Onaindia, Eva (ed.); Staab, Steffen (ed.) STAIRS 2004. Proceedings of the second starting AI researchers’ symposium, jointly held with ECAI’04, Valencia, Spain, August 23–24, 2004. (English) Zbl 1063.68673 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 109. Amsterdam: IOS Press (ISBN 1-58603-451-0). x, 265 p. (2004). Publisher’s description: This book presents some of the best ideas that are currently developed in doctoral theses in the area of Artificial Intelligence from all over Europe and beyond. It will provide the reader with papers about the newest formal and practical approaches written by the emerging intelligentsia in Artificial Intelligence. STAIRS-2004 reaches out to the best young researchers worldwide who present their solutions to advance AI and to bridge between its different subdisciplines, such as Multi-agent Systems, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Uncertainty Management, Constraint Programming, and Intelligent User Interfaces. The topics of the papers cover a broad range in Artificial Intelligence including areas such as Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, Web Mining, Search, Agents, Robotics and Information Extraction. The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. Cited in 1 Review MSC: 68T99 Artificial intelligence 68-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to computer science 00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest 68T30 Knowledge representation 68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence 68T40 Artificial intelligence for robotics Keywords:multi-agent systems; natural language processing; machine learning; knowledge representation; information extraction PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{E. Onaindia} (ed.) and \textit{S. Staab} (ed.), STAIRS 2004. Proceedings of the second starting AI researchers' symposium, jointly held with ECAI'04, Valencia, Spain, August 23--24, 2004. Amsterdam: IOS Press (2004; Zbl 1063.68673)