Summary of special tracks

SPECIAL TRACKS

Accepted papers, authors, affiliations, committees

Information in yellow refers to tracks with incomplete information wrt papers

At this point, I believe the total will be 82 or 83 papers.

Track number, title, chairs, affiliation

Track #	Track tile	# papers	Cum pap	Chair(s)	affiliation
1	AI in Aerospace	4	4	Paul Zetocha, DR III	Air Force Research Laboratory
3	Behavioral Characteristics and AI Systems: Innovations and Applications/ Emotions in Agents	5	9	Christina Frederick-Recascino Nandan Paramesh	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University University of New South Wales
4	Case-Based Reasoning	8	17	Hector Munoz-Avila	Lehigh University, USA
6	Evaluation of Intelligent Systems	4	21	Rainer Knauf	Ilmenau Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany
7	Imprecise and Indeterminate Probabilities in Artificial Intelligence	5	26	Choh Man Teng	University of West Florida, USA
8	Integrated Intelligent Systems	7	33	Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis	University of Patras, Greece
10	Machine Learning	3	36	Zdravko Markov	Central Connecticut State University, USA
11	Neural Networks	3	39	Ingrid Russell (Co-chair) Brian Carse (Co-Chair) Anthony G. Pipe (Co-Chair)	University of Hartford, USA University of the West of England, England University of the West of England, England
12	Semantic Web	10	49	Borys Omelayenko (Chair) Dieter Fensel (Programm Chair)	Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
14	Uncertain Reasoning	9	58	Yang Xiang Salem Benferhat	University of Guelph, Canada University Paul Sabatier, France
5	Categorization and Concept Representation Models and Implications	12	70	Colette Faucher	University of Aix-Marseille III, France
13	Spatiotemporal Reasoning	6	76	Hans Guesgen Kathleen Hornsby	University of Auckland, New Zealand University of Maine, USA
9	Knowledge Management	4	80	Irma Becerra-Fernandez	Florida International University, USA
2	AI in Educational IT			Vinicius Medina Kern	Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Expected around 83 papers from the 14 st

