Foundations of Intelligent Systems 17th International Symposium,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2008, held in Toronto, Canada, in May 2008. The 68 revised papers presented together with 3 plenary talks were carefully rev
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Aijun An Stan Matwin ´ ˛zak (Eds.) Zbigniew W. Ra´s Dominik Sle
Foundations of Intelligent Systems 17th International Symposium, ISMIS 2008 Toronto, Canada, May 20-23, 2008 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Volume Editors Aijun An York University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Toronto, Ontario, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Stan Matwin University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering Ottawa, Ontario, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Zbigniew W. Ra´s University of North Carolina, Department of Computer Science Charlotte, NC, USA E-mail: [email protected] and Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer Science 01-237 Warsaw, Poland ´ ˛zak Dominik Sle Infobright Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2008926504 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3, H.2.8, H.4, H.5, F.1, I.5 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2008), held in York University, Toronto, Canada, May 21–23, 2008. ISMIS is a conference series started in 1986. Held twice every three years, ISMIS provides an international forum for exchanging scientific research and technological achievements in building intelligent systems. Its goal is to achieve a vibrant interchange between researchers and practitioners on fundamental and advanced issues related to intelligent systems. ISMIS 2008 featured a selection of latest research work and applications from the following areas related to intelligent systems: active media human–computer interaction, autonomic and evolutionary computation, digital libraries, intelligent agent technology, intelligent information retrieval, intelligent information systems, intelligent language proc
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