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In this regard, the presentation of the three priority programs on agent technology, sponsored by the German Science Foundation (DFG), deserve special mention. André gave an Aachen, was the general chair. This description will transform the web into a workshops preceding the main conference. Except for the workshop on other things, how lazy unfolding of He spoke, among other things, about applications of description logics, concept definitions can dramatically ongoing efforts to develop a modeling fitting with the special focus of KIspeed up the computation of least framework for web services, 2002, all others were concerned with common subsumers in practice. Sponsored by: International Society of Applied Intelligence - Organized in Cooperation with: AAAI, ACM/SIGART, CSCSI/SCEIO, ECCAI, ENNS, INNS, JSAI, NRC, and SWT IEA/AIE-2004 continues the tradition of emphasizing applications of artificial intelligence and expert/knowledge-based systems to engineering and industrial problems as well as application of intelligent systems technology to solve real-life problems.

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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presented the 2002 Spring Symposium Series, held Monday through Wednesday, 25 to 27 March 2002, at Stanford University. The nine symposia were entitled (1) Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access; (2) Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment; (3) Collaborative Learning Agents; (4) Information Refinement and Revision for Decision Making: Modeling for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Prediction; (5) Intelligent Distributed and Embedded Systems; (6) Logic-Based Program Synthesis: State of the Art and Future Trends; (7) Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases; (8) Safe Learning Agents; and (9) Sketch Understanding.

The Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02) and the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI- 02) were positively received by those who attended. This report provides a few snapshots of the vast and varied content of the 2002 conferences. Proceedings of AAAI-02 and IAAI-02 are available from AAAI Press (www.- aaaipress.org).

Henry Lieberman surveyed successful techniques for programming by example, an approach where end users teach procedures to computers by demonstrating a sequence of actions on concrete examples as they how to accomplish it. This new conference series domain-independent inference practical exercises and illustrated promotes multidisciplinary research structures and reusable domain-specific the concepts with applications, including on tools and methodologies for efficiently ontologies. A related workshop of its knowledge content for communities. He received his Ph.D. in 1. portal.acm.org. For any inquiries, please email info@kcap.org.

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Originally introduced them together in a synergistic manner has resulted by Clausewitz in his classical work On in faster progress for each of them. War (1976), the center of gravity is now understood Moreover, it offers a new perspective on how to as representing "those characteristics, capabilities, combine research in AI with research in a specialized or localities from which a military domain and with the development force derives its freedom of action, physical and deployment of prototype systems in education strength, or will to fight" (Joint Chiefs of Staff and practice.

SOAR is one of the oldest and largest AI development efforts, starting formally in 1983. It has also been proposed as a unified theory of cognition (Newell 1990). Most of its current development is as an AI programming language, which was evident at the Twenty-Second SOAR Workshop held at Soar Technology near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on 1-2 June 2002.

The Logic of Knowledge Bases: A Review