ProgramBNAIC2004

BNAIC 2004 - Program
Paper, poster and demo presentation sessions

Thursday, 21 October
09:00 - 09:50	Registration
09:50 - 10:00	Opening(Auditorium)
10:00 - 11:00	Invited lecture: Prof. dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn, The Human in the Loop: Case Studies in Human-Robot Interaction Research (Auditorium)
11:00 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 12:35	Paper presentations: Session 1
	Session 1A: Auditorium Agents I	Session 1B: Conference Room 1 Machine learning I	Session 1C: Conference Room 2 Ontology & Semantic web
	B. Reggers, F. Wiesman and Nico Roos: Agents for Market-Based Computational-Resource Allocation	I. Hendrickx and A. van den Bosch: Maximum-Entropy Parameter Estimation for the k-NN Modified Value-Difference Kernel	P. Bouquet, F. Giunchiglia, F. van Harmelen, L. Serafini and H. Stuckenschmidt: C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies
	J. Valk and P. van Tooren: Multi-Agent Coordination in Dynamic Task Environments	M. van Gerven and P. Lucas: Using Background Knowledge to Construct Bayesian Classifiers for Data-Poor Domains	P. Mika, D. Oberle, A. Gangemi and M. Sabou: Foundations for Service Ontologies: Aligning OWL-S to DOLCE
	P.J. 't Hoen and S.M. Bohte: Collective INtelligence with Sequences of Actions	M. Van Otterlo, K. Kersting and L. De Raedt: Bellman goes Relational	B. Wielinga, J. Wielemaker, G. Schreiber and M. van Assem: Methods for Porting Resources to the Semantic Web
12:35 - 13:35	Lunch
13:35 - 14:50	Paper presentations: Session 2
	Session 2A: Auditorium Machine learning II	Session 2B: Conference Room 1 Logic in AI	Session 2C: Conference Room 2 Communication & Negotiation
	E.L. van den Broek and E.M. van Rikxoort: Evaluation of Color Representation for Texture Analysis	H.W. de Haan, W.H. Hesselink and G.R. Renardel de Lavalette: Knowledge-Based Asynchronous Programming	D. Weyns, E. Steegmans and T. Holvoet: Protocol-based Communication for Situated Agents
	E.N. Smirnov, I.G. Sprinkhuizen-Kuyper and G.I. Nalbantov: Unanimous Voting using Support Vector Machines	B. Verheij: Dialectical argumentation with argumentation schemes: an approach to legal logic	C. Jonker and V. Robu: Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation Using Incomplete Preference Information
	S.M. Bohte, M. Breitenbach and G.Z. Grudic: Nonparametric Classification with Polynomial MPMC Cascades	M. Denecker and E. Ternovska: Inductive Situation Calculus	K. Somefun, T. Klos and H. La Poutré: Negotiating over Bundles and Prices Using Aggregate Knowledge
14:50 - 15:10	Break
15:10 - 16:50	Paper, poster and demo presentations: Session 3
	Session 3 : Auditorium Short presentations of demonstrations	Session 3B: Foyer Posters	Session 3C: Conference Room 2 Planning (15:35 - 16:50)
	For a complete overview of all demonstration presentations look at the end of the program	For a complete overview of all poster presentations look at the end of the program	J. Zutt and C. Witteveen: Multi-Agent Transport Planning
			R. van der Krogt and M. de Weerdt: The Two Faces of Plan Repair
			P. Buzing and C. Witteveen: Distributed (Re)Planning With Preference Information
16:50	Move to reception
19:00	Dinner

