The May 1996 proceedings bring together an international group of researchers working in the area of temporal representation and reasoning in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exploring the key issues and trends in the subject. The 30 collected papers describe studies in reasoning about actions and events, temporal constraints, time granularity and abstraction, temporal databases, temporal reasoning and logic programming, time in problem solving, temporal logics, belief and uncertainty in temporal knowledge, and applications for multimedia systems, lattice computers, and an MT system. Includes calculations and illustrations. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.