Advances in artificial intelligence ; Vol. 3501 ; 18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2005, Victoria, Canada, May 9-11, 2005, Proceedings

Contains the papers accepted and presented at 18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2005, Victoria, Canada 2005. The 18th conference of the Canadian Society for the Computational Study ofIntelligence (CSCSI) continued the success of its predecessors. This set of papers reflects the diversity of the Canadian AI community and its internationalpartners.AI 2005 attracted 135 high-quality submissions: 64 from Canada and 71 fromaround the world. Of these, eight were written in French. All submitted paperswere thoroughly reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.A total of 30 contributions, accepted as long papers, and 19 as short papers areincluded in this volume.