PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence : 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, August ... 3157 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) - Tapa blanda

The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) is a biennial international event which focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) theories and technologies, and their applications which are of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim region. Seven earlier conferences were held in: Nagoya, Japan (1990); Seoul, Korea (1992); Beijing, China (1994); Cairns, Australia (1996); Singapore (1998); Melbourne, Australia (2000); and Tokyo, Japan (2002). PRICAI 2004 was the eigth in the series and was held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2004. PRICAI 2004 had attracted a historical record number of submissions, a total of 356 papers. After careful reviews by at least two international Program Committee members or referees, 94 papers were accepted as full papers (27%) and 54 papers (15%) were accepted as posters. Authors of accepted papers came from 27 countries. This volume of the proceedings contains all the 94 full papers but only a 2-page - tended abstract of each of the accepted posters. The full papers were categorized into four sections, namely: AI foundations, computational intelligence, AI technologies and systems, and AI specific application areas. Among the papers submitted, we found “Agent Technology” to be the area having the most papers submitted. This was followed by “Evolutionary Computing”, “Computational Learning”, and “Image Processing”.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2004, held in Auckland, New Zealand in August 2004.

The 94 revised full papers and 45 revised poster papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 356 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and reasoning, knowledge representation and search, ontologies, planning, constraint satisfaction, machine learning, computational learning, Bayesian networks, evolutionary computing, neural networks, fuzzy logic, data mining, classification and clustering, case-based reasoning, information retrieval, agent technology, robotics, bioinformatics, image processing and computer vision, natural language processing, and speech understanding and interaction.