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

计算和数学学院赢得了在北爱尔兰举办第13届人工智能博士暑期学校高级课程(ACAI2009)的投标。这个享有盛誉的暑期学校由欧洲人工智能协调委员会每两年举办一次，每年在不同的欧洲国家举办。这是第一次在英国或爱尔兰组织ACAI。ACAI‘09将重点介绍开发智能决策支持系统的方法和工具。这些系统可以自己做出决定，也可以通过与人类互动和合作来做出决定。因此，它们在医疗保健、金融、应急响应等领域有着广泛的重要应用。暑期学校将包括由在此类系统的开发和应用方面具有丰富经验的知名学者和行业代表教授的课程。这些课程被设计为互动的，将包括讲座和实践练习的混合。

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.