Advances in Artificial Intelligence 24th Canadian Conference on

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2011, held in St. John’s, Canada, in May 2011. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 22 revised short papers and 5 papers from the g

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

6657

Cory Butz Pawan Lingras (Eds.)

Advances in Artificial Intelligence 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2011 St. John’s, Canada, May 25-27, 2011 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Cory Butz University of Regina, Department of Computer Science 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2 E-mail: [email protected] Pawan Lingras Saint Mary’s University, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3 E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-21042-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21043-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21043-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011926783 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.3, H.3, I.2.7, H.4, F.1, H.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence

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Preface This volume contains the papers presented at the 24th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011). The conference was held in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, during May 25–27, 2011, and was collocated with the 37th Graphics Interface Conference (GI 2011), and the 8th Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2011). The Program Committee received 81 submissions for the main conference, AI 2011, from across Canada and around the world. Each submission was reviewed by a minimum of four and up to five reviewers. For the final conference program and for inclusion in these proceedings, 23 regular papers, with allocation of 12 pages each, were selected. Additionally, 22 short papers, with allocation of 6 pages each, were accepted. Finally, 5 papers from the Graduate Student Symposium appear in the proceedings, each of which was allocated 4 pages. The