this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th international conference on industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and export systems, iea/aie 2001, held in budapest, hungary in june 2001. the 104 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submissions. the proceedings offer topical sections on searching, knowledge representation, model-based reasoning, machine learning, data mining, soft computing, evolutionary algorithms, distributed problem solving, export systems, pattern and speech recognition, vision language processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, autonomous agents, design, control, manufacturing systems, finance and business, software engineering, and intelligent tutoring.