Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference
Edited by G. Michael Youngblood and Philip M. McCarthy
Marco Island, Florida. May 23–25, 2012. Published by The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.
This proceedings is also available in book format.
General Conference
Preface
Michael Youngblood, Philip M. McCarthy
Florida AI Research Society
Michael Youngblood
Conference Committees
Michael Youngblood
Invited Talks
Michael Youngblood
Maritime Threat Detection Using Probabilistic Graphical Models
Bryan Auslander, Kalyan Moy Gupta, David William Aha
Semantic Analysis of English Specification of OCL
Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark Lee, Behzad Bordbar
Reformulating Planning Problems: A Theoretical Point of View
Lukáš Chrpa, Thomas Leo McCluskey, Hugh Osborne
Social Influence Modeling for Utility Functions in Model Predictive Control
Timothy Michael Dockins, Manfred Huber
AIRS: Anytime Iterative Refinement of a Solution
Sam John Estrem, Kurt D. Krebsbach
Real-Time Filtering for Pulsing Public Opinion in Social Media
Samantha Finn, Eni Mustafaraj
Question Answering in Natural Language Narratives Using Symbolic Probabilistic Reasoning
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Erik T. Mueller
Searching for Better Performance on the King-Rook-King Chess Endgame Problem
Wayne Iba
Modeling the Interaction Between Mixed Teams of Humans and Robots and Local Population for a Market Patrol Task
Saad Ahmad Khan, Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, Shane Parker, Ladislau Boloni
Instructing a Reinforcement Learner
Pradyot Korupolu V. N., Manimaran S. Sivamurugan, Balaraman Ravindran
Iterative-Expansion A*
Colin M. Potts, Kurt D. Krebsbach
A Knowledge-Migration-Based Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm to Solve Job Shop Scheduling
Mohammad R. Raeesi N., Ziad Kobti
Efficiency Improvements for Parallel Subgraph Miners
Abhik Ray, Lawrence B. Holder
Evolving Kernel Functions with Particle Swarms and Genetic Programming
Michael A. Schuh, Rafal Angryk, John Sheppard
Robustness and Accuracy Tradeoffs for Recommender Systems Under Attack
Carlos E. Seminario, David C. Wilson
Robustness of Threshold-Based Feature Rankers with Data Sampling on Noisy and Imbalanced Data
Ahmad Abu Shanab, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Randall Wald
A Pruning Based Approach for Scalable Entity Coreference
Dezhao Song, Jeff Heflin
Empirical Study of Dimensional and Categorical Emotion Descriptors in Emotional Speech Perception
Rui Sun, Elliot II Moore
Ant Hunt: Towards a Validated Model of Live Ant Hunting Behavior
Yu-Ting Yang, Andrew Quitmeyer, Brian Hrolenok, Harry Shang, Dinh Bao Nguyen, Tucker Balch, Terrance Medina, Cole Sherer, Maria Hybinette
Arc Consistency for CP-Nets under Constraints
Eisa Alanazi, Malek Mouhoub
A Heuristic for Hybrid Planning with Preferences
Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo
Forecasting Conflicts Using N-Grams Models
Camille Besse, Alireza Bakhtiari, Luc Lamontagne
Iterative Ontology Selection Guided by User for Building Domain Ontologies
Asma Minyaoui, Faiez Gargouri
Symbol Generation and Grounding for Reinforcement Learning Agents Using Affordances and Dictionary Compression
Marcus Carlos Oladell, Manfred Huber
Integer Sparse Distributed Memory
Javier Snaider, Stan Franklin
Affective Computing
Special Track on Affective Computing
Rafael Calvo
From Joyous to Clinically Depressed: Mood Detection Using Spontaneous Speech
Sharifa M, Alghowinem, Roland Goecke, Michael Wagner, Julien Epps, Michael Breakspear, Gordon Parker
Constructing a Personality-Annotated Corpus for Educational Game based on Leary’s Rose Framework
Candice Burkett, Fazel Keshtkar, Arthur Graesser, Haiying Li
Emotion Expression 3-D Synthesis From Predicted Emotion Magnitudes
Ricardo A. Calix
Emotion Oriented Programming: Computational Abstractions for AI Problem Solving
Kévin Darty, Nicolas Sabouret
Decision Making Based on Somatic Markers
Jens Hoefinghoff, Josef Pauli
Virtual Facework Trainer: Use of Offendable Bots for Learning Cross-Cultural (Im)Politeness
Ronald M. Lee, Elizabeth Dominguez Campillo, Gregory Diaz
Building an On-Demand Avatar-Based Health Intervention for Behavior Change
Christine Lisetti, Ugan Yasavur, Claudia de Leon, Reza Amini, Ubbo Visser, Naphtali Rishe
Investigating the Robustness of Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for Emotion Recognition in Noisy Conditions
Rui Sun, Elliot II Moore
Applied Natural Language Processing
