Sabine Bergler

Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 21st Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2008, Windsor, Canada, May 28-30, 2008. Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Sabine Bergler 2008 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Also issued online. Table of Contents: Local Decision Bagging of Binary Neural Classifiers / Rocio Alaiz-Rodriguez -- Assessing the Impact of Changing Environments on Classifier Performance / Rocio Alaiz-Rodriguez, Nathalie Japkowicz -- A Comparison of Sentiment Analysis Techniques: Polarizing Movie Blogs / Michelle Annett, Grzegorz Kondrak -- Some Simplified Forms of Reasoning with Distance-Based Entailments / Ofer Arieli, Anna Zamansky -- A Belief-Theoretic Reputation Estimation Model for Multi-context Communities / Ebrahim Bagheri, M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Reza Zafarani, Ali A. Ghorbani -- A Frequency Mining-Based Algorithm for Re-ranking Web Search Engine Retrievals / M. Barouni-Ebrahimi, Ebrahim Bagheri, Ali A. Ghorbani -- Multi-agent Framework for a Virtual Enterprise of Demand-Responsive Transportation / Daniel Cabrera, Claudio Cubillos -- Use of Fuzzy Histograms to Model the Spatial Distribution of Objects in Case-Based Reasoning / Alan Davoust, Michael W. Floyd, Babak Esfandiari -- Aspects of Inconsistency Resolution in Modular Ontologies / Faezeh Ensan, Weichang Du -- Fast Markov Blanket Discovery Algorithm Via Local Learning within Single Pass / Shunkai Fu, Michel C. Desmarais -- Finding Topics in Email Using Formal Concept Analysis and Fuzzy Membership Functions / Liqiang Geng, Larry Korba, Yunli Wang, Xin Wang, Yonghua You -- Recognizing Biomedical Named Entities in Chinese Research Abstracts / Baohua Gu, Fred Popowich, Veronica Dahl -- Point-Based Planning for Predictive State Representations / Masoumeh T. Izadi, Doina Precup -- Comparison of Pleomorphic and Structural Features Used for Breast Cancer Malignancy Classification / Lukasz Jelen, Adam Krzyzak, Thomas Fevens -- Towards a Faster Inference Algorithm in Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks / Karen H. Jin, Dan Wu -- Using Dependence Diagrams to Summarize Decision Rule Sets / Kamran Karimi, Howard J. Hamilton -- A Fast Computation of Inter-class Overlap Measures Using Prototype Reduction Schemes / Sang-Woon Kim, B. John Oommen -- A Reputation Model Framework for Artificial Societies: A Case Study in Child Vehicle Safety Simulation / Ziad Kobti, Shamual Rahaman, Anne W. Snowdon, Robert D. Kent -- Selective Sampling for Classification / Francois Laviolette, Mario Marchand, Sara Shanian -- Full Border Identification for Reduction of Training Sets / Guichong Li, Nathalie Japkowicz, Trevor J. Stocki, R. Kurt Ungar -- Choosing Best Algorithm Combinations for Speech Processing Tasks in Machine Learning Using MARF / Serguei A. Mokhov -- Predicting User Preferences Via Similarity-Based Clustering / Mian Qin, Scott Buffett, Michael W. Fleming -- Mathematically Clinching a Playoff Spot in the NHL and the Effect of Scoring Systems / Tyrel Russell, Peter van Beek -- An Intelligent Automatic Face Contour Prediction System / Seref Sagiroglu, Necla Ozkaya -- Word Clustering with Validity Indices / Ahmad El Sayed, Julien Velcin, Djamel Zighed -- The Role of Nominalizations in Prepositional Phrase Attachment in GENIA / Jonathan Schuman, Sabine Bergler -- A Statistical Model for Topic Segmentation and Clustering / M. Mahdi Shafiei, Evangelos E. Milios -- Image Transformation: Inductive Transfer between Multiple Tasks Having Multiple Outputs / Daniel L. Silver, Liangliang Tu -- Using Unsupervised Learning for Network Alert Correlation / Reuben Smith, Nathalie Japkowicz, Maxwell Dondo, Peter Mason -- Verbs Speak Loud: Verb Categories in Learning Polarity and Strength of Opinions / Marina Sokolova, Guy Lapalme -- A Stochastic Point-Based Algorithm for POMDPs / Francois Laviolette, Ludovic Tobin -- Semi-supervised Self-training for Sentence Subjectivity Classification / Bin Wang, Bruce Spencer, Charles X. Ling, Harry Zhang -- A Novel Approach for Social Behavior Analysis of the Blogosphere / Reza Zafarani, Mohammad-Amin Jashki, Hamidreza Baghi, Ali A. Ghorbani -- Seller Bidding in a Trust-Based Incentive Mechanism for Dynamic E-Marketplaces / Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen -- Author Index. Publisher Marketing: ThisvolumecontainsthepaperspresentedatAI 2008, the 21stconferenceofthe CanadianSociety for the Computational Study of Intelligence (CSCSI). AI 2008 attracted 75 paper submissions. Each paper was assigned to four reviewers. One goalfor AI2008wasto re?ecta widerangeofdi?erent research, thusin addition to regular papers, these proceedings also include short papers of researchthat is still in its early stages. The Program Committee selected 30 regular papers and 5 short papers for publication. AI 2008 was a collaboration of many people. Most importantly, my thanks go to the members of the Program Committee and the additional reviewers, who provided high-quality reviews, making the task of selecting from a wide variety of papers possible. I also bene?ted greatly from the patient advice from the previous Program Chairs and current Local Arrangements Chairs Dan Wu and Ziad Kobti, as well as the General Conference Chair, Howard Hamilton. The EasyChair conference management system by Andrei Voronkov once again lived up to its name. Final thanks go to the CSCSI Executive Committee, and especially Danny Silver, for their support and for making AI 2008 a successful conference. May 2008 Sabine Bergler Organization AI 2008 was organized by the Canadian Society for the Computational Study of Intelligence (CSCSI