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<h1><a href="https://aics2021.ucd.ie"><span class="CEURVOLACRONYM">AICS 2021</span></a><br>
<span class="CEURVOLTITLE">Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science</span></h1>
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<span class="CEURFULLTITLE">Proceedings of The 29th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science</span><br>
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<h3><span class="CEURLOCTIME">Dublin, Republic of Ireland, December 9-10, 2021</span>.</h3>


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   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjun-pakrashi-447299b/" target="_blank"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Arjun Pakrashi</span></a> <br>
   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenrushe/" target="_blank"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Ellen Rushe</span></a> <br>
   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehran-bazargani-ph-d-14b352176/" target="_blank"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Mehran Hossein Zadeh Bazargani</span></a> <br>
   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mac-namee-7960605/" target="_blank"><span class="CEURVOLEDITOR">Brian Mac Namee</span></a> <br>
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<a href="https://www.ucd.ie/cs/">School of Computer Science, University College Dublin</a>, Dublin, Ireland<br>
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<h2> Table of Contents </h2>


<ul>
<li id="preface">
<A href="preface.pdf">Preface</A><BR>
Summary: There were <span class="CEURSUBMITTEDPAPERS">44</span> papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these,
<span class="CEURACCEPTEDPAPERS">24</span> papers were accepted for this volume,
<span class="CEURACCEPTEDREGULARPAPERS">17</span> regular papers and
<span class="CEURACCEPTEDSHORTPAPERS">7</span> student papers.
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</ul>
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<h3><span class="CEURSESSION"></span>Full Papers</h3><ul>
<li id="paper1">
<a href="paper1.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Modelling the COVID-19 Virus Evolution With Incremental Machine Learning</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">1-12</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ankit Kumar</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Luis Miralles-Pechuán</span>
</li>

<li id="paper4">
<a href="paper4.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Virtual Tutor Personality in Computer Assisted Language Learning</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">13-24</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Johanna Dobbriner</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Cathy Ennis</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Robert Ross</span>
</li>

<li id="paper5">
<a href="paper5.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Domain Randomization for Object Counting</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">25-35</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Enric Moreu</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Kevin McGuinness</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Diego Ortego</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Noel E. O'Connor</span>
</li>

<li id="paper6">
<a href="paper6.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Robust 3D U-Net Segmentation of Macular Holes</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">36-47</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Jonathan Frawley</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Chris G. Willcocks</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Maged Habib</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Caspar Geenen</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">David H. Steel</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Boguslaw Obara</span>
</li>

<li id="paper8">
<a href="paper8.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Malware Classification Using Static Disassembly and Machine Learning</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">48-59</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Zhenshuo Chen</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Eoin Brophy</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Tomas Ward</span>
</li>

<li id="paper10">
<a href="paper10.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Nearest Neighbour-Based Data Augmentation for Time Series Forecasting</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">60-71</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Duncan Wallace</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Eoin Delaney</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Mark T. Keane</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Derek Greene</span>
</li>

<li id="paper21">
<a href="paper21.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Machine Learning in Space: A Review of Machine Learning Algorithms and Hardware for Space Applications</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">72-83</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">James Murphy</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">John E Ward</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Brian Mac Namee</span>
</li>

<li id="paper23">
<a href="paper23.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition using Synthetic Data</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">84-95</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Frank Fowley</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Anthony Ventresque</span>
</li>

<li id="paper25">
<a href="paper25.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Synthetic Data for Unsupervised Polyp Segmentation</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">96-105</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Enric Moreu</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Kevin McGuinness</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Noel E. O'Connor</span>
</li>

<li id="paper28">
<a href="paper28.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Panta Rhei: Curiosity-Driven Exploration to Learn the Image-Schematic Affordances of Pouring Liquids</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">106-117</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Mihai Pomarlan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Maria M. Hedblom</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Robert Porzel</span>
</li>

<li id="paper30">
<a href="paper30.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Loan Default Prediction Using Spark Machine Learning Algorithms</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">118-129</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Aiman Muhammad Uwais</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Hamidreza Khaleghzadeh</span>
</li>

<li id="paper31">
<a href="paper31.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Sentiment Analysis: Using Detrended Fluctation Analysis of EEG Signals in Natural Reading</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">130-140</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Boi Mai Quach</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Cathal Gurrin</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Graham Healy</span>
</li>

<li id="paper34">
<a href="paper34.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Linguistic and Gender Variation in Speech Emotion Recognition Using Spectral Features</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">141-152</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Zachary Dair</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ryan Donovan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ruairi O'Reilly</span>
</li>

<li id="paper40">
<a href="paper40.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Bias Bubbles: Using Semi-Supervised Learning to Measure How Many Biased News Articles Are Around Us</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">153-164</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Qin Ruan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Brian Mac Namee</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Ruihai Dong</span>
</li>

<li id="paper41">
<a href="paper41.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Solving the Real Robot Challenge Using Deep Reinforcement Learning</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">165-175</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Robert McCarthy</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Francsico Roldan Sanchez</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Qiang Wang</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">David Cordova Bulens</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Kevin McGuinness</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Noel O'Connor</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Stephen Redmond</span>
</li>

<li id="paper43">
<a href="paper43.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Adaptation of Compositional Data Analysis in Deep Learning to Predict Pasture Biomass Proportions</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">176-187</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Badri Narayanan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Mohamed Saadeldin</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Paul Albert</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Kevin McGuinness</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Noel E. O'Connor</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Brian Mac Namee</span>
</li>

<li id="paper45">
<a href="paper45.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Combining Ensembles of Multi-Input Multi-Output Subnetworks and Data Augmentation Does not Harm Your Calibration</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">188-199</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Çağrı Demir</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Simon Caton</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Pierpaolo Dondio</span>
</li>

</ul>

<h3><span class="CEURSESSION"></span>Student Papers</h3><ul>
<li id="paper2">
<a href="paper2.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Towards an Optimised Vehicle Detection Algorithm for Multi-Object Tracking in Traffic Surveillance</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">200-211</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Soumi Mitra</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Nandhini Reddy Aileni</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Irina Tal</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Malika Bendechache</span>
</li>

<li id="paper9">
<a href="paper9.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Evaluation of Interest and Coherence in Machine Generated Stories</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">212-223</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Dominic Callan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Jennifer Foster</span>
</li>

<li id="paper13">
<a href="paper13.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Representational and Embodied Accounts of Abstract Concepts: A Framework for Prelinguistic Acquisition of Numerical Cognition</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">224-235</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Jules Wax</span>
</li>

<li id="paper16">
<a href="paper16.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Image Segmentation to Identify Safe Landing Zones for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">235-247</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Joe Kinahan</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Alan F. Smeaton</span>
</li>

<li id="paper18">
<a href="paper18.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Forecasting Gold Prices Using Temporal Convolutional Networks</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">248-259</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Justin Fajou</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Andrew McCarren</span>
</li>

<li id="paper26">
<a href="paper26.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Debated Backpropagation</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">260-271</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Isaac James</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Christopher Stone</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Alice Toniolo</span>
</li>

<li id="paper33">
<a href="paper33.pdf"> <span class="CEURTITLE">Detection of Covid-19 From an Imbalanced Chest X-ray Image Data Set</span> </a>
<span class="CEURPAGES">272-283</span> <br>
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Sharath Madhu Manjunath</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Manju Gurjar</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Neil O'Kane</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Andrew McCarren</span>,
<span class="CEURAUTHOR">Leonardo Gualano</span>
</li>

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