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
The Devil Is in the Details: New Directions in Deception Analysis
Philip Michael McCarthy, Nicholas D. Duran, Lucille M. Booker
Finding Associations between People
Eduardo Blanco, Dan Moldovan
SenticNet 2: A Semantic and Affective Resource for Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
Erik Cambria, Catherine Havasi, Amir Hussain
Story-Level Inference and Gap Filling to Improve Machine Reading
Hans Chalupsky
Syntagmatic, Paradigmatic, and Automatic N-Gram Approaches to Assessing Essay Quality
Scott Crossley, Zhiqiang Cai, Danielle S. McNamara
Proper Noun Semantic Clustering Using Bag-of-Vectors
Ali Reza Ebadat, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot
An Eigenvalue-Based Measure for Word-Sense Disambiguation
Ioana Hulpus, Conor Hayes, Marcel Karnstedt, Derek Greene
Identifying Personality Types Using Document Classification Methods
Michael C. Komisin, Curry I. Guinn
A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Word Uses with LIWC
Haiying Li, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser, Ying Duan
Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics
Mihai Lintean, Vasile Rus
Automatic Coherence Profile in Public Speeches of Three Latin American Heads-of-State
René Venegas
Arabic Cross-Document NLP for the Hadith and Biography Literature
Fadi Zaraket, Jad Makhlouta
Addressing Semantic Ambiguities in Natural Language Constraints
Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark Lee, Behzad Bordbar, Ahsan Ali
A Linguistic Analysis of Expert-Generated Paraphrases
Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara
Applying Kernel Methods to Argumentation Mining
Niall Rooney, Hui Wang, Fiona Browne
AI, Cognitive Semantics
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Logic
Ismaïl Biskri
Enhancing Publication Description with Resources Metadata
Christian Cote, Richard Dapoigny, Caroline Wintergerst
Lexical Meanings Analysed by Means of Typed Applicative Representations
Jean-Pierre Descles
The Analysis and Synthesis of Logic Translation
Tzu-Keng Fu, Oliver Kutz
Propositional Attitudes in Non-Compositional Logic
Matthias Gerner
Studying Formal Properties of a Free Word Order Language
Vladislav Kubon, Marketa Lopatkova
Speech Acts, Dialogues and the Common Ground
Michel A. Paquette
AI Education
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education
Jim Marshall
Genetic Algorithms with Lego Mindstorms and Matlab
Frank Klassner, James Peyton-Jones, Kurt Lehmer
Research Modules for Undergraduates in Machine Learning for Automatic Gesture Classification
Sambit Bhattacharya, Denny Bogdan Czejdo, Nicolas Perez
Case-Based Reasoning
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Michael W. Floyd
Case-Based Learning by Observation in Robotics Using a Dynamic Case Representation
Michael William Floyd, Mehmet Vefa Bicakci, Babak Esfandiari
Customizing Question Selection in Conversational Case-Based Reasoning
Vahid Jalali, David Leake
Case Acquisition Strategies for Case-Based Reasoning in Real-Time Strategy Games
Santiago Ontanon
Toward a Knowledge Transfer Model of Case-Based Inference
Santiago Ontanon, Enric Plaza
Interactivity and Multimedia in Case-Based Recommendation
Eoin Hurrell, Alan Smeaton, Barry Smyth
Cognition and AI
Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence: Comparing Human Capability and Experience with Today’s Computer Models
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah
Gestural Control of Household Appliances for the Physically Impaired
Hans Werner Guesgen, Darren Kessell
A Formal Bi-Logic Framework for the Mental Processes
Tzu-Keng Fu
Rule Based Event Management Systems
Ridhika Malik, Nandan Parameswaran, Udayan Ghose
Learning Artifact Capabilities Via a Hybrid Ontology
Felicitas Mokom, Ziad Kobti
An Approach to Evaluate AI Commonsense Reasoning Systems
Stellan Ohlsson, Robert H. Sloan, Gyorgy Turan, Daniel Uber, Aaron Urasky
Data Mining
Special Track on Data Mining
David Bisant
Quantitative Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Solar Image Archives
Juan M. Banda, Rafal A. Angryk, Petrus C. Martens
Graph-Based Anomaly Detection Applied to Homeland Security Cargo Screening
William Eberle, Lawrence Holder, Beverly Massengill
Automated Weather Sensor Quality Control
Douglas E. Galarus, Rafal Angryk, John Sheppard
Using Frequent Pattern Mining To Identify Behaviors In A Naked Mole Rat Colony
Susan P. Imberman, Michael E. Kress, Dan P. McCloskey
Classifying Scientific Performance on a Metric-by-Metric Basis
