AI and Computational Logic and Image Analysis (AI) Track Chair: C.C. Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA Track Co-Chair: Agostinho Rosa, LaSEEB –ISR – IST, Portugal Track Editorial...........................................................................................................................................3 Experimenting with a Real-Size Man-Hill to Optimize Pedagogical Paths..........................................3 Gregory Valigiani, University of Calais Yannick Jamont, Paraschool Company Claire Bourgeois Republique, University of Bourgogne Raphael Biojout, Paraschool Company Evelyne Lutton, INRIA Rocquencourt Pierre Collet, University of Calais An Hybridization of an Ant-based Clustering Algorithm with Growing Neural Gas Networks for Classification Tasks ...................................................................................................................................8 Marco A. Montes de Oca, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico Leonardo Garrido, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico José L. Aguirre, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico Reinforcement Learning Agents with Primary Knowledge Designed by Analytic Hierarchy Process.......................................................................................................................................................18 Kengo Katayama, Okayama University of Science, Japan Takahiro Koshiishi, Okayama University of Science, Japan Hiroyuki Narihisa, Okayama University of Science, Japan Estimating Manifold Dimension by Inverion Error.............................................................................26 Shawn Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Alex Bäcker, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Data Driven Approach to Designing Minimum Hamming Distance Polychotomizer………….......31 Jie Zhou, Northern Illinois University, USA Giovanni Pasteris, Northern Illinois University, USA Variable Selection and Ranking for Analyzing Automobile Traffic Accident Data………….. .......36 Huanjing Wang, The Unversity of Alabama, USA Allen Parrish, The University of Alabama, USA Randy K. Smith, The University of Alabama, USA Susan Vrbsky, The University of Alabama, USA Stochastic Scheduling of Active Support Vector Learning Algorithms ………….. ..........................42 Gaurav Pandey, University of Minnesota, USA Himanshu Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, India Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology, USA Poster Papers The T-detectors Maturation Algorithm Based on Match Range Model ………….. .........................47 Dongyong Yang, Zhejiang University of Technology, China Jungan Chen, Zhejiang University of Technology, China A Comparison on Information Fusion Methods for Air Target Identification ………….. ..............49 Dongseob Jang, McMaster University, Canada Sung Shin, South Dakota State University, USA Charlie Shim, South Dakota State University, USA C.C. Hung, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA Agents, Interactions, Mobility, and Systems (AIMS) Track Co-Chairs: Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA Niranjan Suri, IHMC / University of West Florida, USA Mobile Agents for Network Management: When and When Not!......................................................47 Huy Hoang To, Monash University, Australia Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Bala Srinivasan, Monash University, Australia Agent Technology for Personalized Information Filtering: The PIA-System ...................................54 Sahin Albayrak, DAI-Lab of TU of Berlin, Germany Stefan Wollny, DAI-Lab of TU of Berlin, Germany Nicolas Varone, DAI-Lab of TU of Berlin, Germany Andreas Lommatzsch, DAI-Lab of TU of Berlin, Germany Dragan Milosevic, DAI-Lab of TU of Berlin, Germany An Agent Model for Fault-tolerant Systems .........................................................................................60 Avelino Francisco Zorzo, PURCS, Brazil Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, PURCS, Brazil A Distributed Content-Based Search Engine Based on Mobile Code.................................................66 Volker Roth, OGM Laboratory, LLC, USA Ulrich Pinsdorf, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Jan Peters, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany An Empirical Evaluation of Communication Effectiveness in Autonomous Reactive Multiagent Systems......................................................................................................................................................74 David Hurt, University of North Texas, USA Paul Tarau, University of North Texas, USA A Multi-Agent Approach for Solving Optimization Problems involving Expensive Resources ......79 Hoong Chuin Lau, National University of Singapore, Singapore Hui Wang, University of Southern California, USA Forming Resource-Sharing Coalitions: A Distributed Resource Allocation Mechanism for Self- Interested Agents in Computational Grids............................................................................................84 Linli He, Texas A&M University, USA Thomas Ioerger, Texas A&M University, USA Poster Paper Reliability Analysis of Mobile Agent-based Systems............................................................................92 Mosaab Daoud, University of Guelph, Canada Qusay Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada Approximate Reasoning in Human Decision Making (ARHD) Track Co-Chairs: Robert John, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Johnathan Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Fuzzy Approach to Outsourcing of Information Technology Services...............................................94 Ludmil Mikhailov, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Petco Tsvetinov, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Bioinformatics (BIO) Track Co-Chairs: Mathew J. Palakal, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Sven Rahmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany Birong Liao, Lilly Research Laboratories, USA Track Editorial.........................................................................................................................................99 Efficient Discovery of Unique Signatures on Whole-genome EST Databases .................................100 Hsiao Ping Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Tzu Fang Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Yin Te Tsai, Providence University, Taiwan Grid-based Management of Biomedical Data using an XML-based Distributed Data Management System .....................................................................................................................................................105 Shannon Hastings, The Ohio State University, USA Stephen Langella, The Ohio State University, USA Scott Oster, The Ohio State University, USA Tahsin Kurc, The Ohio State University, USA Tony Pan, The Ohio State University, USA Umit Catalyurek The Ohio State University, USA, Dan Janies, The Ohio State University, USA Joel Saltz, The Ohio State University, USA A Complex Biological Database Querying Method ............................................................................110 Jake Yue Chen, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA John Carlis, University of Minnesota, USA Ning Gao, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA PViN - A Scalable and Flexible System for Visualizing Pedigree Databases ...................................115 Eric Wernert, Indiana University, USA Jagannathan Lakshmipathy, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Incremental Interactive Mining of Constrained Association Rules from Biological Annotation Data with Nominal Features .................................................................................................................123 Imad Rahal, North Dakota State University, USA Dongmei Ren, North Dakota State University, USA Amal Perera, North Dakota State University, USA Hassan Najadat, North Dakota State University, USA William Perrizo, North Dakota State University, USA Riad Rahal, University of Iowa, USA Willy Valdivia, Orion Intregrated Biosciences, USA A Framework for Result Handling in Bioinformatics: an Application to Computer Assisted Drug Design .....................................................................................................................................................128 Andrei Oliveira da Silva, LABIO – PPGCC/PUCRS, Brazil Osmar Norberto de Souza, LABIO – PPGCC/PUCRS, Brazil Graphical Rule-Based Representation of Signal-Transduction Networks.......................................133 James R. Faeder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Michael L. Blinov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA William S. Hlavacek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Generating Association Graphs of Non-Co-occurring Text Objects using Transitive Methods....141 Niranjin Jayadevaprakash, Purdue University, USA Snehasis Mukhopadhyay, Purdue University, USA Mathew Palakal, Purdue University, USA An Approximation Algorithm for Haplotype Inference by Maximum Parsimony.........................146 Yao-Ting Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ting Chen, University of Southern California, USA Efficient Mass Decomposition...............................................................................................................151 Sebastian Böcker, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Zsuzsanna Lipták, Universität Bielefeld, Germany CAFISS: A Complex Adaptive Framework for Immune System Simulation..................................158 Joc Cing Tay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Atul Jhavar, Nanyang