EPIA2013
CONTENTS
Committees … 03
Invited Speakers … 04
Programme … 07
Maps … 18
Social event … 19
General information … 20
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COMMITTEES
Conference and Program Committee
Luís Correia (Conference & Programme co-chair, University of Lisbon)
Luís Paulo Reis (Conference & Programme co-chair, University of Minho)
José Cascalho (Conference co-chair, University of Azores)
Local Organizing Committee
Hélia Guerra (University of Azores)
Luís Mendes Gomes (University of Azores)
Pedro Cardoso (University of Azores & Finnish Museum Natural History - University of Helsinki)
Orlando Guerreiro (Organizing co-chair, University of Azores)
Filomena Ferreira (Organizing co-chair, University of Azores)
Rui Carvalho (Organizing co-chair, University of Azores)
Advisory Committee
Alípio Jorge (UP, Portugal)
Amílcar Cardoso (UC, Portugal)
Arlindo Oliveira (IST, Portugal)
Carlos Ramos (IPP, Portugal)
Ernesto Costa (UC, Portugal)
Eugénio Oliveira (UP, Portugal)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (UNL, Portugal)
Gaël Dias (University of Caen, France)
Helder Coelho (UL, Portugal)
José Carlos Maia Neves (UM, Portugal)
José Júlio Alferes (UNL, Portugal)
Luís Rocha (University of Indiana)
Luís Seabra Lopes (UA, Portugal)
Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
Miguel Calejo (APPIA, Portugal)
Pavel Brazdil (UP, Portugal)
Pedro Barahona (UNL, Portugal)
Pedro Rangel Henriques (UM, Portugal)
Salvador Abreu (UE, Portugal)
Volunteers
Ana Borges
Carolina Furtado
João Gonçalves
Miguel Barcelos
Raul Penaguião
Sara Sousa Melo
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Carla Gomes is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, with joint
appointments in the Dept. of Computer Science, Dept. of Information Science, and
the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Gomes’s central research
themes are the integration of concepts from constraint and logical reasoning,
mathematical programming, and machine learning, for large scale combinatorial
problems; the study of the impact of structure on problem hardness; and the use of
randomization techniques to improve the performance of exact (complete) search
methods. More recently, Gomes has become deeply immersed in research in the new
field of Computational Sustainability. Gomes is the Lead PI of an NSF Expeditions
in Computing award on Computational Sustainability and the director of the newly
established Institute for Computational Sustainability at Cornell University. Gomes
is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Ana Maria Paiva is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering (Departamento de Engenharia Informática) of Instituto Superior Técnico
from the Technical University of Lisbon (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). She is also
the group leader of GAIPS (Grupo de Agentes Inteligentes e Personagens Sintéticas), a
research group on agents and synthetic characters at INESC-ID. Her main scientific
interests lay in the area of Autonomous Agents, Embodied Conversational Agents and
Robots and Multiagent Simulation Systems. Prof. Ana Paiva has been researching in the
area of artificial intelligence for the past twenty years, having also taught at IST during
that period.
Maria Fasli is a professor and the Head of the School of Computer Science and
Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2000
from Essex for her work on formal theories of agents entitled “Commodious Logics of
Agents”. Her main research interests lie in formal theories of reasoning agents, and
the applications of agent technology to e-commerce such as negotiation protocols,
auctions, trading agents, supply chain management, as well as trust in electronic
marketplaces. She has been leading teams in the International Trading Agent
Competition (TAC) which features complex benchmark e-market problems since
2001, achieving consistently good results. In 2005, she was awarded a National
Teaching Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy for her innovative
approaches to learning and teaching involving auctions.
Kenneth O. Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He received a
B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and received a Ph.D. in 2004 from
the University of Texas at Austin. He is an inventor of the Neuroevolution of
Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), HyperNEAT, and novelty search algorithms for
evolving complex artificial neural networks. His main research contributions are in
neuroevolution (i.e. evolving neural networks), generative and developmental systems
(GDS), coevolution, machine learning for video games, and interactive evolution. He
is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in
Games, on the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation journal, and on the ACM
SIGEVO Executive Committee. He is also a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of
aigameresearch.org.
