The 32nd Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence KI 2009 (KI being the German
acronym for AI) was held at the University of Paderborn Germany on September 15-18 2009
continuing a series of successful events. Starting back in 1975 as a national meeting the
conference now gathers - searchers and developers from academic ?elds and industries worldwide
to share their research results covering all aspects of arti?cial intelligence. This year we
received submissions from 23 countries and 4 continents. Besides the inter- tional orientation
we made a major e?ort to include as many branches of AI as possible under the roof of the KI
conference. A total of 21 area chairs represe- ing di?erent communities within the ?eld of AI
selected further members of the program committee and helped the local organizers to acquire
papers. The new approach appealed to the AI community: we had 126 submissions which cons-
tuted an increase of more than 50% and which resulted in 14 parallel sessions on the following
topics agents and intelligent virtual environments AI and engineering automated reasoning
cognition evolutionary computation Robotics experience and knowledge management history and
philosophical foundations knowledge representation and reasoning machine learning and mining
natural language processing planning and scheduling spatial and temporal reasoning vision and
perception o?ering cutting edge presentations and discussions with leading experts. Thirty-one
percent of the contributions came from outside German-speaking countries.
