Advances in artificial intelligence. 16th Brazilian symposium on artificial intelligence, SBIA 2002, Porto de Galinhas/Recife, Brazil, November 11--14, 2002. Proceedings (Q1863677)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding symposium has been reviewed (see Zbl 0952.00052). Indexed articles: \textit{Veloso, Sheila R. M.; Veloso, Paulo A. S.}, On special functions and theorem proving in logics for `generally', 1-10 [Zbl 1031.03018] \textit{Perrussel, Laurent}, First-order contextual reasoning, 11-20 [Zbl 1031.68117] \textit{Finger, Marcelo; Wassermann, Renata}, Logics for approximate reasoning: Approximating classical logic ``from above'', 21-30 [Zbl 1031.68115] \textit{Wassermann, Renata; Chopra, Samir}, Attacking the complexity of prioritized inference. Preliminary report, 31-40 [Zbl 1031.68587] \textit{Brito, Carlos}, A new approach to the identification problem, 41-51 [Zbl 1031.68097] \textit{Garcia, Berilhes Borges; Brasil, Samuel M. jun.}, Towards default reasoning through MAX-SAT, 52-62 [Zbl 1031.68116] \textit{David, Nuno; Sichman, Jaime Simão; Coelho, Helder}, Multiple society organisations and social opacity: When agents play the role of observers, 63-73 [Zbl 1031.68610] \textit{Camponogara, Eduardo}, Altruistic agents in dynamic games, 74-84 [Zbl 1031.68125] \textit{Antunes, Luis; Coelho, Helder}, Towards a methodology for experiments with autonomous agents, 85-96 [Zbl 1031.68606] \textit{Moraes, Márcia Cristina; da Rocha Costa, Antônio Carlos}, How planning becomes improvisation? -- A constraint based approach for director agents in improvisational systems, 97-107 [Zbl 1031.68612] \textit{Bazzan, Ana L. C.; Adamatti, Diana F.; Bordini, Rafael H.}, Extending the computational study of social norms with a systematic model of emotions, 108-117 [Zbl 1031.68607] \textit{Hübner, Jomi Fred; Sichman, Jaime Simão; Boissier, Olivier}, A model for the structural, functional, and deontic specification of organizations in multiagent systems, 118-128 [Zbl 1031.68556] \textit{Urbano, Paulo; Moniz, Luís; Coelho, Helder}, The queen robots: Behaviour-based situated robots solving the \(n\)-queens puzzle, 129-139 [Zbl 1031.68599] \textit{Jung, João Luiz; Augustin Jaques, Patrícia; Ferreira de Andrade, Adja; Vicari, Rosa Maria}, The conception of agents as part of a social model of distance learning, 140-151 [Zbl 1031.68611] \textit{Oliveira, Eugénio; Sarmento, Luís}, Emotional valence-based mechanisms and agent personality, 152-162 [Zbl 1031.68613] \textit{Zunino, Alejandro; Campo, Marcelo; Mateos, Cristian}, Simplifying mobile agent development through reactive mobility by failure, 163-174 [Zbl 1031.68614] \textit{da Costa, Augusto Loureiro; Bittencourt, Guilherme}, Dynamic social knowledge: The timing evidence, 175-184 [Zbl 1031.68609] \textit{Eklund, Sven E.}, Empirical studies of neighborhood shapes in the massively parallel diffusion model, 185-194 [Zbl 1031.68560] \textit{Bianchi, Reinaldo A. C.; Costa, Anna H. R.}, Ant-ViBRA: A swarm intelligence approach to learn task coordination, 195-204 [Zbl 1031.68558] \textit{Neto, Joel Larocca; Freitas, Alex A.; Kaestner, Celso A. A.}, Automatic text summarization using a machine learning approach, 205-215 [Zbl 1031.68562] \textit{Cruz, Flavia; Baião, Fernanda; Mattoso, Marta; Zaverucha, Gerson}, Towards a theory revision approach for the vertical fragmentation of object oriented databases, 216-226 [Zbl 1031.68527] \textit{Bezerra, Byron; de A. T.de Carvalho, Francisco; Ramalho, Geber L.; Zucker, Jean-Daniel}, Speeding up recommender systems with meta-prototypes, 227-236 [Zbl 1031.68590] \textit{Teixeira, Ivan R.; de A. T.de Carvalho, Francisco; Ramalho, Geber L.; Corruble, Vincent}, ActiveCP: A method for speeding up user preferences acquisition in collaborative filtering systems, 237-247 [Zbl 1031.68592] \textit{de M. Queiroz, Sérgio R.; de A. T.de Carvalho, Francisco; Ramalho, Geber L.; Corruble, Vincent}, Making recommendations for groups using collaborative filtering and fuzzy majority, 248-258 [Zbl 1031.68591] \textit{Parpinelli, Rafael S.; Lopes, Heitor S.; Freitas, Alex A.}, Mining comprehensible rules from data with an ant colony algorithm, 259-269 [Zbl 1031.68564] \textit{Tomé, José A. B.}, Learning in fuzzy Boolean networks -- rule distinguishing power, 270-279 [Zbl 1031.68567] \textit{Pappa, Gisele L.; Freitas, Alex A.; Kaestner, Celso A. A.}, Attribute selection with a multi-objective genetic algorithm, 280-290 [Zbl 1031.68563] \textit{Silva, Carolina; Iochpe, Cirano; Engel, Paulo}, Applying the process of knowledge discovery in databases to identify analysis patterns for reuse in geographic database design, 291-301 [Zbl 1031.68528] \textit{dos Santos, Rafael Valle; Artola, Fredy; da Fontoura, Sérgio; Vellasco, Marley}, Lithology recognition by neural network ensembles, 302-312 [Zbl 1031.68559] \textit{de Oliveira, Alexandre César Muniz; Lorena, Luiz Antonio Nogueira}, 2-Opt population training for minimization of open stack problem, 313-323 [Zbl 1031.68586] \textit{Rodrigues, Ernesto; Pozo, Aurora}, Grammar-guided genetic programming and automatically defined functions, 324-333 [Zbl 1031.68565] \textit{Cordenonsi, Andre Zanki; Alvares, Luis Otavio}, An evolutionary behavior tool for reactive multi-agent systems, 334-344 [Zbl 1031.68608] \textit{Spinosa, Eduardo; Pozo, Aurora}, Controlling the population size in genetic programming, 345-354 [Zbl 1031.68566] \textit{da Silva, José Demisio Simões; Simoni, Paulo Ouvera}, The correspondence problem under an uncertainty reasoning approach, 355-365 [Zbl 1031.68597] \textit{Ide, Jaime S.; Cozman, Fabio G.}, Random generation of Bayesian networks, 366-375 [Zbl 1031.68561] \textit{da Rocha, José Carlos F.; Cozman, Fabio G.}, Evidence propagation in credal networks: An exact algorithm based on separately specified sets of probability, 376-385 [Zbl 1031.68596] \textit{Drummond, Isabela; Godo, Lluis; Sandri, Sandra}, Restoring consistency in systems of fuzzy gradual rules using similarity relations, 386-396 [Zbl 1031.68598] \textit{Maduro, Ralph Moreira; Carvalho, Ariadne M. B. R.}, Syntactic analysis for ellipsis handling in coordinated clauses, 397-406 [Zbl 1031.68605] \textit{Agustini, Alexandre; Gamallo, Pablo; Lopes, Gabriel P.}, Assessment of selection restrictions acquisition, 407-416 [Zbl 1031.68604]