Annotation Presents papers from the September 1996 conference discussing the application of automated reasoning, knowledge representation, and other artificial intelligence techniques to software engineering problems, with emphasis on constructing and working with software artifacts and processes using knowledge-based techniques. Coverage includes synthesis, verification and validation, knowledge-based environments, and reverse engineering, with papers on areas including applying plan recognition algorithms to program understanding, and synthesis of local search algorithms by algebraic means. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR