13th International Conference, AIMSA 2008
Varna, Bulgaria, September 4-6, 2008
Proceedings.

For AIMSA 2008, we decided to place special emphasis on the works on theories,
experimentations, applications, and case studies that demonstrate in practice
the added value and the impact of AI science, methodologies and techniques
for the market, society, and culture. We believe that this vision of “AI@WORK”
truly reflects the original intention of AIMSA, a conference dedicated to artificial
intelligence in its entirety but with a special emphasis on “methodology,
systems, and applications”, as explicitly stated in its name. According to this
vision, we have also paid special attention to works that “cross the boundaries
of AI”, i.e., works that demonstrate the influence of AI on different fields of
research and different scientific communities, such as software engineering, data
bases, distributed systems, information systems, information retrieval, etc. Both
of these aspects were covered by the papers that were submitted and by those
that were accepted for publication.