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CHALLENGES INVITED SPEAKERS
António J. V. F. Gomes de Menezes was born in the Azores, Portugal, in 1972. In 1994,
he got his BA in Economics, at the New University of Lisbon. In 1995, António Gomes de
Menezes went to Boston for his MA in Economics (1997) and his PhD in Economics
(2000) at Boston College. In Boston, António Gomes de Menezes was a Research
Assistant at Boston College, Teaching Assistant at Boston College and at Harvard
University and also a Teaching Fellow, at Boston College. He was Post-Doctoral
Reseacher at Bocconi University, Milan. Since 2000, António Gomes de Menezes is an
Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores, where he teaches and is a Researcher at
CEEAplA and has published several papers in peer reviewed journals. In addition to an
industry career as a business consultant and board member during the period 2001-2007,
he has been the CEO, CFO and CIO of SATA Airlines Group since November 2007.
Gui Menezes is Auxiliary Researcher at University of the Azores. He has been working
on demersal and deep-water fisheries of the Macaronesian Islands (Azores, Madeira and
Cape Verde), and the Mid-Atlantic ridge, for the last 20 years. He has also been working
in various fields of the ecology and biology of fishes, and on a broader research about
seamount and oceanic islands ecosystems. He is the author or co-author of about 40
papers in peer-reviewed journals, and of 3 book chapters. He was guest editor of a special
issue of the ICES Journal and more recently of a special issue of the Deep Sea Research
II. He has participated in more than 40 survey cruises as cruise leader or member of
scientific crew, mainly targeting demersal and deep-water fish species in the
Macaronesian islands. He was member of the ICES working groups (WGDEEP and
WGDEC), of the scientific committee of the CenSeam project (Census of Marine Life),
and has been advisor of Azorean authorities on fisheries issues.
João Luís Roque Baptista Gaspar is Associate Professor with Aggregation and
researcher at the University of the Azores. He is sub Director of the Center for
Volcanology and Geological Risks Assessment and Executive Director of the Center for
Information and Seismo-Volcanic Monitoring of the Azores, coordinating the Crisis
Management and Response Mechanisms Unit. In the last two decades, he coordinated
several research projects and was the author of various scientific articles published in
international journals. He is a board member of the Portuguese Society of the
International Union of Astronomy, Geodesy and Geophysics and member of other
national and international scientific organizations. In 2001 he was awarded with the Order
of Merit by His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic, considering the
work done in the evaluation of geological hazards and civil protection advisory in the
Azores. In the same year he received a commendation from the Institute of Meteorology,
by his activities on the Seismological Surveillance System of the Azores, volcanology,
seismology, civil protection, land use planning and water resources.
Paulo A. V. Borges has a Ph.D. in Insect Ecology by the University of London (Imperial
College; 1997) and is currently leading the Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) within
the University of the Azores. He has published extensively using Azorean Islands as a
model for understanding animal community structure in island ecosystems and has led the
development of the Azorean Biodiversity Portal (http://www.azoresbioportal.angra.uac.pt/),
a web interface for communicating biodiversity research in the Azorean region to the
public. His ongoing research focuses on the study of Biodiversity of Azorean Arthropods,
with emphasis on taxonomy, ecology (Macroecology), biospeleology and biogeography.
Other main research interests are: i) the development of species-area models that could
describe patterns of species richness and potential extinction on islands; ii) empirical
modelling of species distributions at different scales; iii) analysis of processes affecting
patterns of species richness of arthropods at different spatial scales.
