Program Committees

Conference Chairs AAAI-02 Senior Program Committee Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto Conference Committee Chair Jonathan Baxter, Whizbang! Labs Research James A. Hendler, University of Maryland Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center Chitta Baral, Arizona State University AAAI-02 Program Cochairs Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Oren Etzioni, University of Washington Richard S. Sutton Dieter Fox, University of Washington Hector Geffner, Universidad Simon Bolivar IAAI-02 Chair Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University Kevin Knight, USC / Information Sciences Institute IAAI-02 Cochair Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine John Riedl, University of Minnesota Richard Korf, University of California, Los Angeles David McAllester Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Chair Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon University George Ferguson, University of Rochester David Poole, University of British Columbia Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, Madison Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta Bart Selman, Cornell University Robot Building Laboratory Chair Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh David Miller, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Peter Stone, The University of Texas at Austin Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo Robot Competition and Exhibition Cochairs Weixiong Zhang, Washington University Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology SIGART/AAAI 2002 Doctoral Consortium Chair AAAI-02 Program Committee Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Steven Abney, AT&T Laboratories - Research Baltimore County Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology Dimitris Achlioptas, Microsoft Corporation Tutorial Forum Chair James Allen, University of Massachusetts Michael L. Littman, Stowe Research Bruce D’Ambrosio, Oregon State University Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen Workshop Chair and Cochair Simon Baker, Carnegie Mellon University Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Laboratories - Research Peter Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley Michael Beetz, University of Bonn

xvii Ramon Bejar, Universitat de Lleida Holger Hoos, The University of British Columbia Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Ben-Gurion University Ian Horswill, Northwestern University Salem Benferhat, IRIT Doug Howe, Dell Labs Kristin Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Hiroyuki Iida, Shizuoka Univerisity Christian Bessiere, LIRMM Tommi Jaakkola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Mark Johnson, Brown University Yngvi Bjornsson, University of Alberta Andreas Junghanns, University of Alberta Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto Froduald Kabanza, University of Windsor Justin Boyan, NASA Ames Research Center Hermann Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Christoph Bregler, Stanford University Gal Kaminka, Carnegie Mellon University Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Corporation Michael Buro, NEC Research Institute Simon Kasif, Boston University Marco Cadoli, Università di Roma Kalev Kask, University of California, Irvine Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University Henry Kautz, University of Washington John Canny, University of California, Berkeley Roni Khardon, Tufts University Armedeo Cesta, IP-CNR Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia Michael Kohlhase, Carnegie Mellon University Walter Daelemans, UIA-GER-CNTS Daphne Koller, Stanford University Robert Dale, Macquarie University Kurt Konolige, SRI International Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma – La Sapienza David Kortenkamp, Metrica Inc., TRACLabs Patrick Doherty, Linkopings Universitet Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Cornell University Carmel Domshlak, Ben-Gurion University Philippe Laborie, ILOG S.A. Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University Arthur Dubrawski, Aethon, Inc. Terran Lane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Thomas Eiter, Institute fuer Informationssysteme, TU John Langford, Carnegie Mellon University Wien Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lillian Lee, Cornell University (EPFL) Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford University Ariel Felner, Bar-Ilan University Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin Maria Fox, University of Durham Michael Littman, Stowe Research Enrico Franconi, University of Manchester Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Ian Frank, Future University – Hakodate Felip Manyà, Universitat de Lleida Nir Friedman, Hebrew University Dimitris Margaritis, Carnegie Mellon University Markus Fromherz, Xerox Shaul Markovich, Technion Daniel Frost, University of California, Irvine Cindy Marling, Ohio University Alfonso Gerevini, DEA – University of Brescia Fabio Massacci, Università degli Studi di Trento Carmen Gervet, Imperial College Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation Lise Getoor, Stanford University Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University Malik Ghallab, LAAS – CNRS Raymond Mooney, University of Texas Matthew Ginsberg, On Time Systems, Inc. Martin Mueller, University of Alberta Enrico Giunchiglia, Università di Genova Remi Munos, Ecole Polytechnique Robert Givan, Purdue University Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University Keith Golden, NASA Ames Research Center Kevin Murphy, University of California, Berkeley Carla Gomes, Cornell University Paliath Narendran, University of Albany Geoff Gordon, CMU CALD Bernard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Amy Greenwald, Brown University Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County Russell Greiner, University of Alberta Andrew Parkes, CIRL Peter Haddawy, Asian Institute of Technology David Parkes, University of Pennsylvania Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University Ronald Parr, Duke University Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas Simon Parsons, University of Liverpool Milos Hauskrecht, University of Pittsburgh Dan Pelleg, Carnegie Mellon University Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley Joseph Pemberton, Veridian Joerg Hoffmann, Institut fuer Informatik David Pennock, NEC Research Institute Thomas Hofmann, Brown University Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University Tad Hogg, HP Labs Aske Plaat, Dutch Ministry of Finance

