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1 The articles in this book are related to two current foci of the Strategic Objective : * Knowledge acquisition and modelling, capturing knowledge from raw information and multimedia content in webs and other distributed repositories to turn poorly structured information into machi- processable knowledge.

The fact that research in multi-agent systems is no longer only a novel and promising research horizon at dawn is, in our opinion, the main reason behind DALT's (still short) success story.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed and extended post-proceedings of the Joint ERCIM/CoLogNet International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2005. The papers are organized in topical sections on global constraints, search and heuristics, language and implementation issues, and modeling.

This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup, documenting presentations at the RoboCup 2005 International Symposium, held in Osaka, Japan, July 2005 alongside the RoboCup Competition. The book presents 34 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers together with two award-winning papers.

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 2003 Atlantic Web Intelligence C- ference, AWIC 2003.

Because of its promise to support human programmers in developing correct and efficient program code and in reasoning about programs, automatic program synthesis has attracted the attention of researchers and professionals since the 1970s.This book focusses on inductive program synthesis, and especially on the induction of recursive functions; it is organized into three parts on planning, inductive program synthesis, and analogical problem solving and learning. Besides methodological issues in inductive program synthesis, emphasis is placed on its applications to control rule learning for planning. Furthermore, relations to problem solving and learning in cognitive psychology are discussed.

The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2003, held in Faro, Portugal, in June 2003. The 24 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions.

Nearly everyone was comparing lists of the most important accomplishments and people of the last 10, 100, or 1000 years, imagining the radical changes likely over just the next few years, and at least mildly anxious about the potential Y2K apocalypse.

This volume covers two topics: Specifying and implementing conversation policies (SICP) and agent communication languages. It contains an overview of each subject and presents research in each field.

Affective computing is a fascinating new area of research emerging in computer science.

This volume is based on papers accepted for the Second International Workshop on Multi-agent-based Simulation (MABS-2000)federated with the Fourth Int- national Conference on Multi Agent Systems (ICMAS-2000)held in Boston in July 2000.

This text presents 12 papers on agent-mediated electronic commerce. Sections include electronic negotiation models for agents, formal issues for agents operating on electronic market places, virtual trading institutions and platforms, and trading strategies for interrelated transactions.

The book offers topical sections on Web mining, text mining, applications and tools, concept hierarchies, feature selection, interestingness, sequence mining, spatial and temporal mining, association mining, classification and rule induction, clustering, and advanced topics and new methods.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe, AIME 2001, held in Cascais, Portugal in July 2001. Among the topics addressed in their context on medical information processing are knowledge management and machine learning.

The increasing importance of intelligent agents and their impact on industry/business worldwide is well documented through academic research papers and industrial reports. This volume contains selected papers from PRIMA 2001, the fourth Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, held in Taipei, Taiwan, July 28-29, 2001.

Each submission was - viewed by at least three program committee members and an electronic program committee meeting was held via the Internet.

The 80 revised papers, together with an introduction and three keynote presentations have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision. They have been organized into topical sections including granual computing, rough sets and systems and fuzzy sets and systems.

In response, companies are beginning to integrate multiple sources of data including web, wireless, call centers, and brick-a- mortar store data into a single data warehouse that provides a multifaceted view of their customers, their preferences, interests, and expectations.

Case knowledge stores the previously solved problems and is the main knowledge source of a CBR system.

The Sixth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI2002) was held in Amsterdam on September 23-25th, 2002. Researchers in grammatical inference come from ?elds as diverse as machine learning, theoretical computer science, computational linguistics, pattern recognition, and arti?cial neural n- works.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, PKDD 2006. The book presents 36 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers together with abstracts of 5 invited talks, carefully reviewed and selected from 564 papers submitted.

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2006. This book presents 81 revised papers together with 3 invited papers.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Mining Web Data, WEBKDD 2005, held in Chicago, IL, USA in August 2005 in conjunction with the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2005.

IJCAI '95 Workshop, Montreal, Canada, August 21, 1995 Proceedings.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, PKDD '97, held in Trondheim, Norway, in June 1997. The volume presents a total of 38 revised full papers together with abstracts of one invited talk and four tutorials.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR-97, held in Providence, RI, USA, in July 1997. The volume presents 39 revised full scientific papers selected from a total of 102 submissions;

Taken from the First International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1995, this text addresses such issues as intelligent multimedia retrieval, cooperative conversation, agent system communication and multimodal maps.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD-98, held in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1998.

This text examines artificial intelligence techniques applied to structural engineering. It discusses advances in information technology and explores technology for the design, analysis, monitoring, control and diagnosis of various structural engineering systems.

This text is based on the Fifth Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL '98). Included is an introduction by the volume editors, two summaries of panel discussions held at the Workshop and a classification of all papers published so far in the "Intelligent Agents" series.