Artificial intelligence applications and innovations : IFIP 18th World Computer Congress : TC12 First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI-2004), 22-27 August 2004, Toulouse, France

Artificial Intelligence and Innovations (AIAI) will interest researchers, IT professionals and consultants by examining technologies and applications of demonstrable value. The conference focused on profitable intelligent systems and technologies. AIAI focuses on real world applications; therefore authors should highlight the benefits of AI technology for industry and services. Novel approaches solving business and industrial problems, using AI, will emerge from this conference. The development of AI technologies opens an opportunity to use them not only for conventional applications (expert systems, intelligent data bases [1], technical diagnostics [2,3] etc.), but also for total automation of mechanical manufacturing.