From: FLAIRS-01 Proceedings. Copyright © 2001, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.
FLAIRS 2001
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-2001 Organizing Committee
General Chair
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA
Program Chairs
John Kolen University of West Florida, USA
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
Special Track Coordinator
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
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Panels Coordinator
John Kolen, University of West Florida
Conference Administration and Registration
Jean W. Gerber
FLAIRS-2001 Special Track Chairs
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University
ArtificiaI Intelligence Education
Gene Simmons, University of Southern Mississippi
Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory
Case-Based Reasoning
Rosina Weber, Naval Research Laboratory
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Klaus P. Jantke, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University
Neural Network and Fuzzy Systems Applications
Anthony Pipe and Brian Carse, University of West of England
Niche Autonomous Robots
Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire
Spatiotemporal Reasoning
Hans Guesgen, University of Auckland
Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine
Uncertain Reasoning
Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut
Yang Xiang, University of Guelph, Ontario
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Verification, Validation, and System Certification
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau
FLAIRS-2001 Program Committee
Robert Aiken, Temple University
Syed S. Ali, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
K. Suzanne Barber, University of Texas
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University
Kevin Bowyer, University of South Florida
Will Briggs, University of North Texas
Alberto Cañas, University of West Florida
Brian Carse, University of the West of England
Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Meledath Damodaran, Universiiy of Houston-Victoria
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida
Andrea Danyluk, Williams College
Tara Estlin, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jim Etheredge, University of Louisiana
Mark Fishman, Eckerd College
Kenneth Ford, UWF – Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
LiMin Fu, University of Florida
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Melinda Gervasio, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
Piotr Gmystrasiewicz, University of Texas at Arlington
Lawrence O. Hall, University of South Florida
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin – Parkside
Howard Hamilton, University of Regina
Sandra Harabagiu, SRI International
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras
Rattikorn Hewett, Florida Atlantic University
Henry Hexmoor, University of North Dakota
Fred Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University
Larry Holder, University of Texas at Arlington
Adele E. Howe, Colorado State University
Tim Huang, Middlebury College
Gregory Hume, Valparaiso University
Lina Khatib, Florida Institute of Technology
Rainer Knauf, University of Ilmenau
Vincent Kovarik, Exigent International
Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey
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Deepak Kumar, Bryn Mawr College
David Leake, Indiana University
Christine L. Lisetti, Stanford University
Sushil Louis, University of Nevada
George Luger, University of New Mexico
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston
Fatma Mili, Oakland University
Debasis Mitra, Jackson State University
Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University
Ralph Morelli, Trinity College
Frank W. Moore, Miami University
Bob Morris, Florida Institute of Technology
Robin Murphy, Colorado School of Mines
Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan
Jorge Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
Marcin Paprzycki, University of Southern Mississippi
Rafael Perez, University of South Florida
Anthony Pipe, University of the West of England
S. I. Sayegh, University of Michigan
Ethan Scarl, Boeing Defense and Space
Stephan Schulz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Gene Simmons, University of Southern Mississippi
Kang Soo Tae, Jeonju University
Takao Terano, Tsukubu University
Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Costas Tsatsoulis, ITTC
Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi Systems Research Laboratory
Muhammad Afzal Upal, Dalhousie University
Stanislav N. Vassilyev, Russian Academy of Sciences
Patrick Wang, Northeastern University and Harvard University
Scott Winterstein, University of Florida
Ronald Yager, Iona College
Neli Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University
FLAIRS-2001 Special Track Program Committees
Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University (chair)
David Aha, Naval Research Lab
Dinesh Batra, Florida International University
Alberto J. Cañas, University of West Florida
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Michael Freeman, NASA-Ames Research Laboratory
Rajiv Sabherwal, Florida State University
Rosina Weber, University of Wyoming and NCARAI-NRL
Artificial Intelligence Education