Friday, 22 October
09:00 - 10:00	Invited lecture: Prof. dr. Patrick Doherty, Advanced Research with Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Auditorium)
10:00 - 11:15	Paper presentations: Session 4
	Session 4A: Auditorium Agents II	Session 4B: Conference Room 1 Machine learning III	Session 4C: Conference Room 2 Cognitive modeling
	M. Dastani, J. Hulstijn, F. Dignum and J-J. Ch. Meyer: Issues in Multiagent System Development	J.J. Verbeek, N. Vlassis and B.J.A. Kröse: Self-organising mixture models	J. Lacroix, J. Murre, E. Postma and J. van den Herik: The natural input memory model
	R-J. Beun and R.M. van Eijk: Ontological Feedback in Multiagent Systems	J.R. Kok and N. Vlassis: Sparse Cooperative Q-learning	L.J.M. Rothkrantz, P. Wiggers, J.W.A. van Wees and R.J. van Vark: Voice Stress Analysis
	T.Bosse, C.M. Jonker and J. Treur: Analysis of Design Process Dynamics	I. Berezhnoy, E. Postma and J. van den Herik: Digital analysis of Van Gogh's complementary colours	N. Niekboer, E. Postma and J. van den Herik: A context-based model of attention
11:15 - 11:35	Break
11:35 - 12:25	Paper presentations: Session 5
	Session 5A: Auditorium Information Retrieval	Session 5B: Conference Room 1 Pattern Recognition	Session 5C: Conference Room 2 Robotics
	S. Schlobach, M. Olsthoorn and M. de Rijke: Type Checking in Open-Domain Question Answering	M. Bulacu and L. Schomaker: Analysis of texture and connected-component contours for the automatic identification of writers	M. van Dartel, E. Postma and J. van den Herik: Categorisation through Internal Simulation of Perception and Behaviour
	J. Kamps, M. de Rijke and B. Sigurbjörnsson: Length Normalization in XML Retrieval	D.M.J. Tax: Regularizing the Covariance Matrix Using Spatial Information	W. Zajdel, A. Taylan Cemgil and B.J.A. Kröse: Online Multicamera Tracking with a Switching State-Space Model
12:25 - 14:05	Lunch and BNVKI general assembly
14:05 - 15:20	Paper presentations: Session 6
	Session 6 : Auditorium Agents III	Session 6B: Conference Room 1 Machine Learning IV	Session 6C: Conference Room 2 AI in Law and Medicine
	J-J. Ch. Meyer: Reasoning about Emotional Agents	S. Raeymaekers and M. Bruynooghe: Parameterless Information Extraction Using (k,l)-Contextual Tree Languages	L. Xu and M.A. Jeusfeld: Pro-active Monitoring of Electronic Contracts
	J. Broekens and D. DeGroot: Emotional Agents need Formal Models of Emotion	A. van den Bosch: Wrapped Progressive Sampling Search for Optimizing Learning Algorithm Parameters	P.L. Geenen, L.C. van der Gaag, A.R.W. Elbers and W.L.A. Loeffen: Building Naive Bayesian Classifiers from Literature: a Case Study in Classical Swine Fever
	N. Roos and C. Witteveen: Plan Diagnosis with Agents	E.D. de Jong and D. Thierens: Exploiting Modularity, Hierarchy, and Repetition in Variable-Length Problems	A. Hommersom, P. Lucas and M. Balser: Logic and the Quality of Medical Guidelines
15:20 - 15:40	Break
15:40 - 16:55	Paper presentations: Session 7
	Session 7A: Auditorium Games	Session 7B: Conference Room 1 Knowledge Technology and Uncertainty
	K.J. Batenburg and W.A. Kosters: A Discrete Tomography Approach to Japanese Puzzles	J.H. Bolt and L.C. van der Gaag: On the Convergence Error in Loopy Propagation
	H-J. Lebbink, C. Witteman and J-J. Meyer: A Dialogue Game Approach to Multi-Agent System Programming	P. Groot, A. ten Teije and F. van Harmelen: Towards a Structured Analysis of Approximate Problem Solving: a Case Study in Classification
	H.W. de Haan, W.H. Hesselink and G.R. Renardel de Lavalette: An abstract multi-agent framework applied to a social interaction game	S. Renooij: Forecast Verification and the Uncertain Truth
16:55 - 17:10	Award ceremony and closing (Auditorium) - Elsevier Best Paper Award for the best original paper - SKBS Prize for the best demo/application

Overview of Poster presentations:

