Program Committees AAAI-02 Senior Program Committee Conference Chairs Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto Jonathan Baxter, Whizbang! Labs Research Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University Oren Etzioni, University of Washington Dieter Fox, University of Washington Hector Geffner, Universidad Simon Bolivar Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Takeo Kanade, Carnegie Mellon University Kevin Knight, USC / Information Sciences Institute Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine Richard Korf, University of California, Los Angeles David McAllester Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon University David Poole, University of British Columbia Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta Bart Selman, Cornell University Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh Peter Stone, The University of Texas at Austin Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo Weixiong Zhang, Washington University Conference Committee Chair James A. Hendler, University of Maryland AAAI-02 Program Cochairs Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Richard S. Sutton IAAI-02 Chair Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory IAAI-02 Cochair John Riedl, University of Minnesota Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Chair George Ferguson, University of Rochester Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Robot Building Laboratory Chair David Miller, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics Robot Competition and Exhibition Cochairs Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology AAAI-02 Program Committee SIGART/AAAI 2002 Doctoral Consortium Chair Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Steven Abney, AT&T Laboratories - Research Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology Dimitris Achlioptas, Microsoft Corporation James Allen, University of Massachusetts Bruce D’Ambrosio, Oregon State University Franz Baader, RWTH Aachen Simon Baker, Carnegie Mellon University Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Laboratories - Research Peter Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley Michael Beetz, University of Bonn Tutorial Forum Chair Michael L. Littman, Stowe Research Workshop Chair and Cochair Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh xvii Ramon Bejar, Universitat de Lleida Rachel Ben-Eliyahu-Zohary, Ben-Gurion University Salem Benferhat, IRIT Kristin Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Christian Bessiere, LIRMM Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Yngvi Bjornsson, University of Alberta Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto Justin Boyan, NASA Ames Research Center Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University Christoph Bregler, Stanford University Wolfram Burgard, University of Freiburg Michael Buro, NEC Research Institute Marco Cadoli, Università di Roma Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University John Canny, University of California, Berkeley Armedeo Cesta, IP-CNR Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia Walter Daelemans, UIA-GER-CNTS Robert Dale, Macquarie University Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma – La Sapienza Patrick Doherty, Linkopings Universitet Carmel Domshlak, Ben-Gurion University Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh Arthur Dubrawski, Aethon, Inc. Thomas Eiter, Institute fuer Informationssysteme, TU Wien Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Ariel Felner, Bar-Ilan University Maria Fox, University of Durham Enrico Franconi, University of Manchester Ian Frank, Future University – Hakodate Nir Friedman, Hebrew University Markus Fromherz, Xerox Daniel Frost, University of California, Irvine Alfonso Gerevini, DEA – University of Brescia Carmen Gervet, Imperial College Lise Getoor, Stanford University Malik Ghallab, LAAS – CNRS Matthew Ginsberg, On Time Systems, Inc. Enrico Giunchiglia, Università di Genova Robert Givan, Purdue University Keith Golden, NASA Ames Research Center Carla Gomes, Cornell University Geoff Gordon, CMU CALD Amy Greenwald, Brown University Russell Greiner, University of Alberta Peter Haddawy, Asian Institute of Technology Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas Milos Hauskrecht, University of Pittsburgh Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley Joerg Hoffmann, Institut fuer Informatik Thomas Hofmann, Brown University Tad Hogg, HP Labs Holger Hoos, The University of British Columbia Ian Horswill, Northwestern University Doug Howe, Dell Labs Hiroyuki Iida, Shizuoka Univerisity Tommi Jaakkola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Johnson, Brown University Andreas Junghanns, University of Alberta Froduald Kabanza, University of Windsor Hermann Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Gal Kaminka, Carnegie Mellon University Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Corporation Simon Kasif, Boston University Kalev Kask, University of California, Irvine Henry Kautz, University of Washington Roni Khardon, Tufts University Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Michael Kohlhase, Carnegie Mellon University Daphne Koller, Stanford University Kurt Konolige, SRI International David Kortenkamp, Metrica Inc., TRACLabs Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Cornell University Philippe Laborie, ILOG S.A. John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University Terran Lane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Langford, Carnegie