This volume contains 6 invited lectures and 13 submittedcontributions to the scientific programme of theinternational workshop Fundamentals of ArtificialIntelligence Research, FAIR '91, held at Smolenice Castle,Czechoslovakia, September 8-12, 1991, under the sponsorshipof the European Coordinating Committee for ArtificialIntelligence, ECCAI. FAIR'91, the first of an intendedseries of international workshops, addresses issues whichbelong to the theoretical foundations of artificialintelligence considered as a discipline focused on concisetheoretical description of some aspects of intelligence bytoolsand methods adopted from mathematics, logic, andtheoretical computer science. The intended goal of the FAIRworkshops is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideasand results in a domain where theoretical models play anessential role. It is felt that such theoretical studies,their development and their relations to AI experiments andapplications have to be promoted in the AI researchcommunity.

This volume contains 6 invited lectures and 13 submittedcontributions to the scientific programme of theinternational workshop Fundamentals of ArtificialIntelligence Research, FAIR '91, held at Smolenice Castle,Czechoslovakia, September 8-12, 1991, under the sponsorshipof the European Coordinating Committee for ArtificialIntelligence, ECCAI. FAIR'91, the first of an intendedseries of international workshops, addresses issues whichbelong to the theoretical foundations of artificialintelligence considered as a discipline focused on concisetheoretical description of some aspects of intelligence bytoolsand methods adopted from mathematics, logic, andtheoretical computer science. The intended goal of the FAIRworkshops is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideasand results in a domain where theoretical models play anessential role. It is felt that such theoretical studies,their development and their relations to AI experiments andapplications have to be promoted in the AI researchcommunity.

This volume contains 6 invited lectures and 13 submittedcontributions to the scientific programme of theinternational workshop Fundamentals of ArtificialIntelligence Research, FAIR '91, held at Smolenice Castle,Czechoslovakia, September 8-12, 1991, under the sponsorshipof the European Coordinating Committee for ArtificialIntelligence, ECCAI. FAIR'91, the first of an intendedseries of international workshops, addresses issues whichbelong to the theoretical foundations of artificialintelligence considered as a discipline focused on concisetheoretical description of some aspects of intelligence bytoolsand methods adopted from mathematics, logic, andtheoretical computer science. The intended goal of the FAIRworkshops is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideasand results in a domain where theoretical models play anessential role. It is felt that such theoretical studies,their development and their relations to AI experiments andapplications have to be promoted in the AI researchcommunity.