AI*IA 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : 8th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, September 23-26, 2003, Proceedings /

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -- A Complete Subsumption Algorithm -- Temporal Decision Trees for Diagnosis: An Extension -- Obligations as Social Constructs -- Automatically Decomposing Configuration Problems -- Bridging the Gap between Horn Clausal Logic and Description Logics in Inductive Learning -- A Methodology for the Induction of Ontological Knowledge from Semantic Annotations -- Qualitative Spatial Reasoning in a Logical Framework -- On Managing Temporal Information for Handling Durative Actions in LPG -- An Abductive Proof Procedure Handling Active Rules -- Soft Computing -- BackPropagation through Cyclic Structures -- A Neural Architecture for Segmentation and Modelling of Range Data -- A Combination of Support Vector Machines and Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction -- Adaptive Allocation of Data-Objects in the Web Using Neural Networks -- Machine Learning -- Improving the SLA Algorithm Using Association Rules -- Incremental Induction of Rules for Document Image Understanding -- Explaining Bagging with Monte Carlo Theory -- Pairwise Data Clustering Using Monotone Game Dynamics -- Abduction in Classification Tasks -- Data Mining -- MQL: An Algebraic Query Language for Knowledge Discovery -- Preprocessing and Mining Web Log Data for Web Personalization -- Multi-relational Structural Bayesian Classifier -- Intelligent Agents -- Specifying and Verifying Systems of Communicating Agents in a Temporal Action Logic -- Combining Intelligent Agents and Animation -- An Abductive Interpretation for Open Agent Societies -- Reasoning about Conversation Protocols in a Logic-Based Agent Language -- Distributed Intelligent Management of Active Networks -- Planning -- Planning under Uncertainty in Linear Time Logic -- Planning with Fuzzy Resources -- Planning by Abstraction Using HW[] -- The Role of Different Solvers in Planning and Scheduling Integration -- Robotics -- Evolving the Neural Controller for a Robotic Arm Able to Grasp Objects on the Basis of Tactile Sensors -- An Early Cognitive Approach to Visual Motion Analysis -- Content Based Image Retrieval for Unsegmented Images -- A Mechanism of Coalition Formation in the Metaphor of Politics Multiagent Architecture -- Image-Based Monte-Carlo Localisation without a Map -- Natural Language Processing -- Making Explicit the Hidden Semantics of Hierarchical Classifications -- Sub-symbolic Encoding of Words -- A Relation-Based Schema for Treebank Annotation -- Applications -- Personalized Recommendation of TV Programs -- A Simulation-Based Decision Support System for Forest Fire Fighting -- Knowledge Maintenance and Sharing in the KM Context: The Case of P–Truck -- A CSP-Based Interactive Decision Aid for Space Mission Planning -- E-mail Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices: The ifMail Prototype and its Experimental Evaluation -- Applying Artificial Intelligence to Clinical Guidelines: The GLARE Approach -- Invited Speakers -- Two Paradigms for Natural-Language Processing -- Robotics and AI: From Intelligent Robots to Neuro-robotics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2003, held in Pisa, Italy in September 2003. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation and reasoning, soft computing, machine learning, data mining, intelligent agents, planning, robotics, natural language processing, and applications in various fields.