Foundations of Intelligent Systems 20th International Symposium,
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2012, held in Macau, China, in December 2012. The 42 regular papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selecte
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LNAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Li Chen Alexander Felfernig Jiming Liu Zbigniew W. Ra´s (Eds.)
Foundations of Intelligent Systems 20th International Symposium, ISMIS 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 Li Chen Hong Kong Baptist University 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected] Alexander Felfernig Graz University of Technology Institute for Software Technology Inffeldgasse 16b, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Jiming Liu Hong Kong Baptist University 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong E-mail: [email protected] Zbigniew W. Ra´s University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA and Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-34623-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34624-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34624-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012950992 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2.7-8, I.2.6-8, I.2.4, H.3.3-5, H.4.1-3, H.5.3-5 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
This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2012), held in Macau, December 4–7, 2012. The symposium was organized by the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, and held in conjunction with the Web Intelligence 2012 Congress (WIC 2012) that included four other intelligent informatics-related conferences: Active Media Technology 2012 (AMT 2012), Brain Informatics 2012 (BI 2012), IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2012 (WI 2012), and IEEE/WIC/ACM I
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