Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI

The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2009, the 29th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2009 in both technical and applied flows. They introduce new and innovative developments and applications, divided into technical flow sections on knowledge discovery and data mining, inference, data mining and machine learning, optimization and planning, knowledge acquisition and evolutionary computation, followed by application flow sections on AI and design, commercial applications of AI and other AI applications. The volume also includes texts of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the twenty-sixth volume in the "Research and Development in Intelligent Systems" series, which also includes the seventeenth volume in the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems series. These series are essential reading for those who wish to keep abreast of developments in this important field.