IEEE International Conference on Intelligence, Information and Systems

Hayatt Regency Bethesda

Nov. 1-3, 1999

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Schedule of Events

	Sunday, October 31
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Tutorial 1
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Tutorial 2
4:00pm - 5:00pm	Tutorial 3
5:00pm - 6:00pm	Tutorial 4

	Monday, November 1	Tuesday, November 2
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration, Breakfast	Registration, Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am	Keynote Address	Keynote Address
10:00am - 12:30pm	Parallel Sessions 1	Parallel Sessions 3
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch	Lunch
2:00pm - 4:30pm	Parallel Sessions 2	Parallel Sessions 4
4:30pm - 6:30pm	Tours	Tours
7:00pm -9:00pm	Dinner	Dinner, Keynote

	Wednesday, November 3
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration, Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am	Keynote Address
10:00am - 12:30pm	Parallel Sessions 5
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm - 4:30pm	Parallel Sessions 6, 7
4:30pm - 4:45pm	Brief Break
4:45pm - 7:00pm	Parallel Sessions 8, 9
7:00pm -	Closing Remarks

 
 
 

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Final Program

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IEEE Symposium on Intelligence in Neural and Biological Systems

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INBS Session 1: Biological Systems
    Session Chair: J.Gattiger, LANL  
 
  J. Barjis
Formalization of the Protein Production by means of a Petri Net  

 T. Ohkawa
A Method of Comparing Protein Structures Based on Matrix Representation of Secondary Structures Pairwise Topology 

 N. Ishii and P, Raj
Interoperability of Biological Databases by CORBA  

 N. Arous, S. Abdallah and N. Ellouze
Evolutionary Potential Timetables Optimization by Means of Genetic and Greedy Algorithms 

J. Alexander
On the Criticality of Timing Neuronal Firings

INBS Session 2: Cells and Genomes
    Session Chair: A.Bansal, Kent Univ

E. Yfantis, T. Lazarakis, and G. Bebis
A Computer Algorithm for Cancer Recognition on Ultrasound Images of Prostate Tissue

J. Wang
Application of Hidden Markov Models to Gene Prediction in DNA

V. Anderson and A. Bansal
A Distributed Scheme for Efficient Pair-Wise Comparison of Complete Genomes

N. Bourbakis, D. Kavraki, X. Yuan, and M. Golgan
Recording Changes Occured in Vivo Biological Cells by Using L-G Methodology

INBS Session 3: Learning
    Session Chair: N.Ishii, Japan

T. Aida
Adaptive On-line Learning of Probability Distributions From Field Theories

N. Ishii
Sensory Perception, Learning, and Integration in NNs

Fieno and L. Tsoukalas
An investigation of feasibility of Neural nets for IH NMR

J. Kinser
Foveation from Pulse Images

INBS Session 4: Genetics and Evolution
    Session Chair: S. Mertoguno, Fujitsu

C. Perez
Computational Vision Enhancement through Genetic Selection of Biologically Inspired Receptive Field Geometry

K. Tanaka
Cooperative Model for Genetic Operators to Improve GAs

T. Burr
Confidence Measures for Evolutionary Trees: Application to Molecular Epidemiology

V. Tam
Applying EGENET to Solve Continuous Constrained Optimization Problems: A Preliminary Report

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IEEE Symposium on Intelligence in Automation and Robotics

IAR Session 1: Automation and Applications
    Session Chair: A.Tascillo, Ford Com.

M.Awad and N.Bourbakis
Automated MRI driven Image guided Robotic Brain Surgery

E. Burke, P. Cowling, R. Keuthen
New Models and Heuristics for Component Placement in Printed Circuit Board Assembly

Fujita, T. and Idesawa, M.
New Types of Position Sensitive Device for Accurate Sensing

Gao, R., O. Uluyol, L. H. Tsoukalas
Application of Wavelet Neural Network on Magnetic Flowmeters

LeCorre and Aldorwish
Two-phase flow identification using a fuzzy methodology

IAR Session 2: Robotics I
    Session Chair: N.Papanikolopoulos, Univ. of Minnesota

Cagnoni, Stefano, et al.
Landmark-based robot self-localization: a case study for the RobotCup goal-keeper

Liu, Y., M.A. Rodrigues
A New Robust Geometrical Algorithm for Motion Estimation from Range Images

Krabbes, M., C. Doeschner
Modelling of Robot Dynamics based on a Multi-dimensional RBF-like NeuralNetwork

