Advanced Topics In Artificial Intelligence

Besides four invited papers the volume presents revised versions of 14 long papers and 26 short papers selected from a total of 104 submissions.The papers address all current aspects in the area of machine learning; also logic programming, planning, reasoning, and algorithmic issues are touched upon. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Machine Learning ECML-95, held in Heraclion, Crete in April 1995.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Computer Science Conference, ICSC '95, held in Hong Kong in December 1995. Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics.The 55 revised full papers presented together with 21 posters were selected from a total of 155 submissions.

Software Agents and Soft Computing: Towards Enhancing Machine Intelligence One section is devoted to the rationale, philosophy, and techniques of the emerging area of soft computing. Conceptual issues surrounding intelligent agents and multi-agent systems are investigated and the practical and industrial applicability of this exciting new technology is demonstrated. The final section outlines the broader context in dealing with machine intelligence in general and intelligent software systems in particular.

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. Through reading this book the interested reader will gain a clearer understanding and better perspective of a rapidly evolving field. Its aim is to make available to students and practitioners active in AI those results in a form suitable for people who are already informed about the basics of AI.

Hybrid Systems Control systems for inherently unstable aircraft and computer aided manufacturing are typical applications for hybrid systems, but due to the rapid development of processor and circuit technology modern cars and consumer electronics use software to control physical processes. Hybrid systems are networks of interacting digital and analog devices.

Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence The topics treated are Learning Systems, Planning, Automated Deduction, Qualitative Reasoning, Knowledge Engineering, Natural Language Understanding, and AI Programming.

This volume of invited refereed papers is inspired by a workshop on the Theory of Hybrid Systems, held at the Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark, in October 1992, and by a prior Hybrid Systems Workshop, held at Cornell University, USA, in June 1991, organized by R. The identifying characteristic of hybrid systems is that they incorporate both continuous components governed by differential equations and also digital components - digital computers, sensors, and actuators controlled by programs.