FLORIDA AI RESEARCH SOCIETY
OFFICERS
President
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA
Vice President
John Kolen, University of West Florida, USA
Treasurer
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA
Secretary
Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada
FLAIRS-2003 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, USA
Program Chairs
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, USA
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
Special Tracks Coordinator
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
Conference Administration and Registration
Jean W. Gerber
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FLAIRS-2003 SPECIAL TRACK CHAIRS
AI IN AEROSPACE
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
AI IN MEDICINE
Andy Novobilski, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
CASE-BASED REASONING
Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA
COMPUTING WITH EMOTIONS IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Sherlock Au, Hongkong Polytechnic University, China
N. Paramesh, University of New South Wales, Australia
CONSTRAINT SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING
Stefano Bistarelli, C.N.R., Italy
Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland
EVALUATION OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, USA
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras and RACTI, Greece
Basilis P. Boutsinas, University of Patras and UPAIRC, Greece
INTEGRATING EMOTION AND COGNITION IN FORMAL MODELS
Colette Faucher, EPUM-LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille III, France
KNOWLEDGE-BASED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Randy M Kaplan, Drexel University, USA
Rosina O. Weber, Drexel University, USA
MACHINE LEARNING
Zdravko I. Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA
NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
Brian Carse, University of West of England, UK
Anthony Pipe, University of West of England, UK
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Roxana Girju, Baylor University, USA
Dan Moldovan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
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SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING
Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
UNCERTAIN REASONING
Salem Benferhat, Université d’Artois, France
Choh Man Teng, University of West Florida, USA
FLAIRS 2003 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Will Briggs, Lynchburg College, USA
Grazia Cicirelli, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione, Italy
William Clancey, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Doug Dankel, University of Florida, USA
Karen Davis, University of Cincinnati, USA
John Deaton, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
John Debenham, University of Technology, Australia
Georgios Demetriou, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Michael Doran, University of South Alabama, USA
Eman El-Sheikh, University of West Florida, USA
Tom Eskridge, University of West Florida, USA
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA, France
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK
Christina Frederick-Recascino, Embry-Riddle Aeronuatical University, USA
Reva Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida, USA
Roxana Girju, Baylor University, USA
Michael Glass, Valparaiso University, USA
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada
Hyoil Han, Drexel University, USA
Siegfried Handschuh, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Charles Hannon, Texas Christian University, USA
Eric Hansen, Mississippi State University, USA
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
Rattikorn Hewett, University of West Florida, USA
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas, USA
Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Ian Horrocks, Univeristy of Manchester, UK
Manfred Huber, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Istvan Jonyer, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Driss Kettani, Alakhwayn University, Morocco
Michel Klein, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
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Vincent Kovarik, Harris Corporation, USA
Christian Kray, University of Saarland, Germany
Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA
Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA
Nick Lacey, University of Arkansas, USA
David Leake, Indiana University, USA
Yugyung Lee, University of Missouri, USA
Ruddy Lelouche, Laval University, Canada
Chun-wai Liew, Lafayette College, USA
Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI, University of Paris-Sud, France
Christine Lisetti, University of Central Florida, USA
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
George Meghabghab, Roane State, USA
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA
Fatma Mili, Oakland University, USA
Frank Moore, Miami University, USA
Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
George Nasr, Lebanese American University, USA
Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA
Nandan Paramesh, University of New South Wales, Australia
