Best Refereed Papers

The following have been selected by the conference programme committees as the best 6 refereed papers in each stream at ES2002. They will be reprinted in a special issue of the international journal Knowledge Based Systems.

Technical Stream

Best Refereed Technical Paper
Covering the Path Space: A Casebase Analysis for Mobile Robot Path Planning
M Kruusmaa, Department of Mechatronics, Tallinn Technical University, Estonia
J Willemson, Department of Computer Science, Tartu University, Estonia

A Rough Set Model with Ontological Information for Discovering Maximal Association Rules in Document Collections
Y Bi, T Anderson, S McClean, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster at Jordonstown, Ireland

Facilitating DL-Based Hybrid Reasoning with Inference Fusion
B Hu, I Arana, School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
E Compatangelo, Department of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen, UK

Genetic Algorithm Hybridized with Ruin and Recreate Procedure: Application to the Quadratic Assignment Problem
A Misevicius, Department of Practical Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania

Personalized Information Ordering: A Case Study in Online Recruitment
K Bradley, Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
B Smyth, Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin and Changing Worlds Ltd, Leopardstown, Dublin, Ireland

A Polynomial Algorithm for Continuous Non-binary Disjunctive CSPs
M A Salido, F Barber, Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Application Stream

Best Refereed Application Paper
Knowledge-based Systems for Marking Professional IT Skills Examinations
S Long, R Dowsing, The University of East Anglia
P Craven, OCR Examinations

A Knowledge Based Genetic Algorithm Approach to Automating Cartographic Generalisation
J M Ware, I D Wilson, J A Ware School of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, UK

GA-based Heuristic Algorithms for Bandwidth-delay-constrained Least-cost Multicast Routing
A T Haghighat, Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, Tehran, Iran
K Faez, A Mowlaei, Y Ghahremani, Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
M Dehghan, Iran Telecommunications Research Center, Tehran, Iran

Extracting Relational Facts for Indexing and Retrieval of Crime-Scene Photographs
K Pastra, H Saggion, Y Wilks, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

CBR Based System for Forecasting Red Tides
F Fdez-Riverola, Dpto de Informática, University of Givo, Ourense, Spain
J M Corchado, Dpto de Informática y Automática, University of Salamanca, Spain

Intelligent Data Analysis for Conservation: Experiments with Rhino Horn Fingerprint Identification
R Amin, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK
M Bramer, Faculty Technology, University of Portsmouth, UK
R Emslie, African Rhino Specialist Group, South Africa