Advances in Intelligent Systems: Concepts, Tools and Applications (Hardcover, 1999)

Preface. Contributors. Editorial. Part I: Computer-Aided Intelligent System and Tools. 1. Sources of Efficiency in Planning: A Survey; A. Tsois, S.G. Tzafestas. 2. An Interactive Geometric Constraint Solver; I. Fudos. 3. An Intelligent Agent Framework in VRML Worlds; T. Panayiotopoulos, et al. 4. Determining the Visual Interpretation of Actions in Interactive Stories; N.M. Sgouros, S. Sotirchos. 5. An Attribute Grammar Driven High-Level Synthesis Paradigm for Control Applications; G.E. Economakos, G.K. Papakonstantinou. 6. A Case Study in Specifying the Denotational Semantics of C; N.S. Papaspyrou. 7. A Multi-Agent Model for Content-Based Electronic Document Filtering; N.S. Papaspyrou, et al. 8. An Array Architecture for Syntactic Pattern Recognition; A. Koulouris, et al. 9. A Smart Load Balance Scheme for an Automatic Arbitrage Detection System; C.P. Voliotis, et al. 10. Intelligent Guidance in Virtual University; T. Panayiotopoulos, et al. Part II: Information Extraction from Texts, Natural Language Interfaces and Intelligent Retrieval Systems. 11. Question Answering and Information Extraction from Texts; J. Kontos, I. Malagardi. 12. Names Entity Recognition from Greek Texts: The GIE Projects; V. Karkaletsis, et al. 13. Using Functional Style Features to Enhance Information Extraction from Greek Texts; S.E. Michos, et al. 14. Lexical Knowledge Extraction from Technical Texts; I. Blank. 15. Information Extraction Techniques for Multilevel Text Matching; V. Di Tomaso, G. D'Angelo. 16. Parallel Information Extraction Systems for Multilingual Information Access; L. Dini. 17. Using Information Extraction for Knowledge Entering; F. Vichot, et al. 18. Eliciting Terminological Knowledge for Information Extraction Applications; B. Georgantopoulos, S. Piperidis. 19. Natural Language Interface to an Agent; J. Kontos, et al. 20. Using Forward Temporal Planning for the Production of Interactive Tutoring Dialogues; T. Panayiotopoulis, et al. 21. Content-Based Audio Retrieval Using a Generalized Algorithm; P. Piamsa-Nga, et al. 22. Intelligent Retrieval of Temporal and Periodic Data; L. Baxevanaki, et al. Part III: Image Processing and Video-Based Systems. 23. A Java-Based Image Processing System; P. Androutsos, et al. 24. Wavelet Image Compression: A Comparative Study; K. Friesen, et al. 25. Effective Image Expansion Using Subband Filterbanks; V. Alexopoulos, et al. 26. Color Image Segmentation for Multimedia Applications; N. Ikonomakis, et al. 27. Transformations Between Pictures from 2D to 3D; M. Sigmund, P. Novotny. 28. A Multicamera Active 3D Reconstruction Approach; T. Lilas, S. Kollias. 29. Video Object Segmentation Using the EM Algorithm; N.D. Doulamis, et al. 30. Estimation of 3D Motion and Structure of Human Faces; Y. Xirouhakis, et al. 31. Face Recognition Based on Multiple Representations: Splitting the Error Space; M. Leonidou, et al. 32. An Efficient Algorithm for Rendering Parametric Curves;