2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI and IAT)

Sydney, Australia 09 – 12 December 2008

Pages 1-566

CFP08WEB-PRT 978-1-4244-3952-2

IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

WI 2008 .............................................................................................................................................................1

WI’08 and IAT’08 JOINT INVITED TALKS

Planning for Coordination and Coordination for Planning ..........................................................................15Edmund H. Durfee

Service-Oriented Collective Intelligence for Intercultural Collaboration....................................................18Toru Ishida

Knowledge Based Search Engine: Granular Computing on the Web ..........................................................23Tsau Young Lin, Jean-David Hsu

The Emergence of Web Science .......................................................................................................................33Nigel Shadbolt

Using Web Clustering for Web Communities Mining and Analysis ............................................................34Yanchun Zhang, Guandong Xu

Thinking Big - AI at Web Scale .......................................................................................................................46Michael Witbrock

WIC FEATURE TALK

Autonomy-Oriented Computing for Web Intelligence and Brain Informatics ...........................................47Jiming Liu

WI FOUNDATIONS: REGULAR PAPERS

Dynamic Change Evaluation for Ontology Evolution in the Semantic Web ...............................................48I. Palmisano, V. Tamma, L. Iannone, T.R. Payne, P. Doran

Data-Brain Modeling Based on Brain Informatics Methodology .................................................................55Jianhui Chen, Ning Zhong

WI FOUNDATIONS: SHORT PAPERS

Finding Explanations for Assisting Pattern Interpretation...........................................................................62Yen-Ting Kuo, Liz Sonenberg, Andrew Lonie

WORLD WIDE WISDOM WEB (W4): REGULAR PAPERS

Adaptive Processing for Multi-User Stream Service over Web-Based Broadcasting Stream ....................66Mi-Young Kang, Hyeong-Ok Lee, Omar F. Hamad, Ji-Seung Nam

Answering Any Class of Japanese Non-Factoid Question by Using the Web and Example Q&A Pairs from a Social Q&A Website .........................................................................................................73

Tatsunori Mori, Mitsuru Sato, Madoka Ishioroshi

WORLD WIDE WISDOM WEB (W4): SHORT PAPERS

Ant Colony Inspired Self-Healing for Resource Allocation in Service-Oriented Environment Considering Resource Breakdown ...........................................................................................80

Rong Zhou, Ren Wei, Gang Chen, Zhonghua Yang, Haifeng Shen, Jingbing Zhang, Ming Luo

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE: REGULAR PAPERS

A k-Nearest-Neighbour Method for Classifying Web Search Results with Data in Folksonomies .....................................................................................................................................................84

Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt

Topic Detection and Tracking for Threaded Discussion Communities........................................................91Mingliang Zhu, Weiming Hu, Ou Wu

Encouragement Methods for Small Social Network Services .......................................................................98Fujio Toriumi, Ken Ishida, Kenichiro Ishii

Proposal for a Growth Model of Social Network Service ............................................................................105Ken Ishida, Fujio Toriumi, Kenichiro Ishii

TagScore: Approximate Similarity Using Tag Synopses .............................................................................112Alex Penev, Raymond K. Wong

Discovering and Browsing of Power Users by Social Relationship Analysis in Large-Scale Online Communities .......................................................................................................................................119

Hyoseop Shin, Zhiwei Xu, Eun-Yi Kim

Social Tagging Behaviour in Community-Driven Question Answering.....................................................126Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Blaz Fortuna

Bridging the Gap between Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Opinion Forums............................134Carolin Kaiser, Birinder S. Tiwana, Freimut Bodendorf

On Modularity of Social Network Communities: The Spectral Characterization ....................................141Bo Yang, Jiming Liu, Jianfeng Feng, Dayou Liu

Expertise Analysis in a Question Answer Portal for Author Ranking .......................................................148Lin Chen, Richi Nayak

Exploring Feedback Models in Interactive Tagging ....................................................................................155Robert Graham, James Caverlee

Exploiting Additional Context for Graph-Based Tag Recommendations in Folksonomy Systems .............................................................................................................................................................162

Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause

Ranking Web Pages from User Perspectives of Social Bookmarking Sites ...............................................169Chia-Hao Lo, Wen-Chih Peng, Meng-Fen Chiang

Enabling Social Navigation on the Web ........................................................................................................176Athanasios Papagelis, Manos Papagelis, Christos Zaroliagis

Link Mining for a Social Bookmarking Web Site ........................................................................................183Feilong Chen, Jerry Scripps, Pang-Ning Tan

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE: SHORT PAPERS

Overlapping Community Detection in Bipartite Networks .........................................................................190Nan Du, Bai Wang, Bin Wu, Yi Wang

An Analytical Study of Puzzle Selection Strategies for the ESP Game ......................................................194Ling-Jyh Chen, Bo-Chun Wang, Kuan-Ta Chen, Irwin King, Jimmy Lee

An Analytical Approach to Optimizing the Utility of ESP Games .............................................................198Chien-Wei Lin, Kuan-Ta Chen, Ling-Jyh Chen, Irwin King, Jimmy H.M. Lee

Modeling Collaborations Content in Social Network Analysis ...................................................................202Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Paola Velardi, Fulvio D'Antonio, Mirco Curzi

Linking Privacy and User Preferences in the Identity Management for a Pervasive System ..................206Elizabeth Papadopoulou, Sarah McBurney, Nick Taylor, M. Howard Williams

Intelligent Objects to Facilitate Human Participation in Virtual Institutions ...........................................210I. Rodriguez, A. Puig, M. Esteva, C. Sierra, A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff

Discovering the Dynamics in a Social Memory Network.............................................................................214Lin Gao, Jiming Liu, Shiwu Zhang, Jie Yang

RATE: A Review of Reviewers in a Manuscript Review Process ...............................................................218Wei Wei, Kam Tong Chan, Irwin King, Jimmy Ho-Man Lee

WEB MINING AND FARMING: REGULAR PAPERS

Empirical Analysis of the Rank Distribution of Relevant Documents in Web Search..............................222Shen Jiang, Sandra Zilles, Robert Holte

An Automatic Online News Topic Keyphrase Extraction System ..............................................................228Canhui Wang, Min Zhang, Liyun Ru, Shaoping Ma

Emotion Classification of Online News Articles from the Reader’s Perspective.......................................234Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Changhua Yang, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Splog Filtering Based on Writing Consistency .............................................................................................241Wei Liu, Songbo Tan, Hongbo Xu, Lihong Wang

Semantic Web Usage Mining by a Concept-Based Approach for Off-line Web Site Enhancements..................................................................................................................................................248

Sebastián A. Ríos, Juan D. Velásquez

From Web to Map: Exploring the World of Music......................................................................................256Olga Goussevskaia, Michael Kuhn, Michael Lorenzi, Roger Wattenhofer

Unsupervised Discovery of Coordinate Terms for Multiple Aspects from Search Engine Query Logs.......................................................................................................................................................263

Masashi Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Ohshima, Satoshi Oyama, Katsumi Tanaka

Multi-Taxonomy: Determining Perceived Brand Characteristics from Web Data ..................................272Scott Spangler, Larry Proctor, Ying Chen

Leveraging Sentiment Analysis for Topic Detection ....................................................................................279Keke Cai, Scott Spangler, Ying Chen, Li Zhang

Using Wavelets to Classify Documents..........................................................................................................286Geraldo Xexéo, Jano de Souza, Patrícia F. Castro, Wallace A. Pinheiro

Linked Topic and Interest Model for Web Forums .....................................................................................293Victor Cheng, C.H. Li

U3 - Mning Unordered Embedded Subtrees Using TMG Candidate Generation.....................................299Fedja Hadzic, Henry Tan, Tharam S. Dillon

Towards Click-Based Models of Geographic Interests in Web Search ......................................................307Ziming Zhuang, Cliff Brunk, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

Leveraging Web 2.0 Sources for Web Content Classification.....................................................................314Somnath Banerjee, Martin Scholz

Learning Knowledge from Relevant Webpage for Opinion Analysis ........................................................321Ruifeng Xu, Kam-Fai Wong, Qin Lu, Yunqing Xia, Wenjie Li

Experience Mining: Building a Large-Scale Database of Personal Experiences and Opinions from Web Documents.....................................................................................................................328

Kentaro Inui, Shuya Abe, Kazuo Hara, Hiraku Morita, Chitose Sao, Megumi Eguchi, Asuka Sumida, Koji Murakami, Suguru Matsuyoshi

Enriching Multilingual Language Resources by Discovering Missing Cross-Language Links in Wikipedia ..........................................................................................................................................336

Jong-Hoon Oh, Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa

Hybridization of K-Means and Harmony Search Methods for Web Page Clustering..............................343Rana Forsati, MohammadReza Meybodi, Mehrdad Mahdavi, AzadehGhari Neiat

Efficient Mining of Event-Oriented Negative Sequential Rules..................................................................350Yanchang Zhao, Huaifeng Zhang, Longbing Cao, Chengqi Zhang, Hans Bohlscheid

A Wavelet-Based Model to Recognize High-Quality Topics on Web Forum.............................................357You Chen, Xue-Qi Cheng, Yu-Lan Huang

A Concept-Driven Automatic Ontology Generation Approach for Conceptualization of Document Corpora..........................................................................................................................................366

Hai-Tao Zheng, Charles Borchert, Hong-Gee Kim

WEB MINING AND FARMING: SHORT PAPERS

Discovery of a User Interests on the Internet ...............................................................................................373Fang Li, Yihong Li, Yanchen Wu, Kai Zhou, Feng Li, Xinguang Wang

Predicting the News of Tomorrow Using Patterns in Web Search Queries ...............................................377Kira Radinsky, Sagie Davidovich, Shaul Markovitch

Discriminating Meaningful Web Tables from Decorative Tables Using a Composite Kernel .................382Jeong-Woo Son, Jae-An Lee, Seong-Bae Park, Hyun-Je Song, Sang-Jo Lee, Se-Young Park

Co-Occurrence Analysis Focused on Blogger Communities .......................................................................386Shin-ya Sato, Kensuke Fukuda, Toshio Hirotsu, Satoshi Kurihara, Toshiharu Sugawara

Relation Classification for Semantic Structure Annotation of Text ...........................................................391Yulan Yan, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Toshio Yokoi

Who Is It? Context Sensitive Named Entity and Instance Recognition by Means of Wikipedia .........................................................................................................................................................395

Ulli Waltinger, Alexander Mehler

Web User Session Reconstruction Using Integer Programming.................................................................399Robert F. Dell, Pablo E. Román, Juan D. Velásquez

Incremental Collaborative Filtering for Binary Ratings .............................................................................403Catarina Miranda, Alípio M. Jorge

Grasping Major Statements and Their Contradictions Toward Information Credibility Analysis of Web Contents...............................................................................................................................407

Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi, Kentaro Inui

Joint Extraction of Compound Entities and Relationships from Biomedical Literature .........................412Cartic Ramakrishnan, Pablo N. Mendes, Rodrigo A.T.S da Gama, Guilherme C.N. Ferreira, Amit P. Sheth

Cool Blog Identification Using Topic-Based Models....................................................................................416Kritsada Sriphaew, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura

A Co-Occurrence Based Hierarchical Method for Clustering Web Search Results .................................421Yun Zhang, Boqin Feng

Grouping Categorical Anomalies...................................................................................................................425Matthew Gebski, Alex Penev, Raymond K. Wong

XMiner: Mining XML Mediated Schemas ...................................................................................................429Hong-Quang Nguyen, Wenny Rahayu, Kinh Nguyen, David Taniar

Semantic Patent Clustering for Biomedical Communities ..........................................................................433Khaled Khelif, Aroua Hedhili, Martine Collard

Mining Financial News for Major Events and Their Impacts on the Market ...........................................437Anuj Mahajan, Lipika Dey, Sk. Mirajul Haque

A Classifier-CMAC Neural Network Model for Web Mining ....................................................................441Somaiyeh Dehghan, Amir Masoud Rahmani

Extracting Concept Hierarchy Knowledge from the Web Based on Property Inheritance and Aggregation ..............................................................................................................................................446

Shun Hattori, Katsumi Tanaka

Indexing of Reading Paths for a Structured Information Retrieval on the Web ......................................452Mathias Géry

SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING: REGULAR PAPERS

DL Reasoning and AI Planning for Web Service Composition ..................................................................459Freddy Lécué, Alain Léger, Alexandre Delteil

Fostering Web Intelligence by Semi-Automatic OWL Ontology Refinement ...........................................468Johanna Völker, Sebastian Rudolph

Annotating Documents by Wikipedia Concepts ...........................................................................................475Peter Schönhofen

An Ontology Alignment Based on Parse Tree Kernel for Combining Structural and Semantic Information without Explicit Enumeration of Features .............................................................482

Jeong-Woo Son, Seong-Bae Park, Se-Young Park

Adding Provenance and Evolution Information to Modularized Argumentation Models .......................489Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, John G. Breslin

A Flexible Partitioning Tool for Large Ontologies.......................................................................................496Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

DLDB2: A Scalable Multi-perspective Semantic Web Repository .............................................................503Zhengxiang Pan, Xingjian Zhang, Jeff Heflin

Growing Fields of Interest - Using an Expand and Reduce Strategy for Domain Model Extraction ........................................................................................................................................................510

Christopher Thomas, Pankaj Mehra, Roger Brooks, Amit Sheth

Formal Semantics-Preserving Translation from Fuzzy ER Model to Fuzzy OWL DL Ontology ...........................................................................................................................................................517

Fu Zhang, Z.M. Ma, Yanhui Lv, Xing Wang

An Ontology-Based Framework for Knowledge Retrieval..........................................................................524Xiaohui Tao, Yuefeng Li, Ning Zhong, Richi Nayak

An Ontology-Based Sentiment Classification Methodology for Online Consumer Reviews ....................532Jantima Polpinij, Aditya K. Ghose

Focused Crawling with Heterogeneous Semantic Information...................................................................539Rui Huang, Fen Lin, Zhongzhi Shi

SEMANTICS AND ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING: SHORT PAPERS

A Collaborative Model of Low-Level and High-Level Descriptors for Semantics-Based Music Information Retrieval..........................................................................................................................546

Jun Wang, Haojiang Deng, Qin Yan, Jinlin Wang

Towards Distributed Ontology Reasoning for the Web...............................................................................550Anne Schlicht, Heiner Stuckenschmidt

A Software Framework for Translating ECA Sequences from OWL-DL into Java ................................554W. Mepham, S. Gardner

Enabling a Common and Consistent Enterprise-Wide Terminology: An Initial Assessment of Available Tools ............................................................................................................................................558

Jayson Durham, Lifford McLauchlan, Richard Yuster

Using Text Mining to Enrich the Vocabulary of Domain Ontologies .........................................................563Mirco Speretta, Susan Gauch

Mining the Content of Relational Databases to Learn Ontologies with Deeper Taxonomies...................567Farid Cerbah

Intelligent Search in Digital Documents........................................................................................................572Asad Masood Khattak, Jibran Mustafa, Nabeel Ahmed, Khalid Latif, Sharifullah Khan

Ontology-Based Personalised and Context-Aware Recommendations of News Items..............................576Iván Cantador, Alejandro Bellogín, Pablo Castells

Goal Node Search for Semantic Web Source Selection ...............................................................................580Abir Qasem, Dimitre A. Dimitrov, Jeff Heflin

Multi-Concept Document Classification Using a Perceptron-Like Algorithm ..........................................584Clay Woolam, Latifur Khan

Federated ALCI: Preliminary Report...........................................................................................................589George Voutsadakis, Giora Slutzki, Vasant Honavar, Jie Bao

Semantic Discovery of the User Intended Query in a Selectable Target Query Language ......................593Carlos Bobed, Raquel Trillo, Eduardo Mena, Jordi Bernad

WEB AGENTS: SHORT PAPERS

Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments .............................................597Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer

An Analytic Approach to Reputation Ranking of Participants in Online Transactions...........................601Aleksandar Ignjatovic, Norman Foo, Chung Tong Lee

WEB SERVICES: REGULAR PAPERS

Resource Planning Heuristics for Service-Oriented Workflows.................................................................605Julian Eckert, Deniz Ertogrul, André Miede, Nicolas Repp, Ralf Steinmetz

Dynamic Self-Healing for Service Flows with Semantic Web Services ......................................................612Wei Ren, Gang Chen, Haifeng Shen, Zhonghua Yang, Jing Bing Zhang, Chor Ping Low, David Chen, Chengzheng Sun

Semantic Web Service Selection at the Process-Level: The eBay/Amazon/PayPal Case Study.................................................................................................................................................................619

Ivan Di Pietro, Francesco Pagliarecci, Luca Spalazzi, Annapaola Marconi, Marco Pistore

MDSM: A Model-Driven Approach to Semantic Service Selection for Collaborative Business Processes ...........................................................................................................................................626

Matthias Klusch, Stefan Nesbigall, Ingo Zinnikus

hRESTS: An HTML Microformat for Describing RESTful Web Services ...............................................633Jacek Kopecký, Karthik Gomadam, Tomas Vitvar

Abduction and Contraction for Semantic-Based Mobile Dating in P2P Environments ...........................640Michele Ruta, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Floriano Scioscia

