (UC Berkeley)
S. Gauch (U Kansas), J. Tsai (UIC), B. Wah (UIUC)
P. Bruce Berra (WSU-ITRI)
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The Eleventh IEEE International Conference on
Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Chicago IL, November 9-11, 1999
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Hotel Information
ICTAI'99 will be held at
Omni-Orrington Hotel
1710 Orrington Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
1-847-866-8700
The room rate is $129.00/night (single) plus taxes
$139.00/night (double) plus taxes
The reservation cut-off date is October 18, 1999 at 5:00pm
central time.
More information about hotel including directions is available
on ICTAI'99 home page: http://opal.cs.binghamton.edu/~wu/ICTAI.htm.
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Conference Organization
Steering Committee:
Nikolaos Bourbakis (Chair), State University of New York
at Binghamton
C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California at Berkeley
Von-Wun Soo, National Tsing Hua University
Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bemjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
General Chair: Farokh B. Bastani
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas, Dallas
Computer Engineering School
M/S-EC-31
Richarson, TX 75083-0688
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Phone: 972-883-2299
Fax: 972-883-2349
Program Chair: Weiyi Meng
Dept. of Computer Science
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
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Phone: 607-777-4311
Fax: 607-777-4729
Registration Chair: Nikolaos Bourbakis
Dept. of Electrical and Engineering
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000
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Phone: 607-777-2165
Fax: 607-777-4464
Local Arrangement Co-chairs:
Chengwen Liu, DePaul University
Bomshad Mobasher, DePaul University
Publicity Chair:
Zonghuan Wu
State University of New York at Binghamton
Vice Program Chairs:
R|diger Brause, J.W.Goethe-University, Germany
Arbee L.P. Chen, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Alexis Delis, Polytechnic University, USA
James C. French, University of Virginia, USA
Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA
Fernando Gomez, University of Central Florida, USA
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece
Jonathan Lee, National Central University, Taiwan
Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, USA
Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA
Weining Zhang, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Program Committee Members:
James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Nickolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Yaodong Bi, University of Scranton, USA
Patrick O. Bobbie, Florida A&M University, USA
Athman Bouguettaya, Purdue University & QUT, USA
Basilis Boutsinas, University of Patras, Greece
Jason Chen, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Daniel E. Cooke, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University, USA
Michal Cutler, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University, USA
Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Lawrence O. Hall, University of South Florida, USA
Sanda Harabagiu, Southern Methodist University, USA
Timo Honkela, University of Art and Design, Finland
Richard D. Hull, Merck Research Laboratories, USA
Hung-Chin Jang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Dimitris Kalles, Computer Technology Institute. Greece
Rudolf Kruse, OvG-Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany
Chengwen Liu, DePaul University, USA
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA
Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia
Chilukuri K. Mohan, Syracuse University, USA
Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dan O'Leary, University of Southern California, USA
Robert G. Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA
Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Yi Shang, University of Missouri, USA
Robert P. Simon, George Mason University, USA
Brian M. Slator, North Dakota State University, USA
Pauray Tsai, Ming Hsin Institute of Technology, Taiwan
Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA
Charles Viles, University of North Carolina, USA
Eugene Wallingford, University of Northern Iowa, USA
John Yen, Texas A&M University, USA
Du Zhang, California State University, USA
Zhongfei Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Qiang Zhu, University of Michigan, USA
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