Machine Learning And Systems Engineering

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume 68 . Sio-Iong Ao Burghard Rieger Mahyar A. Amouzegar l l Machine Learning and Systems Engineering Editors Dr. Sio-Iong Ao International Association of Engineers Hung To Road 37-39 Hong Kong Unit 1, 1/F Hong Kong SAR [email protected] Prof. Dr. Burghard Rieger Universität Trier FB II Linguistische Datenverarbeitung Computerlinguistik Universitätsring 15 54286 Trier Germany Prof. Mahyar A. Amouzegar College of Engineering California State University Long Beach CA 90840 USA ISSN 1876-1100 e-ISSN 1876-1119 ISBN 978-90-481-9418-6 e-ISBN 978-90-481-9419-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9419-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010936819 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover design: SPi Publisher Services Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface A large international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Systems Engineering was held in UC Berkeley, California, USA, October 20–22, 2009, under the auspices of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2009). The WCECS is organized by the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). IAENG is a non-profit international association for the engineers and the computer scientists, which was founded in 1968 and has been undergoing rapid expansions in recent years. The WCECS conferences have served as excellent venues for the engineering community to meet with each other and to exchange ideas. Moreover, WCECS continues to strike a balance between theoretical and application development. The conference committees have been formed with over two hundred members who are mainly research center heads, deans, department heads (chairs), professors, and research scientists from over thirty countries with the full committee list available at our congress web site (http:// www.iaeng.org/WCECS2009/committee.html). The conference participants are truly international representing high level research and development from many countries. The responses for the congress have been excellent. In 2009, we received more than six hundred manuscripts, and after a thorough peer review process 54.69% of the papers were accepted. Th