Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVII

The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2010, the 30th International Conference on Innovative Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications, held in Cambridge in December 2010 in both technical and applied flows. They introduce new and innovative developments and applications, divided into technical stream sections on intelligent agents; knowledge discovery and data mining; evolutionary algorithms, Bayesian networks and model-based diagnostics; machine learning; planning and scheduling, followed by application flow sections on first and second machine learning applications; Artificial intelligence for scheduling and artificial intelligence at work. The volume also includes texts of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the 27th volume of the "Research and Development in Intelligent Systems" series, which also includes the 18th 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.