Autonomous and Intelligent Systems: Third International Conference, AIS 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings

283 Pages·2012·12.46 MB·English

by  Artemis Voulkidis

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7326
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
LNAISeriesEditors
RandyGoebel
UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada
YuzuruTanaka
HokkaidoUniversity,Sapporo,Japan
WolfgangWahlster
DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany
LNAIFoundingSeriesEditor
JoergSiekmann
DFKIandSaarlandUniversity,Saarbrücken,Germany
Mohamed Kamel Fakhri Karray
Hani Hagras (Eds.)
Autonomous and
Intelligent Systems
Third International Conference, AIS 2012
Aveiro, Portugal, June 25–27, 2012
Proceedings
1 3
SeriesEditors
RandyGoebel,UniversityofAlberta,Edmonton,Canada
JörgSiekmann,UniversityofSaarland,Saarbrücken,Germany
WolfgangWahlster,DFKIandUniversityofSaarland,Saarbrücken,Germany
VolumeEditors
MohamedKamel
FakhriKarray
UniversityofWaterloo
DepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineering
Waterloo,ON,CanadaN2L3G1
E-mail:{mkamel,karray}@uwaterloo.ca
HaniHagras
UniversityofEssex
ComputationIntelligenceCentre
WivenhoePark,ColchesterCO43SQ,UK
E-mail:[email protected]
ISSN0302-9743 e-ISSN1611-3349
ISBN978-3-642-31367-7 e-ISBN978-3-642-31368-4
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-31368-4
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Preface
AIS2012,theInternationalConferenceonAutonomousandIntelligentSystems,
heldinAviero,Portugal,June25–27,2012,wasthethirdeditionintheAISseries
ofannualconferencesalternatingbetweenEuropeandNorthAmerica.Themain
goals of these conferences are to foster collaboration and exchange between re-
searchersand scientists in the broad fields of autonomous design and intelligent
systems, and to address recent advances in theory, methodology and applica-
tions. AIS 2012 was organized at the same time and place as ICIAR 2012, the
International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition. Both conferences
areorganizedbyAIMI–AssociationforImageandMachineIntelligence—anot-
for-profitorganizationregisteredinOntario,Canada,andarecosponsoredbythe
CenterforPatternAnalysisandMachineIntelligenceoftheUniversityofWater-
loo, the Kitchener Waterloo Chapters of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society, and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society.
For AIS 2012, we received a total of 48 full papers from 15 countries. The
review process was carried out by members of the Program Committee of the
conference.Eachpaper was reviewedby at leastthree reviewersand checkedby
the Conference Chairs. A total of 31 papers were finally accepted and appear
in one volume of the proceedings. The high quality of the papers is attributed
first to the authors, and second to the quality of the reviews provided by the
experts.We wouldlike tosincerelythankthe authorsforrespondingtoourcall,
and to thank the reviewers for their careful evaluation and feedback provided
to the authors. It is this collective effort that resulted in the strong conference
programand high-quality proceedings.
We are very pleased to include in the conference program keynote talks by
well-known experts including Wiro Nissen, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands; Rudolf Kruse, University of Magdeburg, Germany, Germany; Bob
Fisher, University of Edinburgh, UK; Bioucas Dias, Instituto Superior T´ecnico,
Portugal.Wewouldliketoexpressoursinceregratitudetothekeynotespeakers
for accepting our invitation to share their vision and recent advances in their
respectiveareasof specialty.Specialthanks arealso due to the localOrganizing
Committee,andto the members ofthe committee fortheir adviceandhelp. We
are also grateful to Springer’s editorial staff, for supporting this publication in
the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.
WewouldliketothankKhaledHammouda,thewebmasteroftheconference,
for maintaining the Web pages, interacting with the authors and preparing the
proceedings. We would also like to acknowledge the professional service of Via-
gens Abreu in taking care of the registration process and the special events of
the conference.
VI Preface
For those who were not able to attend AIS 2012, we hope this publication
provides a good view of the research presented at the conference, and we look
forward to meeting you at the next AIS conference.
Mohamed Kamel
Fakhri Karray
Hani Hagras
Organization
AIS 2012 – International Conference on Autonomous and
Intelligent Systems
General Co-chairs
Mohamed Kamel Fakhri Karray
University of Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo, Canada
[email protected] [email protected]
Program Co-chairs
Hani Hagras An´ıbal de Matos
Essex University, UK University of Porto, Portugal
[email protected] [email protected]
Special Session Chairs
Autonomous Sensors and Sensor Systems
Stoyan Nihtianov Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Autonomous Systems and Intelligent Control with Applications
Mohammad Biglarbegian University of Guelph, Canada
William Malek University of Waterloo, Canada
Intelligent Knowledge Management
Richard Khoury Lakehead University, Canada
Kacem Abida University of Waterloo, Canada
VIII Organization
Local Organizing Committee
Ana Maria Mendonc¸a Pedro Quelhas
University of Porto Biomedical Engineering Institute
Portugal Portugal
[email protected] [email protected]
Jorge Alves Silva Gabriela Afonso
University of Porto Biomedical Engineering Institute
Portugal Portugal
[email protected] [email protected]
Anto´nio Pimenta Monteiro
University of Porto
Portugal
[email protected]
Publicity Chair
Shahab Ardalan
Gennum Corp., Canada
Conference Secretariat
Viagens Abreu SA
Porto,Portugal
[email protected]
Webmaster
Khaled Hammouda
Waterloo, Canada
[email protected]
Organization IX
Co-Sponsorship
AIMI – Association for Image and
Machine Intelligence
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Porto
Portugal
INEB – Institutode Engenharia
Biom´edica
Portugal
CPAMI – Centre for Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence
University of Waterloo
Canada
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Computational IntelligenceSociety
Chapter, IEEE Kitchener Waterloo
Section
Systems, Man, & Cybernetics (SMC)
Chapter, IEEE Kitchener Waterloo
Section
Control SystemsChapter, IEEE
KitchenerWaterloo Section
Signal Processing Chapter,IEEE
KitchenerWaterloo Section
X Organization
Advisory Committee
Pierre Borne Ecole Centrale de Lille, France
Toshio Fukuda Nagoya University, Japan
Elmer Dadios De La Salle University, Philippines
Clarence de Silva University of British Columbia, Canada
Mo Jamshidi University of Texas, USA
Jong-HwanKim Korea Advanced Institute for Science and
Technology, South Korea
T.H. Lee National University of Singapore, Singapore
Oussama Khatib Stanford University, USA
Kauru Hirota Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Witold Perdrycz University of Alberta, Canada
Technical Program Committee
Mohamed Abderrahim Spain
Waleed Abdulla New Zealand
Giovanni Acampora Italy
Mohsen Afsharchi Iran
Mohammed AlHaddad Saudi Arabia
Mohammad Biglarbegian Canada
Juan Antonio Bot´ıa Blaya Spain
John Cabibihan Singapore
Rui Camacho Portugal
Walid Chainbi Tunisia
Antonina Dattolo Italy
Kerstin Dautenhahn UK
An´ıbal Castilho Coimbra de Matos Portugal
Faiyaz Doctor UK
Ruggero Donida Italy
James Dooley UK
Mehmet O¨nder Efe Turkey
Hadi Firouzi Canada
Giancarlo Fortinio Italy
Maki Habib Egypt
Hani Hagras UK
Sousa Jo˜ao Portugal
Panagiotis Karampelas USA
Mehmet Kaya Turkey
Richard Khoury Canada
Keivan Kianmehr Canada
Dana Kulic Canada
Chang-Shing Lee Taiwan
Xuelong Li China
Organization XI
Honghai Liu UK
Ahmed Lotfi UK
Areej Malibari Saudi Arabia
William Melek Canada
Narges Noori USA
Tansel Ozyer Turkey
P.B. Sujit Portugal
Fernando Lobo Pereira Portugal
Rabie A. Ramadan Egypt
Luis Paulo Reis Portugal
John Ringwood Canada
Agos Rosa Portugal
Miguel Angel Salichs Spain
Farook Sattar Canada
Sabrina Senatore Italy
Mae L. Seto Canada
Insop Song USA
Jiping Sun Canada
Hooman Tahayori Canada
Mehmet Tan Turkey
Peter Won Canada
Dongrui Wu USA
Reviewers
Kacem Abida Canada
Jamil Abousaleh Canada
Masoud Alimardani Canada
Mohammad Azam Javed Canada
Howard Li Canada
Miao Yun Qian Canada