Progress in Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

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2. Ambient Intelligence and Affective Environments

   1. Studying Stress on e-Learning Users

      • Davide Carneiro, Sérgio Gonçalves, Paulo Novais, José Neves

      Pages 1-12

   2. Multi-agent System for Controlling a Cloud Computing Environment

      • Fernando de la Prieta, María Navarro, Jose A. García, Roberto González, Sara Rodríguez

      Pages 13-20

3. Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems

   1. Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Impact of Traffic Emissions on Human Health

      • Tânia Fontes, Luís M. Silva, Sérgio R. Pereira, Margarida C. Coelho

      Pages 21-29

   2. Outdoor Vacant Parking Space Detector for Improving Mobility in Smart Cities

      • Carmen Bravo, Nuria Sánchez, Noa García, José Manuel Menéndez

      Pages 30-41

   3. Paying the Price of Learning Independently in Route Choice

      • Ana L. C. Bazzan

      Pages 42-53

   4. On Predicting the Taxi-Passenger Demand: A Real-Time Approach

      • Luis Moreira-Matias, João Gama, Michel Ferreira, João Mendes-Moreira, Luis Damas

      Pages 54-65

4. Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms

   1. An Ecosystem Based Model for Real-Time Generative Animation of Humanoid Non-Player Characters

      • Rui Filipe Antunes, Frederic Fol Leymarie

      Pages 66-77

   2. An Efficient Implementation of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Anticoagulation Level Prediction in Pharmacogenetics

      • Mauro Castelli, Davide Castaldi, Ilaria Giordani, Sara Silva, Leonardo Vanneschi, Francesco Archetti et al.

      Pages 78-89

   3. Dynamics of Neuronal Models in Online Neuroevolution of Robotic Controllers

      • Fernando Silva, Luís Correia, Anders Lyhne Christensen

      Pages 90-101

   4. Evolving an Harmonic Number Generator with ReNCoDe

      • Rui L. Lopes, Ernesto Costa

      Pages 102-113

   5. GPU-Based Automatic Configuration of Differential Evolution: A Case Study

      • Roberto Ugolotti, Pablo Mesejo, Youssef S. G. Nashed, Stefano Cagnoni

      Pages 114-125

   6. Structure-Based Constants in Genetic Programming

      • Christian B. Veenhuis

      Pages 126-137

5. Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

   1. Class Imbalance in the Prediction of Dementia from Neuropsychological Data

      • Cecília Nunes, Dina Silva, Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre de Mendonça, Alexandra M. Carvalho, Sara C. Madeira

      Pages 138-151

   2. A Noise Removal Algorithm for Time Series Microarray Data

      • Naresh Doni Jayavelu, Nadav Bar

      Pages 152-162

6. General Artificial Intelligence

   1. An Associative State-Space Metric for Learning in Factored MDPs

      • Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva

      Pages 163-174

   2. A Distributed Approach to Diagnosis Candidate Generation

      • Nuno Cardoso, Rui Abreu

      Pages 175-186

   3. Probabilistic Vector Machine: Scalability through Clustering Hybridization

      • Mihai Cimpoeşu, Andrei Sucilă, Henri Luchian

      Pages 187-198

   4. Resource Constrained Project Scheduling with General Precedence Relations Optimized with SAT

      • Rui Alves, Filipe Alvelos, Sérgio Dinis Sousa

      Pages 199-210

   5. A Statistical Binary Classifier: Probabilistic Vector Machine

      • Mihai Cimpoeşu, Andrei Sucilă, Henri Luchian

      Pages 211-222

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013, held in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal, in September 2013. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 157 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: ambient intelligence and affective environments; artificial intelligence in transportation systems; artificial life and evolutionary algorithms; computational methods in bioinformatics and systems biology; general artificial intelligence; intelligent robotics; knowledge discovery and business intelligence; multi-agent systems: theory and applications; social simulation and modeling; and text mining and applications.

• agent-based cloud computing
• evolutionary robotics
• genetic regulatory networks
• particle swarm optimization
• video surveillance

• Informatics Department, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

  Luís Correia

• Information Systems Department, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

  Luís Paulo Reis

• Department of Education, University of the Azores, Azores, Portugal

  José Cascalho

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