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th This volume contains the conference proceedings of the 29 Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI 2006) held June 14-19, 2006 at the Convention Center in Bremen, Germany. KI 2006 was organized under the a- picesoftheAIsectionoftheGermanInformaticsSociety(GI),amembersociety of the European Coordinating Committee of Arti?cial Intelligence (ECCAI). This year, we stepped out of our regular pattern of holding the conference at the end of the summer as we decided to accompany the RoboCup 2006 com- titions at the Bremen Fair and Convention Center with our scienti?c AI conf- ence.Toavoidanunusuallyearlysubmissiondeadlinethatwouldhavecompeted with othermajorAI conferences,wedecidedto publish post-conferenceproce- ings. We received a large number of excellent contributions: 112 papers from 25 countries were submitted. In a thorough peer-review process, the international Program Committee selected 29 full papers that are published in this volume. The contributions cover a range of topics from ontologies to cognition and e- tion, from spatial and spatio-temporal reasoning to machine and robot learning, and from analogies to natural language. Two speakers were invited for keynote lectures: Ramon L´ opez de M´ antaras presentedhisworkonapplyingAImethodstothetransformationofmusicalp- formancesand UlrichFurbachspoke about applications ofautomated reasoning. Their written contributions to these topics are also published in this volume. In addition to the regular conference sessions, six workshop proposals and nine poster contributions were accepted for the conference. The workshop s- sions were held on June 14 and on June 19, 2006. The contributions to these sessions were published in separate proceedings volumes.

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International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit www.springer.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.org.

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Computer generated 3D animation has matured over the years into a rich and complex art form. The need to animate diverse characters has caused character animation to become an extensively researched area. Coordinating and presenting the character's movement in three dimensions to convey a specific idea to the audience, however, still remains a challenge. The animator has to employ a lot of artistic and technical skills, and often a labourious iterative trial-and-error process to get it right. It is even more difficult for the animator to generate the character's action if the point of view (i.e., the rendering camera) is also varying. Creating moving camera character animations in 3D is, however, a multi-faceted computer graphics and computer vision problem. It warrants a formal representation of the moving camera, and efficient algorithms to help author the multitude of character poses required for the animation. It is also necessary to deal with issues pertaining to camera and character pose interpolation and visualization of the association between the two. The solution to this problem has to be efficient and elegant from the perspective of a computer scientist, yet at the same time make sense and be intuitive to use. This well-researched book develops and demonstrates a framework for view-dependent animation designed to solve these issues, well illustrated with a large number of example animations to explain and illustrate this versatile technique.

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