Publisher's Synopsis
The collected papers presented at the Thirtieth International Matador Conference, held at UMIST, Manchester on 31 March-1 April 1993. This year, in addition to the latest developments in traditional areas of machine tool technology, sessions on expert systems and neural networks have been included for the first time, reflecting the growing importance of artificial intelligence applications in manufacturing. Contains contributions from the following countries: Japan, USA, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Eire, New Zealand, UK, Belgium, India, Germany, Portugal, Yugoslavia.
