BNAIC 2005
The 17th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence
 
     
Program: | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday |

Sunday 16 oktober: 19.00h - 22.00h : preregistration & beer degustation in La Bécasse

Location: Café La Bécasse ( Number 6 on the MAP )

Monday 17 oktober:

08.30h-09.30h: Registration
09.45h-10.00h: Opening
10.00h-11.00h: Invited Talk

Room: Troonzaal

Computational Mechanism Design: an AI Agenda

David Parkes.

Presentation

11.00h-11.20h: Coffee Break

Room: Marmeren zaal

11.20h-12.20h: Paper session I (9 papers)
session 1a: Evolutionary Computation I (chair:E.DeJong)

Room: Troonzaal

  • A Situated Model of Active Vision.

G. de Croon, E.O. Postma, H.J. van den Herik

  • Evolving Benchmarks.

W. B. Langdon, Riccardo Poli

  • Learning, Anticipation and Time-Deception in Evolutionary Online Dynamic Optimization.

Peter Bosman

session 1b: Knowledge Representation and management (chair:xxx)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • A Formal Investigation of Mapping Languages for Terminological Knowledge

Luciano Serafini, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Holger Wache

  • On the Local Closed-World Assumption of Data-Sources

Alvaro Cortes-Calabuig, Marc Denecker, Ofer Arieli,Maurice Bruynooghe, Bert Van Nuffelen

  • Constructing a Semantic Network for Legal Content

Radboud Winkels, Alexander Boer, Emile de Maat, Tom van Engers, Matthijs Breebaart

session 1c: Cognitive Modeling (chair:B.DeBoer)

Room: Rubens auditorium

  • Predicting experimental similarity ratings and recognition rates for individual natural stimuli with the NIM model

Joyca Lacroix, Eric Postma and Jaap Murre

  • TACOP: A Cognitive Agent for a Naval Training Simulation Environment

Willem van Doesburg, Annerieke Heuvelink and Egon van den Broek

  • Explaining universal colour categories through a constrained acquisition process

Joris Bleys and Tony Belpaeme

12.20h-13.20h: Lunch

Room: Marmeren Zaal

13.20h-14.40h: Paper session II (12 papers)
session 2a: Multi-Agent Systems I (chair:P.J.t Hoen)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Multiagent Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive State Focus

Lucian Busoniu, Bart De Schutter and Robert Babuska

  • Using the Max-Plus Algorithm for Multiagent Decision Making in Coordination Graphs

Jelle Kok and Nikos Vlassis

  • Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains

Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T.J. Spaan and Nikos Vlassis

  • Towards Sustained Team Effectiveness

Masja Kempen, Annika Smit, Niek Wijngaards and Kees Nieuwenhuis

session 2b: Knowledge-based representation and ontologies (chair:xxx)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • Representation and execution of temporal criteria for guideline-based medical decision support at the Intensive Care Unit

Evangelia Triantafyllou, Eleni Kokkinou, Paul A. de Clercq, Niels Peek and Hendrikus H. M. Korsten

  • Reasoning with Inconsistent Ontologies

Zhisheng Huang, Frank van Harmelen and Annette ten Teije

  • Ontology-Driven Extraction of Linguistic Patterns for Modelling Clinical Guidelines

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Mar Marcos and Cristina Polo-Conde

  • Using Lexical and Logical Methods for the Alignment of Medical Terminologies

Michel Klein and Zharko Aleksovski

session 2c: Machine Learning I (chair:xxx)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • Generalization to Unseen Cases

Teemu Roos, Peter Grünwald, Petri Myllymäki and Henry Tirri

  • the hyperparameter of an AUC-optimized classifier

David M.J. Tax and Cor J. Veenman

  • Improving sequence segmentation learning by predicting trigrams

Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans

  • Combining Model-Based and Instance-Based Learning for First Order Regression

Kurt Driessens and Saso Dzeroski

14.40h-15.00h: Coffee Break

Room: Marmeren Zaal

15.00h-15.50h: Short intro Demo-Poster session (23 posters, 4 demo's)
postersession 1: (chair:C.Witteveen)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • Automatic Ontology Population by Googling

Gijs Geleijnse, Jan Korst

  • Purposeful perception by attention-steered robots

Bayu Slamet, Arnoud Visser

  • A dialectics system in which agents play and arbitrate

Maxime Morge

  • Argumentation Systems for History-Based Construction of Medical Guidelines

Arjen Hommersom, Peter Lucas, Patrick van Bommel

  • Guidelines for Probabilistic Model Qualification

Marcel van Gerven

  • Towards Task Allocation Decision Support by means of Cognitive Modeling of Trust

Peter-Paul van Maanen, Kees van Dongen

  • A Meta-Level Architecture for Strategic Reasoning in Naval Planning

Mark Hoogendoorn, Catholijn Jonker, Peter-Paul van Maanen, Jan Treur

  • Towards Automatic Formulation of a Physician's Information Needs

Loes Braun, Floris Wiesman, Jaap van den Herik, Arie Hasman, Erik Korsten

  • A Novel Algorithm for Visualizing Concept Associations

Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman, Jan van den Berg

  • Humans, Agents and International Humanitarian Law: Dilemmas in Target Discrimination

