Program
  Preliminary schedule
  Preliminary program
  Invited talks
  Invited tutorials
  Accepted Papers
  Accepted Short Papers (Posters)
  Accepted PAIS Papers
  Active Workshops
  Accepted System Demostrations
  Accepted STAIRS

Accepted Short Papers (Posters)

Short papers

  • Deriving explanations from causal information
    Yves Moinard, Philippe Besnard, Marie-Odile Cordier

  • LRTA* Works Much Better with Pessimistic Heuristics
    Aleksander Sadikov, Ivan Bratko

  • Incremental Diagnosis of DES by Satisfiability
    Alban Grastien, A. Anbulagan

  • Thinking Too Much: Pathology in Pathfinding
    Mitja Lustrek, Vadim Bulitko

  • Verifying the Conformance of Agents with Multiparty Protocols
    Alberto Martelli, Laura Giordano

  • Asynchronous Dynamic BackTracking algorithm for Distributed Constraint Optimization
    Redouane Ezzahir, Christian Bessiere, Imade Benelallam, El Houssine Bouyakhf, Mustapha Belaissaoui

  • An Activity Recognition Model for Alzheimer’s Patients: Extension of the COACH Task Guidance System
    Bruno Bouchard, Patrice Roy, Abdenour Bouzouane, Sylvain Giroux, Alex Mihailidis

  • Not so new: overblown claims for
    Evans Dylan

  • Simulated annealing for coalition formation
    Helena Keinänen, Misa Keinänen

  • A Hybrid Tableau Algorithm for ALCQ
    Jocelyne Faddoul, Nasim Farsinia, Volker Haarslev, Ralf Moeller

  • Classifier Combination Using Triplet-based Belief Functions
    Yaxin Bi

  • Vector Valued Markov Decision Process for robot platooning
    Matthieu Boussard, Maroua Bouzid, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib

  • Author Identification Using a Tensor Space Representation
    Spyridon Plakias, Efstathios Stamatatos

  • Learning to Select Object Recognition Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robots
    Reinaldo Bianchi, Arnau Ramisa, Ramon López de Mántaras

  • Reinforcement Learning with Classifier Selection for Focused Crawling
    Ioannis Partalas, Georgios Paliouras, Ioannis Vlahavas

  • The Emergence of Rules in Cell-Assemblies of fLIF Neurons
    Roman Belavkin, Christian Huyck

  • Improved Action Set Formation in Learning Classifier Systems with Memory Registers
    Luis Simoes, Martijn Schut, Evert Haasdijk

  • Ers: Evaluating Reputations of Scientific Journals
    Émilie Samuel, Colin de la Higuera

  • Semantic relatedness in ontology using weights and path construction rules
    Laurent Mazuel, Nicolas Sabouret

  • An Ensemble of Classifiers for coping with Recurring Contexts in Data Streams
    Ioannis Katakis, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Ioannis Vlahavas

  • Content-Based Social Network Analysis
    Paola Velardi, Roberto Navigli, Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Mirco Curzi

  • A Default Logic Based Framework for Argumentation
    Emanuel Santos, João Martins

  • An Empirical Investigation of the Adversarial Activity Model
    Inon Zuckerman, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey Rosenschein

  • Characterizing and checking self-healability
    Marie-Odile Cordier, Yannick Pencolé, Louise Trave©-Massuyes, Thierry Vidal

  • Categorizing Opinion in Discourse
    Nicholas Asher, farah benamara, Yvette Mathieu

  • On-the-fly Macros
    Hubie Chen, Omer Gimenez

  • Pick a Bundle: A Novel Bundling Strategy for Selling Multiple Items within Online Auctions
    Ioannis Vetsikas, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings

  • Improving robustness in consistency-based diagnosis using possible conflicts
    Belarmino Pulido Junquera, Anibal Bregon, Carlos Alonso

  • Addressing temporal aspects of privacy-related norms
    Guillaume Piolle, Yves Demazeau

  • Evaluation of global system state thanks to local phenomenona
    Jean-Michel Contet, Franck Gechter, Pablo Gruer, Abder Koukam

  • Using Decision Trees as the Answer Networks in Temporal Difference-Networks
    Laura-Andreea Antanas, Kurt Driessens, Jan Ramon, Tom Croonenborghs

  • HOOPO: A Hybrid Object-Oriented Integration of Production Rules and OWL Ontologies
    Georgios Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades

  • Rule-based OWL Ontology Reasoning Using Dynamic ABOX Entailments
    Georgios Meditskos, Nick Bassiliades

  • Efficient Data Clustering by Local Density Approximation
    Marc-Ismaël Akodjenou-Jeannin, Patrick Gallinari

  • An Efficient Deduction Mechanism for Expressive Comparative Preferences Languages
    Nic Wilson

  • Dependable Monitoring of Discrete-Event Systems with Uncertain Temporal Observations
    Marina Zanella, Gianfranco Lamperti

  • Gas Turbine Fault Diagnosis using Random Forests
    Manolis Maragoudakis, Euripides Loukis, Panayotis-Prodromos Pantelides

  • How Many Objects?: Determining the Number of Clusters with a Skewed Distribution
    Satoshi Oyama, Katsumi Tanaka

  • A New Approach to Planning in Networks
    Jussi Rintanen

  • Personal Experience Acquisition Support from Blogs using Event-Depicting Images
    Keita Sato, Nishihara Yoko, Wataru Sunayama

  • Experience and Trust - A Systems-Theoretic Approach
    Norman Foo, Jochen Renz

  • Cost-Optimal Removal of Nondiagnosability Causes
    Anika Schumann, Wolfgang Mayer, Markus Stumptner

  • From constraint representations of sequential code and program annotations to their use in debugging
    Mihai Nica, Franz Wotawa

  • A Dynamic Approach for Automatic Error Detection in Generation Grammars
    Tim vor der Brück, Holger Stenzhorn

  • Robust Reservation-Based Multi-Agent Routing
    Adriaan ter Mors, Cees Witteveen, Jonne Zutt, Nico Roos, Xiaoyu Mao

  • Trust-Based Acquisition Of Unverifiable Information
    Eugen Staab, Volker Fusenig, Thomas Engel

  • Computability and Complexity Issues of Extended RDF
    Anastasia Analyti, Grigoris Antoniou, Carlos Damasio, Gerd Wagner

  • Automated Web Service Composition Using Extended Representation of Planning Domain
    El Falou Mohamad, Maroua Bouzid, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, Thierry Vidal

  • BIDFLOW: a New Graph-Based Bidding Language for Combinatorial Auctions
    Madalina Croitoru, Cornelius Croitoru, Paul Lewis

  • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Intrusion Detection: A case study and evaluation
    Arturo Servin, Daniel Kudenko

  • GR-MAS: Multi-Agent System for Geriatric Residences
    Juan M. Corchado, Javier Bajo, Ajith Abraham

  • Active Concept Learning For Ontology Evolution
    Murat Sensoy, Pinar Yolum

  • Propositional merging operators based on set-theoretic closeness
    Patricia Everaere, Sébastien Konieczny, Pierre Marquis

  • Detection of solvable temporal planning problems through the use of landmarks
    Eliseo Marzal, Laura Sebastia, Eva Onaindia

  • Partial and Informative Common Subsumers in Description Logics
    Simona Colucci, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco Donini, Eufemia Tinelli

  • Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulation of Displacement of Crime
    Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen, Mark Hoogendoorn, Waqar Jaffry, Jan Treur

  • Object Configuration Reconstruction from Descriptions using Relative and Intrinsic Reference Frames
    H. Joe Steinhauer

  • Learning Concept Mappings Based On Instance Similarity
    Shenghui Wang, Gwenn Englebienne, Christophe Guéret , Antoine Isaac, Stefan Schlobach, Martijn Schut

  • Prime Implicate-based Belief Revision Operators
    Meghyn Bienvenu, Andreas Herzig, Guilin Qi

  • Approximate structure preserving semantic matching
    Fausto Giunchiglia, Mikalai Yatskevich, Fiona McNeill, Pavel Shvaiko, Juan Pane, Paolo Besana

  • Organizing Coherent Coalitions: A study of interaction and its optimal regulation.
    Jan Broersen, Rosja Mastop, John-Jules Meyer, Paolo Turrini

  • Integrating Abduction and Constraint Optimization with Constraint Handling Rules
    Marco Gavanelli, Marco Alberti, Evelina Lamma

  • A probabilistic trust model for semantic peer-to-peer systems
    Gia Hien Nguyen, Philippe Chatalic, Marie-Christine Rousset

  • Symbolic Classification of General Multi-Player Games
    Stefan Edelkamp, Peter Kissmann

  • Obligations and Intentions
    Jan Broersen, Leon van der Torre

  • Trust Aware Negotiation Dissolution
    Nicolas Hormazabal, Josep Lluis de la Rosa, Silvana Aciar

  • Determining Automatically the Size of Learned Ontologies
    Elias Zavitsanos, Sergios Petridis, Georgios Paliouras, George Vouros

