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Foreword
We welcome all of you to the twenty-fourth edition of the Midwest Artificial In-
telligence and Cognitive Science Conference, April 13-14, 2013 (MAICS 2013)
hosted by Indiana University Southeast. In keeping with tradition of MAICS,
this version of the conference brings together graduate students, junior and senior
faculty along with industry researchers to present and exchange ideas related to
numerous topics in artificial intelligence and cognitive science.
This year a program committee of 23 members invited authors to submit papers on
relevant subjects that represent new results or research in progress. We accepted
15 papers after a thorough review process that included extended comments and
suggestions for the authors. All submitted papers were reviewed by two or more
referees and the suggested improvements were shared with the authors. Our deep-
est appreciation goes to the program committee for their valuable contributions to
make this event successful.
The success of the conference depends on many others who contributed to it. We
thank our keynote speaker for agreeing to give a lecture and share expertise with
the participants. We extend our sincere gratitude to computer science students
who volunteered to help, IU Southeast Conference and Catering services, and
IU Bloomington Office of Conference and Event Registration Services. Finally
we thank our sponsors, the Cognitive Science Society, IU Southeast School of
Natural Sciences, Computer Science Department and the Academic Affairs Office
for financial and human resource contributions.

We hope you will all enjoy the conference with lively and productive discussions
and that MAICS will continue to be a success for many years to come.

                                      Suranga Hettiarachchi, General Chair
                                      Ronald Finkbine, General Chair
                                      Michael Glass, Program Chair
MAICS-2013 Organization
Suranga Hettiarachchi, Conference Chair
Ronald Finkbine Conference Chair
Michael Glass, Editor


Program Committee:

 Hani Abusalem            University of South Carolina-Aiken
 James Buckley            University of Dayton
 Denise Byrnes            The College of Wooster
 Paul De Palma            Gonzaga University
 Irene Diaz               University of Oviedo
 John Doyle               Indiana University Southeast
 Martha Evens             Illinois Institute of Technology
 Reva Freedman            Northern Illinois University
 Atsushi Inoue            Eastern Washington University
 Jung Hee Kim             North Carolina A&T State University
 Richard Maclin           University of Minnesota Duluth
 Toshiyuki Maeda          Hannan University
 Augustine Nsang          University of Cincinnati
 Masaki Ogino             Kansai University
 Anca Ralescu             University of Cincinnati
 Mohammad Rawashdeh       University of Cincinnati
 Christopher Thomas       Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University
 Traian Marius Truta      Northern Kentucky University
 Kewei Tu                 Iowa State University
 Sofia Visa               The College of Wooster

Conference sponsored by:
Department of Computer Science, School of Natural Sciences
Indiana University Southeast