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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 2005, held in Bari, Italy, in June 2005.The 115 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer vision, image analysis, speech recognition, robotics, agents, planning, human-computer interaction and natural language processing, reasoning, machine learning, data mining, genetic algorithms, neural networks, decision support and heuristic search, fuzzy logic, knowledge management, and applications.