Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis

A large international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis was held in UC Berkeley, California, USA, October 22-24, 2008, under the auspices of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2008). This volume contai

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Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume 48

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Sio-Iong Ao • Burghard B. Rieger Mahyar Amouzegar Editors

Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis

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Editors Sio-Iong Ao Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University Room 403, 60 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 02138, USA [email protected]

Mahyar Amouzegar College of Engineering California State University Long Beach

Burghard B. Rieger Universität Trier FB II Linguistische Datenverarbeitung Computerlinguistik Universitätsring 15 54286 Trier Germany [email protected]

ISSN 1876-1100 e-ISSN 1876-1119 ISBN 978-90-481-3176-1 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3177-8 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3177-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930421 c Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010  No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

A large international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis was held in UC Berkeley, CA, USA, October 22–24, 2008, under the auspices of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2008). The WCECS is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). IAENG is a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists, which was founded in 1968 and has been undergoing rapid expansions in recent years. The WCECS conferences have served as excellent venues for the engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Moreover, WCECS continues to strike a balance between theoretical and application development. The conference committees have been formed with over two hundred members who are mainly research center heads, deans, department heads (chairs), professors, and research scientists from over thirty countries. The conference participants are also truly international with a high level of representation from many countries. The responses for the congress have been excellent. In 2008, we received more than six hundred manuscripts, and after a thorough peer review process 56.71% of the papers were accepted. This volume contains sixteen revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference. Topics covered include Expert system, Intelligent decision making, Knowledge-based systems, Knowledge extraction, Data analysis tools, Computational biology, Optimization algorithms, Experiment designs, Complex system identification, Computational modeling, and ind