This volume contains 11 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at the Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2012) and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2012) co-located with AAMAS 2012 in Valencia, Spain, in June 2012. The i…
"With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in the computer industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are the primary contributors of technology for fast access to Web-based information; and searching capabilities are now integrated into most information…
Requirements engineering is one of the most complex and at the same time most crucial aspects of software engineering. It typically involves different stakeholders with different backgrounds. Constant changes in both the problem and the solution domain make the work of the stakeholders extremely dynamic. New problems are discovered, additional information is needed, alternative solutions are pr…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Second International Multi-Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology, M-CAIT 2013, held in Shah Alam, in August 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. M-CAIT 2013 hosted four special tracks in a single event: Intelligence Computation on Pattern Analysis and R…
DepCoS – RELCOMEX is an annual series of conferences organized by the Institute of Computer Engineering, Control and Robotics (CECR), WrocÅ‚aw University of Technology, since 2006. Its idea came from the heritage of the other two cycles of events: RELCOMEX Conferences (1977 – 89) and Microcomputer Schools (1985 – 95) which were then organized by the Institute of Engineer…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops which complemented the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2013, held in Salamanca, Spain, in May 2013. This volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the workshops: Workshop on Agent-based Approaches for the Transportation Modeling and Optimization, Workshop…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th FIRA Robo World Congress, FIRA 2013, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August 2013. The congress consisted of the following three conferences: 5th International Conference on Advanced Humanoid Robotics Research (ICAHRR), 5th International Conference on Education and Entertainment Robotics (ICEER), and 4th International Robotics Educati…
This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Information Search, Integration and Personalization, ISIP 2012, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 presentations. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge federation and integration; social system suppor…
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Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where data points are grouped such that points that are similar in some sense belong to the same cluster. Cluster analysis is a complex problem as a variety of similarity and dissimilarity measures exist in the literature. This is the first book focused on clustering with a particular emphasis on symmetry-based measures of simi…