Learning and Intelligent Optimization 4th International Conference,

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Christian Blum Roberto Battiti (Eds.)

Learning and Intelligent Optimization 4th International Conference, LION 4 Venice, Italy, January 18-22, 2010 Selected Papers

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Volume Editors Christian Blum Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ALBCOM Research Group, Omega 112 Campus Nord, Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Roberto Battiti Università degli Studi di Trento LION Research Group Via Sommarive, 14, 38123 Povo (Trento), Italy E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010928345 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.2, F.1, I.2, G.1.6, C.2, J.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

LION 4, the 4th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN, was held during January 18–22 in Venice, Italy. This meeting, which continues the successful series of LION conferences, was aimed at exploring the intersections and uncharted territories between machine learning, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming and algorithms for hard optimization problems. The main purpose of the event was to bring together experts from these areas to discuss new ideas and methods, challenges and opportunities in various application areas, general trends and specific developments. D