This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence and Export Systems, IEA/AIE 2000, held in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, in June 2000.
The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 120 submissions. Among the topics covered are intelligent agents, distributed problem solving, artificial neural networks, intelligent data mining, diagnosis, export systems, intelligent information systems, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, design, natural language...

The present collection of papers forms the Proceedings of the First Meeting on Brain Theory, held October 1-4, 1984 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. The Meeting was organized with the aim of bringing together brain theorists who are willing to put their own research in the perspective of the general development of neuroscience. Such a meeting was considered necessary since the explosion of experi mental work in neuroscience during the last decades has not been accompanied by an adequate development on the theoretical side. The intensity of the discussions...