MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Mexican Internat

Fifty years ago, A. Turing predicted that by 2000 we would have a machine that could pass the Turing test. Although this may not yet be true, AI has advanced signi?cantly in these 50 years, and at the dawn of the XXI century is still an activeandchallengi

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

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Osvaldo Cairo L. Enrique Sucar Francisco J. Cantu (Eds.)

MICAI 2000: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Acapulco, Mexico, April 11-14, 2000 Proceedings

Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Osvaldo Cairo Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) Department of Computer Science Rio Hondo 1, Progreso Tizapan, 01000 Mexico D.F. E-mail: [email protected] L. Enrique Sucar Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) Campus Morelos, Av. Reforma 182-A, Lomas de Cuernvaca, Temixco Morelos, 62589, Mexico E-mail: [email protected] Francisco J. Cantu Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) Center for Artificial Intelligence Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey N.L., 64849 Mexico E-mail: [email protected] Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Advances in artificial intelligence : proceedings / MICAI 2000, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, April 11 - 14, 2000. Osvaldo Cairo ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2000 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1793 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-67354-7 CR Subject Classification (1991): I.2 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-67354-7 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a company in the BertelsmannSpringer publishing group. c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000  Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by PTP Berlin, Stefan Sossna Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10720076 06/3142 543210

Preface

Fifty years ago, A. Turing predicted that by 2000 we would have a machine that could pass the Turing test. Although this may not yet be true, AI has advanced significantly in these 50 years, and at the dawn of the XXI century is still an active and challenging field. This year is also significant for AI in Mexico, with the merging of the two major AI conferences into the biennial Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) series. MICAI is the union of th