SPACE, TIME, AND COMPUTATION - TRENDS AND PROBLEMS

At the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCA I) in Chambery, France, the authors organized and ran a Workshop on Sp atial and Temporal Reasoning with the purpose of both presenting curre nt research and development in these areas and fostering an interchang e of ideas among attendees of differing interests. In particular, disc ussion was focussed on the interfaces between three separate concerns: spatial reasoning in AI, temporal reasoning in AI, and temporal metho ds for concurrent systems. The authors reflect on the outcome of the w orkshop as well as introduce the extended papers selected for this spe cial issue. Research goals for the immediate future are presented.