Logics in Artificial Intelligence - Sergio Flesca

Résumé :
TheEuropeanConferenceonLogicsinAIprovidesamajorbiennialforumforthe discussion of logic-oriented approaches to arti?cial intelligence. Following pre- ous workshops held in France (1988), The Netherlands (1990), Germany (1992), England (1994), Portugal (1996), Germany (1998), and Spain (2000) the eighth conference was in Cosenza, Italy, September 23?26, 2002. The international level and the overall technical quality of this event is now well established. As a c- sequence, the Program Committee wished to explicitly mark JELIA 2002 as a milestone by promoting the event from a ?Workshop? to a ?Conference?. Theaimwastobringtogetheractiveresearchersinterestedinallaspectsc- cerning the use of logics in arti?cial intelligence to discuss current research, - sults,problems,andapplicationsofboththeoreticalandpracticalnature. JELIA strived to foster links and facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers from various disciplines, among researchers from academia, industry, and g- ernment, and between theoreticians and practitioners. ThetechnicalprogramofJELIA2002comprisedthreeinvitedtalksthatwere given by Georg Gottlob, Michael Gelfond, and Moshe Y. Vardi and 41 refereed contributions selected by the Program Committee amongst more than 100 s- mittedpapers. Asapartofthetechnicalprogram,theconferencefeaturedas- cial session consisting of 11 system presentations. Finally, the program included three tutorials by V. S. Subrahamanian, Dino Pedreschi and Fosca Giannotti, and Gerald Pfeifer.