Tasks and Methods in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems IEA-98-AIE Benicà ssim, Castellón, Spain, June 1–4, 1998 Proceedings, Volume II

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE-98, held in Benicassim, Castellon, Spain, in June 1998.The two volumes present a total of 187 revised full papers selected from 291 submissions. In accordance with the conference, the books are devoted to new methodologies, knowledge modeling and hybrid techniques. The papers explore applications from virtually all subareas of AI including knowledge-based systems, fuzzyness and uncertainty, formal reasoning, neural information processing, multiagent systems, perception, robotics, natural language processing, machine learning, supervision and control systems, etc.. Content: Front Matter....Pages - Neurocybernetics, codes and computation....Pages 1-14 The grand challenge is called: Robotic intelligence....Pages 15-24 A progressive heuristic search algorithm for the cutting stock problem....Pages 25-35 Discovering temporal relationships in databases of newspapers....Pages 36-45 Generic CSP techniques for the job-shop problem....Pages 46-55 A fast and efficient solution to the Capacity Assignment problem using discretized learning automata....Pages 56-65 Using OxSim for path planning....Pages 66-74 Multi-directional search with goal switching for robot path planning....Pages 75-84 Analytical potential fields and control strategies for motion planning....Pages 85-94 Exact geometry and robot motion planning: Speculations on a few numerical experiments....Pages 95-104 An evolutionary and local search algorithm for planning two manipulators motion....Pages 105-114 A genetic algorithm for robust motion planning....Pages 115-121 Coordinated motion of two robot arms for real applications....Pages 122-131 A low-risk approach to mobile robot path planning....Pages 132-141 Generating heuristics to control configuration processes....Pages 142-152 Valuing the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems with fast decision rules....Pages 153-162 Optimal periodic control with environmental application....Pages 163-172 A centralised hierarchical task scheduler for an urban traffic control system based on a multiagent architecture....Pages 173-182 A direct iteration method for global dynamic control of redundant manipulators....Pages 183-191 Design of ship-board control system based on the soft computing conception....Pages 192-199 Expert diagnostic using qualitative data and rule-based inferential reasoning....Pages 200-209 Qualitative event-based expert supervision Part 1: Methodology....Pages 210-219 Qualitative event-based expert supervision Part 2: Distillation start-up condition monitoring....Pages 220-229 Alarm processing and reconfiguration in power distribution systems....Pages 230-241 Behavioral interpretation according to multimodeling representation....Pages 242-251 An intelligent agent to aid in UNIX system administration....Pages 252-260 Process optimisation in an industrial supervision support system....Pages 261-270 MIMO predictive control of temperature and humidity inside a greenhouse using simulated annealing (SA) as optimizer of a multicriteria index....Pages 271-279 Stereo vision-based obstacle and free space detection in mobile robotics....Pages 280-289 Topological modeling with Fuzzy Petri Nets for autonomous mobile robots....Pages 290-299 Supervised reinforcement learning: Application to a wall following behaviour in a mobile robot....Pages 300-309 A communication protocol for clouds of mobile robots....Pages 310-318 Evolving neural controllers for temporally dependent behaviors in autonomous robots....Pages 319-328 GA-based on-line path planning for SAUVIM....Pages 329-338 Incremental building of a model of environment in the context of the McCulloch-Craik's functional architecture for mobile robots....Pages 339-352 Telerobotic system based on natural language and computer vision....Pages 353-364 Robust region-based stereo vision to build environment maps for robotics applications....Pages 365-374 A new on-line structure and parameter learning architecture for fuzzy modeling, based on neural and fuzzy techniques....Pages 375-382 An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) approach to control of robotic manipulators....Pages 383-392 Managing the usage experience in a library of software components....Pages 393-402 What can program supervision do for program re-use?....Pages 403-414 Using artificial intelligence planning techniques to automatically reconfigure software modules....Pages 415-426 Use of knowledge-based control for vision systems....Pages 427-436 SOLUTION for a learning configuration system for image processing....Pages 437-447 