Advances in artificial intelligence. 13th biennial conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2000, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, May 14--17, 2000. Proceedings (Q1567497)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Schaeffer, Jonathan; Plaat, Aske}, Unifying single-agent and two-player search, 1-12 [Zbl 0987.68719] \textit{van Rijswijck, Jack}, Are bees better than fruitflies? Experiments with a Hex playing program, 13-25 [Zbl 0987.68534] \textit{Nagarajan, Sivakumar; Goodwin, Scott; Sattar, Abdul}, A constraint directed model for partial constraint satisfaction problems, 26-39 [Zbl 0987.68533] \textit{Barker, Ken; Cornacchia, Nadia}, Using noun phrase heads to extract document keyphrases, 40-52 [Zbl 0987.68720] \textit{Barrière, Caroline; Popwich, Fred}, Expanding the type hierarchy with nonlexical concepts, 53-68 [Zbl 0987.68671] \textit{Moulin, Bernard; Kettani, Driss; Gauthier, Benjamin; Chaker, Walid}, Using object influence areas to quantitatively deal with neighborhood and perception in route descriptions, 69-81 [Zbl 0987.68752] \textit{Kubon, Petr Pp; Popowich, Fred; Tisher, Gordon}, An extendable natural language interface to a consumer service database, 82-89 [Zbl 0987.68650] \textit{Sebban, Marc; Nock, Richard}, Identifying and eliminating irrelevant instances using information theory, 90-101 [Zbl 0987.68520] \textit{Yang, Qiang; Wu, Jing}, Keep it simple: A case-base maintenance policy based on clustering and information theory, 102-114 [Zbl 0987.68745] \textit{Vitória, Aida; Mamede, Margarida}, On the integration of recursive \(\mathcal {ALN}\)-theories, 115-125 [Zbl 0987.68075] \textit{McDonald, Scott; Turcato, Davide; McFetridge, Paul; Popowich, Fred; Toole, Janine}, Collocation discovery for optimal bilingual lexicon development, 126-137 [Zbl 0987.68657] \textit{Scarlett, Elizabeth; Szpakowicz, Stan}, The power of the TSNLP: Lessons from a diagnostic evaluation of a broad-coverage parser, 138-150 [Zbl 0987.68724] \textit{Hannon, Charles; Cook, Diane}, A parallel approach to unified cognitive modeling of language processing within a visual context, 151-163 [Zbl 0987.68726] \textit{Lallement, Yannick; Fox, Mark S.}, Interact: A staged approach to customer service automation, 164-175 [Zbl 0987.68683] \textit{Hahn, Udo; Schulz, Stefan}, Towards very large terminological knowledge bases: A case study from medicine, 176-186 [Zbl 0987.68715] \textit{Liscano, Ramiro; Baker, Katherine; Meech, John}, The use of ontologies and meta-knowledge to facilitate the sharing of knowledge in a multi-agent personal communication system, 187-200 [Zbl 0987.68735] \textit{Wiese, Kay C.; Goodwin, Scott D.; Nagarajan, Sivakumar}, ASERC -- a genetic sequencing operator for asymmetric permutation problems, 201-213 [Zbl 0987.68528] \textit{Han, Jianchao; An, Aijun; Cercone, Nick}, CViz: An interactive visualization system for rule induction, 214-226 [Zbl 0987.68662] \textit{Xiang, Yang; Hu, Xiaohua; Cercone, Nicholas J.; Hamilton, Howard J.}, Learning pseudo-independent models: Analytical and experimental results, 227-239 [Zbl 0987.68529] \textit{Upal, M. Afzal; Elio, Renee}, Learning rewrite rules versus search control rules to improve plan quality, 240-253 [Zbl 0987.68684] \textit{Stenz, Gernot; Wolf, Andreas}, Scheduling methods for parallel automated theorem proving, 254-266 [Zbl 0987.68532] \textit{Yan, Jianjun; Tokuda, Naoyuki; Miyamichi, Juichi}, Simulating competing Alife organisms by constructive compound neural networks, 267-279 [Zbl 0987.68530] \textit{Eavis, Todd; Japkowicz, Nathalie}, A recognition-based alternative to discrimination-based multi-layer perceptrons, 280-292 [Zbl 0987.68645] \textit{Ghorbani, Ali A.; Bayat, Lila}, Accelerated backpropagation learning: Extended dynamic parallel tangent optimization algorithm, 293-304 [Zbl 0987.68751] \textit{Najarian, Kayvan; Dumont, Guy A.; Davies, Michael S.; Heckman, Nancy E.}, Neural ARX models and PAC learning, 305-315 [Zbl 0987.68057] \textit{Baillie, Jean-Christophe; Ganascia, Jean-Gabriel}, Qualitative descriptors and action perception, 316-325 [Zbl 0987.68698] \textit{Bowes, Jeff; Neufeld, Eric; Greer, Jim E.; Cooke, John}, A comparison of association rule discovery and Bayesian network causal inference algorithms to discover relationships in discrete data, 326-336 [Zbl 0987.68723] \textit{Garzone, Mark; Mercer, Robert E.}, Towards an automated citation classifier, 337-346 [Zbl 0987.68714] \textit{Han, Jianchao; Cercone, Nick}, Typical example selection for learning classifiers, 347-356 [Zbl 0987.68718] \textit{Hussin, Mahmoud F.; Abouelnasr, Badr M.; Shoukry, Amin A.}, Comparative study of neural network controllers for nonlinear dynamic systems, 357-368 [Zbl 0987.93502] \textit{Karimi, Kamran}, The iterative multi-agent method for solving complex search problems, 369-378 [Zbl 0987.68710] \textit{Morin, Johanne; Matwin, Stan}, Relational learning with transfer of knowledge between domains, 379-388 [Zbl 0987.68699] \textit{Scheutz, Matthias}, Surviving in a hostile multi-agent environment: How simple affective states can aid in the competition for resources, 389-399 [Zbl 0987.68728] \textit{Situ, Qihua; Stroulia, Eleni}, Task-structure based mediation: The travel-planning assistant example, 400-410 [Zbl 0987.68706] \textit{Suderman, Matthew; Delgrande, James}, Considerations on compositional update operators, 411-420 [Zbl 0987.68519] \textit{Tawfik, Ahmed Y.; Barrie, Trevor}, The degeneration of relevance in uncertain temporal domains: An empirical study, 421-431 [Zbl 0987.68708] \textit{Zhang, Huajie; Ling, Charles X.; Zhao, Zhiduo}, The learnability of naive Bayes, 432-441 [Zbl 0987.68531] \textit{Charniak, Eugene}, Parsing to meaning, statistically, 442 [Zbl 0987.68696] \textit{Żytkow, Jan M.}, Automated discovery: A fusion of multidisciplinary principles, 443-448 [Zbl 0987.68654]