From: FLAIRS-00 Proceedings. Copyright © 2000, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. FLAIRS-2000 Florida AI Research Society Officers President Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA Vice President Bill Manaris, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Treasurer Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Secretary Scott Goodwin, University of Regina, Canada FLAIRS-2000 Organizing Committee General Chairs Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA Program Chairs Jim Etheredge, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Bill Manaris, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Special Track Coordinator Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA Panels Coordinator Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Conference Administration and Registration Jean W. Gerber FLAIRS-2000 Special Track Chairs Artificial Intelligence Applied to Spacecraft Autonomy Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Artificial Intelligence in Instructional Software Lynne Hall, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK Gregory Hume, Valparaiso University, USA Knowledge Management Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA Neural Network Applications Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Spatiotemporal Reasoning Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand Uncertain Reasoning Simon Parsons, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Eugene Santos Jr., University of Connecticut, USA Verification, Validation, and System Certification Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany FLAIRS-2000 Program Committee Andreas Abecker, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany Robert M. Aiken, Temple University, USA Syed Ali, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA K. Suzanne Barber, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA Luca Bogoni, Sarnoff Corporation, USA Will Briggs, Lynchburg College, USA Alberto J. Cañas, The University of West Florida, USA Brian Carse, University of the West of England, England Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Meledath Damodaran, Indian Institute of Management, India Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA Matt Evett, Florida Atlantic University, USA Mark Fishman, Eckerd College, USA Kenneth M. Ford, The University of West Florida, USA Li Min Fu, University of Florida, USA James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin – Parkside, USA Sanda M. Harabagiu, Southern Methodist University , USA Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece Rattikorn Hewett, The University of West Florida, USA Henry Hexmoor, University of North Dakota Grand Forks, USA Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, USA Larry Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Gregory Hume, Valparaiso University, USA Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany Vincent Kovarik, Exigent International, USA Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA Deepak Kumar, Bryn Mawr College, USA David Leake, Indiana University, USA Christine L. Lisetti, University of South Florida, USA Raja Loganantharaj, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Fatma Mili, Oakland University, USA Debasis Mitra, Jackson State University, USA Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University, USA Frank W. Moore, Miami University, USA Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, USA Jorge L. Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Marcin Paprzycki, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA Rafael A. Perez, University of South Florida, USA Anthony Pipe, University of the West of England, UK Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA Ethan A. Scarl, Boeing Information, Space, and Defense Systems, USA Stephan Schulz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Gene Simmons, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA Kang Soo Tae, Jeonju University, Korea Costas Tsatsoulis, University of Kansas, USA Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi,Ltd., Japan M. Afzal Upal, Dalhousie University , Canada Steven Walczak, University of Colorado at Denver, USA Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA Neli Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University, USA FLAIRS-2000 Special Track Program Committees Artificial Intelligence Applied to Spacecraft Autonomy Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA (Chair) Bob Waggoner, Nichols Research Corporation, USA Jim Skinner, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA Artificial Intelligence in Instructional Software Lynne Hall, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK (Cochair) Gregory Hume, Valparaiso University, USA (Cochair) Ellen Bass, Search Technology, Inc., USA Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Reva Freedman, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michael Glass, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Adrian Gordon, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis, USA Sandra Katz, University of Pittsburgh, USA Joel Michael, Rush Medical College, USA Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, USA Knowledge Management Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, USA (Chair) David Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dinesh Batra, Florida International University, USA Alberto J. Cañas, University of West Florida, USA Michael Freeman, NASA-Ames Research Laboratory, USA Rajiv Sabherwal, Florida State University, USA Neural Network Applications Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA (Chair) Charles Anderson, Colorado State University, USA Jim Austin, University of York, England Okan Ersoy, Purdue University, USA Vijaya Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, USA Anand Ranagarajan, Yale University, USA C. N. Schizas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Spatiotemporal Reasoning Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand (Cochair) Joachim Hertzberg, GMD National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany (Cochair) Frank D. Anger, National Science Foundation, USA Lina Khatib, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, Universite Paris XI, France Robert A. Morris, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Uncertain Reasoning Simon Parsons, Queen Mary, University of London, UK (Co-Chair) Eugene Santos Jr., University of Connecticut, USA (Co-Chair) Bruce D’Ambrosio, Oregon State University, USA Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, USA Love Ekenberg, Stokholm University, Sweden Linda van der Gaag, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Anthony Hunter, University College, University of London, UK Paul Krause, Philips Research Laboratories, UK Anders Madsen, Hugin Expert A/S, Denmark Petri Myllymaki, University of Helsinki, Finland Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Marco Ramoni, Open University, UK Vladimir Ryabov, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Alessandro Saffiotti, University of Orebro, Sweden Solomon Shimony, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Paul Snow, Concord, USA Yang Xiang, University of Regina, Canada Verification, Validation, and System Certification Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany (Chair) Valerie Barr, Hofstra University, USA Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA Uma G. Gupta, Creighton University, USA Klaus P. Jantke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd., Germany Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi Ltd., Japan Neli P. Zlatareva, Central Connecticut University, USA