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AAAI Elected Fellows - - Elected Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligenc.

Airoldi, Edoardo - - Carnegie Mellon. Euclidean, differential or algebraic geometrical intuitions underlying statistical models and algorithms. Discrete mathematics and sequential models. Applications to textual data, biological sequences, communication networks and privacy.

Alam, Shah Jamal - - German Research Center for AI (DFKI). Intelligent tutoring systems, social organizations in MAS, family (Eastern) dynamics.

Allen, James F. - - University of Rochester. Natural language understanding, discourse, knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning and planning.

Altman, Christopher - - Quantum Transport, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology. Confluence of quantum mechanics and information science.

Angele, Jürgen - - Ontoprise. Knowledge engineering, domain and task modeling, ontologies, KARL, MIKE, web portals.

Bacchus, Fahiem - - University of Toronto. Planning systems, temporal logic, constraint satisfaction problems and formal models.

Bagga, Amit - - Avaya, Inc. Document summarization, information retrieval, cross-document coreference.

Bahlmann, Claus - - Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, On-line handwriting recognition.

Benjamin, D. Paul - - Pace University. Problem decomposition and theory reformulation, integrated cognitive architectures for autonomous robots, distributed constraint satisfaction problems, semigroup theory and dynamical systems, category theory in software design.

Biermann, Alan W. - - Duke University. Chair, Department of Computer Science. AAAI Fellow. Computational linguistics, automatic programming and inference, Author of Great Ideas in Computer Science.

Blum, Avrim - - Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include machine learning, approximation algorithms, on-line algorithms and planning systems. Online publications and talks.

Boumaza, Amine - - INRIA. Computer vision, mobile robots, evolutionary programming, AI and machine learning.

Brachman, Ron - - Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA. Knowledge representation, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing.

Branting, L. Karl - - LiveWire Logic, Inc. Empirical methods of natural language processing, case-based reasoning, AI and law, ecological and environmental applications of AI.

Bunt, Andrea - - University of British Columbia. User modeling, adaptive interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems.

Carberry, Sandra - - University of Delaware. Department of Computer and Information Sciences Chair. Computational linguistics, dialog systems, machine learning, planning and plan recognition, medical informatics, user modeling.

Carreras, Xavier - - Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya, PhD student, machine learning, natural language processing.

Carroll, John A. - - University of Sussex. Natural language parsing, acquisition of lexical information from text, automatic generation of text from semantic representations.

Cassell, Justine - - MIT Media Lab. Gesture and narrative language, animated agents, intonation, facial expression, computer vision.

Chachra, Sumit - - University of Arizona. Document analysis, biometrics, image retrieval, autonomic computing.

Charniak, Eugene - - Brown University. Part-of-speech tagging, probabilistic context-free grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.

Chavez, Guillermo Camara - - Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Pattern recognition, invariante pattern recognition, neural networks, image content-base retrieval, digital image processing, computer vision.

Clancey, William J. - - NASA/Ames Research Center. Brahms multiagent simulation system, situated cognition, Haughton-Mars Project, human-centered computing.

Clough, Paul D. - - University of Sheffield. Information retrieval.

Conati, Cristina - - University of British Columbia. User modeling, emotionally intelligent agents, adaptive user interfaces, Bayesian network student models.

Conitzer, Vincent - - Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Phd Student. Intersection of computer science and game theory, computer science and economics, multiagent systems, automated negotiation and contracting.

Cortes, Nareli Cruz - - CINVESTAV-IPN. Artificial immune system optimization, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation.

Crow, Dan - - Unicru Inc. Intelligent search engines, machine learning, concept abstraction, adaptive interfaces.

Danescu, Radu - - Technical University of Cluj. Image processing, stereovision, intelligent vehicles.

de Salvo Braz, Rodrigo - - University of Illinois. First-order probabilistic inference, text entailing, human-computer interaction.

Delord, Christophe - - ENSEEIHT, France, Computer Science engineer, Artificial Intelligence (dialogue simulation, speech acts, PROLOG), Python, lexical and syntactic parsing.

