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TENTATIVE PROGRAMME

 

21 July

 

22 July

 

23 July

9:00-9:30

 

Registration

 

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:00-9:30

Registration

 

9:30-10:00

 

Opening Session

9:30-10:30

Plenary Session P2
The Role of Ontologies in Data Integration
Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

9:30-11:00

Session A9
Decision Support Systems

 

Session B9
Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

10:00-11:00

Plenary Session P1
New Advances on Solving Large Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems - New Approaches, Neighborhoods and Data Structures
César Rego,
University of Mississipi, USA

11:00-11:30

Coffee-break

11:00-11:30

Coffee-break

11:30-13:00

 

Session A1
Knowledge-based Systems

 

Session B1
Data Mining Techniques

 

10:30-11:30

Session A5
Constraint Logic Programming

 

Session B5
Ontologies I

11:30-12:30

Panel
Future trends in Artificial Intelligence

Session B10
Control

11:30-12:00

Coffee-break

12:00-13:00

Session A6
Machine Learning

 

Session B6
Ontologies II

12:30-13:00

Closing Session

13:00-14:30

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:00

Session A2
Electricity Markets

 

Session B2
Scheduling and Manufacturing

14:30-16:00

Session A7
Search and Optimization

 

Session B7
Ontologies III

 

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee-break

16:00-17:30

Session A3
Heuristic Search Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

 

Session B3
Logic Programming and Uncertainties

16:30-18:30

Session A8
Simulation and Multi-Agent Systems

 

Session B8
Web Services and Information Systems

17:00-24:00

Conference Dinner

17:30-18:00

Coffee-break

18:00-19:30

Session A4
Optimization Models and Algorithms

 

Session B4
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and E-Learning

 

July, 21 – Wednesday

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-10:00 Opening Session

10:00-11:00 - Plenary Session P1

New Advances on Solving Large Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems - New Approaches, Neighborhoods and Data Structures

César Rego, University of Mississipi, USA

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 Sessions A1 and B1

Session A1: Knowledge-based Systems

Chairs: S. J. Lee (Korea), Péter Kádar (Hungary)

ICKEDS083

Simplifying Maintenance on Intelligent Alarm Processing Systems

Walfredo Cirne, Alexandre Duarte, Jorge Figueiredo, Marcus Sampaio, Jacques Sauvé, Eloi Neto, António Araújo, Maria Cavalcante

Brazil

ICKEDS094

Preservation, Development and Transfer of the Dispatcher Knowledge

Péter Kádár

Hungary

ICKEDS078

On the Verification of Expert Systems: A case study on the Power Systems area

Jorge Santos, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos

Portugal

ICKEDS107

An Autonomous Optimal Coordination Scheme in a Protection System of a Power Distribution Network by using a Multi-Agent concept

K.H. Jung, B.W. Min, M.S. Choi, S.J. Lee, S.H. Hyun, S.H. Kang

Korea

 

Session B1: Data Mining Techniques

Chairs: Fátima Rodrigues (Portugal), Nuno Malheiro (Portugal)

ICKEDS051

Hybrid Knowledge Discovery approach based on Inductive Data Mining and Evolution

Matej Mertik, Peter Kokol, Bruno Stiglic

Slovenia

ICKEDS067

Knowledge Based SVM

Takuro Fukunaga, Toshihide Ibaraki

Japan

ICKEDS071

Classifiers based on Iterative Compositions of Features

Kazuya Haraguchi*, Toshihide Ibaraki*, Endre Boros **

*Japan, **USA

ICKEDS014

Knowledge Engineering for Competitive Advantage, a case for Revenue Authorities

Yakomba Yavwa

Zambia

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Sessions A2 and B2

Session A2: Electricity Markets

Chairs: Zita Vale (Portugal), Isabel Praça (Portugal)

ICKEDS085

A Wholesale Electricity Market Simulation Tool

Teresa Nogueira, Zita Vale, António Vale

Portugal

ICKEDS110

Market Power Detection – Simultaneous Interchange Capability Evaluation under Transmission Congestion

