Applications and innovations in intelligent systems VIII : proceedings of ES2000, the twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, December, 2000

Ann Macintosh Napier University, UK The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at ES2000, the Twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2000. The scope of the Application papers has expanded over recent years to cover not just innovative applications using traditional knowledge based systems, but also to include applications demonstrating the whole range of AI technologies. This volume contains thirteen refereed papers describing deployed applications or emerging applications, together with an invited keynote paper by Dr. Daniel Clancy of NASA Ames Research Centre. The papers were subject to refereeing by at least two "expert" referees. All papers which were controversial for some reason were discussed in depth by the Application Programme Committee. For the application stream, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system which has not yet been installed, provided the application is original and the paper discusses the kinds of things that would help others needing to solve a similar problem. Papers have been selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons learnt to other developers. Papers this year cover topics as diverse as: KBS for maintaining offshore platforms; Data Mining to predict corporate business failure; integrated AI techniques to support field service engineers; Natural Language applied to the Data Protection Act; knowledge management and the application of neural networks. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Model-based System-level Health Management for Reusable Launch Vehicles....Pages 3-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 An Expert System for the Composition of Formal Spanish Poetry....Pages 19-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Creating Knowledge Structure Maps to support Explicit Knowledge Management....Pages 35-48 Towards Continuous Knowledge Engineering....Pages 49-62 Better Knowledge Management Through Knowledge Engineering: A Case Study in Drilling Optimisation....Pages 63-76 An Integrated AI Package for Modelling Applications....Pages 77-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 A data mining approach to the prediction of corporate failure....Pages 93-106 Resolving Deontic Operator Conflicts in Legal Documents....Pages 107-120 Case-based Induction-tree Analysis in Diagnostic Protocol Development....Pages 121-128 Smart Radio - Building Music Radio On the Fly....Pages 129-138 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Towards Integrated Online Support for Field Service Engineers in a Flexible Manufacturing Context....Pages 141-152 The Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Anticipate the Average Journey Time of Traffic in the Vicinity of Merges....Pages 153-166 A KBS Framework for Scheduling Structural Maintenance....Pages 167-180 Tiger with Model Based Diagnosis: Initial Deployment....Pages 181-196 Back Matter....Pages 197-197 The papers in this volume are the Applications papers presented at ES 2000, the Twentieth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2000. The scope of the Application papers has expanded over recent years to cover not just innovative applications using traditional knowledge based systems, but also to include applications demonstrating the whole range of AI technologies. These papers continue to illustrate the maturity of AI as a commercially viable technology to solve real world problems. This is the eighth volume in the Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems series. The series serves as a key reference as to how AI technology has enabled organisations to solve complex problems and gain significant business benefits. The Technical Stream papers from ES 200 are published as a companion volume under the title Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVII From the contents: Application Keynote Address Best Referred Application Paper Session 1: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Engineering Session 2: Medical, Business and Personal Applications Session 3: Engineering Applications. The complete table of contentscan be found on the Internet: http://www.springer.de.