ICAI'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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


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

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 12:40pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


12:40 - 01:20pm:  DISCUSSION SESSION A-ICAI (Refreshments will be available)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Hallways - Ballrooms 1-5)

                  O. A Tabu Based Neural Network Training Algorithm for Equalization
                     of Communication Channels
                     J. K. Satapathy and K. R. Subhashini; NIT, Rourkela, India
                  O. A Noisy Chaotic Neural Network for Solving Attributed Relational
                     Graph Matching Problem
                     Kushan Ahmadian, Abbas Golestani, M. R. Jahed Motlagh, & Nasser Mozayani
                     Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran
                  O. A Framework for Distributed Decision Support Multi-Agent
                     Intelligent System 
                     Ali I. El-Desouky and Sally M. El-Ghamrawy
                     Mansoura University, Egypt
                  O. Hepatitis Diagnosis by Training of an MLP Artificial Neural Network
                     Sara Moein; Azad University of Najafabad, Iran
                  O. A New BSS Arithmetic and Applications Based on Sub-Band
                     Function and Wavelet Transform
                     Xiefeng Cheng, Yewei Tao, Shoubai Zhang, and Yufeng Guo
                     Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P. R. China;
                     University of Jinan, Shandong, P. R. China
                  O. A Gene Regulatory Network Approach for Failure Rate Prediction
                     in Distributed Systems
                     Sanjoy Das, Anil Pahwa, Dapeng Li, Bijaya K. Panigrahi, and
                     Stephen M. Welch
                     Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA;
                     Indian Institute of Delhi, New Delhi, India
                  O. Using L-System Grammars for Music Automatic Generation
                     M. C. Francisco Edgar Castillo Barrera
                     University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico


SESSION 1-ICAI:   FUZZY LOGIC AND APPLICATIONS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 01:20pm - 03:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  A PHP-CLIPS Based Intelligent System for Diabetic Self-Diagnosis
                  Huiqing H. Yang and Sharnei Miller
                  Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  Constructing an Intelligent System for Selecting People
                  Canos, L., Canos, M.J., Casasus, T., Lara, T., Liern, V., Perez, J.C.
                  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Navigation in Dynamic Environments Utilizing Translation of Fuzzy Sets
                  Irvin Jones, Arjun Mitra, and Shounak Mitra
                  University of Denver, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  A Fuzzy Data Sifter for Constructing a Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Model
                  Horng-Lin Shieh and Ying-Kuei Yang
                  National Taiwan University of Science & Technology, Taiwan

02:40 - 03:00pm:  A Real-Time Facial Emotion Recognition System Using Fuzzy
                  Neural Networks
                  Siu-Yeung Cho and Teik-Toe Teoh
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 2-ICAI:   AGENT TECHNOLOGIES (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Ballroom 2)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Autonomously Creating a Hierarchy of Intelligent Agents Using
                  Clustering in a Multi-Agent System
                  Anne Hakansson and Ronald L. Hartung
                  Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;
                  Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Research on Intelligent Distribution Control and Automation System  
                  Xusheng Yang, Wanxing Sheng, Qi Cheng, Xiaomu Yu and Jihu Wang
                  Electric Power Research Institute, China

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Communication Scheme Comparison for a Distributed Multi-Agent System
                  Matthew Conforth and Yan Meng
                  Stevens Institute of Technology,  USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Energy Flow and Conservation in an Artificial Life Agent Model
                  C. J. Scogings and K. A. Hawick
                  Massey University, New Zealand

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Performance Evaluation of DPS Coordination Strategies Modeled
                  in Pi-Calculus
                  Norman Carver, Elham S. Khorasani, and Shahram Rahimi
                  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  A Web Site Architecture for Interaction Between Avatars and
                  Intelligent Animated Agents
                  Fco. Edgar Castillo Barrera
                  Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Congestion Avoidance in Multi-Agent-Based Egress Simulation
                  Bikramjit Banerjee, Matthew Bennett, Mike Johnson, and Adel Ali
                  University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  A New Load Balancing Scheme for Distributed Multi-Agent Simulations
                  Phillip Coleman, Michael Pellon and Yu Zhang

06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)


09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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