Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA-SBIA 2006: 2nd International Joint Conference, 10th Ibero-American Conference on AI, 18th Brazilian AI

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference of the 10th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IBERAMIA 2006, and the 18th Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Symposium, SBIA 2006, held in Riberão Preto, Brazil in October 2006.

The 62 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 281 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on AI in education and intelligent tutoring systems, autonomous agents and multiagent systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, evolutionary computation and artificial life, hybrid systems (fuzzy, genetic, neural, symbolic), knowledge acquisition and machine learning, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge engineering, ontologies and case based reasoning, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, theoretical and logical methods, as well as uncertainty.