Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 12th Australian Joint
The 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'QQ) held in Sydney, Australia, 6-10 December 1999, is the latest in a series of annual re gional meetings at which advances in artificial intelligence are reported. This series now attra
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ar99 Sydney, Australia, December 6-10, 1999 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jorg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbriicken, Germany
Volume Editor Norman Foo
University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication data applied for E>ie Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufiiahme Advanced topics in artificial intelligence: proceedings /12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI '99, Sydney, Australia, December 6 10,1999 / Norman Foo (ed.). - Berlin; Heidelberg ; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo : Springer, 1999 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1747 : Lectures notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-66822-5
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Preface The 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'QQ) held in Sydney, Australia, 6-10 December 1999, is the latest in a series of annual regional meetings at which advances in artificial intelligence are reported. This series now attracts many international papers, and indeed the constitution of the program committee reflects this geographical diversity. Besides the usual tutorials and workshops, this year the conference included a companion symposium at which papers on industrial appUcations were presented. The symposium papers have been published in a separate volume edited by Eric Tsui. Ar99 is organized by the University of New South Wales, and sponsored by the Australian Computer Society, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Computer Sciences Corporation, the KRRU group at Griffith University, the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, and NeuronWorks Ltd. Ar99 received over 120 conference paper submissions, of which about onethird were