Di Eugenio, Barbara - - University of Illinois at Chicago. Interpretation and generation of instructional text, computational models of tutorial dialogue, modeling collaboration in human-human and computer-human dialogues, referential expressions.

Dorigo, Marco - - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Research projects in Ant algorithms, metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization, robot shaping and behavior engineering.

Dorst, Leo - - University of Amsterdam. Applications of geometric (Clifford) algebra, exploration, reasoning with uncertainty in robotics.

Dror, Gideon - - Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo. Text categorization, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, medicine, machine vision and high energy physics, feature selection for categorization and regression problems, artificial neural networks.

Ehlert, Patrick - - Delft University of Technology. List of projects and publications. Interests in agents and robotics.

Elliott, Clark - - DePaul University. Affective reasoning, synthetic characters, animated tutoring agents, emotion representation.

Faltings, Boi - - Director of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, EPFL, President of Swiss AI Society. Software agents, constraint-based reasoning, case-based reasoning.

Finn, Aidan - - School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Automated information extraction using convergent boundary classification, machine learning for automatic genre classification, active learning for information extraction.

Forbus, Kenneth - - Northwestern University. Qualitative physics, spatial reasoning, cognitive simulation of analogical processing.

Fragos, Kostas - - National Technical University of Athens. Statistical natural language processing, signal processing, neural networks.

Frasconi, Paolo - - Università di Firenze. Machine learning for sequential and structured data, bioinformatics, text and natural language, pattern recognition.

Freeman, Richard - - University of Manchester. Machine learning, knowledge management, data visualization, artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Funge, John - - iKuni, Inc. Game AI, machine learning, and knowledge representation.

Furcy, David - - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Heuristic search, planning and re-planning, reinforcement learning.

Geczy, Peter - - RIKEN Brain Science Institute. Neural networks, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, fuzzy logic, rule acquisition, rule extraction from neural networks, Autonomous Connectionistic Engine (ACE), neural network resources.

Gini, Maria - - University of Minnesota. Distributed intelligence, cooperation of miniature robots, robot navigation, multi-agent systems for e-commerce and supply-chain, economic agents.

Goyal, Ram Dayal - - Intigma India. Data mining, natural language processing, data mining, neural networks, image processing.

Grasso, Floriana - - University of Liverpool. Computational models of natural argument, affective natural language generation, conflict resolution.

Green, Nancy - - University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Intelligent multimdedia presentation systems, argumentation models, automatic generation of textual summaries of graphs, interactive narrative, conversation agents, user modeling.

Greening, Dan R. - - CEO BigTribe. Entrepreneur and researcher. Personalization, collaborative filtering, computer-supported cooperative work, ubiquitous computing, simulated annealing, distributed computing, social psychology.

Grosz, Barbara - - Harvard University. Collaborative planning, SharedPlans model of collaboration, discourse structure, intonation, centering.

Guinn, Curry I. - - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Natural language processing, spoken dialog systems, mixed-initiative interaction, virtual humans, conversational agents, affective computing.

Guvenir, H. Altay - - Bilkent University. Machine learning, data mining, and computer-aided language learning.

Haller, Susan - - University of Wisconsin - Park. Natural language processing, interactive discourse, text planning, intelligent tutoring systems.

Harmelen, Frank van - - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Approximate reasoning, medical protocols, semantic web, specification languages for KBS.

Harper, Mary - - Purdue University. National Science Foundation. Integrating natural language and speech processing, prosodic analysis, statistical parsing, gesture and speech.

Hartmann, Jens - - University of Karlsruhe (Germany). Data mining, knowledge representation, ontology learning, semantic web, knowledge portals.

Hayes-Roth, Barbara - - Stanford University. Extempo Systems. Intelligent interactive characters, interactive story telling, adaptive intelligent agents.

Hearst, Marti - - University of California at Berkeley. Data mining, information retrieval, user interfaces, web search.

Hillan, Julie - - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. relationship between social software/interfaces and human attitudes and behaviors; user responses to emotion in embodied agents.

