Katarsis Lisbon Workshop 2008

Computational Aesthetics 2008: Eurographics Workshop on Computational Aesthetics, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008

Our discussion of aesthetics in graphics is most often centered on content and methods of content generation. Somewhere between these abstractions and a viewer’s eye lie a mass of transistors, wires, metal, and glass. These elements can strongly affect our reaction to graphical displays. This talk is a survey of how displays and display processors can either promote or hinder our appreciation o...

The University of Lisbon at GeoCLEF 2008

This paper reports the participation of the XLDB team from the University of Lisbon at the 2008 GeoCLEF task. We focused on developing a better text annotation tool for geo-parsing the documents, handling both explicit geographic evidence (as given by placenames) and implicit geographic evidence (as given by monuments, for example). The query processing and geographic ranking approaches were re...

IWSSE 2008 Workshop Organization

Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Mike Burmester, Florida State University, USA Kevin Butler, Pennsylvania State University, USA Kai Chen, Google Inc., USA Jason Crampton, University of London, UK Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA Jon Giffin, Georgia Tech University, USA Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA Jan Jurjens, The Open University, GB Yan ...

QACOS 2008 Workshop Organization

AAAI 2008 Workshop Reports

108 AI MAGAZINE The Workshop on Advancements in POMDP Solvers brought together active researchers in the area of solving partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). Participants discussed various approaches to solving POMDPs, and discussed as well as potential real real-world applications of the model. The AI Education Colloquium kicked off AAAI 2008’s AI Forum, a series of events ...