WEB INFORMATION FILTERING AND RETRIEVAL: REGULAR PAPERS

Imputed Neighborhood Based Collaborative Filtering................................................................................647Xiaoyuan Su, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Russell Greiner

The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries ...............................654Michael G. Noll, Christoph Meinel

Recognizing and Filtering Web Images Based on People’s Existence ........................................................662Ou Wu, Haiqiang Zuo, Weiming Hu, Mingliang Zhu, Shuxiao Li

Quality Information Retrieval for the World Wide Web ............................................................................669Milly Kc, Markus Hagenbuchner, Ah Chung Tsoi

Data Fusion in Information Retrieval Using Consensus Aggregation Operators .....................................676Julien Ah-Pine

An Intelligent Technique for Controlling Web Prefetching Costs at the Server Side...............................683Johann Márquez, Josep Domènech, José A. Gil, Ana Pont

A Novel Language Model Based on Cognition Attention Attenuation in Web Retrieval .........................690Donglin Cao, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai, Xueqi Cheng, Shaozi Li

Predicting News Story Importance Using Language Features....................................................................697Ralf Krestel, Bhaskar Mehta

Nowhere to Hide: Finding Plagiarized Documents Based on Sentence Similarity ....................................704Nathaniel Gustafson, Maria Soledad Pera, Yiu-Kai Ng

Name Disambiguation Boosted by Latent Topics from Web Directories...................................................711Quang Minh Vu, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi

Improving Prediction Quality in Collaborative Filtering Based on Clustering.........................................718Taek-Hun Kim, Seok-In Park, Sung-Bong Yang

A Technique for Summarizing Web Reviews ...............................................................................................725Alpana Dubey, Atul Kumar

An Approach to Deep Web Crawling by Sampling......................................................................................732Jianguo Lu, Yan Wang, Jie Liang, Jessica Chen, Jiming Liu

WEB INFORMATION FILTERING AND RETRIEVAL: SHORT PAPERS

An Unsupervised Approach to Cluster Web Search Results Based on Word Sense Communities....................................................................................................................................................739

Jiyang Chen, Osmar R. Zaïane, Randy Goebel

TheHotMap.com: Enabling Flexible Interaction in Next-Generation Web Search Interfaces..........................................................................................................................................................744

Orland Hoeber, Michael Brooks, Daniel Schroeder, Xue Dong Yang

Evaluating Performance of Recommender Systems: An Experimental Comparison ...............................749François Fouss, Marco Saerens

A Unified Framework for Opinion Retrieval ...............................................................................................753Qingliang Miao, Qiudan Li, Ruwei Dai

Error Correcting Output Coding-Based Conditional Random Fields for Web Page Prediction .........................................................................................................................................................757

Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence A.F. Park

QoS Based Ranking for Web Search .............................................................................................................761Xiangyi Chen, Chen Ding

A Comparison of Re-Ranking Methods in Digital Libraries Using User Profiles .....................................765Thanh-Trung Van, Michel Beigbeder

FuzzyFresh: A Fuzzy Logic Approach to the Ranking of Structured Documents ....................................769Joaquín Pérez-Iglesias, Víctor Fresno, José R. Pérez-Agüera

An Entropy-Based Model for Discovering the Usefulness of Online Product Reviews.............................773Richong Zhang, Thomas Tran

Integrating Structure in the Probabilistic Model for Information Retrieval.............................................777Mathias Gery, Christine Largeron, Franck Thollard

Tag Normalization and Prediction for Effective Social Media Retrieval ...................................................784Ming-Hung Hsu, Hsin-Hsi Chen

Using Skipping for Sequence-Based Collaborative Filtering ......................................................................789Geoffray Bonnin, Armelle Brun, Anne Boyer

Supervised Textual Document Classification Using Neuronal Group Learning .......................................794Michal Pryczek, Piotr S. Szczepaniak

Long Tail Recommender Utilizing Information Diffusion Theory .............................................................799Masayuki Ishikawa, Peter Geczy, Noriaki Izumi, Takahira Yamaguchi

The Impact of Contextual Information on the Accuracy of Existing Recommender Systems for Web Personalization .................................................................................................................................803

Marcos A. Domingues, Alípio M. Jorge, Carlos Soares

HelpMeter: A Nonlinear Model for Predicting the Helpfulness of Online Reviews..................................807Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang, Aijun An, Xiaohui Yu

An Effective Evidence Theory Based K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) Classification .....................................811Lei Wang, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham

Subjectively Related Association Term Discovery towards Personalized Web Information Retrieval ...........................................................................................................................................................816

Seung Yeol Yoo

Iterative Neighbourhood Similarity Computation for Collaborative Filtering .........................................820Yun Zhang, Peter Andreae

INTELLIGENT HUMAN-WEB INTERACTION: REGULAR PAPERS

On Improving Visual-Facial Emotion Recognition with Audio-lingual and Keyboard Stroke Pattern Information............................................................................................................................824

George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou, Efthimios Alepis

A Neural-Network-Based Geographic Tendency Visualization..................................................................831Hajime Hotta, Masafumi Hagiwara

INTELLIGENT HUMAN-WEB INTERACTION: SHORT PAPERS

Context-Aware Scenarios for Pervasive Long-Life Learning .....................................................................838Cuong Pham-Nguyen, Serge Garlatti

A Study on the Granularity of User Modeling for Tag Prediction .............................................................842E. Frías-Martinez, M. Cebrián, A. Jaimes

Visualizing Blogsphere Using Content Based Clusters ................................................................................846Jing Gao, Wei Lai

A Context-Sensitive Approach for Web Database Query Results Ranking...............................................850Xiangfu Meng, Z.M. Ma, Ranran Cheng, Xing Wang

WEB SUPPORT SYSTEMS: REGULAR PAPERS

Scalable Dynamic User Preferences for Recommender Systems through the Use of the Well-Founded Semantics ................................................................................................................................854

Manoela Ilic, João Leite, Martin Slota

WEB SUPPORT SYSTEMS:SHORT PAPERS

An Autonomous System Designed for Automatic Detection and Rating of Film Reviews .......................861Grzegorz Dziczkowski, Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska

Web Page Clustering Using a Fuzzy Logic Based Representation and Self-Organizing Maps .................................................................................................................................................................865

Alberto P. García-Plaza, Víctor Fresno, Raquel Martínez

INTELLIGENT E-TECHNOLOGY: REGULAR PAPERS

Using Agent's Eagerness and Competition in Automated Bidding Strategy .............................................869Madhu Lata Goyal, Jun Ma

XAL: A Web Oriented Programming Language Based on Timed-Automata...........................................876Salvatore Campana, Luca Spalazzi, Francesco Spegni

Integrating Metadata Harvesting with Semantic Search ............................................................................883Darina Dicheva, Christo Dichev, Petko Valtchev

INTELLIGENT E-TECHNOLOGY: SHORT PAPERS

A Model of Cognition-Driven Decision Process for Business Intelligence .................................................890Li Niu, Guangquan Zhang

Discovering the Correlation between Stock Time Series and Financial News...........................................894Tak-chung Fu, Ka-ki Lee, Donahue Sze, Fu-lai Chung, Chak-man Ng

Mining Exceptional Activity Patterns in Microstructure Data ...................................................................898Yuming Ou, Longbing Cao, Chao Luo, Li Liu

Matching and Ranking with Hidden Topics towards Online Contextual Advertising .............................902Dieu-Thu Le, Cam-Tu Nguyen, Quang-Thuy Ha, Xuan-Hieu Phan, Susumu Horiguchi

Supporting Customer Searches in E-Marketplaces by Means of Fuzzy Logic-Based Machine Learning ...........................................................................................................................................906

J. Albusac, L. M. López-López, J. M. Murillo, J. J. Castro-Schez

WI 2008 OTHERS: REGULAR PAPERS

Competition vs. Fairness – Analyzing Structured Networks by Means of User Experiments .................911Stephan Schosser, Klemens Böhm, Bodo Vogt

WI 2008 OTHERS: SHORT PAPERS

DFCM: Density Based Approach to Identify Outliers and to Get Efficient Clusters in Fuzzy Clustering..............................................................................................................................................920

Prabhjot Kaur

Discovering the Scope of Privacy Needs in Collaborative Search...............................................................924Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böhm

A Human-Web Interaction Based Trust Model for Trustworthy Web Software Development ....................................................................................................................................................928

Jia Hu, Ning Zhong, Shengfu Lu, Haiyan Zhou, Jiajin Huang

Evaluating Ontology Modules Using an Entropy Inspired Metric .............................................................932Paul Doran, Valentina Tamma, Ignazio Palmisano, Terry R. Payne, Luigi Iannone

Learning Classifiers from Large Databases Using Statistical Queries .......................................................937Neeraj Koul, Cornelia Caragea, Vasant Honavar, Vikas Bahirwani, Doina Caragea

Evaluation of the Effects of User-Sensitivity on Text Summarization .......................................................941Hien Nguyen, Eugene Santos_Jr., Russell Jacob, Nathan Smith

INDUSTRY & DEMO TRACK PAPERS

Mining and Exploring Unstructured Customer Feedback Data Using Language Models and Treemap Visualizations ...........................................................................................................................946

Cai-Nicolas Ziegler, Michal Skubacz, Maximilian Viermetz

Dynamic XML Generation according to a Given Schema...........................................................................952Debarshi Raha

Comparative Study on M-Commerce Applications in Various Scenarios .................................................957Simon Fong, Zhuang Yan

IAT 2008 .......................................................................................................................................................961

AUTONOMY-ORIENTED COMPUTING (AOC): REGULAR PAPERS

Emergent Spatial Agent Segregation.............................................................................................................972K.A. Hawick, C.J. Scogings

Pheromone Approach to the Adaptive Discovery of Sensor-Network Topology.......................................979Hiroshi Tamaki, Ken-ichi Fukui, Masayuki Numao, Satoshi Kurihara

Online vs. Offline Behavior: How to Design Strategic Agents for Distributed Coordinator-Free Environments..........................................................................................................................................986

Stephan Schosser, Klemens Böhm, Bodo Vogt

Finding Minimum Data Requirements Using Pseudo-Independence.........................................................995Yoonheui Kim, Victor Lesser

Epidemic Dynamics and Thresholds in Agent-Based Simulations under Realistic Resources and Cost Conditions....................................................................................................................1003

Yu-Shiuan Tsai, Chuen-Tsai Sun, Chung-Yuan Huang

AUTONOMY-ORIENTED COMPUTING (AOC): SHORT PAPERS

Modeling and Verification of Context-Awareness Service for Time Critical Applications Using Colored Petri-Net................................................................................................................................1009

Seungwok Han, Sung Keun Song, Hee Yong Youn

Interaction Selection Ambiguities in Multi-Agent Systems .......................................................................1013Yoann Kubera, Philippe Mathieu, Sébastien Picault

An Improved Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Based on Cooperative Swarms ...........................1017Yiheng Xu, Qiangwei Wang, Jinglu Hu

Model-Driven Engineering of Multi Agent Systems ..................................................................................1021Vladimir Gorodetsky, Oleg Karsaev, Victor Konushy, Vladimir Samoilov

Agent Decision Making for Dynamic Selection of Coordination Mechanisms ........................................1025Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter N.H. Jansweijer, Bob J. Wielinga

Multi-Agent Based Supply Chain Management with Dynamic Reconfiguration Capability .................1030Zili Zhang, Li Tao

A Normative Model for Behavioral Differentiation ...................................................................................1034Benoit Lacroix, Philippe Mathieu, Andras Kemeny

Open Collaborative Systems as Institutions of Agents...............................................................................1038Marcos de Oliveira, Vasco Furtado, Stephen Cranefield, Martin Purvis

Decentralized Co-Allocation of Interrelated Resources in Dynamic Environments ...............................1042Tino Schlegel, Ryszard Kowalczyk, Quoc Bao Vo

Designing a Simulation Middleware for FIPA Multiagent Systems .........................................................1047Arne Schuldt, Jan D. Gehrke, Sven Werner

An Organisational Multi-Agent Systems Approach for Designing Collaborative Tagging Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................1052

Maya Rupert, Carlos Li, Salima Hassas

AUTONOMOUS KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION AGENTS: REGULAR PAPERS

Structured Learning of Component Dependencies in AmI Systems ........................................................1056Todor Dimitrov, Josef Pauli, Edwin Naroska, Christian Ressel

A Personalized Spam Filtering Approach Utilizing Two Separately Trained Filters .............................1063Wei-Lun Teng, Wei-Chung Teng

AUTONOMOUS KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION AGENTS: REGULAR PAPERS

Behavior Prediction Based on Obstacle Motion Patterns in Dynamically Changing Environments ................................................................................................................................................1070

Zhuo Chen, D.C.K. Ngai, N.H.C. Yung

Team-RPD: A Collaborative Model of the Recognition-Primed Decision Process .................................1074Xiaocong Fan, John Yen

Dynamic Reassigned Tasks during the Negotiation Process by Ontology Approach between Mobile Agents ................................................................................................................................................1078

Sawsan Saad, Hayfa Zgaya, Slim Hammadi

Software Agents Mediated Interoperability among Heterogeneous Semantic Services .........................1082Naeem Khalid, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri

An Adaptive Multi-Agent System for Continuous Learning of Streaming Data.....................................1086Igor Kiselev, Reda Alhajj

AGENT SYSTEMS MODELING AND METHODOLOGY: REGULAR PAPERS

A Study of Reinforcement Learning in a New Multiagent Domain..........................................................1092Hua-Qing Min, Jia-An Zeng, Jian Chen, Jin-Hui Zhu

Obligations with Deadlines and Maintained Interdictions in Privacy Regulation Frameworks ...................................................................................................................................................1100

Guillaume Piolle, Yves Demazeau

Introducing Communication in Dis-POMDPs with Locality of Interaction ............................................1107Makoto Tasaki, Yuichi Yabu, Yuki Iwanari, Makoto Yokoo, Milind Tambe, Janusz Marecki, Pradeep Varakantham

Reduction Relations for Agent Models........................................................................................................1114Jan Treur

The Network Game: Analyzing Network-Formation and Interaction Strategies in Tandem................1122Björn-Oliver Hartmann, Klemens Böhm, Bodo Vogt

An Agent Memory Model Enabling Rational and Biased Reasoning.......................................................1131Annerieke Heuvelink, Michel C.A. Klein, Jan Treur

Integration of Multiagent Systems and Semantic Web Services on a Platform Independent Level ...............................................................................................................................................................1138

Christian Hahn, Stefan Nesbigall, Stefan Warwas, Ingo Zinnikus, Klaus Fischer, Matthias Klusch

Goal-Directed Interactions in Artifact-Based MAS: Jadex Agents Playing in CARTAGO Environments ................................................................................................................................................1145

Michele Piunti, Alessandro Ricci, Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr

Generic Protocol Configuration and Execution within a Coalition ..........................................................1152José Ghislain Quenum

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Model Identification in Interactive Influence Diagrams ........................................................................................................................................................1162

Yifeng Zeng, Prashant Doshi

Planning with iFALCON: Towards A Neural-Network-Based BDI Agent Architecture.......................1169Budhitama Subagdja, Ah-Hwee Tan

Evolving Logic Programming Based Agents with Temporal Operators..................................................1176José Júlio Alferes, Alfredo Gabaldon, João Leite

Ethical Trust and Social Moral Norms Simulation: A Bio-inspired Agent-Based Modelling Approach........................................................................................................................................................1183

Hock Chuan Lim, Rob Stocker, Henry Larkin

Negotiation in Semi-Cooperative Agreement Problems ............................................................................1190Elisabeth Crawford, Manuela Veloso

Extending Agent Capabilities: Tools vs. Agents .........................................................................................1197Daghan L. Acay, Gil Tidhar, Liz Sonenberg

Formalizing Multi-State Learning Dynamics .............................................................................................1204Daniel Hennes, Karl Tuyls, Matthias Rauterberg

AGENT SYSTEMS MODELING AND METHODOLOGY: SHORT PAPERS

An Agent Architecture for an Uncertain World ........................................................................................1211John Debenham, Carles Sierra

Distributed Private Constraint Optimization .............................................................................................1215Prashant Doshi, Toshihiro Matsui, Marius Silaghi, Makoto Yokoo, Markus Zanker

Adapting to Changing Resource Requirements for Coalition Formation in Self-Organized Social Networks .............................................................................................................................................1220

Levi Barton, Vicki H. Allan

Multiagent Technology Solutions for Planning in Ambient Intelligence..................................................1224Nicola Gatti, Francesco Amigoni, Marco Rolando

An Ambient Intelligent Agent with Awareness of Human Task Execution .............................................1228Fiemke Both, Mark Hoogendoorn, Andy van_der_Mee, Michael de_Vos

When the User Is Instrumental to Robot Goals: First Try – Agent Uses Agent......................................1234Johan F. Hoorn, Matthijs Pontier, Ghazanfar F. Siddiqui

An Agent Model for a Human’s Functional State and Performance........................................................1240Tibor Bosse, Fiemke Both, Rianne van_Lambalgen, Jan Treur

Cognitive and Biological Agent Models for Emotion Reading ..................................................................1246Zulfiqar Memon, Jan Treur

Arguing about Recommendations in Social Networks...............................................................................1252Stella Heras, Miguel Rebollo, Vicente Julián

