This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWDS 2010, held in Gotemba, Japan, in October 2010. The 22 session papers presented together with 2 invited keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers deal with topics around Spoken Dialogue Systems for Ambient Environment and discuss common issues of theories, applications, evaluation, limitations, general tools and techniques.

TheInternationalConferenceonRoughSetandKnowledgeTechnology(RSKT) has been held every year since 2006. RSKT serves as a major forum that brings researchers and industry practitioners together to discuss and deliberate on fundamental issues of knowledge processing and management and knowled- intensive practical solutions in the current knowledge age. Experts from around the world meet to present state-of-the-art scienti?c results, to nurture academic and industrial interaction, and to promote collaborative research in rough sets and knowledge technology. The ?rst RSKT was held in Chongqing,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th InternationalConference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2010, held in Perpignan, France, in October 2010.
The 25 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43submissions. The volume also contains extended abstracts of the threeinvited papers. The topics covered are aggregation operators anddecision making; clustering and similarity; computational intelligence;and data privacy.

Natural language generation (NLG) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that is often characterized as the study of automatically converting non-linguistic representations (e.g., from databases or other knowledge sources) into coherent natural language text. In recent years the field has evolved substantially. Perhaps the most important new development is the current emphasis on data-oriented methods and empirical evaluation. Progress in related areas such as machine translation, dialogue system design and automatic text summarization and the resulting awareness of the importance...

Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering is a fascinating ?eld of re- 1 search these days. In the beginning of EKAW, the modeling and acquisition of knowledge was the privilege of - or rather a burden for - a few knowledge engineers familiar with knowledge engineering paradigms and knowledge rep- sentationformalisms.While the aimhasalwaysbeentomodelknowledgedecl- atively and allow for reusability, the knowledge models produced in these early days were typically used in single and very speci?c applications and rarely - changed. Moreover, these models were typically rather complex, and...

These are the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Compu- tional Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA-X), held September 9 10, 2009 in Hamburg, co-located with MATES. The purpose of the CLIMA workshops is to provide a forum for discussing techniques, based on computational logic, for representing, in a formal way, programming and reasoning about agents and multi-agent systems. Multi-agentsystemsarecommunitiesofproblem-solvingentitiesthatcanp- ceive and act upon their environment in order to achieve both their individual goals and their joint goals. The work on such systems...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, AICS 2009, held in Dublin, Ireland in August 2009.
The 32 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The topics covered are classification techniques, biologically-inspired computation, natural language processing, and applications of AI techniques for the social Web and financial markets."

With the ever-growing power of generating, transmitting, and collecting huge amounts of data, information overloadis nowan imminent problemto mankind. The overwhelming demand for information processing is not just about a better understanding of data, but also a better usage of data in a timely fashion. Data mining, or knowledge discovery from databases, is proposed to gain insight into aspects ofdata and to help peoplemakeinformed, sensible, and better decisions. At present, growing attention has been paid to the study, development, and application of data mining. As a result there is an...

th It is with great pleasure that I present the selected papers from the 4 Int- national Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (4i-SCLS) to you. The event is being hosted by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, the premier research UniversityofIndiaduring(December10 12,2010)attheSpecialCenterforS- skrit Studies. The ?rst symposium was organized at INRIA, France, by G erard Huet in 2007, the second at Brown University, USA, by Peter Scharf in 2008, and the third was organized at the University of Hyderabad by Amba Kulkarni in January2009. The Sanskrit computational linguistics community is...

IBERAMIAisthe internationalconferenceseriesoftheIbero-Americanarti?cial intelligence community, which has met every two years since the 1988 meeting in Barcelona. The conference is supported by the main Ibero-American societies of AI and provides researchers from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain the opportunity to meet AI researchers from all over the world. Since its inception IBERAMIA has been a widely recognized international conference. Its papers havebeen written, presented, andpublishedinEnglish. Papersofthe maintrack have been published by Springer in the LNCS/LNAI series. This...