I believe we are entering another Golden Age for the field of Artificial Intelligence. Data Mining has become a core aspect of Customer Relationship Management, Agents are essential for many web site applications from bots to negotiations, CBR is providing personalisation services for mobile phone, Model Based Systems are demonstrating powerful diagnostic capabilities for automobiles, and autonomous robotic appliances are on sale. To name just a few of the leading edge application work from the field of Artificial Intelligence. Now is a great time to be active in
the field of AI and to come and see what is happening in the field as a whole. So I hope to see you at ECAI-04 for a look at the broad activities in this new Golden Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Rob Milne, ECCAI president

Next ECCAI General Aassembly : Wednesday, August 25th at Valencia

ECCAI Journals

Artificial Intelligence Communications: Volume 17, Number 2/2004 (New !)
http://iospress.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0921-7126&issue=current

-- Query rewriting with symmetric constraints
by Christoph Koch
-- Web wrapper induction: a brief survey
by Sergio Flesca, Giuseppe Manco, Elio Masciari, et al.
-- Parametric connectives in Disjunctive Logic Programming
by Simona Perri and Nicola Leone
-- A constraint solver for model-based engineering
by Jakob Mauss, Frank Seelisch, Mugur T?tar
Thesis :
-- Model checking for the concurrent constraint paradigm
by Alicia Villanueva
-- Multi-paradigm learning of declarative models
by Cèsar Ferri

Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence: http://www.etaij.org

Cooperation between IEEE Intelligent Systems and ECCAI

ECCAI Conferences

- ECAI'04: http://www.dsic.upv.es/ecai2004

Last news :
Registration is opened since 06/05/2004
Are available the conference program, the list of invited speakers, instructions for poster presentation ...

ECCAI societies

from Danail Dochev, E-mail: :

THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: METHODOLOGY, SYSTEMS, APPLICATIONS : AIMSA 2004 - SEMANTIC WEB CHALLENGES -
September 2nd-4th, 2004, Varna, Bulgaria
website : www.aimsa2004.org

Post-doc JOB announcement

The research group for the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence lead by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Nebel ( University of Freiburg, germany) has an opening for a research assistant position in a research project on planning with incomplete knowledge.
Send applications and requests for more information to:
Dr. Jussi Rintanen, Institut fuer Informatik
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
email:

Next ECCAI-Bulletin in October 2004