KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

1. Section 4

   1. Probabilistic, Prediction-Based Schedule Debugging for Autonomous Robot Office Couriers

      • Michael Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, Henrik Grosskreutz

      Pages 243-254

2. Section 5

   1. Collaborative Multi-robot Localization

      • Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Hannes Kruppa, Sebastian Thrun

      Pages 255-266

   2. Object Classification Using Simple, Colour Based Visual Attention and a Hierarchical Neural Network for Neuro-symbolic Integration

      • Hans A. Kestler, Steffen Simon, Axel Baune, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günther Palm

      Pages 267-279

   3. A Flexible Architecture for Driver Assistance Systems

      • Uwe Handmann, Iris Leefken, Christos Tzomakas

      Pages 281-284

3. Short Papers

   1. A Theory for Causal Reasoning

      • Camilla Schwind

      Pages 285-288

   2. Systematic vs. Local Search for SAT

      • Holger H. Hoos, Thomas Stützle

      Pages 289-293

   3. Information Environments for Software Agents

      • Stefan Haustein

      Pages 295-298

   4. Improving Reasoning Efficiency for Subclasses of Allen’s Algebra with Instantiation Intervals

      • Jörg Kahl, Lothar Hotz, Heiko Milde, Stephanie E. Wessel

      Pages 299-302

   5. Agents in Traffic Modelling — From Reactive to Social Behaviour

      • Ana Lécia C. Bazzan, Joachim Wahle, Franziska Klügl

      Pages 303-306

   6. Time-Effect Relations of Medical Interventions in a Clinical Information System

      • Michael Imhoff, Marcus Bauer, Ursula Gather

      Pages 307-310

4. Back Matter

   Pages 311-311

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For many years, Arti?cial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so-called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI-technology has blended with them, and companies are now sensitive to this topic. TheInternetandWWWhaveprovidedtheglobalinfrastructure,whileatthe same time companies have become global in nearly every aspect of enterprise. This process has just started, a little experience has been gained, and therefore it is tempting to re?ect and try to forecast, what the next steps may be. This has given us one of the two main topics of the 23rd Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI-99)held at the University of Bonn: The Knowledge Society. Two of our invited speakers, Helmut Willke, Bielefeld, and Hans-Peter Kriegel, Munich, dwell on di?erent aspects with di?erent perspectives. Helmut Willke deals with the concept of virtual organizations, while Hans-Peter Kriegel applies data mining concepts to pattern recognitiontasks.The three application forums are also part of the Knowledge Society topic: “IT-based innovation for environment and development”, “Knowledge management in enterprises”, and “Knowledgemanagementinvillageandcityplanningoftheinformationsociety”.

• AI Logics
• Cognitive Robotics
• Computer Vision
• Enterprise Information Systems
• Knowledge Processing
• artificial intelligence
• cognition
• pattern recognition
• robot
• robotics

• Institut für Informatik III, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers

• GMD-Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH, Sankt Augustin, Germany

  Thomas Cristaller

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