SLAIS Activities

The society covers traditional AI subfields, active since the beginning of the research in AI in Slovenia, such as knowledge representation, automated reasoning, machine learning, knowledge-based systems, computer-aided multi-attribute decision making, qualitative reasoning and modelling, and combinatorial optimisation. In addition, it associates researchers and practitioners working on neural networks, evolutionary computation, natural language processing and computer vision.

The society promotes AI related events, such as, for example, the Inductive Logic Programming Workshop ILP-93, organised at Bled in April 1993. SLAIS is also a co-organiser of the newly founded Slovenian Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Conference with an active AI session. At the Ljubljana AI Laboratories seminars open for participants from other institutions are held on regular basis where new research results and applications are presented. A local library specialised in AI literature is located at the AI Laboratory of the Jozef Stefan Institute.

Much of the communication related to the SLAIS activities is done through computer network and electronic conference facilities. An AI electronic conference (CATHY::E4$:[AI]Artificial_Intelligence) has been active on DECnet in Slovenia since January 1992. Reports on SLAIS activities are also published in the Informatica journal.