KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 23rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bonn, Germany, September 13-15, 1999 Proceedings

For many years, Artificial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so—called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI—technology has blended with th...