Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-11, 2015. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9273))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 36℗ℓ revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 131 submissions. EPIA 2015, following the standard EPIA format, covers a wide range of AI topics as follows: ambient intelligence and affective environments, artificial Intelligence in medicine, artificial intelligence in transportation systems, artificial life and evolutionary algorithms, computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology, general artificial intelligence, intelligent information systems, intelligent robotics, knowledge discovery and business intelligence, multi-agent systems: theory and applications, social simulation and modelling, text mining and applications Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Defining Agents’ Behaviour for Negotiation Contexts....Pages 3-14 Improving User Privacy and the Accuracy of User Identification in Behavioral Biometrics....Pages 15-26 Including Emotion in Learning Process....Pages 27-32 Ambient Intelligence: Experiments on Sustainability Awareness....Pages 33-38 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 Reasoning with Uncertainty in Biomedical Models....Pages 41-53 Smart Environments and Context-Awareness for Lifestyle Management in a Healthy Active Ageing Framework....Pages 54-66 Gradient: A User-Centric Lightweight Smartphone Based Standalone Fall Detection System....Pages 67-78 Towards Diet Management with Automatic Reasoning and Persuasive Natural Language Generation....Pages 79-90 Predicting Within-24h Visualisation of Hospital Clinical Reports Using Bayesian Networks....Pages 91-102 On the Efficient Allocation of Diagnostic Activities in Modern Imaging Departments....Pages 103-109 Ontology-Based Information Gathering System for Patients with Chronic Diseases: Lifestyle Questionnaire Design....Pages 110-115 Predicting Preterm Birth in Maternity Care by Means of Data Mining....Pages 116-121 Clustering Barotrauma Patients in ICU–A Data Mining Based Approach Using Ventilator Variables....Pages 122-127 Clinical Decision Support for Active and Healthy Ageing: An Intelligent Monitoring Approach of Daily Living Activities....Pages 128-133 Discovering Interesting Trends in Real Medical Data: A Study in Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 134-140 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 A Column Generation Based Heuristic for a Bus Driver Rostering Problem....Pages 143-156 A Conceptual MAS Model for Real-Time Traffic Control....Pages 157-168 Prediction of Journey Destination in Urban Public Transport....Pages 169-180 Demand Modelling for Responsive Transport Systems Using Digital Footprints....Pages 181-186 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 A Case Study on the Scalability of Online Evolution of Robotic Controllers....Pages 189-200 Front Matter....Pages 187-187 Spatial Complexity Measure for Characterising Cellular Automata Generated 2D Patterns ....Pages 201-212 Electricity Demand Modelling with Genetic Programming....Pages 213-225 The Optimization Ability of Evolved Strategies....Pages 226-237 Evolution of a Metaheuristic for Aggregating Wisdom from Artificial Crowds....Pages 238-249 The Influence of Topology in Coordinating Collective Decision-Making in Bio-hybrid Societies....Pages 250-261 A Differential Evolution Algorithm for Optimization Including Linear Equality Constraints....Pages 262-273 Multiobjective Firefly Algorithm for Variable Selection in Multivariate Calibration....Pages 274-279 Semantic Learning Machine: A Feedforward Neural Network Construction Algorithm Inspired by Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming....Pages 280-285 Eager Random Search for Differential Evolution in Continuous Optimization....Pages 286-291 Learning from Play: Facilitating Character Design Through Genetic Programming and Human Mimicry....Pages 292-297 Memetic Algorithm for Solving the 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem....Pages 298-304 Synthesis of In-Place Iterative Sorting Algorithms Using GP: A Comparison Between STGP, SFGP, G3P and GE....Pages 305-310 Front Matter....Pages 311-311 Variable Elimination Approaches for Data-Noise Reduction in 3D QSAR Calculations....Pages 313-325 Pattern-Based Biclustering with Constraints for Gene Expression Data Analysis....Pages 326-339 A Critical Evaluation of Methods for the Reconstruction of Tissue-Specific Models....Pages 340-352 Fuzzy Clustering for Incomplete Short Time Series Data....Pages 353-359 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Allowing Cyclic Dependencies in Modular Logic Programming....Pages 363-375 Probabilistic Constraint Programming for Parameters Optimisation