KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Invited Papers

   1. From AI to Systemic Knowledge Management

      • Helmut Willke

      Pages 1-13

   2. MINERVA: A Tour-Guide Robot that Learns

      • Sebastian Thrun, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox et al.

      Pages 14-26

   3. Dynamics, Morphology, and Materials in the Emergence of Cognition

      • Rolf Pfeifer

      Pages 27-44

   4. Natural Language Description of Image Sequences as a Form of Knowledge Representation

      • H. -H. Nagel

      Pages 45-60

   5. Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Databases

      • Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander

      Pages 61-74

   6. Cooperative Distributed Vision: Dynamic Integration of Visual Perception, Action, and Communication

      • Takashi Matsuyama

      Pages 75-88

3. Technical Papers-Section 1

   1. Computing Probabilistic Least Common Subsumers in Description Logics

      • Thomas Mantay, Ralf Möller, Alissa Kaplunova

      Pages 89-100

   2. Revising Nonmonotonic Theories: The Case of Defeasible Logic

      • D. Billington, G. Antoniou, G. Governatori, M. Maher

      Pages 101-112

   3. On the Translation of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Problems into Modal Logics

      • Werner Nutt

      Pages 113-124

   4. Following Conditional Structures of Knowledge

      • Gabriele Kern-Isberner

      Pages 125-136

4. Section 2

   1. A Theory of First-Order Counterfactual Reasoning

      • Michael Thielscher

      Pages 137-148

   2. Logic—Based Choice of Projective Terms

      • Ralf Klabunde

      Pages 149-158

   3. Knowledge Based Automatic Composition and Variation of Melodies for Minuets in Early Classical Style

      • Mathis Löthe

      Pages 159-170

   4. Inferring Flow of Control in Program Synthesis by Example

      • Stefan Schrödl, Stefan Edelkamp

      Pages 171-182

5. Section 3

   1. Compilation Schemes: A Theoretical Tool for Assessing the Expressive Power of Planning Formalisms

      • Bernhard Nebel

      Pages 183-194

   2. Generalized Cases: Representation and Steps Towards Efficient Similarity Assessment

      • Ralph Bergmann, Ivo Vollrath

      Pages 195-206

   3. Be Busy and Unique — or Be History—The Utility Criterion for Removing Units in Self-Organizing Networks

      • Bernd Fritzke

      Pages 207-218

6. Section 4

   1. Development of Decision Support Algorithms for Intensive Care Medicine: A New Approach Combining Time Series Analysis and a Knowledge Base System with Learning and Revision Capabilities

      • Michael Imhoff, Ursula Gather, Katharina Morik

      Pages 219-230

   2. Object Recognition with Shape Prototypes in a 3D Construction Scenario

      • Martin Hoffhenke, Ipke Wachsmuth

      Pages 231-242

For many years, Arti?cial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so-called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI-technology has blended with them, and companies are now sensitive to this topic. TheInternetandWWWhaveprovidedtheglobalinfrastructure,whileatthe same time companies have become global in nearly every aspect of enterprise. This process has just started, a little experience has been gained, and therefore it is tempting to re?ect and try to forecast, what the next steps may be. This has given us one of the two main topics of the 23rd Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI-99)held at the University of Bonn: The Knowledge Society. Two of our invited speakers, Helmut Willke, Bielefeld, and Hans-Peter Kriegel, Munich, dwell on di?erent aspects with di?erent perspectives. Helmut Willke deals with the concept of virtual organizations, while Hans-Peter Kriegel applies data mining concepts to pattern recognitiontasks.The three application forums are also part of the Knowledge Society topic: “IT-based innovation for environment and development”, “Knowledge management in enterprises”, and “Knowledgemanagementinvillageandcityplanningoftheinformationsociety”.

• AI Logics
• Cognitive Robotics
• Computer Vision
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Knowledge Processing
• artificial intelligence
• cognition
• pattern recognition
• robot
• robotics

• Institut für Informatik III, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers

• GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  Thomas Cristaller