The 18th international FLAIRS conference seeks high quality, original, unpublished submissions in all areas of AI, including, but not limited to, neural networks, autonomous agents, case-based reasoning, computer vision, data mining, expert systems, genetic algorithms, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, knowledge representation and management, learning, automated reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning, uncertainty reasoning, robotics, semantic web, speech recognition, temporal reasoning, AI and the Web, AI applications, AI and education, and verification/validation.