Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (I)

IJCAI-95 Contents Vol 1

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International

Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 20-25,1995

ACTION AND PERCEPTION

VISION: EARLY VISION

Fitting Models to Distributed Representations of Vision

Sourabh A. Niyogi  3

Natural Basis Functions and Topographic Memory for Face Recognition

Rajesh P N. Rao and Dana H. Ballard  10

VISION: ACTIVE VISION

Representations for Active Vision

Cornelia Eermuller and Yiannis Aloimonos  20

Animate Vision in a Rich Environment

Tomas Uhlin and Jan-Olof Eklundh  27

VISION: QUALITATIVE METHODS

A Qualitative Approach to Sensor Data Fusion for Mobile Robot Navigation

Steven Reece and Hugh Durrant- Whyte  36

Qualitative Interpretation of Spectral Images: Reasoning with Uncertain Evidence

Qi Zhao and Toyoaki Nishida  42

VISION: SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES  1

Control Structures for Incorporating Picture-Specific Context in Image Interpretation

 Rajiv Chopra and Rohini K. Srihari  50

Visual routines and visual search: a real-time implementation and an automata-theoretic analysis

Ian Horswill  56

VISION: SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES  2

Adaptable Planner Primitives for Real-World Robotic Applications

Robert W. Wisniewski and Christopher M. Brown  64

An Architecture for Vision and Action

 R. James Firby, Roger E. Kahn, Peter N. Prokopowicz, and Michael J. Swain  72

VISION: VISION AND OTHER PERCEPTION

Active Agent Oriented Multimodal Interface System

 Osamu Hasegawa, Katsunobu Itou, Takio Kurita, Satoru Hayamizu, Kazuyo lanaka, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, and Nobuyuki Otsu 82   

Robotic Perception of Material

 Eric Krotkov  88

ROBOTICS: MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Knowledge Considerations in Robotics and Distribution of Robotic Tasks

 Ronen I. Brafinan and Yoav Shoham  96

RESC: An Approach for Real-time, Dynamic Agent Tracking

 Milind Tambe and Paul S. Rosenbloom  103

ROBOTICS: NAVIGATION

Self-Organi/ation of Symbolic Processes through Interaction with the Physical World

 Jun Tami  112

Using Knowledge to Isolate Search in Route Finding

BingLiu  119

ROBOTICS: LEARNING

Motion Sketch: Acquisition of Visual Motion Guided Behaviors

 Takayuki Nakamura and Minora Asada  126

Using the Representation in a Neural Network's Hidden Layer for Task-Specific Focus of Attention

Shumeet Baluja and Dean A. Pomerleau  133

ROBOTICS: FORMAL METHODS

Formalizing Behavior-based Planning for Nonholonomic Robots

 Vikram Manikonda, JamesHendler, and P. S. Krishnaprasad  142

Logic Programming for Robot Control

 David Poole  150

AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS

Organization of Hierarchical Perceptual Sounds

: Music Scene Analysis with Autonomous Processing Modules  and a  Quantitative Information Integration Mechanism Kunio Kashino, Kazuhiro   158 Nakadai,Tomoyoshi  Kinoshita, and Hidehiko lanaka 

Residue-Driven Architecture for Computational Auditory Scene Analysis

  Tomohiro Nakatani, Hiroshi G. Okuno, and Takeshi Kawabata  165

AUTOMATED REASONING

PROOF PLANNING

Relational Rippling: A Ceneral Approach

  Alan Bundy and Vincent Lombart  175

A Model of Analogy-Driven Proof-Plan Construction

Erica Melis  182

ANALOGY AND ABSTRACTION

Second-Order Matching modulo Evaluation A Technique for Reusing Proofs

Thomas Kolbe and Christoph Walther  190

A Semantic Theory of Abstractions

P. Pandurang Nayak and Alan Y Levy  196

ABDUCTION

Abductive Framework for Nonmonotonic Theory Change

Katsumi Inoue and Chiaki Sakama  204

Model-Based Diagnosis using Causal Networks

  Adna n Da rwiche  211

SEARCH  1

Deadline Compliance, Predictability, and On-line Optimization in Real-Time Problem Solving 

