History of the IAS-Society and the IAS-conferences

This paper describes the development of the IAS-Society and the trends in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems conferences. The first IAS conference was held in 1986 and was the first conference on this topic. The Society, founded in 1994, laid the basis for the organization of the IAS conferences. The topics presented at the successive IAS conferences showed clearly the development of the field of Intelligent Autonomous Systems. A short overview is given of the specific topics and percentage of papers in the different research areas in the conferences before and after the year 2000