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PROGRAMME
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Monday, September 9, 2013
8:30 19:00 | REGISTRATION | * | * | * |
9:00 10:00 | CHALLENGES | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
CHALLENGES [Chairs: José Cascalho and Pedro Cardoso]
9:00 9:15 Welcome [José Cascalho and Pedro Cardoso]
9:15 9:30 Automation of Species Identification and Description [Pedro Cardoso, Rui Carvalho, João Carreira and Jorge Batista]
9:30 9:45 Automation of Organelle Identification in Developing Maize Endosperm Transfer Cells [Paulo Monjardino, Sara
Rocha and Pedro Cardoso]
9:45 10:00 Biodiversity Data Compilation [Pedro Cardoso and Luís Mendes Gomes]
10:00 10:30 Coffee-break
10:30 13:00 | CHALLENGES | SDIA | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
CHALLENGES [Chairs: José Cascalho and Pedro Cardoso]
10:30 10:45 Challenges in Assessing Color and Spatial Distribution of Bacterial Mats in Lava Cavities [Cristina Riquelme,
Pedro Cardoso, François Rigal and Maria de Lurdes Enes Dapkevicius]
10:45 11:00 Cluster Analysis Optimization [Pedro Cardoso, François Rigal and Armando Mendes]
11:00 11:30 DISCUSSION
11:30 11:50 PAT2Math: an ITS for Algebraic Problem-Solving [Patricia A. Jaques, Henrique Seffrin, Geiseane Rubi, Felipe de
Morais and Cassio Guilardi]
11:50 12:10 Heraclito: a Dialectical Tutor for Logic [João C. Gluz, Fabiane Penteado, Marcel Mossmann, Lucas Gomes and Rosa
Vicari]
12:10 12:30 A Philosophical View on Artificial Intelligence [Helder Coelho]
12:30 13:00 DISCUSSION
ROOM 1
SDIA [Chairs: Paulo Cortez and Paulo Novais]
10:30 11:00 Incremental and Hierarchical Document Clustering [Rui Encarnação and Paulo Gomes]
11:00 11:30 Implementing Tabled Abduction in Logic Programs [Ari Saptawijaya and Luís Moniz Pereira]
11:30 12:00 Features Selection for Human Activity Recognition with iPhone Inertial Sensors [Nuno Silva, João MendesMoreira and Paulo Menezes]
12:00 12:30 An Artificial Empathetic Entity: the Interaction Impact on Humans [Nuno Henriques]
12:30:13:00 Applying the Measurement Logic Machine to Multi-Agent Iterated Games [José Castro]
13:00 14:00 Lunch
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14:00 16:30 | AZORES SCIENTIFIC WORKSPACE MEETS AI | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
AZORES SCIENTIFIC WORKSPACE MEETS AI [Chair: Helder Coelho and Luís Mendes Gomes]
14:00 14:10 Welcome [Luís Mendes Gomes]
14:10 14:30 The Importance and Impact of AI in Regional, National and International Contexts [Helder Coelho]
14:30 14:50 Perspectives and Progress of Ecology and Conservation Science in the Azores: the Possible Contribution
of Artificial Intelligence [Paulo A. V. Borges, Pedro Cardoso, Orlando Guerreiro, François Rigal, Margarida Florencio, Isabel R. Amorim, Luis
Borda-de-Água, José Cascalho and Miguel Ferreira]
14:50 15:10 New Technique for Sampling the Commercial Fish Sizes to be Applied in Landing Ports and Fishing
Vessels [Gui M. Menezes]
15:10 15:30 Optimal Transportation Networks Under Low Demand and Public Service Obligations: an Operational
Research Approach with an Application to the Azores [João Pedro Pita, António Pais Antunes and António Gomes Menezes]
15:30 15:50 The Role of Machine Learning in Understanding Volcanoes Behaviour for Risk Mitigation [João Luís Gaspar,
Luís Mendes Gomes, Gabriela Queiroz and Teresa Ferreira]
15:50 16:30 DISCUSSION
16:30 17:30 Coffee-break
16:30 17:30 | DEMO | * | * | * |
DEMO ROOM
Software demonstration session
17:30 18:00 | OPENING SESSION | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
Opening Session
18:00 19:00 | INVITED LECTURE | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
INVITED SPEAKER: Carla Gomes, Cornell University (US)
Title: Challenges for AI in Computational Sustainability
[chair: Luís Correia]