Machine learning usefulness relies on accuracy and self-maintenance....Pages 448-457 Improving Inductive learning in real-world domains through the identification of dependencies: The TIM Framework....Pages 458-468 From the nearest neighbour rule to decision trees....Pages 469-478 A new self-organizing strategy based on elastic networks for solving the euclidean traveling salesman problem....Pages 479-487 An inductive learning system for rating securities....Pages 488-496 Techniques and knowledge used for adaptation during case-based problem solving....Pages 497-506 Case-base maintenance....Pages 507-516 CBR: Strengths and weaknesses....Pages 517-524 Is CBR a technology or a methodology?....Pages 525-534 An efficient approach to iterative browsing and retrieval for case-based reasoning....Pages 535-546 Case based approach to the construction of a coal molecular structure model....Pages 547-556 Constructing higher order neurons of increasing complexity in cascade networks....Pages 557-563 Interpretable neural networks with BP-SOM....Pages 564-573 Reference pattern weight initialization for equalization....Pages 574-581 Autoassociative neural networks for fault diagnosis in semiconductor manufacturing....Pages 582-592 Supervised training of a neural network for classification via successive modification of the training data - an experimental study....Pages 593-602 An unsupervised training connectionist network with lateral inhibition....Pages 603-611 Temporal difference learning in Chinese Chess....Pages 612-618 Applying object logic programming to design computer strategies in gene scanning....Pages 619-627 Automatic storing and retrieval of large collections of images....Pages 628-637 Alternative communication interface for severely handicapped people based on a multimedia human-computer interaction system....Pages 638-647 Personalizing museum exhibition by mediating agents....Pages 648-657 A combined probabilistic framework for learning gestures and actions....Pages 658-667 Designing workspaces to support collaborative learning....Pages 668-677 Development of a decision support system for integrated water management in river basins....Pages 678-686 An application of an AI methodology to railway interlocking systems using computer algebra....Pages 687-696 Intelligent interpretation of strength data....Pages 697-706 HADES — A knowledge-based system for message interpretation and situation determination....Pages 707-716 Work in progress: Visual specification of knowledge bases....Pages 717-726 WebTutor, a knowlegde based system for evaluation and tutorship....Pages 727-734 Control knowledge and pedagogical aspects of the GET-BITS model....Pages 735-744 Improving behavior arbitration using exploration and dynamic programming....Pages 745-754 Agent based architectures for mastering changes and disturbances in manufacturing....Pages 755-764 Soft computing and hybrid AI approaches to intelligent manufacturing....Pages 765-774 Comparing soft computing methods in prediction of manufacturing data....Pages 775-784 Towards an emergence machine for complex systems simulations....Pages 785-794 Space models and agent-based universe architectures....Pages 795-804 Mobidyc, a generic multi-agents simulator for modeling populations dynamics....Pages 805-814 Development of an ecological decision support system....Pages 815-825 Dynamic process modelling and communication in environment information systems of the third generation....Pages 826-837 Landscape: A knowledge-based system for visual landscape assessment....Pages 838-848 Daily parking of subway vehicles....Pages 849-856 The artificial neural networks in cosmic ray physics experiment; I. Total muon number estimation....Pages 857-866 Static criteria for fuzzy systems quality evaluation....Pages 867-876 WallAid: A knowledge-based system for the selection of earth retaining walls....Pages 877-887 A modular and parametric structure for the substitution redesign of power plants control systems....Pages 888-895 A polysynaptic planar neural network as a model of the myenteric nervous plexus....Pages 896-906 Selection of numerical methods in specific simulation applications....Pages 907-917 Fuzzy adaptive control of the highly nonlinear heat-exchanger plant....Pages 918-927 Back Matter....Pages 928-937 ....Pages - v. 1. Methodology and tools in knowledge-based systems / José Mira, Angel Pasqual del Pobil, Moonis Ali, eds. v. 2. Tasks and methods in applied artificial intelligence / Angel Pasqual del Pobil, José Mira, Moonis Ali, eds. V. 1. Methodology And Tools In Knowledge-based Systems -- V. 2. Tasks And Methods In Applied Artificial Intelligence. José Mira, Angel Pasqual Del Pobil, Moonis Ali (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.