Track and committee

Track #	Track tile	Committee	Affiliation (and country)
1	AI in Aerospace	Derek Surka Pat Cappalaere Steve Lindsay	AI-Solutions Interface and Control Systems Sandia National Laboratory
3	Behavioral Characteristics and AI Systems: Innovations and Applications/ Emotions in Agents	John Wise Marc Wise Christine Lisetti	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University IBM Co University of Central Florida
4	Case-Based Reasoning	David W. Aha. Klaus-Dieter Althoff. Stefanie Bruninghaus. Pedro Gonzalez. Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim. Ramon Lopez de Mantaras. Lorraine Mc Ginty. David McSherry. Sascha Schmitt. Additional Reviewers: Thomas Roth-Berghoffer. Barry Smith.	Naval Research Laboratory, USA Fraunhofer Institut, Germany University of Pittsburgh, USA Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Universidade do Vale do Itajai, Brazil Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spain University College Dublin, Ireland University of Ulster, Northern Ireland University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Empolis, Germany University College Dublin, Ireland
6	Evaluation of Intelligent Systems	Valerie Barr, Avelino Gonzalez, Ilka Philippow Takao Terano Setsuo Tsuruta, Neli P. Zlatareva	Hofstra University, NY, USA University of Central Florida, USA Ilmenau Technical University, Germany University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Hitachi Ltd.,Japan Central Connecticut State University, USA
7	Imprecise and Indeterminate Probabilities in Artificial Intelligence	Fabio G. Cozman Gert de Cooman Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Isaac Levi Serafin Moral Eric Neufeld	University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Ghent University, Belgium Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and University of Rochester, USA Columbia University, USA University of Granada, Spain University of Saskatchewan, Canada
8	Integrated Intelligent Systems	Basilis Boutsinas (vice chair), Norman Foo, Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Melanie Hilario Steffen Hoelldobler Detlef D. Nauck, Chris Nikolopoulos Ian Watson Yanqing Zhang additional REVIEWERS ------------------------------------- Nikolaos Avouris Dimitrios Kalles Timos Sellis Julita Vassileva	University of Patras & UPAIRC, Greece University of New South Wales, Australia Imperial College of Science, UK University of Geneva, Switzerland Dresden University of Technology, Germany BTexact Technologies, UK Bradley University, USA University of Auckland, New Zealand Georgia State University, USA University of Patras, Greece University of Patras, Greece National Technical University of Athens, Greece University of Saskatchewan, Canada
10	Machine Learning	Diane Cook Altay Güvenir Henry Hexmoor Lawrence Holder Igor Kononenko Miroslav Kubat Gheorghe Tecuci Gerhard Widmer	University of Texas at Arlington, USA Bilkent University, Turkey University of Arkansas, USA University of Texas at Arlington, USA University of Ljubljana, Slovenia University of Miami, USA George Mason University, USA Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria
11	Neural Networks	Charles Anderson Jim Austin Serge Dolenko Vijaya Kumar Lisa Meeden Bernhard Sendhoff C. N. Schizas	Colorado State University, USA University of York, England Moscow State University, Russia Carnegie Mellon University, USA Swarthmore College, USA Honda Research and Development Europe, Germany University of Cyprus, Greece
12	Semantic Web	Hans Akkermans Vassilis Christophides Isabel Cruz Stefan Decker Steven Demurjian Max J. Egenhofer Jerome Euzenat Natasha Fridman Noy Carole Goble Asun Gomez-Perez Frank van Harmelen Jim Hendler Masahiro Hori Ian Horrocks Michel Klein Ora Lassila Deborah McGuinness Enrico Motta Dimitri Plexousakis Guus Schreiber Steffen Staab Heiner Stuckenschmidt Rudi Studer Additional reviewers Jeffrey R. Ellis Jan-Daniel Zucker Siegfried Handschuh Jutta Willamowski	Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands FORTH, Greece University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Stanford University (DB), USA University of Connecticut, USA University of Maine, USA INRIA, France Stanford University (SMI), USA University of Manchester, UK Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands DARPA, USA IBM, Japan University of Manchester, UK Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Nokia Research Center, USA Stanford University (KSL), USA The Open University, UK FORTH, Greece Universiteit van Amsterdam,The Netherlands University of Karlsruhe, Germany University of Bremen, Germany University of Karlsruhe, Germany
14	Uncertain Reasoning	Cory Butz David Chiu Marek Druzdzel Love Ekenberg Linda van der Gaag Christopher Geib Michael Horsch Timothy Huang Weiru Liu Anders Madsen Eric Neufeld Andy Novobilski Kristian Olesen Simon Parsons Eugene Santos Jr. Solomon Shimony Paul Snow Hakan Younes Shlomo Zilberstein	University of Regina, Canada University of Guelph, Canada University of Pittsburgh, USA Stockholm University and KTH, Sweden Utrecht University, Netherlands Honeywell Research, USA University of Saskatchewan, Canada Middlebury College, USA University of Ulster, UK Hugin Expert, Denmark University of Saskatchewan, Canada University of Tennessee, USA Aalborg University, Denmark University of Liverpool, UK University of Connecticut, USA Ben-Gurion University, Israel Concord, USA Carnegie Mellon University, USA University of Massachusetts, USA
5	Categorization and Concept Representation Models and Implications	David W. Aha, Ralph Bergmann Max Bramer Paolo Frasconi Robert L. Goldstone James Hampton David Leake Bradley C. Love Paul Mc Kevitt Clark Glymour Philip Resnik Lance J. Rips Steven A. Sloman	Navy Center for Applied Research in AI, USA University of Kaiserslautern, Germany University of Portsmouth, UK University of Florence, Italy Indiana University, USA City University, UK Indiana University, USA University of Texas, USA University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Carnegie Mellon University, USA University of Maryland, USA Northwestern University, USA Brown University, USA
13	Spatiotemporal Reasoning	Frank Anger Thomas Bittner Christian Freksa Patrick Hayes Joachim Hertzberg Lina Khatib Christian Kray Benjamin Kuipers Gerard Ligozat Robert Morris Jayant Sharma Michael Worboys	National Science Foundation, USA Northwestern University, USA Hamburg University, Germany University of West Florida, USA Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany NASA Ames Research Center, USA German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany University of Texas at Austin, USA LIMSI and Universite Paris XI, France NASA Ames Research Center, USA Oracle Corporation, USA University of Maine, USA
9	Knowledge Management	Alberto J. Canas Michael Freeman Rajiv Sabherwal Rosina Weber	University of West Florida , USA NASA-Ames Research Laboratory , USA University of Missouri, USA Drexel University, USA
2	AI in Educational IT	Paul Bacsich Beatriz Barros B. Gautam Biswas Lucia M. M. Giraffa Vinícius M. Kern Eric Klopfer M. David Merrill Tanja Mitrovic Fernando S. Osório Rachel M. Pilkington Naren Ramakrishnan Mia K. Stern Raul S. Wazlawick Jie Chi Yang	Sheffield Hallam University, UK LSI-Uned, Madrid, Spain Vanderbilt University COUNTRY?? PUC, Brazil Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Utah State University, USA University of Canterbury, New Zealand Unisinos, Brazil University of Leeds, UK Virginia Tech, USA IBM Research, COUNTRY? Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil National Central University, Taiwan

