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The paper submitted by the present area editor has been refereed under the coordination of Susanne Biundo, who is area editor for the ETAI area Planning and Scheduling. On the recommendation of the three anonymous referees, Susanne Biundo has decided that the paper shall be accepted to the ETAI, with a possibility of changes by the author.

The comments and questions by the referees follow below, except for minor comments which are handled according to the general ETAI routines:

• Minor comments of interest for the reader who studies the article in detail. These have been put in a separate "minor details" page that is accessed from the article's discussion web page.
• Typos and grammatical mistakes that each reader can easily accomodate by context. These are forwarded directly to the author, with a suggestion to correct them in the revised version of the article.

The present Newsletter issue also contains the answer by Marc Denecker, Daniele Theseider Dupre, and Kristof Van Belleghem to the questions asked by Murray Shanahan earlier this month.

A new ETAI area has been defined for Decision and Reasoning under Uncertainty, with Henri Prade and Salem Benferhat of IRIT (Toulouse, France) as the area co-editors. This area covers researches on reasoning and decision under uncertainty both on the methodological and on the applicative sides. Significant papers are invited from the whole spectrum of uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence researches. Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:

Methods:

• Probability theory (Bayesian or not),

• Belief function theory,

• Upper and lower probabilities,

• Possibility theory,

• Fuzzy sets,

• Rough sets,

• Measures of information,

• ...

Problems:

• Approximate reasoning,

• Decision-making under uncertainty,

• Planning under uncertainty,

• Uncertainty issues in learning and data mining,

• Algorithms for uncertain reasoning,

• Formal languages for representing uncertain information,

• Belief revision and plausible reasoning under uncertainty,

• Data fusion,

• Diagnosis,

• Inference under uncertainty, expert systems,

• Cognitive modelling and uncertainty,

• Practical applications,

• ...

The following are the members of the Area Editorial Committee:

• Fahiem Bacchus, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

• Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, Univ. of Paris VI, France

• Ronen I. Brafman, Stanford, USA

• Roger Cooke, Tech. Univ. Delft, The Netherlands

• Didier Dubois, IRIT, Toulouse, France

• Francesc Esteva, IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain

• Finn V. Jensen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark

• Jurg Kohlas, Univ. of Fribourg, Switzerland

• Rudolf Kruse, Univ. of Magdeburg, Germany

• Serafin Moral, Univ. of Granada, Spain

• Prakash P. Shenoy, Univ. of Kansas, USA

• Philippe Smets, IRIDIA, Free Univ. of Brussels, Belgium

• Marek J. Druzdzel, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

• Lech Polkowski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland

We welcome the new ETAI area and wish them very successful activities.

ETAI Publications

Additional contributions have been received for the discussions about the following article(s). Please click the title of the article in order to see each contribution in its context.

Erik Sandewall
Logic-Based Modelling of Goal-Directed Behavior
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Marc Denecker, Daniele Theseider Dupré, and Kristof Van Belleghem
An Inductive Definition Approach to Ramifications
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