From: AIPS 1998 Proceedings. Copyright © 1998, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

AIPS ’98 Organization & Sponsors

Sponsors

AIPS ’98 is supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and is held in cooperation with the American Association for

AIPS ’98 Committee

Conference Chair: James Allen, University of Rochester

Program Chairs: Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Workshops Chair: Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Planning Competition Rules Committee Chair: Drew McDermott, Yale University

Program Committee Members Ralph Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Jim Blythe, USC/Information Sciences Institute Mark Boddy, Honeywell Corporation Daniel Borrajo, Universidad Carlos III de John Bresina, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames Amedeo Cesta, National Research Council of Italy Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Tom Dean, Brown University Brian Drabble, Computational Intelligence Research Laboratories Jim Firby, Neodesic Corporation Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS Yolanda Gil, USC/Information Sciences Institute Keith Golden, NASA Ames Research Center Richard Goodwin, IBM Watson Peter Haddawy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Steve Hanks, University of Washington From: AIPS 1998 Proceedings. Copyright © 1998, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

James Hendler, University of Maryland Adele Howe, Colorado State University Peter Jonsson, Linkoping University Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Craig Knoblock, USC/Information Sciences Institute Jana Koehler, Albert Ludwigs University Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Richard Korf, UCLA Claude LePape, Bouygues - Direction Scientifique Drew McDermott, Yale University David Morley, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute Karen Myers, SRI International Martha Pollack, University of Pittsburgh Patrick Prosser, University of Strathclyde Louise Pryor, Harlequin Ltd. Marcio Rillo, University of Sao Paulo , David Smith, NASA Ames Research Center Sam Steel, University of Essex Milind Tambe, USC/Information Sciences Institute Austin Tate, AIAI, University of Edinburgh David Wilkins, SRI International

Additional Reviewers Jose Luis Ambite, University of Southern California Chris Atkeson, Georgia Institute of Technology Tony Barrett, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Leliane Nunes de Barros, LSI, University of Sao Paolo Cesar Carranza, University of Kaiserslautern Tara Estlin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Michael Georgeff, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute Carla Gomes, Cornell University and Rome Lab Vu Ha, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Patrik Haslum, Linkoping University Karen Haigh, Carnegie Mellon University Ion Muslea, University of Southern California Hien Nguyen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Angelo Oddi, IP-CNR, National Research Council of Italy Nilufer Onder, University of Pittsburgh Anand Rao, Mitchell Madison Group Anna Helena Reali Costa Rillo, University of Sao Paolo Paola Rizzo, Universita’ di Torino Richard Washington, NASA Ames Research Center Frank Weberskirch, University of Kaiserslautern