The Group has links with many outside bodies. It is a specialist group of the British Computer Society and a member of ECCAI, the European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.
Since its inception the group has enjoyed a good working relationship with government departments involved in the Artificial Intelligence field (beginning with the Alvey Programme in the 1980s). A succession of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) representatives have been co-opted as committee members. The Group acted as co-organiser of the annual DTI Manufacturing Intelligence awards and has included sessions presenting the results of the DTI Intelligent Systems Integration Programme (ISIP) in its annual conferences.
The group also has a good relationship with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), with which it has co-sponsored a number of colloquia over many years, and with NCAF, the Natural Computing Applications Forum. We also host the annual UK CBR (Case-Based Reasoning) workshops at our annual conferences.