R.Singh, R.Voleys, D.Littau, N.Papanikolopoulos
Shape recognition and vision based robot control by shape morphing

Jih-Gau Juang
Locomotion Control Using Environment Information Inputs

IAR Session 3: Robotics II
    Session Chair: C.Koutsougeras, Tulane University

Jih-Gau Juang
Minimal Energy Control on Trajectory Generation

Jasiobedzki, P. et al
Model based pose estimation for autonomous docking of satellites

Messina, E., et al
A Knowledge Based Inspection Workstation

Heisel, B., Ritter, W.
Segmentation of Range and Intensity Image Sequences by C lustering

S.Spano and N.Bourbakis
Control of a multi-fingered robotic hand using the method of blocks

IAR Session 4: Applications
    Session Chair: S.Panas

Perez, Claudio A.,
Lithological Composition Sensor Based on Digital Image Feature Extraction, Genetic Selection of Features and Neural Classification

Sarabia, E.G., et al,
Lauter Tun Control by Neural Networks

Tolias, Y, & Stavros Panas, and L. Tsoukalas
FSMIQ: Fuzzy Similarity Matching for Image Queries

Uluyol, O., et al,
A Connectionist Approach to Trend Detection

IAR Session 5: Intelligent Systems
    Session Chair: A. Amer, EROS Data Center

Cziesla, R., Tsatsaronis, G.,
Cost-Effective Design of Thermal Power Plants Using Intelligent Systems

Gao, R., Uluyol, O, Tsoukalas, L.,
An Expert Nodalization Assistant for Thermal-Hydraulics Code

V. Viswanathan, V. Krishnan, and L. Tsoukalas,,
Applications of novel AI neural network approaches in power systems

Spears, W., and Gordon, D.,
Using Artificial Physics to Control Agents

I. Refanidis, I. Vlahavas ans L. Tsoukalas
On Determining and Completing Incomplete States in STRIPS Domains

Sheng-De Wang and Chih-Jen Lee
Fingerprint Recognition Using Directional Micropattern Histograms and LVQ Networks

T. Naito, T. Tsukada, K. Yamada, K. Kozuka, S. Yamamoto
License Plate Recognition Method for Passing Vehicles Outdoors

Ruben Muniz, Luis Junco, and Adolfo Otero
A Robust Software Barcode Reader Using the Hough Transform

C. Perez, C. Held, and P. Mollinger
Handwritting Digit Recognition Using Prototypes Created by Euclidean Distance and Modified LVQ Adjustment

Zhengrong Ying and David Castanon
Statistical Model for Occluded Object Recognition

ISNLS Session 2: Face and Gesture Recognition
    Session Chair: Kikuo Fujimura, HONDA R&A Americas Inc.

S. Kettebekov and R. Sharma
Toward Multimodal Interpretation in a Natural Speech/Gesture Interface

Andrea Corradini and Horst-Michael Gross
A Hybrid Stochastic-Connectionist Architecture for Gesture Recognition

Y. Kuno, S. Nakanishi, T. Murashima, N. Shimada, and Y. Shirai
Intelligent Wheelchair Based on the Integration of Human and Environment Observations

A. Tolba and A. Abu-Rezq
Combined Classifiers for Invariant face Recognition

G. Bebis, S. Uthiram and M. Georgiopoulos
Genetic Search for Face Recognition

ISNLS Session 3: Motion, Feature Extraction and Tracking
    Session Chair: Damon Tull, University of Wisconsin

J. Rodriguez, A. Rodriguez, L. Ramos, and R. Sanchez
Robust Optical Flow Estimation

Jianping Fan, Lide Wu, and Isao Shirakawa
Statistical Approaches to Tracking-Based Moving Object Extraction

Liya Chen and Eam Khwang Teoh
Velocity Estimation Using Semi-Local Features

Ashutosh Garg, Ira Cohen, and Thomas Huang
Adaptive Learning Algorithm for Support Vector Machines Applied to Feature Tracking

Xiaoguang Lv and Jie Zhou
Robust Corner Detection under Varying Illumination

ISNLS Session 4: Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding I
    Session Chair: Angelo Yfantis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Samuel Chan
Using Lexical and Contextual Constrains in Language Understanding

Jay Jiang
Multi-Word Complex Concept Retrieval Via Lexical Semantic Similarity

A. Spalanzani and S. Selouani
Improving Robustness of Connectionist Speech Recognition Systems by Genetic Algorithms

E. Yfantis, A. Angelopoulos, and J. Elison
n Time Alignment and Metric Algorithms for Speech Recognition

A. Cucchiarelli and Paola Velardi
A Statistical Technique for Bootstrapping Available Resources for Proper Nouns Classification

