Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, AIMSA 2012, held in Varna, Bulgaria in September 2012. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefu

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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Allan Ramsay Gennady Agre (Eds.)

Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications 15th International Conference, AIMSA 2012 Varna, Bulgaria, September 12-15, 2012 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 Allan Ramsay University of Manchester, School of Computer Science Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK E-mail: [email protected] Gennady Agre Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Information and Communication Technologies 2 Acad. G. Bonchev, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-33184-8 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33185-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33185-5 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012945548 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.4, I.2.6-8, I.2.10-11, H.2.8, H.3.3-5, H.4, H.5.3, I.4.9, I.6.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 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. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

AIMSA-2012 was the 15th in a biennial series of AI conferences that have been held in Bulgaria since 1984. The series started as a forum for scientists from Eastern Europe to exchange ideas with researchers from other parts of the world, at a time when such meetings were difficult to arrange and attend. The conference has thrived for nearly 30 years, and now functions as a place where AI researchers from all over the world can meet and present their research. There may no longer be a need for special meetings that allow people from different parts of the world to be in one place, but there is clearly still a need for high-quality conferences, and I am delighted that AIMSA is still fulfilling that role. AIMSA continues to attract submissions from all over the world, with submissions