Active media technology : 6th International Computer Science Conference, AMT 2001, Hong Kong, China, December 18-20, 2001 : proceedings

Keynote Presentations.- Intelligent Adaptive Interface.- Digital City: Bridging Technologies and Humans.- Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis of Human Faces.- Digital Interactivity: Human-Centered Robotics, Haptics, and Simulation.- Smart Digital Media.- Smart Media: Empower Media with Active Data Hiding.- Congestion Prospect of Network Traffics by Fluctuation of Internet Transmission Time.- Naturalistic Human-Robot Collaboration Mediated by Shared Communicational Modality in Teleoperation System.- Web Personalization.- Web Personalization Techniques for E-commerce.- A Shopping Negotiation Agent That Adapts to User Preferences.- Combining Meta-level and Logic-Based Constructs in Web Personalization.- Web Personalisation - An Overview.- Business-Oriented Web Personalization: A Decision-Making Approach.- A Personalized Interface Agent with Feedback Evaluation.- Active Interfaces.- VHML - Directing a Talking Head.- Believable and Interactive Talking Heads for Websites: MetaFace and MPEG-4.- Building Multi-modal Personal Sales Agents as Interfaces to E-commerce Applications.- Feature vs. Model Based Vocal Tract Length Normalization for a Speech Recognition-Based Interactive Toy.- A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to the Synthesis of Three Dimensional Morphing Sequences.- Autonomous Agent Approaches.- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANT-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR DYNAMIC ROUTING.- What Kind of Cooperation Is Required by Situated Agents? The Principle of Situated Cooperation.- A Fault-Tolerant Scheme of Multi-agent System for Worker Agents.- Decentralized Control of Multi-agent Systems Based on Modal Logics and Extended Higher Order Petri Nets.- Facial Image Processing.- An Improved Foreground Extraction Approach.- Object Detection Simulating Visual Attention.- Fast Face Detection Using Neural Networks and Image Decomposition.- Modeling of Facial Expressions Using NURBS Curves.- AMT-Supported Commerce,Business,Learning,and Health Care.- Evolutionary Negotiation in Agent-Mediated Commerce.- Optimizing Agent-Based Negotiations with Branch-and-Bound.- Engineering Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Agents for Multi-user Timetable Scheduling.- An XML-Based Distance Learning System Capable of Conveying Information on "LECTURE EVENT".- An Authoring Tool for Building Adaptive Learning Guidance Systems on the Web.- A Framework of Caring Interaction by a Network Model of Client's Concepts Based on a Nursing Theory and Naive Psychological Approaches.- Tools and Techniques.- Parallel Design Based on Neural Network.- Fair Play Protocol.- Collaborative Filtering Methods for Binary Market Basket Data Analysis.- An Implementation and Design of COMOR System for OOM Reuse.- Automatic Aircraft Recognition Using Maximum Likelihood Ratio Test.- Algorithms.- A Machine Learning Algorithm Based on Supervised Clustering and Classification.- Visualization of a Parallel Genetic Algorithm in Real Time.- The Rise and Fall of Napster - An Evolutionary Approach.- On the Elaboration of Hand-Drawn Sketches.- The Introduction of Three Methods Generating Stereoscopic Image1.- Kansei-Oriented Image Retrieval.- ICSPACE - An Internet Cultural Space.