Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence : 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems IEA AIE 2006 Annecy France June 27 30 2006 Proceedings “Intelligent Design and complex problem solving are twined like wife and husband.” In the current competitive global industrial environment there are many pr lems which need intelligent systems technology for optimal solutions. The central theme of the 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA AIE 2006) is to focus on the research methodologies and practical implementations of these methodologies for intelligent solutions of problems in real world applications. We are pleased to present the papers in these proceedings which cover va ous aspects of applications of applied intelligent systems. We received more than 330 papers from many countries and each paper was reviewed by at least two reviewers. Only 134 papers were selected for presentation in the normal and special sessions. The normal sessions cover the following topics: planning and scheduling multi agent systems fuzzy logic data mining and knowledge d covery genetic algorithms decision support expert systems neural networks computer vision speech recognition systems for real life applications machine learning model based reasoning heuristic search and knowledge engineering. We also organized several special sessions in the areas of bioinformatics tology knowledge discovery intelligent control systems intelligent industrial s tems and applications of data mining. The conference program also included four invited lecturers given by Fausto Giunchiglia Erik Sandewall Sylviane Gentil and Trevor Martin. Invited Contributions Multi agent Systems Decision Support Genetic Algorithms Heuristic Search Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Planning and Scheduling Fuzzy Logic Computer Vision Case Based Reasoning Knowledge Engineering Machine Learning Model Based Reasoning Speech Recognition Systems for Real Life Applications Applications Special Session on Bioinformatics Special Session on Ontology and Text Special Session on Data for Discovery in Engineering Special Session on Intelligent Control Systems Special Session on Intelligent Systems for Industry Special Session on Applications of Data Mining.