Track #, accepted papers, authors’ names and affiliations

Track #	Papers	Authors(s)	affiliation
1	1) Automation of a Satellite Data Distribution Center, 2) Artificially Intelligent Hybrid Range Scheduler, 3) Building a Model of a Space-Based Science Experiment for Automated Mission Planning 4) An Agent Community Supporting Orbit Determination	Lance Self Irene Phillips David Paules Ross Wainwright, Walt Truszkowski	Air Force Research Laboratory. Quantum Leap Innovations. Quantum Leap Innovations. Air Force Research Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
3	1) The Application of Multi-level Process Theory of Emotion to Robotics 2) The Application of Multi-level Process Theory of Emotion to User-Modeling 3) Agents With Or Without Emotions? 4) Emotions In Intelligent Agents 5) Boundedly Rational and Emotional Agents: Cooperation, Trust and Rumor	Christine Lisetti R. Murphy R. Tardif Christine Lisetti F. Nasoz Matthias Seheutz Nandan Paramesh MJ Prietula KM Carley	University of Central Florida University of Central Florida University of Central Florida University of Central Florida University of Central Florida University of Notre Dame University of New South Wales, AU Emory University Carnegie Mellon University
4	1. CBROnto: a task/method ontology for CBR. 2. The Impact of Causality on Taxonomic Case Retrieval. 3. Using CBR to Estimate Development Effort for Web Hypermedia Applications. 4. Shared Experiences in Personalized Route Planning. 5. An Industrial Application of CBR in Manufacturing to Reduce Rejections. 6. Towards Dynamic Maintenance of Retrieval Knowledge in CBR. 7. Using collaborative filtering data in case-based recommendation. 8. Managing Multiple Case Bases: Dimensions and Issues.	Belen Diaz-Agudo, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero. David W. Aha Ian Watson, Emilia Mendes, Chris Tiggs, Nile Mosley, Steven Counsell. Lorraine McGinty, Barry Smyth. S. M. Michael, Deepak Khemani. David Patterson, Mykola Galushka, Niall Rooney Sarabjot S. Anand. Derry O'Sullivan, David Wilson, Barry Smyth. David Leake, Raja Sooriamurthi	Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Naval Research Laboratory, USA The University of Auckland, New Zeeland The University of Auckland, New Zeeland The University of Auckland, New Zeeland Auckland University of Technology, New Zeeland University of London, UK University College Dublin, Ireland University College Dublin, Ireland Carborundum Universal, Ltd, India IIT Madras, India University of Ulster, Northern Ireland University of Ulster, Northern Ireland University of Ulster, Northern Ireland University of Ulster, Northern Ireland University College Dublin, Ireland University College Dublin, Ireland ChangingWorlds, Ireland Indiana University, USA Indiana University, USA
4	1. CBROnto: a task/method ontology for CBR. 2. to be defined. 3. Using CBR to Estimate Development Effort for Web Hypermedia Applications. 4. Shared Experiences in Personalized Route Planning. 5. An Industrial Application of CBR in Manufacturing to Reduce Rejections. 6. Towards Dynamic Maintenance of Retrieval Knowledge in CBR. 7. Using collaborative filtering data in case-based recommendation. 8. To be defined.	Belen Diaz-Angulo, Pedro A. Gonzales-Calero. David W. Aha Ian Watson Emilia Mendes Chris Tiggs Nile Mosley Steven Counsell. Lorraine McGinty & Barry Smyth. S. M. Michael & Deepak Khemani. David Paterson, Mykola Galushka, Niall Roney & Sarabjob S. Anand. Derry O'Sullivan, David Wilson & Barry Smyth. David Leake
6	Knowledge-Based Validation Method for Validating Intelligent Systems Requirements for Successful Verification in Practice System Refinement in Practice – Using a Formal Method to Modify Real-Life Knowledge Higher Order Refinement Heuristics for Rule Validation	Setsuo Tsuruta, Takashi Onoyama, Yoshio Taniguchi Silvie Spreeuwenberg Rik Gerrits Rainer Knauf, Ilka Philippow, Avelino J. Gonzalez, Klaus P. Jantke, Dirk Salecker Hans-Werner Kelbassa	Hitachi Ltd., Japan Hitachi Ltd., Japan Hitachi Ltd., Japan LibRT B.V., The Netherlands LibRT B.V., The Netherlands Ilmenau Technical University, Germany Ilmenau Technical University, Germany University of Central Florida, USA German Research Center for AI Ltd., Germany Cocomore AG, Germany University of Paderborn, Germany
