Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications

The AIMSA conference series was ?rst conceived in 1984 as a gathering of AI researchersandstudentsfromEasternandCentralEurope.Sincethenthecon- rence has followed a biennial schedule of meetings in Bulgaria, attracting parti- pantsfromawidergeographicalarea.Today,20yearson,AIMSAisathoroughly international conference, with contributions from most European countries and some from as far a?eld as the United States, Mexico and Brazil. The AIMSA organizers are delighted to present you with another exciting program,coveringmostareasofArti?cialIntelligence.Inkeepingwithitsm- sion to inform the research community and excite the commercial sector, AIMSA presents this year two invited contributions from world-leading European rese- chersworkingoncutting-edgeAIresearch:Prof.CaroleGoble,ontheSemantic Web,andProf.DavidHouse,onintegratedspeechandgesturalsynthesis.In addition, we present 26 contributions on topics covering almost all aspects of AIandbringingtogetherbasicandappliedresearch.Oneofthese,byMilos Kova? cevi c and his colleagues on Recognition of Common Areas in a Web Page Using a Visualisation Approach was judged by reviewers to be the best s- mitted paper, and duly received the accolade of Best Paper of the Conference, with a special slot devoted to it in the program. As Chair of the Program Committee, I am extremely grateful to those who so generously agreed to apply their expertise and valuable time to reviewing papers for the conference, and for their dedication in getting the best possible job done in what turned out to be a very short period of time.

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Inhalt
Multimodal Speech Synthesis: Improving Information Flow in Dialogue Systems Using 3D Talking Heads.- Efficient Relational Learning from Sparse Data.- Efficient Instance Retraction.- Learning Patterns in Multidimensional Space Using Interval Algebra.- A Machine Learning Approach to Automatic Production of Compiler Heuristics.- Using Failed Local Search for SAT as an Oracle for Tackling Harder A.I. Problems More Efficiently.- A Heuristic for Planning Based on Action Evaluation.- What: Web-Based Haskell Adaptive Tutor.- Decomposing and Distributing Configuration Problems.- Direct Adaptive Neural Control with Integral-Plus-State Action.- ILP Techniques for Free-Text Input Processing.- A Dempster-Shafer Approach to Physical Database Design.- Technical Documentation: An Integrated Architecture for Supporting the Author in Generation and Resource Editing.- Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Interpretation of Linguistic Negation.- Left Corner Parser for Tree Insertion Grammars.- Bulgarian Noun - Definite Article in DATR.- A Methodology to Solve Optimisation Problems with MAS Application to the Graph Colouring Problem.- OCOA: An Open, Modular, Ontology Based Autonomous Robotic Agent Architecture.- A Replanning Algorithm for a Reactive Agent Architecture.- A Broker Approach for Multi-agent Scheduling.- Recognition of Common Areas in a Web Page Using a Visualization Approach.- A Neural Approach to Abductive Multi-adjoint Reasoning.- Restricted ?-Trees in Multiple-Valued Logics.- Knowledge Management in Expert System Creator.- Towards Semantic Goal-Directed Forward Reasoning in Resolution.- Do What We Do to Find What You Want.- Adapting a Robust Multi-genre NE System for Automatic Content Extraction.- The Semantic Web: A Killer App for AI?.