ICAI'07: June 27, 2007 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


SESSION 8-ICAI:   KNOWLEDGE BASES FOR LEARNING
                  Chairs: Drs. Raymond A. Liuzzi and Peter M. LaMonica
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 08:00am - 10:00am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

08:00 - 08:20am:  Intelligent Sensor - WiFi
                  Gerard T. Capraro, Ivan Bradaric, Michael C. Wicks, and
                  Edward P. Ratazzi
                  Capraro Technologies, Inc., Utica, New York, USA;
                  U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Sensors Directorate, USA;
                  U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate, USA

08:20 - 08:40am:  Automated System for the Extraction of Themes from News Articles
                  Belita Gopal, John Hamilton, Deepa Narayanan, and
                  Perakath Benjamin
                  Knowledge Based Systems, Inc., USA

08:40 - 09:00am:  EntityBases: Compiling, Organizing and Querying Massive Entity
                  Repositories
                  Craig A. Knoblock, Jose Luis Ambite, Kavita Ganesan,
                  Steven Minton, Greg Barish, Evan Gamble, Claude Nanjo,
                  Kane See, Cyrus Shahabi, and Ching-Chien Chen
                  University of Southern California, USA; Fetch Technologies, USA
                  Geosemble Technologies, USA

09:00 - 09:20am:  Ontology-Driven Reasoning and Prediction
                  Thomas A. Breeden and Anthony P. Stirtzinger
                  Securboration Corporation, Melbourne, Florida, USA

09:20 - 09:40am:  Domain Ontology Construction from Biomedical Text
                  Saurav Sahay, Baoli Li, Ernest V. Garcia, Eugene Agichtein,
                  and Ashwin Ram
                  Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
                  Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

09:40 - 10:00am:  Networked Intelligent Agents for Distributed Decision Making
                  Brian H. Y. Xu and Andrew Kostrzewski
                  Physical Optics Corporation, Torrance, California, USA

10:00 - 10:20am:  BREAK


SESSION 9-ICAI:   IMAGE DETECTION AND PROCESSING
                  Chairs: Dr. May D. Wang* and Dr. Qingzhong Liu**
                  *Georgia Institute of Technology - Emory University, Atlanta,
                  Georgia, USA;
                  **Dr. Qingzhong Liu, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico, USA;
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 10:20am - 11:20am
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

10:20 - 10:40am:  Multi Observer 3D Visual Area Coverage Scheduling Using
                  Decomposition Methodologies
                  Helman I. Stern, Moshe Zofi, and Moshe Kaspi
                  Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

10:40 - 11:00am:  Hand Gesture Recognition Using Orientation Histograms and
                  Cognitron Network
                  V. Rihani and Ravi Bansal
                  PEC, Chandigarh, India

11:00 - 11:20am:  Self-Organizing Adaptation for Facial Emotion Mapping
                  Siu-Yeung Cho and Yok-Yen Nguwi
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


SESSION 10-ICAI:  FUZZY REASONING AND SYSTEMS + GENETIC AND/OR MULTI-AGENT ALGORITHMS
                  Chair: Dr. Chang-Shing Lee* and Prof. Kathleen Neumann**
                  *National University of Tainan, Taiwan
                  **Western Illinois Univeristy, Macomb, Illinois, USA
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 11:20am - 12:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

11:20 - 11:40am:  Ontology-Based Fuzzy Inference Mechanism for Hrvanalysis
                  Mei-Hui Wang and Chang-Shing Lee
                  National University of Tainan, Taiwan

11:40 - 12:00pm:  A Novel Approach of Constructing Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model
                  Horng-Lin Shieh, Ying-Kuei Yang, and Chien-Nan Lee
                  National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

12:00 - 12:20pm:  Discovering Structures in Gene Regulatory Networks Using
                  Genetic Programming and Particle Swarms
                  Xinye Cai, Stephen Welch, Praveen Koduru, and Sanjoy Das
                  Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

12:20 - 12:40pm:  A Reactive Multi-Agent Based Ant Colony Algorithm
                  Malrey Lee, Yupeng Zhang, TaeEun Kim, and Thomas M. Gatton
                  The Research Center of Industrial Technology, ChonBuk National
                  University, Korea; Namseoul University, Korea;
                  National University, La Jolla, California, USA


12:40 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 11-ICAI:  ROBOTICS AND RELATED ISSUES - I
                  Chairs: Dr. Kam-Hoi Cheng* and Dr. Jalal Karam**
                  *University of Houston, Texas, USA
                  **Gulf University for Sciences and Technology, Kuwait
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 01:20pm - 02:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  LM4: A New Classically Paraconsistent Logic for Autonomous
                  Intelligent Machines
                  David Anderson
                  University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Adaptive Hierarchical RBF Network for Robot Learning
                  Qinggang Meng and Mark Lee
                  Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK;
                  University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Controlling Emergent Behavior in Large Scale Mobile Robotic Swarms
                  Jeremy Labrosse and Bahram Shafai
                  Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Enhanced Communication Protocols Lead to Improved Robotic Navigation
                  Jeremy O. Blair and Michael V. Doran
                  University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA


02:40 - 03:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION C-ICAI (Refreshments will be available)
                  June 27 (Wednesday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)
                  List of papers appears at the end of ICAI's schedule.


SESSION 11-ICAI:  ROBOTICS AND RELATED ISSUES - II (Continued ...)
                  Chair: Dr. Kam-Hoi Cheng, University of Houston, Texas, USA
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 03:20pm - 04:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  An Adaptive Robotic Putter: Using Visual Input to Handle
                  Putts Involving a Uniform Slope
                  Jeremy D. Tapper, Michael V. Doran, W. Eugene Simmons, and
                  Thomas G. Thomas, Jr.
                  University of South Alabama, Alabama, USA;
                  CPSI, Mobile, Alabama, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Extracting Landmarks in Temporal Domains
                  Laura Sebastia, Eliseo Marzal, and Eva Onaindia
                  Technical University of Valencia, Spain

04:00 - 04:20pm:  AI Planning Through Mixed-Integer Programming
                  Harry Q. Bovik, Sergey L. Shishkin, and Yuri V. Smirnov
                  Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;
                  United Technology Corporation, CT, USA;
                  Carnegie Mellon University, Moffett Field, CA, USA


SESSION 12-ICAI:  NEURAL NETWORKS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
                  Chairs: Dr. Siu-Yeung (David) Cho* and Dr. Jane Binner**
                  *Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
                  **Aston University, Birmingham, UK
                  June 27, 2007 (Wednesday); 04:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 4)

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Analyzing MSI Rules for the USA Extracted from a
                  Feedforward Neural Network
                  Vincent A. Schmidt and Jane M. Binner
                  Air Force Research Laboratory, USA; Aston University, UK

04:40 - 05:00pm:  FREE SLOT

05:00 - 05:20pm:  A Robust Structural Health Monitoring System using Artificial
                  Neural Networks
                  A. Kesavan, S. John, and I. Herszberg
                  RMIT University, Australia;
                  Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS), Australia

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Structurally Evolved Neural Networks for Forecasting
                  Angelos Molfetas and George Bryan
                  University of Western Sydney, Australia

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Adapting Mutation Step Size to an Ann Topology
                  Kristina Davoian and Wolfram-m. Lippe
                  University of Munster, Germany


06:00 - 09:00pm:  FOUR TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
                  Dr. Henk Wymeersch
                  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 2

                  Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
                  Dr. Eamonn Keogh
                  University of California - Riverside, California, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 1

                  Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
                  Prof. Ray Kresman
                  Bowling Green State University, USA
                  Location: Ballroom 4

                  Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
                  S. Vijay Anand
                  General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
                  Location: Ballroom 3

                  DISCUSSION SESSION C-ICAI
                     June 27 (Wednesday), 2007
                       RRR/SRP/PST Papers
                        02:40pm - 03:20pm
         (LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Ballrooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION C-ICAI:

O. Implementation of a Down Scaling Model for Climate Prediction
   Utilizing Fuzzy System
   Namdar Mogharreban, Mehdi Zargham, and Cindy-Ann P. Alexander
   Southern Illinois University, USA
O. Evolving MIMO Flexible Neural Trees for Nonlinear System Identification
   Yuehui Chen, Feng Chen, and Jack Y. Yang
   University of Jinan, P. R. China;
   Harvard University, USA
O. Development of A Rule Base Expert System For The Saint Martin Wastewater
   Treatment Plant
   Vikash Fokeerah
   Emtel Ltd-Cyber City, Mauritius
O. A Requirement-Driven Knowledge Fusion Model Using Seed Optimization
   Jin Gou, Yunliang Jiang, Yangyang Wu, and Wei Luo
   Huaqiao University, P. R. China
O. Design of Manufacturing Cells Applied to Genetic Algorithms and a
   Local Search
   Cruz Flores Berenice, Rosete Fonseca Juan Carlos, and Perez Meneses Joaquin
   Technological Institute of Queretaro, Mexico
O. Investigations of the 0/1 Multiple Knapsack Problem Using a Genetic Algorithm
   Rhonda Hoenigman, Shyam Kumar Madhusudhana, and Joseph Lewis
   San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
O. Finding More Interesting Rules with Decision Trees for Very Large Databases
   Hyontai Sug
   Dongseo University, Korea
O. A Behavior-Based Controller with Evolutionary Adapted Fuzzy Rule Base
   for a Car-Like Mobile Robot
   Haythem Ghazouani and Moncef Tagina
   E.N.S.I., Tunisia
O. Speaker Identification and Verification for Intelligent Service Robots
   Keun-Chang Kwak, Hae-Jin Kim, Kyung-Suk Bae, and Ho-Sub Yoon
   Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea
O. A Formal Framework for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
   Raheel Ahmad, Shahram Rahimi, and Bidyut Gupta
   Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
O. Improving Feature Extraction by Fuzzy Inference and Statistical Attribute
   Reduction
   Jong-Wan Kim and Sin-Jae Kang
   Daegu University, South Korea
O. Development of a JADE Based Distributed Instant Messaging System
   Muhammed Bashir Mu'azu*, Michael Tanimu Garba, Yusuf Jibril, and Jimoh Boyi
   Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

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