IJCAI-07 Conference Organization

Conference Committee

Conference Chair Ramon López de Mántaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC (Spain) Program Chair Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Local Arrangements Chairs Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology (India) Harish Mehta, Onward Technologies Limited (India) R. K. Bagga, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (India) IJCAI Secretary-Treasurer Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation (USA) IJCAI Executive Secretary Vesna Sabljakovicz-Fritz, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) Conference Subcommittee Chairs

Tutorial Chair Cynthia Lynn Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) Workshop Chair Carles Sierra, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC (Spain) Advisory Committee

Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University (UK) Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University (USA) Patrick Doherty, Linköping University (Sweden) Richard Doyle, JPL-NASA (USA) Christian Freksa, Bremen University (Germany) Uli Furbach, Koblinz University (Germany) Yolanda Gil, Information Sciences Institute, USC (USA) Janice Glasgow, Queens University (Canada) Hang Li, Microsoft (China) Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney (Australia) Henri Prade, IRIT-CNRS ()

vii Marco Schaerf, University of Rome-I (Italy) Olga Stepankova, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic) Local Arrangements Committee Advisors Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Arvind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA) R. Narasimhan, CMC National Fellow for IT Chairs Rajeev Sangal, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Harish Mehta, Onward Technologies Limited R K Bagga, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Core Team Harish Mehta, Trust for Advancement of Technology in India, OnwardGroup J. A. Chowdary, Portal Player P. V. S. Rao, Tata Infotech S. Ramani, HP Labs K. S. R. Anjaneyulu, HP Labs George L. Arakal, CDAC/Media Lab Asia M. Sasikumar, CDAC, Mumbai Vasudeva Varma, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad M. Vidyasagar, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad Arun K. Pujari, University of Hyderabad R. K. Shyamasunder, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai N. Sitaram, CAIR, Bangalore Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad Ashok Agarwal, Era Software V. P. Gulati, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad P. J. Narayanan, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Bipin Indurkuya, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Kamal Karlapalem, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad S. Kapoor, Satyam, Hyderabad Aditya Margam, Soft Quest, Hyderabad B. L. Deekshatulu, ISRO Fellow, University of Hyderabad S. C. Rastogi, Infosys Members and Resource Persons Pushpak Bhattacharya, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai B. B. Chaudhuri, ISI Kolkata Harish Karnick, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University (USA) Hema A. Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras A. G. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Debanik Roy, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Rohini Srihari, SUNY (USA) Sargur N. Srihari, SUNY (USA) Devika Subramanian, Rice University (USA) Vivek Balaraman, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune

viii K. K. Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Somanath Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Ravi Prakash Putchala, Oracle India, Bangalore Shyam Dhanuka, Novell, Mumbai S. Lakshman, Novell, Mumbai Anoop Namboodri, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad C. V. Jawahar, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Mvenkateswarlu, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad V. V. Ramana, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Program Committee Program Chair Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Senior Program Committee Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto (Canada) Daniel Borrajo, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) Silvia Coradeschi, Örebro University (Sweden) Marie-Odile Cordier, University 1 (France) Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp (Belgium) Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine (USA) Frank Dellaert, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University (USA) Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California (USA) P. J. Narayanan, International Institute of Information Technology (India) Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (Germany) Itsuki Noda, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (Japan) Lynne Parker, University of Tennessee (USA) Anna Reali Costa, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) Francesca Rossi, University of Padova (Italy) Lorenza Saitta, University of Piemonte Orientale (Italy) Rudrapatna Shyamasundar, IBM India Research Laboratory (India) Barry Smyth, University College Dublin (Ireland) Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin (USA) Milind Tambe, University of Southern California (USA) Laszlo Varga, SZTAKI (Hungary) Mary-Anne Williams, Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory (Australia) Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia (China) Program Committee David Aha, Naval Research Laboratory (USA) Aluizio Araujo, UFPE—Center of Information (Brazil) Josep-Lluis Arcos, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC (Spain) Sreeram Balakrishnan, IBM Research (India) Leliane Barros, University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Jerusalem College of Engineering (Israel) Michael Bowling, University of Alberta (Canada) Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg (Germany) Amedeo Cesta, Institute for Cognitive Science & Technology, CNR (Italy) Antonio Chella, University of Palermo (Italy)

ix Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China (China) Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield (UK) Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington (USA) Padraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) Philippe Dague, University of -Sud (France) Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles (USA) Guiseppe De Giacomo, University of Rome, “La Sapienza” (Italy) Angel del Pobil, Juame I University, (Spain) Yves Demazeau, National Council for Scientific Research (France) Minh Do, Palo Alto Research Center (USA) AnHai Doan, University of Illinois (USA) Pedro Domingos, University of Washington (USA) Christophe Dousson, France Telecom R&D (France) Tom Duckett, University of Lincoln (UK) Floriana Esposito, University of Bari (Italy) Boi Faltings, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) Fernando Fernandez, University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) Matjaz Gams, Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) Frederick Garcia, National Institute of Agronomic Research (France) Hector Geffner, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University (Spain) Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia (Italy) Holger Hoos, University of British Columbia (Canada) Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester (UK) Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Rebecca Hwa, University of Pittsburgh (USA) Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University (Israel) Alankar Karol, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia) Sven Koenig, University of Southern California (USA) Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University (Japan) Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin (Ireland) Gerhard Lakemeyer, University of Technology Aachen (Germany) Javier Larrosa, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) David Leake, Indiana University (USA) Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia (Canada) Pedro Lima, Technical University Lisbon (Portugal) Dekang Lin, Google, Inc. (USA) Pierre Marquis, CRIL-CNRS and (France) Michael Mateas, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Canada) Pedro Meseguer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC (Spain) Jay Modi, Drexel University (USA) Yoichi Motomura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan) Hideyuki Nakanishi, Osaka University (Japan) Ranjit Nair, Honeywell Laboratories (USA) Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal (Canada) Joakim Nivre, Vaxjo University (Sweden) Yukio Ohsawa, University of Tokyo (Japan) Barry O’Sullivan, Cork Constraint Computation Centre (Ireland) Ronald Parr, Duke University (USA) Gabriella Pasi, University of Milan (Italy) Pavlos Peppas, University of Patras (Greece) Paolo Petta, Medical University of Vienna (Austria) Arun Pujari, University of Hyderabad (India)

x M. R. K. Krishna Rao, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia) Carlos Ribeiro, Technological Institute of Aeronautics (Brazil) Horacio Rodriguez, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson, Örebro University (Sweden) Marie-Christine Rousset, University of (France) Michael Rovatsos, University of Edinburgh (UK) Brian Scassellati, Yale University (USA) Dale Schuurmans, University of Alberta (Canada) Michele Sebag, University of Paris-South (France) Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, University of London (UK) Biplav Srivastava, IBM India Research Laboratory (India) Carlo Strapparava, Center for Scientific and Technological Research (Italy) Ashley Stroupe, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (USA) Sylvie Thiebaux, The Australian National University (Australia) Pietro Torasso, University of Torino (Italy) Kentaro Toyama, Microsoft Research India (India) Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo (Canada) Nikos Vlassis, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) Toby Walsh, University of New South Wales (Australia) Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz (Austria) Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University (Japan)

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