Al in Australia and New Zealand

We provide an overview of Al in Australia and New Zealand, we also offer snapshots of Al research throughout the region´s institutes and universities and review its industry and conference activities. Australia´s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization is one of the world´s largest and most diverse scientific global research organizations, and many of its discipline groups are researching and applying Al. For example, a CSIRO group in Canberra is leveraging worldwide Semantic Web initiatives while researching ways to share scientific knowledge in cross-institutional communities. The group aims to combine various approaches-Al approaches to semantic service description, database approaches to distributed data management, and Web services approaches to interoperability-to rapidly assemble customized software applications from large-scale heterogeneous resource components.