Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIV

The papers in this volume are refereed technical papers presented at AI-2007, the 27th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2007. They present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on the limitations of satisfaction , Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Data Mining, Knowledge Acquisition and Management, followed by the text of the short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the twenty-fourth volume of the Research and Development series. The series is essential reading for those who want to keep abreast of developments in this important field. Application Stream papers are published as a companion folder under Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV