Innovation through Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge transfer between universities, business and the community is a topical subject of increasing importance. The first International Conference on 'Innovation through Knowledge Transfer: Research with Impact', InnovationKT'09, held in Kingston, Lond

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Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 5 Editors-in-Chief Prof. Robert James Howlett KES International PO Box 2115 Shoreham-by-sea BN43 9AF UK E-mail: [email protected]

Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of South Australia Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus South Australia SA 5095 Australia E-mail: [email protected]

Further volumes of this series can be found on our homepage: springer.com Vol. 1. Toyoaki Nishida, Lakhmi C. Jain, and Colette Faucher (Eds.) Modeling Machine Emotions for Realizing Intelligence, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-12603-1 Vol. 2. George A. Tsihrintzis, Maria Virvou, and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Software Development Challenges and Solutions, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-13354-1 Vol. 3. George A. Tsihrintzis and Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.) Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments – Integrated Systems, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-13395-4 Vol. 4. Gloria Phillips-Wren, Lakhmi C. Jain, Kazumi Nakamatsu, and Robert J. Howlett (Eds.) Advances in Intelligent Decision Technologies – Proceedings of the Second KES International Symposium IDT 2010, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-14615-2 Vol. 5. Robert James Howlett (Ed.) Innovation through Knowledge Transfer, 2010 ISBN 978-3-642-14593-3

Robert James Howlett (Ed.)

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Dr. Robert James Howlett KES International PO Box 2115 Shoreham by Sea West Sussex BN43 9AF UK E-mail: [email protected]

ISBN 978-3-642-14593-3

e-ISBN 978-3-642-14594-0

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-14594-0 Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

ISSN 2190-3018

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Foreword

KES International (KES) is a worldwide organisation that provides a professional community and association for researchers, originally in the discipline of Knowledge Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems, but now extending into other related areas. Through this, KES provides its members with opportunities for publication and beneficial interact