19:30 WELCOME COCKTAIL
LOCATION: TERCEIRA MAR HOTEL (close to the swimming pool)
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
9:00 10:00 | INVITED LECTURE | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
INVITED SPEAKER: Ana Paiva, IST – Technical University of Lisbon (PT)
Title: Empathy in Agents and Robots
[chair: Luís Paulo Reis]
10:00 10:30 Coffee-break
10:30 12:30 | TeMA1 | KDBI1 | MASTA1 | DEMO |
AUDITORIUM
TeMA1 [Chair: Jorge Costa]
10:30 11:00 Using Clusters of Concepts to Extract Semantic Relations from Standalone Documents [João Ventura and
Joaquim Silva]
11:00 11:30 Density-Based Graph Model for Multi-Document Summarization [Mohammadreza Valizadeh and Pavel Brazdil]
11:30 12:00 Automatic Extraction of Explicit and Implicit Keywords to Build Document Descriptors [João Ventura and
Joaquim Silva]
12:00 12:30 BioTextRetriever: Yet Another Information Retrieval System [Cecília Talma Gonçalves, Rui Camacho and Eugénio
Oliveira]
ROOM 1
KDBI1 [Chair: Paulo Cortez]
10:30 11:00 Clustering and Selecting Categorical Features [Cláudia Silvestre, Margarida Cardoso Cardoso and Mario Figueiredo]
11:00 11:30 Monitoring the Habits of Elderly People Through Data Mining from Home Automation Devices Data [Julie
Soulas, Philippe Lenca and André Thépaut]
11:30 12:00 On the Predictability of Stock Market Behavior using StockTwits Sentiment and Posting Volume [Nuno
Oliveira, Paulo Cortez and Nelson Areal]
12:00 12:30 Predicting the Future Impact of Academic Publications [Carolina Bento, Bruno Martins and Pavel Calado]
ROOM 2
MASTA1 [Chair: António Pereira]
10:30 11:00 Enhancing Agent Metamodels with Self-management for AmI Environments [Inmaculada Ayala, Mercedes Amor
Pinilla and Lidia Fuentes]
11:00 11:30 Jason Intentional Learning: an Operational Semantics [Carlos Alberto González-Alarcón, Francisco Grimaldo and
Alejandro Guerra-Hernández]
11:30 12:00 Combining Performance and Flexibility for RMS with a Hybrid Architecture [Daniël Telgen, Leo Van Moergestel,
Erik Puik, Pascal Muller, Arjan Groenewegen, Dick van der Steen, Dennis Koole, Patrick de Wit, Arjen van Zanten and John-Jules Meyer]
12:00 12:30 Multi-Agent Learning in both Cooperative and Competitive Environments [Francisca Teixeira, Antonio J. M.
Castro, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira]
DEMO ROOM
Software demonstration session
12:30 14:00 Lunch
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14:00 15:30 | TeMA2 | KDBI2 | GAI1 | * |
AUDITORIUM
TeMA2 [Chair: Joaquim Silva]
14:00 14:30 Compact and Fast Indexes for Translation Related Tasks [Jorge Costa, Luís Gomes, Gabriel Lopes, Luis M. S. Russo
and Nieves R. Brisaboa]
14:30 15:00 Defining a Probabilistic Translation Dictionaries Algebra [Alberto Simões, José João Almeida and Nuno Ramos
Carvalho]
15:00 15:30 Towards the Automatic Enrichment of a Portuguese Wordnet with Dictionary Definitions [Hugo Gonçalo
Oliveira and Paulo Gomes]
ROOM 1
KDBI2 [Chair: Nuno Marques]
14:00 14:30 SMOTE for Regression [Luis Torgo, Rita Ribeiro, Bernhard Pfahringer and Paula Branco]
14:30 15:00 (TD)2PaM: a Constraint-based Algorithm for Mining Temporal Patterns in Transactional Databases [Sílvia
Moura Pina and Cláudia Antunes]
15:00 15:30 An Eigenvector-based Hotspot Detection [Hadi Fanaee-T and João Gama]
ROOM 2
GAI1 [Chair: Pedro Rangel Henriques]
14:00 14:30 An Associative State-Space Metric for Learning in Factored MDPs [Pedro Sequeira, Francisco S. Melo and Ana
Paiva]
14:30 15:00 A Distributed Approach to Diagnosis Candidate Generation [Nuno Cardoso and Rui Abreu]
15:00 15:30 Probabilistic Vector Machine. Scalability through Clustering Hybridization [Mihai Cimpoesu, Andrei Sucila and
Henri Luchian]
15:30 16:30 Coffee-break
16:30 SOCIAL EVENT
MEETING POINT FOR ALL PROGRAMS: Next to the main conference building at the University site.
