Advances in Artificial Intelligence 18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2005, Victoria, Canada, May 9-11, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2005, held in Victoria, Canada in May 2005. The revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submission. The papers are organized in topical sections on agents, constraint satisfaction and search, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning.