1999 International Conference on Information Intelligence and Systems: Proceedings October 31-November 3, 1999 Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Presents 96 articles from the 1999 conference (exact date not noted) on intelligence in technological systems. The papers were drawn from four symposiums focusing respectively on intelligence in neural and biological systems; intelligence in automation and robotics; image, speech, and natural language understanding; and autonomous intelligent agents. Some representative topics include shape recognition and vision-based robot control, intelligent wheelchairs based on the integration of human and environment observation, velocity estimation using semi-local features, and a self-training agent for intelligent information discovery. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)