Contains papers that are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. This title presents applications of artificial intelligence across a wide range of domains.

Best Application Paper.- Wireless LAN Load-Balancing with Genetic Algorithms.- Machine Learning 1.- Computer Vision System for Manufacturing of Micro Workpieces.- Recognition of Swallowing Sounds Using Time-Frequency Decomposition and Limited Receptive Area Neural Classifier.- Visualization of Agriculture Data Using Self-Organizing Maps.- Machine Learning 2.- Graph-based Image Classification by Weighting Scheme.- A Machine Learning Application for Classification of Chemical Spectra.- Learning to rank order — a distance-based approach.- Web Technologies.- Deploying Embodied AI into Virtual Worlds.- Using Ontology Search Engines to support Users and Intelligent Systems solving a range of tasks.- Information Management for Unmanned Systems: Combining DL-Reasoning with Publish/Subscribe.- Intelligent Systems.- Silog: Speech Input Logon.- An Electronic Tree Inventory for Arboriculture Management.- Conversational Agents in E-Learning.- AI In Healthcare.- Breast cancer diagnosis based on evolvable fuzzy classifiers and feature selection.- Executing Medical Guidelines on the Web: Towards Next Generation Healthcare.- A Hybrid Constraint Programming Approach for Nurse Rostering Problems.- Using Evolved Fuzzy Neural Networks for Injury Detection from Isokinetic Curves.- Short Papers.- An evolutionary approach to simulated football free kick optimisation.- An Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Implementation of Electronic Commerce.- Hybrid System for the Inventory of the Cultural Heritage Using Voice Interface for Knowledge acquisition.

The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2008. They present new and innovative applications of artificial intelligence across a wide range of domains; divided into sections on Machine Learning, Web Technologies, Intelligent Systems and AI in Health Care. The volume also includes the text of short papers presented as posters at the conference. This is the sixteenth volume in the Application and Innovations series, which offers an annual snapshot of the latest applications of artificial intelligence across industry, commerce, education and government. The Technical Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXV.

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