List of contents of the Proceedings of the

14'th AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997 (AAAI-97)


c-aaai-97-Allen
James F. Allen:
AI Growing Up: The Changes and Opportunities.

c-aaai-97-Amant
Robert St. Amant:
A Mixed Initiative Planner for User Interface Management.

c-aaai-97-Ambite
Jose Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock:
Planning by Rewriting: Efficiently Generating High-Quality Plans.

c-aaai-97-Antoniou
Grigoris Antoniou:
A Comparison of Two Approaches to Splitting Default Theories.

c-aaai-97-Arkin
Ronald C. Arkin and R. James Firby:
The AAAI-97 Mobile Robot Competition: Martians, Remotes, Hors d'ouevres, and Cleaning up the Mess Afterwards.

c-aaai-97-Atkins
Ella M. Atkins, Edmund H. Durfee, and Kang G. Shin:
Detecting and Reacting to Unplanned-for World States.

c-aaai-97-Bacchus
Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier, and Adam Grove:
Structured Solution Methods for Non-Markovian Decision Processes.

c-aaai-97-Bagga
Amit Bagga, Joyce Yue Chai, and Alan W. Biermann:
The Role of WordNet in the Creation of a Trainable Message.

c-aaai-97-Barbuceanu
Mihai Barbuceanu:
Coordinating Agents by Role Based Social Constraints and Conversation Plans.

c-aaai-97-Bares
William H. Bares and James C. Lester:
Realtime Generation of Customized 3D Animated Explanations for Knowledge-Based Learning Environments.

c-aaai-97-Barr
Valerie B. Barr:
Applications of Rule-Base Coverage Measures to Expert System Evaluation.

c-aaai-97-Bayardo
Roberto J. Bayardo and Robert Schrag:
Using CSP Look-Back Techniques to Solve Real-World SAT Instances.

c-aaai-97-Beale
Stephen Beale:
Using Branch-and-Bound with Constraint Satisfaction in Optimization Problems.

c-aaai-97-Beck-1
Christopher J. Beck, Andrew J. Davenport, Edward M. Sitarski, and Mark S. Fox:
Texture-Based Heuristics for Scheduling Revisited.

c-aaai-97-Beck-2
Christopher J. Beck, Andrew J. Davenport, Edward M. Sitarski, and Mark S. Fox:
Beyond Contention: Extending Texture-Based Scheduling Heuristics.

c-aaai-97-Bekey
George Bekey:
Embodied Intelligent Agents: Issues and Trends in Robotics.

c-aaai-97-Benferhat
Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, and Henri Prade:
Possibilistic and Standard Probabilistic Semantics Of Conditional Knowledge.

c-aaai-97-Bhatnagar
Raj Bhatnagar and Sriram Srinivasan:
Pattern Discovery in Distributed Databases.

c-aaai-97-Blythe
Jim S. Blythe and Manuela M. Veloso:
Analogical Replay for Efficient Conditional Planning.

c-aaai-97-Bonasso
R. Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp, and Troy Whitney:
Using a Robot Control Architecture to Automate Space Shuttle Operations.

c-aaai-97-Bonet
Blai Bonet, Gabor Loerincs, and Hector Geffner:
A Robust and Fast Action Selection Mechanisn for Planning.

c-aaai-97-Bonzon
Pierre E. Bonzon:
A Reflective Proof System For Reasoning In Contexts.

c-aaai-97-Brafman-1
Ronen I. Brafman:
A Heuristic Variable Grid Solution Method for POMDPs.

c-aaai-97-Brafman-2
Ronen I. Brafman and Moshe Tennenholtz:
On the Axiomatization of Qualitative Decision Criteria.

c-aaai-97-Brand
Matthew E. Brand:
The "Inverse Hollywood Problem:" From video to scripts and storyboards via causal analysis.

c-aaai-97-Butz
Andreas Butz:
Anymation with CATHI.

c-aaai-97-Bylander-1
Tom Bylander:
Worst-Case Absolute Loss Bounds for Linear Learning Algorithms.

c-aaai-97-Bylander-2
Tom Bylander:
A Linear Programming Heuristic for Optimal Planning.

c-aaai-97-Cha
Byungki Cha, Kazuo Iwama, Yahiko Kambayashi, and Shuichi Miyazaki:
Local Search Algorithms for Partial MAXSAT.

c-aaai-97-Charniak
Eugene Charniak:
Statistical Parsing with a Context-free Grammar and Word Statistics.