Simon Parsons, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
Marius Pasca, Language Computer Corporation, USA
Dimitri Plexousakis, FORTH, USA
Jim Prentzas, University of Patras, Greece
Silja Renooij, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Robert Reynolds, Wayne State University, USA
Carlos Ribeiro, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil
Vasile Rus, Language Computer Corporation, USA
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA
Vladimir Ryabov, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Roberto Santana, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics, Cuba
Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut, USA
Eunice Santos, Virgnia Polytechnic Institute & State University, USA
Stephan Schulz, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Gene Simmons, University of South Alabama, USA
Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Univeristeit, The Netherlands
Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, USA
Wai Sum Tang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Choh Man Teng, University of West Florida, USA
Takao Terano, Tsukuba University, Japan
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, USA
Stanislav Vassilyev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dennis Vincenzi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Ubbo Visser, University of Bremen, Germany
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
Tony White, Carleton University, Canada
John Wise, Honeywell International, USA
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SPECIAL TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEES
AI IN AEROSPACE
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory (chair)
Ella M. Atkins, University of Maryland
Mark L. Hanson, Charles River Analytics, Inc
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas
Stephan Kolitz, C. S. Draper Laboratory
Vincent Kovarik, Harris Corporation
Kalmanje Krishnakumar, NASA Ames Research Center
Frank Moore, Miami University
Michael J. Ricard, C. S. Draper Laboratory
James O. Ross, L-3 Communications Integrated Systems
Robert (Bob) T. Savely, NASA/Johnson Space Center
James E. Steck, Wichita State University
Derek M. Surka, AI Solutions
Walt F. Truszkowski, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
AI IN MEDICINE
Andrew Novobilski, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chair)
Constantin F. Aliferis, Vanderbilt University
Edward P. Hill, Private Practice
Peter Lucas, Institute for Computer and Information Sciences
Lawrence G. Miller, University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Gilbert L. Peterson, Air Force Institute of Technology
Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut
K. Thornton, University of Durham
Frank Tobin, GlaxoSmithKline
CASE-BASED REASONING
Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University (Chair)
David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Pedro Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh
Belen Diaz-Agudo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Raimund Feldmann, Kaiserslautern University of Technology
A. Gonzalez-Calero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, UNIVALI
Harald Holz, University of Kaiserslautern
Jochem Huellen, University of Kaiserslautern
Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin
Eric Ras, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Jörg Rech, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Sascha H. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin
Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University
Armin Stahl, University of Kaiserslautern
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R. O. Weber, Drexel University
Torsten Willrich, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
David C. Wilson, University College Dublin
COMPUTING WITH EMOTIONS IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS
Sherlock Au, Hongkong Polytechnic University (cochair)
N. Paramesh, University of New South Wales (cochair)
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas
Matthias J. Scheutz, University of Notre Dame
CONSTRAINT SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING
Stefano Bistarelli, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (cochair)
Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork (cochair)
Christian Bessiere, LIRMM-CNRS
Philippe Codognet, University of Paris
Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Helene Fargier, IRIT-CNRS
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm
Carmen Gervet, IC-Parc, Imperial College
Javier Larrosa, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Barry O’Sullivan, University College Cork
Georg Ringwelski, Fraunhofer FIRST
Francesca Rossi, University of Padova
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Florida Institute of Technology
Mark G. Wallace, IC-Parc, Imperial College
Toby Walsh, University College Cork
EVALUATION OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Avelino J. Gonzalez, University of Central Florida (cochair)
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau (cochair)
Silvie Spreuuwenberg, LibRT B.V.
Takao Terano, Tsukuba University
Setsuo Tsuruta, Tokyo Denki University
Valerie B. Barr, Hofstra University
Neli P. Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University
INTEGRATED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras and RACTI (cochair)
Basilis P Boutsinas, University of Patras and UPAIRC (cochair)
Nikolaos M. Avouris, University of Patras
Lourdes M. Brasil, Catholic University of Brasília
Artur S Garcez, City University
Melanie Hilario, University of Geneva
Steffen Hoelldobler, Technische Universitaet Dresden
Elpida Keravnou, University of Cyprus
Amedeo Napoli, LORIA
Detlef D. Nauck, BTexact Technologies
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Ciprian-Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford
Vasile Palade, Oxford University
Han Reichgelt, Georgia Southern University
Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University
INTEGRATING EMOTION AND COGNITION IN FORMAL MODELS
Colette Faucher, EPUM-LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille III (cochair)
Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates, Inc. (cochair)
Christine L. Lisetti, University of Central Florida (cochair)
Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire
Jeffrey Cohn, University of Pittsburgh
Gary W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego
Jean-Marc Fellous, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Arvid Kappas, University of Hull
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, University of Hertfordshire
Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University
Craig A. Smith, Vanderbilt University
Piotr Winkielman, University of Denver
KNOWLEDGE-BASED KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Randy M. Kaplan, Drexel University (cochair)
Rosina O. Weber, Drexel University (cochair)
K.-D. Althoff, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University
C. Gresse von Wangenheim, UNIVALI
Udo Hahn, CLIF Text Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
Randy M. Kaplan, Drexel University
David Leake, Indiana University
Frank O. Maurer, University of Calgary
K. Thornton, Durham University
Eric Y. Tsui, Computer Sciences Corporation & Hong Kong Polytechnic University
MACHINE LEARNING
Zdravko I. Markov, Central Connecticut State University (chair)
Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Halil A. Guvenir, Bilkent University
Henry Hexmoor, University of Arkansas
L. B. Holder, University of Texas at Arlington
Miroslav Kubat, University of Miami
Marko Robnik Sikonja, University of Ljubljana
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University
Gerhard Widmer, University of Vienna
NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford (cochair)
Brian Carse, University of West of England (cochair)
Anthony Pipe, University of West of England (cochair)
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Jim Austin, University of York
Oscar Cordon, University of Granada
Serge Dolenko, Nuclear Physics Institute, Moscow State University
Francisco Herrera, University of Granada
Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College
Okan Orsay, Purdue University
C.N. Schizas, University of Cyprus
Bernhard Sendhoff, Honda Research and Development Europe
RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Roxana Girju, Baylor University (cochair)
Dan Moldovan, University of Texas at Dallas (cochair)
Adrian C. Atanasiu, University of Texas
Peter E. Clark, The Boeing Company
Dan Cristea, University of Iasi
Udo Hahn, CLIF Text Knowledge Engineering Laboratory
Sanda M. Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas
Nancy M. Ide, Vassar College
Christopher S. Khoo, Nanyang Technological University
Chin-Yew Lin, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Paola Merlo, University of Geneva
Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma Tor Vergata
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany
Stefan B. Trausan-Matu, Politechnic University Bucharest
Dan I. Tufis, Romanian Academy Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
Takashi Yukawa, Naqaoka University of Technology
SPATIOTEMPORAL REASONING
Hans W. Guesgen, University of Auckland (chair)
Thomas Bittner, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science
Christian Freksa, Universität Bremen
Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine
Lina Khatib, Kestrel/NASA Ames Research Center
Christian Kray, University of Saarland
Gerard F. Ligozat, LIMSI, University of Paris-Sud
Debasis Mitra, Florida Institute of Technology
Michael F. Worboys, University of Maine
UNCERTAIN REASONING
Salem Benferhat, Université d’Artois (cochair)
Choh Man Teng, University of West Florida (cochair)
Cory J. Butz, University of Regina
David K. Chiu, University of Guelph
Gert de Cooman, Ghent University
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Fabio G. Cozman, University of Sao Paulo
Marek J. Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh
Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University and KTH
Christopher W. Geib, Honeywell Research
Michael C. Horsch, University of Saskatchewan
Timothy T. Huang, Middlebury College
Henry E. Kyburg, University of Rochester
Isaac Levi, Columbia University
Weiru Liu, University of Ulster
Anders L. Madsen, Hugin Expert A/S
Serafin Moral, Universidad de Granada
Eric M. Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan
A. Novobilski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Kristian G. Olesen, Aalborg University
Eugene Santos, University of Connecticut
Solomon E. Shimony, Ben-Gurion University
Paul Snow, University of New Hampshire
Yang Xiang, University of Guelph
Hakan Younes, Carnegie Mellon University
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