Cognitive Agents Integrating Rules and Reinforcement Learning for Context-Aware Decision Support ...........................................................................................................................................1256

Teck-Hou Teng, Ah-Hwee Tan

Learning-Rate Adjusting Q-Learning for Prisoner's Dilemma Games ...................................................1260Koichi Moriyama

Scaling Up Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Complex Domains .................................................1264Dan Xiao, Ah-Hwee Tan

Relating Cognitive Process Models to Behavioural Models of Agents .....................................................1268Alexei Sharpanskykh, Jan Treur

Constructing Optimal Fuzzy Metric Trees for Agent Performance Evaluation .....................................1274Christos Dimou, Manolis Falelakis, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Anastasios Delopoulos, Pericles A. Mitkas

An Information-Theoretic Class of Stochastic Decision Processes ...........................................................1278Kazunori Iwata

Intent-Driven Insider Threat Detection in Intelligence Analyses .............................................................1283Eugene Santos_Jr., Hien Nguyen, Fei Yu, Keumjoo Kim, Deqing Li, John T. Wilkinson, Adam Olson, Russell Jacob

DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING: REGULAR PAPERS

Privacy Guarantees through Distributed Constraint Satisfaction............................................................1288Boi Faltings, Thomas Léauté, Adrian Petcu

Collaborative Resource Constraint Scheduling with a Fractional Shared Resource ..............................1297Gaurav Singh, Rene Weiskircher

Robust Scheduling and Runtime Adaptation of Multi-Agent Plan Execution ........................................1304Mingzhong Wang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jinjun Chen

Distributing Complementary Resources across Multiple Periods with Stochastic Demand: Hedging via Time Frame Aggregation ........................................................................................................1311

Shih-Fen Cheng, John Tajan, Hoong Chuin Lau

DISTRIBUTED PROBLEM SOLVING: SHORT PAPERS

Constant Cost of the Computation-Unit in Efficiency Graphs for DCOP Solvers..................................1318Marius C. Silaghi, Robert N. Lass, Evan A. Sultanik, William C. Regli, Toshihiro Matsui, Makoto Yokoo

ELM-Based Agents for Grid Resource Selection .......................................................................................1323Guopeng Zhao, Zhiqi Shen, Ailiya, Chunyan Miao

A Control-Theoretic and Game-Theoretic Approach to Information Asymmetry in MAS...................1327Jiafang Wang, Zhiyong Feng, Chao Xu, Hui Wang, Qian Yang

A Ring-Based Decentralized Collaborative Non-blocking Atomic Commit Protocol .............................1333Chun-Yao Wang, Daniel J. Buehrer

Learning Cooperation in Collaborative Grid Environments to Improve Cover Load Balancing Delivery ........................................................................................................................................1337

Mauricio Paletta, Pilar Herrero

AUTONOMOUS AUCTIONS AND NEGOTIATION: REGULAR PAPERS

Toward Quantum Matchmaker Agents ......................................................................................................1341Matthias Klusch

Keyword Auction Protocol for Dynamically Adjusting the Number of Advertisements ........................1348Yuko Sakurai, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo

Beyond Quasi-linear Utility: Strategy/False-Name-Proof Multi-Unit Auction Protocols.......................1355Yuko Sakurai, Yasumasa Saito, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo

Non-Symmetric Preferences in the IPA Market with Reinforcement Learning .....................................1362Eduardo Rodrigues Gomes, Ryszard Kowalczyk

An Analysis of Entries in the First TAC Market Design Competition .....................................................1369Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, Simon Parsons

AUTONOMOUS AUCTIONS AND NEGOTIATION: SHORT PAPERS

A Large-Scale Evaluation of an E-mail Management Assistant ...............................................................1376Wayne Wobcke, Alfred Krzywicki, Yiu-Wa Chan

Bargaining in Markets with One-Sided Competition: Model and Analysis.............................................1381Nicola Gatti

Auction Analysis by Normal Form Game Approximation ........................................................................1385Michael Kaisers, Karl Tuyls, Frank Thuijsman, Simon Parsons

New Mechanisms for Mixing Time- and Behaviour-Dependent Tactics in Negotiation Strategies........................................................................................................................................................1389

Jan Richter, Ryszard Kowalczyk

Characterizing the Outcomes of Argumentation-Based Integrative Negotiation....................................1394Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud

APPLICATIONS: REGULAR PAPERS

Development of Virtual Agents with a Theory of Emotion Regulation....................................................1399Tibor Bosse, Frank P.J. de_Lange

Comparison of Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulations of Displacement of Crime .................1407Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen, Mark Hoogendoorn, S. Waqar Jaffry, Jan Treur

A Cooperative Multi-Agent Approach to Computer Forensics ................................................................1415Bruno W.P. Hoelz, Célia G. Ralha, Rajiv Geeverghese, Hugo C. Junior

Embodiment of an Agent by Anthropomorphization of a Common Object ............................................1422Hirotaka Osawa, Ren Ohmura, Michita Imai

APPLICATIONS: SHORT PAPERS

Ontology-Based Business Activity Monitoring Agent ................................................................................1429Duco N. Ferro, Mark Hoogendoorn, Catholijn M. Jonker

Intelligent Service System: An Agent-Based Approach for integrating Artifical Intelligence Components in SOA Landscapes .................................................................................................................1434

Michel Alessandrini, Wolfram-M. Lippe, Wilhelm Nuesser

A Game-Theoretic Approach to Determining Efficient Patrolling Strategies for Mobile Robots.............................................................................................................................................................1438

Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Gatti, Antonio Ippedico

Integration of Intelligent Agents Supporting Automatic Service Composition in Ambient Intelligence .....................................................................................................................................................1442

Maria J. Santofimia, Francisco Moya, Felix J. Villanueva, David Villa, Juan C. Lopez

The Role of Blackboard-Based Reasoning and Visual Analytics in RESIN’s Predictive Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................................1446

Dingxiang Liu, Jia Yue, Xiaoyu Wang, Anita Raja, William Ribarsky

AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL COMPUTING AND INTELLIGENCE: SHORT PAPERS

A Computer Simulation Laboratory for Social Theories ..........................................................................1450Joseph M. Whitmeyer, Moutaz Khouja, Ted Carmichael, Amar Sarsic, Chris Eichelberger, Min Sun, Mirsad Hadzikadic

Improving Multi-Agent Evolutionary Techniques with Local Search for Job Shop Scheduling Problem ......................................................................................................................................1454

Ahmad Balid, Sonajharia Minz

In Search of Optimum Possible Organizations through Agent Modeling Business Environment Recognition Models ...............................................................................................................1460

Masahiro Toriyama, Takamasa Kikuchi, Yuji Nakagawa, Takashi Yamada, Takao Terano

Emergence of Sharing Behavior in a Multi-agent Society Using Tags .....................................................1465Sharmila Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin Purvis

IAT 2008 OTHERS: REGULAR PAPERS

Integrating Partial Models of Network Normality via Cooperative Negotiation: An Approach to Development of Multiagent Intrusion Detection Systems ...................................................1469

Francesco Amigoni, Fabrizio Basilico, Nicola Basilico, Stefano Zanero

How Can Agents Know What to Assume When?.......................................................................................1476Georgios K. Giannikis, Aspassia Daskalopulu

Quantum Service Selection...........................................................................................................................1484Matthias Klusch, René Schubotz

Multi-Layer Bayesian Network for Variable-Bound Inference ................................................................1491Shizhuo Zhu, Po-Chun Chen, John Yen

A Collaborative Reinforcement Learning Approach to Urban Traffic Control Optimization ..................................................................................................................................................1498

As'ad Salkham, Raymond Cunningham, Anurag Garg, Vinny Cahill

IAT 2008 OTHERS: SHORT PAPERS

FeGA: A Feedback-Generating Agent ........................................................................................................1505Annerieke Heuvelink, Tina Mioch

An Ontology-Driven Framework for Deploying JADE Agent Systems ...................................................1511Csongor I. Nyulas, Martin J. O’Connor, Samson W. Tu, David L. Buckeridge, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Mark A. Musen

An Agent Modeling Language Implementing Protocols through Capabilities ........................................1516Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis

Service Interoperability between Agents and Semantic Web Services for Nomadic Environment ..................................................................................................................................................1521

Adeel Shajjar, Naeem Khalid, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri

WI-IATW 2008 ........................................................................................................................................1525

THE 2ND WORKSHOP ON COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN SEMANTIC WEB AND SOCIAL NETWORKS (CISWSN 2008)

A Method for Integration across Text Corpus and WordNet-Based Ontologies.....................................1553Trong Hai Duong, Geun Sik Jo, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

A Decisional Trust Implementation on a Maintenance System by the Means of Decisional DNA and Reflexive Ontologies .....................................................................................................................1557

