Con il Patrocinio di PROVINCIA DI PISA COMUNE DI PISA Palazzo dei Congressi Pisa, Italy 30 November - 2 December 2009 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications Pisa, Italy 30 Nov. - 2 Dec. 2009 Dec. 2 - Nov. 30 Italy Pisa, Applications and Design Systems Intelligent on Conference International 9th Final Program Book of Abstracts ISDA'09 original logo has been designed by Anna Paola Fagioli Proceedings edited by Palazzo dei Congressi Ajith Abraham Jose' Manuel Benitez Pisa, Italy Francisco Herrera Vincenzo Loia 30 November - 2 December 2009 Francesco Marcelloni Sabrina Senatore Final Program Booklet edited by Michela Antonelli Francesco Marcelloni Book of Abstracts Local Organizing Secretariat G.E.C.O. Eventi Via San Martino, 77 Pisa, Italy Phone + 39 050 2201353 Mobile + 39 333 1668633 Fax + 39 050 2209734 e-mail: [email protected] www.gecoeventi.it P.I.C. Emanuela Ferro Contents Preface……………….……………………………………………………..2 Conference venue……………………………………………………..3 Committees……………………………………………………………….8 Special sessions……………………………………………………….13 Workshops……………………………………………………………….14 Plenary Talks……………………………………………………….….15 Program at-a-glance……………………………………………….25 Conference Area……………………………………………………..28 Tecnical program…………………………………………………….29 Abstracts……………………………………………………………….…46 1 Preface Welcome to the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’09) held in Pisa (Italy), which is famous in the world for the Square of Miracles, where you can admire the Leaning Tower, the Cathedral and the Baptistery. ISDA’09 is hosted by the University of Pisa, one of the oldest and prestigious universities in Italy, financially sponsored by the Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) and technically sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, International Fuzzy Systems Association, European Neural Network Society, European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, and The World Federation on Soft Computing. ISDA’09 brings together researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry working in all interdisciplinary areas of computational intelligence and system engineering to share their experience, and to exchange and cross-fertilize their ideas. The aim of ISDA’09 is to serve as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development and implementations of intelligent systems, intelligent technologies and useful applications in these two fields. We received a total of 413 submissions from 46 countries. Each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers and most papers had three or more reviews. Papers submitted to the special sessions and workshops were peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for regular papers. Based on the outcome of the review process, 274 papers were accepted for inclusion in the conference proceedings. We are sure that the diversity of the topics dealt with in these papers and the quality of their contents, and the international stature of the five keynote speakers, Piero Bonissone, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Hani Hagras, Hisao Ishibuchi and Witold Pedrycz, make for an exciting conference. Finally, as proof of the quality of the program, we would like to point out that seven well-known international journals, namely Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Evolutionary Intelligence, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, and Neural Network World, have accepted to consider extended versions of significant conference contributions for possible inclusion in special issues. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the workshop and special session organizers, the advisory board, the program committee and the numerous referees who helped us evaluate the papers and make ISDA’09 a very successful scientific event. We hope that you will enjoy the program. General Co-Chairs Beatrice Lazzerini, Lakhmi Jain, Ajith Abraham Program Committee Co-Chairs Francesco Marcelloni, Francisco Herrera, Vincenzo Loia 2 Conference venue The conference will be held in Pisa, Italy at Palazzo dei Congressi. The venue for the conference will be Palazzo dei Congressi, located in the centre of the city, at a walking distance from the heart of Pisa. It stands in one of the most attractive parts of the city and, as it is only two kilometres far from the airport (Pisa airport is very close to downtown), the railway station and the exit on the Firenze - Pisa highway, it is easy to reach by all forms of transport. A walk of the same distance along the River Arno and through the fascinating Medieval town centre takes you to the Leaning Tower in the Piazza dei Miracoli. Equipment in the building is technologically of the first order and can satisfy every congress need. About Pisa Pisa, located in western Tuscany, is known throughout the world for its famous Leaning Tower, but there is so much more to Pisa than just this striking landmark. Pisa is a university city with a population of nearly 100,000 (and with 40,000 students). It is situated in Tuscany, close to the coast just 80 km from Florence, 15 km from Lucca and 150 km from Siena. The historic centre of Pisa is roughly in the shape of a quadrilateral surrounded by 12th-century walls, with sides measuring 1.5 km. The Arno river crosses the city from east to west, cutting it into two parts named Tramontana (north) and Mezzogiorno (south). History of Pisa The ecclesiastical city of Pisa began life as a seaside settlement around 3,000 years ago and was first laid out in the mid-eleventh century. An important naval base in Roman times and a flourishing maritime republic until the 13th century, Pisa is now a town renowned for its art and architectural treasures. Pisa is crammed full of wonderful, historical monuments and buildings dating back many hundreds of years and much of Pisa has retained its medieval appearance. In the north-west of Pisa there is an immense green lawn on which four impressive buildings stand in gleaming white marble. These imposing structures are the enormous, breathtaking Duomo (cathedral) - built almost 1,000 years ago, the cathedral's bell tower - better known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the circular Battistero (Baptistery) - the largest of its kind in the whole of Italy, and the Camposanto - also known as the Holy Field, without doubt one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world. This area of Pisa is known as the Campo dei Miracoli or the Piazza dei Miracoli (Field of Miracles) and these remarkable Pisan buildings combine Moorish, Gothic and Romanesque architectural features. The world-famous leaning tower, the cathedral and baptistery make it one of Italy's favourite tourist destinations. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is undoubtedly one of the most famous and beloved monuments in the world. From 1173 (when its construction started) up to the present, the Tower has been the object of very special attention, both because of its dramatic lean, and its beauty. In 1990, the structure was deemed to be leaning too far for tourists to climb safely and it was 3 closed to the public. Happily, Italy's legendary Leaning Tower of Pisa re-opened to the public on December 15th, 2004, and is now standing just a little straighter. Besides the tower, Pisa has other significant sights. Highlights are the Duomo, the Cathedral of Pisa, which is famed for its Romanesque panels depicting the life of Christ, the Museo of Palazzo Reale and the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo that contains many other dramatic examples of Romanesque and Gothic art. University of Pisa Pisa is also known as Galileo Galilei birthplace and for its prestigious university, which has become one of Italy's top schools. The University of Pisa was officially established in 1343, although a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century. The papal bull 'In supremae dignitatis', granted by Pope Clement VI on 3 September 1343, recognized the 'Studium' of Pisa as a 'Studium Generale'; an institution of further education founded or confirmed by a universal authority, the Papacy or Empire. Pisa was one of the first European universities that could boast this papal attestation, which guaranteed the universal, legal value of its educational qualifications. With the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, the University of Pisa became one of the new state's most prestigious cultural institutions. Between the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century the following prestigious lecturers taught at Pisa: the lawyers Francesco Carrara and Francesco Buonamici, philologists Domenico Comparetti and Giovanni D'Ancona, historians Pasquale Villari, Gioacchino Volpe and Luigi Russo, philosopher Giovanni Gentile, economist Giuseppe Toniolo and mathematicians Ulisse Dini and Antonio Pacinotti. The first European institute of Historical Linguistics was founded in Pisa in 1890. After the second world war the University of Pisa returned to the avant-garde in many fields of knowledge. To the faculties of Engineering and Pharmacy, established pre-war, were added Economics, Foreign Languages and Literature and Politics. In 1967 the 'Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento S. Anna' was founded which, together with 'La Scuola Normale', formed a highly prestigious learning and teaching centre. Today the University of Pisa boasts eleven faculties and fifty-seven departments, with high level research centres in the sectors