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Introduction Introduction Corporate Sponsorship Robert Mercer, University of Western Ontario (Canada) IJCAI-01, the Seventeenth International IJCAI-01 gratefully acknowledges the generous contri- Silvia Miksch,Vienna University of Technology Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, butions of the following corporations and organizations: (Austria) Devika Subramanian, Rice University (USA) is sponsored by the International Joint AT&T Labs – Research • The Boeing Company L. Enrique Sucar, Monterrey Institute of Technology Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc. Fizzylab • Microsoft Corporation • NEC Research (IJCAII) and the American Association for (Mexico) Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Research Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). IJCAI-01 Conference (USA) IJCAII sponsors biennial conferences on Committee Mary-Anne Williams, University of Newcastle (Australia) artificial intelligence, which are the main CONFERENCE CHAIR: forums for presenting AI research results to Hector J. Levesque, University of Toronto (Canada) Program Committee: the international AI community. Previous PROGRAM CHAIR: conference sites were Washington D.C., USA Elisabeth André, DFKI GmbH (Germany) Bernhard Nebel,Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg Minoru Asada, Osaka University (Japan) (1969), London, England (1971), Stanford, (Germany) Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen (Germany) California, USA (1973), Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto (Canada) (1975), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA James Hoard, Boeing, Seattle (USA) Didier Dubois, IRIT-CNRS (France) (1977), Tokyo, Japan (1979), Vancouver, SECRETARY-TREASURER: Maria Fox, University of Durham (United Kingdom) British Columbia, Canada (1981), Karlsruhe, Ronald J. Brachman,AT&T Labs – Research (USA) Hector Geffner, Universidad Simón Bolívar Germany (1983),Los Angeles,California,USA (Venezuela) (1985), Milan, Italy (1987), Detroit, Michigan, Georg Gottlob,Vienna University of Technology Advisory Committee: (Austria) USA (1989), Sydney, Australia (1991), Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University (USA) Chambery, Savoie, France (1993), Montreal, Silvia Coradeschi, Örebro University (Sweden) Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute (USA) Canada (1995), Nagoya, Japan (1997), and Olivier Faugeras, INRIA (France) Joxan Jaffar, National University of Singapore Stockholm, Sweden (1999). IJCAI will be held Cheng Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) (Singapore) in Acapulco, Mexico in 2003. Nicholas Jennings, University of London (England) Daphne Koller, Stanford University (USA) Henry Kautz, University of Washington (USA) 2 Sponsors, Officers & Members Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and FORMER CONFERENCE CHAIR TRUSTEES: AAAI Organization Technolog y (Hong Kong) Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI GmbH (Germany) Heikki Mannila, Nokia Research Center (Finland) Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard University (USA) OFFICERS Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications (United Wolfgang Bibel, Technische Universität Darmstadt Bruce G. Buchanan, President, University of Pittsburgh Kingdom) (Germany) Tom M. Mitchell, President-Elect, Carnegie Mellon Daniele Nardi, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh (Scotland) University (Italy) Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia David L.Waltz, Past President. NEC Research Institute, Dana Nau, University of Maryland (USA) (Canada) Inc. Patrick Prosser, University of Glasgow (UK) Saul Amarel, Rutgers University (USA) Norman R. Nielsen, Secretary-Treasurer, SRI International Francesca Rossi, Università di Padova (Italy) Patrick J. Hayes, University of West Florida (USA) Christoph Schlieder, Universität Bremen (Germany) Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) COUNCILORS (THROUGH 2001) Yoav Shoham, Stanford University (USA) Erik Sandewall, Linköping University (Sweden) Henry Kautz, University of Washington Piero Torasso, Università di Torino (Italy) Alistair D.C. Holden (deceased), formerly University of David McAllester,AT&T Labs – Research Carme Torras, Institut de Robotica i Informatica Washington (USA) Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh Industrial (Spain) Max B. Clowes (deceased), formerly University of Michael P.Wellman, University of Michigan Jan Treur,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Sussex (England) COUNCILORS (THROUGH 2002) Netherlands) Donald E.Walker (deceased), formerly Bellcore (USA) Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University John Tsotsos,York University (Canada) Woodrow W.Bledsoe (deceased), formerly University Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) of Texas at Austin (USA) Bart Selman, Cornell University Ian Watson, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University FORMER PROGRAM CHAIR TRUSTEES: Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Martha Pollack, University of Michigan (USA) (USA) COUNCILORS (THROUGH 2003) Chris Mellish, University of Edinburgh (UK) Mary-Anne Williams, The University of Newcastle Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto (Australia) Ruzena Bajcsy, National Science Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Lab Foundation/University of Pennsylvania (USA) (Japan) Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Ray Reiter, University of Toronto (Canada) Institute of Technology TUTORIAL CHAIR: John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto (Canada) David Poole, University of British Columbia Michael Wellman, University of Michigan (USA) N. S. Sridharan, FMC Corporation (USA) STANDING COMMITTEES WORKSHOP CHAIR: John McDermott, ellora.com (USA) Conference: Paul Rosenbloom, Chair, USC/Information Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo (Canada) Aravind K.Joshi,University of Pennsylvania (USA) Sciences Institute LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE: Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh (UK) Fellows and Nominating: David L.Waltz, Chair, NEC Research James Hoard (Chair), Boeing (USA) Roger Schank, Northwestern University (USA) Finance: Norman R. Nielsen, Chair, SRI International Gary Coen, Boeing (USA) Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Grants: Manuela Veloso, Chair, Carnegie Mellon Rob Jasper, Fizzy Lab (USA) Saburo Tsuji, Osaka University (Japan) University Oscar Kipersztok, Boeing (USA) Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Membership: Reid Simmons, Chair, Carnegie Mellon Chris McConnell, Microsoft (USA) Patrick Winston, Massachusetts Institute of University Rick Wojcik, Boeing (USA) Technology (USA) Publications: Kenneth Ford, Chair, UWF/Institute for Carl Hewitt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Human and Machine Cognition IJCAII Organization (USA) Symposium:Ian Horswill,Chair,Northwestern Nils Nilsson, Stanford University (USA) University TRUSTEES: David C. Cooper, University College of Swansea (UK) AAAI STAFF Luigia Carlucci Aiello (President), Università di Roma Donald E.Walker (deceased), formerly Bellcore (USA) Carol McKenna Hamilton, Executive Director “La Sapienza” (Italy) Colleen Boyce,Accountant and Office Manager Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds (England) Keri Vasser Harvey, Senior Conference Coordinator Thomas L. Dean, Brown University (USA) Mary Christine Armstrong, Conference Coordinator Michael P.Georgeff,Australian AI Institute (Australia) Joanne Langeraar, Conference Assistant Georg Gottlob,Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Richard A. Skalsky, Information Technology Manager Hector Levesque, University of Toronto (Canada) Jhossy Quezada, Membership Coordinator Bernhard Nebel,Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg Eva Coronel,Administrative Assistant (Germany) AAAI PUBLICATIONS C. Raymond Perrault, SRI International (USA) Kenneth Ford, Editor-in-Chief,AAAI Press, SECRETARIAT: UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Ronald J. Brachman, Secretary-Treasurer,AT&T Labs – David Leake, Editor-in-Chief,AI Magazine, University Research (USA) of Indiana Priscilla Rasmussen,Academic & Research Conference David Mike Hamilton, Director, Live Oak Press Services (USA) 3 IJCAI - 01 Awards IJCAI-01 Award for The Donald E.Walker The IJCAI Awards Research Excellence Distinguished Service Award The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at the The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established Computers and Thought Award are made by the IJCAII IJCAI conference to a scientist who has carried out a in 1979 by the IJCAII Trustees to honor senior scientists Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by the IJCAI program of research of consistently high quality, yield- in AI for contributions and service to the field during Awards Selection Committee,which consists this year of ing several substantial results. Past recipients of this their careers. Previous recipients have been Bernard Michael Georgeff (San Francisco, USA) award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald Walker Henry Kautz (Seattle, USA) Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), (1989), Woodrow Bledsoe (1991), Daniel G. Bobrow C. Raymond Perrault (Menlo Park, USA, Chair) Herbert Simon (1995),Aravind Joshi (1997),and Judea (1993) and Wolfgang Bibel (1999). J. Ross Quinlan (Sydney,Australia) Pearl (1999). In 1993, the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was Erik Sandewall (Linköping, Sweden) The winner of the 2001 IJCAI Award for Research renamed the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice Excellence is Donald Michie, Professor Emeritus of Award in memory of the
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