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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4617

Vicenç Torra Yasuo Narukawa Yuji Yoshida (Eds.)

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence 4th International Conference, MDAI 2007 Kitakyushu, Japan, August 16-18, 2007 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Vicenç Torra IIIA-CSIC Campus UAB s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Yasuo Narukawa Toho Gakuen 3-1-10 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo, 186-0004, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Yuji Yoshida University of Kitakyushu Faculty of Economics and Business Administration 4-2-1 Kitagata, Kokuraminami, Kitakyushu 802-8577, Japan E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007931447

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.4.1, F.1, H.2.8, I.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (MDAI 2007), held in Kitakyushu, Japan, August 16-18. This conference followed MDAI 2004 (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain), MDAI 2005 (Tsukuba, Japan), and MDAI 2007 (Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain) with proceedings also published in the LNAI series (Vols. 3131, 3558, and 3885). The aim of this conference was to provide a forum for researchers to discuss the theory and tools for modeling decisions as well as applications that encompass decision-making processes and information-fusion techniques. The organizers received 193 papers from 21 different countries, from Asia, Europe, America, Africa, and Australia, 42 of which are published in this volume. Each submission received at least two reviews from the Program Committee and a few external reviewers. We would like to express our gratitude to them for their work. The plenary talks presented at the conference are also included in this volume. The conference was supported by the University of Kitakyushu, the UNESCO Chair in Data P