Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

This volume contains the 5 invited papers and 72 selected
papers that were   presented at the Fifth International
Conference on Industrial and               Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence. This is the first         IEA/AIE
conference to take place outside the USA: more than 120
papers   were received from 23 countries, clearly indicating
the international         character of the conference series. Each
paper was reviewed by at least      three referees. The papers
are grouped into parts on: CAM, reasoning and      modelling,
pattern recognition, software engineering and AI/ES,                  CAD,
vision, verification and validation, neural networks,
machine         learning, fuzzy logic and control, robotics, design
and architecture,         configuration, finance, knowledge-based
systems, knowledge representation,   knowledge acquisition and
language processing, reasoning and decision         support,
intelligent interfaces/DB and tutoring, fault                                 diagnosis,
planning and scheduling, and data/sensor fusion.