Developments in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 15th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering. Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2002, Cairns, Australia, June 17-20, 2002. Proceedings

Artificial Intelligence is a field with a long history, which is still very much active and developing today. Developments of new and improved techniques, together with the ever—increasing levels of available computing resources, are fueling an increasing spread of AI applications. These applications, as well as providing the economic rationale for the research, also provide the impetus to further improve the performance of our techniques. This further improvement today is most likely to co...