Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XXVIINCORPORATING APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XVIIThe papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2009, the Twenty-ninth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2009 in both the technical and the application streams.They present new and innovative developments and applications, divided into technical stream sections on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Reasoning, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Optimisation and Planning, and Knowledge Acquisition and Evolutionary Computation, followed by application stream sections on AI and Design, Commercial Applications of AI and Further AI Applications. The volume also includes the text 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 incorporates the seventeenth volume in the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems series. These series are essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field.