Worldwide AI

We focus our activities on a few well-defined subdomains of artificial intelligence, positively avoiding dispersion and keeping a good balance between basic research and applications, and paying particular attention to training Ph.D. students and technology transfer. In this article, I survey some of the most relevant results we have obtained during the last 12 years. It was founded in 1991 and, since 1994, has been located on the campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. IIIA grew out of an AI research group at the Center for Advanced Studies in Blanes (Spain) that started AI research in 1985. On average IIIA has had about 50 members per year during the last 12 years with a peak of almost 80 members in 2012.