Grid computing systems utilize the heterogeneous networked resources, such as computation, information, database, storage, bandwidth, etc., through the Internet. The systems can operate in predefined and organized ways or form the collected resource systems through self-organizing and decentralized ways. Even with the various types of abundant resources in the Internet, the resources that can be organized and operated in the presence of multiple resource owners with the uncertainty of resource availability and quality are scarce. This volume contains refereed and invited papers presented at...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI'98, held in Singapore, in November 1998.
The 56 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 197 submissions received from 25 countries. The papers are organized in sections on induction; multi-agent architecture; knowledge acquisition, modeling and validation; reasoning; knowledge discovery and data mining; knowledge management; application of fuzzy logic; applications of neural networks; searching; Bayesian networks; text...