Gene Simmons, University of Southern Mississippi–Gulf Coast (chair)
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford
Michael Doran, University of South Alabama
Artificial Intelligence in Aerospace
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory (chair)
Cheryl Resch, The Johns Hopkins University
Pat Cappelaere, Interface and Control Systems
Michael Ricard, C.S. Draper Laboratory
Stephan Kolitz, C.S. Draper Laboratory
Mark Hanson, Charles River Analytics
Jim Steck, Wichita State University
Murray Anderson, Sverdrup Corporation
Derek Surka, Princeton Satellite Systems
K. Krishna Kumar, University of Alabama
Lorraine Fesq, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bob Savely, NASA/JSC
Bowen Loften, University of Houston
Walt Truszkowski, NASA/GSFC
Case-Based Reasoning
Rosina Weber, University of Wyoming/NCARAI-NRL (chair)
David W. Aha, NCARAI-NRL
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University
L. Karl Branting, University of Wyoming
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, CSIC
Hector Munoz-Avila, University of Maryland/NCARAI-NRL
Leonardo Oliveira, UFRGS–Brazil
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin
Ian Watson, University of Auckland
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Klaus P. Jantke, DFKI Ltd., Saarbrücken (chair)
Setsuo Arikawa, Kyushu University
John Case, University of Delaware
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington
Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Peter A. Flach, University of Bristol
Heikki Mannila, Nokia Ltd.
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Jorge C. G. Ramirez, Intelligent Technologies Corporation
Takeshi Shinohara, Kyushu Institute of Technology
Jason Tsong-Li Wang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stefan Wrobel, University of Magdeburg
Thomas Zeugmann, Medical University at Lübeck
Machine Learning
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University (chair)
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Altay Güvenir, Bilkent University
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas
Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington
Igor Kononenko, University of Ljubljana
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University
Gerhard Widmer, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Neural Network and Fuzzy Systems Applications
Brian Carse, University of the West of England (cochair)
Tony Pipe, University of the West of England (cochair)
Charles Anderson, Colorado State University
Jim Austin, University of York
Oscar Cordon, University of Granada
Serge Dolenko, Moscow State University
Okan Ersoy, Purdue University
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
Vijaya Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University
Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College
Bernhard Sendhoff, Honda Research and Development Europe Offenbach/Main
C. N. Schizas, University of Cyprus
Niche Autonomous Robots
Andrew L. Kun, University of New Hampshire (chair)
Minoru Asada, Osaka University
Joanna Bryson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Henrik I. Christensen, Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan
Henry Hexmoor, University of North Dakota
Lisa A. Meeden, Swarthmore College
Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon University
Alan C. Schultz, Naval Research Laboratory
Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield
Brian Yamauchi, iRobot Corporation
Spatiotemporal Reasoning
Hans Guesgen, University of Auckland (cochair)
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Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine (cochair)
Frank Anger, National Science Foundation
Thomas Bittner, University of Laval
Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds
Christian Freksa, Hamburg University
Patrick Hayes, University of West Florida
Lina Khatib, NASA Ames Research Center
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin
Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI and Universite Paris XI
Robert Morris, NASA Ames Research Center
Corinne Plazanet, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Jayant Sharma, Oracle Corporation
Michael Worboys, Keele University
Uncertain Reasoning
Eugene Santos Jr., University of Connecticut (cochair)
Yang Xiang, University of Guelph, Ontario (cochair)
Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh
Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University and KTH
Shaw Green, University of London
Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan
Andy Novobilski, University of Texas at Arlington
Simon D. Parsons, University of Liverpool
Silja Renooij, Utrecht University
Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Linda van der Gaag, Utrecht University
Hakan Younes, Carnegie Mellon University
Verification, Validation, and System Certification
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida (cochair)
Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University (cochair)
Valerie Barr, Hofstra University
Ilka Philippow, Ilmenau Technical University
Werner Stephan, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ltd.
Takao Terano, University of Tsukuba
Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
Neli P. Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University
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