Babak Hamidzadeh and Shashi Shekhar  220

Best: A New Method for Real-Time Decision Making

  Joseph C. Pemherton  227

SEARCH  2

How to Use Limited Memory in Heuristic Search

  Hermann Kaindl Gerhard Kainz, Angelika Leeb, and Harald Smetana  236

Experimenting with Revisits in Game Tree Search

  Subir Bhattacharya  243

SEARCH  3

On Bootstrapping Local Search with Trail-Markers 

Pang C Chen  252

The Trailblazcr Search with a Hierarchical Abstract Map

Takahiro Sasaki, Fumihiko Chimura, and Mario Tokoro  259

SEARCH 4

From Approximate to Optimal Solutions: A Case Study of Number Partitioning

  Richard  Korf  266

Best-First Fixed-Depth Game-Tree Search in Practice 

Aske Plaat, Jonathan Schaeffer, Wim Pijls, and Arie de Bruin  273

SATISFIABILITY 1

Theoretical Analysis of Davis-Putnam Procedure and Propositional Satisfiability

Nobuhiro Yugam    282

On the Complexity of Extending Ground Resolution with Symmetry Rules

  Thierry Boy de la Tour and Stiphane Demri  289

SATISFIABILITY  2

SEM: a System for Enumerating Models

 jian Zhang and Hantao Zhang  298

Performance Test of Local Search Algorithms Using New Types of Random CNF Formulas

Byungki Cha and Kazuo lwama  304

DEFAULTS

Towards Efficient Default Reasoning

  Ilkka Niemela  312

Default-Reasoning with Models 

Roni Khardon and Dan Roth  319

THEOREM PROVING 1

Extending Semantic Resolution via Automated Model Building: applications 

Ricardo Caferra and Nicolas Peltier  328

Model Elimination, Logic Programming and Computing Answers 

Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, and Frieder Stolzcnburg  335

THEOREM PROVING  2

Equality Elimination for the Inverse Method and Extension Procedures

  Anatoli Degtyarev and Andrei Voronkov  342

Experiments with Associative-Commutative Discrimination Nets 

Leo Bachmair, la Chen, I. V Ramakrishnaru Siva Anantharaman, and Jacques Chabin  348

REASONING ABOUT PROGRAMS

A Methodology for Proving Termination of Genera] Logic Programs 

Elena Marchiori   356

Unique Normal Forms and Confluence of Rewrite Systems: Persistence 

Rakesh M. Verm a  362

CASE BASED REASONING

CASE BASED REASONING  1

Improving System Performance in Case-Based Iterative Optimization through Knowledge Filtering

Kazuo Miyashita and Katia Sycara  371

Remembering To Forget: A Competence-Preserving Case Deletion Policy for Case-Based Reasoning Systems 

Barry Smyth and Mark T. Keane  377

CASE BASED REASONING  2

Stratified Case-Based Reasoning: Reusing Hierarchical Problem Solving Episodes 

L. Karl Branting and David W. Aba  384

Using Introspective Reasoning to Refine Indexing 

Susan Fox and David B. Leake  391

CASE BASED REASONING  3

Using CBR to Drive IR

  Edwina L. Rissland and Jody J. Daniels  400

Within the Letter of the Law: open-textured planning 

Kathryn E. Sanders  408

COGNITIVE MODELLING

COGNITIVE MODELLING  1

Optional Deep Case Filling and Focus Control with Mental Images:  ANTLIMA-KOREF 

Anselm Blocker and /org R. J. Schirra  417

A Microfeature Based Approach Towards Metaphor Interpretation 

Ron Sun 424

COGNITIVE MODELLING 2

Forgetting and Compacting data in Concept Learning

  Gunther Sablon and Luc De Raedt  432

Determining what to learn through component-task modeling

  Bruce Krulwich, Larry Birnbaum, and Gregg Collins  439

COGNITIVE MODELLING  3

Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy

Philip Resnik  448

On Heuristic Reasoning, Reactivity, and Search 

Susan L Epstein  454

COGNITIVE MODELLING  4

Action and Perception in Man-Made Environments 

Daniel D. Fu, KristianJ. Hammond, and Michael]. Swain  464

CONNECTIONIST MODELS

CONNECTIONS MODELS  1

Kanerva's Sparse Distributed Memory: An Object-Oriented Implementation on the Connection Machine

