Tuesday, 4th December 2007

08:15 – 08:45 : Registration

08:45 – 09:00 : Welcome Speech

09:00 – 09:50 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Hugh Durrant-Whyte (Ballroom B-C)

09:50 – 10:10 : Coffee/Tea Break

10:10 – 11:00 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Ronald Mahler (Ballroom B-C)

11:00 – 12:20 : Paper Session: Adaptive Control (Flinders Room)

12:20 – 13:20 : Lunch

13:20 – 14:10 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Vijay Varadan (Ballroom B-C)

14:10 – 15:30 : Paper Session: Monitoring for fault tolerant control (Flinders Room)

15:30 – 15:50 : Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 – 16:40  : ICIAfS Keynote by Clarence de Silva (Flinders Room)

16:40 – 18:00 : Paper Session: Applications of AI (Flinders Room)

Wednesday, 5th December 2007

08:30 – 08:45 : Registration

08:45 – 09:35 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Nitish Thakor (Ballroom B-C)

09:35 – 09:55 : Coffee/Tea Break

09:55 – 10:35 : Paper Session: AI and Cognition in Automation (Flinders Room)

09:55 – 10:35 : Paper Session: AI and Cognition in Automation (Flinders Room)

09:55 – 10:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by S. Jagannathan (Ballroom C)

09:55 – 10:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Andy Coon (Ballroom A)

10.45 – 12:25 : Paper Session: Swarms and Networks (Flinders Room)

12:25 – 13:25 : Lunch

13:25 – 14:15 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Alex Zelinsky  (Ballroom B-C)

14:15 – 15:35 : Paper Session: Intelligent Signal Processing (Flinders Room)

15:35 – 13:55  : Coffee/Tea Break

13:55 – 14:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Bhaskar Krishnamachari  (Ballroom B-C)

13:55 – 14:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Ian Marshall  (Ballroom B-C)

16:45 – 18:00 : Poster Session (Ballroom C)

19:30 – 21:30 : Conference Dinner

Thursday, 6th December 2007

08:30 – 08:45 : Registration

08:45 – 09:35 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Mohan Trivedi  (Ballroom B-C)

09:35 – 09:55 : Coffee/Tea Break

09:55 – 10:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Stuart Milner  (Ballroom B-C)

09:55 – 10:45 : Shared Keynote with ISSNIP by Mohan Kumar  (Ballroom B-C)

10:45 – 12:25 : Paper Session: Automated Vehicles (Flinders Room)

December 4^th 2007 (Morning session): Adaptive Control

11 – 11.20

Dynamic Path Planning and Execution using B-Splines

Timothy Arney

11.20 – 11.40

A New Generalized Predictive Controller for the Speed Control of PMBLDC Motor

Pakkiri Thirusakthimurugan

11.40 – 12

Control of Mouse Movements using Human Facial Expressions

Abdul Wahid Mohamed, Ravindra Koggalage

12 – 12.20

Intelligent Lightning Warning System

Geeth Jayendra, Rohan Lucas, Sisil Kumarawadu, Lilantha Neelawala, Chathura Jeevantha, P. Dharmapriya

December 4^th 2007 (Afternoon session): Monitoring for fault tolerant control

2.10 – 2.30

Improving Efficiency of Existing Water Distribution Networks by Centralized Monitoring

Peshala Jayasekara,  D.K. Illangasinghe, J.K. Dahanayake, K. Wickramage, Rohan Munasinghe

2.30 – 2.50

Simulation of a Device Concept for Noninvasive Sensing of Blood Glucose Levels

Chintha Handapangoda,Malin Premaratne ,David Paganin

2.50 – 3.10

Control of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle for Bicep Configuration Using IBC

Lanka Udawatta, PGS Priyadarshana

3.10 – 3.30

Regenerative Heat Recovery – its industrial applications

Aruna Warahena, Yew Khoy Chuah

December 4^th 2007 (Key note Speech)

3.50 – 4.40

 Prof. Clarence de Silva, University of British Columbia, Canada

December 4^th 2007 (Evening session): Applications of AI

4.40 – 5.00

Concept Formation for Visual Experiences using Unsupervised Neural Networks

Jeewanee Bamunusinghe, Damminda Alahakoon

5.00 – 5.20

Cluster Analysis Using the GSOM: Patterns in Epidemiology

Daswin De Silva, Damminda Alahakoon, Shyamali Dharmage

5.20 – 5.40

Refining Rules Learned in Cognitive Computer Vision Systems

Menaka Ranasinghe, Asoka Karunananda

5.40 – 6.00

Use of Hoeffding Trees in Concept Based Data Stream Mining

Stefan Hoeglinger, Russel Pears

December 5^th 2007 : AI and Cognition in Automation

9.55 – 10.15

A Fuzzy Logic Based Approach to the SLAM Problem using Pseudolinear Models with Two Sensors Data Association

Chandima Pathiranage, Lanka Udawatta, Keigo Watanabe, Kiyotaka Izumi

10.15 – 10.35

Management of an Embedded Sensor Network based on Actor-Critic Reinforcement based Learning

Prasanna Sridhar, Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Asad M. Madni, Mo Jamshidi

December 5^th 2007 (Morning session): Swarms and Networks

10.45 – 11.05

Design Factors for Sustainable Sensor Networks

Malka N. Halgamuge

11.05 – 11.25

Geometric Formations in Swarm Aggregation: An Artificial Formation Force Based Approach

Samitha Ekanayake, Pubudu Pathirana

11.25 – 11.45

An Efficient Solution to Autonomous Path Planning by Approximate Cell Decomposition

Timothy Arney

11.45 – 12.05

Design, Implementation & Testing of Positioning Techniques in Mobile Networks

Pushpika Wijesinghe, Shashika Biyanwila,Dileeka Dias

12.05 – 12.25

The Optimum Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)

Momeni Akbar, Troghi Haghighat Abolfazl

December 5^th 2007 (Afternoon session): Intelligent Signal Processing

2.15 – 2.35

Identification of Moving Obstacles with Pyramidal Lucas Kanade Optical Flow and k means Clustering

W.S.P. Fernando, Lanka Udawatta, Pubudu Pathirana

2.35 – 2.55

Intermediate-Editing Approach for English to Sinhala Machine Translation

Budditha Hettige, Asoka S. Karunananda

2.55 – 3.15

On the Speed control for Automated Surface Vessel Operation

Kudabadu Jayawickrama Kumara, Sisil Kumarawadu

3.15 – 3.35

Iddhipada Agent for versatile e-Learning

D. Kannangara, S. Perera, S. Ahangama, M. Pushpakumara, A.S. Karunananda, D.K. Withanage

December 5^th 2007 (Evening session): Poster Session

4.45 – 5.00

5.00 – 5.15

5.15 – 5.30

5.30 – 5.45

5.45 – 6.00

December 6^th 2007 (Morning session): Automated Vehicles

10.45 – 11.05

Using the Active Appearance Model to Detect Driver Fatigue

Alyoxia Wang, Isaam Saeed, Rajinda Senaratne, Saman Halgamuge

11.05 – 11.25

Intelligent Control of Vehicles for “ITS for the Sea” Applications

KJC Kumara, Sisil Kumarawadu

11.25 – 11.45

Analytical Model for Transient and Stabilized Conditions of RTO Operation

Aruna S. K. Warahena,Yew Khoy Chuah

11.45 – 12.05

Diagnosis and actuator fault tolerant control in vehicle active suspension

Alain Yetendje, Maria Seron, Jos´e De Don´a

12.05 – 12.25

Fuel Cell Technology

Janaki Balakrishnan