Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 2nd Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA, Palermo, Italy, October, 29-31, 1991. Proceedings

This book collects the scientific papers presented at the

2nd Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial

Intelligence, held in Palermo in October 1991. It displays

the state of the art of both Italian and European scientific

research in AI. The book begins with an invited paper by W.

Wahlster et al. The bulk of the book is then divided into

five parts on: - Knowledge representation (18 papers), -

Knowledge acquisition (5 papers), - Natural language (5

papers), - Perception and robotics (5 papers), -

Architecture and technologies (5 papers). A section

containing short papers completes the book. The high quality

of the papers reflects massive research activity mainly

devoted to the theoretical aspects of AI, but clearly aimed

at consolidating the results already achieved. Several

contributions are oriented to the technological aspects of

AI.