ECAI 2008: Proceedings, 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 21-25, 2008, Patras, Greece : Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent ... in Artifical Intelligence and Applications)

The ECAI series of conferences keeps growing. This 18th edition received more submissions than the previous ones. About 680 papers and posters were registered at ECAI 2008 conference system, out of which 518 papers and 43 posters were actually reviewed. The program committee decided to accept121 full papers, an acceptance rate of 23%, and 97 posters. Several submitted full papers have been accepted as posters. All posters, presented in these proceedings as short papers, will have formal presentation slots in the technical sessions of the main program of the conference, as well as poster presentations within a specific session. With respect to previous ECAI conferences, one may notice a relative growth of the Machine Learning and Cognitive Modeling & Interaction areas. The rest of the distribution remains about stable, with marginal fluctuations given that areas are overlapping and their frontiers are not sharp. Papers are accepted in the following research areas: KR&R; Machine Learning; Distributed & Multi-agents Systems; Cognitive Modeling & Interaction; Constraints and search; Model-based Reasoning and Diagnosis; NLP; Planning and scheduling; Perception, Sensing and Cognitive Robotics; and Uncertainty in AI. The accepted papers of the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS), ECAI's associated subconference, are also included in this volume. IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences Deals with Machine Learning; Cognitive Modeling and Interaction; Constraints and search; Model-based Reasoning and Diagnosis; NLP; Planning and scheduling; Perception, Sensing and Cognitive Robotics. This volume includes accepted papers of the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS), ECAI's associated sub conference Includes subconference'Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2008)'.