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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3171
Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes puter Science
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Ana . Bazzan Sofiane Labidi (Eds.)
Advances in
Artificial Intelligence –
SBIA 2004
17th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil
September 29 – October 1, 2004
Proceedings
Springer
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Preface
SBIA, the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, is a biennial event
intended to be the main forum of the munity in Brazil. The SBIA 2004
was the 17th issue of the series initiated in 1984. Since 1995 SBIA has been
accepting papers written and presented only in English, attracting researchers
from all over the world. At that time it also started to have an international
mittee, keynote invited speakers, and proceedings published in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer (SBIA 1995,
Vol. 991, SBIA 1996, Vol. 1159, SBIA 1998, Vol. 1515, SBIA 2000, Vol. 1952,
SBIA 2002, Vol. 2507).
SBIA 2004 was sponsored by the puter Society (SBC). It was
held from September 29 to October 1 in the city of São Luis, in the northeast
of Brazil, together with the Brazilian Symposium on works (SBRN).
This followed a trend of joining the AI and munities to make the joint
event a very exciting one. In particular, in 2004 these two events were also held
together with the IEEE International Workshop on Machine L