AAAI & IAAI Conference Program Committees

Conference Chairs AAAI-2000 Senior Program Committee Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University AAAI-2000 Program Cochairs Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Henry A. Kautz, AT&T Labs-Research Kenneth Forbus, Xerox PARC Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin Robert Holte, University of Ottawa AAAI-2000 Associate Program Cochairs Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs Richard Sutton, AT&T Labs-Research Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California Daphne Koller, Stanford University AAAI-2000 Assistant Program Chair James Lester, North Carolina State University Vibhu Mittal, Just Research & Carnegie Mellon University Alon Levy, University of Washington Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin IAAI-2000 Chair Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University Robert S. Engelmore, Stanford University Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin Pandurang Nayak, PurpleYogi.com IAAI-2000 Cochair Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Xchange Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Chair Bart Selman, Cornell University George Ferguson, University of Rochester Lynn Andrea Stein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Richard Sutton, AT&T Labs-Research Mobile Robot Competition Chair Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory Peter van Beek, University of Alberta Robot Contest Subchair Manuela Veloso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs-Research Daniel Weld, University of Washington Robot Exhibit Subchair Marc Böhlen, Carnegie Mellon University Robot Challenge Subchair AAAI-2000 Program Committee Tucker Balch, Carnegie Mellon University Steve Abney, AT&T Labs-Research David Aha, Naval Research Laboratory Robot Building Laboratory and National Botball Tour- James Allan, University of Massachusetts nament Chair David Andre, University of California, Berkeley David Miller, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Elisabeth Andre, DFKI GmbH Tucker Balch, Carnegie Mellon University SIGART/AAAI-2000 Doctoral Consortium Chair Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Marie A. Bienkowski, SRI International Jonathan Baxter, Australian National University Student Abstract and Poster Chair Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University Jim Blythe, USC/Information Sciences Institute Tutorial Chair Justin Boyan, NASA Ames Research Center / MIT AI Lab Michael L. Littman, Duke University Carla Brodley, Purdue University Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Workshop Chair and Cochair Wolfram Burgard, Universitaet Freiburg Marie desJardins, SRI International Mary Elaine Califf, Illinois State University Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International Berthe Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

xxi Daniel Clancy, NASA Ames Research Center Joel Martin, National Research Council David Cohn: Just Research / Carnegie Mellon University Andrew McCallum, WhizBang Laboratories–Research Michael Collins, AT&T Labs-Research Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware Corinna Cortes, AT&T Labs-Research Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin Marina Meila, Carnegie Mellon University Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles Nicolas Meuleau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Piew Datta, GTE Laboratories Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon University Ernest Davis, New York University Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Frank Dellaert, Carnegie Mellon University Ronald Parr, Stanford University Pedro Domingos, University of Washington Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research Yusuf Pisan, Macquarie University John Everett, Xerox PARC Martha Pollack, University of Pittsburgh Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) David Poole, University of British Columbia Tom Fawcett, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University Jeff Rickel, University of Southern California Ronald Ferguson, Northwestern University Ellen Riloff, University of Utah Eugene Fink, University of South Florida Irina Rish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Gary Flake, NEC Research Institute Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University Dieter Fox, Carnegie Mellon University Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jim French, University of Virginia Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Paris-Sud Eugene Freuder, University of New Hampshire Tuomas Sandholm, Washington University Marc Friedman, Viathan Corporation Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California Nir Friedman, Hebrew University Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University Thomas Schiex, INRA Zoubin Ghahramani, University College London James Schmolze, Tufts University Matthew L. Ginsberg, University of Oregon Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo Enrico Giunchiglia, Università di Genova Murray Shanahan, Imperial College Bob Givan, Purdue University Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin Keith Golden, NASA Ames Research Center John Shawe-Taylor, Royal Holloway, University of London Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro Wei-Min Shen, University of Southern California / ISI Benjamin Grosof, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University Milos Hauskrecht, Brown University Yoram Singer, The Hebrew University Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University Adele Howe, Colorado State University Peter Stone, AT&T Labs-Research Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington Peter Struss, Technical University of Munich Tommi Jaakkola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California Peter Jeavons, Oxford University Csaba Szepesvari, Mindmaker Ltd. David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University Hermann Kaindl, Siemens Austria Hannu TT Toivonen, Nokia Research Center Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Hudson Turner, University of Minnesota at Duluth Kevin Knight, University of Southern California Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania Jana Koehler, Schindler Lifts Ltd Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University Richard Korf, University of California, Los Angeles Ellen Voorhees, NIST David Kortenkamp, Metrica/TRACLabs Mark Wallace, Imperial College Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete Toby Walsh, The University of York Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Ronald Yager, Iona College Lillian Lee, Cornell University Qiang Yang, Microsoft Research China Neal Lesh, MERL Michael Young, North Carolina State University Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ..of Science and Technology Michael Wellman, University of Michigan Diane Litman, AT&T Labs-Research Weixiong Zhang, University of Southern California Michael Littman, AT&T Labs-Research Feng Zhao, Xerox PARC Robert MacGregor, Pacific Software Solutions Sridhar Mahadevan, Michigan State University Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Chris Manning, Stanford University

xxii 2000 Auxiliary Reviewers IAAI-2000 Program Committee Eyal Amir Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh Alessandro Artale Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Maren Bennewitz Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research Darse Billings Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Corporation Yngvi Bjornsson Philip Klahr, TriVida Corporation Diego Calvanese Alain Rappaport, Carnegie Mellon University Amedeo Cesta Charles Rosenberg, Carnegie Mellon University Evgeny Dantsin Ted Senator, NASD Regulation, Inc. Oskar Dressler Howard Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jenny Dy Reid Smith, Schlumberger Limited Peggy S. Eaton Shirley Tessler, Aldo Ventures, Inc. Alan Fern Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation Maria Fox Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs-Research Enrico Franconi Carole Goble Dirk Haehnel Ullrich Hustadt Terran Lane Victor Lavrenko Anton Leuski Sean MacArthur R. Manmatha Fabio Massacci David McAllester Karen Myers Daniele Nardi Joelle Pineau Stergios Roumeliotis Nicholas Roy Jack van Ryswyck Mark Stickel Tim Stough Russell Swan Armando Tacchella Sergio Tessaris Richard Vaughan Richard J. Wallace David Wilkins

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