AI*IA 99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 6th Congress of It

This book contains the extended versions of 33 papers selected among those originally presented at the Sixth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). The congress of the AI*IA is the most relevant Italian event in the field

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Evelina Lamma

Paola Mello (Eds.)

AI∗IA 99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 6th Congress of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Bologna, Italy, September 14-17, 1999 Selected Papers

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany

Volume Editors Evelina Lamma Paola Mello University of Bologna DEIS Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy E-mail:{elamma/pmello}@deis.unibo.it Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Advances in artificial intelligence : Bologna, Italy, September 14 17, 1999 ; selected papers / Evelina Lamma ; Paola Mello (ed.). Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2000 (. . . congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AIIA . . . ; 6) (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1792 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-67350-4

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Preface This book contains the extended versions of 33 papers selected among those originally presented at the Sixth Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). The congress of the AI*IA is the most relevant Italian event in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and has been receiving much attention from many researchers and practitioners of different countries. The sixth congress was held in Bologna, 14-17 September 1999, and was organized in twelve scientific sessions and one demo session. The papers here collected report on significant work carried out in different areas of artificial intelligence, in Italy and other countries. Areas such as automated reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, and machine learning continue to be thoroughly investigated. The collection also shows a growing interest in the field of multi-agent systems, perception and robotics, and temporal reasoning. Many people contributed in different ways to the success of the congress and to this volume. First of all, the members of the program committee who efficiently handled the revie