This book constitues the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence and Export Systems, IEA/AIE 2000, held in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, in June 2000.The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 120 submissions. Among the topics covered are intelligent agents, distributed problem solving, artificial neural networks, intelligent data mining, diagnosis, export systems, intelligent information systems, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, design, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and combinatorial optimization.