STAIRS 2004: Proceedings of the Second Starting AI Researchers' Symposium, Vol. 109 Book

The second Starting Artificial Intelligence Researchers Symposium (STAIRS 2004) was held in Valencia, Spain. Seventy-eight original submissions were winnowed to 17 long and 12 short papers by a rigorous editing process that emphasized the inclusion of new ideas, giving authors valuable feedback for their future work, and creating a hospitable atmosphere for stimulating out-of-the-box thinking. Among the topics of the full papers: updating the probability vector using MRF techniques for a univariate EDA, a case-based approach to managing and retrieving geo-spatial imagery tasks, and a collaborative filtering approach for predicting the relevance of Web search results. Only authors are indexed. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR