Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence 11th Conference of the

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4177

Roque Marín Eva Onaindía Alberto Bugarín José Santos (Eds.)

Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence 11th Conference of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence, CAEPIA 2005 Santiago de Compostela, Spain, November 16-18, 2005 Revised Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Roque Marín Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, s/n. 30071 Murcia, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Eva Onaindía Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n. 46022 Valencia, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Alberto Bugarín Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Monte da Condesa, s/n. 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain E-mail: [email protected] José Santos Universidade da Coruña, campus de Elviña, s/n. 15071 A Coruña, Spain E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006933060

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

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Preface

Since its foundation in 1983, the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) has helped to guide and gather together Spanish researchers working on AI. To this aim, it was agreed in 1985 that AEPIA would promote a national conference every two years. Since then, the AEPIA Conference, known as CAEPIA, has taken place in Madrid, Alicante, M´ alaga, Murcia, Gij´ on and Donostia. Two other foundational objectives of AEPIA are to establish and keep relationships with other national and international organizations in the AI field and to favour the exchange of information and/or experiences among AI researchers. The first objective was accomplished when AEPIA became a member of ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence) and a founder member of IBERAMIA (Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence). The second objective was attained by raising the quality of CAEPIA to usual international standards, focusing