The Seventeenth International FLAIRS Conference seeks high quality, original, unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and verification/validation. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by AAAI Press. Selected papers will receive best-paper awards. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2005. The papers should not exceed 5 pages and is due by October 24, 2003.

"This comprehensive collection of essays presents the state of the art on this fascinating and challenging research topic. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how and why computers will eventually understand what it feels like to have a bad day at the office." Prices subject to change without notice. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

We continue to look for excellent senior and junior researchers to add to our current strengths and to help us venture into new areas. The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) is a division of the National Library of Medicine which is one of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, the government's primary agency for support and conduct of biomedical research. LHNCBC provides opportunities for postdoctoral fellows, graduate and medical students, college students, and visiting faculty to participate in collaborative research in a variety of areas of medical informatics. Research activities involve both basic and applied informatics in several broad research areas. Knowledge-based research focuses on language and information processing, and expert systems.

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence held its 1991 Fall Symposium Series on November 15-17 at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California. This article contains summaries of the four symposia that were conducted. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence held its 1991 Fall Symposium Series on November 15-17 at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California. This article contains summaries of the four symposia that were conducted. A representation of the underlying structure of a discourse enhances the ability of a natural language system to interpret and generate a wide variety of linguistic phenomena.

We describe an application of a dynamic replanning technique in a highly dynamic and complex domain: the military aeromedical evacuation of patients to medical treatment facilities. U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) is the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency responsible for evacuating patients during wartime and peace. Doctrinally, patients requiring extended treatment must be evacuated by air to a suitable medical treatment facility. The Persian Gulf War was the first significant armed conflict in which this concept was put to a serious test. The results were far from satisfactory--about 60 percent of the patients ended up at the wrong destinations.

This article describes the ExpertCop tutorial system, a simulator of crime in an urban region. In ExpertCop, the students (police officers) configure and allocate an available police force according to a selected geographic region and then interact with the simulation. The student interprets the results with the help of an intelligent tutor, the pedagogical agent, observing how crime behaves in the presence of the allocated preventive policing. The interaction between domain agents representing social entities as criminals and police teams drives the simulation. ExpertCop induces students to reflect on resource allocation.

This conference occupies the currently "hot" area that lies midway between the traditional fields of AI--represented by conferences such as the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence--and human-computer interface--represented by conferences such as the ACM Computers and Human Interaction (CHI) Conference and the Interact Conference in Europe. As AI technologies become more widely used, user interface technologies for AI will become increasingly more important, and as traditional interactive graphic user interfaces become more complex, people will look to AI technologies as a way of making them smarter and more sensitive to their users. A growing band of researchers is focusing on these issues, which demand an interdisciplinary outlook, and the intelligent user interface conference series is the premiere venue. This year's conference took place in the fascinating city of New Orleans and was attended by about 150 people, slightly more than last year. Despite the small size of the conference, it achieved a high degree of international participation, with papers from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Sweden, and Brazil.