[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-710
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MAICS 2011
Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2011


Proceedings of The 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2011

Cincinnati, USA, April 16-17, 2011.


Edited by

Sofia Visa *
Atsushi Inoue **
Anca Ralescu ***

* College of Wooster, Wooster, USA
** Eastern Washington University, Spokane, USA
*** University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA





Table of Contents

    Session 1: COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY SPECIAL SESSION FOR BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

  1. Fuzzy Relational Visualization for Decision Support 8-15
    Brian Zier, Atsushi Inoue
  2. A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Sections in Legal Briefs 16-22
    Scott Vanderbeck, Joseph Bockhorst, Chad Oldfather
  3. Automated Speech Act Classification For Online Chat 23-29
    Cristian Moldovan, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser
  4. A Study of Query-Based Dimensionality Reduction 30-37
    Augustine S. Nsang, Anca Ralescu
  5. Session 2: EXPERT SYSTEMS AND FUZZY LOGIC

  6. Page Ranking Refinement Using Fuzzy Sets and Logic 40-46
    Andrew Laughlin, Joshua Olson, Donny Simpson, Atsushi Inoue
  7. Computational Intelligence for Project Scope 47-53
    Joseph M. McQuighan, Robert J. Hammell II
  8. Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps 54-59
    Ethan White, Lawrence J. Mazlack
  9. Session 3: AGENT SYSTEMS AND EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS

  10. Robotic Dancing: Exploring Agents that use a Stratified Perceive-Decide-Act Cycle of Interaction 62-66
    James Benze, Jennifer Seitzer
  11. Using a Genetic Algorithm to Evolve a D* Search Heuristic 67-72
    Andrew Giese, Jennifer Seitzer
  12. Mining High Quality Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms 73-78
    Peter P. Wakabi-Waiswa, Venansius Baryamureeba
  13. Support for Agent Based Simulation of Biomolecular Systems 79-84
    Harika Korukonda, Carla Purdy
  14. Session 4: SPECIAL SESSION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOMETRICS AND IDENTITY SCIENCES I

  15. GEFeWS: A Hybrid Genetic-Based Feature Weighting and Selection Algorithm for Multi-Biometric Recognition 86-90
    Aniesha Alford, Khary Popplewell, Gerry Dozier, Kelvin Bryant, John Kelly, Josh Adams, Tamirat Abegaz, Joseph Shelton
  16. Iris Quality in an Operational Context 91-98
    James S. Doyle Jr., Patrick J. Flynn
  17. Fusion of Face and Iris Biometrics from a Stand-Off Video Sensor 99-106
    Ryan Connaughton, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick Flynn
  18. Session 5: LEARNING AND CLASSIFICATION

  19. The Classification of Imbalanced Spatial Data 108-113
    Alina Lazar, Bradley A. Shellito
  20. Simplifying Probability Elicitation and Uncertainty Modeling in Bayesian Networks 114-119
    Patrick Paulson, Thomas E. Carroll, Chitra Sivaraman, Peter Neorr, Stephen D. Unwin, Shamina Hossain
  21. Confusion Matrix-based Feature Selection 120-127
    Sofia Visa, Brian Ramsay, Anca Ralescu, Esther van der Knaap
  22. A Preliminary Study on Clustering Student Learning Data 128-132
    Haiyun Bian
  23. Learning Morphological Data of Tomato Fruits 133-137
    Joshua Thomas, Matthew Lambert, Bennjamin Snyder, Michael Janning, Jacob Haning, Yanlong Hu, Mohammad Ahmad, Sofia Visa
  24. A Qualitative Analysis of Edge Closure in Information Networks 138-141
    Hareendra Minimadugu, Anca Ralescu
  25. Identifying Interesting Postings on Social Media Sites 142-144
    Swathi Seethakkagari, Anca Ralescu

    Session 6: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS

  26. Evolutionary Computation on the Connex Architecture 146-153
    Istvan Lorentz, Mihaela Malita, Razvan Andonie
  27. Towards a Technique of Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Unit Conversion in Scientific Reasoning Systems 154-159
    Joseph Phillips
  28. New Features and Many Improvements to Analyze Morphology and Color of Digitalized Plant Organs Are Available in Tomato Analyzer 3.0 160-163
    Gustavo Rodriguez, David Francis, Esther van der Knaap, Jaymie Strecker, Itai Njanji, Josh Thomas, Atticus Jack
  29. Session 7: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

  30. Towards Agent-Oriented Knowledge Base Maintenance for Description Logic ALCN 166-171
    Stanislav Ustymenko, Daniel G. Schwartz
  31. Extracting Micro Ontologies from Interrogative Domains For Epistemic Agents 172-177
    Tracey Hughes, Cameron Hughes
  32. An Ontological Semantic Account of Relative Quantification in English 178-185
    Whitney R. Vandiver
  33. Session 8: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

  34. Spatiotemporal knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty for action recognition in smart homes 188-194
    Farzad Amirjavid, Kevin Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane, Bruno Bouchard
  35. Characteristics of Computational Intelligence (Quantitative Approach) 195-201
    Shiva Vafadar, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barfourosh
  36. Toward Robust Features for Remote Audio-Visual Classroom 202-207
    Isaac Schlittenhart, Jason Winters, Kyle Springer, Atsushi Inoue
  37. Hybrid Direct Neural Network Controller With Linear Feedback Compensator 208-213
    Sadhana K. Chidrawar, Balasaheb M. Patre
  38. Session 9: SPECIAL SESSION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN BIOMETRICS AND IDENTITY SCIENCES II

  39. Comparison of Genetic-based Feature Extraction Methods for Facial Recognition 216-220
    Joseph Shelton, Gerry Dozier, Kelvin Bryant, Lasanio Smalls, Joshua Adams, Khary Popplewell, Tamirat Abegaz, Damon L. Woodard, Karl Ricanek
  40. Genetic-Based Selection and Weighting for LBP, oLBP, and Eigenface Feature Extraction 221-224
    Tamirat Abegaz, Gerry Dozier, Kelvin Bryant, Joshua Adams, Brandon Baker, Joseph Shelton, Karl Ricanek, Damon L. Woodard
  41. Ethnicity Prediction Based on Iris Texture Features 225-230
    Stephen Lagree, Kevin W. Bowyer
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08-Apr-2011: submitted by Sofia Visa
08-Apr-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org