The refereed technical papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in this important field; essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date on intelligent systems.

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TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIR'S INTRODUCTION Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK BEST TECHNICAL PAPER Extracting Finite Structure from Infinite Language T. McQueen, A. A. Hopgood, T. J. Allen and J. A. Tepper, School of Computing & Informatics, Nottingham Trent University, UK SESSION 1a: AI TECHNIQUES I Modelling Shared Extended Mind and Collective Representational Content Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonke and Martijn C. Schut, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Jan Treur, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Department of Philosophy, Universiteit Utrecht Overfitting in Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection: The Harder You Try the Worse it Gets John Loughrey and Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Managing Ontology Versions with a Distributed Blackboard Architecture Ernesto Compatangelo, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Bruce Scharlau, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen OntoSearch: An Ontology Search Engine Yi Zhang, Wamberto Vasconcelos and Derek Sleeman, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK SESSION 1b: CBR AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Case Based Adaptation Using Interpolation over Nominal Values Brian Knight, University of Greenwich, UK and Fei Ling Woon, Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Automating the Discovery of Recommendation Rules David McSherry, School of Computing and Information Engineering, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Incremental Critiquing James Reilly, Kevin McCarthy, Lorraine McGinty and Barry Smyth, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland SESSION 2a:AI TECHNIQUES II A Treebank-Based Case Role Annotation Using An Attributed String Matching Samuel W.K.Chan, Department of Decision Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China A Combinatorial Approach to Conceptual Graph Projection Checking Madalina Croitoru and Ernesto Compatangelo, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen Implementing Policy Management Through BDI Simon Miles, Juri Papay, Michael Luck and Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK Exploiting Causal Independence in Large Bayesian Networks Rasa Jurgelenaite and Peter Lucas, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands SESSION 3: INTELLIGENT AGENTS AND SCHEDULING SYSTEMS A Bargaining Agent Aims to 'Play Fair' John Debenham, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia Resource Allocation in Communication Networks Using Market-Based Agents Nadim Haque, Nicholas R. Jennings and Luc Moreau, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Are Ordinal Representations Effective? Andrew Tuson, Department of Computing, City University, UK A Framework for Planning with Hybrid Models Max Garagnani, Department of Computing, The Open University, UK SESSION 4: KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATA Towards Symbolic Data Mining in Numerical Time Series Agustin Santamaria, Technical University of Madrid, Spain; Africa Lopez-Illescas, High Council for Sports, Madrid, Spain; Aurora Perez-Perez and Juan P. Caraca-Valente, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Support Vector Machines of Interval-based Features for Time Series Classification Juan Jose Rodriguez, Universidad de Burgos, Spain