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The SBIA conference series started in 1984 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and through the years has bene?ted the Arti?cial Intelligence and Computer Science communities in Brazil. After 26 years and 20 conferences SBIA is now a mature event, constituting a discussion forum for new ideas in all sub-areas of AI. In this book you will ?nd the full papers selected for publication in the SBIA 2010 proceedings. The papers cover the AI sub-areas in the following way: - Ontologies, Knowledge Representation, and Reasoning: 8 - Machine Learning: 2 - Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: 6 - Natural Language Processing: 2 - Planning and Scheduling: 5 - Logics for AI: 3 - Constraints and Search: 5 We would like to thank all the authors that contributed to SBIA 2010. We also thank all the members of the international Program Committee and the additional reviewers, who did an excellent job in reviewing the papers. We are very grateful to Flavio Tonidandel, General Chair of SBIA 2010 and of the Joint SBIA/SBRN/JRI 2010 Conference, for all the support that he and his team at FEI provided. Yoav Shoham, Jaime Sichman, and David Hogg were the keynote speakers of the event. We thank them very much for their acceptance of the invitation. A special acknowledgement is due to Tiago Thompsen Primo, for his de- cated e?ort in the editing of these proceedings. Finally, we thank the SBIA 2010 sponsors (CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP, and SBC) for their support.

Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- IR (information retrieval) --- informatiesystemen --- database management --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- computernetwerken --- robots

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By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the multi-actor space, showing how quality assurance impacts the higher education system throughout. Second, it links quality assurance solidly to issues of regulation, translation (rather than mechanical ˜implementation') and transformation, instead of being only focused on quality assurance as a single policy instrument. Third, it uses this broad range of research insights to criticize current practices, explaining for instance why sometimes people have difficulty in tracing any concrete effects of all initiatives taken in this area. Finally, the book offers proposals for better focusing quality assurance in the future to address institutional challenges better. The general purpose of the book then is to give an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.

Didactic evaluation --- School management --- Higher education --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- onderwijspolitiek --- evaluatie (onderwijs)