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Conference Organization
Florida AI Research Society Officers
President
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, FL
Vice President
Bill Manaris, University of Southwestern Louisiana, LA
Treasurer
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, FL
Secretary
Scott Goodwin, University of Regina, Canada
Conference Chair
Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL
1999 Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, FL
Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL
Program Chairs
Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJ
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, CT
Special Tracks Coordinator
Valerie Barr, Hofstra University, NY
Workshops Coordinator
Howard Hamilton, University of Regina, Canada
1999 Special Track Chairs
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Spacecraft Autonomy
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, NM
Evolutionary Computation
Matt Evett, Florida Atlantic University, FL
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Greg Hume, Valparaiso University, IN
Knowledge Management
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, FL
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Neural Network Applications
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, CT
Parallel and Distributed Reasoning
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Jorg Denzinger, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Reasoning About Function
Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy
Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJ
James McDowell, Mad Dog Composites Inc., MI
Spatiotemporal Reasoning
Hans Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Uncertain Reasoning
Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Simon Parsons, Queen Mary and Westfield College, United Kingdom
Verification, Validation, and Knowledge Base Refinement
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, FL
1999 Program Committee
Andreas Abecker, German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Germany
Robert Aiken, Temple University, PA
Syed Ali, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, WI
K. Suzanne Barber, University of Texas, TX
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, FL
Luca Bogoni, Sarnoff Laboratories, NJ
Randy Brasch, Lockheed Martin Information Systems, FL
Will Briggs, Lynchburg College, VA
Alberto Canas, University of West Florida, FL
Brian Carse, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
Diane J. Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
Meledath Damodaran, University of Houston–Victoria, TX
Douglas Dankel, University of Florida, FL
Peter Drewes, Silicon Graphics, FL
Tara Estlin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA
Mark Fishman, Eckerd College, FL
LiMin Fu, University of Florida, FL
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ
Bill Gerber, University of Central Florida, FL
Melinda Gervasio, Stanford University, CA
Piotr Gmystrasiewicz, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
Uma Gupta, Creighton University, NE
Lawrence O. Hall, University of South Florida, FL
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin, Parkside, WI
Sanda Harabagiu, Southern Methodist University, TX
Rattikorn Hewett, Florida Atlantic University, FL
Henry Hexmoor, University of North Dakota, ND
Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University, FL
Lawrence Holder, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
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Adele E. Howe, Colorado State University, CO
Lina Khatib, Florida Institute of Technology, FL
Rainer Knauf, University of Ilmenau, Germany
Vince Kovarik, Exigent International, FL
Deepak Kumar, Bryn Mawr College, PA
David Leake, Indiana University, IN
Christine L. Lisetti, University of South Florida, FL
Sushil Louis, University of Nevada, NV
Bill Manaris, University of Southwestern Louisiana, LA
Frank W. Moore, Miami University, OH
Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, CT
Robert Morris, Florida Institute of Technology, FL
Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jorge L. Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico—Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Rafael Perez, University of South Florida, FL
Anthony Pipe, University of the West of England, United Kingdom
S. I. Sayegh, University of Michigan, MI
Ethan Scarl, Boeing Defense and Space, NC
Takao Terano, Tsukuba University, Japan
Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi Systems Research Laboratory, Japan
Stanislav N. Vassilyev, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Steve Walczak, University of Colorado at Denver, CO
Scott Winterstein, University of Florida, FL
Ronald Yager, Iona College, NY
Neli Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University, CT
1999 Special Track Program Committees
Artificial Intelligence Applied to Spacecraft Autonomy
Paul Zetocha, Air Force Research Laboratory, NM (chair)
Lenore McMackin, Air Force Research Laboratory, NM
Jim Skinner, Nichols Research Corp, NM
Bob Waggoner, Nichols Research Corp, NM
James Ortiz, NASA/Johnson Space Center, TX
Evolutionary Computation
Matt Evett, Florida Atlantic University, FL (chair)
Tom Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, FL
Sean Luke, University of Maryland, MD
Lee Spector, Hampshire College, MA
Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Gregory Hume, Valparaiso University, IN (chair)
Ellen Bass, Search Technology, Inc., GA
Martha Evens, Illinois Institute of Technology, IL
Reva Freedman, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis, TN
Sandra Katz, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Joel Michael, Rush Medical College, IL
Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, CT
Knowledge Management
Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, FL (chair)
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Dinesh Batra, Florida International University, FL
Alberto J. Canas, University of West Florida, FL
Michael Freeman, NASA-Ames Research Laboratory, CA
Harold Gubnitsky, Cambridge Technology Partners, FL
Mark A. Jones, Andersen Consulting, IL
Rajiv Sabherwal, Florida International University, FL
Neural Network Applications
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, CT (chair)
Charles Anderson, Colorado State University, CO
Jim Austin, University of York, York, England
Okan Ersoy, Purdue University, IN
Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida, FL
Vijay Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University, PA
Lisa Meeden, Swarthmore College, PA
Anand Rangarajan, Yale University, CT
Harold Szu, University of Southwestern Louisiana, LA
C. N. Schizas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Parallel and Distributed Reasoning
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada (chair)
Jöerg Denzinger, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany (chair)
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
Bertram Fronhöefer, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Yasuhiko Kitamura, University of Osaka, Japan
Wolfgang Küechlin, University of Tuebingen, Germany
William McCune, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Geoff Sutcliffe, James Cook University, Australia
Makoto Yokoo, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan
Carsten Sinz, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Andreas Wolf, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Bernd Fischer, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Ingo Dahn, Humboldt University, Germany
Reasoning About Function
Ameen Abu-Hanna, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Luca Bogoni, Sarnoff Laboratories, NJ
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University, OH
Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy (chair)
Amruth Kumar, Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJ (chair)
James McDowell, Mad Dog Composites Inc., MI (chair)
Chris Price, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Roberto Ranon, University of Udine, Italy
Yasushi Umeda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Spatiotemporal Reasoning
Hans Guesgen, University of Auckland, New Zealand (chair)
Frank D. Anger, NSF and University of West Florida, FL
Debasis Mitra, Jackson State University, MI
Rita V. Rodriguez, University of West Florida, FL
Jochen Albrecht, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Joachim Hertzberg, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Germany
Frank Schoenherr, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Germany
Driss Kettani, Canadian Department of National Defense, Canada
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Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada
Uncertain Reasoning
Simon Parsons, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom (chair)
Eric Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan, Canada (chair)
Rachel Bourne, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, United Kingdom
Henry Kyburg, University of Rochester, NY
Petri Myllymaki, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yang Xiang, University of Regina, Canada
Linda van der Gaag, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Love Ekenberg, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
Choh Man Teng
Paul Snow, Concord, NH
Marek Druzdzel, University of Pittsburgh, PA
Robert Goldman, Honeywell Research, MI
Anthony Hunter, University College, University of London, United Kingdom
Paul Krause, Phillips Research Labratories, United Kingdom
Marco Ramoni, Open University, United Kingdom
Alessandro Saffiotti, University of Orebro, Sweden
Verification, Validation, and Knowledge Base Refinement
Rainer Knauf, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany (chair)
Avelino Gonzalez, University of Central Florida, FL (chair)
Takao Terano, The University of Tsukuba, Japan
Uma P. Gupta, Creighton University, NE
Neli P. Zlatareva, Central Connecticut State University, CT
Setsuo Tsuruta, Hitachi Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan