Ecai 96:12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 11-16, 1996, Budapest 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 11-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary Proceedings

The 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, attracted 450 submissions from 41 different countries. The International Programme Committee selected 133 papers, which are presented in this volume, organized into 15 sections. With an acceptance rate of 29%, ECAI 96 was one of the most selective general AI conferences of 1996. The aim of the conference is to cover all aspects of AI, and to bring together basic and applied research. Important areas of Automated Reasoning are covered, such as Abductive, Temporal, Causal, Non-monotonic, Constraint-based, Case-based, Model-based, Qualitative, and Spatial Reasoning. Core subjects like Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Multi-Agent Systems, Natural Language Processing, Planning, Robotics and Vision are given extensive treatment. The proceedings also contains summaries of the four invited talks.European Conference on Artificial Life Staff is the author of 'Ecai 96:12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 11-16, 1996, Budapest 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 11-16, 1996, Budapest, Hungary Proceedings' with ISBN 9780471968092 and ISBN 0471968099.