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# MAICS 2012
Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2012

### Proceedings of the 23rd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2012

### Cincinnati, USA, Apr 21-22, 2012.

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

- Preface
- Invited Plenary Lecture 1 by Michelle Quirk (invited paper)
- Invited Plenary Lecture 2 by Traian Marius Truta (invited paper)
- Invited Plenary Lecture 3 by Kevin Gluck (invited paper)

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

1. Applying Soft Computing to Estimation of Resources' Price in Oil and Gas Industry 6-10
   Sholpan Mirseidova, Atsushi Inoue, Lyazzat Atymtayeva
2. Fuzzy Cluster Validity with Generalized Silhouettes 11-18
   Mohammad Rawashdeh, Anca Ralescu
3. Computing with Words for Direct Marketing Support System 19-26
   Pakizar Shamoi, Atsushi Inoue
4. Linguistic Profiling and Behavioral Drift in Chat Bots 27-30
   Nawaf Ali, Derek Schaeffer, Roman V. Yampolskiy
5. Topic Identification and Analysis in Large News Corpora 31-34
   Sarjoun Doumit, Ali Minai

### Session 2: EXPERT SYSTEMS, TUTORING, AND ROBOTICS

6. Bypassing Words in Automatic Speech Recognition 36-43
   Paul De Palma, George Luger, Caroline Smith, Charles Wooters
7. A User Friendly Software Framework for Mobile Robot Control 44-49
   Jesse Riddle, Ryan Hughes, Nathaniel Biefeld, Suranga Hettiarachchi
8. COMPS Computer Mediated Problem Solving: A First Look 50-57
   Melissa A. Desjarlais, Jung Hee Kim, Michael Glass

### Session 3: GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND AGENT SYSTEMS

9. Genetic Algorithm Applied to the Graph Coloring Problem 60-66
   Musa M. Hindi, Roman V. Yampolskiy
10. A Two-tiered View on Acceptance 67-70
    Joëlle Proust

### Session 4: RECOGNITION AND FEATURE EXTRACTION

11. Baseline Avatar Face Detection using an Extended Set of Haar-like Features 72-77
    Darryl D'Souza, Roman V. Yampolskiy
12. Automated Collection of High Quality 3D Avatar Images 78-82
    James Kim, Darryl D'Souza, Roman V. Yampolskiy
13. Darwinian-Based Feature Extraction Using K-Means and Kohonen Clustering 83-87
    Joshua Adams, Joseph Shelton, Lasanio Small, Sabra Neal, Melissa Venable, Jung Hee Kim, Gerry Dozier

### Session 5: SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS

14. Computing Partial Solutions to Difficult AI Problems 90-93
    Roman V. Yampolskiy
15. AI-Complete, AI-Hard, or AI-Easy - Classification of Problems in AI 94-101
    Roman V. Yampolskiy

### Session 6: POSTER SESSION 1

16. Genetic Algorithms and Book Embeddings: A Dual Layered Approach 104-111
    Shannon Overbay, Paul De Palma, Marshall Hurson, Tiffany Arnold, Andrew Pierce
17. Bi-fuzziness, Incompleteness, Inconsistency, Truth and Falsity Based on Saturation and Ignorance Functions. A New Approach of Penta-Valued Knowledge Representation 112-118
    Vasile Patrascu
18. Automated Code Generation Using Case-Based Reasoning, Routine Design and Template-Based Programming 119-125
    Yuri Danilchenko, Richard Fox
19. Pixel Consistency, K-Tournament Selection, and Darwinian-Based Feature Extraction 126-130
    Joseph Shelton, Melissa Venable, Sabra Neal, Joshua Adams, Aniesha Alford, Gerry Dozier
20. Quid Sico? On Cognition & Knowledge 131-139
    Sahon Bhattacharyya
21. Comparison of Optimization Methods for L1-regularized Logistic Regression 140-144
    Aleksander Jovanovich, Alina Lazar

### Session 7: FUZZY LOGIC AND SYSTEMS

22. Expert System for Security Audit Using Fuzzy Logic 146-151
    K. Kozhakhmet, G. Bortsova, A. Inoue, L. Atymtayeva
23. Fuzzy Logic-based Robust Control of a Flexible two-mass System (1990 ACC Benchmark Problem) 152-158
    Adekunle C. Adediji, John Essegbey
24. Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Maps by a Hybrid Method Using Nonlinear Hebbian Learning and Extended Great Deluge Algorithm 159-163
    Zhaowei Ren

### Session 8: LEARNING AND CLASSIFICATIONS

25. Multi-K Machine Learning Ensembles 166-172
    Matthew Whitehead, Larry S. Yaeger
26. Knowledge Elicitation to Prototype the Value of Information 173-179
    Timothy Hanratty, Eric Heilman, John Dumer, Robert J. Hammell II
27. A Dynamic Programming Approach for Heart Segmentation in Chest Radiographs 180-184
    Aarti Raheja, Jason Knapp, Chunsheng Fang
28. Investigating a Bayesian Hierarchical Framework for Feature-Space Modeling of Criminal Site-Selection Problems 185-192
    Jon Fox, Samuel H. Huddleston, Matthew Gerber, Donald E. Brown

### Session 9: POSTER SESSION 2

29. d00dWorld: An Extensible Artificial Life Simulation in Python and SQL 193
    Andrew Pope, Cory Scott, Matthew Whitehead
30. The Automatic Summarization of News Articles Using Natural Language Processing and Heuristic 193
    Sam Johnson, Matthew Whitehead
31. Using Wavelet Eigenfaces for Recognizing Avatar Faces 193
    Abdallah A. Mohamed, Roman V. Yampolskiy

### The whole proceedings can also be downloaded as a single file (pdf).

13-Apr-2012: submitted by Sofia Visa
14-Apr-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org