MAICS 2011: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Sofia Visa, Atsushi Inoue, Anca L. Ralescu (Eds.): Proceedings of The 22nd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference 2011, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, April 16-17, 2011. CEUR-WS.org 2011 CEUR Workshop Proceedings 710
Session 1: Cognitive Science Society Special Session for Best Student Paper Award

Scott Vanderbeck, Joseph Bockhorst, Chad Oldfather: A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Sections in Legal Briefs. 16-22
Cristian Moldovan, Vasile Rus, Arthur C. Graesser: Automated Speech Act Classification For Online Chat. 23-29
Session 2: Expert Systems and Fuzzy Logic
Andrew Laughlin, Joshua Olson, Donny Simpson, Atsushi Inoue: Page Ranking Refinement Using Fuzzy Sets and Logic. 40-46
Ethan White, Lawrence J. Mazlack: Discovering Causality in Suicide Notes Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. 54-59
Session 3: Agent Systems and Evolutionary Algorithms
James Benze, Jennifer Seitzer: Robotic Dancing: Exploring Agents that use a Stratified Perceive-Decide-Act Cycle of Interaction. 62-66
Peter P. Wakabi-Waiswa, Venansius Baryamureeba: Mining High Quality Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms. 73-78
Session 4: Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Sciences I
Aniesha Alford, Khary Popplewell, Gerry V. Dozier, Kelvin S. Bryant, John Kelly, Joshua Adams, Tamirat Abegaz, Joseph Shelton: GEFeWS: A Hybrid Genetic-Based Feature Weighting and Selection Algorithm for Multi-Biometric Recognition. 86-90
Ryan Connaughton, Kevin W. Bowyer, Patrick J. Flynn: Fusion of Face and Iris Biometrics from a Stand-Off Video Sensor. 99-106
Session 5: Learning and Classification

Patrick Paulson, Thomas E. Carroll, Chitra Sivaraman, Peter Neorr, Stephen D. Unwin, Shamina Hossain: Simplifying Probability Elicitation and Uncertainty Modeling in Bayesian Networks. 114-119
Sofia Visa, Brian Ramsay, Anca L. Ralescu, Esther van der Knaap: Confusion Matrix-based Feature Selection. 120-127
Haiyun Bian: A Preliminary Study on Clustering Student Learning Data. 128-132
Joshua Thomas, Matthew Lambert, Bennjamin Snyder, Michael Janning, Jacob Haning, Yanlong Hu, Mohammad Ahmad, Sofia Visa: Learning Morphological Data of Tomato Fruits. 133-137
Joseph Phillips: Towards a Technique of Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Unit Conversion in Scientific Reasoning Systems. 154-159
Gustavo Rodriguez, David Francis, Esther van der Knaap, Jaymie Strecker, Itai Njanji, Josh Thomas, Atticus Jack: New Features and Many Improvements to Analyze Morphology and Color of Digitalized Plant Organs Are Available in Tomato Analyzer 3.0. 160-163
Session 7: Information Retrieval
Stanislav Ustymenko, Daniel G. Schwartz: Towards Agent-Oriented Knowledge Base Maintenance for Description Logic ALCN. 166-171
Tracey Hughes, Cameron Hughes: Extracting Micro Ontologies from Interrogative Domains For Epistemic Agents. 172-177
Whitney R. Vandiver: An Ontological Semantic Account of Relative Quantification in English. 178-185
Session 8: Intelligent Systems
Farzad Amirjavid, Kevin Bouchard, Abdenour Bouzouane, Bruno Bouchard: Spatiotemporal knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty for action recognition in smart homes. 188-194
Shiva Vafadar, Ahmad Abdollahzadeh Barforoush: Characteristics of Computational Intelligence (Quantitative Approach). 195-201
Isaac Schlittenhart, Jason Winters, Kyle Springer, Atsushi Inoue: Toward Robust Features for Remote Audio-Visual Classroom. 202-207
Sadhana K. Chidrawar, Balasaheb M. Patre: Hybrid Direct Neural Network Controller With Linear Feedback Compensator. 208-213
Session 9: Special Session: Artificial Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Sciences II
Joseph Shelton, Gerry V. Dozier, Kelvin S. Bryant, Lasanio Smalls, Joshua Adams, Khary Popplewell, Tamirat Abegaz, Damon L. Woodard, Karl Ricanek: Comparison of Genetic-based Feature Extraction Methods for Facial Recognition. 216-220
Tamirat Abegaz, Gerry V. Dozier, Kelvin S. Bryant, Joshua Adams, Brandon Baker, Joseph Shelton, Karl Ricanek, Damon L. Woodard: Genetic-Based Selection and Weighting for LBP, oLBP, and Eigenface Feature Extraction. 221-224



