ICAI'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm:  Lunch (On Your Own)


01:10 - 01:40pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
                  List of papers appears at the end of ICAI's schedule.


SESSION 1-ICAI:   AGENT TECHNOLOGIES
                  Chairs: Jeffrey W. Wallace* and Xiaoqin Zhang**
                  *The Learning and Assistance Institute, San Diego, USA
                  **University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 1:40pm - 2:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 2)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Towards Automated Development of Multi-Agent Systems Using Rade
                  Xiaoqin Zhang and Haiping Xu
                  University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  An Adaptive Substrate for Agents in an Alife Simulation
                  Joseph Lewis and Zach Barrow
                  San Diego State University, California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Interactive Causation: A Neurosymbolic Model
                  Peter Rawbone, Paschall de Paor, Andrew Ware, and Jim Barrett
                  University of Glamorgan, UK

02:40 - 03:00pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-ICAI:   FUZZY LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS
                  Chairs: Prof. Abdul Wahab* and Prof. Sreela Sasi**
                  *Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
                  **Gannon University, Erie, PA, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 3:00 - 3:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 2)

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Speaker Verification System Based on the Cerebellum Architecture
                  Abdul Wahab and Mathias Dharmawirya
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

03:20 - 03:40pm:  A Robust GA-Based Fuzzy LFC of a Deregulated Power System
                  H. A. Shayanfar, H. Shayeghi, and A. Jalili
                  Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

03:40 - 06:00pm:  Note: There are a number of other sessions (not listed
                  here) that are of significant interest to ICAI conference
                  participants (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in
                  this event.)  Therefore, you are encouraged to also check the
                  schedules for other joint conferences.  (In particular,
                  schedules for MLMTA'06, DMIN'06, IKE'06, IPCV'06, and EEE'06).


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

                   DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI
                     June 26 (Monday), 2006
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        1:10 - 1:40pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI:

O.  Case Based Reasoning with State Transition Mechanism for
    Problem-Solving in AI
    Arijit Chatterjee
    MCA-II, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, India
O.  Artificial Intelligence; Computational Intelligence; Soft
    Computing - Perception from a Deeper Understanding
    Sandeep Chandana
    University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
O.  The Effects of Sampling Kurtosis on Anytime Algorithm Performance
    Scott A. Burgess
    Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA
O.  Non-Local Contexts Help Resolve Ambiguity
    Daniel Krugman and Carl Vogel
    Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
O.  A Comparison Between Adam-Eve GA and Traditional GAs
    Seyed Alireza Feyzbakhsh, Hamid Foroughi, Sina Forqandoost Haqiqi*
    Sharif University of Technology, Iran
O.  An Agent Based Simulation of the L.A. 1992 Riots
    Sudeep S. Bhat and Anthony A. Maciejewski
    Colorado State University, USA
O.  Will Consumers Accept Intelligent Agents?
    Wayne E. Smith
    Hardin-Simmons University, USA
O.  A Social Field Model: Premises for an Artificial Intelligence
    Based Simulation of Human Society
    Darius Plikynas
    Vilnius Management Academy, Lithuania
O.  Ontology Enhanced Medical Information Retrieval to Support Patient 
    Simulation in a Problem-based Learning 
    Injoo J. Kim** and Yeongkwun Kim*
    *Western Illinois University, USA
    **East-West University Macomb, USA
O.  Character Recognition Using Neural Networks
    Fakhraddin Mamedov and Jamal Fathi Abu Hasna
    Near East University, North Cyprus, Turkey

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