Roberto Serra & Rita Cucchiara 
AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence [PDF ebook] 
XIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 9-12, 2009, Proceedings

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Bayesian Networks: The Parental Synergy and the Prior Convergence Error.- Constraints for Representing Transforming Entities in Bio-ontologies.- Common-Sense Rule Inference.- Hard QBF Encodings Made Easy: Dream or Reality?.- CONGAS: A COllaborative Ontology Development Framework Based on Named Gr Aph S.- Pstable Semantics for Logic Programs with Possibilistic Ordered Disjunction.- Reasoning about Typicality with Low Complexity Description Logics: The Logic.- A Prioritized “And” Aggregation Operator for Multidimensional Relevance Assessment.- Deriving Information from Sampling and Diving.- Optimal Decision Tree Synthesis for Efficient Neighborhood Computation.- Mathematical Symbol Indexing.- Machine Learning.- Local Kernel for Brains Classification in Schizophrenia.- Improvement of the Classifier Performance of a Pedestrian Detection System by Pixel-Based Data Fusion.- Plugging Taxonomic Similarity in First-Order Logic Horn Clauses Comparison.- Empirical Assessment of Two Strategies for Optimizing the Viterbi Algorithm.- Approximate Frequent Itemset Discovery from Data Stream.- Kernel-Based Learning for Domain-Specific Relation Extraction.- Automatic Cluster Selection Using Index Driven Search Strategy.- The Necessity of Machine Learning and Epistemology in the Development of Categorization Theories: A Case Study in Prototype-Exemplar Debate.- Evolutionary Computation.- A Lexicographic Encoding for Word Sense Disambiguation with Evolutionary Neural Networks.- Feature Membership Functions in Voronoi-Based Zoning.- Optimal Planning with ACO.- Navigation in Evolving Robots: Insight from Vertebrates.- Search.- Social Tagging for Personalized Web Search.- Partitioning Search Spaces of a Randomized Search.- Improving Plan Quality in SAT-Based Planning.- A New Approach to Iterative Deepening Multiobjective A*.- High Performing Algorithms for MAP and Conditional Inference in Markov Logic.- Natural Language Processing.- A Robust Geometric Model for Argument Classification.- Probabilistic Ontology Learner in Semantic Turkey.- Semantic Annotation of Legal Modificatory Provisions.- Towards Extensible Textual Entailment Engines: The EDITS Package.- “Language Is the Skin of My Thought”: Integrating Wikipedia and AI to Support a Guillotine Player.- Analyzing Interactive QA Dialogues Using Logistic Regression Models.- Multi-agent Systems.- An Agent-Based Paradigm for Free-Hand Sketch Recognition.- Solving Integer Programming Problems by Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm.- Representing Excuses in Social Dependence Networks.- Application.- Statistical and Fuzzy Approaches for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Classification.- Learning Local Correspondences for Static Signature Verification.- ML Techniques for the Classification of Car-Following Maneuver.- An Asynchronous Cellular Automata-Based Adaptive Illumination Facility.- Relational Temporal Data Mining for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Ontology-Driven Co-clustering of Gene Expression Data.- Value-Driven Characters for Storytelling and Drama.- A Knowledge Management System Using Bayesian Networks.- Knowledge Discovery and Digital Cartography for the ALS (Linguistic Atlas of Sicily) Project.- Parameter Tuning of a Stochastic Biological Simulator by Metaheuristics.- Hypotheses about Typical General Human Strategic Behavior in a Concrete Case.- A Fuzzy Approach to Product Configuration on Standard Databases.- Classifying Human Body Acceleration Patterns Using a Hierarchical Temporal Memory.