The AIMSA conference series was first conceived in 1984 as a gathering of AI
researchers and students from Eastern and Central Europe.Since then the conference
has followed a biennial schedule of meetings in Bulgaria, attracting participants
from a wider geographical area.Today, 20 years on, AIMSA is a thoroughly
international conference, with contributions from most European countries and
some from as far afield as the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
The AIMSA organizers are delighted to present you with another exciting
program, covering most areas of Artificial Intelligence.In keeping with its mission
to inform the research community and excite the commercial sector, AIMSA
presents this year two invited contributions from world-leading European researchers
working on cutting-edge AI research: Prof.Carole Goble, on the Semantic
Web, and Prof.David House, on integrated speech and gestural synthesis.In
addition, we present 26 contributions on topics covering almost all aspects of
AI and bringing together basic and applied research.One of these, by Milos
Kovaˇcevi´c and his colleagues on “Recognition of Common Areas in a Web Page
Using a Visualisation Approach” was judged by reviewers to be the best submitted
paper, and duly received the accolade of “Best Paper” of the Conference,
with a special slot devoted to it in the program.