Proceedings of the Sixteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Randy Hill and Neil Jacobstein
July 27–29 2004, San Jose, California . Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is also available in book format.
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Contents
Preface / vii
Randy Hill and Neil Jacobstein
Invited Talks / xiii
Deployed Application Papers
Tenth Anniversary of the Plastics Color Formulation Tool / 770
William Cheetham
The General Motors Variation-Reduction Adviser: Deployment Issues for an AI Application / 777
Alexander P. Morgan, John A. Cafeo, Kurt Godden, Ronald M. Lesperance, Andrea M. Simon, Deborah L. McGuinness, and James L. Benedict
Making Better Recommendations with Online Profiling Agents / 785
Danny Oh and Chew Lim Tan
Ergonomics Analysis for Vehicle Assembly Using Artificial Intelligence / 793
Nestor Rychtyckyj
Emerging Application Papers
The KOJAK Group Finder: Connecting the Dots via Integrated Knowledge-Based and Statistical Reasoning / 800
Jafar Adibi, Hans Chalupsky, Eric Melz, and Andre Valente
Detecting and Eliminating the Cascade Vulnerability Problem from Multilevel Security Networks Using Soft Constraints / 808
Stefano Bistarelli, Simon N. Foley, and Barry O’Sullivan
The U.S. National Football League Scheduling Problem / 814
Bistra N. Dilkina and William S. Havens
VModel: A Visual Qualitative Modeling Environment for Middle-School Students / 820
Kenneth D. Forbus, Karen Carney, Bruce L. Sherin, and Leo C. Ureel II
SOFIA’s Choice: An AI Approach to Scheduling Airborne Astronomy Observations / 828
Jeremy Frank, Michael A. K. Gross, and Elif Kürklü
A Comparison of Techniques for Scheduling Earth Observing Satellites / 836
Al Globus, James Crawford, Jason Lohn, and Anna Pryor
Branching Storylines in Virtual Reality Environments for Leadership Development / 844
Andrew Gordon, Michael van Lent, Martin van Velsen, Paul Carpenter, and Arnav Jhala
The Independent LifeStyle AssistantTM (I.L.S.A.): AI Lessons Learned / 852
Karen Zita Haigh, Liana M. Kiff, Janet Myers, Valerie Guralnik, Christopher W. Geib, John Phelps, and Tom Wagner
Identifying Terrorist Activity with AI Plan Recognition Technology / 858
Peter A. Jarvis, Teresa F. Lunt, and Karen L. Myers
A Robotic Wayfinding System for the Visually Impaired / 864
Vladimir Kulyukin, Chaitanya Gharpure, Pradnya Sute, Nathan De Graw, and John Nicholson
Machine Learning for Adaptive Image Interpretation / 870
Ilya Levner and Vadim Bulitko
AI Characters and Directors for Interactive Computer Games / 877
Brian Magerko, John E. Laird, Mazin Assanie, Alex Kerfoot, and Devvan Stokes
Agent-based Simulation of Geo-Political Conflict / 884
Glenn Taylor, Richard Frederiksen, Russell R. Vane III, and Edward Waltz
Artemis: Integrating Scientific Data on the Grid / 892
Rattapoom Tuchinda, Snehal Thakkar, Yolanda Gil, and Ewa Deelman
An Explainable Artificial Intelligence System for Small-unit Tactical Behavior / 900
Michael van Lent, William Fisher, and Michael Mancuso
An Application View of COORDINATORS: Coordination Managers for First Responders / 908
Thomas Wagner, John Phelps, Valerie Guralnik, and Ryan VanRiper
Towards Autonomic Computing: Adaptive Job Routing and Scheduling / 916
Shimon Whiteson and Peter Stone
Synthetic Adversaries for Urban Combat Training / 923
Robert E. Wray, John E. Laird, Andrew Nuxoll, Devvan Stokes, and Alex Kerfoot
CaBMA: Case-Based Project Management Assistant / 931
Ke Xu and Héctor Muñoz-Avila
Automatic Generation of Artistic Chinese Calligraphy / 937
Songhua Xu, Francis C. M. Lau, Kwok-Wai Cheung, and Yunhe Pan