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
9:00 10:00 | INVITED LECTURE | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
INVITED SPEAKER: Maria Fasli, University of Essex (UK)
Title: Exploring Complex MAS Systems: Applications & Challenges
[chair: José Cascalho]
10:00 10:30 Coffee-break
10:30 12:30 | TeMA3 – CMBSB | KDBI3 | MASTA2 | DEMO |
AUDITORIUM
TeMA3 [Chair: José João Almeida]
10:30 11:00 Rule Induction for Sentence Reduction [João Cordeiro, Gaël Dias and Pavel Brazdil]
11:00 11:30 Opinions in User Reviews: An Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Techniques [Filipa Peleja and João Magalhães]
CMBSB [Chair: Sara Madeira]
11:30 12:00 Class Imbalance in the Prediction of Dementia from Neuropsychological Data [Cecília Nunes, Dina Silva,
Manuela Guerreiro, Alexandre Mendonca, Alexandra Carvalho and Sara Madeira]
12:00 12:30 A Noise Removal Algorithm for Time Series Microarray Data [Naresh Doni Jayavelu and Nadav Bar]
ROOM 1
KDBI3 [Chair: Luís Cavique]
10:30 11:00 Mining Discrimination Patterns along Temporal Databases [André Magalhães and Paulo J. Azevedo ]
11:00 11:30 Sequential Pattern Mining of Price Interactions [Nuno C. Marques and Luis Cavique]
11:30 12:00 Distributed Social Data Collection for Home Energy Management [Rui Magalhães, Pedro Henriques Abreu, Rafael
Jegundo and Daniel Castro Silva]
12:00 12:30 ETL-Text: Extract-Transform-Load Processes for Textual Data Warehousing [Rachid Aknouche, Ounas Asfari,
Fadila Bentayeb and Omar Boussaid]
ROOM 2
MASTA2 [Chair: Daniel Silva]
10:30 11:00 SAT-based Bounded Model Checking for Weighted Deontic Interpreted Systems [Bozena Wozna-Szczesniak]
11:00 11:30 Distributed Coalition Structure Generation with Positive and Negative Externalities [Daniel Epstein and Ana L.
C. Bazzan]
11:30 12:00 A Selective Attention-based, Multi-Agent, Travel Information System [Luis Macedo, Hernani Costa and F. Amílcar
Cardoso]
12:00 12:30 MAS-ML Tool: An Environment to Model Normative Multi-Agent Systems [Emmanuel Sávio Silva Freire,
Robert Marinho Da Rocha Júnior and Mariela Inés Cortés]
DEMO ROOM
Software demonstration session
12:30 14:00 Lunch
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14:00 16:00 | IROBOT1 | KDBI4 | GAI2 | * |
AUDITORIUM
IROBOT1 [Chair: Luis Paulo Reis]
14:00 14:30 Loop Closure Detection with a Holistic Image Feature [Francisco Campos, Luís Correia and João Calado]
14:30 15:00 Online SLAM Based on a Fast Scan-matching Algorithm [Eurico Pedrosa, Nuno Lau and Artur Pereira]
15:00 15:30 3D Digital Maps for Vineyard Autonomous Robot Navigation [Olga Contente, José Aranha, José Martinho, Fernando
Santos, Manuel Reis, Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Nuno Lau and Raul Morais]
15:30 16:00 Towards Extraction of Topological Maps from 2D and 3D Occupancy Grids Maps [Filipe Santos, António P.
Moreira and Paulo Costa]
ROOM 1
KDBI4 [Chair: Nuno C. Marques]
14:00 14:30 Brokerage Discovery in Social Networks [Luís Cavique]
14:30 15:00 Economic Activity Recognition [António Paulo Santos, Paulo Bengala and Nuno C. Marques ]
15:00 15:30 Web Recommendations Using Agents [A. Jorge Morais, Eugénio Oliveira and Alípio Jorge]
ROOM 2
GAI2 [Chair: Miguel Calejo]
14:00 14:30 A Statistical Binary Classier. Probabilistic Vector Machine [Mihai Cimpoesu, Andrei Sucila and Henri Luchian]
14:30 15:00 Towards Practical Tabled Abduction in Logic Programs [ Ari Saptawijaya and Luís Moniz Pereira]
15:00 15:30 Intention-based Decision Making for Strategic Scenarios Dynamics via Computational Logic [Anh Han The
and Luís Moniz Pereira]
15:30 16:00 Resource Constrained Project Scheduling With General Precedence Relations Optimized With SAT [Rui
Alves, Filipe Alvelos and Sérgio Sousa]
16:00 16:30 Coffee-break
16:30 18:00 | IROBOT2 | AIAE1 | SSM1 | * |
AUDITORIUM
IROBOT2 [Chair: Nuno Lau]
16:30 17:00 Increasing Illumination Invariance of SURF Feature Detector Through Color Constancy [Marcelo Petry,
António P. Moreira and Luis Paulo Reis]