Eric Belanga Bell, Eric Marshall, Ryan Hull, Keith Fligg, Antonio Sanfilippo, Don Daly, Dave Engel
Games and Entertainment
Special Track on Games and Entertainment
David Hunter Hale
When Planning Should Be Easy: On Solving Cumulative Planning Problems
Roman Bartak, Filip Dvorak, Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Daniel Toropila
Effect of Latency on Pursuit Problems
William Peter Birmingham, Shane Rose, Gregory Miller, Matthew Mahan
Generating Texture Aware Spatial Decompositions
D. Hunter Hale, G. Michael Youngblood
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Robert G. M. Hausmann
Tutor Modeling Versus Student Modeling
Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan
Evaluating ConceptGrid: An Authoring System for Natural Language Responses
Stephen Bruce Blessing, Shrenik Devasani, Stephen Gilbert
Malleability of Students’ Perceptions of an Affect-Sensitive Tutor and Its Influence on Learning
Sidney D'Mello, Art Graesser
Analyzing Posture and Affect in Task-Oriented Tutoring
Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester
A Comparison of Gains between Educational Games and a Traditional ITS
G. Tanner Tanner Jackson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Danielle S. McNamara
Recognizing Effective and Student-Adaptive Tutor Moves in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue
Christopher Michael Mitchell, Eun Young Ha, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester
Interactive Concept Maps and Learning Outcomes in Guru
Natalie K. Person, Andrew M. Olney, Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair A. Lehman
Towards Data Driven Model Improvement
Yumeng Qiu, Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T Heffernan
Developing Pedagogically-Guided Threshold Algorithms for Intelligent Automated Essay Feedback
Rod D. Roscoe, Danica Kugler, Scott A. Crossley, Jennifer L. Weston, Danielle S. McNamara
Teaching UML Skills to Novice Programmers Using a Sample Solution Based Intelligent Tutoring System
Joachim Schramm, Sven Strickroth, Nguyen-Thinh Le, Niels Pinkwart
Mining Data from Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor to Analyze Development of Children's Oral Reading Prosody
Sunayana Sitaram, Jack Mostow
SAMHT — Suicidal Avatars for Mental Health Training
Cameron Carpenter, Leticia Osterberg, Geoff Sutcliffe
Evaluating and Improving Real-Time Tracking of Children’s Oral Reading
Yuanpeng Li, Jack Mostow
Robotics and Human Robot Interaction
Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
Adaptive Obstacle Representations for Dynamical Navigation
Eric Aaron, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Foster Nichols
Leg Design for a Praying Mantis Robot
Ramon A. Cardona, David S. Touretzky
Graphical Display of Search Trees for Transparent Robot Programming
Joaquin Arturo Pockels, Ashwin Iyengar, David Touretzky
Small Scale Manipulation with the Calliope Robot
Owen Watson, David Touretzky
Using Robotics to Achieve Meaningful Research Skills in Robotics
Elvra Rebecca Caldwell, Elva J. Jones
Wii Nunchuk Controlled Dance Pleo! Dance! to Assist Children with Cerebral Palsy by Play Therapy
Jennifer Gregory, Ayanna Howard, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
R-One Swarm Robot: Developing the Accelerometer and Gyroscope
Ebrima Jobe, James McLurkin, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
Robot Localization Using Overhead Camera and LEDs
Emmanuel Johnson, Edwin Olson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
Snackbot: The Process to Engage in Human-Robot Conversation
Dekita Moon, Paul Rybski, Cheryl Swanier, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
Uncertain Reasoning
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Cory James Butz
Focused Grounding for Markov Logic Networks
Michael Robert Glass, Ken Barker
Asymptotic Maximum Entropy Principle for Utility Elicitation under High Uncertainty and Partial Information
Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito
A Postulate-Based Analysis of Comparative Preference Statements
Souhila Kaci
On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information
Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, Andrew Klapper
Towards a General Framework for Maximum Entropy Reasoning
Nico Potyka
Conditional Objects Revisited: Variants and Model Translations
Christoph Beierle, Gabriele Kern-Isberner
A Model-Theoretic Semantics for Two-Sided Argumentation
Geng Wang, Zuoquan Lin
Poster Abstracts
Poster Abstracts
Philip Michael McCarthy
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