Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers IEEE World Congre

This state-of-the-art survey offers a renewed and refreshing focus on the progress in nature-inspired and linguistically motivated computation. The book presents the expertise and experiences of leading researchers spanning a diverse spectrum of computati

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Jacek M. Zurada Gary G. Yen Jun Wang (Eds.)

Computational Intelligence: Research Frontiers IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2008 Hong Kong, China, June 1-6, 2008 Plenary/Invited Lectures

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Volume Editors Jacek M. Zurada University of Louisville, Computational Intelligence Laboratory Louisville, KY 40292, USA E-mail: [email protected] Gary G. Yen Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078, USA E-mail: [email protected] Jun Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin New Territories Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008927523 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.3, H.2.8, H.2, I.2.3, I.2.6, H.4, I.5.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

The 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), held during June 1–6, 2008 in Hong Kong, China, marked an important milestone in advancing the paradigms of the new fields of computational intelligence. As the fifth event in the series that has spanned the globe (Orlando-1994, Anchorage-1998, Honolulu-2002, Vancouver-2006), the congress offered renewed and refreshing focus on the progress in nature