Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Abstracts of Invited Presentations and Tutorials.- Constraint Programming in Computational Molecular Biology.- Computational Creativity.- From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Circuits.- An Introduction to Object-Oriented RuleML.- Learning from Networks of Examples.- Grammar Induction and Adaptive Information Disclosure.- Understanding Implicit Language Structures.- Performance Issues in Prolog Applications.- Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA).- Optimization of Logistic Processes in Supply-Chains Using Meta-heuristics.- Evolutionary Neural Network Learning.- Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution.- A Particle Swarm Data Miner.- Yerkes-Dodson Law in Agents' Training.- SAPPO: A Simple, Adaptable, Predator Prey Optimiser.- Evolutionary Neuroestimation of Fitness Functions.- A Resource Sharing Model to Study Social Behaviours.- Improving Self-Confidence: An Advise-Based Evolutionary Model.- Constraint and Logic Programming Systems (CLPS).- Solving Set Partitioning Problems with Global Constraint Propagation.- Heuristic-Based Backtracking for Propositional Satisfiability.- On the BEAM Implementation.- YapDss: An Or-Parallel Prolog System for Scalable Beowulf Clusters.- Experimental Evaluation of a Caching Technique for ILP.- jcc: Integrating Timed Default Concurrent Constraint Programming into Java.- Extraction of Knowledge from Data Bases (EKDB).- BAYES-NEAREST: A New Hybrid Classifier Combining Bayesian Network and Distance Based Algorithms.- A Data Mining Approach to Credit Risk Evaluation and Behaviour Scoring.- Influence of kNN-Based Load Forecasting Errors on Optimal Energy Production.- Creating User-Adapted Design Recommender System through Collaborative Filtering and Content Based Filtering.- Is the UCI Repository Useful for Data Mining?.- Improving the Efficiency of ILP Systems.- Reorganizing News Web Pages for Mobile Users.- Learning Semi Na¯ve Bayes Structures by Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Learning Action Theories withRamifications.- Mining Low Dimensionality Data Streams of Continuous Attributes.- Adaptation to Drifting Concepts.- Border Detection on Remote Sensing Satellite Data Using Self-Organizing Maps.- Predicting Harmful Algae Blooms.- Improving Progressive Sampling via Meta-learning.- Multi-Agents and AI for the Internet (MAAII).- Distributed Learning Agents in Urban Traffic Control.- The Chatbot Feeling - Towards Animated Emotional ECAs.- Using CLIPS to Detect Network Intrusions.- Model for Dialogue between Informational Agents.- A Possibilistic Logic Modeling of Autonomous Agents Negotiation.- Towards Individual Power Design.- An Architecture for a Rational Reactive Agent.- An Evolvable Rule-Based E-mail Agent.- Natural Language and Text Retrieval (NLTR).- Automatic Summarization Based on Principal Component Analysis.- A Constraint Grammar Based Question Answering System for Portuguese.- Mining Generalized Character n-Grams in Large Corpora.- A Methodology to Create Ontology-Based Information Retrieval Systems.- A Preliminary Approach to the Multilabel Classification Problem of Portuguese Juridical Documents.- Synonymy for Query Expansion in Information Search.- Web Information Retrieval with Result Set Clustering.- ASdeCopas: A Syntactic-Semantic Interface.- Automatic Selection of Table Areas in Documents for Information Extraction.- Mandarin Question Sentence Detection: A Preliminary Study.- Acquiring Semantic Classes to Elaborate Attachment Heuristics.- Managing Dialog in a Natural Language Querying System.