| Neurocybernetics, Codes and Computation | p. 1 |
| The Grand Challenge is Called: Robotic Intelligence | p. 15 |
| A Progressive Heuristic Search Algorithm for the Cutting Stock Problem | p. 25 |
| Discovering Temporal Relationships in Databases of Newspapers | p. 36 |
| Generic CSP Techniques for the Job-Shop Problem | p. 46 |
| A Fast and Efficient Solution to the Capacity Assignment Problem using Discretized Learning Automata | p. 56 |
| Using Oxsim for Path Planning | p. 66 |
| Multi-Directional Search with Goal Switching for Robot Path Planning | p. 75 |
| Analytical Potential Fields and Control Strategies for Motion Planning | p. 85 |
| Exact Geometry and Robot Motion Planning: Speculations on a Few Numerical Experiments | p. 95 |
| An Evolutionary and Local Search Algorithm for Planning Two Manipulators Motion | p. 105 |
| A Genetic Algorithm for Robust Motion Planning | p. 115 |
| Coordinated Motion of Two Robot Arms for Real Applications | p. 122 |
| A Low-Risk Approach to Mobile Robot Path Planning | p. 132 |
| Generating Heuristics to Control Configuration Processes | p. 142 |
| Valuing the Flexibility of Flexible Manufacturing Systems with Fast Decision Rules | p. 153 |
| Optimal Periodic Control with Environmental Application | p. 163 |
| A Centralised Hierarchical Task Scheduler for an Urban Traffic Control System Based on a Multiagent Architecture | p. 173 |
| A Direct Iteration Method for Global Dynamic Control of Redundant Manipulators | p. 183 |
| Design of Ship-Board Control System Based on the Soft Computing Conception | p. 192 |
| Expert Diagnostic using Qualitative Data and Rule-Based Inferential Reasoning | p. 200 |
| Qualitative Event-Based Expert Supervision-Part 1: Methodology | p. 210 |
| Qualitative Event-Based Expert Supervision-Part 2: Distillation Start-Up Condition Monitoring | p. 220 |
| Alarm Processing and Reconfiguration in Power Distribution Systems | p. 230 |
| Behavioral Interpretation According to Multimodeling Representation | p. 242 |
| An Intelligent Agent to Aid in Unix System Administration | p. 252 |
| Process Optimisation an Industrial Supervision Support System | p. 261 |
| Mimo Predictive Control of Temperature and Humidity Inside a Greenhouse Using Simulated Annealing (SA) as Optimizer of a Multicriteria Index | p. 271 |
| Stereo Vision-Based Obstacle and Free Space Detection in Mobile Robotics | p. 280 |
| Topological Modeling with Fuzzy Petri Nets for Autonomous Mobile Robots | p. 290 |
| Supervised Reinforcement Learning: Application to a Wall Following Behaviour in a Mobile Robot | p. 300 |
| A Communication Protocol for Clouds of Mobile Robots | p. 310 |
| Evolving Neural Controllers for Temporally Dependent Behaviors in Autonomous Robots | p. 319 |
| GA-Based on-line Path Planning for Sauvim | p. 329 |
| Incremental Building of a Model of Environment in the Context of the McCulloch-Craik's Functional Architecture for Mobile Robots | p. 339 |
| Telerobotic System Based on Natural Language and Computer Vision | p. 353 |
| Robust Region-Based Stereo Vision to Build Environment Maps for Robotics Applications | p. 365 |
| A New on-line Structure and Parameter Learning Architecture for Fuzzy Modeling, Based on Neural and Fuzzy Techniques | p. 375 |
| An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System(ANFIS) Approach to Control of Robotic Manipulators | p. 383 |
| Managing the Usage Experience in a Library of Software Components | p. 393 |
| What Can Program Supervision do for Program Re-Use? | p. 403 |
| Using Artificial Intelligence Planning Techniques to Automatically Reconfigure Software Modules | p. 415 |
| Use of Knowledge-Based Control for Vision Systems | p. 427 |
| Solution for a Learning Configuration System for Image Processing | p. 437 |
| Machine Learning Usefulness Relies on Accuracy and Self-Maintenance | p. 448 |
| Improving Inductive Learning in Real-World Domains Through the Identification of Dependencies: The Tim Framework | p. 458 |
