Agents and Artificial Intelligence : 4th International Conference, ICAART 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 6-8, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2012, held in Vilamoura, Portugal, in February 2012. The 28 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 292 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections on artificial intelligence and on agents. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Coordination in Multi-robot Systems: Applications in Robotic Soccer....Pages 3-21 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Hierarchical Plan-Based Control in Open-Ended Environments: Considering Knowledge Acquisition Opportunities....Pages 25-38 Natural Language Interpretation for an Interactive Service Robot in Domestic Domains....Pages 39-53 A Fuzzy Logic Modeling Approach to Assess the Speed Limit Suitability in Urban Street Networks....Pages 54-68 Language Independent Extraction of Key Terms: An Extensive Comparison of Metrics....Pages 69-82 Action-Driven Perception for a Humanoid....Pages 83-99 Meta-learning of Exploration/Exploitation Strategies: The Multi-armed Bandit Case....Pages 100-115 MobEx: A System for Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web....Pages 116-130 A Framework for Interpreting Bridging Anaphora....Pages 131-144 Toward Information Sharing of Natural Disaster: Proposal of Timeline Action Network....Pages 145-157 The Bochica Framework for Model-Driven Agent-Oriented Software Engineering....Pages 158-172 Combining Uniform and Heuristic Search: Solving DSSSP with Restricted Knowledge of Graph Topology....Pages 173-187 Admissible Distance Heuristics for General Games....Pages 188-203 Retrieving Topological Information for Mobile Robots Provided with Grid Maps....Pages 204-217 Timeline Planning in the J-TRE Environment....Pages 218-233 Efficient Spatial Reasoning with Rectangular Cardinal Relations and Metric Constraints....Pages 234-249 Sorting High-Dimensional Patterns with Unsupervised Nearest Neighbors....Pages 250-267 Patient Classification and Automatic Configuration of an Intelligent Wheelchair....Pages 268-282 An Approach on Merging Agents’ Trust Distributions in a Possibilitic Domain....Pages 283-299 Building Self-adaptive Software Systems with Component, Services & Agents Technologies: Self -OSGi....Pages 300-316 Front Matter....Pages 317-317 Asset Value Game and Its Extension: Taking Past Actions into Consideration....Pages 319-331 A Strategy for Efficient Persuasion Dialogues....Pages 332-347 The Genoa Artificial Power-Exchange....Pages 348-363 Manipulation of Weighted Voting Games via Annexation and Merging....Pages 364-378 sp X-Machines: Formal State-Based Modelling of Spatial Agents....Pages 379-391 Talking Topically to Artificial Dialog Partners: Emulating Humanlike Topic Awareness in a Virtual Agent....Pages 392-406 Towards Semantic Resources in the Cloud....Pages 407-416 Researching Nonverbal Communication Strategies in Human-Robot Interaction....Pages 417-432 Evaluating Telepresence Robots in the Field....Pages 433-448 Back Matter....Pages -