Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments.- Defining Agents' Behaviour for Negotiation Contexts.- Improving User Privacy and the Accuracy of User Identification in Behavioral Biometrics.- Including Emotion in Learning Process.- Ambient Intelligence: Experiments on Sustainability Awareness.- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Reasoning with Uncertainty in Biomedical Models.- Smart environments and context-awareness for lifestyle management in a healthy active ageing framework.- Gradient: A User-Centric Lightweight Smartphone-Based Standalone Pervasive Fall Detection System.- Towards diet management with automatic reasoning and persuasive natural language generation.- Predicting within-24h visualization of hospital clinical reports using Bayesian networks.- On the Efficient Allocation of Diagnostic Activities in Modern Imaging Departments.- Ontology Based Information Gathering System for Patients with Chronic Diseases: Lifestyle Questionnaire Design.- Predicting Preterm Birth in Maternity Care by means of Data Mining.- Characterizing Barotrauma Patients in ICU { Clustering Data Mining using ventilator variables.- Clinical Decision Support for Active and Healthy Ageing: an intelligent monitoring approach of daily living activities.- Discovering Interesting Trends in Real Medical Data: A study in Diabetic Retinopathy.- Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems.- A Column Generation Based Heuristic for a Bus Driver Roistering Problem.- A Conceptual MAS Model for Real-time Traffic Control.- Prediction of Journey Destination in Urban Public Transport.- Demand Modelling for Responsive Transport Systems Using Digital Footprints.- Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms.- A Case Study on the Scalability of Online Evolution of Robotic Controllers.- Spatial Complexity Measure for Characterising Cellular Automata Generated 2D Patterns.- Electricity Demand Modelling with Genetic Programming.- The Optimization Ability of Evolved Strategies.- Evolution of a Metaheuristic for Aggregating Wisdom from Artificial Crowds.- The influence of topology in coordinating collective decision-making in bio-hybrid societies.- A Differential Evolution Algorithm for Optimization Including Linear Equality Constraints.- Multiobjective Firefly Algorithm for Variable Selection in Multivariate Calibration.- Semantic Learning Machine: A Feed forward Neural Network Construction Algorithm Inspired by Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming.- Eager Random Search for Deferential Evolution in Continuous Optimization.- Learning from Play: Facilitating character design through genetic programming and human mimicry.- Memetic Algorithm for Solving The 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.- Synthesis of In-place Iterative Sorting Algorithms using GP: A Comparison Between STGP, SFGP, G3P and GE.- Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Variable elimination approaches for data-noise reduction in 3D QSAR Calculations.- Pattern-based Biclustering with Constraints for Gene Expression Data Analysis.- A Critical Evaluation of Methods for the Reconstruction of Tissue-Specific Models.- Fuzzy Clustering for Incomplete Short Time Series Data.- General Artificial Intelligence.- Allowing Cyclic Dependencies in Modular Logic Programming.- Probabilistic Constraint Programming for Parameters Optimisation of Generative Models.- Reasoning over Ontologies and Non-monotonic Rules.- On the cognitive surprise in risk management: an analysis of the Value-at-Risk (VaR) historical.- Logic Programming Applied to Machine Ethics.- Intelligent Information Systems.- Are Collaborative Filtering Methods Suitable for Student Performance Prediction?.- Intelligent Robotics.- A New Approach for Dynamic Strategic Positioning in RoboCup Middle-Size League.- Intelligent Wheelchair Driving: Bridging the Gap between Virtual and Real Intelligent Wheelchairs.- A Skill-based Architecture for Pick & Place Manipulation Tasks.- Adaptive Behavior of a Biped Robot using Dynamic Movement Primitives.- Probabilistic Constraints for Robot Localization.- Detecting Motion Patterns in Dense Flow Fields: Euclidean versus Polar Space.- Swarm Robotics Obstacle Avoidance: A Progressive Minimal Criteria Novelty Search-based Approach.- Knowledge Discovery and Business Intelligence.- An Experimental Study on Predictive Models using Hierarchical Time Series.- Crime prediction using regression and resources optimization.- Distance-based decision tree algorithms for Label Ranking.- A Proactive Intelligent Decision Support System for Predicting the Popularity of Online News.- Periodic Episode Discovery over Event Streams.- Forecasting the Correct Trading Actions.- CTCHAID: extending the application of the consolidation methodology.- Towards Interactive Visualization of Time Series Data to Support Knowledge Discovery.- Ramex-Forum: Sequential Patterns of Prices in the Petroleum Production Chain.- Geocoding Textual Documents Through a Hierarchy of Linear Classifiers.- A Domain-Specific Language for ETL Patterns Specification in Data.- Warehousing Systems.- Optimized Multi-Resolution Indexing and Retrieval Scheme of Time Series.- Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications.- Minimal Change in Evolving Multi-Context Systems.- Bringing Constitutive Dynamics to Situated Artificial Institutions.- Checking WECTLK Properties of Timed Real-Weighted Interpreted Systems via SMT-based Bounded Model Checking.- SMT-based Bounded Model Checking for Weighted Epistemic ECTL.- Dynamic Selection of Learning Objects Based on SCORM Communication.- Sound visualization through a swarm of fireflies.- Ana Rodrigues, Amlcar Cardoso, Penousal Machado and Pedro Martins Social Simulation and Modelling.- Analysing the Influence of the Cultural Aspect in the Self-regulation of Social Exchanges in MAS Societies: an evolutionary game-based approach.- Modelling Agents' Perception: Issues & Challenges in Multi-Agents Based Systems.- Agent-Based Modelling for a resource management problem in a Role-Playing Game.- An Agent-Based MicMac model for forecasting of the Portuguese Population.- Text Mining and Applications.- Multilingual Open Information Extraction.- Classification and Selection of Translation Candidates for Parallel corpora Alignment.- A SMS Information Extraction Architecture to Face Emergency Situations.- Cross-lingual Word Sense Clustering for Sense Disambiguation.- Towards the Improvement of a Topic Model with Semantic Knowledge.- RAPPORT { A Portuguese Question-Answering System.- Automatic Distinction of Fernando Pessoas' Heteronyms.- Social Impact - identifying quotes of literary works in social networks.- Fractal Beauty in Text.- How does irony affect Sentiment Analysis Tools?.