Nature Inspired Problem-Solving Methods in Knowledge Engineering: Second International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2007, La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, June 18-21, 2007, Proceedings, Part II: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4528

High Performance Implementation of an FPGA-Based Sequential DT-CNN.- HANNA: A Tool for Hardware Prototyping and Benchmarking of ANNs.- Improvement of ANNs Performance to Generate Fitting Surfaces for Analog CMOS Circuits.- Wavelet Network for Nonlinearities Reduction in Multicarrier Systems.- Improved Likelihood Ratio Test Detector Using a Jointly Gaussian Probability Distribution Function.- Performance Monitoring of Closed-Loop Controlled Systems Using dFasArt.- Normalising Brain PET Images.- Automatic Segmentation of Single and Multiple Neoplastic Hepatic Lesions in CT Images.- Biometric and Color Features Fusion for Face Detection and Tracking in Natural Video Sequences.- Identifying Major Components of Pictures by Audio Encoding of Colours.- Towards a Semi-automatic Situation Diagnosis System in Surveillance Tasks.- An Implementation of a General Purpose Attentional Mechanism for Artificial Organisms.- Optimal Cue Combination for Saliency Computation: A Comparison with Human Vision.- The Underlying Formal Model of Algorithmic Lateral Inhibition in Motion Detection.- Novel Strategies for the Optimal Registration of Biomedical Images.- Characterization of Artificial Muscles Using Image Processing.- Segmentation of Sequences of Stereoscopic Images for Modelling Artificial Muscles.- A Support Vector Method for Estimating Joint Density of Medical Images.- Segmentation of Moving Objects with Information Feedback Between Description Levels.- Knowledge-Based Road Traffic Monitoring.- Comparison of Classifiers for Human Activity Recognition.- A Multi-robot Surveillance System Simulated in Gazebo.- Context Data to Improve Association in Visual Tracking Systems.- Automatic Control of Video Surveillance Camera Sabotage.- Complex Permittivity Estimation by Bio-inspired Algorithms for Target Identification Improvement.- Context Information for Human Behavior Analysis and Prediction.- Road Sign Analysis Using Multisensory Data.- Video Tracking Association Problem Using Estimation of Distribution Algorithms in Complex Scenes.- Context Information for Understanding Forest Fire Using Evolutionary Computation.- Feed-Forward Learning: Fast Reinforcement Learning of Controllers.- An Adaptive Michigan Approach PSO for Nearest Prototype Classification.- Behavioural Modeling by Clustering Based on Utility Measures.- Two-Stage Ant Colony Optimization for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Solving Dial-a-Ride Problems with a Low-Level Hybridization of Ants and Constraint Programming.- Profitability Comparison Between Gas Turbines and Gas Engine in Biomass-Based Power Plants Using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization.- Combining the Best of the Two Worlds: Inheritance Versus Experience.- Towards the Automatic Learning of Reflex Modulation for Mobile Robot Navigation.- Evolving Robot Behaviour at Micro (Molecular) and Macro (Molar) Action Level.- Discretization of ISO-Learning and ICO-Learning to Be Included into Reactive Neural Networks for a Robotics Simulator.- Towards Automatic Camera Calibration Under Changing Lighting Conditions Through Fuzzy Rules.- Social Interaction in Robotic Agents Emulating the Mirror Neuron Function.- Integration of Stereoscopic and Perspective Cues for Slant Estimation in Natural and Artificial Systems.- An Approach to Visual Scenes Matching with Curvilinear Regions.- Supervised dFasArt: A Neuro-fuzzy Dynamic Architecture for Maneuver Detection in Road Vehicle Collision Avoidance Support Systems.- Neuro-fuzzy Based Maneuver Detection for Collision Avoidance in Road Vehicles.- The Coevolution of Robot Behavior and Central Action Selection.- WiSARD and NSP for Robot Global Localization.- Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Neuro-controller for Trajectory Tracking of Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robots.- Sharing Gaze Control in a Robotic System.- An AER-Based Actuator Interface for Controlling an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand.- Tackling the Error Correcting Code Problem Via the Cooperation of Local-Search-Based Agents.- Strategies for Affect-Controlled Action-Selection in Soar-RL.- An Agent-Based Decision Support System for Ecological-Medical Situation Analysis.- A Meta-ontological Framework for Multi-agent Systems Design.- Design of an Agent-Based System for Passenger Transportation Using PASSI.- The INGENIAS Methodology for Advanced Surveillance Systems Modelling.- Propos: A Dynamic Web Tool for Managing Possibilistic and Probabilistic Temporal Constraint Networks.- BIRD: Biomedical Information Integration and Discovery with Semantic Web Services.- Neural Networks to Predict Schooling Failure/Success.- Application of Genetic Algorithms for Microwave Oven Design: Power Efficiency Optimization.- Application of Neural Networks to Atmospheric Pollutants Remote Sensing.- Air Pollutant Level Estimation Applying a Self-organizing Neural Network.- Application of Genetic Algorithms in the Determination of Dielectric Properties of Materials at Microwave Frequencies.- Putting Artificial Intelligence Techniques into a Concept Map to Build Educational Tools.- A Preliminary Neural Model for Movement Direction Recognition Based on Biologically Plausible Plasticity Rules.- Classification of Biomedical Signals Using a Haar 4 Wavelet Transform and a Hamming Neural Network.