Andreas Turk and Gunther Gorz  473

Understanding Neural Networks via Rule Extraction 

Rudy Setiono and Huan Liu   480

CONNECTIONIST MODELS  2

GR2—A Hybrid Knowledge-based System Using General Rules

  Zhe Ma, Robert F. Harrison, and R. Lee Kennedy  488

A Hybrid Fuzzy-Neural Expert System for Diagnosis 

Christoph S. Herrmann  494

CONNECTIONIST MODELS  3

A Hybrid Rule-based System: How Variables are Involved in Connectionist Rule-based Systems

Fukumi Kozato  502

Learning Distributed Representations for the Classification of Terms

 Alessandro Sperduti, Antonina  Starita, and Christoph Goller  509

CONNECTIONIST MODELS  4

A Novelty Detection Approach to Classification

 Nathalie Japkowicz, Catherine Myers, and Mark Gluck  518

Combining the Predictions of Multiple Classifiers: Using Competitive Learning to Initialize Neural Networks

Richard Maclin and Jude W Shavlik  524

CONNECTIONIST MODELS  5

A Model for Hormonal Modulation of Learning

Hiroaki Kitano  532

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  1

A Theoretical Evaluation of Selected Backtracking Algorithms

Grzegorz Kondrak and Peter van Beek  541

Extracting Constraint Satisfaction Subproblems

Eugene C. Freuder and Paul D. Hubbe  548

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION 2

On the Space-Time Trade-orT in Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Roberto J. Bayardo, Jr. and Daniel P. Miranker 558

Generalizing Inconsistency Learning for Constraint Satisfaction

Eugene C. Freuder and Richard J. Wallace  563

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  3

Look-ahead value ordering for constraint satisfaction problems

 Daniel Frost and Rina Dechter  572

Constraint Satisfaction as Global Optimization

Pedro Meseguer and Javier Larrosa  579

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  4

Increasing Functional Constraints Need to Be Checked Only Once

Bing Liu  586

Using Inference to Reduce Arc Consistency Computation

Christian Bessiere, Eugene C. Freuder, and Jean-Charles Rtgin  592

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  5

A Theoretical and Experimental Comparison of Constraint Propagation Techniques for Disjunctive  Scheduling

Philippe Baptiste and Claude Le Pape  600

Limited Discrepancy Search

William D. Harvey and Matthew L. Ginsberg  607

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  6

GSAT and Local Consistency

Kalev Kask and Rina Dechter  616

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  7

Constraint Solving over Semirings

Stefano Bistarelli, Ugo Montanari, and Francesca Rossi  624

Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Hard and Easy Problems

Thomas Schiex, Helene Fargier, and Gtrard Verfaillie  631

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION  8

Composition in Hierarchical CLP

Michael Jampel and Sebastian Hunt  640

Sparse Constraint Graphs and Exceptionally Hard Problems

Barbara M. Smith and Stuart A. Grant  646

DISTRIBUTED Al

COALITIONS

Task allocation via coalition formation among autonomous agents

 Onn Shehory and Sarit Kraus  655

Coalition Formation among Bounded Rational Agents

Tuomas W. Sandholm and Victor R Lesser  662

MULTIPLE AGENTS 1

Matchmaking for Information Agents

Daniel Kuokka and Larry Harada  672

Deriving Multi-Agent Coordination through Filtering Strategies

Eithan Ephrati, Martha E. Pollack, and Sigalit Ur  679

MULTIPLE AGENTS 2

Flexible social laws

Will Briggs and Diane Cook  688

Equilibrium Analysis of the Possibilities of Unenforced Exchange in Multiagent Systems

Tuomas W Sandholm and Victor R Lesser  694

DISTRIBUTED PLANNING

The Semantics of Intention Maintenance for Rational Agents

 Michael P Georgeffand Anand S. Rao  704

Social Dilemmas in Computational Ecosystems

 Tad Hogg  711

GENETIC ALGORITHMS

GENETIC ALGORITHMS  1

Hybrid Learning Using Genetic Algorithms and Decision Trees for Pattern Classification

/. Bala, J. Huang, H. Vafaie, K Dejong, and H Wechsler  719

A genetic prototype learner

Sandip Sen and Leslie Knight  725

GENETIC ALGORITHMS 2

Gene Duplication to Enable Genetic Programming to Concurrently Evolve Both the Architecture

and Work-Performing Steps of a Computer Program

 John R. Koza  734

The Automatic Programming of Agents that Learn Mental Models and Create Simple Plans of Action