Manuel Gonçalves, Zita Vale

Portugal

ICKEDS111

Strategic Coalition Impact on Transmission Costs

Judite Ferreira, Manuel Gonçalves, Zita Vale

Portugal

ICKEDS109

Optimal Contracts Allocation using Mean Variance Optimization method

Filipe Azevedo, Zita Vale

Portugal

Session B2: Scheduling and Manufacturing

Chairs: Jose Garcia (Spain), José Brandão (Portugal)

ICKEDS046

Horizontal Scheduling with Batch Overlapping

Ana Almeida, Carlos Ramos, Sílvio Carmo Silva

Portugal

ICKEDS042

A Tabu Search based Scheduling System for Dynamic Environments in Manufacturing

Ana Madureira, Carlos Ramos, Sílvio Carmo Silva

Portugal

ICKEDS072

A Tabu search for solving a Ready-Mix Concrete Orders Scheduling Problem

Jose Garcia, Sebastian Lozano, Fernando Guerrero

Spain

 

16:00-17:30 Sessions A3 and B3

Session A3: Heuristic Search Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization

Chairs: Dorabela Gamboa (Portugal), Renato Duarte (Portugal)

ICKEDS201

Advances on Data Structure for Very-Large Scale Traveling Salesman Problem

Dorabela Gambôa *, Colin Osterman **, César Rego **

*Portugal, **USA

ICKEDS202

A filter and fan approach to the Job Shop Scheduling Problem: a preliminary study

Renato Duarte *, César Rego **, Dorabela Gambôa *

*Portugal, **USA

ICKEDS124

A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Delivery and Pickup

José Brandão

Portugal

 

Session B3: Logic Programming and Uncertainties

Chairs: Kevin Burns (USA), José Machado (Portugal)

ICKEDS054

Updating Legal Documents – The case of Phytosanitary Protection of Vegetables

Agostinho Monteiro, Luís Moniz Pereira

Portugal

ICKEDS043

A Bayesian Approach to Detecting a Hoax

Kevin Burns

USA

ICKEDS064

Decision Support for Power System Control Centers – A Model based reasoning Component

Nuno Malheiro, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos, Manuel Cordeiro, Albino Marques, Vieira Couto

Portugal

ICKEDS108

Reputation and Trust in the context of Logic-based Argumentation

Paulo Novais, César Analide, José Machado, José Neves

Portugal

 

17:30-18:00 Coffee-break

18:00-19:30 Sessions A4 and B4

Session A4: Optimization Models and Algorithms

Chairs: Cesar Rego (USA), Dorabela Gamboa (Portugal)

ICKEDS203

Surrogate Constraints for several classes of Combinatorial Problems

César Rego

USA

ICKEDS123

A Web based System for Multi-Agent Interactive Timetabling

João Pedro Pedroso, Nelma Moreira, Rogério Reis

Portugal

ICKEDS133

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): a Tool for measuring Efficiency and Performance

Jorge Santos*, José Dulá **

*Portugal, **USA

 

Session B4: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and E-Learning

Chairs: Luiz Faria (Portugal), António Silva (Portugal)

ICKEDS068

A Distributed Intelligent Tutoring System for Control Centre Operators Training

Luiz Faria, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos, Albino Marques

Portugal

ICKEDS044

Cooperation in Learning Power Systems Restoration Techniques

António Silva, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos

Portugal

ICKEDS070

E-Learning for complex Decision-Making with the support of a Web-based Adaptive ITS

Arnoldo Rodríguez, Esma Aïmeur, Felisa Vasquez-Abad

Canada

ICKEDS100

E-Learning in Medical Environments

Rui Mota, Victor Alves, José Machado, António Abelha, Luís Nelas

Portugal

 

July, 22 – Thursday

9:00-9:30 – Registration

9:30-10:30 - Plenary Session P2

The Role of Ontologies in Data Integration

Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

10:30-11:30 Sessions A5 and B5

Session A5: Constraint Logic Programming

Chairs: José Tavares (Portugal), Nuno Gomes (Portugal)