7	Algorithms for Conditioning on Events of Zero Lower Probability Toward a universal translator of verbal probabilities Semantics for Interval Probabilities Indeterminate Probability and Change of View Towards Temporal Reasoning Using Qualitative Probabilities	Fabio Gagliardi Cozman Tzur M. Karelitz Mandeep K. Dhami David V. Budescu Thomas S. Wallsten Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Isaac Levi Ahmed Y. Tawfik	University of Sao Paulo, Brazil University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA University of Victoria, Canada University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA University of Maryland, USA Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and University of Rochester, USA Columbia University, USA University of Windsor, Canada
8	1. Modular neuro-fuzzy networks: an overview of explicit and implicit knowledge integration 2. On the Validation of the DIMLP Neural Network 3. Integration of Data Mining and Hybrid Expert System, 4. Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithms and Their Application to Classification and Diagnostic Tasks 5. An intelligent hybrid decision support system for the management of water resources, 6. Biologically-inspired Agents for Priority Routing in Networks 7. NEST: A Knowledge Base System for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse	C.-D. Neagu V. Palade Guido Bologna I. G. L. da Silva, B. P. Amorin, P.G. Campos, L. M. Brasil, Chris Nikolopoulos, H. Kazeli, T. Christofides, E. Keravnou, Tony White, Bernard Pagurek Dwight Deugo M. T. Maliappis A. B. Sideridis	Politecnico di Milano, Italy Oxford University, UK Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland. Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil Bradley University, USA University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Cyprus, Cyprus University of Cyprus, Cyprus Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
10	1. Eigenvector-based Feature Extraction for Classification. 2. Modifying Upstart for Use in Multiclass Numerical Domains. 3. An algorithm for inducing least generalization under relative implication.	Alexey Tsymbal Seppo Puuronen Mykola Pechenizkiy Matthias Baumgarten David Patterson Ronnie Fanguy Miroslav Kubat Svetla Boytcheva Zdravko Markov	University of Jyväskylä, Finland University of Jyväskylä, Finland NMI Research Institute, Finland University of Ulster, U.K. University of Ulster, U.K. Nicholls College, USA University of Miami, USA Sofia University, Bulgaria Central Connecticut State University, USA
11	Intelligent browsing and discovery through images Cross Entropy Error Function in Neural Networks: Forecasting Gasoline Demand A New XML-based Language for Neural Solution Interchange	J.C Lamirel Y. S G. E. Nasr E. A. Badr C. Joun Denis V. Rubtsov Sergey V. Butakov	LORIA, FRANCE Lebanese American University, Lebanon Altai State University, Russia Altai State Technical University, Russia
12	Ontology construction - An iterative and dynamic task Comparison of (Semantic) Markup Languages GoldenBullet in a nutshell Learning Structural Classification Rules for Web-page Categorization Presentations and Bearers of Semantics on the Web On Personalizing the Catalogs of Web Portals Searching Knowledge in the Semantic Web Semantic Web Service Architecture — Evolving Web Service Standards toward the Semantic Web Semantic Web Technology for Business Integration An Approach for Semantic Search by Matching RDF Graphs	Ubbo Visser Holger Wache Thorsten Scholz Yolanda Gil Varun Ratnakar Ying Ding Maksym Korotkiy Borys Omelayenko Vera Kartseva Volodymyr Zykov Michel Klein Ellen Schulten Dieter Fensel Heiner Stuckenschmidt Jens Hartmann Frank van Harmelen James Farrugia Max J. Egenhofer Yannis Tzitzikas Nicolas Spyratos Vassilis Christophides Nenad Stojanovic Ljiljana Stojanovic Siegfried Handschuh Tanja Sollazzo Steffen Staab Martin Frank Borys Omelayenko Dieter Fensel Christoph Bussler Haiping Zhu Jiwei Zhong Jianming Li Yong Yu	University of Bremen, Germany University of Southern California, CA, USA Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Bremen, Germany Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands University of Maine, USA FORTH, Greece University of Karlsruhe, Germany University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Oracle Corporation, USA Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
