Foundations of Intelligent Systems : 10th International Symposium ISMIS97 Charlotte North Carolina USA October 15 18 1997 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems ISMIS97 held in Charlotte NC USA in October 1997. The 57 revised full papers were selected from a total of 117 submissions. Also included are four invited papers. Among the topics covered are intelligent information systems approximate reasoning evolutionary computation knowledge representation and integration learning and knowledge discovery AI Logics discovery systems data mining query processing etc