Topics in Artificial Intelligence: 5th Catalonian Conference on AI, CCIA 2002, Castellón, Spain, October 24-25, 2002. Proceedings(2504 Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Catalonian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2002, held in Castellón, Spain in October 2002. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on reasoning models, constraint satisfation, machine learning and classification, multi-agent systems, and computer vision and robotics.

Table of Contents:
Reasoning Models.- Components for Case-Based Reasoning Systems.- Analysis of Tensions in a Population Based on the Adequacy Concept.- Qualitative Velocity.- Knowledge Representation Model for Dynamic Processes.- A Decision Case-Based System, That Reasons in Uncertainty Conditions.- Modeling Motion Qualitatively: Integrating Space and Time.- Qualitative Comparison of Temporal Series. QSI.- Integrating 3D Orientation Models.- Improving Reliability in Classification of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Case-Based Reasoning.- Fusion of Qualitative Preferences with Different Vocabularies.- FUTURA: Hybrid System for Electric Load Forecasting by Using Case-Based Reasoning and Expert System.- Constraint Satisfaction.- Minimal and Redundant SAT Encodings for the All-Interval-Series Problem.- PN to CSP Methodology: Improved Bounds.- Disjunction of Non-binary and Numeric Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Machine Learning and Classification.- An Empirical Approach to Discourse Markers by Clustering.- The Role of Interval Initialization in a GBML System with Rule Representation and Adaptive Discrete Intervals.- Feature Subset Selection in an ICA Space.- Validating Distance-Based Record Linkage with Probabilistic Record Linkage.- Evaluating Feature Selection Algorithms.- KDSM Methodology for Knowledge Discovery from Ill-Structured Domains Presenting Very Short and Repeated Serial Measures with Blocking Factor.- On Filtering the Training Prototypes in Nearest Neighbour Classification.- Classification of Abnormal Situations in a Waste Water Treatment Plant.- MultiAgent Systems.- Ant Colonies for the RCPS Problem.- A Multi-agent Architecture Integrating Learning and Fuzzy Techniques for Landmark-Based Robot Navigation.- SIMBA: An Approach for Real-Time Multi-agent Systems.- Cooperative Case Bartering for Case-Based Reasoning Agents.- Integrating the Organ and Tissue Allocation Processes through an Agent-Mediated Electronic Institution.- Computer Vison and Robotics.- Modelling the Acquisition Geometry of a C-Arm Angiography System for 3D Reconstruction.- Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition.- Efficient Path Planning Using Harmonic Functions Computed on a Non-regular Grid.- Image Texture Prediction Using Colour Photometric Stereo.- Region-Boundary Cooperative Image Segmentation Based on Active Regions.- Spherical Panoramas for Pan-Tilt Camera Motion Compensation in Space-Variant Images.- Unsupervised Parameterisation of Gaussian Mixture Models.- Bayesian Classification for Inspection of Industrial Products.- Internal and External Coronary Vessel Images Registration.- Textual Descriptors for Browsing People by Visual Appearance.