Advances in Artificial Intelligence 14th Biennial Conference of
AI 2001 is the 14th in the series of Arti cial Intelligence conferences sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence/Soci et e - nadienne pour l’ etude de l’intelligence par ordinateur. As was the case last year too, the con
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Eleni Stroulia Stan Matwin (Eds.)
Advances in Artificial Intelligence 14th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, AI 2001 Ottawa, Canada, June 7-9, 2001 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saabr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Eleni Stroulia University of Alberta, Department of Computer Science Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E8 E-mail: [email protected] Stan Matwin University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and Engineering Ottawa, ON, Canada K1N 6N5 E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Advances in artificial intelligence : proceedings / AI 2001, Ottawa, Canada, June 7 - 9, 2001. Eleni Stroulia ; Stan Matwin (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2001 ( ... biennial conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence ; 14) (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2056 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-42144-0
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Preface
AI 2001 is the 14th in the series of Artificial Intelligence conferences sponsored by the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence/Soci´et´e canadienne pour l’´etude de l’intelligence par ordinateur. As was the case last year too, the conference is being held in conjunction with the annual conferences of two other Canadian societies, Graphics Interface (GI 2001) and Vision Interface (VI 2001). We believe that the overall experience will be enriched by this conjunction of conferences. This year is the “silver anniversary” of the conference: the first Canadian AI conference was held in 1976 at UBC. During its lifetime, it has attracted Ca
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