AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 24th Australasian J
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2011, held in Perth, Australia, in December 2011. The 82 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 193 su
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Dianhui Wang Mark Reynolds (Eds.)
AI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 24th Australasian Joint Conference Perth, Australia, December 5-8, 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 Dianhui Wang La Trobe University School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Mark Reynolds The University of Western Australia School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Perth, WA 6009, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-25831-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-25832-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-25832-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3, H.4, F.1, H.2.8, I.4-5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to artificial intelligence for promoting research and scientific discussions. This volume contains 82 papers presented at the 24th AI conference held in Perth, Western Australia, December 5–8, 2011. The AI 2011 call for papers solicited contributions across a wide range of areas of research in artificial intelligence. This year’s conference received 193 submissions, including papers from authors in Australia, Japan, Malaysia, China, Iran, New Zealand, India, USA, Poland, Canada, Singapore and 19 other countries. The topics addressed by the submitted papers illustrated the broadness of the discipline. The conference featured three distinguished keynote speakers, Witold Pedrycz (Department of
