Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations IFIP 18th World Computer Congress TC12 First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI-2004) 22–27 August 2004 Toulouse, France

Artificial Intelligence and Innovations (AIAI) will interest researchers, IT professionals and consultants by examining technologies and applications of demonstrable value. The conference focused on profitable intelligent systems and technologies.

AIAI focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of AI technology for industry and services. Novel approaches solving business and industrial problems, using AI, will emerge from this conference.

Paper Sessions Applications 1.- Artificial Intelligence Systems in Micromechanics.- Integrating Two Artificial Intelligence Theories in a Medical Diagnosis Application.- Artificial Intelligence and Law.- Virtual Market Environment for Trade.- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems.- An Artificial Neural Networks Approach to the Estimation of Physical Stellar Parameters.- Evolutionary Robot Behaviors Based on Natural Selection and Neural Network.- Control of Overhead Crane by Fuzzy-Pid with Genetic Optimisation.- Creative Design of Fuzzy Logic Controller.- On-Line Extraction of Fuzzy rules in a Wastewater Treatment Plant.- Agents.- An Autonomous Intelligent Agent Architecture Based on Constructivist AI.- Finding Manufacturing Expertise Using Ontologies and Cooperative Agents.- Using Agents in the Exchange of Product Data.- Applications 2.- A Pervasive Identification and Adaptation System for the Smart House.- Deductive Diagnosis of Digital Circuits.- Verification of NASA Emergent Systems.- Theory.- Knowledge Base Structure.- Learning Bayesian Metanetworks from Data with Multilevel Uncertainty.- Using Organizational Structures Emergence for Maintaining Functional Integrity in Embedded Systems Networks.- Efficient Attribute Reduction Algorithm.- Using Relative Logic for Pattern Recognition.- Intelligent Tutoring and Collaboration.- Mathtutor: A Multi-Agent Intelligent Tutoring System.- Analysis and Intelligent Support of Learning Communities in Semi-Structured Discussion Environments.- An Adaptive Assessment System to Evaluate Student Ability Level.- Forming the Optimal Team of Experts for Collaborative Work.- Internet.- Impact on Performance of Hypertext Classification of Selective Rich HTML Capture.- Introducing a Star Topology into Latent Class Models for Collaborative Filtering.- Dialoguing with an Online Assistant in a Financial Domain: The VIP-Advisor Approach.- An Agency for Semantic-Based Automatic Discovery of Web-Services.- Genetic Algorithms.- GESOS: A Multi-Objective Genetic Tool for Project Management Considering Technical and Non-Technical Constraints.- Using Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search Parallel Models to Solve the Scheduling Problem.- Modelling Document Categories by Evolutionary Learning of Text Centroids.- Ontologies and Data Mining.- ODEval: A Tool for Evaluating RDF(S), DAML+OIL, and OWL Concept Taxonomies.- Air - A Platform for Intelligent Systems.- Swissanalyst.- Data Mining by MOUCLAS Algorithm for Petroleum Reservoir Characterization from Well Logging Data.- Reasoning and Scheduling.- Verification of Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) Programs Using Coloured Petri Nets (CPN).- On-Line Possibilistic Diagnosis Based on Expert Knowledge for Engine Dyno Test Benches.- CBR and Micro-Architecture Anti-Patterns Based Software Design Improvement.- A Decision Support System (DSS) for the Railway Scheduling Problem.- An Interactive Multicriteria Optimisation Approach to Scheduling.