Special Track on Design, Evaluation, and Refinement of Intelligent Systems

Design, evaluation and refinement of intelligent systems was a popular topic at FLAIRS 2008. More and more authors have realized that the lack of systematic methods and formal techniques for the design, the evaluation, and the refinement are often important reasons for not using AI systems in practice. The first contributions in this field were limited to classical AI approaches such as rule-based systems. Actually, more and more papers regarding nonclassical types of systems (like case-based systems, for example), knowledge processing principles (learning principles, for example), and intelligent behavior (game strategies, for example) are published. Rule-based systems are still a subject of the track, but the focus is widened from their verification and validation towards also covering the design issue.