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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2004, held in Mexico City, Mexico in April 2004. The 94 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 254 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications, intelligent interfaces and speech processing, knowledge representation, logic and constraint programming, machine learning and data mining, multiagent systems and distributed AI, natural language processing, uncertainty reasoning, vision, evolutionary computation, modeling and intelligent control, neural networks, and robotics.
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2972 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo Raúl Monroy Gustavo Arroyo-Figueroa Luis Enrique Sucar Humberto Sossa (Eds.) MICAI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Third Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Mexico City, Mexico, April 26-30, 2004 Proceedings Springer eBook ISBN: Print ISBN: 3-540-24694-0 3-540-21459-3 ©2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Print ©2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Springer's eBookstore at: and the Springer Global Website Online at: http://ebooks.springerlink.com http://www.springeronline.com Preface The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) is a biennial conference established to promote research inartificial intelligence (AI), and cooperation among Mexican researchersand their peers worldwide. MICAI is organized by the Mexican Societyfor Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), in collaboration with the AmericanAssociation for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Mexican Society for Computer Science (SMCC). After two successful conferences, we are pleased to present the 3rd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI2004, which took place on April 26–30, 2004, in Mexico City, Mexico. This volume contains the papers included in the conferencemain program, which was complemented by tutorials and workshops, published in supplementary proceedings. The proceedings of past MICAI conferences, 2000 and 2002, were also published in Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series, volumes 1793 and 2313. The number of submissions to MICAI 2004 was significantly higher than those of previous conferences — 254 papers from 19 different countries were submitted for consideration to MICAI 2004. The evaluation of this unexpectedly large number of papers was a challenge, both in terms of the quality of the papers and of the review workload of each PC member. After a thorough reviewing process, MICAI’s Program Committee and Programs Chairs accepted 97 highquality papers. So the acceptance rate was 38.2%. CyberChair, a free Web-based paper submission and reviewing system, was used as an electronic support for the reviewing process. This book contains revised versions of the 94 papers presented at the conference. The volume is structured into 13 thematic fields according to the topics addressed by the papers, which are representative of the main current area of interest within the AI community. We are proud of the quality of the research presented at MICAI 2004, and hope that this volume will become an important archival reference for the field. April 2004 Raúl Monroy Gustavo Arroyo-Figueroa Luis Enrique Sucar Humbe