KI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 25th Annual German

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen

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Matthias Jarke Jana Koehler Gerhard Lakemeyer (Eds.)

KI 2002: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 25th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2002 Aachen, Germany, September 16-20, 2002 Proceedings

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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 Matthias Jarke Gerhard Lakemeyer RWTH Aachen, Informatik V Ahornstraße 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany E-mail: {jarke, lakemeyer}@cs.rwth-aachen.de Jana Koehler IBM Research Laboratory, Computer Science Research Säumerstraße 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Advances in artificial intelligence : proceedings / KI 2002, 25th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2002, Aachen, Germany, September 16 - 20, 2002. Matthias Jarke ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Tokyo : Springer, 2002 (Lecture notes in computer science ; 2479 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-44185-9

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Preface

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. When starting in 1975 as the German Workshop on AI (GWAI) in Bonn, the meetings were primarily intended as a forum for the German AI community and thus, over the years, also reflected the development of AI research in Germany. Right from the beginning, the goal of the meetings has been to bring together AI researchers working in academia and industry to share their research results and interests in the field of artificial intelligence. In 1993, the name of the meeting changed to its current form Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, or KI for short. Since KI-94 in Saarbr¨ ucken presentations have been in English and the p