Next-Generation Applied Intelligence 22nd International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2009, Tainan, Taiwan, June 24-27, 2009. Proceedings

The International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE), always sponsored by the International So- ety of Applied Intelligence (ISAI), emphasizes applications of applied intelligent systems to solve real-life problems in all areas. It is held every year and has become one of the biggest and most important academic activities concerning the theory and applications of intelligent systems in the world. The IEA/AIE 2009 conference was hosted by the National University of Tainan and National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. This was the first time that the IEA/AIE conference was held in Taiwan. We received 286 papers from all parts of the world. Only 84 papers were selected for publication in this volume of LNAI proceedings. Each paper was reviewed by at least two anonymous referees to assure the high quality. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the Program Committee members and all the reviewers for their hard work, which helped us to select the highest quality papers for the conference. These papers highlight opportunities and challenges for the next generation of applied int- ligence and reveal technological innovations in real applications.

Autonomous Agents.- A General-Purpose Method for Decision-Making in Autonomous Robots.- A Virtual Human Agent Model with Behaviour Based on Feeling Exhaustion.- A Model for Criminal Decision Making Based on Hypothetical Reasoning about the Future.- An Agent Model of Temporal Dynamics in Relapse and Recurrence in Depression.- Plan Repair in Conflict-Free Routing.- Computer Vision.- Intelligent Decoupled SAC-SVD Method in Color Space Transformation of Computer Vision.- An Efficient Method of Vehicle License Plate Detection Based on HSI Color Model and Histogram.- A Robust Method for Automatically Detecting Cracks on Noisy Concrete Surfaces.- An Integrated System of Face Recognition.- Block LDA and Gradient Image for Face Recognition.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- Ranking Answers by Hierarchical Topic Models.- Using Genetic Process Mining Technology to Construct a Time-Interval Process Model.- Robust Singular Spectrum Transform.- Hiding Predictive Association Rules on Horizontally Distributed Data.- Incremental Mining of Ontological Association Rules in Evolving Environments.- Decision Support Systems.- Multicriteria Group Decision Support for Information Systems Project Selection.- Utility-Based Repair of Inconsistent Requirements.- An Ecological Model-Based Reasoning Model to Support Nature Park Managers.- Calculating Decoy Items in Utility-Based Recommendation.- Evolutionary Computation.- An Evolutionary Algorithm with Non-random Initial Population for Path Planning of Manipulators.- An Improved Particle Swarm Optimization with Feasibility-Based Rules for Constrained Optimization Problems.- A Trajectory-Based Point Tracker Using Chaos Evolutionary Programming.- Caching in the TSP Search Space.- On the Continuous Control of the Acrobot via Computational Intelligence.- Fuzzy Logic and Uncertainty.- Evaluating and Enhancing the Long-Term Competitiveness of a Semiconductor Product.- Realization of XOR by SIRMs Connected Fuzzy Inference Method.- A Robust Support Vector Regression Based on Fuzzy Clustering.- Performance Evaluation of Robot Motion Incorporating Uncertainties in Sensors and Motion.- Measuring Naturalness during Close Encounters Using Physiological Signal Processing.- Integration Systems for Real Life Applications.- A Neural-Evolutionary Model for Case-Based Planning in Real Time Strategy Games.- Classification of Petroleum Well Drilling Operations with a Hybrid Particle Swarm/Ant Colony Algorithm.- A Robust Technique for Background Subtraction and Shadow Elimination in Traffic Video Sequence.- A Capacitated Inventory-Location Model: Formulation, Solution Approach and Preliminary Computational Results.- Applying Chance Discovery with Dummy Event in Technology Monitoring of Solar Cell.- Intelligent Systems.- Color Image Retrieval Based on Interactive Genetic Algorithm.- An Intelligent Tutoring System of Chinese Chess.- Traffic Forecasts Using Interacting Multiple Model Algorithm.- 3D Scene Analysis Using UIMA Framework.- Detect and Localize Faults in Alias-Free Programs Using Specification Knowledge.- Intelligent Wireless Computing.- RFID Technology and AI Techniques for People Location, Orientation and Guiding.- Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Power Management for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network.- Spatial Exact Match Query Based on the NA-Tree Approach in P2P Systems.- A Direction-Sensitive Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks.- A Mobility and Bandwidth Prediction Controller Using an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System for Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.- Knowledge Management and Natural Language Processing.- Heuristic-Based Approach for Constructing Hierarchical Knowledge Structures.- An Ontology-Based Condition Analyzer for Fault Classification on Railway Vehicles.- Management of Situated Knowledge for Complex Instruments Using 3D Items Creation.- Two Applications of Lexical Information to Computer-Assisted Item Authoring for Elementary Chinese.- Adjusting Occurrence Probabilities of Automatically-Generated Abbreviated Words in Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Machine Learning.- Accelerating Collapsed Variational Bayesian Inference for Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Nvidia CUDA Compatible Devices.- Boosting Formal Concepts to Discover Classification Rules.- Supervised Classification Algorithms Applied to the Detection of Atmospheric Pollution.- A Hierarchy of Twofold Resource Allocation Automata Supporting Optimal Sampling.- A Human Gait Classification Method Based on Adaboost Techniques Using Velocity Moments and Silhouette Shapes.- Multi-Agent Systems.- A Generic Episodic Learning Model Implemented in a Cognitive Agent by Means of Temporal Pattern Mining.- Multi-source Signals Guiding Swarm Robots Search.- An Incentive Mechanism for Increasing Repayment Rate for Online Social Lending.- A Platform System for Developing a Collaborative Mutually Adaptive Agent.- Neural Networks.- A Simple Method of Forecasting Option Prices Based on Neural Networks.- High Speed k-Winner-Take-ALL Competitive Learning in Reconfigurable Hardware.- Adaptive Neurofuzzy Network Based PI Controllers with Multi-objective Functions.- Integrating Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis and Neural Network in Stock Price Prediction.- ELSA: A New Image Compression Using an Expanding-Leaf Segmentation Algorithm.- Special Session: Engineering Knowledge and Semantic Systems.- A Dynamic Rearrangement Mechanism of Web Page Layouts Using Web Agents.- Journal Article Topic Detection Based on Semantic Features.- Present Meets Past: Analysis of Internet Archive Quality.- Constructing Decisional DNA on Renewable Energy: A Case Study.- A Strategy for SPN Detection Based on Biomimetic Pattern Recognition and Knowledge-Based Features.- Special Session: Mass Customization of Manufacturing Products using Applied Intelligent Systems.- Generating Bidirectional Links for Web Annotation Stickies.- Taguchi Analysis of Milling Wear Automatic Monitoring System Based on Machine Vision Technique.- Workflow Planning in Holonic Manufacturing Systems with Extended Contract Net Protocol.- Machine Vision-Based Automatic Raw Fish Handling and Weighing System of Taiwan Tilapia.- Transformation of Products between Various Versions of the Rule World of a Product Configurator.- Constraint Satisfaction Approach on Product Configuration with Cost Estimation.- Special Session: Mining Interesting Knowledge (I).- Compression-Based Measures for Mining Interesting Rules.- Optimization of Feature-Opinion Pairs in Chinese Customer Reviews.- iTM: An Efficient Algorithm for Frequent Pattern Mining in the Incremental Database without Rescanning.- An Efficient Algorithm for Maintaining Frequent Closed Itemsets over Data Stream.- On Covering Based Approximations of Classifications of Sets.- Special Session: Mining Interesting Knowledge (II).- NPUST: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm Using Partition Space Technique for Large Databases.- A Method for Automatic Discovery of Reference Data.- Mining Non-redundant Reclassification Rules.- A Hash Trie Filter Approach to Approximate String Matching for Genomic Databases.- Interval Regression Analysis with Soft-Margin Reduced Support Vector Machine.