AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2003, held in Perth, Australia in December 2003.The 87 revised full papers presented together with 4 keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies, problem solving, knowledge discovery and data mining, expert systems, neural network applications, belief revision and theorem proving, reasoning and logic, machine learning, AI applications, neural computing, intelligent agents, computer vision, medical applications, machine learning and language, AI and business, soft computing, language understanding, and theory.