17:00 17:30 Aerial Ball Perception Based on the Use of a Single Perspective Camera [João Silva, Mário Antunes, Nuno Lau,
António J. R. Neves and Luís Lopes]
17:30 18:00 Human Detection and Tracking Using a Kinect Camera for an Autonomous Service Robot [Luís Ferreira,
António J. R. Neves, Artur Pereira, Eurico Pedrosa and João Cunha]
ROOM 1
SSM1 [Chair: Virginia Dignum]
16:30 17:00 Dynamics of Relative Agreement in Multiple Social Contexts [Davide Nunes, Luis Antunes and Frederic Amblard]
17:00 17:30 Towards an Agent Based Modeling: The Prediction and Prevention of the Spread of the Species Drywood
Termite Cryptotermes brevis [Orlando Guerreiro, Miguel Ferreira, Jose Cascalho and Paulo Borges]
17:30 18:00 Are Markets More Efficient When Cognitive Agents Act Rationally? Evidence from the El Farol [Davi
Baccan and Luis Macedo]
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ROOM 2
AIAE1 [Chair: Paulo Novais]
16:30 17:00 Studying Stress on e-Learning Users [Davide Carneiro, Paulo Novais, Sérgio Gonçalves and José Neves]
17:00 17:30 Multi-agent System for Controlling a Cloud Computing Environment [Fernando de La Prieta, María Navarro, Jose
A. García, Roberto González and Sara Rodríguez]
17:30 18:00 A Regression-based Method for Real-Time Emotional State Detection in Interactive Environments [Pedro
Alves Nogueira, Rui Rodrigues, Eugénio Oliveira and Lennart Nacke]
18:00 19:00 | APPIA MEETING | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
APPIA Meeting
20:00 23:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
LOCATION: Forte de São Sebastião (buses to dinner site depart at 19h45 from Terceira Mar Hotel)
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
9:00 10:00 | INVITED LECTURE | * | * | * |
AUDITORIUM
INVITED SPEAKER: Kenneth O. Stanley, University of Central Florida (US)
Title: When Algorithms Inform Real Life: Novelty Search and the Myth of the Objective
[chair: Eugénio Oliveira]
10:00 10:30 Coffee-break
10:30 12:30 | IROBOT3 | AIAE2 – ALEA1 | GAI3 | DEMO |
AUDITORIUM
AIAE2 [Chair: Ana Bazzan]
10:30 11:00 Visual Abstract Argumentation Solver [Nuno Lopes, Ricardo Santos and Goreti Marreiros]
11:00 11:30 Emotional Adaptive Model for Learning [Ana Figueiredo, Raquel Faria, Constantino Martins and Lino Figueiredo]
ALEA1 [Chair: Francisco Pereira]
11:30 12:00 An Ecosystem Based Model for Real-Time Generative Animation of Humanoid Non-Player Characters [Rui
Filipe Antunes and Frederic Fol Leymarie]
12:00 12:30 An Efficient Implementation of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Anti-coagulation Level
Prediction in Pharmacogenetics [Mauro Castelli, Davide Castaldi, Ilaria Giordani, Sara Silva, Leonardo Vanneschi, Francesco Archetti and
Daniele Maccagnola]
ROOM 1
IROBOT3 [Chair: António P. Moreira]
10:30 11:00 Trajectory Planning and Stabilization for Formations Acting in Dynamic Environments [Martin Saska]
11:00 11:30 Identifying Objectives and Execution Planning for Safe Human-Robot Cooperation [Stephan Puls, Christian
Giffhorn and Heinz Wörn]
11:30 12:00 Intelligent Wheelchair Manual Control Methods: A Usability Study by Cerebral Palsy Patients [Brígida
Monica Faria, Luis Miguel Ferreira, Luis Paulo Reis, Nuno Lau and Marcelo Petry]
12:00 12:30 Omnidirectional Walking and Active Balance for Soccer Humanoid Robot [Nima Shafii, Abbas Abdolmaleki, Rui
Ferreira, Nuno Lau and Luis Paulo Reis]
ROOM 2
GAI3 [Chair: Luís Correia]
10:30 11:00 An Or-Parallel Prolog Execution Model for Clusters of Multicores [João Santos and Ricardo Rocha]
11:00 11:30 Learning Shepherding Behavior [Michael Baumann and Hans Kleine Büning ]
11:30 12:00 Detecting Change in Diverse Symbolic Worlds [Michael Cox, Tim Oates, Matthew Paisner and Don Perlis]
12:00 12:30 Matrix Factorization with Latent-space Clustering for Group-recommendations [João Magalhães and Pedro Dias]
DEMO ROOM
Software demonstration session
12:30 14:00 Lunch
