Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2008

Invited Papers.- Logical and Relational Learning.- Transfer Learning by Mapping and Revising Relational Knowledge.- Developing Robust Synthetic Biology Designs Using a Microfluidic Robot Scientist.- Tutorials.- Logic, Probability and Learning, or an Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning.- Text Mining.- From ILP to PILP.- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.- Density of Closed Balls in Real-Valued and Autometrized Boolean Spaces for Clustering Applications.- Multi-Dimensional Dynamic Time Warping for Image Texture Similarity.- Audio-to-Visual Conversion Via HMM Inversion for Speech-Driven Facial Animation.- Discriminant Eigenfaces: A New Ranking Method for Principal Components Analysis.- Distributed AI: Autonomous Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Game Theory.- Enhancing the Interaction between Agents and Users.- Re-routing Agents in an Abstract Traffic Scenario.- A Draughts Learning System Based on Neural Networks and Temporal Differences: The Impact of an Efficient Tree-Search Algorithm.- An Experimental Approach to Online Opponent Modeling in Texas Hold'em Poker.- Individual and Social Behaviour in the IPA Market with RL.- Optimizing Preferences within Groups: A Case Study on Travel Recommendation.- Towards the Self-regulation of Personality-Based Social Exchange Processes in Multiagent Systems.- Probabilistic Multiagent Patrolling.- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Proving Epistemic and Temporal Properties from Knowledge Based Programs.- Detecting Code Evolution in Programming Learning.- Revising Specifications with CTL Properties Using Bounded Model Checking.- Toward Short and Structural -Reasoning Explanations: A Sequent Calculus Approach.- A Case for Numerical Taxonomy in Case-Based Reasoning.- Methodical Construction of SymbolicDiagrams.- Machine Learning and Data Mining.- Bi-objective Memetic Evolutionary Algorithm for Automated Microwave Filter Synthesis.- Fitting a Least Absolute Deviation Regression Model on Interval-Valued Data.- Missing Value Imputation Using a Semi-supervised Rank Aggregation Approach.- A Learning Function for Parameter Reduction in Spiking Neural Networks with Radial Basis Function.- A Robust Methodology for Comparing Performances of Clustering Validity Criteria.- Natural Language Processing.- An Experiment in Spanish-Portuguese Statistical Machine Translation.- On the Automatic Learning of Bilingual Resources: Some Relevant Factors for Machine Translation.- Robotics.- Experiments in the Coordination of Large Groups of Robots.- Evolving an Artificial Homeostatic System.