Conference Committee
Conference Chairs
Usama M. Fayyad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Research Laboratories
Program Committee
Ray Bareiss, Northwestern University
James C. Bezdek, University of West Florida
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University
Wray Buntine, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Doug H. Fisher, Vanderbilt University
Paul A. Fishwick, University of Florida
David W. Franke, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
Ashok K. Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lawrence O. Hall, University of South Florida
Yumi Iwasaki, Stanford University
Ramesh C. Jain, University of Michigan
Keith R. Levi, Maharishi International University
Stephen C. Y. Lu, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Steven Lytinen, University of Michigan
Raymond Mooney, University of Texas/Austin
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, GTE Laboratories Inc.
J. Ross Quinlan, University of Sydney (Australia)
Ethan A. Scarl, Boeing Computer Services
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin/Madison
Prakash P. Shenoy, University of Kansas
Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory
Stephen Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
N. S. Sridharan, Intel Corporation
Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University
Richard Zurawski, Swinburne Institute of Technology (Australia)
Session Chairs
Session 1 – Machine Learning and Clustering
Tharam S. Dillon, La Trobe University (Australia)
Session 2 – Expert Systems and Optimization Techniques
Ethan A. Scarl, Boeing Computer Services
Session 3 – Monitoring and Diagnosis
Richard J. Doyle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Session 4 – Automated Design and Expert Systems
Richard Zurawski, Swinburne Institute of Technology (Australia)
Session 5 – Integrating AI Reasoning Systems and Hardware Description Languages
Keith R. Levi, Maharishi International University
Session 6 – Case-Based Reasoning
Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University
Session 7 – Knowledge, Retrieval, and Training Systems
Evangelos Simoudis, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory
Session 8 – Scheduling and Planning
Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hardware Description Languages; Case-Based Reasoning; Knowledge, Retrieval, and Training Systems; and Scheduling and Planning. The two plenary invited speakers are Prof. B. Chandrasekaran of Ohio State University, whose talk is titles “Tasks, Methods, and Knowledge: New Directions in Generic Tasks,” and Prof. Robert S. Engelmore of Stanford University whose talk is titled “Knowledge Systems for Engineering: The How Things Work Project.” The last session of the conference will provide an opportunity for a select set of session chairs to summarize papers and ideas developed in their and related sessions, and to discuss the state of the art and the future direction of their respective areas.
We would like to thank all the authors for their submissions to this conference. We look forward to their enthusiastic participation in this conference and in coming years. We would like to thank Prof. Mohan Trivedi of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for again chairing and coordinating the Intelligent Information Systems Program of which this conference is an integral part. We especially thank Prof. Guatam Biswas of Vanderbilt University, past chair of this conference, for this help, guidance, and cooperation, and for providing us the opportunity to put together this year’s program. We are indebted to the SPIE staff for taking care of all the detailed arrangements necessary to conduct a successful conference.
We hope this conference is a forum for the presentation and interchange of AI research and development results in aerospace and industry. We are confident that your participation will be enriching as well as enjoyable.
Usama M. Fayyad
Ramasamy Uthurusamy