Marten Zwanenburg, Hans Boddens Hosang, Niek Wijngaards

  • Symbol manipulation by internal simulation of perception and behaviour

Michel van Dartel, Eric Postma

  • (DEMO) GRAWIS: Groningen Automatic Writer Identification System

Marius Bulacu, Lambert Schomaker

  • (DEMO) AI techniques for face detection

Dragos Datcu, Leon Rothkrantz

postersession 2: (chair: xxx)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Efficient Feature Detection for Sequence Classification in a Receptor Database

Edgar de Graaf, Walter Kosters

  • Timing is important: delaying action execution in Plastic Neural Networks

Ben Torben-Nielsen, Guido de Croon, Eric Postma

  • How to allocate a restricted budget of leave-one-out assessments for effective model selection in machine learning: a comparison of state-of-the-art techniques

Olivier Caelen, Gianluca Bontempi

  • Reinforcement Learning of Traffic Light Controllers Adapting to Traffic Congestion

Merlijn Steingrover, Roelant Schouten, Stefan Peelen, Emil Nijhuis, Bram Bakker

  • Distributed Bayesian Networks in Highly Dynamic Agent Organizations

Patrick de Oude, Jan Nunnink, Gregor Pavlin

  • Experiments with strategies for agents in the social interaction game Mafia

Hendrik Wietze de Haan, Wim Hesselink, Gerben Meyer, Gerard Renardel de Lavalette

  • Channel-based Architecture for Dynamically Reconfigurable Networks

Jeroen Valk, Jan Peter Larsen, Peet van Tooren, Adriaan ter Mors

  • Communication cost in Distributed Bayesian Belief Networks

Sicco Pier van Gosliga, Marinus Maris

  • Coevolutionary Nash in poker games

Frans Oliehoek, Nikos Vlassis, Edwin de Jong

  • A Resource Negotiation Infrastructure for Self-Managing Applications

David Mobach, Benno Overeinder, Frances Brazier

  • Modeling and Simulation of Selling, Buying, Deceit, and Trust Behavior in the Trust and Tracing Game

Catholijn Jonker, Sebastiaan Meijer, Dmytro Tykhonov, Tim Verwaart

  • On Support Vector and Relevance Vector Machines

Peter Waiganjo Wagascha, Bernard Manderick, Maina Muuro

  • (DEMO) Fluidiom: The Evolution of Locomotion

Gerald de Jong

  • (DEMO) Web Usage Mining Framework

Peter Hofgesang

15.50h-16.10h: Coffee Break

Room: Marmeren Zaal

16.10h-17.30h: Poster sessions

Room: Marmeren Zaal

20.00h : Dinner: La Manufacture

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9.00h-10.00h: Paper session III (9 papers)
session 3a: Logic in AI (chair:xxx)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • An Axiomatic Account of Formal Argumentation

Martin Caminada and Leila Amgoud

  • Contamination in Formal Argumentation Systems

Martin Caminada

  • Semantic Analysis of Chisholm's Paradox

Jan Broersen and Leendert van der Torre

session 3b: MAS/search(chair:xxx)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • pRoute: Expertise-Based Selection using Shared Term Similarity Matrices

Ronny Siebes and Spyros Kotoulas

  • Temporal Plan and Resource Management

Pieter Buzing and Cees Witteveen

  • Modeling Bilateral Negotiations over Multiple, Interdependent Issues Using Utility Graphs

Valentin Robu, Koye Somefun and Han La Poutre

session 3c: Data mining (chair: Jan Van den Bussche)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Speeding up Feature Selection Selection by Using an Information Theoretic Bound

Patrick Meyer, Olivier Caelen and Gianluca Bontempi

  • Mining Tree Queries in a Graph

Bart Goethals, Eveline Hoekx and Jan Van den Bussche

  • Benchmarking Artificial Immune Systems

Peter van der Putten and Ling Jun Meng

10.00h-10.20h: Coffee Break

Room: Marmeren Zaal

10.20h-11.40h: Paper session IV (12 papers)
session 4a: Language (chair: Tony Belpaeme)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • Towards a Common Lexicon in The Naming Game: The Dynamics of Synonymy Reduction

Bart De Vylder and Karl Tuyls

  • Multi-Agent Simulations of the Evolution of Combinatorial Phonology

Bart de Boer and Willem Zuidema

  • Meaning development versus predefined meanings in language evolution models

Paul Vogt

  • Does Language Shape the Way We Conceptualize the World?

