AI2003 PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS Tuesday 16th December TIME 0815 BREAKFAST (Hall) 0830 – 0930 REGISTRATION (Lubbock Room) 0900 - 0915 Welcome Plenary Session (Peterhouse Theatre) 0915 - 1000 Application Keynote Address (Peterhouse Theatre) R. DESIMONE Exploitation of AI Technologies for Network-Enabled Defence Programmes 1000 – 1045 Best Refereed Application Paper (Peterhouse Theatre) Prize Sponsored by the Department of Trade & Industry K. NAMMUNI, C. PICKERING, A. MONTGOMERY, R. DUNLOP, S. MODGIL, P. HAMMOND, J.C. WYATT, D.G.A ALTMAN and H. POTTS Design-a-Trial: A Rule-Based Decision Support System for Clinical Trial Design 1045 – 1115 REFRESHMENTS (Lubbock Room) 1115 – 1245 SESSION 1a – Technical Stream (Peterhouse Theatre) SESSION 1b – Technical Stream (Upper Hall) SESSION 1 – Application Stream (Music Room) Algorithms and AI (GAs, Hidden Markov Models, Simulated Annealing and Perceptions) Constraint Programming 1 Personalisation Chairman: Chairman: Chairman: S. YANG - Statistics-based Adaptive NonUniform Mutation for Genetic Algorithms S. BISTARELLI and B. O'SULLIVAN - A Theoretical Framework for Tradeoff Generation using Soft Constraints D.J. ALLSOPP and T. KALUS - Smart 4G Mobiles: A User Centric Approach parallel S. ALMA'ADEED, C. HIGGINS and D. ELLIMAN Off-line Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Words Using Hidden Markov Models L. NOLLE - On a New Stepwidth Adaptation Scheme for Simulated Annealing and its Practical Application W. KOWALCZYK - An Approximate Algorithm for Reverse Engineering of Multi-layer Perceptrons K. BROWN - Max-A-CSP: Maximum Partial Assignments for Over-Constrained Problems M. BASHARU, H. AHRIZ and I. ARANA Escaping Local Optima in Multi-Agent Oriented Constraint Satisfaction R. COLETTA, C. BESSIERE, J. QUINQUETON B. O'SULLIVAN, E.C. FREUDER and S. O'CONNELL - Constraint Acquisition as SemiAutomatic Modelling P. MORAÏTIS, E. PETRAKI and N.I. SPANOUDAKIS Providing Advanced, Personalised Infomobility Services Using Agent Technology C. HAYES and P. CUNNINGHAM - Context Boosting Collaborative Recommendations N. WIRATUNGA, S. CRAW and B. TAYLOR CBR for Smarthouse Technology 1245 – 1345 LUNCH (Hall) 1345 – 1430 Exhibitor Presentations / Poster Session 1430 – 1600 SESSION 2a – Technical Stream (Peterhouse Theatre) SESSION 2b – Technical Stream (Upper Hall) SESSION 2 – Application Stream (Music Room) Knowledge Discovery in Data (Association Rules, Clustering and Classification) Constraint Programming 2 E-Commerce and Resource Management Chairman: Chairman: Chairman: S. AHMED, F. COENEN and P. LENG Strategies for Partitioning Data in Association Rule Mining M. GRABMUELLER and P. HOFSTEDT - Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language J. DEBENHAM - An eNegotiation Framework C. HUNG and S. WERMTER - A New Dynamic Adaptive Self-Organising Hybrid Model for Text Clustering S. BISTARELI, J. KELLEHER and B. O'SULLIVAN - Symmetry Breaking in Soft CSPs E. MUGAMBI, G. OATLEY, L. KENNEDY and A. HUNTER - Polynomial-Fuzzy Decision Tree Structures for Classifying Medical Data M. A. SALIDO and F. BARBER - How to Classify Hard and Soft Constraints in Non-binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems S. LI and G. SUGDEN - A Mixed Approach Towards Formulating Global Marketing Strategies and Related E-Commerce Strategies: Group Judgment + a Fuzzy Expert System parallel R. MAREE, P. GEURTS, J. PIATER and L. WEHENKEL - A Comparison of Generic Machine Learning Algorithms for Image Classification 1600 – 1615 REFRESHMENTS (Lubbock Room) M. VAN DONGEN - Lightweight MAC Algorithms B. VIRGINAS, G. OWUSU, C. VOUDOURIS and G. ANIM-ANSAH - A Two Stage Optimisation System for Resource Management in BT AI2003 PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS Tuesday 16th December TIME 1615 - 1745 parallel SESSION 3 - Technical Stream (Peterhouse Theatre) SESSION 3 – Application Stream (Music Room) Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Machine Learning Hazard Prediction, Fault Diagnosis, Design Chairman: Chairman: B.A. EL-GERESY and A. ABDELMOTY - SPARQS: Automatic Reasoning in Qualitative Space P.A. THOMAS and M. BULL - WMD Hazard Prediction-Blending Three AI Techniques to Produce a Superior Defence Capability M. ELSHAW, D. LEWIS and S. WERMTER - An Investigation into Incorporating Reactive Learning Behaviour into a Mini-robot Platform L. ZHANG, F. COENEN and P. LENG - Using Domain Knowledge to Boost Case-Based Diagnosis: An Experimental Study in a Domain with Very Poor Data Quality I. CZARNOWSKI and P. JEDRZEJOWICZ - An Approach to Instance Reduction in Supervised Learning E.A. NIKOLIDAKIS and A.J. DENTSORAS - An Environment for the Efficient Analysis of Defining Relationships among Design Entities 1745 - 1800 BREAK 1800 – 2000 Machine Intelligence Competition(Peterhouse Theatre) 2000 – late GALA DINNER (Hall)