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14:00 16:00 | IROBOT4 - GAI4 | ALEA2 | AITS1 | * |
AUDITORIUM
ALEA2 [Chair: Leonardo Vanneschi]
14:00 14:30 Dynamics of Neuronal Models in Online Neuroevolution of Robotic Controllers [Fernando Silva, Luís Correia
and Anders Lyhne Christensen]
14:30 15:00 Evolving an Harmonic Number Generator with ReNCoDe [Rui Lopes and Ernesto Costa]
15:00 15:30 GPU-based Automatic Conguration of Diferential Evolution: a Case Study [Roberto Ugolotti, Pablo Mesejo,
Youssef S. G. Nashed and Stefano Cagnoni]
15:30 16:00 Structure-based Constants in Genetic Programming [Christian Veenhuis]
ROOM 1
IROBOT4 [Chair: Brígida Mónica Faria]
14:00 14:30 Q-Batch: Initial Results with a Novel Update Rule for Batch Reinforcement Learning [João Cunha, Nuno Lau
and António J. R. Neves]
14:30 15:00 Towards Supervised Acquisition of Robot Activity Experiences: an Ontology-based Approach [Aneesh
Chauhan, Luís Seabra Lopes, Ana Maria Tomé and Armando Pinho]
GAI4 [Chair: Luis Paulo Reis]
15:00 15:30 Combining Transaction Logic and Domain Description Languages [Ana Sofia Gomes and José Júlio Alferes]
15:30 16:00 User Influence on Twitter: Prediction Based on Personality and Content-based Features [Renê Gadelha,
Ricardo Prudêncio, Rinaldo Lima and Cleyton Souza]
ROOM 2
AITS1 [Chair: Rosaldo Rossetti]
14:00 14:30 Application of Articial Neural Networks to Predict the Impact of Traffic Emissions on Human Health [Tânia
Fontes, Luís M Silva, Sérgio R Pereira and Margarida C. Coelho]
14:30 15:00 Outdoor Vacant Parking Space Detector for Improving Mobility in Smart Cities [Carmen Bravo, Nuria Sanchez,
Noa Garca and Jose Manuel Menendez]
15:00 15:30 Paying the Price of Learning Independently in Route Choice [Ana L. C. Bazzan]
16:00 16:30 Coffee-break
16:30 18:00 | SSM2 | ALEA3 | AITS2 | * |
AUDITORIUM
ALEA3 [Chair: Sara Silva]
16:30 17:00 A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for a Longest Common Subsequence Problem Variant [Mauro Castelli, Stefano
Beretta and Leonardo Vanneschi]
17:00 17:30 Hybrid Swarm Intelligent Node Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks [Stefania Monica and Gianluigi Ferrari]
17:30 18:00 A Study of Hyper-Heuristics for Hybridizing Search [Nelishia Pillay]
ROOM 1
SSM2 [Chair: Luís Antunes]
16:30 17:00 The Social Meaning of Physical Action [Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum and Catholijn Jonke]
17:00 17:30 A New Set of Tools Supporting Agent-Based Economic Modelling [Richard Oliver Legendi and Laszlo Gulyas]
17:30 18:00 Migrations: An Agent-Based Approach [Tiago Almeida and Ariel Guerreiro]
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ROOM 2
AITS2 [Chair: Rosaldo Rossetti]
16:30 17:00 On Predicting the Taxi-Passenger Demand: A Real-Time Approach [Luis Moreira-Matias, João Gama, Michel
Ferreira, João Mendes-Moreira and Luis Damas]
17:00 17:30 inTime A Crowd-sourced Approach to Urban Mobility Through Time Predictions [Rui Chicória, João Claro, João
Duro, Ricardo Lopes and Carlos Bento]
AUDITORIUM
18:30 19:30 CLOSING & FAREWELL SESSION
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Angra do Heroísmo
University of Azores
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SOCIAL EVENT
Program 1 – Walking tour in the historic UNESCO world heritage city of Angra do Heroísmo
In this program the participants will have the opportunity to visit and know more about the history of this
beautiful city. Like other important monuments for the history of the maritime explorations of the XV and
XVI centuries, Angra do Heroísmo holds an eminent position in the communications between the great
civilizations of Africa, Asia, America and Europe. The port of Angra do Heroísmo served as a link for almost
three centuries between Europe and the 'New World'. Vasco de Gama in 1499 and Pedro Álvares Cabral in
1536 set up an obligatory port-of-call for the fleets of Equatorial Africa and of the East and West Indies
during their voyages back and forth from Europe.