David Andre  741

KNOWLEDGE BASE TECHNOLOGY

KNOWLEDGE BASE TECHNOLOGY 1

Knowledge Representation in the Large

 Peter D. Karp and Suzanne M. Paley  751

Efficient Algorithms and Performance Results for Multi-User Knowledge Bases

Vinay K. Chaudhri and John Mylopoulos  759

KNOWLEDGE BASE TECHNOLOGY 2

The Generic Frame Protocol

Peter D. Karp, Karen L. Myers, and Tom Gruber  768

Knowledge-Based Anytime Computation

AbdeUillah Mouaddib and Shlomo Zilberstein  775

PLANNING, MONITORING, AND CONTROL

Proposing Measurements in Dynamic Systems

Johann Gamper and Wolfgang Nejdl  784

Synthesizing Plant Controllers Using Real-time Goals

M. Barbeau, F Kabanza, and R. St-Denis  791

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION

DESCRIPTION LOGICS

What's in an Aggregate: Foundations for Description Logics with Tuples and Sets

Giuseppe De Giacomo and Maurizio Lenzerini  801

Terminological Logics with Modal Operators

Franz Baader and Armin Laux  808

EXPLANATION

Explaining Subsumption in Description Logics Deborah

L. McGuinness and Alexander T Borgida  816

Determining Explanations using Transmutations

Mary-Anne Williams, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Foo, and Brailey Sims  822

KNOWLEDGE COMPILATION

An Analysis of Approximate Knowledge Compilation

Alvaro del Val  830

Knowledge Compilation Using Theory Prime Implicates

 Pierre Marquis  837

COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE

Toward a Geometry of Common Sense: A Semantics and a Complete Axiomatization of Mcreotopology

Nicholas Asher and Laure Vieu  846

A Logical Account of Relevance

Gerhard Lakemeyer  853

COMPLEXITY

The Comparative Linguistics of Knowledge Representation

Goran Gogic, Henry Kautz, Christos Papadimitriou, and Bart Selrnan  862

Semantics and Complexity of Abduction from Default Theories

Thomas Titer, Georg Gottlob, and Nicola Leone  870

DIAGRAMS

Inter-diagrammatic Reasoning

Michael Anderson and Robert McCartney  878

Qualitative Structural Analysis Using Diagrammatic Reasoning

Shirley Tessler, Yumi Iwasaki, and Kincho Law  885

SPATIAL REASONING

An algebraic approach to granularity in qualitative time and space representation

Jerome Euzenat  894

Topological Inference

Michelangelo Grigni, Dimitris Papadias, and Christos Papadimitriou  901

SHAPE AND SPACE

Utilizing Moment Invariants and Grobner Bases to Reason About Shapes

Haim Schweitzer  andjanell Straach  908

A Qualitative Discretization for Two-Body Contacts

Amitabha Mukerjee, Manish Agarwal, and Praveen Bhatia  915

INFORMATION GATHERING

Letizia: An Agent That Assists Web Browsing

Henry Lieberman  924

Category Translation: Learning to understand information on the Internet

Mike Perkowitz and Oren Etzioni  930

AWARDS

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD

Explaining the Ineffable: AI on the Topics of Intuition, Insight and Inspiration

Herbert A. Simon, Carnegie Mellon University  939

COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD

Rationality and Intelligence

Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley  950

INVITED SPEAKERS

Profiling Communication in Distributed Genetic Algorithms

Jonathan Maresky, Yuval Davidor, Daniel Gitler, Gad Aharoni, and Amnon Barak, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  961

Agents on Stage: Advancing the State of the Art of AI Barbara

Hayes-Roth, Stanford University  967

Turing Test Considered Harmful

Patrick Hayes, Beckman Institute, and Kenneth Ford, University of West Florida  972

Vive la difference! Individualised interaction with users

 Judy Kay, University oj Sydney  978

Biologically Inspired Defenses Against Computer Viruses

Jeffrey O. Kephart, Gregory B. Sorkin, William C Arnold, David M. Chess, Gerald J. Tesauro, and Steve R. White, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center  985

Inductive Logic Programming: Inverse Resolution and Beyond

Stephen Muggleton, Oxford University Computing Laboratory  997

Stochastic Search and Phase Transitions: AI Meets Physics

Bart Selrnan, AT&T Bell Laboratories  998

Modeling Living Systems for Computer Vision

 Demetri Terzopoulos, University of Toronto  1003

 

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