| From the Nearest Neighbour Rule to Decision Trees | p. 469 |
| A New Self-Organizing Strategy Based on Elastic Networks for Solving the Euclidean Traveling Salesman Problem | p. 479 |
| An Inductive Learning System for Rating Securities | p. 488 |
| Techniques and Knowledge used for Adaptation During Case-Based Problem Solving | p. 497 |
| Case-Base Maintenance | p. 507 |
| CBR: Strengths and Weaknesses | p. 517 |
| Is CBR a Technology or a Methodology? | p. 525 |
| An Efficient Approach to Iterative Browsing and Retrieval for Case-Based Reasoning | p. 535 |
| Case Based Approach to the Construction of a Coal Molecular Structure Model | p. 547 |
| Constructing Higher order Neurons of Increasing Complexity in Cascade Networks | p. 557 |
| Interpretable Neural Networks with BP-SOM | p. 564 |
| Reference Pattern Weight Initialization for Equalization | p. 574 |
| Autoassociative Neural Networks for Fault Diagnosis in Semiconductor Manufacturing | p. 582 |
| Supervised Training of a Neural Network for Classification Via Successive Modification of the Training Data - An Experimental Study | p. 593 |
| An Unsupervised Training Connectionist Network with Lateral Inhibition | p. 603 |
| Temporal Difference Learning in Chinese Chess | p. 612 |
| Applying Object Logic Programming to Design Computer Strategies in Gene Scanning | p. 619 |
| Automatic Storing and Retrieval of Large Collections of Images | p. 628 |
| Alternative Communication Interface for Severely Handicapped People Based on a Multimedia Human-Computer Interaction System | p. 638 |
| Personalizing Museum Exhibition by Mediating Agents | p. 648 |
| A Combined Probabilistic Framework for Learning Gestures and Actions | p. 658 |
| Designing Workspaces to Support Collaborative Learning | p. 668 |
| Development of Decision Support System for Integrated Water Management in River Basins | p. 678 |
| An Application of an AI Methodology to Railway Interlocking Systems using Computer Algebra | p. 687 |
| Intelligent Interpretation of Strength Data | p. 697 |
| Hades - A Knowledge-Based System for Message Interpretation and Situation Determination | p. 707 |
| Work in Progress: Visual Specification of Knowledge Bases | p. 717 |
| Webtutor, a Knowledge Based System for Evaluation and Tutorship | p. 727 |
| Control Knowledge and Pedagogical Aspects of the Get-Bits Model | p. 735 |
| Improving Behavior Arbitration Using Exploration and Dynamic Programming | p. 745 |
| Agent Based Architectures for Mastering Changes and Disturbances in Manufacturing | p. 755 |
| Soft Computing and Hybrid AI Approaches to Intelligent Manufacturing | p. 765 |
| Comparing Soft Computing Methods in Prediction of Manufacturing Data | p. 775 |
| Towards an Emergence Machine for Complex Systems Simulations | p. 785 |
| Space Models and Agent-Based Universe Architectures | p. 795 |
| Mobidyc, a Generic Multi-Agents Simulator for Modeling Populations Dynamics | p. 805 |
| Development of an Ecological Decision Support System | p. 815 |
| CORMAS: Common-Pool Resources and Multi-Agents Systems | p. 826 |
| Dynamic Process Modelling and Communication in Environment Information Systems of the Third Generation | p. 838 |
| Landcape: A Knowledge-Based System for Visual Landscape Assessment | p. 849 |
| Daily Parking of Subway Vehicles | p. 857 |
| The Artificial Neural Networks in Cosmic Ray Physics Experiment; I. Total Muon Number Estimation | p. 867 |
| Static Criteria for Fuzzy Systems Quality Evaluation | p. 877 |
| Wallaid: A Knowledge-Based System for the Selection of Earth Retaining Walls | p. 888 |
| A Modular and Parametric Structure for the Substitution Redesign of Power Plants Control Systems | p. 896 |
| A Polysynaptic Planar Neural Network as a Model of the Myenteric Nervous Plexus | p. 907 |
| Selection of Numerical Methods in Specific Simulation Applications | p. 918 |
| Fuzzy Adaptative Control of the Highly Nonlinear Heat-Exchange Plant | p. 928 |
| Author Index | p. 939 |
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