The Fifteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-2003) will highlight successful applications of AI technology; explore issues, methods, and lessons learned in the development and deployment of AI applications; and promote an interchange of ideas between basic and applied AI. This year's conference will take place August 12-14, 2003, in Acapulco, Mexico, collocated with the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJ-CAI-03). As usual, IAAI-2003 will consist of papers in two tracks: (1) deployed application case studies and (2) emerging applications, technology, and issues--supplemented by invited talks and panel …