c-aaai-97-Chien
S. Chien, A. Govindjee, T. Estlin, X. Wang, and Randall W. Hill Jr.:
Automated Generation of Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas.

c-aaai-97-Clancy-1
Daniel J. Clancy and Benjamin Kuipers:
Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Agorithm.

c-aaai-97-Clancy-2
Daniel J. Clancy and Benjamin Kuipers:
Static and Dynamic Abstraction Solves the Problem of Chatter in Qualitative Simulation.

c-aaai-97-Clark
Peter Clark and Bruce Porter:
Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components.

c-aaai-97-Coen
Michael H. Coen:
Building Brains for Rooms: Designing Distributed Software Agents.

c-aaai-97-Cohen-1
William W. Cohen and Daniel Kudenko:
Transferring and Retraining Learned Information Filters.

c-aaai-97-Cohen-2
Philip R. Cohen, Michael Johnston, David McGee, Jay Pittman, David E. Smith, Liang Chen, and Josh Clow:
Mulitmodal Interaction for Distributed Interactive Simulation.

c-aaai-97-Cook
Diane J. Cook and R. C. Varnell:
Maximizing the Benefits of Parallel Search Using Machine Learning.

c-aaai-97-Costello
Tom Costello:
Beyond Minimizing Change.

c-aaai-97-Darwiche
Adnan Y. Darwiche and Gregory M. Provan:
The Effect Of Observations On The Complexity Of Model-Based Diagnosis.

c-aaai-97-Datta
Piew Datta and Dennis Kibler:
Symbolic Nearest Mean Classifiers.

c-aaai-97-Dev
Narendra Dev and Bart Anderson:
PIMTOOL, An Expert System to Troubleshoot Computer Hardware Failures.

c-aaai-97-Dodds
Zachary Dodds and Gregory D. Hager:
A Color Interest Operator for Landmark-based Navigation.

c-aaai-97-Doyle
Richard J. Doyle:
The Emergence of Spacecraft Autonomy.

c-aaai-97-Duschka
Oliver M. Duschka:
Query Optimization Using Local Completeness.

c-aaai-97-Etherington
David Etherington:
What Does KR Have to Say to AI?.

c-aaai-97-Farquhar
Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, and James Rice:
Tools For Assembling Modular Ontologies In Ontolingua.

c-aaai-97-Freuder
Eugene C. Freuder and Daniel Sabin:
Interchangeability Supports Abstraction and Reformulation for Multi-Dimensional Constraint Satisfaction.

c-aaai-97-Frost
Daniel Frost, Irina Rish, and Lluís Vila:
Summarizing CSP Hardness With Continuous Probability Distributions.

c-aaai-97-Fuernkranz
Johannes Fuernkranz:
More Efficient Windowing.

c-aaai-97-Fukunaga
Alex S. Fukunaga:
Variable-Selection Heuristics in Local Search for Satisfiability Testing.

c-aaai-97-Garcia
Ana Christina Bicharra Garcia, Joper Cezar de Andrade, Rogerio Ferreira, and Ricardo de Moura:
ADDVAC: Applying Active Design Documents for the Capture, Retrieval and Use of Rationale During Offshore Platform VAC Design.

c-aaai-97-Gaur
Daya Ram Gaur, W. Ken Jackson, and William S. Havens:
Detecting Unsatisfiable CSPs by Coloring the Micro-Structure.

c-aaai-97-Getoor
Lise Getoor, Greger Ottosson, Markus Fromherz, and Bjorn Carlson:
Effective Redundant Constraints for Online Scheduling.

c-aaai-97-Gil
Yolanda Gil and Marcelo Tallis:
A Script-Based Approach to Modifying Knowledge Bases.

c-aaai-97-Givan
Robert L. Givan:
Obvious Properties of Computer Programs.

c-aaai-97-Glasgow
Barry Glasgow, Alan Mandell, Dan Binney, Lila Ghemri, and Michael Fisher:
MITA: An Information Extraction Approach to Analysis of Free-form Text in Life Insurance Applications.

c-aaai-97-Goldberg
Dani Goldberg and Maja J. Mataric:
Interference as a Tool for Designing and Evaluating Multi-Robot Controllers.

c-aaai-97-Goldman
Robert P. Goldman, David J. Musliner, Kurt D. Krebsbach, and Mark S. Boddy:
Dynamic Abstraction Planning.

c-aaai-97-Gomes
Carla P. Gomes and Bart Selman:
Solution Space of Structured Problems in the Presence of Perturbations.