Ho, Shum Wing - - Chinese University of Hong Kong. Research interests are Genetic Algorithm and Artificial Intelligence.

Honavar, Vasant - - Iowa State University. Machine learning, intelligent agents, information integration, probabilistic models, and bioinformatics and computational biology.

Hoos, Holger H. - - University of British Columbia. Preference elicitation, dynamic constraint optimization, satisfiability problems in propositional logic, computational musicology.

Horvitz, Eric - - Microsoft Research. Decision theory, reasoning systems, user modeling, reasoning under uncertainty.

Hotho, Andreas - - University of Karlsruhe, AIFB. Text, data and web mining especially in text clustering, semantic web mining, knowledge management.

Jackson, Peter - - Thomson Legal & Regulatory. Information extraction, expert systems, document summarization, AI and the law.

Jacob, Christian - - University of Calgary. Emergent computing in biological networks, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence, genetic algorihms, genome programming.

Jacob, Rob - - Tufts University. Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces, virtual environments, eye-gaze tracking.

Jacobs, Paul - - Jake Technologies. Natural language processing, research, consulting and entrepreneurship.

Jurafsky, Dan - - University of Colorado, Boulder. Latent semantic analysis, stochastic context-free grammars, pronunciation modeling, discourse tagging, bayesian models of sentence processing, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with James H. Martin.

Kadri, Faisal - - Affective computing, computational models of human emotion.

Kamali, Mahsa - - Amirkabir University of Technology. Facial image analysis and synthesis, gesture recognition, emotion modeling.

Kamvar, Sepandar - - Stanford University. Probabilistic models in information retrieval, information extraction, and supervised and unsupervised learning.

Katirai, Hooman - - MIT. Machine learning applied to medicine, text management, and computational linguistics.

Kochenderfer, Mykel J. - - University of Edinburgh. Autonomous agents, reinforcement learning, teleo-reactive behavior.

Koduru, Praveen - - Memetic algorithms for multiobjective optimization.

Konieczny, Lars - - Institute of Computer Science and Social Research. Psycholinguistics, sentence comprehension, cognitive parsing, ACT-R.

Konik, Tolga - - University of Michigan AI Lab, Ph.D. student, machine learning, learning by observation, qualitative reasoning.

Krogt, Roman van der - - Delft University of Technology. PhD Student, Plan repair in multi-agent environments.

Kulbacki, Marek - - Polish Academy of Sciences. Vulcan. Machine Learning, realistic human motion modeling.

Kurban, Rifat - - Erciyes University. Artificial neural networks, speech processing, digital signal processing, speaker recognition, image processing.

Lambert, Lynn - - Christopher Newport University. Natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, belief models, negotiation.

Legierski, Wojciech - - Silesian University of Technology. Constraint programming, scheduling, combinatorial optimization.

Lester, James - - North Carolina State University. Intellimedia initiative, animated pedagogical agents, 3D learning environments, natural language generation.

Lisetti, Christine - - University of Central Florida. Emotional intelligence, computational models of emotions and affective processes, affective computing.

Litman, Diane J. - - University of Pittsburgh. Spoken dialogue for intelligent tutoring systems, reinforcement learning for optimizing spoken dialogue agents, prosodic analysis of misrecognitions and corrections, plan recognition.

Littman, Michael - - Rutgers. Planning under uncertainty, markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, latent semantic indexing, text retrieval.

Liu, Hugo - - MIT Media Laboratory. Philosophically motivated AI, commonsense reasoning, aesthetics and AI, assistive software agents, lexical semantics, story understanding.

Liu, Jundong - - Ohio University. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Medical image analysis, computer vision.

Loui, Ronald - - Washington University in St. Louis. AI and the law, models of negotiation, modeling legal argument.

Loveland, Donald W. - - Duke University. Automated theorem proving, logic programming, knowledge evaluation, expert systems, test-and-treatment problem.

Maes, Pattie - - Associate Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory. Areas of expertise are Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Work, Information Filtering and Electronic Commerce.

Makris, Dimitrios - - Kingston University. Research on automatic behaviour modelling for multi-camera visual surveillance systems.

Mamani-Sanchez, Liliana P. - - Instituto Militar de Engenharia - Brasil. Natural language processing, ontologies, semantic web, web-based distance learning.

Manning, Christopher - - Stanford University. Probabilistic parsing, grammar induction, text categorization and clustering, electronic dictionaries, information extraction and presentation, and linguistic typology.

Mantaras, Ramon Lopez de - - Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the CSIC. AI and music, qualitative approaches to landmark-based robot navigation.

Martin, James - - University of Colorado, Boulder. Empirical metaphor research, latent semantic analysis, information retrieval, co-author of "Speech and Language Processing" with Dan Jurafsky.

Massa, Paolo - - Phd student at Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (IRST) in Italy.

McCoy, Kathleen - - University of Delaware. Rehabilitation engineering, writing tool for American Sign Language, natural language generation, text summarization, graph summarization.

McDermott, Drew - - Extensive work in logic, planning, and robotics, also known for his blunt public appraisals of the state of AI research. Interviewed in Crossroads, the student magazine of the ACM.

McGreal, Daniel. - - University of Exeter. Artificial life, evolutionary computing and pattern recognition.

McGuinness, Deborah - - Researcher in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems. Co-designer and developer of CLASSIC and Chimaera among others. Associate Director of the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

McRoy, Susan - - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dialog theory, natural language generation, argumentation theory, intelligent tutoring systems.

McTear, Mike - - University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Dialogue modelling, natural language processing, computational linguistics, user modelling.

Meila, Marina - - University of Washington. Machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, graphical probability models, tree belief networks and mixtures of trees, maximum entropy discrimination, spectral clustering and image segmentation.

Miller, Tristan - - German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management Group. Computational linguistics, automatic summarization, information retrieval, latent semantic analysis, computers and society.

Mitrovic, Nikola - - University of Zaragoza. Ph.D. student. Mobile agents, intelligent user interfaces, adaptive user interfaces, mobile applications.

ML & CBR Folks - - A list of home pages for people in machine learning and case-based reasoning.

Monz, Christof - - Research interests: Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Automated Deduction. Site lists on-line publications, projects, activities, and contact info.

Moore, Johanna D. - - University of Edinburgh. Computational modeling of tutorial dialogue, multimedia explanation, integrated techniques for interpretation and generation, patient education.

Murray, Arthur T. - - Aka Mentifex. Author of a theory of mind, proof-of-concept software and the book "AI4U".

Musick, Ron - - iKuni Inc. Automated induction, machine learning, and scientific data management.

Nebel, Bernhard - - Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. Professor. Knowledge representation, planning, and robotics, with an emphasis on robotic soccer.

Norvig, Peter - - Artificial Intelligence, natural language, Lisp and Java in AI. Computational Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center.

Novick, David - - University of Texas at El Paso. Department of Computer Science Chair. Spoken dialog models, mediated communication, user interface development methodologies.

Olier, Ivan - - Technical University of Catalonia. Unsupervised learning, probabilistic neural network, data mining.

Palmer, Martha - - University of Pennsylvania. Logic programming, computational lexical semantics, crosslinguistic verb classes, machine translation, multilingual information processing.

Parsons, Lance - - Arizona State University. Data mining, unsupervised learning, bioinformatics.

Paszke, Łukasz - - Instytute of Hydro-Engineering PAS, Gdańsk, Poland. Application of artificial intelligence in the prediction of waves and water levels.

Pathegama, Mahinda - - Interests include biologically inspired artificial neural networks for figure ground separation and neural mechanisms for functional changes in the brain due to electromagnetic radiation.

Pelikan, Martin - - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. Evolutionary computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Pellier, Damien - - Leibniz Laboratory. Multi-agent systems, planning and scheduling, distributed problem solving, cooperative robotics.

Pennock, David M. - - Yahoo! Research Labs. Electronic commerce, internet statistics, uncertain reasoning, decision theory, market approaches to group coordination, multiagent systems.

