Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth,
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Bogdan Gabrys Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems 10th International Conference, KES 2006 Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11, 2006 Proceedings, Part III
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Bogdan Gabrys Bournemouth University School of Design, Engineering and Computing Computational Intelligence Research Group Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, GH12 5BB, UK E-mail: [email protected] Robert J. Howlett University of Brighton School of Engineering Centre for SMART Systems, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia School of Electrical and Information Engineering Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems Centre Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, South Australia SA 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933827
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 3-540-46542-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-46542-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you the sincerest of welcomes to this, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems at the Bournemouth International Centre in Bournemouth, UK, brought to you by KES International. This is a special KES conference, as it is the 10th in the series, and as such, it represents an occasion for celebration and an opportunity for reflection. The first KES conference was held in 1997 and was organised by the KES conference founder, Lakhmi Jain. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 the KES conferences were held in Adelaide, Australia. In 2000 the conference moved out of Australia to be held in Brighton, UK; in 2001 it was in Osaka, Japan; in 2002, Crema near Milan, Italy; in 2003, Oxford, UK; in 2004, Wellington, New Zealand; and in 2
