Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Bruno Apolloni Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi Jain (Eds.)
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: KES 2007 - WIRN 2007 11th International Conference, KES 2007 XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks Vietri sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14, 2007 Proceedings, Part I
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Bruno Apolloni Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione Università degli Studi di Milano 20135 Milano, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Robert J. Howlett University of Brighton Centre for SMART Systems, School of Engineering Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Lakhmi Jain University of South Australia Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems Centre SA 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2007934283
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, H.3, J.1, H.5, K.6, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-74817-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-74817-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
These three volumes are a collection of the contributions presented to the joint conferences of KES 2007, the 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, and the WIRN 2007, the 17th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, held in Vietri sul Mare, Italy, in September 2007. The formula by which KES conferences gather over 500 people each year from the four corners of the globe to discuss the topic of knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems is: an open mind with rigor. Within the vast universe of the conferences centered around the keywords “information” and “computational intelligence,” we encourage in our meetings the offering of new ideas and techniques to give solutions to the never-ending series of problems and challenges that our own intelligence poses. As a precious attribute of the human brain, we will never be disturbed by the novelty, and possibly the