Peshkin, Leon - - Harvard Medical School. Systems Biology. Baysian information extraction, reinforcement learning, text summarization.

Picard, Rosalind - - MIT. Affective computing, texture and pattern modeling, video and image browsing, retrieval and annotation.

Pinheiro da Silva, Paulo - - Stanford University. Explanations for semantic web tasks, semantic web tools and infrastructure, model-based user interfaces, formal specification and verification of interactive systems.

Pizzuti, Stefano - - ENEA. Evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logic based systems, evolutionary neural networks. Application to financial and energy industrial problems.

Planes, Jordi - - Escola Universitària Politècnica. Max-SAT, smart cards.

Powers, David - - The Flinders University of South Australia. Natural language learning, unsupervised learning, data mining, home automation, web search.

Pratt, Lorien - - Neural network researcher and telecommunications analyst. Resume, links, personal information.

Qu, Yan - - Carnegie Mellon University. Information retrieval, extraction and management, natural language processing, Chinese computing, dialog and discourse processing, machine translation, cooperative human-computer interaction.

Quattoni, Ariadna - - Mount Holyoke. Synthesizing vision, language, and learning. Natural language interfaces to vision.

Raina, Rajat - - Stanford University. Question answering systems, machine learning, probabilistic models, robotics.

Reitter, David - - University of Edinburgh. Multimodal systems, natural language generation, information structure and salience, rhetorical analysis.

Rich, Charles - - MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative interface agents, task modeling, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.

Roberts, Steve - - Oxford. Robotics Research Group. Machine learning, Bayesian learning, data-driven inference, signal and image processing, bioinformatics, computational and mathematical biology.

Robertson, Neil - - Oxford University. Computer vision, visual surveillance, video annotation.

Robu, Valentin - - Dutch Center for Computer Science. Agents and virtual markets, automated negotiation & auctions, machine learning in stock market prediction.

Roweis, Sam - - University of Toronto. Researcher in pattern recognition, neural networks, artificial intelligence.

Rudnicky, Alex - - Carnegie Mellon University. Speech recognition, CMU Communicator, dialog systems, speech agents.

Saffiotti, Alessandro - - Head of the mobile robotics lab at Orebro University, Sweden. Research area: integration of cognition and physical embedding in autonomous robots.

Sastry, Kumara - - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ph.D. student. Genetic algorithms, competent GAs and efficiency-enhancement techniques with application in material sciences.

Sayan, Ömer Fatih - - University of Osnabrück. Emotion recognition, emotive behavior, mental models, unconscious processes, rule- and pattern-based mechanisms.

Schoppek, Wolfgang - - University of Bayreuth, Bavaria. Cognitive modeling, ACT-R models, causal induction.

Schubert, Johan - - Research on belief functions, clustering, neural networks, fusion. Defense Research Establishment.

Schütze, Hinrich - - Stanford University. Statistical NLP, text mining, Co-author of "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" with Christopher Manning.

Seneff, Stephanie - - MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, and prosodic analysis.

Sidner, Candace - - MERL Cambridge Research. Collaborative inteface agents, spoken dialog, COLLAGEN, intelligent tutoring.

Simon, Herbert A. - - Late Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. One of the founders of Artificial Intelligence. Research mainly in modeling and simulation of human cognition.

Sinka, Mark - - University of Reading. Web document clustering and categorization, information Retrieval, XML and search engine optimisation.

Smith, Ronnie W. - - East Carolina University. Spoken natural language dialog systems, dialog repairs, mixed-initiative, adaptive user interfaces.

Solorio, Thamar - - National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico. Machine learning and its applications to natural language processing and astronomy.

Staab, Steffen - - Research topics: semantic web, knowledge management, and natural language processing. List of his publications, projects, courses taught, contact information.

Strens, Malcolm - - QinetiQ. Reinforcement learning and image target tracking.

Sure, York - - University of Karlsruhe. Semantic web, OntoWeb, distributed knowledge, collaborative ontology, knowledge retrieval.

Swarup, Samarth - - University of Illinois. Cumulative (lifelong, multi-task) learning and evolution of language.

Szalas, Andrzej - - College of Economics and Computer Science, Olsztyn, Poland. Unmanned aerial vehicles. Autonomous systems.

Szepesvári, Csaba - - Mindmaker, Ltd., Budapest. Reinforcement learning, adaptive control, visual tracking (LS-N-IPS), speech processing; on-line publications.

Taatgen, Niels - - University of Groningen. Cognition, ACT-R, learning rules and productions.

Tack, Werner H. - - Universität des Saarlandes. ACT-R cognitive modeling.

Tagliarini, Gene - - University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Classification of sonar returns, fingerprint matching, image compression, classification of minerals, combinatorial optimization, genetic engineering, biological inspired computing, and constraint satisfaction.

Teixeira, Otávio Noura - - Brazil. Artificial Intelligence (in Spanish).

Teuscher, Christof - - C.V., list of awards, publications, memberships, projects, and conferences. Interests in neural networks.

Thaler, Stephen - - Researcher into neural networks and creativity.

Tran, Nam - - Arizona State University. Knowledge representation, hypothesis generation, causal modelling in AI, bioinformatics.

Traum, David R. - - USC Instititue for Creative Technology. Discourse structure. Grounding in discourse. Dialog and virtual reality agents.

Treur, Jan - - professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Research interests include multi-agent systems, compositional modelling, temporal semantics, common sense and nonmonotonic reasoning.

Turney, Peter D. - - Interactive Information Group, National Research Council of Canada. Machine learning applied to natural language processing, lexical semantics from web mining, artificial life.

van Beek, Peter - - University of Waterloo. Constraint programming, compiler optimization, and scheduling.

van Delden, Sebastian - - University of Central Florida. Partial parsing, natural language information retrieval systems, learning WordNet-based classification rules.

van Schooten, Boris - - University of Twente. Interaction models in (spoken) dialogue systems, specification techniques and multimodal systems and virtual environments, multiagent virtual environments.

Vasishth, Shravan - - University of Potsdam. Abductive Inference Model, Hindi sentence processing, wide-coverage theories of sentence processing.

Visser, Ubbo - - TZI, University of Bremen. Knowledge representation and processing for the Semantic Web and multiagent systems in dynamic and real time environments.

Vyas, Amrish - - University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Intelligent agents in eBusiness, adaptive agents.

Walker, Marilyn A. - - University of Sheffield. Natural language processing, specifically in spoken dialogue systems, machine learning in dialogue, spoken language generation, multimodal human-computer interaction, and evaluation of dialogue systems.

Wallace, Andrew Alexander - - The Open University. Robotics, flow control, negotiation.

Wang, Alvin - - California Polytechic State University. Automated target recognition on synthetic radar images.

Ward, Karen - - University of Texas at El Paso. Acknowledgments in human-computer interaction, multimodal interfaces, speech acts.

Webber, Carine - - Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia. User modelling, cognitive models, multi-agent systems, emergence theory.

Weerdt, Mathijs de - - Researcher in multi-agent planning at Delft University of Technology. Tutorial on multi-agent planning, list of own publications and publications related to distributed AI.

Wilks, Yorick - - University of Sheffield. Computational pragmatics, belief modeling, lexicons, information extraction.

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Xu, Ke - - Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Design and analysis of algorithms, phase transitions, logic programming, data mining.

Zhou, Yujian - - Illinois Institute of Technology. Ph.D. student, Adaptive tutoring, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining.

Zhou, Zhi-Hua - - Nanjing University. Machine learning, neural computing, data mining, pattern recognition and evolutionary computing. Online AI resources.

Zhuang, Rick - - Pennsylvania State University. Web information retrival, web usage mining, search engines, semantic web.

Zillman, Marcus P. - - Creator/Founder BotSpot.com, Executive Director Virtual Private Librar.

Zimak, Dav - - PhD student in machine learning, working in the Cognitive Computation Group at University of Illinois.