Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference

Edited by Zdravko Markov and Ingrid Russell

Key Largo, Florida. May 16–18, 2016. Published by The AAAI Press, Palo Alto, California.

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General Conference

Toward Designing a Realistic Conversational System: A Survey / 2
Awrad Mohammed Ali, Avelino J. Gonzalez

Domain Modeling for Planning as Logic Programming / 8
Roman Bartak, Jindrich Vodrazka

Building User Interest Profiles Using DBpedia in a Question Answering System / 14
Jonathan Bergeron, Aron Schmidt, Richard Khoury, Luc Lamontagne

Leveraging Dependency Regularization for Event Extraction / 20
Kai Cao, Xiang Li, Ralph Grishman

Pollen Recognition Using Multi-Layer Feature Decomposition / 26
Amar Daood, Eraldo Ribeiro, Mark Bush

Iterated Abduction / 32
Joshua Eckroth

Coordinated Target Assignment and Route Planning for Air Team Mission Planning / 38
Tina Erlandsson

Towards a Computational Model of Human Opinion Dynamics in Response to Real-World Events / 44
Kallirroi Georgila, David V. Pynadath

A Scalable Unsupervised Deep Multimodal Learning System / 50
Mohammed Shameer Iqbal, Daniel L. Silver

Smarter Sharing Is Caring: Weighted Averaging in Decentralized Collective Transport with Obstacle Avoidance / 56
Vera A. Kazakova, Annie S. Wu

Discovering Spatio-Temporal Relationships Among Activities in Videos Using a Relational Topic-Transition Model / 62
Dalwinderjeet Kular, Eraldo Ribeiro

Manipulation of Second-Order Copeland Elections: Heuristic and Experiment / 68
Ramoni O. Lasisi

DOVETAIL — An Abstraction for Classical Planning Using a Visual Metaphor / 74
Mauricio Cecilio Magnaguagno, Ramon Fraga Pereira, Felipe Meneguzzi

Scalable Image Retrieval with Multimodal Fusion / 80
Yang Peng, Xiaofeng Zhou, Daisy Zhe Wang, Chunsheng Victor Fang

Authorship Attribution Using Small Sets of Frequent Part-of-Speech Skip-grams / 86
Yao Jean Marc Pokou, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Chadia Moghrabi

ART: An Availability-Aware Active Learning Framework for Data Streams / 92
Benjamin Shickel, Parisa Rashidi

Bayesian Network-Based Extension for PGP — Estimating Petition Support / 98
Marius Silaghi, Song Qin, Toshihiro Matsui, Makoto Yokoo

Ranking Summaries for Informativeness and Coherence without Reference Summaries / 104
Abhishek Singh, Wei Jin

Hoping for the Truth — A Survey of the TPTP Logics / 110
Geoff Sutcliffe, Francis Jeffry Pelletier

Hash Functions for Episodic Recognition and Retrieval / 116
Emilia Vanderwerf, Robert Stiles, Alexandra Warlen, Allison Seibert, Kevin Bastien, Andrew Meyer, Andrew M. Nuxoll, Scott Wallace

Creating a New Angry Birds Competition Track / 122
Rohan Verma, Xiaoyu Ge, Jochen Renz

Studying Watson Inside Out — A Cognitive Systems Course / 128
Michael Wollowski

CATCH: Injecting "Contextual and Timely Conversational Humor" into Lifelike Avatars / 134
Josiah Wong, Avelino J. Gonzalez

On Modeling the Interplay Between Opinion Change and Formation / 140
Fei Yu, Eugene Santos

Creation of a Student Research Environment in Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Involvement / 146
Sambit Bhattacharya, Bogdan Czejdo, John Martellaro, Aisha Bowe, Kajal Pancholi, Sue Hall

Semi-Unsupervised Clustering Using Reinforcement Learning / 150
Sourabh Bose, Manfred Huber

Towards Real Time Detection of Learners' Need of Help in Serious Games / 154
Ramla Ghali, Claude Frasson, Sébastien Ouellet

Artificial Intelligence Testing / 158
Eric Michael Neufeld, Sonje Finnestad

Neighbourhood SAC for Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Non-Binary Constraints / 162
Richard J. Wallace

Special Track: Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry

Prioritization of Risky Chats for Intent Classifier Improvement / 167
Ian Beaver, Cynthia Freeman

Using L-Systems to Generate Fault Trees for Benchmarking and Testing / 173
Jeff Hanes, R. Paul Wiegand

