The papers in this volume comprise the refereed proceedings of the conference ' Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice' (IFIP AI 2008), which formed part of the 20th World Computer Congress of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing (WCC-2008), in Milan, Italy in September 2008. The conference is organised by the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Technical Committee 12) and its Working Group 12.5 (Artificial Intelligence Applications). All papers were reviewed by at least two members of our Program Committee. Final decisions were made by the...

The properties of nuclear levels and transitions between them are important not only for nuclear physicists. The collective phenomena in nuclei are of general interest since they represent a many-body system with more then two particles, but much fewer then in condensed matter problems. However, the knowledge of properties of nuclei are equally relevant to applications in technology (e.g. transmutation of elements) or medicine and also to astrophysics. This volume, I/18A is the first of three volumes dedicated to the energy levels and structure of nuclei, covering the light nuclei with Z<=36....

This volume reviews the state of the art of accelerator physics and technologies and the use of accelerators in research, industry and medicine.

The author of this fascinating volume was director-general of CERN during the crucial period of the collider's construction and recounts vividly the convoluted decision-making, technically challenging construction, and fruitful research at the facility.