{"title":"Content-based image retrieval through a multi-agent meta-learning framework","authors":"A. Bagherjeiran, R. Vilalta, C. Eick","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.50","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of a general-purpose content-based image retrieval system is to find images in a database that match an external measure of relevance. Since users follow different and inconsistent relevance measures, processing queries in a task-specific manner has shown to be an effective approach. Viewing specialized image retrieval algorithms as agents, we propose a general-purpose image retrieval system that uses a new multi-agent meta-learning framework. The framework adapts a distance function defined over both image distance weights and image queries to identify clusters of algorithms that produce similar solutions to similar problems. Experiments compare our approach with a traditional information retrieval algorithm; results show that our framework provides better average relevance scores","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134327301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rotation invariant thinning algorithm to detect ridge bifurcations for fingerprint identification","authors":"P. Patil, S. Suralkar, Faiyaz B. Sheikh","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.112","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we have modified the thinning algorithm proposed by Ahmed and Ward (2002). The unique feature that distinguishes the algorithm is its ability to thin any symbol or fingerprint to its central line taking care that the shape of the symbol is preserved while being rotation invariant. Our modified algorithm also incorporates a process to thin zigzag diagonal lines having a width of two pixels which was not considered in \"a rotation invariant rule-based thinning algorithm for character recognition\" (Ahmed and Ward, 2002). The algorithm is iterative and makes use of parallel processing to speed up execution. The system has 21 rules in its inference engine which are applied simultaneously to every pixel in each iteration. The algorithm is implemented for thinning fingerprints, fonts and symbols to a single pixel width. We also introduce a 24 rule based mask for detection of ridge bifurcations, which can be helpful for recognition/authentication of fingerprints as a biometric","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131825762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fuzzy approach to modeling the knowledge of decision-makers","authors":"Amir Danak, Farzad Rastegar, A. Rahimi-Kian","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.9","url":null,"abstract":"A game is a decision making situation in which each player attempts to act in such a way that the game's circumstances get close to what desirable for him. To reach this goal, a player needs to have a suitable estimation of the other players' decisions. In this paper, we propose a fuzzy approach by which a player can attain an estimation of the other players' actions and pursue a strategy which maximizes its performance. Finally, the results of applying the proposed approach to the well-known \"prisoner's dilemma\" problem are brought to show the effectiveness of the method","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132346177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proactive route planning based on expected rewards for transport systems","authors":"Naoto Mukai, Toyohide Watanabe, Jun Feng","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.101","url":null,"abstract":"Route planning is one of the important tasks for transport systems. Appropriate policies for route selections improve not only profitability of transport companies but also convenience of customers. Traditional ways for establishing the policies depend on manual efforts based on statistical data of transports. Moreover, traditional route planning techniques are reactive, i.e., an optimization based on information provided in advance. It is difficult for the manual policies and the reactive planning techniques to adjust dynamic changes of transport trends for customers such as amount and direction of transport demands, i.e., drivers of transport vehicles must follow the policies provided in advance. Therefore, in this paper we show how the proactive route planning based on expected rewards for transport systems can be modeled as a reinforcement learning problem. And, we show how agents as transport vehicles acquire their policies for route selection autonomously and dynamically. The learning ability of transport trends enables transport vehicles to foresee the next destination which provides high rewards. Finally, we report simulation results and make the effectiveness of our proposal strategy clear","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127584539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extending OWL by fuzzy description logic","authors":"M. Gao, Chunnian Liu","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.65","url":null,"abstract":"Technology about ontology plays an important role in all kinds of technologies about the semantic Web. OWL, the standard Web ontology language is proposed by W3C. Vocabularies in OWL only represent certain and complete concepts and roles. In order to represent fuzzy knowledge, this paper extends existing OWL language by encoding fuzzy constructors, axioms and constraints and maps semantics of these new vocabularies to fuzzy description logic. Extended OWL can represent fuzzy ontology and resolve some fuzzy entailment tasks by constraint propagation calculus of fuzzy description logic","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123263422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SVR-parameters selection for image watermarking","authors":"Chun-hua Li, Zheng-ding Lu, Ke Zhou","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.119","url":null,"abstract":"An image digital watermarking technique using support vector regression (SVR) is proposed and researched in this paper. Firstly, the method of embedding and extracting watermarking from digital image is given. Then, the influence of SVR-learning parameters on the watermarking performance is analyzed, and the ideal value range of SVR-learning parameters for different images is given respectively. Finally, the results are validated with other images. Experimental results show that this technique can obtain good watermarking performance as well as good learning performance when RBF kernel is adopted with its width a from 8 to 10, balanceable parameter C from 0.8 to 1, insensitive parameter s from 0.008 to 0.01 respectively","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"55 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128358134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proving graph un-colorability with a consistency check of CSP","authors":"Jean-Nicolas Bès, Philippe Jégou","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.102","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we approach a derivation of the fifth challenge presented on IJCAI 1997 (Selman et al., 1997), that is to detect inconsistency by means of incomplete methods. Whereas this problem is of considerable interest, no significant contribution has emerged since 1997. In order to treat this matter, we review Gaur et al. (1997) that showed how to detect unsatisfiable CSP instances by coloring a graph. We observe that this approach doesn't seem to offer the expected prospects. Anyway, we exploit a similar process that permits to prove graph uncolorability by a CSP consistency check","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121575121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiparty proactive communication in agent teamwork","authors":"Kaivan Kamali, Xiaocong Fan, J. Yen","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.89","url":null,"abstract":"Multiparty communication and proactive communication have each been studied extensively, but separately. A combinatorial approach would be to investigate proactive communication in a multiparty settings, aiming to support effective collaboration by leveraging the benefits of both. In this paper, we take a first attempt along this direction, providing formal definitions for multiparty proactive performatives. Such performatives not only result in an exchange of knowledge among teammates, but also in an increased awareness about teammates' mental states which can initiate additional helpful behaviors","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132263727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Printed Thai character recognition using the hierarchical cross-correlation ARTMAP","authors":"A. Thammano, P. Duangphasuk","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.100","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, Thai characters are composed of circle, zigzag line, curve, and head. However, many new Thai fonts, which are now gaining in popularity, do not follow the traditional writing rule; the head has been omitted from the characters. Without the head, it is very difficult to segregate the characters. Even the best commercial Thai OCR software has difficulty in recognizing this kind of character. Therefore, the hierarchical cross-correlation ARTMAP is proposed in this paper to recognize the no-head Thai characters","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132303874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling salinity in a potable water supply system using a constraint programming approach","authors":"Chiu Wo Choi, Jimmy Ho-man Lee","doi":"10.1109/ICTAI.2005.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTAI.2005.51","url":null,"abstract":"Salinity is the relative concentration of salts in water. In a city of southern China, the local water supply company pumps water from a nearby river for potable use. During the winter dry season, the intrusion of sea water raises the salinity of the river to a high level and affects approximately the daily life of 450,000 residents of the city. In this paper, we report the application of constraint programming to optimize the logistical operations of the raw water system so as to satisfy the daily water consumption requirement of the city and to keep the potable salinity below a desirable level for as many days as possible. Our system has already been delivered to the water supply company for deployment","PeriodicalId":294694,"journal":{"name":"17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'05)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129434202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}