Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management 5th International
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2011, held in Irvine, CA, USA, in December 2011. The 34 revised full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefu
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Hui Xiong W.B. Lee (Eds.)
Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management 5th International Conference, KSEM 2011 Irvine, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2011 Proceedings
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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 Hui Xiong Management Science and Information Systems Department Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 1 Washington Park, Newark, NJ 07102, USA E-mail: [email protected] W.B. Lee Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-25974-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-25975-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-25975-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.4, H.3, I.2, H.4, J.1, H.2.8 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Preface
The 5th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2011) was held in Irvine, CA, USA, during December 12–14, 2011, and hosted by the University of California at Irvine. The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to present a forum for researchers in the broad areas of knowledge science, knowledge engineering and knowledge management to share views, ideas and original work with other researchers, practitioners and developers so as to provide new insights into these three areas. The conference attracts numerous high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers from all over the world. The Program Committee (PC) accepted 34 papers for regular presentation and 7 papers for short presentation. All submitted papers were reviewed by at least two PC members. In addition to paper presentations, the confere
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