AI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 21st Australasian J
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in December 2008. The 42 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers presented together with 1
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Wayne Wobcke Mengjie Zhang (Eds.)
AI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Auckland, New Zealand, December 1-5, 2008 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 Wayne Wobcke University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering Sydney NSW 2052, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Mengjie Zhang Victoria University of Wellington School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008938719
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, H.3, H.2.8, F.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-89377-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-89377-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
AI 2008, the 21st Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, was, for the first time, held in New Zealand, in Auckland during December 1–5, 2008. The conference was hosted by Auckland University of Technology. AI 2008 attracted 143 submissions from 22 countries, of which 42 (29%) were accepted as full papers and 21 (15%) as short papers. Submissions were subject to a rigorous review process. Each paper was reviewed by at least three (often four, and in one case, six) members of the Programme Committee. Authors could then provide a “rebuttal” to these reviews. The Senior Programme Committee members coordinated discussion on the papers to provide a recommendation of acceptance or rejection to the Programme Committee Co-chairs. Both full papers and short papers were presented at the conference. We would first like to thank all those who submitted papers to AI 2008. Special thanks to the Programme Committee members for their detailed reviews completed in a timely manner, and to the Senior Programme Committee for their considered judgements and recommendations on the papers.