Cesar Sanin, Edward Szczerbicki

Temporal Changes in Connection Patterns of an Email-Based Social Network .....................................1561Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Przemys-aw Kazienko, Katarzyna Musia-, Bogdan Gabrys

A Study on Community Formation in Collaborative Tagging Systems ...................................................1565Christo Dichev, Jinsheng Xu, Darina Dicheva, Jinghua Zhang

Collaborative Support for Community Data Sharing................................................................................1569Gianluca Correndo, Harith Alani

PRIMO - Towards Privacy Aware Image Sharing ....................................................................................1573Thorben Burghardt, Andreas Walter, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böhm

Interleaving Ontology Mapping for Online Semantic Annotation on Semantic Wiki ............................1577Jinhyun Ahn, Jason J. Jung, Key-Sun Choi

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WEB INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS (WIRSS 2008)

Web Information Retrieval Support Systems: The Future of Web Search .............................................1581Orland Hoeber

Considering Data-Mining Techniques in User Preference Learning .......................................................1585Peter Vojtáš, Alan Eckhardt

Adaptive Information Filtering Based on PTM Model (APTM) ..............................................................1589Abdulmohsen Algarni, Yuefeng Li, Yue Xu

A Method for Query Expansion Using the Related Word Extraction Algorithm ...................................1593Tetsuya Oishi, Shunsuke Kuramoto, Tsunenori Mine, Ryuzo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Fujita, Miyuki Koshimura

A Vector Space Model on Hierarchical Structures with Dynamic Mapping Operator Creation..........................................................................................................................................................1597

Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, Yasushi Kiyoki

Semantic Browsing of a Domain Specific Resources: The Corese-NeLI Framework .............................1602Gayo Diallo, Khaled Khelif, Olivier Corby, Patty Kostkova, Gemma Madle

Information Filter for Ambiguous Information Retrieval.........................................................................1607Sayaka Akioka, Hideo Fukumori, Yoichi Muraoka

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WEB PERSONALIZATION, REPUTATION, AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS (WPRRS 2008)

Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems Using Tag Information .................................................1611Huizhi Liang, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li, Richi Nayak

The Effect of Context on the Predictive Performance of Segmentation ...................................................1615M.F. Faraone, M. Gorgoglione, S. Lombardi, C. Palmisano, U. Panniello, A. Tuzhilin

Cross-Situation Trust Reasoning .................................................................................................................1619Mozhgan Tavakolifard, Svein J. Knapskog, Peter Herrmann

A Computational Distributed Reputation Model for B2C E-Commerce .................................................1624Anna Gutowska, Kevan Buckley

Context-Dependent Reputation Management for Soft Security in Multi Agent Systems.......................1629Cristian Bertocco, Carlo Ferrari

An Enhanced Similarity Measure for Utilizing Site Structure in Web Personalization Systems ...........................................................................................................................................................1634

Shaghayegh Sahebi, Farhad Oroumchian, Ramtin Khosravi

Higher-Order Logic Recommender System ...............................................................................................1638Linna Li, Wei Zhang

Interest Mining and Recommender System for Local Activities ..............................................................1642Cheng Guangyao

Spatial Relation Based Object Extraction from the World Wide Web ....................................................1646Hao Jingmin, Liao Lejian, HeDi

On Modelling and Synthetically Generating Web Usage Data .................................................................1650Peter I. Hofgesang, Jan Peter Patist

Generating Personalized Summaries Using Publicly Available Web Documents ...................................1655Chandan Kumar, Prasad Pingali, Vasudeva Varma

Integrating Trust with Public Reputation in Location-Based Social Networks for Recommendation Making.............................................................................................................................1659

Touhid Bhuiyan, Yue Xu, Audun Jøsang

Towards a SVM-struct Based Active Learning Algorithm for Least Cost Semantic Annotation .....................................................................................................................................................1663

Kaiquan Xu, Raymond Y.K. Lau, Stephen Shaoyi Liao, Lejian Liao

Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems...................1667Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt

Pervasive Web News Recommendation for Visually Impaired People ....................................................1671Wei Chen, Li-jun Zhang, Can Wang, Chun Chen, Jia-jun Bu

Improving the Amazon Review System by Exploiting the Credibility and Time-Decay of Public Reviews...............................................................................................................................................1675

Bo-Chun Wang, Wen-Yuan Zhu, Ling-Jyh Chen

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT WEB INTERACTION (IWI 2008)

Web-Based Intelligent Photo Browser for Flood of Personal Digital Photographs.................................1679Yuki Orii, Takayuki Nozawa, Toshiyuki Kondo

VisualChat: A Visualization Tool for Human-Machine Interaction ........................................................1683Ong Sing Goh, Chun Che Fung, Kok Wai Wong

An Epiphyte Architecture to Enrich Content in an Existing Educational Website ................................1687Florent Carlier, Valérie Renault

Verbal Explaining of the Behavior of Time-Series Data............................................................................1691Ichiro Kobayashi, Naoko Okumura

Implementing News Article Category Browsing Based on Text Categorization Technique ..................1695Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Chatchawal Sangkeettrakarn, Chaianun Damrongrat

Semantic Wiki Where Human and Agents Collaborate ............................................................................1699Kensaku Kawamoto, Motohiro Mase, Yasuhiko Kitamura, Yuri Tijerino

KnownStyleNoLife.com: Resource Sharing System for Explicit Fashion-Related Image Annotation .....................................................................................................................................................1704

Toshiaki Toyama, Katsumi Konishi

Application of BBS with Visual Representation to Community Anticrime Actions Support ................1709Yasufumi Takama, Yuta Seo

Discovering, Visualizing and Evaluating Online Bipartite Communities ................................................1713Tsuyoshi Murata

Interactive Spam Filtering with Active Learning and Feature Selection.................................................1717Masayuki Okabe, Seiji Yamada

Comparison of Performance for SVM Based Relevance Feedback Document Retrieval in Several Vector Space Models .......................................................................................................................1721

Takashi Onoda, HIroshi Murata, Seiji Yamada

Onomatopeta!: Developing a Japanese Onomatopoeia Learning-Support System Utilizing Native Speakers Cooperation .......................................................................................................................1725

Mukarramah Yusuf, Chisato Asaga, Chiemi Watanabe

Creating and Strengthening Connections among Employees with a Blog Service ..................................1730Taro Sugahara

Comprehension of Invisible Specialty in Research Field through Interaction with Novice Researchers....................................................................................................................................................1734

Daisuke Katagami, Takashi Yamada, Katsumi Nitta

A Development Framework for Mobile User-Interfaces Based on HTML Centric Dependency Injection....................................................................................................................................1738

Takashi Nozawa, Hajime Hotta, Masafumi Hagiwara

Implicit Groups of Web Pages as Constrained Top N Concepts...............................................................1742A. Li, M. Haraguchi, Y. Okubo

Intelligent Web Interactions – What, When and How?.............................................................................1747Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Fawzi A. Alghamdi, Talal Naveed Puri

WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENT E-GOVERNMENT (IEG 2008)

E-Government System Using an Integrated Call Center System and WWW .........................................1751Yoshitoshi Murata, Yoshihisa Sato, Tsuyoshi Takayama, Nobuyoshi Sato

Research on the Web Information System Development Platform Based on MVC Design Pattern............................................................................................................................................................1755

Wang Ning, Li Liming, Wang Yanzhang, Wang Yi-bing, Wang Jing

Specification of SA-RBAC Policy Based on Colored Petri Net .................................................................1759Mingqiu Song, Zhiguo Pang

E-government for the People: Learn from North America and European Union ..................................1763Feng Ding, Yanzhang Wang, Xin Ye

An Emergency Decision Support System Based on the General Decision Process..................................1767Xin Ye, Yanzhang Wang, Hui Li, Zailin Dai

Extraction and Representation of Feature Events Based on a Knowledge Model ..................................1771Jiangnan Qiu, Yunjie Du, Yanzhang Wang

The Model Representation in Emergency Management System ..............................................................1775Zhong Qiuyan, Wang Heng, Ye Xin

Study on the Authorization Management Model Based on Organization in E-Government .................1779Zhang Peng, Wang Yanzhang, Wang Dong, Dong Yanjie, Wang Ning

The Use of a Hybrid Machine Translation System in China’s Government Portals ..............................1783Huo Yuehong, Wang Chunyu

Research about Security Audit Platform in E-Government System ........................................................1787You Peng, Yan-zhang Wang

E-government Web Mining Tool Design and Implementation Based on the Semantic Web .................1792Chunhua Yin, Siming Liu, Lei Chen, Xin Ye

Research on Dynamic Delegation Model.....................................................................................................1796Li Huaiming, Tian Ke, Gao Yingying