14	A Variation on the Paradox of Two Envelopes Fusion of Possibilistic Knowledge Bases from a Postulate Point of View Conflict Resolution in Porbabilistic Multi-agent Systems Sensitivity Analysis in Survey Sample Decision Scenarios The Reasonableness of Necessity Pivotal Pruning of Qualitative Probabilistic Arguments Semantics and Knowledge Acquisition in Bayesian Knowledge-bases A Bayesian Approach to Operational Decisions in Transportation Business Comparing Alternative Methods for Inference in Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks	Mikelis Bickis Eric Neufeld Salem Benferhat Souhila Kaci S. K. M. Wong Tao Lin Michael Hohle Erik Jorgensen Paul Snow Simon Parsons Silja Renooij Linda C. van der Gaag Eugene Santos Jr. Eugene S. Santos Solomon Eyal Shimony Nils-Peter Andersson, Love Ekenberg and Aron Larsson Y. Xiang	University of Saskatchewan, Canada University Paul Sabatier, France University of Regina, Canada Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Denmark Concord, USA University of Liverpool, United Kingdom University of Connecticut, USA Mid Sweden University, Sweden University of Guelph, Canada
5	Title missing The role of action in Object Categorization Category Similarity as a Predictor For Svm Learning Performance Modeling Unsupervised Learning with Sustain Object Determination Logic A Categorization System Perceptual Scaling in Materials Selection for Concurrent Design The Logic of Categorization Finding Outliers in an Example Set Assessing Conceptual Similarity to Support Concept Mapping Contextualizing Concepts Using the Lattice Formalism Inference and Categorization Categorization of Actions By Analogy: From the Analysis of Metaphoric Utterances to a Computational Model	Robert Goldstone Andrea Di Ferdinando Anna M. Borghi Domenico Parisi Fabio Pardi Todd.M. Gureckis Bradley C. Love Anca Pascu FrançoisGilles Carpentier Michael Grimsley Anthony Meehan Pei Wang David M.J. Tax Robert P.W. Duin David D. Leake Liane Gabora Diederik Aerts Françoise Gayral Daniel Kayser Karine Duvignau Olivier Gasquet Bruno Gaume MarieDominique Gineste	Indiana University, USA Università di Roma La Sapienza and Istituto di Psicologia, Italy Università di Bologna, Italy Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Italy Affiliation ?? University of Texas at Austin, USA University of Texas at Austin, USA Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France Sheffield Hallam University, UK. The Open University, UK. Temple University, USA Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Indiana University , U.S.A. Free University of Brussels, Belgium Free University of Brussels, Belgium LIPN, France UTM, France IRITUPS, France IRITUPS, France Paris XIII, France
13	A Framework for Learning Temporal Models from Texts Frames of Reference, Positional Information and Navigational Assistance Granularity in reference to spatio-temporal location and High expressive Spatio-temporal Relations From the Egg-Yolk to the Scrambled-Egg Theory A class of star-algebras for point-based qualitative reasoning in two-dimensional space	Enrique Alfonseca Suresh Manandhar Joerg Baus Christian Kray Thomas Bittner R. Chbeir, Y. Amghar, A. Flory Hans W. Guesgen Debasis Mitra	University of York and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid University of York Universitaet des Saarlandes DFKI Saarbruecken Northwestern University LISI - INSA de Lyon University of Auckland, New Zealand Florida Institute of Technology, USA
9	1. Intelligent Architectures for Knowledge Sharing: A Soar Example and General Issues 2. A Business-Rules Approach for Departmental Advising 3. Knowledge Assets: Governmental Measurement Standards 4. Data Mining: An Empirical Application in Real Estate Valuation	MJ Prietula Dan Zhu Lisa Burnell Ryan Figg Minh Phan Justin Smith Akihiro Sugihara John Priest John R. Durrett Kenneth R. Henry Ruben D. Jaen	Emory University Iowa State University Texas Christian University, USA Texas Christian University, USA Texas Christian University, USA Texas Christian University, USA Texas Christian University, USA University of Texas, USA Texas Tech University, USA Florida International University, USA Florida International University, USA
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From ST on CBR:

Best Paper Award

- Using collaborative filtering data in case-based recommendation by Derry

O'Sullivan, David Wilson & Barry Smyth.
Journal publication:
- Using CBR to Estimate Development Effort for Web Hypermedia

Applications by Ian Watson, Emilia Mendes, Chris Tiggs, Nile Mosley & Steven

Counsell.

Howard

Hamilton of the Computer Science Department at the University of

Regina, Canada.

Hans track