FLORIDA AI RESEARCH SOCIETY Officers President Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA Vice President Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Treasurer Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Secretary Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Canada FLAIRS-2004 Organizing Committee General Chair Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Program Chairs Valerie Barr, Hofstra University, USA Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA Special Tracks Coordinator Timothy Huang, Middlebury College, USA Conference Administration and Registration Jean W. Gerber FLAIRS 2004 Program Committee David Aldabass, Nottingham Trent University, UK Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Mohd Anwar, Bemidji State University, USA Costin Barbu, Tulane University, EECS Department, USA Thomas Bittner, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany Michel Bourdeau, CAMS-CNRS, France Jesus Cerquides, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain William Clancey, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Artur d'Avila Garcez, City University London, UK Mayukh Dass, University of Georgia, USA Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA xix John Debenham, University of Technology, Australia Tom Dhaene, University of Antwerp, Belgium Chrysanne Di Marco, University of Waterloo, Canada Soliman Edrees, Central Lab. for Expert System (CLAES), Egypt Tom Eskridge, University of West Florida IHMC, USA Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA George Ghinea, Brunel University, UK Roxana Girju, Baylor University, USA Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Scott Goodwin, University of Windsor, Canada Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, Universite Henri Poincare, France Hans Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University, USA Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Rattikorn Hewett, Washington State University, USA Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Robert Hilderman, University of Regina, Canada Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Bo Hu, University of Southampton, UK Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Istvan Jonyer, Oklahoma State University, USA Narendra Jussien, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Vincent Kovarik, Harris Corporation, USA Christian Kray, Lancaster University, UK Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA Jean-Charles Lamirel, LORIA, France Luc Lamontagne, University of Montreal, Canada David Leake, Indiana University, USA Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Ruddy Lelouche, Laval University, Canada Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, Paris-Sud University, France Derek Long, University of Durham, UK Ana Maguitman, Indiana University, USA Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece George Meghabghab, Roane State, US Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Frank Moore, Miami University, USA George Nasr, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands xx Cheng Niu, Cymfony, Inc., USA Mieczyslaw Owoc, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland Nandan Paramesh, University of New South Wales, Australia Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA Marius Pasca, Language Computer, USA David Patterson, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Laurent Perrussel, IRIT-Universite Toulouse, France Sira Rao, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA Antonin Rozsypal, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Hana Rudova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Vasile Rus, Indiana University-South Bend, USA Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Vladimir Ryabov, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Maria Salamó Llorente, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain Roberto Santana, Institute of Cybernetics, Cuba Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut, USA Eunice Santos, Virgnia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA Stephan Schulz, RISC-Linz, Austria Paul Schumacher, Winona State University, USA Gene Simmons, University of South Alabama, USA Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA Wai Sum Tang, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education, China Takao Terano, Tsukuba University, Japan Stanislav Vassilyev, Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS, Russia Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA Tony White, Carleton University, Canada David Wilson, University College Dublin, Ireland Yang Xiang, University of Guelph, Canada G. Michael Youngblood, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaohui Yuan, Tulane University, USA Michael Zakharyaschev, King's College London, UK Jian Zhang, Tulane University, USA Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA Michael Zock, LIMSI-CNRS, France FLAIRS 2004 Special Track Chairs AI IN AEROSPACE Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA (Chair) Lance Self, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Ramana Pidaparti, Purdue University, USA Mathew Palakal, Purdue University, USA Long Fong, Purdue University, USA xxi AI EDUCATION Todd Neller, Gettysburg College, USA (Chair) Marie-Noelle Bessagnet, LIUPPA Laboratory, France Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Andrea Danyluk, Williams College, USA Bassant El-Bagoury, Ain Shams University, Egypt Monique Grandbastien, LORIA, Henri Poincare University, France Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Deepak Kumar, Bryn