BISFAI-99 - Preliminary Program Information

BISFAI-99 - List of Accepted Regular Papers

• Credulous nonmonotonic inference, Alexander Bochman
• An Algorithm for Computing the Maximum Entropy Ranking for Variable Strength Defaults , Rachel A. Bourne and Simon Parsons
• SOCIAL ROBOTICS: Reality and Virtuality in Agent-Based Robotics, Brian Duffy
• EMA - AN EMPLOYMENT AGENT WITH A SPEECH MODULE, Matjaz Gams, Tomaz Sef, and Ales Dobnikar
• Decision Planning Knowledge Representation Framework: A Case-Study, Michal Pechoucek et al
• A Predicate-logic Version Method for Cost-based Hypothetical Reasoning Employing an Efficient Propositional-level Reasoning Mechanism, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Kazuya Tanahashi and Helmut Prendinger
• Optimal Sequencing of Contract Algorithms, Shlomo Zilberstein, Francois Charpillet, and Philippe Chassaing
• A Heuristic Search Algorithm for Markov Decision Problems, Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein
• Distributed Diagnosis by Agents Using Ontology, Ioan Alfred Letia and Aurel Netin
• Declarative Formalization of Reasoning Strategies: a case study on heuristic nonlinear planning, J. Sierra
• Computational models for building discretionary legal knowledge based systems, Yaakov HaCohen Kerner, Uri Schild, and John Zeleznikow
• KBFS K-Best-First Search, Ariel Felner, Richard E. Korf, and Sarit Kraus
• Construction of an expertise model for optimized planning of quality control route sheets, Chouraqui Eugene and Portafaix Valerie
• Towards efficient metaquering, Rachel Ben-Eliyahu Zohary and Ehud Gudes
• Solving Employee Timetabling Problems by Generalized Local Search, Andrea Schaerf and Amnon Meisels
• The Distinction between Subject-to Object Communication and Subject-to-subject Communication ant its Relation to Three Age-Old Problems, Gideon Arieli
• Word Prediction and Clustering, Yair Even-Zohar, Dan Roth, and Dmitri Zelenko
• Agents for Information Broadcasting , Sarit Kraus
• Searching Stochastically-Generated Multi-Abstraction Level Design Spaces, Louis Steinberg
• Detecting Sub-Topic Correspondence through Bipartite Term Clustering, Zvika Marx, Ido Dagan, and Eli Shamir
• Socially Conscious Decision-Making, Alyssa Glass and Barabara J. Grosz
• First-order autoepistemic logic, Michael Kaminski and Guy Rey

List of Accepted Demo Papers

• Lightweight Document Matching and Text Mining, S. Weiss, B. White, C. Apte, and F. Damerau
• An Application of Int. Info. Agent to Distance and Open Learning, Lingling et. al.

Regular papers, as well as demo papers, will be allocated approximately 25 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions (depending on BISFAI-99 program timing constraints). Demo papers will include a demonstration of the application.

Invited Talks

• Reid Simmons
• Stan Rosenschein
• Leo Joskowicz