Important dates
1 May 2006, Paper submission deadline
15 May 2006, Registration opens
1 July 2006, Notification of acceptance
1 September 2006, Early registration deadline
1 September 2006, Camera-ready paper due
25 – 27 October 2006, Conference days:
25 October 2006, Registration and welcome reception at around 7 pm.
26 October 2006, Sessions, Banquet
27 October 2006, Sessions
24 August 2006
SCAI 2006 program
19:00 Registration & Welcome reception
Thursday, 26th of October, 2006
9:00 Academician Teuvo Kohonen (Honorary Chair): Conference opening
Tapani Raiko (Organizing Committee Chair): Annoucements
9:15 Session: Analysing Interdisciplinarity
9:15-9:35 Timo Honkela: Introduction
9:35-10:00 Henrik Bruun, Sampsa Laine:
Using the Self-Organizing Map for Measuring Interdisciplinary Research
10:00-10:25 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic:
Professional Ethics in Computing and Intelligent Systems
10:25-10:50 Matti Pöllä, Timo Honkela, Henrik Bruun, Ann Russell:
Analysis of Interdisciplinary Text Corpora
10:50 Coffee break
11:10 Keynote: Ora Lassila (SCAI + STeP)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session: Genetic algorithms and computer vision
13:00-13:30 Jarmo Alander and Jorma Laaksonen: Introduction
13:30-13:55 Sampath Deegalla, Henrik Boström:
Reducing High-Dimensional Data by Principal Component Analysis vs. Random Projection for Nearest Neighbor Classification
13:55-14:20 Jorma Laaksonen, Ville Viitaniemi:
Emergence of ontological relations from visual data with Self-Organizing Maps
14:20-14:45 Perttu Hämäläinen, Timo Aila, Tapio Takala, Jarmo Alander:
Mutated Kd-tree Importance Sampling for Optimization
14:45-15:10 Janne Koljonen, Jarmo T. Alander:
Genetic algorithm for optimizing fuzzy image pattern matching
15:10-15:35 Janne Koljonen, Jarmo T. Alander:
Effects of population size and relative elitism on optimization speed and reliability of genetic algorithms
15:35 Coffee break
15:50 Session: Elastic systems
15:50-16:10 Heikki Hyötyniemi: Introduction
16:10 Session: Machine learning
16:10-16:40 Tapio Pahikkala, Jorma Boberg, Tapio Salakoski:
Fast n-Fold Cross-Validation for Regularized Least-Squares
16:40-17:05 Richard Elling Moe:
First order axiomatization of typed feature structures
17:05-17:30 Jaakko J. Väyrynen, Tiina Lindh-Knuutila:
Emergence of multilingual representations by independent component analysis using parallel corpora
17:30-17:55 Oleg Okun, Helen Priisalu:
Ensembles of nearest neighbour classifiers and serial analysis of gene expression
(Scandinavian AI-societies meeting)
19:00 Banquet at Radisson SAS Hotel Espoo (walking distance from the conference site)
Friday, 27th of October, 2006
9:00 Announcements
9:10 Keynote: Tom Ziemke (SCAI + STeP)
Integrating Cognition, Emotion & Autonomy
10:00 Coffee break
10:15 Session: Robotics and agents
10:15-10:40 Magnus Johnsson, Christian Balkenius:
Haptic Perception with a Robotic Hand
10:40-11:05 Harri Valpola:
Learning Anticipatory Behaviour Using a Simple Cerebellar Model
11:05-11:30 Kevin Westwood, Vicki Allan:
Heuristics for Co-opetition in Agent Coalition Formation
11:30 Session: Poster spotlights
11:30-11:35 Timo Mantere:
A Min-Max Genetic Algorithm with Alternating Multiple Sorting for Solving
Constrained Problems
11:35-11:40 Dereje Teferi, Josef Bigun:
Building Video Databases to Boost Performance Quantification
-- The DXM2VTS Database
11:40-11:45 Alireza Derakhshan, Frodi Hammer, Henrik Hautop Lund, Yves Demazeau, Luigi Pagliarini:
Adapting Playgrounds using Multi-Agent Systems
11:45-11:50 Janne Koljonen, Jarmo T. Alander:
On fitness distance distributions and correlations, GA hardness, and population size with a family of square-root fitness functions
11:50-11:55 Sumon Shahriar, Ahammad Tofail, Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu:
On the realization of asymmetric high radix signed digital adder using Neural Network
11:55-12:00 Tapani Raiko:
Higher order statistics in play-out analysis
12:00-12:05 Thashmee Karunaratne, Henrik Boström:
Learning from Structured Data by Finger Printing
12:05-12:10 Morten Lynge Jensen:
Evolving poker players using NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies
12:10-12:15 Heikki Hyötyniemi:
Elastic Systems: Case of Hebbian Neurons
12:15-12:20 Weiqin Chen, Torbjørn Bøen:
Fido - an RSS News Filtering Agent
12:20 Lunch and posters
14:00 Session: Digital games
14:00-14:20 Tomi A. Pasanen: Introduction
14:20-14:45 Arild Sandven, Bjørnar Tessem:
A Case-Based Learner for Poker
14:45-15:10 Jouni Smed, Timo Knuutila, Harri Hakonen:
Can We Prevent Collusion in Multiplayer Online Games?
15:10-15:35 Jarmo Kauko, Ville-Veikko Mattila:
Mobile Games Pathfinding
15:35-16:00 Ismo Puustinen, Tomi A. Pasanen:
Game Theoretic Methods for Action Games
16:00 Coffee break and posters
16:20 Session: Elastic systems
16:20-16:45 Heikki Hyötyniemi:
Elastic Systems: Another View at Complexity
16:45-17:10 Olli Haavisto, Heikki Hyötyniemi:
Neocybernetic Modeling of a Biological Cell
17:10-17:35 Kalle Halmevaara, Heikki Hyötyniemi:
Application of Elastic Intuitions to Process Engineering
17:35-18:00 Michael Sailer, Heikki Hyötyniemi:
Emergent Behavior in Sensor/Actor Networks in the Neocybernetic Framework of Elastic Systems
18:00 Tapani Raiko: Closing