Interactive Environment Based on Internet Technologies for Psychometric Diagnostics, Psychotherapy and Collaboration ...............................................................................................................1800

Velibor Ilic

The Cognitive Processing Mechanism for the Players’ Rule in MMO Game..........................................1804Seungkeun Song, Mijin Kim, Doo Heon Song

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FUZZY LOGIC ON THE WEB (FLOW 2008)

Personalized Ontology-Based Query Expansion ........................................................................................1808Silvia Calegari, Gabriella Pasi

Towards a Fuzzy Answer Set Semantics for Residuated Logic Programs...............................................1812Nicolás Madrid, Manuel Ojeda-Aciego

Acquiring Vague Temporal Information from the Web ...........................................................................1817Steven Schockaert, Martine De_Cock, Etienne E. Kerre

Filtering Short Queries by Means of Fuzzy Semantic-Lexical Relations for Meta-Searchers Using WordNet ..............................................................................................................................................1821

Jesus Serrano-Guerrero, Francisco P. Romero, Jose A. Olivas

Combining Fuzzy Description Logics and Fuzzy Logic Programs ...........................................................1825Jidi Zhao, Harold Boley

Conjunctive Query Answering over an f-ALC Knowledge Base ..............................................................1831Jingwei Cheng, Z.M. Ma, Fu Zhang, Xing Wang

WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING (NLPOE 2008)

Word Similarity Based on an Ensemble Model Using Ranking SVMs ....................................................1835Hui Liu, Ruzhan Lu

Research on Automatic Acquiring of Chinese Synonyms from Wiki Repository ...................................1839Lu Yong, Hou Hanqing

An Ontology-Based Approach to Text Summarization .............................................................................1843Leonhard Hennig, Winfried Umbrath, Robert Wetzker

Concept Acquisition from Corpora: Using an Automatic Clustering Method Based on Chinese Measure Words ...............................................................................................................................1847

Meng Wang, Hong Zhu, Shiwen Yu

Concept Extraction and Clustering for Topic Digital Library Construction ..........................................1851Chengzhi Zhang, Dan Wu

The Building of a CBD-Based Domain Ontology in Chinese ....................................................................1855Zhifang Sui, Jun Zhao, Wei Kang, Qingliang Zhao

Research on the Key Technology Based-NLP Of Chinese Medicine Pulse’s Mathematical Quantifying ....................................................................................................................................................1859

Yao Liu, Zhifang Sui , Yang Zhou, Zhenguo Wang

Personal Name Recognition Based on Categorized Linguistic Knowledge..............................................1863Weiguang Qu, Xuri Tang, Bin Li

Populating Ontologies in the eTourism Domain.........................................................................................1868Juana M. Ruiz-Martínez, José A. Miñarro-Giménez, Laura Guillén-Cárceles, Dagoberto Castellanos-Nieves, Rafael Valencia-García, Francisco García-Sánchez, Jesualdo T. Fernández-Breis, Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar

A Rule-Based Metric for Calculating Semantic Relatedness Score for the Motion Picture Industry..........................................................................................................................................................1872

Sharmin Choudhury, Kerry Raymond, Peter Higgs

Exploiting Hyponymy in Extracting Relations and Enhancing Ontologies .............................................1877Bhushan Mandhani, Stephen Soderland

Corpus-Based Extraction of Collocations in Chinese ................................................................................1882Wang Hui, Ji Donghong

WCONS: An Ontology Mapping Approach Based on Word and Context Similarity ............................1886Zhen Zhen, Junyi Shen, Shengjun Lu

WORKSHOP ON WEB INTELLIGENE & INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY IN ELEARNING (TUMASA 2008)

Competency-Based Intelligent Curriculum Sequencing: Comparing Two Evolutionary Approaches ....................................................................................................................................................1891

Luis de-Marcos, Roberto Barchino, José-Javier Martínez, José-Antonio Gutiérrez, José-Ramón Hilera

Competence Formation through Learning Objects in a Multiagent Virtual Educational Environment ..................................................................................................................................................1895

C.I. Peña, S.E. Gómez, CMejía, R. Fabregat

Research into Learning in an Intelligent Agent Augmented Multi-user Virtual Environment ..................................................................................................................................................1900

Michael J. Jacobson, Chunyan Miao, Beaumie Kim, Zhiqi Shen, Mark Chavez

Multidimensional Adaptations for Open Learning Management Systems ..............................................1904Silvia Baldiris, Olga C. Santos, David Huerva, Ramón Fabregat, Jesus G. Boticario

Concept Map Mining: A Definition and a Framework for Its Evaluation...............................................1909Jorge J. Villalon, Rafael A. Calvo

Intelligent Support for Inclusive eLearning................................................................................................1913Olga C. Santos, Jesus G. Boticario

nAble Adaptive Scaffolding Agent – Intelligent Support for Novices ......................................................1917Joseph MacInnes, Stephanie Santosa, Nathan Kronenfeld, Judi McCuaig, William Wright

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL NETWORKS (IWCSN 2008)

Personalized Advertising Strategy for Integrated Social Networking Websites .....................................1921Chang-Tai Hsieh, Chun-Ming Liang, Shih-Chun Chou

Analysis of Relations in eLearning ..............................................................................................................1925Pavla Dráždilová, Jan Martinovic, Katerina Slaninová, Václav Snášel

Toward a Linkography Design Visualization Tool on Web 2.0 Social Network Type Interface .........................................................................................................................................................1929

Hyo-Jeong Kwon, Hwa-Sei Lee, Doo-Heon Song, Chee-Yong Kim

Social and Personal Context Modeling for Contact List Recommendation on Mobile Device...............1933Jun-Ki Min, Hee-Taek Kim, Sung-Bae Cho

Web Communities Defined by Web Page Content.....................................................................................1937Miloš Kudelka, Václav Snášel, Zdenek Horák, Aboul Ella Hassanien

Understanding Social Networks Using Formal Concept Analysis ............................................................1942Václav Snášel, Zdenek Horák, Ajith Abraham

Vector Opinion Dynamics: An Extended Model for Consensus in Social Networks...............................1946Alya Alaali, Maryam a. Purvis, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu

Identifying Opinion Leaders in BBS ...........................................................................................................1950Zhongwu Zhai, Hua Xu, Peifa Jia

Link-Based Anomaly Detection in Communication Networks .................................................................1954Xiaomeng Wan, Evangelos Milios, Nauzer Kalyaniwalla, Jeannette Janssen

Extracting and Analysing Social Networks of Physicians .........................................................................1958Saujoe Liaw, Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, David Glance

WORKSHOP ON OPTIMIZATION-BASED DATA MINING AND WEB INTELLIGENCE (ODM 2008)

Kernel-Based Nonparametric Regression Method.....................................................................................1962Dongling Zhang, Yingjie Tian, Peng Zhang

Using k-Interactive Measure in Optimization-Based Data Mining ..........................................................1966Nian Yan, Zhengxin Chen, Yong Shi

Select Objective Functions for Multiple Criteria Programming Classification.......................................1972Peng Zhang, Yingjie Tian, Zhiwang Zhang, Aihua Li, Xingquan Zhu

Data Mining for Seismic Exploration ..........................................................................................................1976Zhongbin Ouyang, Jing He, Keliang Zhang

A Utility-Based Web Content Sensitivity Mining Approach .....................................................................1980Cheng Wang, Ying Liu, Liheng Jian, Peng Zhang

DEA-Based Comprehensive Evaluation of Intelligent Knowledge ...........................................................1984Lingling Zhang, Jie Wei, Anqiang Huang, Jun Li, Peng Zhang

Enabling a Meta-Synthetic Discovery Workshop for Social Consensus Process.....................................1988Xijin Tang

Inter-frame Change Directing Online Clustering of Multiple Moving Objects for Video-Based Sensor Networks.................................................................................................................................1994

Guangyan Huang, Jing He, Zhiming Ding

A Bias-Variance Analysis of Multiple Criteria Linear Programming Classification Ensembles ......................................................................................................................................................1999

Meihong Zhu, Yong Shi, Aihua Li, Peng Zhang

Particle Swarm Optimization Based Clustering of Web Usage Data .......................................................2003Shafiq Alam, Gillian Dobbie, Patricia Riddle

Effective Ranking and Recommendation on Web Page Retrieval by Integrating Association Mining and PageRank ..............................................................................................................2007

Ja-Hwung Su, Bo-Wen Wang, Vincent S. Tseng

Tailoring Taxonomies for Efficient Text Categorization and Expert Finding ........................................2011R. Wetzker, W. Umbrath, L. Hennig, C. Bauckhage, T. Alpcan, F. Metze

Keyword-Labeled Classification with Auxiliary Unlabeled Documents ..................................................2015Congle Zhang, Dikan Xing, Ke Zhou

