MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Image Processing.- Automatic Camera Localization, Reconstruction and Segmentation of Multi-planar Scenes Using Two Views.- The Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform for Enhancement of Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms.- Denoising Intra-voxel Axon Fiber Orientations by Means of ECQMMF Method.- A Profilometric Approach for 3D Reconstruction Using Fourier and Wavelet Transforms.- Vector Quantization Algorithm Based on Associative Memories.- Robotics.- A Two-Stage Relational Reinforcement Learning with Continuous Actions for Real Service Robots.- People Detection by a Mobile Robot Using Stereo Vision in Dynamic Indoor Environments.- Planning and Scheduling.- SAT Encoding and CSP Reduction for Interconnected Alldiff Constraints.- Phase Transition in the Bandwidth Minimization Problem.- Planning for Conditional Learning Routes.- A New Backtracking Algorithm for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Variable Strength.- Pipelining Memetic Algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction, and Local Search for Course Timetabling.- Fuzzy Logic.- Fuzzy Relational Compression Applied on Feature Vectors for Infant Cry Recognition.- Parametric Operations for Digital Hardware Implementation of Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzy Logic for Combining Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithms: Preliminary Results.- Optimization of Type-2 Fuzzy Integration in Modular Neural Networks Using an Evolutionary Method with Applications in Multimodal Biometry.- Neural Networks.- st-Alphabets: On the Feasibility in the Explicit Use of Extended Relational Alphabets in Classifier Systems.- Comparison of Neural Networksand Support Vector Machine Dynamic Models for State Estimation in Semiautogenous Mills.- Using Wolfe's Method in Support Vector Machines Learning Stage.- Direct Adaptive Soft Computing Neural Control of a Continuous Bioprocess via Second Order Learning.- Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- A Kohonen Network for Modeling Students' Learning Styles in Web 2.0 Collaborative Learning Systems.- Teaching-Learning by Means of a Fuzzy-Causal User Model.- Inferring Knowledge from Active Learning Simulators for Physics.- Bioinformatics and Medical Applications.- Leukocyte Recognition Using EM-Algorithm.- An Automaton for Motifs Recognition in DNA Sequences.- Hybrid Intelligent Systems.- A New Method for Optimal Cropping Pattern.- MultiQuenching Annealing Algorithm for Protein Folding Problem.- Outlier Detection with a Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Method.- Wind Speed Forecasting Using a Hybrid Neural-Evolutive Approach.- Hybridization of Evolutionary Mechanisms for Feature Subset Selection in Unsupervised Learning.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- A Particle Swarm Optimization Method for Multimodal Optimization Based on Electrostatic Interaction.- Ranking Methods for Many-Objective Optimization.- Why Unary Quality Indicators Are Not Inferior to Binary Quality Indicators.- Using Copulas in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Redistricting by Square Cells.- Finding Minimal Addition Chains with a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.- Linear Wind Farm Layout Optimization through Computational Intelligence.- Building Blocks and Search.- An Analysis of Recombination in Some Simple Landscapes.- An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search.