c-aaai-97-Harada
Daishi Harada:
Reinforcement Learning with Time.

c-aaai-97-Hauskrecht
Milos Hauskrecht:
Incremental Methods for Computing Bounds in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes.

c-aaai-97-Hildum
David W. Hildum, Norman M. Sadeh, Thomas J. Laliberty, John McA'Nulty, Stephen F. Smith, and Dag Kjenstad:
A Blackboard-Based Architecture for Supporting Mixed-Initiative Management of Integrated Problem-Solving Tasks.

c-aaai-97-Hill
Randall W. Hill Jr., Johnny Chen, Jonathan Gratch, Paul Rosenbloom, and Milind Tambe:
Intelligent Agents for the Synthetic Battlefield: A Company of Rotary Wing Aircraft.

c-aaai-97-Hirsh-1
Haym Hirsh and Daniel Kudenko:
Representing Sequences in Description Logics.

c-aaai-97-Hirsh-2
Haym Hirsh, Nina Mishra, and Leonard Pitt:
Version Spaces Without Boundary Sets.

c-aaai-97-Hogg
Tad Hogg:
Exploiting the Deep Structure of Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Quantum Computers.

c-aaai-97-Holowczak
Richard D. Holowczak and Nabil R. Adam:
Information Extraction based Multiple-Category Document Classification for the Global Legal Information Network.

c-aaai-97-Horvitz-1
Eric Horvitz:
Models of Continual Computation.

c-aaai-97-Horvitz-2
Eric Horvitz:
Advances in Uncertain Reasoning.

c-aaai-97-Hsu
Jane Y. Hsu and Wen-tau Yih:
Template-Based Information Mining from HTML Documents.

c-aaai-97-Ioerger
Thomas R. Ioerger:
Integrating a Spatial Reasoner with a Resolution Theorem-Prover.

c-aaai-97-Joslin
David E. Joslin and Amitabha Roy:
Exploiting Symmetry in Lifted CSPs.

c-aaai-97-Klassner
Frank Klassner, Victor Lesser, and Hamid Nawab:
Combining Approximate Front End Signal Processing with Selective Reprocessing in Auditory Perception.

c-aaai-97-Klein
William B. Klein, Carl R. Stern, George F. Luger, and Eric T. Olsson:
An Intelligent Control Architecture for Accelerator Beamline Tuning.

c-aaai-97-Koller-1
Daphne Koller, Alon Levy, and Avi Pfeffer:
P-Classic: A Tractable Probablistic Description Logic.

c-aaai-97-Koller-2
Daphne Koller, David McAllester, and Avi Pfeffer:
Effective Bayesian Inference for Stochastic Programs.

c-aaai-97-Korf
Richard E. Korf:
Finding Optimal Solutions to Rubik's Cube using Memory-Based Heuristics.

c-aaai-97-Kufrin
Richard Kufrin:
Generating C4.5 Production Rules In Parallel.

c-aaai-97-Kuvayev
Leonid Kuvayev, C. L. Giles, Henry Cejtin, and James F. Philbin:
Intelligent Methods for File System Optimization.

c-aaai-97-Lawrence-1
Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, and Ah Chung Tsoi:
Lessons in Neural Network Training: Overfitting May Be Harder Than Expected.

c-aaai-97-Lawrence-2
Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles:
Presenting and Analyzing the Results of AI Experiments: Data Averaging and Data Snooping.

c-aaai-97-Leake
David B. Leake, Andrew Kinley, and David Wilson:
Case-Based Similarity Assessment: Estimating Adaptability from Experience.

c-aaai-97-Liere
Ray Liere and Prasad Tadepalli:
Active Learning with Committees for Text Categorization.

c-aaai-97-Littman
Michael L. Littman:
Probabilistic Propositional Planning: Representations and Complexity.

c-aaai-97-Lobo
Jorge Lobo, Gisela Mendez, and Stuart R. Taylor:
Adding Knowledge to the Action Description Language A.

c-aaai-97-Maclin
Richard Maclin and David Opitz:
An Empirical Evaluation of Bagging and Boosting.

c-aaai-97-Mani
Inderjeet Mani and Eric Bloedorn:
Multi-document Summarization by Graph Search and Matching.

c-aaai-97-Marcu
Daniel Marcu:
From local to Global Coherence: A Bottom-Up Approach to Text Planning.

c-aaai-97-Marmorstein
Howard Marmorstein, Jayesh Ghia, Sandeep Sathaye, Akshay Gupta, and Eva Baron-Vartian:
PST: The Provider Selection Tool.

c-aaai-97-Mataric
Maja J. Mataric:
Using Communication to Reduce Locality in Multi-Robot Learning.

c-aaai-97-Mazure
B. Mazure, L. Sais, and E. Gregoire:
Tabu Search for SAT.

c-aaai-97-McAllester
David McAllester, Bart Selman, and Henry Kautz:
Three Principles of Local Search.

c-aaai-97-McCain
Norman McCain and Hudson Turner:
Causal Theories of Action and Change.

c-aaai-97-McCray
Alexa T. McCray:
Taming the Jabberwock.

c-aaai-97-McDonald
David W. McDonald, Charles O. Pepe, Henry M. Bowers, and Edward J. Dombroski:
Desktop Underwriter: Fannie Mae's Automated Mortgage Underwriting Expert System.

c-aaai-97-McIlraith
Sheila A. McIlraith:
Representing Actions and State Constraints in Model-Based Diagnosis.

c-aaai-97-Meisels
Amnon Meisels, Solomon Eyal Shimony, and Gadi Solotorevsky:
Bayes Networks for Estimating the Number of Solutions to a CSP.

c-aaai-97-Miller
David P. Miller, Anne Wright, Randy Sargent, Rob Cohen, and Teresa Hunt:
Attitude and Position Control Using Real-Time Color Tracking.

c-aaai-97-Mitchell
Steven W. Mitchell:
A Hybrid Architecture for Real-Time Mixed Initiative Planning and Control.

c-aaai-97-Mittal
Vibhu O. Mittal:
Visual Prompts and Graphical Design: A Framework for Analyzing Information Conveyed by 2-D Charts and Graphs.

c-aaai-97-Montemerlo
Mel Montemerlo:
Prospects, Trends and Issues In Government Support of AI: Views of the Funding Agencies Organizer: .

c-aaai-97-Moon
Charles D. Moon, Thomas A. Shore, Gary Brophy, and Dennis Koski:
Design of High Performance Help Desk Application and Its Implementation Results.

c-aaai-97-Mosterman
Pieter J. Mosterman:
Monitoring, Prediction, and Fault Isolation in Dynamic Physical Systems.

c-aaai-97-Mostow-1
Jack Mostow and Gregory S. Aist:
The Sounds of Silence: Towards Automated Evaluation of Student Learning in a Reading Tutor that Listens.

c-aaai-97-Mostow-2
Jack Mostow:
AI in Education.

c-aaai-97-Myers
Karen L. Myers:
Abductive Refinement of Plan Sketches.

c-aaai-97-Nayak
P. Pandurang Nayak and Brian C. Williams:
Fast Context Switching in Real-time Propositional Reasoning.

c-aaai-97-Oddi
Angelo Oddi and Stephen F. Smith:
Stochastic Procedures for Generating Feasible Schedules.

c-aaai-97-Otsubo
Motohide Otsubo, Satoru Fujita, and Toru Yamanouchi:
Intelligent Command Control for VLSI CAD System.

c-aaai-97-Paley
Suzanne M. Paley, John D. Lowrance, and Peter D. Karp:
A Generic Knowledge-Base Browser and Editor.

c-aaai-97-Parkes
Andrew J. Parkes:
Clustering at the Phase Transition.

c-aaai-97-Pedersen
Ted D. Pedersen and Rebecca F. Bruce:
A New Supervised Learning Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation.

c-aaai-97-Pereira
Fernando Pereira:
Resource-Bounded Language Processing.

c-aaai-97-Plaisted
David A. Plaisted and Yunshan Zhu:
Ordered Semantic Hyper Linking.

c-aaai-97-Price
Chris Price and Neil Taylor:
Multiple Fault Diagnosis from FMEA.

c-aaai-97-Rosati
Riccardo Rosati:
Reasoning with Minimal Belief And Negation As Failure: Algorithms And Complexity.

c-aaai-97-Rosenbloom
Paul Rosenbloom, John Laird, and Jill Lehman:
The Ascent of Soar.

c-aaai-97-Rougement
Michel de Rougement and Christoph Schlieder:
Spatial Navigation With Uncertain Deviations.

c-aaai-97-Roy-Chowdhury
Rahul Roy-Chowdhury and Mukesh Dalal:
Model-Theoretic Semantics and Tractable Algorithm for CNF-BCP.