xviii Daniel Polani, University of Lübeck Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Jochen Renz, Vienna University of Technology Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University Jeff Rickel, University of Southern California, AAAI-02 Auxiliary Reviewers Information Sciences Institute Dana Angluin Irina Rish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Dragomir Anguelov Amir Ronen, Stanford University Marta Arias Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University Andrew Arnt Francesca Rossi, Università di Padova Alessandro Artale Nicholas Roy, Carnegie Mellon University Chris Beck Thomas Schiex, INRA (UBIA) Daniel Bernstein Carsten Schuermann, Yale University Piergiorgio Bertoli Dale Schuurmanns, University of Waterloo Darse Billings Eddie Schwalb, Schwalb Research LLC Michael Brenner Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Bret Browning Steven Seitz, University of Washington Diego Calvanese Anup Kumar Sen, Indian Institute of Management Cal- Giuseppe Carenini cutta Amedeo Cesta John Shawe Taylor, University of London, Royal Hallo- Alessandro Cimatti way Vincent Conitzer Prakash Shenoy, Kansas University Denver Dash Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Sandip Debnath Satinder Singh, Syntek Capital Demetrios Demopoulos Bill Smart, Washington University in St. Louis Yannis Dimopoulos Barbara Smith, University of Huddersfield Irina Dumitrescu David Smith, NASA Ames Research Center Esra Erdem Tran Son, New Mexico State University Wolfgang Faber Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University Zhengzhu Feng Constantine Stephanidis, Foundation for Research and Alan Fern Technology Jeremy Frank Matthew Stone, Rutgers University David Furcy Malcolm Strens, QinetiQ Alfredo Gabaldon Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California Brian Gerkey Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara Yolanda Gil Moshe Tennenholtz, Stanford University Steven Greenberg Sylvie Thiebaux, The Australian National University Emmanuel Guèrè Belinda Thom, Harvey Mudd College Andy Haas Cindi Thompson, University of Utah Joe Halpern Jin Tian, University of California, Los Angeles Jason Hartline Paolo Traverso, IRST Patrik Haslum Hudson Turner, University of Minnesota, Duluth Langseth Helge H. J. van den Herik, Universiteit Maastricht Johanna Hellemons Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University Malte Helmert Gérard Verfaillie, ONERA Ian Horrocks Stephan Vogel, Carnegie Mellon University Andrew Howard Ellen Voorhees, NIST G. Neelakanthan Kartha Tom Wagner, Honeywell Laboratories Tomas Kocka Toby Walsh, The University of York Ralf Küsters William Walsh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jonas Kvarnström Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh Michail Lagoudakis Bob Williamson, Australian National University Gerhard Lakemeyer Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University Nicola Leone Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science Uri Lerner David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University Reinhold Letz Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laborato- Yaxin Liu ries Derek Long Nevin Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science & Tech- Tsai-Ching Lu nology Thomas Lukasiewicz

xix Omid Madani Helen Yan Jakob Mauss Dit-Yan Yeung Laurent Michel Neil Yorke-Smith Ion Muslea Mohammed Zaki XuanLong Nguyen Klaus Zechner Romeo Sanchez Nigenda Rong Zhou Xavier Nodet Lin Zhu Angelo Oddi Mushin Ozdemir Maurice Pagnucco IAAI-02 Program Committee Luis Paquete Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh Seung-Taek Park Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Aarati Parmar Robert Engelmore, KSL, Stanford University Mark Paskin Randy Hill, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Vladimir Pavlovic Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Corporation Terry Payne Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute Jose M. Pena David Kortenkamp, NASA Johnson Space Center Erik Peterson Ora Lassila, Nokia Corporation Gerald Pfeifer Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University Marco Pistore of Southern California Enrico Pontelli David Opitz, University of Montana Eric Postma John Riedl, University of Minnesota Marco Pranzo Ted Senator, DARPA/ISO Ganesh Ramesh Reid Smith, Schulumberger Ltd. Jussi Rintanen Ramasamy Uthurusamy, GM Corporation Jèrùme Rogerie Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University Nico Roos Riccardo Rosati Marco Roveri Ulrike Sattler Uday Savagaonkar Richard Scherl Renate Schmidt Luciano Serafini Jonathan Shapiro Paul Shaw Rajjog Singh John Slaney Alessandro Sperduti Biplav Srivastava Ashley W. Stroupe Thomas Stuetzle Gerd Stumme Armando Tacchella Ben Taskar Mugur Tatar Sergio Tessaris Hans Tompits Lorenzo Torresani Iannis Vetsikas Paul Vogt Mark Wallace Haiqin Wang Lida Wang Shengrui Wang Emil Weydert Floris Wiesman Frank Wolter

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