of Generative Models....Pages 376-387 Reasoning over Ontologies and Non-monotonic Rules....Pages 388-401 On the Cognitive Surprise in Risk Management: An Analysis of the Value-at-Risk (VaR) Historical....Pages 402-413 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Logic Programming Applied to Machine Ethics....Pages 414-422 Front Matter....Pages 423-423 Are Collaborative Filtering Methods Suitable for Student Performance Prediction?....Pages 425-430 Front Matter....Pages 431-431 A New Approach for Dynamic Strategic Positioning in RoboCup Middle-Size League....Pages 433-444 Intelligent Wheelchair Driving: Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Real Intelligent Wheelchairs....Pages 445-456 A Skill-Based Architecture for Pick and Place Manipulation Tasks....Pages 457-468 Adaptive Behavior of a Biped Robot Using Dynamic Movement Primitives....Pages 469-479 Probabilistic Constraints for Robot Localization....Pages 480-486 Detecting Motion Patterns in Dense Flow Fields: Euclidean Versus Polar Space....Pages 487-492 Swarm Robotics Obstacle Avoidance: A Progressive Minimal Criteria Novelty Search-Based Approach....Pages 493-498 Front Matter....Pages 499-499 An Experimental Study on Predictive Models Using Hierarchical Time Series....Pages 501-512 Crime Prediction Using Regression and Resources Optimization....Pages 513-524 Distance-Based Decision Tree Algorithms for Label Ranking....Pages 525-534 A Proactive Intelligent Decision Support System for Predicting the Popularity of Online News....Pages 535-546 Periodic Episode Discovery Over Event Streams....Pages 547-559 Forecasting the Correct Trading Actions....Pages 560-571 CTCHAID: Extending the Application of the Consolidation Methodology....Pages 572-577 Towards Interactive Visualization of Time Series Data to Support Knowledge Discovery....Pages 578-583 Ramex-Forum: Sequential Patterns of Prices in the Petroleum Production Chain....Pages 584-589 Geocoding Textual Documents Through a Hierarchy of Linear Classifiers....Pages 590-596 A Domain-Specific Language for ETL Patterns Specification in Data Warehousing Systems....Pages 597-602 Front Matter....Pages 499-499 Optimized Multi-Resolution Indexing and Retrieval Scheme of Time Series....Pages 603-608 Front Matter....Pages 609-609 Minimal Change in Evolving Multi-Context Systems....Pages 611-623 Bringing Constitutive Dynamics to Situated Artificial Institutions....Pages 624-637 Checking WECTLK Properties of Timed Real-Weighted Interpreted Systems via SMT-Based Bounded Model Checking....Pages 638-650 SMT-Based Bounded Model Checking for Weighted Epistemic ECTL....Pages 651-657 Dynamic Selection of Learning Objects Based on SCORM Communication....Pages 658-663 Sound Visualization Through a Swarm of Fireflies....Pages 664-670 Front Matter....Pages 671-671 Analysing the Influence of the Cultural Aspect in the Self-Regulation of Social Exchanges in MAS Societies: An Evolutionary Game-Based Approach....Pages 673-686 Modelling Agents’ Perception: Issues and Challenges in Multi-agents Based Systems....Pages 687-695 Agent-Based Modelling for a Resource Management Problem in a Role-Playing Game....Pages 696-701 An Agent-Based MicMac Model for Forecasting of the Portuguese Population....Pages 702-707 Front Matter....Pages 709-709 Multilingual Open Information Extraction....Pages 711-722 Classification and Selection of Translation Candidates for Parallel Corpora Alignment....Pages 723-734 A SMS Information Extraction Architecture to Face Emergency Situations....Pages 735-746 Cross-Lingual Word Sense Clustering for Sense Disambiguation....Pages 747-758 Towards the Improvement of a Topic Model with Semantic Knowledge....Pages 759-770 RAPPORT — A Portuguese Question-Answering System....Pages 771-782 Automatic Distinction of Fernando Pessoas’ Heteronyms....Pages 783-788 Social Impact - Identifying Quotes of Literary Works in Social Networks....Pages 789-795 Fractal Beauty in Text....Pages 796-802 Front Matter....Pages 709-709 How Does Irony Affect Sentiment Analysis Tools?....Pages 803-808 Back Matter....Pages 809-811 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 36℗l revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 131 submissions. EPIA 2015, following the standard EPIA format, covers a wide range of AI topics as follows: ambient intelligence and affective environments, artificial Intelligence in medicine, artificial intelligence in transportation systems, artificial life and evolutionary algorithms, computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology, general artificial intelligence, intelligent information systems, intelligent robotics, knowledge discovery and business intelligence, multi-agent systems: theory and applications, social simulation and modelling, text mining and applications