c-aaai-97-Saba
Walid S. Saba and Jean-Pierre Corriveau:
A Pragmatic Treatment of Quantification in Natural Language.

c-aaai-97-Schmolze
James G. Schmolze and Wayne Snyder:
Detecting Redundant Production Rules.

c-aaai-97-Schuurmans
Dale E. Schuurmans:
A New Metric-Based Approach to Model Selection.

c-aaai-97-Schwalb
Eddie Schwalb:
Temporal Reasoning with Resolution and Constraint Propagation.

c-aaai-97-Schwartz
Rina Schwartz and Sarit Kraus:
Negotiation On Data Allocation in Multi-Agent Environments.

c-aaai-97-Schweitzer
Haim Schweitzer:
Classification as a Reductio-ad-Absurdum Proof.

c-aaai-97-Shanahan
Murray P. Shanahan:
Noise, Non-Determinism and Spatial Uncertainty.

c-aaai-97-Shankar
Subash Shankar and James R. Slagle:
A Connection Based Proof Procedure for Propositional Temporal Logic.

c-aaai-97-Shoikhet
Kirill Shoikhet and Dan Geiger:
Optimal Triangulations Via Minimal Vertex Separators.

c-aaai-97-Singh
Moninder Singh:
Learning Bayesian Networks from Incomplete Data.

c-aaai-97-Spencer
Bruce Spencer and J. D. Horton:
Extending the Regular Restriction of Resolution to Non-Linear Subdeductions.

c-aaai-97-Spertus
Ellen Spertus:
Smokey: Automatic Recognition of Hostile Messages.

c-aaai-97-Staab
Steffen Staab and Udo Hahn:
Comparatives in Context.

c-aaai-97-Stahovich
Thomas F. Stahovich, Ernest Davis, and Howard Shrobe:
Qualitative Rigid Body Mechanics.

c-aaai-97-Stein
Lynn Andrea Stein:
Preaching What We Practice: How AI is Changing the Concept of Computation.

c-aaai-97-Stoffel
Kilian Stoffel, Merwyn Taylor, and Jim Hendler:
Efficient Management of Very Large Ontologies.

c-aaai-97-Sycara
Katia P. Sycara:
James Bond and Mike Ovitz: The Secret Life of Agents.

c-aaai-97-Tambe
Milind Tambe:
Agent Architectures for Flexible, Practical Teamwork.

c-aaai-97-Toyama
Kentaro Toyama and Gregory D. Hager:
If at First You Don't Succeed....

c-aaai-97-Valdes-Perez
Raul E. Valdes-Perez and Vladimir Pericliev:
Maximally Parsimonious Discrimination: A Generic Task from Linguistic Discovery.

c-aaai-97-Velasquez
Juan D. Velasquez:
Modeling Emotions and Other Motivations in Synthetic Agents.

c-aaai-97-Veloso
Manuela M. Veloso, Alice M. Mulvehill, and Michael T. Cox:
Rationale-Supported Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Planning.

c-aaai-97-Vivacqua
Adriana S. Vivacqua and Ana Christina Bicharra Garcia:
MultiADD: A Multiagent Active Design Document Model to Support Group Design.

c-aaai-97-Vorwerg
Constanze Vorwerg, Gudrun Socher, Thomas Fuhr, and Gerhard Sagerer:
Projective relations for 3D Space: Computational Model, Application, and Psychological Evaluation.

c-aaai-97-Wagner
Thomas Wagner, Alan Garvey, and Victor Lesser:
Complex Goal Criteria and Its Application in Design-to-Resource Scheduling.

c-aaai-97-Walker
Marilyn Walker:
Performance Models for Dialogue Agents.

c-aaai-97-Walser
Joachim P. Walser:
Solving Linear Pseudo-Boolean Constraint Problems with Local Search.

c-aaai-97-Wellman
Mike Wellman:
Market-Oriented Programming.

c-aaai-97-Whitley
Darrell Whitley and Soraya B. Rana:
Representation, Search and Genetic Algorithms: A Free Lunch.

c-aaai-97-Wylie
Rob Wylie, Robert Orchard, Michael Halasz, and Francois Dube:
IDS: Improving Aircraft Fleet Maintenance.

c-aaai-97-Yip
Kenneth Yip and Gerald J. Sussman:
Sparse Representations in Incremental One-Shot Learning.

c-aaai-97-Zeng
Dajun Zeng:
Benefits of Learning in Negotiation.


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