Bazzan A., Labidi S. (Eds.) Advances in Artificial Intelligence

17th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil September 29 – October 1, 2004 Proceedings. — Berlin: Springer, 2005. — 567 p.SBIA, the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, is a biennial event intended to be the main forum of the AI community in Brazil. The SBIA 2004 was the 17th issue of the series initiated in 1984. Since 1995 SBIA has been accepting papers written and presented only in English, attracting researchers from all over the world. At that time it also started to have an international program committee, keynote invited speakers, and proceedings published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series of Springer (SBIA 1995, Vol. 991, SBIA 1996, Vol. 1159, SBIA 1998, Vol. 1515, SBIA 2000, Vol. 1952, SBIA 2002, Vol. 2507).