Papers from a November 2002 conference present recent research and practice in artificial intelligence methodologies and discuss issues involved in turning these methodologies into practical tools for developing intelligent systems and applications. Machine learning, data mining and knowledge discovery, constraint satisfaction, intelligent information retrieval, planning and scheduling, intelligent real-time systems, logic and reasoning, natural language processing, multimedia and image processing, and Internet software are major themes. Some specific paper topics include error-based pruning of decision trees on very large data sets, a software measurement data analysis using memory-based reasoning, and automatic repair of Web wrappers by combining redundant views. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR