PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Papers

   1. Systems Biology Powered by Artificial Intelligence

      • Hiroaki Kitano

      Pages 1-1

   2. Preference Reasoning and Aggregation: Between AI and Social Choice

      • Francesca Rossi

      Pages 2-2

3. Regular Papers

   1. Economical Operation of Thermal Generating Units Integrated with Smart Houses

      • Shantanu Chakraborty, Takayuki Ito, Tomonobu Senjyu

      Pages 3-14

   2. Concept Learning for \(\ensuremath{\ensuremath{\cal E}\ensuremath{\cal L}^{++}}\) by Refinement and Reinforcement

      • Mahsa Chitsaz, Kewen Wang, Michael Blumenstein, Guilin Qi

      Pages 15-26

   3. Hierarchical Training of Multiple SVMs for Personalized Web Filtering

      • Maike Erdmann, Duc Dung Nguyen, Tomoya Takeyoshi, Gen Hattori, Kazunori Matsumoto, Chihiro Ono

      Pages 27-39

   4. Citation Based Summarisation of Legal Texts

      • Filippo Galgani, Paul Compton, Achim Hoffmann

      Pages 40-52

   5. A Novel Video Face Clustering Algorithm Based on Divide and Conquer Strategy

      • Gaopeng Gou, Di Huang, Yunhong Wang

      Pages 53-63

   6. A Hybrid Local Feature for Face Recognition

      • Gaopeng Gou, Di Huang, Yunhong Wang

      Pages 64-75

   7. Ontology Querying Support in Semantic Annotation Process

      • Miha Grčar, Vid Podpečan, Borut Sluban, Igor Mozetič

      Pages 76-87

   8. Learning to Achieve Socially Optimal Solutions in General-Sum Games

      • Jianye Hao, Ho-fung Leung

      Pages 88-99

   9. Incorporating Fairness into Agent Interactions Modeled as Two-Player Normal-Form Games

      • Jianye Hao, Ho-fung Leung

      Pages 100-111

   10. Semi-Supervised Discriminatively Regularized Classifier with Pairwise Constraints

       • Jijian Huang, Hui Xue, Yuqing Zhai

       Pages 112-123

   11. Outdoor Situation Recognition Using Support Vector Machine for the Blind and the Visually Impaired

       • Jihye Hwang, Kyung-tai Kim, Eun Yi Kim

       Pages 124-132

   12. Mining Rules for Rewriting States in a Transition-Based Dependency Parser

       • Akihiro Inokuchi, Ayumu Yamaoka, Takashi Washio, Yuji Matsumoto, Masayuki Asahara, Masakazu Iwatate et al.

       Pages 133-145

   13. The Comparison of Stigmergy Strategies for Decentralized Traffic Congestion Control: Preliminary Results

       • Takayuki Ito, Ryo Kanamori, Jun Takahashi, Iván Marsa Maestre, Enrique de la Hoz

       Pages 146-156

   14. Life-Logging of Wheelchair Driving on Web Maps for Visualizing Potential Accidents and Incidents

       • Yusuke Iwasawa, Ikuko Eguchi Yairi

       Pages 157-169

   15. Texture Feature Extraction Based on Fractional Mask Convolution with Cesáro Means for Content-Based Image Retrieval

       • Hamid A. Jalab, Rabha W. Ibrahim

       Pages 170-179

   16. Possibilistic Reasoning in Multi-Context Systems: Preliminary Report

       • Yifan Jin, Kewen Wang, Lian Wen

       Pages 180-193

   17. A Two-Step Zero Pronoun Resolution by Reducing Candidate Cardinality

       • Kye-Sung Kim, Su-Jeong Choi, Seong-Bae Park, Sang-Jo Lee

       Pages 194-205

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2012, held in Kuching, Malaysia, in September 2012. The 60 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers, 22 short papers, and 11 poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 240 submissions. The topics roughly include AI foundations, applications of AI, cognition and intelligent interactions, computer-aided education, constraint and search, creativity support, decision theory, evolutionary computation, game playing, information retrieval and extraction, knowledge mining and acquisition, knowledge representation and logic, linked open data and semantic web, machine learning and data mining, multimedia and AI, natural language processing, robotics, social intelligence, vision and perception, web and text mining, web and knowledge-based system.

• natural language
• ontology
• recommender systems
• sentiment analysis
• social Web

• Faculty of Environment, Society and Design, Department of Applied Computing, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Patricia Anthony

• School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan

  Mitsuru Ishizuka

• MIMOS Berhad, Knowledge Technology, Technology Park Malaysia,, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Dickson Lukose

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