AAAI & IAAI Conference Program Committees Conference Chairs AAAI-2000 Senior Program Committee Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Kenneth Forbus, Xerox PARC Robert Holte, University of Ottawa Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael Kearns, AT&T Labs Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California Daphne Koller, Stanford University James Lester, North Carolina State University Alon Levy, University of Washington Vladimir Lifschitz, University of Texas at Austin Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin Pandurang Nayak, PurpleYogi.com Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Xchange Bart Selman, Cornell University Lynn Andrea Stein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Richard Sutton, AT&T Labs-Research Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University Peter van Beek, University of Alberta Manuela Veloso, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs-Research Daniel Weld, University of Washington AAAI-2000 Program Cochairs Henry A. Kautz, AT&T Labs-Research Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin AAAI-2000 Associate Program Cochairs Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Richard Sutton, AT&T Labs-Research AAAI-2000 Assistant Program Chair Vibhu Mittal, Just Research & Carnegie Mellon University IAAI-2000 Chair Robert S. Engelmore, Stanford University IAAI-2000 Cochair Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Chair George Ferguson, University of Rochester Mobile Robot Competition Chair Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory Robot Contest Subchair Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College Robot Exhibit Subchair Marc Böhlen, Carnegie Mellon University AAAI-2000 Program Committee Robot Challenge Subchair Tucker Balch, Carnegie Mellon University Steve Abney, AT&T Labs-Research David Aha, Naval Research Laboratory James Allan, University of Massachusetts David Andre, University of California, Berkeley Elisabeth Andre, DFKI GmbH Tucker Balch, Carnegie Mellon University Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Jonathan Baxter, Australian National University Roberto Bayardo, IBM Almaden Research Center Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University Jim Blythe, USC/Information Sciences Institute Justin Boyan, NASA Ames Research Center / MIT AI Lab Carla Brodley, Purdue University Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wolfram Burgard, Universitaet Freiburg Mary Elaine Califf, Illinois State University Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International Berthe Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Robot Building Laboratory and National Botball Tournament Chair David Miller, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics SIGART/AAAI-2000 Doctoral Consortium Chair Marie A. Bienkowski, SRI International Student Abstract and Poster Chair Sven Koenig, Georgia Institute of Technology Tutorial Chair Michael L. Littman, Duke University Workshop Chair and Cochair Marie desJardins, SRI International Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln xxi Daniel Clancy, NASA Ames Research Center David Cohn: Just Research / Carnegie Mellon University Michael Collins, AT&T Labs-Research Corinna Cortes, AT&T Labs-Research Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin Adnan Darwiche, University of California, Los Angeles Piew Datta, GTE Laboratories Ernest Davis, New York University Giuseppe De Giacomo, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Frank Dellaert, Carnegie Mellon University Pedro Domingos, University of Washington Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research John Everett, Xerox PARC Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Tom Fawcett, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University Ronald Ferguson, Northwestern University Eugene Fink, University of South Florida Gary Flake, NEC Research Institute Dieter Fox, Carnegie Mellon University Jim French, University of Virginia Eugene Freuder, University of New Hampshire Marc Friedman, Viathan Corporation Nir Friedman, Hebrew University Michael Gelfond, Texas Tech University Zoubin Ghahramani, University College London Matthew L. Ginsberg, University of Oregon Enrico Giunchiglia, Universit à di Genova Bob Givan, Purdue University Keith Golden, NASA Ames Research Center Nancy Green, University of North Carolina Greensboro Benjamin Grosof, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Milos Hauskrecht, Brown University Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester Adele Howe, Colorado State University Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington Tommi Jaakkola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Jeavons, Oxford University David Jensen, University of Massachusetts Hermann Kaindl, Siemens Austria Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University Kevin Knight, University of Southern California Jana Koehler, Schindler Lifts Ltd Richard Korf, University of California, Los Angeles David Kortenkamp, Metrica/TRACLabs Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Lillian Lee, Cornell University Neal Lesh, MERL Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ..of Science and Technology Diane Litman, AT&T Labs-Research Michael Littman, AT&T Labs-Research Robert MacGregor, Pacific Software Solutions Sridhar Mahadevan, Michigan State University Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corporation Chris Manning, Stanford University Joel Martin, National Research Council Andrew McCallum, WhizBang Laboratories–Research Kathleen McCoy, University of Delaware Sheila McIlraith, Stanford University Marina Meila, Carnegie Mellon University Nicolas Meuleau, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon University Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Ronald Parr, Stanford University Avi Pfeffer, Harvard University Yusuf Pisan, Macquarie University Martha Pollack, University of Pittsburgh David Poole, University of British Columbia Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Jeff Rickel, University of Southern California Ellen Riloff, University of Utah Irina Rish, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Paris-Sud Tuomas Sandholm, Washington University Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta Thomas Schiex, INRA James Schmolze, Tufts University Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo Murray Shanahan, Imperial College Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin John Shawe-Taylor, Royal Holloway, University of London Wei-Min Shen, University of Southern California / ISI Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University Yoram Singer, The Hebrew University Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University Peter Stone, AT&T Labs-Research Peter Struss, Technical University of Munich Gaurav Sukhatme, University of Southern California Csaba Szepesvari, Mindmaker Ltd. Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University Hannu TT Toivonen, Nokia Research Center Hudson Turner, University of Minnesota at Duluth Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania Pascal Van Hentenryck, Brown University Ellen Voorhees, NIST Mark Wallace, Imperial College Toby Walsh, The University of York Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ronald Yager, Iona College Qiang Yang, Microsoft Research China Michael Young, North Carolina State University Michael Wellman, University of Michigan Weixiong Zhang, University of Southern California Feng Zhao, Xerox PARC xxii 2000 Auxiliary Reviewers IAAI-2000 Program Committee Eyal Amir Alessandro Artale Maren Bennewitz Darse Billings Yngvi Bjornsson Diego Calvanese Amedeo Cesta Evgeny Dantsin Oskar Dressler Jenny Dy Peggy S. Eaton Alan Fern Maria Fox 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 Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Usama Fayyad, Microsoft Research Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Corporation Philip Klahr, TriVida Corporation Alain Rappaport, Carnegie Mellon University Charles Rosenberg, Carnegie Mellon University Ted Senator, NASD Regulation, Inc. Howard Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reid Smith, Schlumberger Limited Shirley Tessler, Aldo Ventures, Inc. Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation Marilyn Walker, AT&T Labs-Research xxiii