Mawr College, USA Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranhao-UFMA, Brazil Derek Long, University of Durham, UK Robert McCartney, University of Connecticut, USA Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, USA David Musicant, Carleton College, USA George Nasr, Lebanese American University, Lebanon Timothy Norman, University of Aberdeen, UK Anita Raja, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Mohammed Abdel Razek, University of Montreal, Canada Chris Reed, University of Dundee, UK Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Abel-Badeeh Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt Kate Sanders, Rhode Island College, USA Gene Simmons, University of South Alabama, USA Richard Wyatt, West Chester University, USA AI IN MEDICINE Andy Novobilski, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA (Cochair) Francis Fesmire, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, USA (Cochair) Constantin Aliferis, Vanderbilt University, USA Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil Peter Lucas, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, USA Gilbert Peterson, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA Marco Ramoni, Harvard Medical School, USA Abel-Badeeh M Salem, Ain Shams University, Egypt Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut, USA Paul Snow, USA AI AND MUSIC Sudharsan Iyengar, Winona State University, USA (Chair) Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Cope, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Andy Novobilski, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA Paul Schumacher, Winona State University, USA Mohd Anwar Mazharul, Bemidji State University, USA xxii AI AND THE WEB Jeff Heflin, Lehigh University, USA (Chair) Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University, USA Stefan Decker, University of Southern California-Insitite for Scientific Information, USA AnHai Doan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Gary Flake, Overture Services, USA James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Siegfried Handschuh, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Pat Hayes, University of West Florida IHMC, USA Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California-Insitite for Scientific Information, USA Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine, USA Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California-Insitite for Scientific Information, USA Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Nick Kushmerick, University College Dublin, Ireland Francis Kwong, University of Manchester, UK Marco Maggini, University of Siena, Italy Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Matthew Moran, University of Southern California-Insitite for Scientific Information, USA Ion Muslea, University of California, Irvine, USA Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Bijan Parsia, University of Maryland, USA Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA Michal Zaremba, University of Southern California-Insitite for Scientific Information, USA Sarah Zelikovitz, College of Staten Island, USA AI TECHNIQUES IN MULTISENSOR FUSION Jane X. Yuan Tulane University, USA (Chair) Xiaohui Yuan, Tulane University, USA Rocio Alba, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Fernando Rios, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA Lingmin Meng, Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Charles Hannon, Texas Christian University, USA CASE-BASED REASONING David Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA (Cochair) Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University, USA (Cochair) David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh, USA Robin Burke, Depaul University, USA Bill Cheetham, GE Research, USA Michael Cox, Wright State University, USA Bassant El-Bagoury, Ain Shams University, Egypt xxiii Pedro Gonzalez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Universidade do Vale do Itaja, Brazil Luc Lamontagne, University of Montreal, Canada David B. Leake, Indiana University, USA Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin, Ireland Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA David Patterson, University of Ulster, Ireland Ian Watson, University of Auckland, New Zealand Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA COMPUTING WITH EMOTIONS IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS Nandan Paramesh, University of New South Wales, Australia (Chair) Colette Faucher, Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France (Cochair) Christina Frederick-Recascino, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA (Cochair) Horacio Arlo-Costa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sherlock Au, Multi Base Ltd, Hong Kong Jessica Faivre, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Charles Hannon, Texas Christian University, USA Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Stanislav Vassilyev, Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SBRAS, Russia CONSTRAINT SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland (Chair) Stefano Bistarelli, C.N.R., Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Italy Krzysztof Apt, National University of Singapore, Singapore Christian Bessiere, LIRMM, France Boi Faltings, EPFL, Switzerland Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm, Germany Carmen Gervet, IC Parc, Imperial College, UK Scott Goodwin, University of Windsor, Canada Pascal van Hentenryck, Brown University, USA Javier Larrosa, UPC, Spain Jimmy H.M. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Ian Miguel, University of York, UK Francesca Rossi, University of Padova, Italy Marius-Calin Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Mark Wallace, Imperial College, UK Toby Walsh, University College Cork, Ireland EVALUATION AND REFINEMENT OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA (Cochair) Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany (Cochair) Stéphans Loiseau, Universite d'Angers, France Mieczyslaw L. Owoc, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland xxiv Silvie Spreeuwenbery, LibRT B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Neli Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University, USA INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Basilis P. Boutsinas, University of Patras, Greece (Cochair) Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras & RACTI, Greece (Cochair) Vasile Palade, Oxford University, UK (Cochair) Jessica Faivre, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, City University, UK Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva, Switzerland Steffen Holldobler, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri, USA Amedeo Napoli, LORIA, France Detlef D. Nauck, BT Exact, UK Daniel -C. Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Jim Prentzas, University of Patras, Greece Han Reichgelt, Georgia Southern University, USA Tony R. White, Carleton University, Canada Dan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA INTELLIGENT AGENT SYSTEMS Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy (Cochair) Shahram Rahimi, Southern Illinois University, USA (Cochair) Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy Norman F. Carver III, Southern Illinois University, USA Brahim Chaib-draaLaval, Laval University, Canada Dursun Delen, Oklahoma State University, USA Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland Stan Franklin, University of Memphis, USA Violetta Galant, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Sofiane Labidi, Federal University of Maranho, Brazil Beniamino di Martino, University of Naples, Italy John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland James Odell, James Odell Associates, USA Julian Padget, University of Bath, UK Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Paolo Petta, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria Thomas E. Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Omer F Rana, Cardiff University, UK xxv Tatyana Yakhno, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia LOGIC AND CATEGORIZATION IN AI Jean-Pierre Desclés, Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, France (Cochair) Michael Freund, LALICC, Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, France (Cochair) Anca Pascu, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France (Cochair) Ismaïl Biskri, Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières, Canada Jerome Cardot, LALICC, Universite Paris 4-Sorbonne, France François G Carpentier, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Colette Faucher, Université Aix-Marseille III, France Boris Galitsky, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Sudharsan R Iyengar, Winona State University, USA Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany Philippe Laublet, Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, France Jean -Guy Meunier, Université du Québec a Montréal, Canada Stanislav N Vassilyev, Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of SB RAS, Russia Geoffrey C Williams, Université de Bretagne Sud, France MACHINE LEARNING Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (Cochair) Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA (Cochair) Marcel Barbulescu, George Mason University, USA Mihai Boicu, George Mason University, USA Jesus Cerquides, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Sudharsan Iyengar, Winona State University, USA Istvan Jonyer, Oklahoma State University, USA Miroslav Kubat, University of Miami, USA Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA Dorin Marcu, George Mason University, USA Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA David Patterson, University of Ulster, Ireland Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA Vasile Rus, Indiana University-South Bend, USA Marko Sikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Bogdan Stanescu, George Mason University, USA Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, USA Ioannis Tsamardinos, Vanderbilt University, USA MODELING THE REAL WORLD THROUGH CONTEXTS Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA (Cochair) Patrick J. Brezillon, LIP6, University of Paris 6, France (Cochair) Roy M. Turner, University of Maine, USA (Cochair) xxvi Elise H. Turner, University of Maine, USA. Brian S. Stensrud, University of Central Florida, USA Gilbert C. Barrett, University of Central Florida, USA Hans G. Fernlund, Dalarna University, Sweden Robert P. Arrit, University of Maine, USA Emilie Marquois, LIP6, University of Paris 6, France Soon A. Chun, Seton Hall University, USA NEURAL NETWORKS Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA (Cochair) Tony Pipe, University of the West of England, UK (Cochair) Brian Carse, University of the West of England, UK (Cochair) Jim Austin, University of York, UK Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Douglas S. Blank, Bryn Mawr College, USA Serge Dolenko, Moscow State University, Russia Okan Ersoy, Purdue University, USA Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida, USA Mike James, York University, UK John Kolen, University of West Florida IHMC, USA Luis Marti, Universidad