These proceedings record the latest results of industrial, commercial, military, and academic artificial intelligence exploration. Seventy-seven papers divided into twenty different areas document a significant slice of this broad and exciting field. Although dozens of themes are treated in the papers, the topical divisions of this volume comprise: The Software Engineering/AI Interface, Knowledge-Based Systems, Temporal Reasoning, Machine Learning, Robotics, Intelligent Databases, Planning, Expert Systems Applications, Search Techniques, Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Design, Qualitative Reasoning, Neural Networks, Knowledge Representation, Application Paradigms, Fuzzy and Pattern Recognition, Reasoning about Physical Systems, Parallel and Distributed AI, and Diagnostic Systems.