Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Rajiv Khosla Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems 9th International Conference, KES 2005 Melbourne, Australia, September 14-16, 2005 Proceedings, Part II
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Rajiv Khosla La Trobe University Business Systems and Knowledge Modelling Laboratory School of Business, Victoria 3086, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Robert J. Howlett University of Brighton School of Engineering, Engineering Research Centre Moulsecoomb, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK E-mail: [email protected] Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia School of Electrical and Information Engineering, KES Centre Mawson Lakes Campus, Adelaide, South Australia SA 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932202
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, H.3, J.1, H.5, K.6, K.4 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-28895-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-28895-4 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Dear delegates, friends and members of the growing KES professional community, welcome to the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems hosted by La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia. The KES conference series has been established for almost a decade, and it continues each year to attract participants from all geographical areas of the world, including Europe, the Americas, Australasia and the Pacific Rim. The KES conferences cover a wide range of intelligent systems topics. The broad focus of the conference series is the theory and applications of intelligent systems. rom a pure research field, intelligent systems have advanced to the point where their abilities have been incorporated into many business and engineering application areas. KES 2005 provided a valuable mechanism for delegates to obtain an e tensive view of the latest research into a range of intelligent-systems algorithms, tools a