de La Habaña, Cuba Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, USA Costas Neocleous, Higher Technical Institute, Cyprus Luis Fernando Niño, National University of Colombia, Colombia Sergio Roa, National University of Colombia, Colombia Roberto Santana, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Cuba Bernhard Sendhoff, Honda Research and Development Europe, Germany Chellu Chandra Sekhar, Indian Institute of Technology, India Wai Sum Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Antony J. Waldock, University of theWest of England, UK Stefan Wermter, University of Sunderland, UK Hujun Yin, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK SECURE MULTIPARTY COMPUTATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINT REASONING Richard Wallace, Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland Jörg Denzinger, University of Calgary, Canada Katsutoshi Hirayama, Kobe University of Mercantile Marine, Japan Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Markus Zanker, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Germany Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland Stefano Bistarelli, Universita' degli Studi, Italy Berthe Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING Hans Werner Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Chair) Thomas E Bittner, IFOMIS, University of Leipzig, Germany xxvii Kettani Driss, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen, Germany Joachim Hertzberg, Fraunhofer Institute Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine, USA Lina Khatib, Kestrel/NASA ARC, USA Christian Kray, Lancaster University, UK Gerard F Ligozat, LIMSI, Paris-Sud University, France Debasis Mitra, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Vladimir Ryabov, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Thomas J Vogele, University of Bremen, Germany Michael F Worboys, University of Maine, USA Michael Zakharyaschev, King's College London, UK SPEECH RECOGNITION AND UNDERSTANDING Marius C Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA (Cochair) Veton Kepuska, Florida Institute of Technology, USA (Cochair) Rada F Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA Herve Bourlard, IDIAP, Switzerland Antoine Rozenknop, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland Mathew Magimai Doss, IDIAP, Switzerland Bhiksha Raj, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA John N Gowdy, Clemson University, USA Michael S Scordilis, University of Miami, USA UNCERTAIN REASONING Gabriele Kern-Isberner, University of Hagen, Germany (Cochair) Choh Man-Teng, University of West Florida IHMC USA (Cochair) Rania El Baida, IRIT, France Salem Benferhat, Université d’Artois, France Boris Brandherm, Saarland University, Germany Mats Danielson, Orebro University, Sweden Alex Dekhtyar, University of Kentucky, USA Love Ekenberg, Mid Sweden University, Stockholm University, Sweden Judy Goldsmith, University of Kentucky, USA Thomas Lukasiewicz, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Italy Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Simon Parsons, City University of New York, USA Laurent Perrussel, IRIT/Université Toulouse, France Wilhelm Roedder, University of Hagen, Germany Eugene Santos, Jr., University of Connecticut, USA Solomon Shimony, Ben Gurion University, Israel Michael Wong, University of Regina, Canada Dan Wu, University of Windsor, Canada Yang Xiang, University of Guelph, Canada xxviii USER MODELING AND HCI APPROACHES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA (Cochair) Nancy Green, University of North Carolina-Greensboro USA (Cochair) Nadjet Bouayad-Agha, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Charles B. Callaway, ITC-IRST, Italy Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware, USA Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia, Canada Alison J. Cawsey, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland Songsak Channarukul, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA Chrysanne Di Marco, University of Waterloo, Canada Stephanie M. Elzer, Millersville University, USA Armin Fiedler, Saarland University, Germany Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA Abigail S. Gertner, The MITRE Corporation, USA Bradley A. Goodman, The MITRE Corporation, USA Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK Karin Harbusch, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Helmut Horacek, Saarland University, Germany Michael J. Johnston, AT&T Research, USA Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Pamela W. Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA James C. Lester, North Carolina State University, USA Susan W. McRoy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Johanna D. Moore, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Kentaro Inui, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Jung Hee Kim, North Carolina A&T State University, USA Alistair J. Knott, University of Otago, New Zealand Paul Piwek, ITRI-University of Brighton, UK Richard Power, ITRI-University of Brighton, UK Norbert Reithinger, DFKI GmbH, Germany Lucia H. Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Donia R. Scott, ITRI-University of Brighton, UK Ronnie W Smith, East Carolina University, USA Keith N. Vander Linden, Calvin College, USA Karen Ward, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA Michael White, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki, Finland Roy W. Wilson, University of Pittsburgh, USA R. Michael Young, North Carolina State University, USA Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia xxix xxx