Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 5th International Conference, ICAART 2013, Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Communications ... Computer and Information Science Book 449)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2013, held in Barcelona, Spain, in February 2013. The 20 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 269 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections on artificial intelligence and on agents. Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Investigations with Monte Carlo Tree Search for Finding Better Multivariate Horner Schemes....Pages 3-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 COHDA: A Combinatorial Optimization Heuristic for Distributed Agents....Pages 23-39 Rough Terrain Motion Planning for Actuated, Tracked Robots....Pages 40-61 A Framework Covering the Influence of ffm/neo pi-r Traits over the Dialogical Process of Rational Agents....Pages 62-79 Instrumentalization of Norm-regulated Transition System Situations....Pages 80-94 Path Planning for Tentacle Robots Using Soft Constraints....Pages 95-111 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Enhancing Products by Embedding Agents: Adding an Agent to a Robot for Monitoring, Maintenance and Disaster Prevention....Pages 115-130 Epistemic and Probabilistic ATL with Quantification and Explicit Strategies....Pages 131-148 Emergent Image Segmentation by Means of Evolved Connectionist Models and Using a Topological Active Net Model....Pages 149-161 Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Computer Interaction: A Comparative Study of Different Image Features....Pages 162-178 Evaluation of Class Binarization and Feature Selection in Tear Film Classification using TOPSIS....Pages 179-193 SMACH: Agent-Based Simulation Investigation on Human Activities and Household Electrical Consumption....Pages 194-210 Mapping Multichannel Documents to Attentive Tasks: Ensuring Information Gain and Detecting Failure....Pages 211-227 Constraint-Handling with Support Vector Decoders....Pages 228-244 Generation of Learning Situations According to the Learner’s Profile Within a Virtual Environment....Pages 245-260 Sentence Reduction Algorithms to Improve Multi-document Summarization....Pages 261-276 Diverse Planning for UAV Trajectories....Pages 277-292 Behavioral Reasoning on Semantic Business Processes in a Rule-Based Framework....Pages 293-313 An Algorithm for Checking the Dynamic Controllability of a Conditional Simple Temporal Network with Uncertainty - Revisited....Pages 314-331 Magic Loops and the Dynamic Controllability of Simple Temporal Networks with Uncertainty....Pages 332-350 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Evolving Optimal Spatial Allocation Policies for Complex and Uncertain Environments....Pages 351-369 Back Matter....Pages 371-371 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.