Summary

This book presents some of the best ideas that are currently developed in doctoral theses in the area of Artificial Intelligence from all over Europe and beyond. It will provide the reader with papers about the newest formal and practical approaches written by the emerging intelligentsia in Artificial Intelligence. STAIRS-2004 reaches out to the best young researchers worldwide who present their solutions to advance AI and to bridge between its different subdisciplines, such as Multi-agent Systems, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Uncertainty Management, Constraint Programming, and Intelligent User Interfaces. The topics of the papers cover a broad range in Artificial Intelligence including areas such as Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, Web Mining, Search, Agents, Robotics and Information Extraction.