Joachim De Beule and Bart De Vylder


session 4b: Multi-Agent Systems II (chair:xxx)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Turning Game Models Turn-Based for Model Checking Properties of Agents

Wojciech Jamroga and Juergen Dix

  • Formal Modeling and Analysis of Organizations

Egon L. van den Broek, Catholijn M. Jonker, Alexei Sharpanskykh, Jan Treur and Pinar Yolum

  • A Labeled Graph Approach to Support Analysis of Organizational Performance

Mark Hoogendoorn, Jan Treur and Pinar Yolum

  • Modelling Uncertainty in Agent Programming

Johan Kwisthout and Mehdi Dastani


session 4c: Evolutionary Computation II (chair: G.J. Becks)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • Evolutionary Planning Heuristics in Production Management

Steven de Jong, Nico Roos and Ida Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper

  • On the Complexity of Hierarchical Problem Solving

Edwin de Jong, Richard Watson and Dirk Thierens

  • An Adaptive Pursuit Strategy for Allocating Operator Probabilities.

Dirk Thierens

  • Compressed Linear Genetic Programming: empirical parameter study on the Even-n-parity problem

Johan Parent, Ann Nowé, Anne Defaweux and Kris Steenhaut

11.40h-12.50h: BNVKI meeting

Room: Troonzaal

12.10h-13.00h: Lunch

Room: Marmeren Zaal

13.00h-14.20h: Paper session V (12 papers)
session 5a: Machine Learning II (chair: K. Driessens)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • Neural Networks for Discrete Tomography

Kees Joost Batenburg and Walter A. Kosters

  • Context-sensitive Kernel Functions: A Comparison Between Different Context Weights

Bram Vanschoenwinkel and Bernard Manderick

  • Reducing Spike Train Variability: A Computational Theory Of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity

Sander Bohte and Michael Mozer

  • Gaussian Quadrature Based Expectation Propagation

Onno Zoeter and Tom Heskes

session 5b: Multi-Agent Systems III (chair:xxx)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Modeling and Simulation of Selling, Buying, Deceit, and Trust Behavior in the T and Tracing Game

Catholijn Jonker, Sebastiaan Meijer, Dmytro Tykhonov and Tim Verwaart

  • Maximal Classes of Utility Functions for Efficient one-to-one Negotiation

Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss and Nicolas Maudet

  • Repeated Auctions with Complementarities

P.J. 't Hoen and J.A. La Poutré

  • Decentralized Reputation-Based Trust for Assessing Agent Reliability Under Aggregate Feedback

Tomas Klos and Han La Poutré

session 5c: Bayesian modeling and learning (chair: Sam Maes)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • Causal Inference in Multi-Agent Causal Models

Sam Maes, Stijn Meganck and Bernard Manderick

  • Use of the Noisy Threshold Function in Building Bayesian Networks

Rasa Jurgelenaite, Peter Lucas and Tom Heskes

  • Modeling Bayesian Networks by Learning from Experts

Wim Wiegerinck

  • Logical Bayesian Networks and Their Relation to Other Probabilistic Logical Models

Daan Fierens, Hendrik Blockeel, Maurice Bruynooghe and Jan Ramon

14.20h-14.40h: Coffee Break

Room: Marmeren Zaal

14.40h-16.00h: Paper session VI (12 papers)
session 6a: Machine Learning III (chair:xxx)

Room: Rubens Auditorium

  • Incremental Utility Elicitation for Adaptive Personalization

Tom Heskes and Bert de Vries

  • Effects of Evolutionary and Lifetime Learning on Minds and Bodies in an Artifical Society

T. Buresch, A.E. Eiben, G.S. Nitschke and M.C. Schut

  • Timed Inference for Behavioral Pattern Recognition

Sicco Verwer, Mathijs de Weerdt and Cees Witteveen

  • A Hybrid Graphical Model for Robust Feature Extraction from Video

A. Taylan Cemgil, Wojtek Zajdel and Ben Krose

session 6b: Multi-Agent Systems IV (chair:xxx)

Room: Troonzaal

  • Conceptual Mismatches and Repair in Human-Computer Interaction

Robbert-Jan Beun and Rogier van Eijk

  • Issues in a Mobile Agent-based Multimedia Retrieval Scenario

D.R.A. de Groot, M.L. Boonk, F.M.T. Brazier and A. Oskamp

  • Coordinating Self Interested Autonomous Planning Agents

Adriaan ter Mors and Cees Witteveen

  • Plan Repair using a Plan Library

Roman van der Krogt and Mathijs de Weerdt

session 6c: Applications (chair:J. Van den Herik)

Room: Stevinzaal

  • Design Considerations for an Infrastructure-Less Mobile Middleware Platform

Filip Miletic and Patrick Dewilde

  • Efficiency and Fairness in Air Traffic Control

Geert Jonker, John-Jules Meyer and Frank Dignum

  • Improving automatic writer identification

Laurens van der Maaten and Eric Postma

  • Boosting Web Retrieval through Query Operations

Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke

16.10h-17.10h: Invited talk

Room: Troonzaal

Semiotic Dynamics and the Recruitment Theory of Language Origins

Luc Steels

17.10h -18.10h: Best Paper Awards

Best demo award sponsored by SKBS

Best Paper Award sponsored by Decis Lab

Best scriptie in AI in the Netherlands offered by KION

Belgian beer reception

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