Web Image Clustering Based on Multi-Instance........................................................................................2019Jing Lu, ShaoPing Ma, Min Zhang

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN ASPECTS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE: AGENT TECHNOLOGY, HUMAN-ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE AND APPLICATIONS (HAI 2008)

Segmentation and Tracking for Vision Based Human Robot Interaction ...............................................2023Salman Valibeik, Guang-Zhong Yang

Effects of Autonomy, Traffic Conditions and Driver Personality Traits on Attitudes and Trust towards In-Vehicle Agents .................................................................................................................2029

Henriette Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Nicander Kemper, Bob Wielinga

Extracting Key Factors to Design Applications in Ambient Intelligence Environment..........................2035Hiroaki Kimura, Tatsuo Nakajima

An Ambient Intelligent Agent Model Using Controlled Model-Based Reasoning to Determine Causes and Remedies for Monitored Problems .......................................................................2041

Rob Duell, Mark Hoogendoorn, Michel Klein, Jan Treur

Affect as Information about Users' Attitudes to Conversational Agents .................................................2047Michal Ptaszynski, Pawel Dybala, Shinsuke Higuchi, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki

A Framework for Perceptual Functions of Symbiotic Computing ...........................................................2053Susumu Konno, Yusuke Manabe, Shigeru Fujita, Kenji Sugawara, Tetsuo Kinoshita, Norio Shiratori

A New Approach to Emotion Assessment Based on Biometric Data........................................................2057Jorge Teixeira, Vasco Vinhas, Eugénio Oliveira, Luís Paulo Reis

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON E-COMMERCE, BUSINESS, AND SERVICES (ECBS 2008)

Modeling Support for Simulating Traffic Intensive Web Applications ...................................................2064Ka-I Pun, Kin-Chan Pau, Yain-Whar Si

A Pragmatic Approach to Realizing Context-Aware Personal Services ..................................................2069Sangkeun Lee, Dongjoo Lee, Seungseok Kang, Sang-goo Lee

Indexing Method for Transitive Relationships of Product Information ..................................................2073Hyunja Lee, Junho Shim

An Analysis of Visual and Presentation Factors Influencing the Design of E-Commerce Web Sites........................................................................................................................................................2077

Banatus Soiraya, Anirach Mingkhwan, Choochart Haruechaiyasak

Modelling User Behaviour for Web Recommendation Using LDA Model ..............................................2081Guandong Xu, Yanchun Zhang, Xun Yi

Winner Price Monotonicity for Approximated Combinatorial Auctions ................................................2085Naoki Fukuta, Takayuki Ito

An Efficient Approach to Compose Web Services .....................................................................................2090Hongbing Wang, Hui Liu, Xiaohui Guo

An Approach to Ranking Participants Based on Relationship Network in E-Commerce......................2094Masao Kobayashi, Takayuki Ito

Privacy with Web Services: Intelligence Gathering and Enforcement ....................................................2098Peter Bodorik, Dawn Jutla

WORKSHOP ON P2P COMPUTING AND AUTONOMOUS AGENTS (PSP 2008)

FAQIH: Framework for Agent-Based Query-Enabled Integrated Information for Health and Nutrition .................................................................................................................................................2102

Yuri A. Tijerino, Tarek Helmy El-Bassuny, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Partner Selection Mechanisms for Agent Cooperation..............................................................................2106Toktam Ebadi, Maryam Purvis, Martin Purvis

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENTS AND DATA MINING INTERACTION (ADMI 2008)

Data Mining-Driven Analysis and Decomposition in Agent Supply Chain Management Networks ........................................................................................................................................................2110

Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis, Pericles A. Mitkas

Interaction of Agents and Data Mining in Ubiquitous Environment .......................................................2114Vladimir Gorodetsky, Oleg Karsaev, Vladimir Samoylov, Sergey Serebryakov

An Agent-Based Approach to Mine Transcriptional Regulatory Elements.............................................2119Yun Xiong, Guangyong Zheng, Qing Yang, Yangyong Zhu

A Multi-Agents Approach to Knowledge Discovery ..................................................................................2123Cuong Tong, Dharmendra Sharma, Fariba Shadabi

An Agent-Oriented Data Mining Framework for Mass Customization in the Automotive Industry..........................................................................................................................................................2127

Efthimia Mavridou, Dionysios D. Kehagias, Konstantinos Kalogirou, Dimitrios Tzovaras

Hybrid Search Methods for Automatic Discovery of Computational Agent Schemes............................2131Roman Neruda

A Learning Process Using SVMs for Multi-Agents Decision Classification ............................................2135Yanshan Xiao, Feiqi Deng, Bo Liu, Shouqiang Liu, Dan Luo, Guohua Liang

INSPIRE: An Integrated Agent Based System for Hypothesis Generation within Cancer Datasets ..........................................................................................................................................................2139

Philip R Quinlan, Chris Reed, Alastair Thompson

An ACO-Based User Community Preference Clustering System for Customized Content Service in Broadband New Media Platforms..............................................................................................2143

Sanxing Cao, Ying Qin, Jianbo Liu, Rui Lu

CAKE – Classifying, Associating and Knowledge DiscovEry - An Approach for Distributed Data Mining (DDM) Using PArallel Data Mining Agents (PADMAs).................................2148

Danish Khan

Acquiring Explicit User Goals from Search Query Logs...........................................................................2154Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer, Mark Kröll

How Emotional Mechanism Learn and Helps Other Types of Learning in a Cognitive Agent ..............................................................................................................................................................2158

Usef Faghihi, Pierre Poirier, Daniel Dubois, Roger Nkambou

F-TRADE 3.0: An Agent-Based Integrated Framework for Data Mining Experiments ........................2164Peerapol Moemeng, Longbing Cao, Chengqi Zhang

Towards a Self-Organising Mechanism for Learning Adaptive Decision-Making Rules .......................2168Sylvain Lemouzy, Valérie Camps, Pierre Glize

A Distributed Multi-Agent System implementation of the Human-Friendly MAS for Mining Stock Data.........................................................................................................................................2173

Andrew Wong, Nick Cercone

WORKSHOP ON LOGICS FOR INTELLIGENT AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (WLIAMAS 2008)

Extending a Defeasible Reasoner with Modal and Deontic Logic Operators ..........................................2178Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Grigoris Antoniou

Solving Sum and Product Riddle via BDD-Based Model Checking .........................................................2182Xiangyu Luo, Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Yan Chen

Time and Defeasibility in FIPA ACL Semantics ........................................................................................2186Guido Boella, Guido Governatori, Joris Hulstijn, Régis Riveret, Antonino Rotolo, Leendert van derTorre

An Abstract Model for Dynamic Access Control Architectures ...............................................................2190Chuchang Liu, Angela Billard, Benjamin Long

Analytic Tableaux for Verifying Agent Beliefs...........................................................................................2195Ji Ma, Mehmet A. Orgun

Levels of Modalities for BDI Logic ..............................................................................................................2199Jeff Blee, David Billington, Guido Governatori, Abdul Sattar

2008 WI-IAT DOCTORAL WORKSHOP

Recommending in Inclusive Lifelong Learning Scenarios: Identifying and Managing Runtime Situations........................................................................................................................................2203

Olga C. Santos

Huge Data Mining Based on Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing ............................................2207Feng Hu, Guoyin Wang

Collective User Behaviour and Tag Contextualisation in Folksonomies ..................................................2211Ching Man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt

A Scalable Lightweight Distributed Crawler for Crawling with Limited Resources..............................2215Milly Kc, Markus Hagenbuchner, Ah Chung Tsoi

Weblogs, a Promising New Form for E-Democracy? ................................................................................2219Justus F.M. Broß

Enlightenment 2.0: Facilitating User Control in Distributed Collaborative Applications .....................2224Matthias Quasthoff

Ranking Web Pages Using Machine Learning Approaches ......................................................................2229Sweah Liang Yong, Markus Hagenbuchner, Ah Chung Tsoi

Utilizing Non-Redundant Association Rules from Multi-Level Datasets .................................................2233Gavin Shaw, Yue Xu, Shlomo Geva

Two-Stage Model for Information Filtering ...............................................................................................2237Xujuan Zhou, Yuefeng Li, Peter Bruza, Yue Xu, Raymond Y.K. Lau

Exception Mining on Multiple Time Series in Stock Market ....................................................................2242Chao Luo, Yanchang Zhao, Longbing Cao, Yuming Ou, Chengqi Zhang

Extreme Conditions for Intelligent Agents .................................................................................................2246Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, Daniel Kirk

Negotiation Protocol according to the Perturbation Impact In a Multi-Agent Supply Chain System for the Crisis Management ..............................................................................................................2250

H. Zgaya, D. Tang, Slim Hammadi, F. Bretaudeau

Author Index