The German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence is a traditional and unique yearly event which brings together the German AI community and an increasing numberofinternationalguests.WhilenotasoldasIJCAI(which?rsttookplace in 1969), KI2003 marks a tradition which o?cially began in 1975 with a wor- hop of the working group Kunstlic ] he Intelligenz of GI. Actually, there was one important AI conference in Germany before this, the Fachtagung Cognitive Verfahren und Systeme (Cognitive Methods and Systems) held in Hamburg in April 1973....

"Fuzzy Control - the revolutionary computer technology that is changing our world" - these and other headlines could be read when in the early 90's news from Japan came over telling us about the success of fuzzy controllers. The idea which was put into practice had been suggested by Lot? A. Zadeh in Berkeley in 1965. It had been developed and tested in some practical - plications, especially in Europe. In Japan fuzzy control was celebrated as a technology re?ecting the Japanese way of thinking by its unsharpness and - plicitoverlappingofseveralstatements. Anewtechnologyboomwaspredicted for...

"Fuzzy Control - the revolutionary computer technology that is changing our world" - these and other headlines could be read when in the early 90's news from Japan came over telling us about the success of fuzzy controllers. The idea which was put into practice had been suggested by Lot? A. Zadeh in Berkeley in 1965. It had been developed and tested in some practical - plications, especially in Europe. In Japan fuzzy control was celebrated as a technology re?ecting the Japanese way of thinking by its unsharpness and - plicitoverlappingofseveralstatements. Anewtechnologyboomwaspredicted for...