Includes papers that are presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. This title serves as a key reference as to how AI technology has enabled organisations to solve complex problems and gain significant business benefit.

Best Application Paper.- Managing Restaurant Tables using Constraints.- Data Mining and Bayesian Networks.- Use of Data Mining Techniques to Model Crime Scene Investigator Performance.- Analyzing Collaborative Problem Solving with Bayesian Networks.- The Integration of Heterogeneous Biological Data using Bayesian Networks.- Automatic Species Identification of Live Moths.- Genetic Algorithms and Optimisation Techniques.- Estimating Photometric Redshifts Using Genetic Algorithms.- Non-linear Total Energy Optimisation of a Fleet of Power Plants.- Optimal Transceivers Placement in an Optical Communication Broadband Network Using Genetic Algorithms.- SASS Applied to Optimum Work Roll Profile Selection in the Hot Rolling of Wide Steel.- Agents and Semantic Web.- Agents in Safety Related Systems Including Ubiquitous Networks.- Using Semantic Web technologies to bridge the Language Gap between Academia and Industry in the Construction Sector.- Ontology based CBR with jCOLIBRI.- Domain Dependent Distributed Models for Railway Scheduling.- Natural Language.- Bringing Chatbots into education: Towards Natural Language Negotiation of Open Learner Models.- Adding question answering to an e-tutor for programming languages.- Speech-Enabled Interfaces for Travel Information Systems with Large Grammars.- Short Papers.- Adoption of New Technologies in a Highly Uncertain Environment: The Case of Egyptian Public Banks.- RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation Server: A Progressing Testbed for AI Researchers.- Review of Current Crime Prediction Techniques.- Data Assimilation of a Biological Model Using Genetic Algorithms.

APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS XIV The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2006. The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on Data Mining and Bayesian Networks; Genetic Algorithms and Optimisation Techniques; Agents and Semantic Web; and Natural Language. This is the fourteenth volume in the Applications and Innovations series. The series serves as a key reference as to how AI technology has enabled organisations to solve complex problems and gain significant business benefit. The Technical Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII.

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