Brain Informatics International Conference, BI 2012, Macau, Chin

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Brain Informatics, BI 2012, held in Macau, China, in December 2012. The 34 revised full papers  were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The pape

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

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Fabio Massimo Zanzotto Shusaku Tsumoto Niels Taatgen Yiyu Yao (Eds.)

Brain Informatics International Conference, BI 2012 Macau, China, December 4-7, 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 Fabio Massimo Zanzotto University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, 00133 Roma, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Shusaku Tsumoto Shimane University, Shimane 693-8501, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Niels Taatgen University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Yiyu Yao University of Regina, SK, Canada S4S 0A2 E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-35138-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-35139-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-35139-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012952029 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3-5, F.1-2, H.2.8, I.4-5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence

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Preface

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation of the technical sessions and invited special session of the 2012 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2012) organized by the Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE-CIS TF-BI), and University of Macau. Brain Informatics 2012 was organized under the umbrella of the 2012 World Intelligence Congress (WIC 2012) in Macau, a special event of the Alan Turing Year (centenary of Alan Turing’s birth), and it was held jointly with other four international conferences: Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT 2012), Methodologies for Intelligent Systems 2012 (ISMIS 2012), IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI 2012), and IEEE/WIC/ACM Int