The Mexican International Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (MICAI) a yearly international
conference organized by the Mexican Society for Arti?cial Intelligence (SMIA) is a major
international AI forum and the main event in the academic life of the country s growing AI
community. The proceedings of the previous MICAI events were published by Springer in its
Lecture Notes in Arti?cial Intelligence (LNAI) series vol. 1793 2313 2972 3787 4293 4827 and
5317. Since its foundation the conference has been growing in popularity and improving quality.
This volume contains the papers presented at the oral sessions of the 8th Mexican International
Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence MICAI 2009 held November 9-13 2009 in Guanajuato
México. The conference received for ev- uation 215 submissions by 646 authors from 21
countries. This volume contains revised versionsof 63 articles which after thorough and
careful revision were- lected by the international Program Committee. Thus the acceptance rate
was 29.3% This book is structured into 18 sections 17 of which correspond to a c- ference
track and are representative of the main current areas of interest for the AI community the
remaining section comprises invited papers. The conference featured excellent keynote lectures
by leading AI experts: Patricia Melin Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana México Dieter Hutter
DFKI GmbH Germany Josef Kittler Surrey University UK Ramón López de Mantaras IIIA CSIC
Spain José Luis Marroquín CIMAT México In addition to the oral technical sessions and keynote
lectures the conf- ence program included tutorials workshops and a poster session which
were published in separate proceedings volumes.