  • A Planning Graph Heuristic for Forward-Chaining Adversarial Planning
    Pascal Bercher, Robert Mattmüller

  • Redundancy in CSPs
    Vincent Krawczyk, Assef Chmeiss, Lakhdar Sais

  • On the Role of Structured Information Exchange in Supervised Learning
    Ricardo Araujo, Luis Lamb

  • Reinforcement learning and reactive search: an adaptive MAX-SAT solver
    Roberto Battiti, Paolo Campigotto

  • Distributed Reasoning for Description Logics Based on Ordered Resolution
    Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

  • Dynamic Multi-Armed Bandit with Covariates
    Nicos Pavlidis, Dimitris Tasoulis, Niall M. Adams, David J. Hand

  • Reinforcement Learning with the Use of Costly Features
    Robby Goetschalckx, Scott Sanner, Kurt Driessens

  • Compressing Binary Decision Diagrams
    Esben Hansen, Peter Tiedemann

  • Answer Definition Question: Rank for Top-k
    Chao Shen, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjin Huang, Lide Wu

  • Magic Agents: Using Information Relevance to Control Autonomy
    Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Meyer

  • Dependent Failures in Consistency-based Diagnosis
    Joerg Weber, Franz Wotawa

  • Ontology-Driven Human Language Technology for Semantic-Based Business Intelligence
    Thierry Declerck, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Horacio Saggion, Marcus Spies

  • An Analysis of Bayesian Network Model-Approximation Techniques
    Gregory Provan

  • Cost-sensitive iterative abductive reasoning with abstractions
    Gianluca Torta, Daniele Theseider Dupré, Luca Anselma

  • Computation of Minimal Sensor Sets for Conditional Testability Requirements
    Gianluca Torta, Pietro Torasso

  • Data-driven Induction of Functional Programs
    Emanuel Kitzelmann

  • Discovering Temporal Knowledge from a Crisscross of Timed Observations
    Benayadi Nabil, Marc Le Goc

  • Probabilistic Reinforcement Rules for Item-Based Recommender Systems
    Sylvain Castagnos, Armelle Brun, Anne Boyer

  • Optimization of Self-Organized Maps Ensemble in Prediction
    Elie Prudhomme, Stéphane Lallich

  • An Efficient Behavior Classifier based on Distributions of Relevant Events
    Jose Antonio Iglesias, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis, Gal Kaminka

  • Infection-Based Norm Emergence in Multi-Agent Complex Networks
    Salazar Norman, Juan Rodríguez-Aguilar, Josep Lluís Arcos

  • Combining Abduction with Conflict-based Diagnosis
    Ildiko Flesch, Peter Lucas

  • Fred meets Tweety
    Antonis Kakas, Loizos Michael, Rob Miller


  • A MAX-SAT Algorithm Porfolio
    Paulo Matos, Jordi Planes, Florian Letombe, Joao Marques-Silva

  • Handling Out of Domain Topics by a Conversational Character
    Manish Mehta, Andrea Corradini

  • Integrating Path-Planning and Automatic Animation Generation to Film Complex Unpredictable Scenes
    Khaled Belghith, Benjamin Auder, Froduald Kabanza, Philippe Bellefeuille, Leo Hartman

  • Planning, Executing, and Monitoring Communication in a Logic-based Multi-agent System
    Martin Magnusson, David Landén, Patrick Doherty

  • An application of Partial Parsing in Machine Translation System
    Heshaam Faili

  • On the practical significance of hypertree vs tree width
    Rina Dechter, Lars Otten, Radu Marinescu

  • Evaluation Evaluation - a Monte Carlo study
    David Powers

  • CTRNN Parameter Learning using Differential Evolution
    Francesco Donnarumma, Domenico Maisto, Ivanoe De Falco, Antonio Della Cioppa, Roberto Prevete, Ernesto Tarantino

  • ContextAggregator: A heuristic-based approach for automated feature construction and selection
    Robert Lokaiczyk, Manuel Goertz

  • Opponent Modelling in Texas Holdem Poker as the Key for Success
    Luis Paulo Reis

  • Definability in Logic and Rough Set Theory
    Tuan-Fang Fan, Churn-Jung Liau, Duen-Ren Liu

  • WikiTaxonomy: A large scale knowledge resource
    Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube

  • Computing epsilon-Optimal Strategies in Bridge and Other Games of Sequential Outcome
    Pavel Cejnar

  • A pervasive assistant for nursing and doctoral staff
    Alexiei Dingli, Charlie Abela


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