Ki 2009

The 32nd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009 being the German acronym for AI) will be held at the University of Paderborn, Germany on September 15 18, 2009 continuing a series of successful events. Starting back in 1975 as a national meeting, the conference now gathers researchers and developers from academic fields and industries worldwide to share their research results covering all aspects of artificial intelligence. This year we received submissions from 23 countries and 4 continents. Besides the international orientation, we made a major effort to include as many branches of AI as possible under the roof of the KI conference. A total of 21 area chairs representing different communities within the field of AI selected further members of the program committee and helped the local organizers to acquire papers. The new approach appealed to the AI community: we had 126 submissions, which constituted an increase of more than 50 % and which resulted in 14 parallel sessions on the following topics