Progress in Artificial Intelligence: 6th Portuguese Conference on AI, EPIA `93, Porto, Portugal, October 6-8, 1993. Proceedings

This volume presents the proceedings of the 6th Portuguese

Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA '93, organized

by the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Association. Like

the last two conferences in this series, it was run as an

international event with strict requirements as to the

quality of accepted submissions. Fifty-one submissions were

receivedfrom 9 countries, the largest numbers coming from

Portugal (18), Germany (10), and France (8).

The volume contains 25 selected papers, together with 7

poster abstracts and one invited lecture: "Organizations as

complex, dynamic design problems" by L. Gasser, I. Hulthage,

B. Leverich, J. Lieb, and A. Majchrzak, all from the

University of Southern California. The papersare grouped

into parts on: distributed artificial intelligence, natural

language processing, knowledge representation, logic

programming, non-standard logics, automated reasoning,

constraints, planning, and learning.