Advances in Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 14-17, 2000 Proceedings /

Games / Constraint Satisfaction -- Unifying Single-Agent and Two-Player Search -- Are Bees Better than Fruitflies? -- A Constraint Directed Model for Partial Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Natural Language I -- Using Noun Phrase Heads to Extract Document Keyphrases -- Expanding the Type Hierarchy with Nonlexical Concepts -- Using Object Influence Areas to Quantitatively Deal with Neighborhood and Perception in Route Descriptions -- An Extendable Natural Language Interface to a Consumer Service Database -- Knowledge Representation -- Identifying and Eliminating Irrelevant Instances Using Information Theory -- Keep It Simple: A Case-Base Maintenance Policy Based on Clustering and Information Theory -- On the Integration of Recursive -Theories -- Natural Language II -- Collocation Discovery for Optimal Bilingual Lexicon Development -- The Power of the TSNLP: Lessons from a Diagnostic Evaluation of a Broad-Coverage Parser -- A Parallel Approach to Unified Cognitive Modeling of Language Processing within a Visual Context -- AI Applications -- Interact: A Staged Approach to Customer Service Automation -- Towards Very Large Terminological Knowledge Bases: A Case Study from Medicine -- The Use of Ontologies and Meta-knowledge to Facilitate the Sharing of Knowledge in a Multi-agent Personal Communication System -- Machine Learning / Data Mining -- ASERC - A Genetic Sequencing Operator for Asymmetric Permutation Problems -- CViz: An Interactive Visualization System for Rule Induction -- Learning Pseudo-independent Models: Analytical and Experimental Results -- Planning / Theorem Proving / Artificial Life -- Learning Rewrite Rules versus Search Control Rules to Improve Plan Quality -- Scheduling Methods for Parallel Automated Theorem Proving -- Simulating Competing Alife Organisms by Constructive Compound Neural Networks -- Neural Networks -- A Recognition-Based Alternative to Discrimination-Based Multi-layer Perceptrons -- Accelerated Backpropagation Learning: Extended Dynamic Parallel Tangent Optimization Algorithm -- Neural ARX Models and PAC Learning -- Posters -- Qualitative Descriptors and Action Perception -- A Comparison of Association Rule Discovery and Bayesian Network Causal Inference Algorithms to Discover Relationships in Discrete Data -- Towards an Automated Citation Classifier -- Typical Example Selection for Learning Classifiers -- Comparative Study of Neural Network Controllers for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems -- The Iterative Multi-agent Method for Solving Complex Search Problems -- Relational Learning with Transfer of Knowledge Between Domains -- Surviving in a Hostile Multi-agent Environment: How Simple Affective States Can Aid in the Competition for Resources -- Task-Structure Based Mediation: The Travel-Planning Assistant Example -- Considerations on Compositional Update Operators -- The Degeneration of Relevance in Uncertain Temporal Domains: An Empirical Study -- The Learnability of Naive Bayes -- Invited Presentations -- Parsing to Meaning, Statistically -- Automated Discovery: A Fusion of Multidisciplinary Principles.