Progress in Artificial Intelligence 9th Portuguese Conference on
The Portuguese Association for Arti cial Intelligence (APPIA) has been re- larly organising the Portuguese Conference on Arti cial Intelligence (EPIA). This ninth conference follows previous ones held in Porto (1985), Lisboa (1986), Braga (1987), Lisboa (
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
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Pedro Barahona Jos´e J. Alferes (Eds.)
Progress in Artificial Intelligence 9th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA ’99 ´ Evora, Portugal, September 21-24, 1999 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 Pedro Barahona Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Inform´atica Quinta da Torre, P-2825-114 Caparica, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Jos´e J. Alferes ´ Universidade de Evora, Departamento de Matem´atica ´ R. Rom˜ao Ramalho 59, P-7000 Evora, Portugal E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface The Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) has been regularly organising the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA). This ninth conference follows previous ones held in Porto (1985), Lisboa (1986), Braga (1987), Lisboa (1989), Albufeira (1991), Porto (1993), Funchal (1995) and Coimbra (1997). Starting in 1989, the conferences have been held biennially (alternating with an APPIA Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence) and become truly international: English has been adopted as the official language and the proceedings are published in Springer’s LNAI series. The conference has reconfirmed its high international standard this year, largely due to its programme committee, composed of distinguished researchers in a variety of specialities in Artificial Intelligence, half of them from Portuguese universitie
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