AI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 17th Australian Joi
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Geoffrey I. Webb Xinghuo Yu (Eds.)
AI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Cairns, Australia, December 4-6, 2004 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Geoffrey I. Webb Monash University School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Xinghuo Yu Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Electrical and Computer Engineering City Campus, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004116040
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, H.3, H.2.8, F.1 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-24059-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11365884 06/3142 543210
Preface
AI 2004 was the seventeenth in the series of annual Australian artificial intelligence conferences. This conference is the major forum for artificial intelligence research in Australia. It has consistently attracted strong international participation. This year more than two thirds of the submissions were from outside Australia. The current volume is based on the proceedings of AI 2004. A total of 340 papers were submitted, which we believe to be a substantial increase on previous submission numbers to this series. A national and international program committee refereed full-length versions of all submitted papers. Each accepted paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers. Of these 340 submissions, 78 were accepted for oral presentation and a further 62 for poster presentation. This volume contains a regular paper of up to 12 pages length for each oral presentation and a short paper of up to 6 pages length for each poster presentation. In addition to the scientific track represented here, the conference featured an exciting program of tutorials and workshops, and plenary talks by four outstanding invited speakers: Mehran Sahami (Google Inc. and Stanford University, USA), Michael J. Pazzani (National Science Foundation and University of
