The system generates traffic flow measurements that enable traffic operations centers to monitor traffic movement and better respond to accidents Wal-Mart Stores (Bentonville, Ark.) Tektronix (Wilsonville, Ore.), a and congestion. This system, which manage its automated storage and models for its computer-assisted includes fuzzy logic and neural network retrieval system. The systems will Mexico), a producer of metals, has Calif.) is using visualization and digital monitor satellite signals in near real implemented an intelligent system to prototyping software for vehicle time, alerting operators to out-of-tolerance improve its zinc yield. The advanced design and manufacturing within its conditions and the presence of control expert system provides operator new concurrent engineering system. The application was developed and virtual manufacturing.

With a power screwdriver the computer, the web, robots, the Europe the Hindu-Arabic system of anyone can drive the hardest screw; automation of manufacturing will all numbers and the arithmetic algorithms with a calculator, anyone can get the conspire to separate the rich and they made possible. One of the numbers right; with an aircraft anyone quick from the poor and slow, hurrying first books after the Bible printed with can fly to Paris; and with Deep the trend to an informed, skilled, moveable type was an Arithmetic. Blue, anyone can beat the world chess and employed elite living among an Even so, the algorithms were not easy champion. Cognitive prostheses undermine uninformed, unskilled, and unemployed and not widely disseminated. But both history and 17th century tradesman could not by giving non-experts equivalent an understanding of human-machine multiply.

Autonomous agents are computer systems that are capable of independent action in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Agents are also one of the most important and exciting areas of research and development in computer science today. Agents are currently being applied in domains as diverse as computer games and interactive cinema, information retrieval and filtering, user interface design, and industrial process control. Agents '98 will build on the enormous success of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '97), held in Marina del Rey in February 1997. The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers and videos with summaries concerning autonomous agents in a variety of embodiments and playing a variety of roles in their environments.

Special Information about the conference The 1998 Program Committee invites thanks are extended to Barbara Grosz, is available by writing to ncai@aaai.

The financial statements are presented B. Inventory: As described in Note 1A to the on the accrual basis of accounting. Magazine, proceedings, conference financial statements, the Association Effective for 1996 the Association books and publications in process changed its method of accounting for has changed its method of accounting inventory is valued at the lower of investments from "original cost" to for investments from "original cost" cost or market value as of December "fair market value" as required by the to "fair market value" as required by 31, 1996 provisions of Financial Accounting the provisions of newly enacted Statement Standard No. 124.

Interestingly, the advantage for more effective access to traditional applications of agent of modeling others is diminished global and corporate information modeling, which requires an agent to when the volatility of the domain is repositories. These repositories are model the problem-solving processes low. Thus, the models of other agents increasingly multimedia, including of the interacting human to provide are more useful in variable domains, text, audio, graphics, imagery, and video. Now attention has turned appropriate feedback. Ole Mengshoel when they are a particularly valuable guide to predict what the other rational toward the problem of processing and D. C. Wilkins's (both of University agents are going to do. and managing multiple and heterogeneous of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) media in a principled manner, presentation focused on recognizing

The Fifth International Conference on User Modeling (UM-96) is part of a recently established, biennial conference series that provides a forum for researchers in the field of user modeling and user-adapted interaction. The next major software revolution after graphic user interfaces will be software that adapts itself to the user. By adapting to the user's needs, preferences, knowledge, language, and even moods, software will attain new levels of usability and broad acceptance that would not be possible without built-in models of the user. This conference series provides a forum for recent research in the field, ranging from theoretical foundations to implemented systems to controlled studies of the human-computer interfaces of user-adapted systems.

It comprises activities Systems, Knowledge Representation managing an interaction. On the focused on the organization, acquiring and Reasoning, and Knowledge Discovery. Wide Web and will remain available in any system that aims to tutor users The KM community has been at ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97. Cross-language text retrieval (CLTR) is the problem of matching a query in The presentations made at this symposium This symposium brought together one language to related documents in dealt with vastly different environments, researchers in natural language processing other languages. As internet resources ranging from digital libraries (NLP) from both academia such as the World Wide Web have and broadcast news archives to virtual and industry, including service become global networks, many new reality and, of course, the web.

Intelligence (AAAI), was held 10 to 12 have now become particularly June 1996 in Timberline, Oregon. Finally, we Netherlands, the United States, and would like to acknowledge the support Venezuela. The papers described new of AAAI for student travel funds. Moises Goldszmidt received his Ph.D. in His email address is moises@ Mathematical Institute in Russia.

Conference on Artificial Intelligence, A second invited talk by Peter Pirolli paths through an argument graph provided a venue for researchers to of Xerox Parc described an ecologically based on a model of the user's beliefs, discuss the role of AI and related inspired model, based on optimal inferences (sound and unsound), and fields in network-based information foraging theory, that views WWW ability level. We can expect further research into accuracy and efficiency. Further same time, the successful transfer of chair was David N. Chin David N. Chin is an associate