A Dynamic Bayesian Network for Diagnosing Nuclear Power Plant Accidents / 179
Thomas B. Jones, Michael C. Darling, Katrina M. Groth, Matthew R. Denman, George F. Luger

Comparative Methods and Analysis for Creating High-Quality Question Sets from Crowdsourced Data / 185
Sarah K. K. Luger, Jeff Bowles

Assessing Supply Chain Robustness Through Stress Testing / 191
Slava Shekh, Luke Marsh

Special Track: Applied Natural Language Processing

Towards Detecting Intra- and Inter-Sentential Negation Scope and Focus in Dialogue / 198
Rajendra Banjade, Nobal B. Niraula, Vasile Rus

Supervised Speech Act Classification of Messages in German Online Discussions / 204
Berken Bayat, Christopher Krauss, Agathe Merceron, Stefan Arbanowski

Semisupervised Text Classification Using Unsupervised Topic Information / 210
Rubén Dorado, Sylvie Ratté

Event Nugget Detection and Argument Extraction with DISCERN / 214
Greg Dubbin, Archna Bhatia, Bonnie J. Dorr, Adam Dalton, Kristy Hollingshead, Ian Perera, Suriya Kandaswamy, Jena D. Hwang

Identifying Thesis Statements in Student Essays: The Class Imbalance Challenge and Resolution / 220
Fattaneh Jabbari, Mohammad H. Falakmasir, Kevin D. Ashley

Determining the Quality of a Student Reflective Response / 226
Wencan Luo, Diane Litman

Structural Sentence Similarity Estimation for Short Texts / 232
Weicheng Ma, Torsten Suel

Vector Based Techniques for Short Answer Grading / 238
Ahmed Ezzat Magooda, Mohamed Zahran, Mohsen Rashwan, Hazem Raafat, Magda Fayek

Automatic Classification of Poetry by Meter and Rhyme / 244
Chris Tanasescu, Bryan Paget, Diana Inkpen

Handling Missing Words by Mapping Across Word Vector Representations / 250
Rajendra Banjade, Nabin Maharjan, Dipesh Gautam, Vasile Rus

Maximizing Appropriate Responses Returned by a Conversational Agent through the Use of a Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection / 254
Jerome McClendon, Larry Hodges, Sekou Remy

Special Track: Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security

Security Risk Aggregation Based on Neural Networks — An Empirically Validated Approach / 259
Alexander Beck, Stefan Rass

Meaning-Based Machine Learning for Information Assurance / 264
Courtney Falk, Lauren Stuart

An Evolutionary Trace Algorithm for Constructing Malware Lineages / 270
Alex Heinricher, Steven Jilcott

Evaluating Methods for Distinguishing Between Human-Readable Text and Garbled Text / 276
Jette L. Henderson, Daniel J. Frazee, Nick P. Siegel, Cheryl E. Martin, Alexander Y. Liu

Data Authenticity and Integrity in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Watermarking Approach / 282
Farid Lalem, Muath Alshaikh, Ahcene Bounceur, Reinhardt Euler, Lamri Laouamer, Laurent Nana, Anca Pascu

RUDY Attack: Detection at the Network Level and Its Important Features / 288
Maryam M. Najafabadi, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Amri Napolitano, Charles Wheelus

Suspiciously Structured Entropy: Wavelet Decomposition of Software Entropy Reveals Symptoms of Malware in the Energy Spectrum / 294
Michael Wojnowicz, Glenn Chisholm, Matt Wolff

Special Track: Artificial Intelligence for Big Data

GECKA3D: A 3D Game Engine for Commonsense Knowledge Acquisition / 299
Erik Cambria, Tam V. Nguyen, Brian Cheng, Kenneth Kwok, Jose Sepulveda

Reducing Feature Set Explosion to Facilitate Real-World Review Spam Detection / 304
Michael Crawford, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Joseph D. Prusa

Term Ranker: A Graph-Based Re-Ranking Approach / 310
Muhammad Tahir Khan, Yukun Ma, Jung-jae Kim

Sentiment Classification Using Negation as a Proxy for Negative Sentiment / 316
Bruno Ohana, Brendan Tierney, Sarah Jane Delany

Enhancing Ensemble Learners with Data Sampling on High-Dimensional Imbalanced Tweet Sentiment Data / 322
Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Naeem Seliya

Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Games, Serious Games, and Multimedia

Supporting Social Skills Rehabilitation with Virtual Storytelling / 329
Cindy Even, Anne-Gwenn Bosser, João Ferreira, Cédric Buche, Florian Stéphan, Marc Cavazza, Christine Lisetti

Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Tetris / 335
Diana Lora, Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz, Pedro A. González-Calero, Marco A. Gómez-Martín

Neural Networks Learning the Concept of Influence in Go / 340
Gabriel Machado Santos, Rita Maria Silva Julia, Marco Saito, Matheus Araujo Aguiar

The Believability Gene in Virtual Bots / 346
Mihai Polceanu, Antonio M. Mora, Jose L. Jimenez, Cedric Buche, Antonio J. Fernandez-Leiva

Go-Ahead: Improving Prior Knowledge Heuristics by Using Information Retrieved From Play Out Simulations. / 350
Gabriel Machado Santos, Rita Maria Silva Julia

Special Track: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics

A Dempster-Shafer Approach for Corrupted Electrocardiograms Signals / 355
Nicholas J. Napoli, Laura E. Barnes

Examining Healthcare Utilization Patterns of Elderly and Middle-Aged Adults in the United States / 361
Cilia E. Zayas, Zhe He, Jiawei Yuan, Mildred Maldonado-Molina, William Hogan, François Modave, Yi Guo, Jiang Bian

Special Track: Autonomous Robots and Agents

Multi-Agent Area Coverage Control Using Reinforcement Learning / 368
Adekunle A. Adepegba, Suruz Miah, Davide Spinello

Multiagent-Based Simulation of the Human Immune System: A Study of the Immune Response and Antimicrobial Therapy in Post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis / 374
Carlos Antonio Bastos, Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Fabio Ribeiro Cerqueira, Maurilio de Araujo Possi, Rodrigo Siqueira-Batista, Andreia Patricia Gomes, Luiz Alberto Santana

Controlling the Movement of Robotic Bodyguards for Maximal Physical Protection / 380
Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, Gurkan Solmaz, Damla Turgut, Ladislau Boloni

Selecting Vantage Points for an Autonomous Quadcopter Videographer / 386
Rey Coaguila, Gita Reese Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar

Learning Continuous State/Action Models for Humanoid Robots / 392
Astrid Jackson, Gita Sukthankar

Feasibility Study of Multi-Agent Simulation at the Cellular Level with FLAME GPU / 398
Alcione de Paiva Oliveira, Paul Richmond

Building Redundancy in Multi-Agent Systems Using Probabilistic Selection / 404
Annie S. Wu, R. Paul Wiegand, Ramya Pradhan

Trajectory Adaptation of Robot Arms for Head-Pose Dependent Assistive Tasks / 410
Rouhollah Rahmatizadeh, Pooya Abolghasemi, Ladislau Bölöni, Amirhossein Jabalameli, Aman Behal

Reward from Demonstration in Interactive Reinforcement Learning / 414
Syed Ali Raza, Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams

Special Track: Case-Based Reasoning

Retrieving Adaptable Cases in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning / 419
Ralph Bergmann, Gilbert Müller, Christian Zeyen, Jens Manderscheid

Evaluation of Explanations Extracted from Textual Reports / 425
Gleb Sizov, Pinar Ӧztürk, Kerstin Bach

Special Track: Data Mining

Learning Decision Trees from Histogram Data Using Multiple Subsets of Bins / 430
Ram B. Gurung, Tony Lindgren, Henrik Boström

GPU-Accelerated Parameter Optimization for Classification Rule Learning / 436
Greg Harris, Anand Panangadan, Viktor K. Prasanna

Parallelizing Instance-Based Data Classifiers / 442
Imad Rahal, Emily Furst, Ramzi Haraty

Propositionalization for Unsupervised Outlier Detection in Multi-Relational Data / 448
Fatemeh Riahi, Oliver Schulte

Global Discriminant Analysis for Unsupervised Feature Selection with Local Structure Preservation / 454
Xiucai Ye, Kaiyang Ji, Tetsuya Sakurai

Adaptive Sampling and Learning for Unsupervised Outlier Detection / 460
Zhiruo Zhao, Chilukuri Mohan, Kishan Mehrotra

Special Track: Intelligent Learning Technologies

Dimension Extraction Analysis of Student Performance on Problems / 467
Anthony Bucci, R. Paul Wiegand, Amruth N. Kumar, Jennifer L Albert, Alessio Gaspar

Implementation Factors and Outcomes for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: A Case Study of Time and Efficiency with Cognitive Tutor Algebra / 473
Stephen E. Fancsali, Steven Ritter, Michael Yudelson, Michael Sandbothe, Susan R Berman

Designing an Authorable Scenario Representation for Instructor Control over Computationally Tailored Narrative in Training / 479
Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik, Angela Woods, Robert E. Wray

