Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXV Proceedings of A
The papers in this volume are the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. They present new an
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Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXV Proceedings of AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Max Bramer, BSc, PhD, CEng, CITP, FBCS, FIET, FRSA, FHEA Faculty of Technology University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Frans Coenen, BSc, PhD Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Miltos Petridis, DipEng, MBA, PhD, MBCS, AMBA University of Greenwich, UK
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e-ISBN 978-1-84882-171-2
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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIR’S INTRODUCTION M.A.BRAMER University of Portsmouth, UK This volume comprises the refereed technical papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. The conference was organised by SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence. The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on CBR and Classification, AI Techniques, Argumentation and Negotiation, Intelligent Systems, From Machine Learning to E-Learning and Decision Making. The volume also includes the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This year's prize for the best refereed technical paper was won by a paper entitled ‘On the Classification Performance of TAN and General Bayesian Networks’ by Michael G. Madden (College of Engineering & Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland). SGAI gratefully acknowledges the long-term sponsorship of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (Bristol) for this prize, which goes back to the 1980s. This is the twenty-fifth volume in the Research and Development series. The Applicati
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