Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems
The three volume set LNAI 5177, LNAI 5178, and LNAI 5179, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008, held in Zagreb, Croatia, in September 2008. T
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Ignac Lovrek Robert J. Howlett Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)
Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems 12th International Conference, KES 2008 Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008 Proceedings, Part III
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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 Ignac Lovrek University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: [email protected] Robert J. Howlett KES International, 2nd Floor 145-157 St. John Street, London EC1V 4PY, UK E-mail: [email protected] Lakhmi C. Jain University of South Australia, School of Electrical and Information Engineering Mawson Lakes Campus, Adelaide, SA 5095, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008933454
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 3-540-85566-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-85566-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
Delegates and friends, we are very pleased to extend to you a warm welcome to this, the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems organised by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, in association with KES International. For over a decade, KES International has provided an annual wide-spectrum intelligent systems conference for the applied artificial intelligence research community. Having originated in Australia and been held there during 1997–99, the conference visited the UK in 2000, Japan in 2001, Italy in 2002, the UK in 2003, New Zealand in 2004, Australia in 2005, the UK in 2006, Italy in 2007, and now in Zagreb, Croatia in 2008. It is planned that KES 2009 will be held in Santiago, Chile before returning to the UK in 2010. The KES conference is mature and regularly attracts several hundred delegates. As it encompasses a br