F. Roelofsen and L. Serafini: Complexity of Contextual Reasoning
M. Hoogendoorn, C.M. Jonker, M. Schut and J. Treur: Modelling the Organisation of Organisational Change
T. Bosse, C.M. Jonker and J. Treur: Experiments in Human Multi-Issue Negotiation: Analysis and Support
R. Knauf, A. Spreeuwenberg, R. Gerrits and M. Jendreck: A Step out of the Ivory Tower: Experiences with Adapting a Test Case Generation Idea to Business Rules
C.M. Jonker, J. Treur and P. Yolum: A Formal Reuse-Based Approach for Interactively Designing Organizations
C.M. Jonker, M. Schut, J. Treur and P. Yolum: Formal Analysis of Meeting Protocols
W. Teepe: New Protocols for Proving Knowledge of Arbitrary Secrets While not Giving Them Away
A. Sharpanskykh: The problems of automated distance learning systems community formation
A. Ypma and T. Heskes: Novel approximations for inference and learning in nonlinear dynamical systems
T. Bosse, C.M. Jonker, M. Schut and J. Treur: Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind
T. Heskes, O. Zoeter and W. Wiegerinck: Approximate Expectation Maximization
O. Zoeter, A. Ypma and T. Heskes: Improved Unscented Kalman smoothing for stock volatility estimation
S. Malki, L. Spaanenburg and N. Ray: Image Stream Processing on a Packet-Switched Discrete-Time CNN
J. Broekstra, M. Ehrig, P. Haase, F. van Harmelen, M. Menken, P. Miks, B. Schnizler and R. Siebes: Bibster - A Semantics-Based Bibliographic Peer-to-Peer System
G. Infante-Lopez and M. de Rijke: Alternative Approaches for Generating Bodies of Grammar Rules
F.M.T. Brazier, D.R.A. de Groot, A. Oskamp and N.J.E. Wijngaards: Agent-Based Information Retrieval: Legal and Technical Considerations in a Simple Case
M. B. van Riemsdijk, M. Dastani, F. Dignum and J-J. Ch. Meyer: Dynamics of Declarative Goals in Agent Programming
B. Bakker: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based on Subgoal Discovery and Subpolicy Specialization
B. Jansen, T. ten Thij, T. Belpaeme, B. De Vylder and B. de Boer: Imitation in embodied agents results in self-organization of behavior
A. Van Assche, C. Vens and H. Blockeel: A Random Forest Approach to Relational Learning
H. Abbink et. al.: Automated support for adaptive incident management
S. van Splunter, N. Wijngaards, F. Brazier and D. Richards: Automated Component-Based Configuration: Promises and Fallacies
J.J. Sarbo: Towards a new world-ontology
F. de Jonge, N. Roos and J. van den Herik: Multi-agent Plan-execution Health Repair
L.J.M. Rothkrantz, P. Wiggers, F. Flippo, D.Woei-A-Jin and R.J. van Vark: Multimodal Dialog Management
B. Tatomir, H. Dibowski and L. Rothkrantz: Hierarchical routing in traffic networks
K. Boer, M. Polman, A. de Bruin and U. Kaymak: An Agent-Based Framework for Artificial Stock Markets
A.W.A. Spek and H.J. van den Herik: AI support by Intelligent Documents
J. Broekens, N. Netten and D. DeGroot: Consistent Dynamic-Group Emotions for Virtual Characters
J. De Beule: Creating Temporal Categories for an Ontology of Time
P.A.N. Bosman and T. Alderliesten: Bringing IDEAs into practice: optimization in a minimally invasive vascular intervention simulation system
Th.M. Hupkens and R.Thaens: A Multi Agent System for MS Windows using Matlab-enabled Agents
R. Jurgelenaite and P. Lucas: Parameter Estimation in Large Causal Independence Models

Overview of Demonstration presentations:

W. Teepe: The Secret Prover: Proving Possession of Arbitrary Files While not Giving Them Away
C. Jonker, L. v.d.Meij, V. Robu and J. Treur: Demonstration of a Software System for Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation
P.J. 't Hoen, G. Redekar, V. Robu and J.A. La Poutré: Visualization of a Market-based Model for Logistics Management in Transportation
S. Meijer and T. Verwaart: Demonstration of a Multi-Agent Simulation Model of Trust in Supply Chains
R.J. Grootjans, R. Zwitsersloot and M. Pantic: An agent framework for teaching an introductory course in AI
T. Mahr and M. de Weerdt: Distributed Agent Platform for Advanced Logistics
M. Valstar, M. Pantic and I. Patras: Facial Action Unit Recognition using Temporal Templates and Particle Filtering with Factorized Likelihoods
R.C. Sondak, P. Gaia, L.M. Maat, M. Pantic and M.F. Valstar: MMI Face Database
M. Israël, E.L. van den Broek, P. van der Putten and M.J. den Uyl: Real time automatic scene classification