Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications [electronic resource] : 12th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2013, Mexico City, Mexico, November 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II / edited by Félix Castro, Alexander Gelbukh, Miguel González.

The Best Genetic Algorithm I: A Comparative Study of Structurally Different Genetic Algorithms -- The Best Genetic Algorithm II: A Comparative Study of Structurally Different Genetic Algorithms -- The Concept of Confidence for Inheritance-Based Genetic Algorithms -- WIGA: Wolbachia Infection Genetic Algorithm for Solving Multi-Objective Optimization Problems -- B-spline Surface Approximation Using Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm -- A Study of Genetic Algorithms to Solve the School Timetabling Problem -- Explicit Exploration in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms -- An Ant Colony Algorithm for Improving Ship Stability in the Containership Stowage Problem -- Including Modal Improvisation and Music-Inspired Components to Improve Harmony Search -- A Massive Parallel Cellular GPU Implementation of Neural Network to Large Scale Euclidean TSP -- Determination of Cardiac Ejection Fraction by Electrical Impedance Tomography Using an Artificial Neural Network -- Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks for Biological Sequences Prediction -- Complete Diagnosis of Electrical Power Systems Using MDS and ANFIS -- Intelligent Rotor Time Constant Identification Approach in Indirect Field Oriented Induction Motor Drive -- Flame Classification through the Use of an Artificial Neural Network Trained with a Genetic Algorithm -- Traffic Sign Recognition Based on Linear Discriminant Analysis -- Association Measures and Aggregation Functions -- JT2FIS: A Java Type-2 Fuzzy Inference Systems Class Library for Building Object-Oriented Intelligent Applications -- Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Electrical Networks Using a Fuzzy System and Euclidian Distance -- An Embedded Fuzzy Agent for Online Tuning of a PID Controller for Position Control of a DC Motor -- A Note on Parameter Selection for Support Vector Machines -- Reinforcement Learning Method for Portfolio Optimal Frontier Search -- Weighed Aging Ensemble of Heterogenous Classifiers for Incremental Drift Classification -- Similarity Based on Data Compression -- Pattern Recognition with Spiking Neural Networks -- Subjective Evaluation of Labeling Methods for Association Rule Clustering -- An Algorithm of Classification for Nonstationary Case -- Using NIAR k-d Trees to Improve the Case-Based Reasoning Retrieval Step -- Weighting Query Terms towards Multi-faceted Information Fusion of Market Data -- An Agents and Artifacts Approach to Distributed Data Mining -- Evaluating Business Intelligence Gathering Techniques for Horizon Scanning Applications -- Identification of Relations in Region Connection Calculus: 9-Intersection Reduced to3+-Intersection Predicates -- Fast and Robust Object Recognition Based on Reduced Shock-Graphs and Pruned-SIFT -- Matching Qualitative Spatial Scene Descriptions a la Tabu -- Classification of Mexican Paper Currency Denomination by Extracting Their Discriminative Colors -- Towards Reduced EEG Based Brain-Computer Interfacing for Mobile Robot Navigation -- Practical Speech Recognition for Contextualized Service Robots -- Using Monte Carlo Tree Search to Solve Planning Problems in Transportation Domains -- An Approach Based on an Interactive Procedure for Multiple Objective Optimisation Problems -- On Modeling Planning Problems: Experience from the Petrobras Challenge -- An Introduction to Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis -- Common Sense Knowledge Based Personality Recognition from Text -- Implementing Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering to Build a Personality Fuzzy Model Based on Big Five Patterns for Engineers -- Finding Opinion Strength Using Rule-Based Parsing for Arabic Sentiment Analysis -- Emotion Based Features of Bird Singing for Turdus Migratorius Identification.