Arti?cialLifehascomealongway. Sincetheinceptionofthe?eldabout16years ago with a seminal workshop at the Santa Fe Institute, the ?eld has developed quickly. Itsinterdisciplinaryrootshavebeenbothablessingandacurse. Critical people would say that nothing was new in the ideas of Arti?cial Life, since many other disciplines had addressed the very same questions, though probably under di?erent names. Other critics would state that the di?culty of interacting in an interdisciplinary way with colleagues from so many other and divergent ?elds would be so great that true progress could not come from...

For many years, Arti?cial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so-called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI-technology has blended with them, and companies are now sensitive to this topic. TheInternetandWWWhaveprovidedtheglobalinfrastructure,...

Dieser Band enthalt aufbereitete Darstellungen der Kurse, die auf der KI-Fruhjahrsschule 1987 gehalten wurden. Die Kunstliche-Intelligenz-Fruhjahrsschule 1987, KIFS-87, ist die funfte in der Reihe von Fruhjahrsschulen uber Kunstliche Intelligenz, die seit 1982 vom Fachausschuss 1.2 der Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) veranstaltet werden. Aufgabe der KIFS ist es, sowohl Einfuhrungen in reprasentative Teilbereiche der Kunstlichen Intelligenz als auch tiefergehende Aufbaukurse in aktuellen Spezialgebieten anzubieten. Der Sammelband behandelt die Gebiete Logisches Programmieren,...