First six-monthly periodic report

IEA/AIE-2001 Conference, Budapest, 4-7. June, 2001
IEA/AIE-2001 -- The Fourteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems was held during 4-7. June 2001, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference covered all main research areas and many application domains of Artifical Intelligence. General chair of IEA/AIE-2001 was Moonis Ali, program chair and co-chair were László Monostori (from SZTAKI) and Soundar Kumara, respectively. Local chair was József Váncza (from SZTAKI). The conference was organized by SZTAKI, in co-operation with a number of international scientific societies e.g. the International Society of Applied Intelligence (ISAI), AAAI, ACM/SIGART, ECCAI, ERCIM to name but a few.
The Call for Papers announcement attracted many researchers and engineers from all over the world. A total of 104 papers -- representing 21 countries and all continents -- were selected for presentation. Accepted papers covered all main research areas of AI and many different application domains. The conference had 113 participants from 30 countries.
The plenary talk of the conference was given by Tibor Vámos (SZTAKI) on "Triple R: Representation, Retrieval, Reasoning". Technical presentations were held in 2-3 parallel tracks in sessions on search, knowledge representation, model-based reasoning, machine learning, data mining, soft computing, evolutionary algorithms, distributed problem solving, expert systems, pattern and speech recognition, vision, language processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, autonomous agents, design, control, manufacturing systems, finance and business, software engineering, and tutoring.
Proceedings of IEA/AIE-2001 were released by Springer Verlag under the title "Engineering of Intelligent Systems" in the series of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 2070). Electronic access to the papers of the volume is possible at http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2070.htm.

Extended versions of selected papers are considered for publication in the International Journal of Applied Intelligence. The conference’s home page is at http://www.sztaki.hu/conferences/ieaaie2001/.