These are the refereed technical papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2002. The papers in this volume present developments in the field, divided into sections on machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge acquisition, constraint satisfaction and scheduling, and natural language processing.

These are the refereed technical papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2002. The papers in this volume present developments in the field, divided into sections on machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge acquisition, constraint satisfaction and scheduling, and natural language processing.

These are the refereed technical papers presented at ES 2002, the Twenty-second SGAI International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2002. The papers in this volume present developments in the field, divided into sections on machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, knowledge acquisition, constraint satisfaction and scheduling, and natural language processing.