Improving Argument Mining in Student Essays by Learning and Exploiting Argument Indicators versus Essay Topics / 485
Huy Nguyen, Diane Litman

Designing a Personal Assistant for Life-Long Learning (PAL3) / 491
William R. Swartout, Benjamin D. Nye, Arno Hartholt, Adam Reilly, Arthur C. Graesser, Kurt VanLehn, Jon Wetzel, Matt Liewer, Fabrizio Morbini, Brent Morgan, Lijia Wang, Grace Benn, Milton Rosenberg

Learning Approaches in a 3D Virtual Environment for Learning Energy Generation from Renewable Sources / 497
Foteini Grivokostopoulou, Isidoros Perikos, Konstantinos Kovas, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis

Smart Learning: Time-Dependent Context-Aware Learning Object Recommendations / 501
Christopher Krauss

Intelligent Context-Aware Augmented Reality to Teach Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities / 505
Christopher Reardon, Rachel Wright, David Cihak, Lynne E. Parker

Special Track: Knowledge-Based AI

Hybrid of Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge Models for Solving Physics Word Problems / 510
Savitha Sam Abraham, Deepak Khemani

Direct Object Omission as a Sign of Conceptual Defaultness / 516
Louis Hickman, Julia Taylor, Victor Raskin

An Ontology-Based Mobile Application for Task Managing in Collaborative Groups / 522
Daniela Schmidt, Alison R. Panisson, Artur Freitas, Rafael H. Bordini, Felipe Meneguzzi, Renata Vieira

TAO: System for Table Detection and Extraction from PDF Documents / 591
Martha O. Perez-Arriaga, Trilce Estrada, Soraya Abad-Mota

Innovation Analytics Using Mined Semantic Analysis / 597
Walid Shalaby, Wlodek Zadrozny

Special Track: Social Media Analytics

Exploiting Crowd-Based Labels for Domain Focused Information Retrieval / 602
John Cory Miniter, Vineet Mehta, Kavitha Chandra

Comparing Approaches for Combining Data Sampling and Feature Selection to Address Key Data Quality Issues in Tweet Sentiment Analysis / 608
Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar

Necessity of Feature Selection when Augmenting Tweet Sentiment Feature Spaces with Emoticons / 614
Joseph D. Prusa, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Amri Napolitano

Special Track: Uncertain Reasoning

Dialectical Characterization of Consistent Query Explanation with Existential Rules / 621
Abdallah Arioua, Madalina Croitoru

Minimal Tolerance Pairs for System Z-Like Ranking Functions for First-Order Conditional Knowledge Bases / 626
Christoph Beierle, Tobias Falke, Steven Kutsch, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

Negated Min-Based Possibilistic Networks / 632
Salem Benferhat, Faiza Khellaf, Ismahane Zeddigha

A Collective Defence Against Grouped Attacks for Weighted Abstract Argumentation Frameworks / 638
Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Rossi, Francesco Santini

Testing Independencies in Bayesian Networks with i-Separation / 644
Cory J. Butz, André E. dos Santos, Jhonatan S. Oliveira, Christophe Gonzales

Bayesian Network Inference with Simple Propagation / 650
Cory J. Butz, Jhonatan S. Oliveira, André E. dos Santos, Anders L. Madsen

Bayesian Networks with Conditional Truncated Densities / 656
Santiago Cortijo, Christophe Gonzales

A Formal Model of Plausibility Monitoring in Language Comprehension / 662
Maj-Britt Isberner, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

A Noisy-OR Model for Continuous Time Bayesian Networks / 668
Logan Perreault, Shane Strasser, Monica Thornton, John Sheppard

Causes for Query Answers from Databases, Datalog Abduction and View-Updates: The Presence of Integrity Constraints / 674
Babak Salimi, Leopoldo Bertossi

Multiplicative Factorization of Multi-Valued NIN-AND Tree Models / 680
Yang Xiang, Yiting Jin

Causal Probabilistic Graphical Models for Decoding Effective Connectivity in Functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy / 686
Samuel Antonio Montero-Hernandez, Felipe Orihuela-Espina, Javier Herrera-Vega, Luis Enrique Sucar

Propositional Probabilistic Reasoning at Maximum Entropy Modulo Theories / 690
Marco Wilhelm, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Andreas Ecke

Invited Talks

Inferring Contexts from Human Activities in Smart Spaces / 695
Jae Woong Lee, Sumi Helal

Posters

FLAIRS-29 Poster Abstracts / 702
Zdravko Markov, Ingrid Russell

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