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The 7th Scandanavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held at the Maersk McKinney Moller Institute for Production Technology at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, in Feb 2001 continued a tradition established by SCAI of being an important conference in Europe. It attracted submissions from all over the world. Contents include: robotics; sensor/motor intelligence; evolutionary robotics; behaviour-based systems; multi-agent systems; applications of AI in bioinformatics; soft computing and heuristic algorithms, where paradigms from nature are used to build learning and optimization systems; and control and optimization.