Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XX

1. Front Matter

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2. Best Refereed Technical Paper

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Improved Hybrid Genetic Algorithm: New Results for the Quadratic Assignment Problem

      • Alfonsas Misevicius

      Pages 3-16

3. Algorithms and A1 (Gas, Hidden Markov Models, Simulated Annealing and Perceptrons

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Adaptive Mutation Using Statistics Mechanism for Genetic Algorithms

      • Shengxiang Yang

      Pages 19-32

   3. Off-line Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Words Using Multiple Hidden Markov Models

      • Somaya Alma’adeed, Colin Higgins, Dave Elliman

      Pages 33-40

   4. On a new Stepwidth Adaptation Scheme for Simulated Annealing and its Practical Application

      • Lars Nolle

      Pages 41-53

   5. An Approximate Algorithm for Reverse Engineering of Multi-layer Perceptrons

      • Wojtek Kowalczyk

      Pages 55-66

4. Constraint Programming 1

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Theoretical Framework for Tradeoff Generation using Soft Constraints

      • Stefano Bistarelli, Barry O’Sullivan

      Pages 69-82

   3. Maximum Partial Assignments for Over-Constrained Problems

      • Ken Brown

      Pages 83-96

   4. Escaping Local Optima in Multi-Agent Oriented Constraint Satisfaction

      • Muhammed Basharu, Hatem Ahriz, Inés Arana

      Pages 97-110

   5. Constraint Acquisition as Semi-Automatic Modeling

      • Remi Coletta, Christian Bessiere, Barry O’Sullivan, Eugene C. Freuder, Sarah O’Connell, Joel Quinqueton

      Pages 111-124

5. Knowledge Discovery in Data (Association Rules, Clustering and Classification)

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      Pages 125-125

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   2. Strategies for Partitioning Data in Association Rule Mining

      • Shakil Ahmed, Frans Coenen, Paul Leng

      Pages 127-139

   3. A Self-Organising Hybrid Model for Dynamic Text Clustering

      • Chihli Hung, Stefan Wermter

      Pages 141-154

   4. Polynomial-Fuzzy Decision Tree Structures for Classifying Medical Data

      • Ernest Muthomi Mugambi, Andrew Hunter, Giles Oatley, Lee Kennedy

      Pages 155-167

   5. A Comparison of Generic Machine Learning Algorithms for Image Classification

      • Raphaël Marée, Pierre Geurts, Giorgio Visimberga, Justus Piater, Louis Wehenkel

      Pages 169-182

6. Constraint Programming 2

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

      • Martin Grabmüller, Petra Hofstedt

      Pages 185-198

Frans Coenen University of Liverpool, UK This volume comprises the refereed technical papers presented at AI2003, the Twenty­ third SGAI International Conference on the theory, practice and application of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2003. The conference was organised by SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (previously known as SGES). The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Knowledge Acquisition, Constraint Satisfaction, Scheduling and Natural Language Processing. This year's prize for the best refereed technical paper was won by a paper entitled An Improved Hybrid Genetic Algorithm: New Results for the Quadratic Assignment Problem by A. Misevicius (Department of Practical Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania). SGAI gratefully acknowledges the long-term sponsorship of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol) for this prize, which goes back to the 1980s. This is the twentieth volume in the Research and Development series. The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XI. On behalf of the conference organising committee I should like to thank all those who contributed to the organisation of this year's technical programme, in particular the programme committee members, the referees and our administrator Fiona Hartree and Linsay Turbert.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems
• Fuzzy
• Knowledge Based Systems
• Mutation
• cognition
• genetic algorithms
• intelligent systems
• knowledge
• knowledge base
• knowledge representation
• machine learning
• multi-agent system
• recommender system
• supervised learning

• Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

  Frans Coenen

• Dept of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

  Alun Preece

• Napier University, International Teledemocracy Centre, Edinburgh, UK

  Ann Macintosh

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