Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 8th International Conference, AIMSA'98, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 21-23, 1998, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Methodology, Systems, Applications, AIMSA'98, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in September 1998.
The 40 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 90 submissions. The papers address the whole spectrum of current topics in AI, in particular case-based reasoning, multi-agent systems, planning and temporal reasoning, decision procedures, inductive reasoning, abduction, constraint-based reasoning, knowledge acquisition, knowledge-based systems, learning, natural language processing, temporal and causal reasoning, etc.