Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 13th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA'96 Curitiba, Brazil, October 23 - 25, 1996; Proceedings / Edition 1

The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions; also included are one-page abstracts of invited talks and poster presentations. Besides a strong Brazilian component, the majority of contributing authors are well-known researchers from abroad. The papers are organized in topical sections on nonmonotonic reasoning, planning, learning and heuristic search, distributed AI and multi-agent systems, genetic algorithms, natural language processing, vision and AI applications, and logic programming.