Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress

The papers in this volume include the proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (IFIP AI 2008), which was part of the 20th IFIP World Computer Conference, the International Federation for Information Processing (WCC-2008), in Milan, Italy at September 2008. The conference was organized by the IFIP Technical Committee (Technical Committee 12) and Working Group 12.5 (Artificial Intelligence Applications). All papers were reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Final decisions were made by the Executive Program Committee, which included John Debenham (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia), Elias Maglogianis (Aegean University, Samos, Greece), Ionica Mercier Laurent (Kim, France) and myself. The best papers were selected for the conference, either long papers (maximum 10 pages) or short papers (maximum 5 pages) and are included in this volume. The international nature of the IFIP is clearly reflected in the large number of countries represented here. The conference also included invited talks by Professor Nicola Kasapov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand) and Professor Lorenza Saita (Piemonte Oriental University, Italy). I would like to thank the Conference Chair, John Debenham for all his efforts and the members of our program committee for reviewing papers on a very tight deadline.