ISNLS Session 5: Pattern Recognition II
    Session Chair: Rajeev Sharma, Penn State University

Yue Wang and Eam Khwang Teoh
Lane Detection Using B-Snake

Omid Kia, Saad Sirohey and Jafar Vossoughi
Image-Based Evaluation of Vascular Residual Strain

G. Bebis, T. Deaconu and Michael Georgiopoulos
Fingerprint Identification Using Delaunay Triangulation

H. Feng, D. Castanon, and W. Karl
Underground imaging based on edge-preserving regularization

Bai Li and Dave Elliman
Geometrical Constrains for Object Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms

ISNLS Session 6: Video and Coding
    Session Chair: Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research

Li Zong and N. Bourbakis
Digital Video and Digital TV: A Comparison and Future Directions

Joan serra-Sagrista
Lattice Points Enumeration for Image Coding

S. Mannicam and N. Bourbakis
A SCAN-based Lossless Image Compression and Encryption

Jean Cardinal
Fast Entropy-Constrained Vector Quantizer Design

Seok-II Song, Seok Hee Lee and Jae Soo Yoo
An Efficient Concurrency Control Algorithm for High-Dimensional Image Index Structures

ISNLS Session 7: Image Restoration and Segmentation
    Session Chair: George Bebis, University of Nevada, Reno

I. Stephanakis, A. Doulamis, N. Doulamis, and S. Kollias
A Multiresolution Model of Iterative Regularized Image Restoration

Luigi Bedini, Gianna Del Corso, and Anna Tonazzini
A Preconditioning Technique for Edge-Preserving Image Restoration

A. Doulamis, N. Doulamis, K. Ntalianis, and S. Kollias
Unsupervised Semantic Object segmentation of Stereoscopic Video Sequences

R. Malik and S. Chin
Extraction of Text in Images

ISNLS Session 8: Low Level Processing and Recognition
    Session Chair: A. Doulamis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Guy Camilleri
A Generic Formal Plan Recognition Theory

W. Gao, T. Lai, S. Chan, and B. Tsou
Applying Machine Learning to Identify Chinese Discourse Markers

Khaled Shaaban
A Chip Design for Binary Morphological Operations

Zhengrong Ying and David Castanon
Statistical Model for Human Face Detection Using Multi-Resolution Features

ISNLS Session 9: Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding II
    S. Amer, EROS Data Center

Elene Not and Masssimo Zancanaro
Reusing Information Repositories for Flexibly Generating Adaptive Presentations

Pattarachai Lalitrojwong, Paul Buchheit and Martha Evans
A Connectionist Inference Mechanism for a Natural Language Understanding System

L. Boggess, J. Hamaker, R. Duncan, L. Klimek, Y. Wu, and Y. Zeng
A Comparison of Part of Speech Taggers in the Task of Changing to a New Domain

J. Hamaker
Towards Building a Better Language Model for SWITCHBOARD: The POS Tagging Task

T. Shin and I. Han
Optimal Signal Multi-Resolution by Genetic Algorithms to Support Artificial Neural Network Models for Financial Forecasting

D. Fragoudis
Retriever: a self training agent for intelligent information discovery

Zakaria Maamar
Software agents for collaborative Information Sources

V. Verykios, E. Houstis, and J. Rice
Mining the Performance of Complex Systems

IIA Session 2: Information and Analysis
    Session Chair: J. Wang, NJIT

Stephane Coulondre
Dynamo: a behavioural analysis model for multi agent systems

Kazunori Iwata
Applying p-calculus to planning for reflective Agents

Mathew yap, Wee-Keong Ng
ASMA: Autonomous software management agent system

IIA Session 3: Applications
    Session Chair: D.Gordon, NRL

Thorsten Graf
Driving Vision systems by communication

Alessio Cuppari
Prototyping Freight Trains Traffic Management Using Multi-Agent Systems

A.Naumov
Methods of detection in diagnostic problems

J.Luke
The Application of CMAC based intelligent agents in the detection of previously unseen computer viruses

IIA Session 4: Environment and Applications
    Session Chair: C. Koutsougeras, Tulane University

Jean-Christophe Soulie
Environmental Simulations using Multiagent systems

Torsten Illmann
Design of an agent cluster as integrative environment of personal agents

D.Gordon W.Spears O.Sokolsky & I. Lee
Distributed Spatial Control, global monitoring and steering of mobile physical