Tour Guide: Maria Ornelas (Art Historian)
Tour: Meeting point University of the Azores facilities - 16:30. Visit to
the S. Gonçalo church, S. João Baptista Fortress and Capitães Generais
Palace. The tour ends in the City Museum (19h20) with a tasting of
regional products.
Price: Free
Maximum participants: 40
Program 2 – Tour to the volcano Algar do Carvão and the island natural landscape
You will have the chance to visit one of the most impressive natural monuments in the Azores archipelago,
the “Algar do Carvão”. This is an ancient volcano located in the center of the island and we’ll visit the now
empty lava chamber. This cave now hosts a number of unique animal species, who became isolated and
speciated right here. On the way to the Algar taking a detour to “Serra do Cume” we’ll see part of the typical
Azorean landscape, only possible due to the geological and climatic conditions of the island.
Tour Guide: Pedro Cardoso (Biologist and speleologist)
Tour: Meeting point University of the Azores facilities - 16:20 (departure by bus
at 16h30). Visit the Algar do Carvão, caldeira “Guilherme Moniz”, “Serra do
Cume” and enjoy the sight to the “rendilhado” (typical pasture landscape). The
tour ends in the City Museum (19h20) with a tasting of regional products.
Price: €5
Maximum participants: 50
Program 3- Boat tour along the shore, swim in the ocean, dolphin and whale watching (eventually)
The Azores archipelago presents a great diversity of cetacean species. This great variety of species, allied to
a relative easiness of observing the animals, at least during the summer months, makes the Azores a
privileged area for the research of this marine mammal group.
Tour Guide: Orlando Guerreiro (Biologist and experienced sailor)
Tour: Meeting point University of the Azores facilities - 16:30 (departure
in the Ocean Emotion van). Boarding time at 17:00 in the Angra do
Heroísmo Marina, searching for dolphins (and whales), visit the shore and
islets and swim in the deep ocean (for brave ones). The tour ends in the
City Museum (19h20m) with a tasting of regional products.
Price: €20 – 25 €
Maximum participants: 27 (minimum participants: 10)
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GENERAL INFORMATION
REGISTRATION DESK
Is located in the small building in front of the main conference building.
COFFEE-BREAKS
Will be served in the main conference building.
LUNCH
Will be served at the university restaurant by the company “Ambientes com Sabores”. Each lunch
will consist on soup, main dish with vegetarian option and fruit. Please deliver your lunch stamp to
the person in charge on site.
DINNER
You are on your own. However, we may recommend the following places:
- Ambientes com Sabores (Rua Direita)
- Adega Lusitânia (Rua de São Pedro)
- O Pátio (Largo Prior do Crato)
- Casa do Peixe (Rua Gaspar Côrte Real)
- Cais de Angra (Porto de Pipas)
- Beira Mar (Fishing port of São Mateus, 5 km West of Angra)
CONFERENCE DINNER
Will be served at Forte de São Sebastião by the company “Ambientes com Sabores”. Please deliver
your dinner stamp to the person in charge on site.
INTERNET ACCESS
Username: epia2013
Password: epia2013
Wireless network:
SSID: eduroam (no caps)
*SSID is hidden, there is no network broadcast
Security: WPA Enterprise
Encryption: TKIP
Authentication: Protected EAP (PEAP)
*User authentication
Method: EAP-MSCHAP v2
For internet access at the student residence please contact the organization
MINIBUS
A minibus runs all day between the roundabout close to Terceira Mar Hotel and the Bullfight
Arena, crossing the City Center in both directions. The fee is 0.20€.
EMERGENCIES
Universal emergency number is 112. The Hospital is located north of the city, with no easy access
by other means than car. Almost all pharmacies are easily located around Rua da Sé, between the
cathedral (“Sé”) and the City’s Central Square (“Praça Velha”).
URGENT CONTACTS
José Cascalho (969824386)
Pedro Cardoso (968093073)
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