Advances in Artificial Intelligence

This book contains 22 long papers and 13 short ones selected
for the            Scientific Track of the Third Congress of the
Italian Association for         Artificial Intelligence. The long
papers report completed work whereas the   short papers are
mainly devoted to ongoing research. The papers                  report
significant work carried out in the different subfields                     of
artificial intelligence not only in Italy but also
elsewhere: 8 of   the papers come from outside Italy, with 2
from the United States and 1 eachfrom Australia, Austria,
Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and                     Turkey.
The papers in the book are grouped into parts on:                           automated
reasoning; cognitive models; connectionist models                        and
subsymbolic approaches; knowledge representation and
reasoning;      languages, architectures and tools for AI;
machine learning; natural            language; planning and robotics;
and reasoning about physical systems and   artifacts.