Support for the 13th Ph.D. Summer School (Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence - ACAI2009) in Northern Ireland, UK.

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The School of Computing and Mathematics has won a bid to organize the 13th Ph.D. Summer School Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI2009) in Northern Ireland. This prestigious Summer School is organized biannually by the European Coordination Committee on Artificial Intelligence, each year in a different European country. This is the first time that ACAI is organized in the Britain or Ireland. ACAI'09 will focus on methods and tools available for the development of Intelligent Decision Support Systems. These systems can take decisions by themselves or by interacting and cooperating with humans. As such they have a wide range of important applications in areas like healthcare, finance, emergency response, etc. The Summer School will include courses delivered by distinguished academics and industrial representatives with extensive experience in the development and application of such systems. The courses are designed to be interactive and will consist of a mixture of lectures and hands-on practice.