Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 20th Irish Confere

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2009, held in Dublin, Ireland in August 2009.  The  32 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for i

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

6206

Lorcan Coyle Jill Freyne (Eds.)

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science 20th Irish Conference, AICS 2009 Dublin, Ireland, August 19-21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers

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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 Lorcan Coyle University of Limerick Lero, International Science Centre Limerick, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Jill Freyne CSIRO Tasmanian ICT centre GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938380

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3, H.4, F.1, I.4, I.5

LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN

0302-9743

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

3-642-17079-X Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-17079-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume comprises the proceedings of the 20th Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2009). AICS 2009 was hosted by the School of Computer Science and Informatics in University College Dublin on August 19–21, 2009. The AICS Conference is Ireland’s primary meeting for those involved in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The conference has taken place annually since 1988 and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of research conducted both in Ireland and worldwide. After a rigorous review process, 21 papers were selected for oral presentation, and a further seven for poster presentations. Six shorter submissions were accepted for presentation at a technology demo session. The program covered a large range of topics, with submissions covering classification techniques, biologically inspired computation, natural language processing, and applications of AI techniques for the social web and financial markets. Although traditionally the majority of AICS submissions have come from the island of Ireland, AICS 2009 attracted a couple of submissions from farther afield—Mexico and Bulgaria. AICS 2009 continued the tradition of inviting high-profile speakers from the fields. We were d