The Symposium will, however, retain its broad scope, and welcomes high quality research papers in various areas of Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, automated reasoning, knowledge representation, neural nets, natural language processing, etc. The concept of an agent has become important in both artificial intelligence and mainstream computer science. An agent is a hardware or software system that is automonous, interactive with and reactive to its environment and other agents. We solicit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, and in particular in the area of Intelligent Agents.
Agents have a clear and growing importance, both practical and theoretical.
Because of their commercial relevance, we encourage practitioners from industry to submit papers dealing with various practical aspects. A final version of the accepted will appear in the conference preprints, which will be distributed to participants at the symposium. Selected refereed full length papers will be published in a special issue of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence as a permanent record of the Symposium. These should be submitted shortly after the conclusion of the Symposium.