The 23rd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Science

This volume comprises the proceedings of the 23rd Annual Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2012). AICS 2012 was organised by the CloudCORE Research Centre in Dublin City University September 17th-19th, 2012. The AICS Conference is Ireland's primary meeting for those researching in the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The conference has occurred annually since 1988 and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of research conducted both in Ireland and worldwide. The program covers a large range of topics with submissions covering classification techniques, learning networks and emergence, high performance and cloud computing, biological modelling, financial and geospatial analytics.