Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIX

The papers in this volume are the refereed papers presented at AI-2012, the 32nd SGAI International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2012 in both technical and applied flows. They introduce new and innovative developments and applications, divided into technical flow sections on data mining, data mining and machine learning, planning and optimization, knowledge management and forecasting, followed by application flow sections on language, classification and recommendation, practical applications and systems, data mining and machine learning. The volume also includes texts of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the 29th volume in the Intelligent Systems Research and Development series, which also includes the 20th volume in the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems series. These series are essential reading for those who wish to keep abreast of developments in this important field.