Frans Coenen & Tony Allen 
Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXI [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence

M.A.BRAMER University of Portsmouth, UK This volume comprises the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2004. The conference was organised by SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence. The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on AI Techniques I and II, CBR and Recommender Systems, Ontologies, Intelligent Agents and Scheduling Systems, Knowledge Discovery in Data and Spatial Reasoning and Image Recognition. This year’s prize for the best refereed technical paper was won by a paper entitled Extracting Finite Structure from Infinite Language by T. Mc Queen, A. A. Hopgood, T. J. Allen and J. A. Tepper (School of Computing & Informatics, Nottingham Trent University, UK). SGAI gratefully acknowledges the long-term sponsorship of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol) for this prize, which goes back to the 1980s. This is the twenty-first volume in the Research and Development series. The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XII. On behalf of the conference organising committee I should like to thank all those who contributed to the organisation of this year’s technical programme, in particular the programme committee members, the executive programme committee and our administrators Linsay Turbert and Collette Jackson.

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Best Technical Paper.- Extracting Finite Structure from Infinite Language.- Al Techniques I.- Modelling Shared Extended Mind and Collective Representational Content.- Overfitting in Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection: The Harder You Try the Worse it Gets.- Managing ontology versions with a distributed blackboard architecture.- Onto Search: An Ontology Search Engine.- CBR and Recommender Systems.- Case Based Adaptation Using Interpolation over Nominal Values.- Automating the Discovery of Recommendation Rules.- Incremental Critiquing.- Al Techniques II.- A Treebank-Based Case Role Annotation Using an Attributed String Matching.- A combinatorial approach to conceptual graph projection checking.- Implementing Policy Management through BDI.- Exploiting Causal Independence in Large Bayesian Networks.- Intelligent Agents and Scheduling Systems.- A Bargaining Agent aims to ‘Play Fair’.- Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Market-Based Agents.- Are Ordinal Representations Effective?.- A Framework for Hybrid Planning.- Knowledge Discovery in Data.- Towards Symbolic Data Mining in Numerical Time Series.- Support Vector Machines of Interval-based Features for Time Series Classification.- Neighbourhood Exploitation in Hypertext Categorization.- Using Background Knowledge to Construct Bayesian Classifiers for Data-Poor Domains.- Spatial Reasoning, Image Recognition and Hypercubes.- Interactive Selection of Visual Features through Reinforcement Learning.- Imprecise Qualitative Spatial Reasoning.- Reasoning with Geometric Information in Digital Space.- On Disjunctive Representations of Distributions and Randomization.