KI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 29th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2006, Bremen, Germany, June 14-17, 2006, Proceedings Book

Invited Talk
Expressivity-Preserving Tempo Transformation for Music - A Case-Based Approach   Ramon Lopez de Mantaras   Maarten Grachten   Josep-Lluis Arcos     1
Cognition and Emotion
MicroPsi: Contributions to a Broad Architecture of Cognition   Joscha Bach   Colin Bauer   Ronnie Vuine     7
Affective Cognitive Modeling for Autonomous Agents Based on Scherer's Emotion Theory   Christine L. Lisetti   Andreas Marpaung     19
Semantic Web
OWL and Qualitative Reasoning Models   Jochem Liem   Bert Bredeweg     33
Techniques for Fast Query Relaxation in Content-Based Recommender Systems   Dietmar Jannach     49
Analogy
Solving Proportional Analogies by E-Generalization   Stephan Weller   Ute Schmid     64
Building Robots with Analogy-Based Anticipation   Georgi Petkov   Tchavdar Naydenov   Maurice Grinberg   Boicho Kokinov     76
Natural Language
Classification of Skewed and Homogenous Document Corpora with Class-Based and Corpus-Based Keywords   Arzucan Ozgur   Tunga Gungor     91
Learning an Ensemble of Semantic Parsers for Building Dialog-Based Natural Language Interfaces   Lappoon R. Tang     102
Reasoning
Game-Theoretic AgentProgramming in Golog Under Partial Observability   Alberto Finzi   Thomas Lukasiewicz     113
Finding Models for Blocked 3-SAT Problems in Linear Time by Systematical Refinement of a Sub-model   Gabor Kusper     128
Towards the Computation of Stable Probabilistic Model Semantics   Emad Saad     143
DiaWOz-II - A Tool for Wizard-of-Oz Experiments in Mathematics   Christoph Benzmuller   Helmut Horacek   Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova   Henri Lesourd   Marvin Schiller   Magdalena Wolska     159
Invited Talk
Applications of Automated Reasoning   Ulrich Furbach   Claudia Obermaier     174
Ontologies
On the Scalability of Description Logic Instance Retrieval   Ralf Moller   Volker Haarslev   Michael Wessel     188
Relation Instantiation for Ontology Population Using the Web   Viktor de Boer   Maarten van Someren   Bob J. Wielinga     202
Spatio-temporal Reasoning
GeTS - A Specification Language for Geo-Temporal Notions   Hans Jurgen Ohlbach     214
Active Monte Carlo Recognition   Felix von Hundelshausen   Manuela Veloso     229
Machine Learning
Cross System Personalization and Collaborative Filtering by Learning Manifold Alignments    Bhaskar Mehta   Thomas Hofmann     244
A Partitioning Method for Mixed Feature-Type Symbolic Data Using a Squared Euclidean Distance   Renata Maria Cardoso Rodrigues de Souza   Francisco de Assis Tenorio de Carvalho   Daniel F. Pizzato     260
Spatial Reasoning
On Generalizing Orientation Information in OPRA[subscript m]   Frank Dylla   Jan Oliver Wallgrun     274
Towards the Visualisation of Shape Features: The Scope Histogram   Arne Schuldt   Bjorn Gottfried   Otthein Herzog     289
Robot Learning
A Robot Learns to Know People-First Contacts of a Robot   Hartwig Holzapfel   Thomas Schaaf   Hazim Kemal Ekenel   Christoph Schaa   Alex Waibel     302
Recombinant Rule Selection in Evolutionary Algorithm for Fuzzy Path Planner of Robot Soccer   Jong-Hwan Park   Daniel Stonier   Jong-Hwan Kim   Byung-Ha Ahn   Moon-Gu Jean     317
Classical AI Problems
A Framework for Quasi-exact Optimization Using Relaxed Best-First Search   Rudiger Ebendt   Rolf Drechsler     331
Gray Box Robustness Testing of Rule Systems   Joachim Baumeister   Jurgen Bregenzer   Frank Puppe     346
A Unifying Framework for Hybrid Planning and Scheduling   Bernd Schattenberg   Susanne Biundo     361
Agents
A Hybrid Time Management Approach to Agent-Based Simulation   Dirk Pawlaszczyk   Ingo J. Timm     374
Adaptive Multi-agent Programming in GTGolog   Alberto Finzi   Thomas Lukasiewicz     389
Agent Logics as Program Logics: Grounding KARO   Koen V. Hindriks   John-Jules Ch. Meyer     404
On the Relationship Between Playing Rationally and Knowing How to Play: A Logical Account   Wojciech Jamroga     419
Special Event. 50 Years Artificial Intelligence
1956-1966 How Did It All Begin? - Issues Then and Now   Marvin Minsky     437
Fundamental Questions   Aaron Sloman     439
Towards the AI Summer   Wolfgang Bibel     443
History of AI in Germany and The Third Industrial Revolution   Jorg Siekmann     445
Three Decades of Human Language Technology in Germany   Wolfgang Wahlster     447
1996-2006 Autonomous Robots   Sebastian Thrun     449
Projects and Vision in Robotics   Hiroshi Ishiguro     451
What Will Happen in Algorithm Country?   Simon Schmitt     455
Author Index     457