Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence: Second International Workshop, IMTCI 2004, Warsaw, Poland, September 13-14, 2004. Revised Selected Papers PDF
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3490 EditedbyJ.G.CarbonellandJ.Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Leonard Bolc Zbigniew Michalewicz Toyoaki Nishida (Eds.) Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence Second International Workshop, IMTCI 2004 Warsaw, Poland, September 13-14, 2004 Revised Selected Papers 1 3 SeriesEditors JaimeG.Carbonell,CarnegieMellonUniversity,Pittsburgh,PA,USA JörgSiekmann,UniversityofSaarland,Saarbrücken,Germany VolumeEditors LeonardBolc Polish-JapaneseInstituteofInformationTechnology Koszykowa86,02-008Warsaw,Poland and PolishAcademyofScience,InstituteofComputerScience Ordona21,01-237Warsaw,Poland E-mail:[email protected] ZbigniewMichalewicz Polish-JapaneseInstituteofInformationTechnology Koszykowa86,02-008Warsaw,Poland and UniversityofAdelaide,SchoolofComputerScience SouthAustralia5005,Australia E-mail:[email protected] ToyoakiNishida KyotoUniversity,GraduateSchoolofInformatics DepartmentofIntelligenceScienceandTechnology Yoshida-Honmachi,Sakyo-ku,Kyoto606-8501,Japan E-mail:[email protected] LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2005933039 CRSubjectClassification(1998):I.2,H.5.2-3,H.3,H.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN-10 3-540-29035-4SpringerBerlinHeidelbergNewYork ISBN-13 978-3-540-29035-3SpringerBerlinHeidelbergNewYork Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.Allrightsarereserved,whetherthewholeorpartofthematerialis concerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,re-useofillustrations,recitation,broadcasting, reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherway,andstorageindatabanks.Duplicationofthispublication orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheGermanCopyrightLawofSeptember9,1965, initscurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Violationsareliable toprosecutionundertheGermanCopyrightLaw. SpringerisapartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia springeronline.com ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2005 PrintedinGermany Typesetting:Camera-readybyauthor,dataconversionbyScientificPublishingServices,Chennai,India Printedonacid-freepaper SPIN:11558637 06/3142 543210 Preface The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Media Technologyfor CommunicativeIntelligence commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information TechnologyinWarsawaimedtoexplorethecurrentresearchtopicsinthefieldofintel- ligentmediatechnologiesforcommunicativeintelligence. Communicativeintelligence representsa new challenge towards building a super- intelligence on the ubiquitousglobal network by accumulatinga huge amountof hu- manandknowledgeresources.Theterm"communicativeintelligence"reflectstheview thatcommunicationisattheverycoreofintelligenceanditscreation.Communication permits novel ideas to emerge from intimate interactions by multiple agents, ranging from collaboration to competition. The recent advance of information and communi- cation technologies has established an information infrastructure that allows humans and artifacts to communicate with each other beyond space and time. It enables us to advance a step further to realize a communicative intelligence with many fruitful applications. Intelligentmediatechnologiesattempttocaptureandaugmentpeople’scommunica- tiveactivitiesbyembeddingcomputersintotheenvironmenttoenhanceinteractionsin anunobtrusivemanner.Theintroductionofembodiedconversationalagentsthatmight mediate conversations among people in a social context is the next step in the pro- cess.Thescopeofintelligentmediatechnologiesincludesdesignanddevelopmentof intelligentsupportsforcontentproduction,distribution,andutilization,sincerichcon- tentiscrucialforcommunicationinmanyapplications.Thepromisingapplicationsof intelligence media technologies include e-learning, knowledge management systems, e-democracy,andothercommunication-intensivesubjectdomains. ThefirstworkshopwasheldinTokyo,JapaninAugust2002,asPRICAI2002(7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) WS-5: International Workshop on IntelligentMedia Technologyfor CommunicativeReality. As