Artificial Intelligence. An International Perspective

From the reviews: "Researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) who want to look at their field from new and stimulating points of view may be attracted to the title of this edited book, which promises to describe AI from 'an international perspective.' ... Most of the papers are clearly written and accessible to nonexperts ... . The well-written position paper on text and hypertext categorization can also be used as introductory material for researchers who want to enter this field. ... adequately describes the current progress in the field." (Corrado Mencar, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2011)

• Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Research in Chile.- Text and Hypertext Categorization.- Future Challenges for Autonomous Systems.- Affective Intelligence: The Human Face of AI.- Introducing Intelligence in Electronic Healthcare Systems: State of the Art and Future Trends.- AI in France: History, Lessons Learnt, State of the Art and Future.- Artifact-Mediated Society and Social Intelligence Design.- Multilingual Knowledge Management.- Agents, Intelligence and Tools.- An Overview of AI Research in Italy.- Intelligent User Profiling.- Supply Chain Business Intelligence: Technologies, Issues and Trends.