A perspective on the nature of artificial intelligence -- What can massively parallel architectures bring to AI? -- Herbicide advisory systems: Weeds in wheat and other crops -- A real-time knowledge-based system for frequency management in communications -- Experiences in developing an intelligent operator guidance system -- Combining heuristics and simulation models -- The use of expert knowledge in the selection of CIG welding consumables -- A knowledge based simulation of critical incidents in anaesthesia -- DISSOLVE : A system for the generation of human oriented solutions to algebraic equations -- Student modelling in a keyboard scale tutoring system -- Contradictions and revisions as explanatory aids in the delivery of technical information -- A case study in deterministic prolog -- Exploring the epistemic labyrinth: New directions in the formal theory of knowledge representation -- A temporal relational calculus -- Counterfactuals, cotenability and consistency -- A knowledge acquisition tool for decision support systems -- Adaptive data stores -- Techniques for efficient empirical induction -- Representing exceptions in rule-based systems -- Conceptual graphs from a knowledge systems viewpoint -- Implementing second generation rule-based financial applications today -- Knowledge in context: A strategy for expert system maintenance -- Integrating knowledge acquisition and performance systems -- A machine vision system with learning capabilities -- Range from out of focus blur -- Environment mapping with a mobile robot using sonar -- Incorporating knowledge via regularization theory: applications in vision and image processing -- Common-sense resolution of syntactic ambiguity in database queries -- Capability based natural language understanding -- Character pattern recognition on a computational neural network -- Distributed planning and control for manufacturing operations -- Parallelism in nonmonotonic multiple inheritance systems.

The broad objective of this conference series is to bring business, industry and researchers together to consider the current activities and future potential of artificial intelligence, encompassing both practical and theoretical issues. Many papers were submitted, including some from Canada, France, UK, USA, Sweden, Italy and Thailand.