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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4788

Daniel Borrajo Luis Castillo Juan Manuel Corchado (Eds.)

Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2007 Salamanca, Spain, November 12-16, 2007 Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Daniel Borrajo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Luis Castillo Universidad de Granada, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Juan Manuel Corchado Universidad de Salamanca, Spain E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007938154

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, F.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-75270-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-75270-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume presents a selection of papers accepted for presentation at the 12th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence and its associated Conference on Technology Transfer on Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA/TTIA 2007) held in Salamanca in November 2007. Since its foundation in 1983, the goal of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) has been to promote AI in Spain within both academia and industry. As from 1985, AEPIA has organized a biennial conference, which has so far been held in Madrid, Alicante, M´ alaga, Murcia, Gij´ on, Donostia and Santiago de Compostela. Two other main objectives of AEPIA have been to establish and keep relationships with other national and international organizations in the AI field and to promote the exchange of information and/or experiences among AI researchers. The first objective was accomplished when AEPIA became a member of ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) and a founder member of IBERAMIA (Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence). With the second objective in mind, the quality of the CAEPIA/TTIA conference was raised to meet the usual international standards by focusing o