This volume contains the 5 invited papers and 72 selected
papers that were presented at the Fifth International
Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence. This is the first IEA/AIE
conference to take place outside the USA: more than 120
papers were received from 23 countries, clearly indicating
the international character of the conference series. Each
paper was reviewed by at least three referees. The papers
are grouped into parts on: CAM, reasoning and modelling,
pattern recognition, software engineering and AI/ES, CAD,
vision, verification and validation, neural networks,
machine learning, fuzzy logic and control, robotics, design
and architecture, configuration, finance, knowledge-based
systems, knowledge representation, knowledge acquisition and
language processing, reasoning and decision support,
intelligent interfaces/DB and tutoring, fault diagnosis,
planning and scheduling, and data/sensor fusion.