This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2009, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2009.
The 63 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on logic and reasoning, ontologies, knowledge management and knowledge-based systems, uncertainty and probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision and image processing, robotics, planning and scheduling, fuzzy logic, neural networks, intelligent tutoring systems, bioinformatics and medical applications, hybrid intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms.
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by R. Goebel, J. Siekmann, and W. Wahlster Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5845 Arturo Hernández Aguirre Raúl Monroy Borja Carlos Alberto Reyes García (Eds.) MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Guanajuato, México, November 9-13, 2009 Proceedings 13 Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Arturo Hernández Aguirre Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, AC. (CIMAT) Area de Computación, Calle Jalisco S/N Mineral de Valenciana Guanajuato, CP 36250, Guanajuato, México E-mail:
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[email protected] Library of Congress Control Number: 2009937486 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, I.2.9, I.5, F.2.2, I.5.4, I.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13 1867-8211 3-642-05257-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-05257-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 12779635 06/3180 543210 Preface The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), a yearly international conference organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), is a major international AI forum and the main event in the academic life of the