This volume contains the refereed application papers presented at ES99, the Nineteenth SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 1999. The papers in this volume demonstrate the maturity and continued development of AI as a commercially viable technology. They illustrate the application of a wide variety of AI techniques in diverse business and engineering domains, solving real world problems and delivering significant business benefits. This is the seventh volume in the Applications and Innovations series. The...

The papers in this volume are the referred Applications papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGES international Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Cambridge during December 2002. The Application stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology. Papers presented in this volume describe the application of AI to address real-world problems, including commerce, manufacturing and defence and every major AI technique; and highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and present the benefits...

The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un conscious, ' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations of problems than we could by viewing them only in isola tion. The three questions...

St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-73) experienced supernatural revelations throughout her life while a lady-in-waiting at the Swedish court, as she founded a monastery for nuns and monks, and during her religious pilgrimages throughout Italy. This work is a critical edition of one of the two complete Middle English translations of the Liber Celestis, a manual of St. Bridget's visions recorded by her spiritual directors.

The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un conscious, ' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations of problems than we could by viewing them only in isola tion. The three questions...