ICKEDS089

MAPSYS – Manufacturing Design Support System for Layout Generation using Constraint Programming and Evolutionary Hybrid Model

José Tavares

Portugal

ICKEDS096

Hybrid Methods for the Maintenance Scheduling of Generating Units Problems

Nuno Gomes, Zita Vale, Carlos Ramos, Manuel Cordeiro

Portugal

ICKEDS098

A Constraint based approach to the Maintenance Scheduling on Electrical Power Distribution Networks

Raul Pinheiro, Nuno Gomes, Zita Vale

Portugal

 

Session B5: Ontologies I

Chairs: Heiner Stuckenschmidt (Netherlands), Nuno Silva (Portugal)

ICKEDS058

An Ontology based approach to Business Modelling

Gang Zhao, Yanbin Gao, Robert Meersman

Belgium

ICKEDS060

Knowledge Ontology in Software Maintenance Outsourcing

Baru Rao, N. L. Sarda

India

ICKEDS204

Using Ontologies to critique and support decisions

Yannis Kalfoglou

UK

 

11:30-12:00 Coffee-break

12:00-13:00 Sessions A6 and B6

Session A6: Machine Learning

Chairs: Hadhoum Boukachour (France) , Maria João Viamonte (Portugal)

ICKEDS049

REBUILDER: A CBR approach to Knowledge Management in Software Design

Paulo Gomes, Francisco Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nuno Seco, Paulo Carreiro, José Ferreira, Carlos Bento

Portugal

ICKEDS028

Towards a Multi-Agent Architecture for Dynamic Case-Based Reasonong

G. Simon, H. Boukachour

France

ICKEDS039

The Actias system: Supervised multi-strategy learning paradigm using Categorical Logic

Carlos Leandro, Helder Pita, Luís Monteiro

Portugal

 

Session B6: Ontologies II

Chairs: Ljiljana Stojanovic (Germany) ,Jorge Santos (Portugal)

ICKEDS086

Service oriented semi-automatic Ontology Bridging

Nuno Silva, João Rocha

Portugal

ICKEDS120

Synthesizing an integrated Ontology with MOMIS

Roberta Benassi, Domenico Beneventano, Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Maurizio Vincini

Italy

ICKEDS117

Harvesting lightwirght Ontologies out of legacy XML sources

Oliver Fodor*, Hannes Werthner**

*Austria, **Italy

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Sessions A7 and B7

Session A7: Search and Optimization

Chairs: Adenso Diaz (Spain), Ana Almeida (Portugal)

ICKEDS052

Mathematical Models for Group Revenue Management

José Guadix, Juan Larrañeta, Luís Onieva

Spain

ICKEDS059

Finding the Disassembly Sequence at the end of life of a product: a Scatter Search approach

Adenso Díaz, Beatriz González

Spain

ICKEDS061

A Scatter Search approach for the Automated Branch Coverage in Software Testing

Raquel Blanco, Javier Tuya, Eugenia Diaz, Adenso Diaz

Spain

ICKEDS038

A novel Bi-subgroup Evolutionary Programming

Wang Xiang-jun, Ji Dou, Zhang Min

China

 

Session B7: Ontologies III

Chairs: Isabel Cruz (USA), João Rocha (Portugal)

ICKEDS081

Proposal for the combination of Ontology Assemble and Ontology Mapping processes

Nuno Silva, Jorge Santos, João Rocha

Portugal

ICKEDS080

On the engineering of pervading categories of knowledge – time and others

Jorge Santos*, Steffen Staab**

*Portugal, **Germany

ICKEDS118

An approach for continual Ontology Improvement

Ljiljana Stojaqnovic

Germany

ICKEDS116

Towards Automatic Partioning of Class Hierarchies

Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Michel Klein

Netherlands

16:00-16:30 Coffee-break

16:30-18:30 Sessions A8 and B8

Session A8: Simulation and Multi-Agent Systems

Chairs: Mohammed Haque (USA), Carlos Ramos (Portugal)