indicated by the title, the role of reality was emphasized at that time. We consideredthat com- munication plays the central role not only in interpreting existing objects but also in attributing information to physical objects. The physical substances in the real world make sense to us only if theyare associated with a meaningin the conceptualworld. Typicalexamplesarehistoricalobjectsdisplayedinamuseum.Theymakesenseonly iftheirhistoricalfactsandstoriesarewellpresentedtothevisitor.Thesenseofreality comesfromthewayinwhichphysicalandinformationfeaturesofthoseobjectsinteract witheachother. The first workshopconsisted ofthree invitedtalksand ninepresentations.The in- vitedtalkscoveredkeydimensionsofthecommunicativereality,includingcomputer- mediatedinteractionintherealworld,situatedconversations,andconversationalagents. Thepresentationsaddressedadditionaltopicssuchasvideo-basedinteractivemedia,a personalizednavigationsystem,immersivedistancelearning,sharedunderstandingby ontologybuilding,analysisoffacialexpressionforestimatingtheconversationmood, VI Preface embodiedcommunicationofinformationandatmospherebyateamofrobots,conver- sational contents for knowledgeable conversationalagents, meaning acquisition from communications,andcognitivelinguisticmodellingofunderstandingirony. Thescope ofthisworkshopcoveredmuchwiderareasthanthe previousone.The topics involved media technologies from areas of artificial intelligence, Web intelli- gence, human-computer interaction, and other intelligent and cognitive technologies thatmayleadtothedevelopmentofindividualorcollectiveintelligence. This volume consists of two keynote papers, six plenary papers, and 38 regular papers.Thetopicsincludethefollowing: 1. Perceptualtechnologiesforcapturingsemanticinformation 2. Smartenvironmentsthatsupportcommunicativeactivities 3. Embodied conversational agents that create and mediate knowledge in a social context 4. Sociableagentsthatcohabitwithpeopleintherealworld 5. Intelligent content production and management for communicating intellectual assets 6. Automaticmediaannotationgeneration 7. Intelligentgridsbuiltasoverlaysongridtechnologies 8. Measurementandevaluationofcommunicativeintelligence 9. E-learningandmultimediatechnologiesineducation 10. Applicationsofcommunicativeintelligence Wehopethisworkshopcontributedtofurtheradvancingthestateoftheartinintel- ligentmediatechnologies. Finally,wewouldliketothankthemembersoftheProgramandOrganizingCom- mitteesfortheirhardworkinmakingthisworkshophappen. March2005 LeonardBolc ZbigniewMichalewicz ToyoakiNishida Organization Conference Chairs ToyoakiNishida(KyotoUniversity,Japan) JerzyPawełNowacki(PJIIT,Poland) ProgramCommittee LeonardBolc(PJIIT,andIPIPAN,Poland) WitoldKosin´ski(PJIIT,Poland) SadaoKurohashi(UniversityofTokyo,Japan) KrzysztofMarasek(PJIIT,Poland) ZbigniewMichalewicz(PJIIT,Poland,andUniversityofAdelaide,Australia) MichihikoMinoh(KyotoUniversity,Japan) LechPolkowski(PJIIT,Poland) ZbigniewRas´(PJIIT,Poland,andUniversityofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte,USA) FranciszekSeredyn´ski(PJIIT,andIPIPAN,Poland) KazimierzSubieta(PJIIT,andIPIPAN,Poland) YasuyukiSumi(KyotoUniversity,Japan) Rin-ichiroTaniguchi(KyushuUniversity,Japan) WolfgangWahlster(GermanResearchCenterforAI,Germany) Organizing Committee TomaszRutkowski PawełWiemann Preface The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Media Technologyfor CommunicativeIntelligence commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information TechnologyinWarsawaimedtoexplorethecurrentresearchtopicsinthefieldofintel- ligentmediatechnologiesforcommunicativeintelligence. Communicativeintelligence representsa new challenge towards building a super- intelligence on the ubiquitousglobal network by accumulatinga huge amountof hu- manandknowledgeresources.Theterm"communicativeintelligence"reflectstheview thatcommunicationisattheverycoreofintelligenceanditscreation.Communication permits novel ideas to emerge from intimate interactions by multiple agents, ranging from collaboration to competition. The recent advance of information and communi- cation technologies has established an information infrastructure that allows humans and artifacts to communicate with each other beyond space and time. It enables us to advance a step further to realize a communicative intelligence with many fruitful applications. Intelligentmediatechnologiesattempttocaptureandaugmentpeople’scommunica- tiveactivitiesbyembeddingcomputersintotheenvironmenttoenhanceinteractionsin anunobtrusivemanner.Theintroductionofembodiedconversationalagentsthatmight mediate conversations among people in a social context is the next step in the pro- cess.Thescopeofintelligentmediatechnologiesincludesdesignanddevelopmentof intelligentsupportsforcontentproduction,distribution,andutilization,sincerichcon- tentiscrucialforcommunicationinmanyapplications.Thepromisingapplicationsof intelligence media technologies include e-learning, knowledge management systems, e-democracy,andothercommunication-intensivesubjectdomains. ThefirstworkshopwasheldinTokyo,JapaninAugust2002,asPRICAI2002(7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) WS-5: International Workshop on IntelligentMedia Technologyfor CommunicativeReality. As indicated by the title, the role of reality was emphasized at that time. We consideredthat com- munication plays the central role not only in interpreting existing objects but also in attributing information to physical objects. The physical substances in the real world make sense to us only if theyare associated with a meaningin the conceptualworld. Typicalexamplesarehistoricalobjectsdisplayedinamuseum.Theymakesenseonly iftheirhistoricalfactsandstoriesarewellpresentedtothevisitor.Thesenseofreality comesfromthewayinwhichphysicalandinformationfeaturesofthoseobjectsinteract witheachother. The first workshopconsisted ofthree invitedtalksand ninepresentations.The in- vitedtalkscoveredkeydimensionsofthecommunicativereality,includingcomputer- mediatedinteractionintherealworld,situatedconversations,andconversationalagents. Thepresentationsaddressedadditionaltopicssuchasvideo-basedinteractivemedia,a personalizednavigationsystem,immersivedistancelearning,sharedunderstandingby ontologybuilding,analysisoffacialexpressionforestimatingtheconversationmood, VI Preface embodiedcommunicationofinformationandatmospherebyateamofrobots,conver- sational contents for knowledgeable conversationalagents, meaning acquisition from communications,andcognitivelinguisticmodellingofunderstandingirony. Thescope ofthisworkshopcoveredmuchwiderareasthanthe previousone.The topics involved media technologies from areas of artificial intelligence, Web intelli- gence, human-computer interaction, and other intelligent and cognitive technologies thatmayleadtothedevelopmentofindividualorcollectiveintelligence. This volume consists of two keynote papers, six plenary papers, and 38 regular papers.Thetopicsincludethefollowing: 1. Perceptualtechnologiesforcapturingsemanticinformation 2. Smartenvironmentsthatsupportcommunicativeactivities 3. Embodied conversational agents that create and mediate knowledge in a social context 4. Sociableagentsthatcohabitwithpeopleintherealworld 5. Intelligent content production and management for communicating intellectual assets 6. Automaticmediaannotationgeneration 7. Intelligentgridsbuiltasoverlaysongridtechnologies 8. Measurementandevaluationofcommunicativeintelligence 9. E-learningandmultimediatechnologiesineducation 10. Applicationsofcommunicativeintelligence Wehopethisworkshopcontributedtofurtheradvancingthestateoftheartinintel- ligentmediatechnologies. Finally,wewouldliketothankthemembersoftheProgramandOrganizingCom- mitteesfortheirhardworkinmakingthisworkshophappen. March2005 LeonardBolc ZbigniewMichalewicz ToyoakiNishida Organization Conference Chairs ToyoakiNishida(KyotoUniversity,Japan) JerzyPawełNowacki(PJIIT,Poland) ProgramCommittee LeonardBolc(PJIIT,andIPIPAN,Poland) WitoldKosinski(PJIIT,Poland) SadaoKurohashi(UniversityofTokyo,Japan) KrzysztofMarasek(PJIIT,Poland) ZbigniewMichalewicz(PJIIT,Poland,andUniversityofAdelaide,Australia) MichihikoMinoh(KyotoUniversity,Japan) LechPolkowski(PJIIT,Poland) ZbigniewRas(PJIIT,Poland,andUniversityofNorthCarolinaatCharlotte,USA) FranciszekSeredynski(PJIIT,Poland) KazimierzSubieta(PJIIT,andIPIPAN,Poland) YasuyukiSumi(KyotoUniversity,Japan) Rin-ichiroTaniguchi(KyushuUniversity,Japan) WolfgangWahlster(GermanResearchCenterforAI,Germany) Organizing Committee TomaszRutkowski PawełWiemann
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