Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems IX Proceedings of ES2001, the Twenty-first SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, December 2001

Ann Macintosh Napier University, UK The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at ES2001, the Twenty-fIrst SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied ArtifIcial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 200 I. The scope of the application papers has expanded over recent years to cover not just innovative applications using traditional knowledge based systems, but also to include applications demonstrating the whole range of AI technologies. These papers continue to illustrate the maturity of AI as a commercially viable technology to solve real world problems. The papers were subject to refereeing by at least two expert referees. All papers that were in any way controversial were discussed in depth by the Application Programme Committee. For the ES2001 Application Stream, a paper is acceptable even if it describes a system that has not yet been installed, provided the application is original and the paper discusses the kind of things that would help others needing to solve a similar problem. Papers have been selected to highlight critical areas of success - and failure - and to present the benefIts and lessons learnt to other developers. This volume contains sixteen papers describing deployed or emerging applications in a range of diverse areas: business and commerce, engineering, manufacturing, knowledge and information management, and music.

Best Application Paper.- Finite Element Mesh Design Expert System.- Session 1: Business and Commerce Applications.- Residential Property Price Time Series Forecasting with Neural Networks.- Supporting the Actors in an Electronic Market Place.- SMART Software for Decision Makers KDD Experience.- Session 2: Engineering Applications.- Expert System for Design Optimisation using Results of the Finite Element Analysis.- Automatic Generation of Design Improvements by Applying Knowledge Based Engineering to the Post-processing of Finite Element Analysis.- Session 3: Engineering, Manufacturing and Music Applications.- Rise Again, Fair Knowledge.- Generating Automotive Electrical System Models from Component Based Qualitative Simulation.- Automated Control of an Actively Compensated Langmuir Probe System Using Simulated Annealing.- Rhythm Pattern Accuracy Diagnosis System Using Cluster Analysis and Music Experts’ Knowledge Base.- Session 4: Knowledge and Information Management.- An Expert System for Evaluating the ’Knowledge Potential’ of Databases.- ESTHER- Expert System for the Diagnostics of Acute Drug Poisoning.- Interpreting Aerial Images: A Knowledge-Level Analysis.- Modelling the Task of Summarising Time Series Data Using KA Techniques.- Session 5: Intelligent Systems.- The Development of a Ramp Metering Strategy Based on Artificial Neural Networks.- When Eigenfaces are Combined with Wavelets.- Author Index.