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Sio-Iong Ao • Burghard B. Rieger
Mahyar Amouzegar
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Advances in
Machine Learning
and Data Analysis
123
Editors
Sio-Iong Ao Mahyar Amouzegar
Harvard School of Engineering College of Engineering
and Applied Sciences California State University
Harvard University Long Beach
Room 403, 60 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138, USA
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Burghard B. Rieger
Universität Trier
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Datenverarbeitung
Computerlinguistik
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Germany
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ISSN 1876-1100 e-ISSN 1876-1119
ISBN 978-90-481-3176-1 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3177-8
DOI -90-481-3177-8
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Preface
A large international conference on Advances in Machine Learning and Data
Analysis was held in UC Berkeley, CA, USA, October 22–24, 2008, under the
auspices of the World Congress on Engineering puter Science (WCECS
2008). The WCECS anized by the International Association of Engineers
(IAENG). IAENG is a non-profit international association for the engineers and the
computer scientists, which was founded in 1968 and has been undergoing rapid ex-
pansions in recent years. The WCECS conferences have served as excellent venues
for the munity to meet with each other a