In this editorial we introduce the articles published in this special AI Magazine issue on innovative applications of artificial intelligence. Discussed are a pick-pack-and-ship warehouse-management system, a neural network in the fishing industry, the use of AI to help mobile phone users, building business rules in the mortgage lending business, automating the processing of immigration forms, and the use of the semantic web to provide access to observational datasets.

In this editorial we introduce the articles published in this special AI Magazine issue on innovative applications of artificial intelligence. Discussed are a pick-pack-and-ship warehouse-management system, a neural network in the fishing industry, the use of AI to help mobile phone users, building business rules in the mortgage lending business, automating the processing of immigration forms, and the use of the semantic web to provide access to observational datasets.

We are very pleased to republish here extended versions of a sample of the papers drawn from the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-06), which was held July 17-20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts. Three of these articles describe deployed applications and two describe emerging applications.

We are very pleased to republish here extended versions of a sample of the papers drawn from the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-06), which was held July 17-20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts. Three of these articles describe deployed applications and two describe emerging applications.