Dieser Band enthalt die Beitrage zur Osterreichischen Artificial Intelligence - Tagung 1985, die vom 24. bis 27. September 1985 in Wien stattgefunden hat. Es war die erste Tagung dieser Art in Osterreich und ihr Ziel war es, Gber Forschungsaktivitaten auf dem immer wichtiger werdenden Gebiet der Artificial Intelligence in Osterreich zu informieren. Dies wurde auch erreichtj von den insgesamt 23 Beitragen des Bandes stammen 14 von Wissenschaftern aus Osterreich. Die Beitrage befassen sich mit folgenden Teil­ gebieten der AI: Expertensysteme, Naturlichsprachige Systeme, Wis­ senserwerb und Learning, AI-Tools, Automatisches Beweisen und Programmieren, Spiele, Auswirkungen der AI. 1m Vorprogramm wurden Tutorials zu den Themen "Einfuhrung in die AI", "Expertensysteme", "LISP und AI-Tools", "Roboter/ Flexible Automation" sowie "Naturlichsprachige Datenbank­ Interfaces" durchgefuhrt. Der rege Besuch bestatigte das all­ gemeine Interesse. Insgesamt zeigen die Beitrage dieses Bandes, daG die Forschung durchaus auf internationalem Niveau steht, was angesichts der kleinen Anzahl von Wissenschaftern und der beschrankten Mittel positiv uberrascht. Wir mochten an dieser Stelle allen, die mit Ihren Beitragen diese Tagung ermoglicht haben, herzlich danken. Besondere An­ erkennung gilt auch allen Mitgliedern der OGAI und Mitar­ beitern, die zum Erfolg beigetragen haben.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2001, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2001. The 29 revised full technical papers presented together with one invited paper and four posters of industrial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. All current aspects in AI are addressed, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to industrial applications.

Die 7. \sterreichische Artificial-Intelligence-Tagung fand vom 24.-27. September 1991 an der Technischen Universit{t Wien statt. Sie hat aufgrund der starken Beteiligung aus dem Ausland einen ausgepr{gt internationalen Charakter, weshalb auch der vorliegende Tagungsband zweisprachig herausgegeben wurde. Die behandelten Themen aus dem Gebiet der K}nstlichen Intelligenz (KI) werden repr{sentiert durch sechzehn begutachtete Beitr{ge sowie zwei eingeladene Vortr{ge. Sie sind thematisch breit gestreut, wobei sich gewisse Schwerpunkte in den Gebieten "Nat}rliche Sprache" und "Wissensbasierte Systeme" sowie Logik und Schlie en" abzeichnen.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Austrian Artificial Intelligence Conference, held in Linz, Austria, in June 1993. The focus of the conference was on "Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence". The volume contains abstracts of two invited talks and full versions of 17 carefully selected papers. The invited talks were: "The role of fuzzylogic and soft computing in the conception and design of intelligent systems" by Lotfi A. Zadeh, and "A contextual approach for AI systems development" by Irina V. Ezhkova. The contributed papers are grouped into sections on theoretical issues, machine learning, expert systems, robotics and control, applications to medicine, and applications to car driving. Additionally, the volume contains descriptions of the four workshops that took place during the conference.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth Austrian Artificial Intelligence Conference, held in Linz, Austria, in June 1993. The focus of the conference was on "Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence". The volume contains abstracts of two invited talks and full versions of 17 carefully selected papers. The invited talks were: "The role of fuzzylogic and soft computing in the conception and design of intelligent systems" by Lotfi A. Zadeh, and "A contextual approach for AI systems development" by Irina V. Ezhkova. The contributed papers are grouped into sections on theoretical issues, machine learning, expert systems, robotics and control, applications to medicine, and applications to car driving. Additionally, the volume contains descriptions of the four workshops that took place during the conference.

This book is based on the papers presented at the International Conference on Arti?cial Neural Networks, ICANN 2001, from August 21–25, 2001 at the - enna University of Technology, Austria. The conference is organized by the A- trian Research Institute for Arti?cal Intelligence in cooperation with the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Group and the Center for Computational - telligence at the Vienna University of Technology. The ICANN conferences were initiated in 1991 and have become the major European meeting in the ?eld of neural networks. From about 300 submitted papers, the program committee selected 171 for publication. Each paper has been reviewed by three program committee m- bers/reviewers. We would like to thank all the members of the program comm- tee and the reviewers for their great e?ort in the reviewing process and helping us to set up a scienti?c program of high quality. In addition, we have invited eight speakers; three of their papers are also included in the proceedings. We would like to thank the European Neural Network Society (ENNS) for their support. We acknowledge the ?nancial support of Austrian Airlines, A- trian Science Foundation (FWF) under the contract SFB 010, Austrian Society ̈ for Arti?cial Intelligence (OGAI), Bank Austria, and the Vienna Convention Bureau. We would like to express our sincere thanks to A. Flexer, W. Horn, K. Hraby, F. Leisch, C. Schittenkopf, and A. Weingessel. The conference and the proceedings would not have been possible without their enormous contri- tion.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eurpoean Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), continuing the tradition of the five earlier EWSLs (European Working Sessions on Learning). The aim of these conferences is to provide a platform for presenting the latest results in the area of machine learning. The ECML-93 programme included invited talks, selected papers, and the presentation of ongoing work in poster sessions. The programme was completed by several workshops on specific topics. The volume contains papers related to all these activities. The first chapter of the proceedings contains two invited papers, one by Ross Quinlan and one by Stephen Muggleton on inductive logic programming. The second chapter contains 18 scientific papers accepted for the main sessions of the conference. The third chapter contains 18 shorter position papers. The final chapter includes three overview papers related to the ECML-93 workshops.