ICKEDS037

A Computer Simulation Model for Emergency Building Evacuation with Arena

Mohammed Haque

USA

ICKEDS114

Fabricare: An Agent-based System for Manufacturing

Paulo Sousa

Portugal

ICKEDS063

Agent-based Ecological Model Calibration – on the edge of a new approach

António Pereira, Pedro Duarte, Luís Paulo Reis

Portugal

ICKEDS088

An Agent-Based Approach to Support Decisions on Electronic Marketplaces

Maria João Viamonte, Carlos Ramos, Fátima Rodrigues, José Cardoso

Portugal

ICKEDS093

A Multi-Agent System to support Decision Making in Electricity Markets

Isabel Praça, Carlos Ramos, Zita Vale, Manuel Cordeiro

Portugal

 

Session B8: Web Services and Information Systems

Chairs: Patrick Albers (France), Ana Madureira (Portugal)

ICKEDS034

Web Services Composition using Reactive Planning

Daniela Claro, Patrick Albers, Jim-Kao Hao

France

ICKEDS050

Retrieving Citations on the Web

Dalibor Fiala

Czech Republic

ICKEDS053

Extending UML using profiles for Knowledge-based System Modelling

Mohd Syazwan Abdullah

UK

ICKEDS047

Using the Ontology Paradigm to Integrate Information Systems

Giovani Librelotto, José Ramalho, Pedro Henriques

Portugal

ICKEDS095

Software Configuration Management: Orthogonal Dimensions for Systems Evolution

Luís Lima, Carlos Ramos, Paulo Novais

Portugal

 

July, 23 – Friday

9:00-9:30 – Registration

9:30-11:00 Sessions A9 and B9

 

Session A9: Decision Support Systems

Chairs: Thomas Sauer (Germany), Paulo Sousa (Portugal)

ICKEDS045

WebMeeting – A Group Decision Support System for Multi-Criteria Decision problems

Goreti Marreiros, Jorge Pinho de Sousa, Carlos Ramos

Portugal

ICKEDS084

Defining a model for Agent-based Participant Support in Group Decision Meetings

Goreti Marreiros, Carlos Ramos, José Neves

Portugal

ICKEDS056

Decision Support for Software Project Planning and Enactment

Thomas Sauer, Sigrid Goldmann

Germany

ICKEDS073

SCALINTEL: A DSS Prototype with Scalable Intelligence

José Marinho, Carlos Ramos, José Oliveira

Portugal

 

Session B9: Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

Chairs: Vaselis Aggelis (Greece), José Neves (Portugal)

ICKEDS099

Data Warehousing through Multi-Agent Systems in the Medical area

António Abelha, José Machado, Victor Alves, José Neves

Portugal

ICKEDS040

Data Mining for Decision Support in E-Banking area

Vaselis Aggelis

Greece

ICKEDS062

Characterization of MV Consumers using Hierarchical Clustering

Sérgio Ramos, Vera Figueiredo, Fátima Rodrigues, Zita Vale

Portugal

ICKEDS065

Architecture to intregrate Discovered Knowledge in a Rule based System Knowledge Base

Paulo Oliveira, Fátima Rodrigues, Gabriel David

Portugal

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee-break

11:30-12:30 Session A10 and B10

Session A10: Panel – Future trends in Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Carlos Ramos

Panel members: to be announced

Session B10: Control

Chairs: José Tenreiro Machado (Portugal), Luís Palma (Portugal)

ICKEDS069

Voltage Collapse Preventive Control - A new method and tools

António Andrade, F. Maciel Barbosa

Portugal

ICKEDS082

Robust Fault Diagnosis approach using Analytical and Knowledge-based Techniques applied to Water Tank System

Luís Brito Palma, Fernando Vieira Coito, Rui Neves Silva

Portugal

ICKEDS057

Application of Fractional Calculus in the System Modelling and Control

J. Tenreiro Machado, Ramiro Barbosa, Manuel Silva, Lino Figueiredo, Isabel Jesus, Alexandra Galhano

Portugal

12:30-13:00 Closing Session

13:00-14:30 Lunch

17:00-24:00 Conference Dinner

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