Mellon University Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Alon Lavie, Carnegie Mellon University Lillian Lee, Cornell University Kevin Leyton-Brown, Stanford University Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin Michael Littman, Stowe Research Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Felip Manyà, Universitat de Lleida Dimitris Margaritis, Carnegie Mellon University Shaul Markovich, Technion Cindy Marling, Ohio University Fabio Massacci, Università degli Studi di Trento Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University Raymond Mooney, University of Texas Martin Mueller, University of Alberta Remi Munos, Ecole Polytechnique Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University Kevin Murphy, University of California, Berkeley Paliath Narendran, University of Albany Bernard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Tim Oates, University of Maryland Baltimore County Andrew Parkes, CIRL David Parkes, University of Pennsylvania Ronald Parr, Duke University Simon Parsons, University of Liverpool Dan Pelleg, Carnegie Mellon University Joseph Pemberton, Veridian David Pennock, NEC Research Institute Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University Aske Plaat, Dutch Ministry of Finance xviii Daniel Polani, University of Lübeck Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Jochen Renz, Vienna University of Technology Jeff Rickel, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute Irina Rish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Amir Ronen, Stanford University Jeffrey Rosenschein, Hebrew University Francesca Rossi, Università di Padova Nicholas Roy, Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Schiex, INRA (UBIA) Carsten Schuermann, Yale University Dale Schuurmanns, University of Waterloo Eddie Schwalb, Schwalb Research LLC Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Steven Seitz, University of Washington Anup Kumar Sen, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta John Shawe Taylor, University of London, Royal Halloway Prakash Shenoy, Kansas University Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University Satinder Singh, Syntek Capital Bill Smart, Washington University in St. Louis Barbara Smith, University of Huddersfield David Smith, NASA Ames Research Center Tran Son, New Mexico State University Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University Constantine Stephanidis, Foundation for Research and Technology Matthew Stone, Rutgers University Malcolm Strens, QinetiQ Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara Moshe Tennenholtz, Stanford University Sylvie Thiebaux, The Australian National University Belinda Thom, Harvey Mudd College Cindi Thompson, University of Utah Jin Tian, University of California, Los Angeles Paolo Traverso, IRST Hudson Turner, University of Minnesota, Duluth H. J. van den Herik, Universiteit Maastricht Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University Gérard Verfaillie, ONERA Stephan Vogel, Carnegie Mellon University Ellen Voorhees, NIST Tom Wagner, Honeywell Laboratories Toby Walsh, The University of York William Walsh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh Bob Williamson, Australian National University Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science David Yarowsky, John Hopkins University Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories Nevin Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Yan Zhang, University of Western Sydney Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University AAAI-02 Auxiliary Reviewers Dana Angluin Dragomir Anguelov Marta Arias Andrew Arnt Alessandro Artale Chris Beck Daniel Bernstein Piergiorgio Bertoli Darse Billings Michael Brenner Bret Browning Diego Calvanese Giuseppe Carenini Amedeo Cesta Alessandro Cimatti Vincent Conitzer Denver Dash Sandip Debnath Demetrios Demopoulos Yannis Dimopoulos Irina Dumitrescu Esra Erdem Wolfgang Faber Zhengzhu Feng Alan Fern Jeremy Frank David Furcy Alfredo Gabaldon Brian Gerkey Yolanda Gil Steven Greenberg Emmanuel Guèrè Andy Haas Joe Halpern Jason Hartline Patrik Haslum Langseth Helge Johanna Hellemons Malte Helmert Ian Horrocks Andrew Howard G. Neelakanthan Kartha Tomas Kocka Ralf Küsters Jonas Kvarnström Michail Lagoudakis Gerhard Lakemeyer Nicola Leone Uri Lerner Reinhold Letz Yaxin Liu Derek Long Tsai-Ching Lu Thomas Lukasiewicz xix Omid Madani Jakob Mauss Laurent Michel Ion Muslea XuanLong Nguyen Romeo Sanchez Nigenda Xavier Nodet Angelo Oddi Mushin Ozdemir Maurice Pagnucco Luis Paquete Seung-Taek Park Aarati Parmar Mark Paskin Vladimir Pavlovic Terry Payne Jose M. Pena Erik Peterson Gerald Pfeifer Marco Pistore Enrico Pontelli Eric Postma Marco Pranzo Ganesh Ramesh Jussi Rintanen Jèrùme Rogerie 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 Helen Yan Dit-Yan Yeung Neil Yorke-Smith Mohammed Zaki Klaus Zechner Rong Zhou Lin Zhu IAAI-02 Program Committee Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Robert Engelmore, KSL, Stanford University Randy Hill, USC Institute for Creative Technologies Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Corporation Craig Knoblock, Information Sciences Institute David Kortenkamp, NASA Johnson Space Center Ora Lassila, Nokia Corporation Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California David Opitz, University of Montana John Riedl, University of Minnesota Ted Senator, DARPA/ISO Reid Smith, Schulumberger Ltd. Ramasamy Uthurusamy, GM Corporation Peter Wurman, North Carolina State University xx