Progress in Artificial Intelligence人工智能进展

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2003, held in Beja, Portugal in December 2003.
The 29 revised full papers and 20 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 119 submissions. In accordance with the five constituting workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on artificial life and evolutionary algorithms, constraint and logic programming systems, extraction of knowledge from databases, multi-agent systems and AI for the Internet, and natural language processing and text retrieval.

Abstracts of Invited Presentations and Tutorials
　Constraint Programming in Computational Molecular Biology
　Computational Creativity
　From Wheels to Wings with Evolutionary Spiking Circuits
　An Introduction to Object-Oriented RuleML
　Learning from Networks of Examples
　Grammar Induction and Adaptive Information Disclosure
　Understanding Implicit Language Structures
　Performance Issues in Pro]og Applications
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEA)
　Optimization of Logistic Processes in Supply-Chains Using　Meta-heuristics
　Evolutionary Neural Network Learning
　Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution
　A Particle Swarm Data Miner
　Yerkes-Dodson Law in Agents' Training
　SAPPO: A Simple, Adaptable, Predator Prey Optimiser
　Evolutionary Neuroestimation of Fitness Functions
　A Resource Sharing Model to Study Social Behaviours
　Improving Self-Confidence: An Advise-Based Evolutionary Model
Constraint and Logic Programming Systems (CLPS)
　Solving Set Partitioning Problems with Global Constraint　Propagation
　Heuristic-Based Backtracking for Propositional Satisfiability
　On the BEAM Implementation
　YapDss: An Or-Parallel Prolog System for Scalable Beowulf Clusters
　Experimental Evaluation of a Caching Technique for ILP
　jcc: Integrating Timed Default Concurrent Constraint Programming　into JAVA
Extraction of Knowledge from Data Bases (EKDB)
　BAYES-NEAREST: A New Hybrid Classifier Combining Bayesian　Network and Distance Based Algorithms
　A Data Mining Approach to Credit Risk Evaluation and Behaviour　Scoring
　Influence of kNN-Based Load Forecasting Errors on Optimal Energy　Production
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Multi-Agents and AI for the Internet(MAAII)
Natural Language and Text Retrieval(NLTR)
Author Index