Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90) was held July 29–August 3, 1990, in Boston, Massachusetts.
We endeavored to produce an interesting conference of the highest technical quality. AAAI has always prided itself on its careful reviewing process and its consistently high standards for acceptance of submitted papers. Each of the 926 papers submitted to the conference was read by at least two members of the Program Committee, which, as you will note, is a sizable body of well-respected and technically expert researchers. After all of the papers were read, the entire Program Committee met face to face, and each paper was discussed until a final decision was agreed upon (where necessary, additional reviews were obtained from other members of the committee). Ultimately, 161 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference and for publication in these proceedings.
Because of the continuing growth of research activity in Al and the associated increase in the number of papers submitted, this year’s Program Committee was the largest ever assembled for the National Conference. The successful operation of the Program Committee depended on the hard work of the Area Chairs, who took responsibility for recruiting reviewers in each area and for coordinating the review process. Another essential ingredient of the review process was the wisdom and hard work contributed by the AAAI office staff. Finally, each Co-Chair was assisted by an Associate Chair, who helped in all phases of the process. We wish to thank the staff, the associate chairs, the area chairs, and all members of the Program Committee for their efforts.
In addition to technical papers, the conference also included a collection of invited talks and panels. Peter Friedland took responsibility for collecting nominations, tallying votes by the Area Chairs, and inviting the speakers and panels. We have included written versions of these talks and panels in the proceedings to the extent possible.
Research in artificial intelligence continues its vigorous and exciting growth. We hope you enjoy this most challenging of intellectual adventures.
Tom Dietterich and William Swartout
AAAI-90 Organizers and Program Committee
Conference Chair
Howard Shrobe, Symbolics, Inc.
Program Cochairs
Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University
William Swartout, University of Southern California-ISI
Program Associate Cochairs
Hussein Almuallim, Oregon State University
Cecile Paris, University of Southern California-ISI
Tutorial Chair
Elaine Rich
Workshop Chair
Edward Lafferty
Panels Chair
Peter Friedland
Volunteer Coordinator
Carole Hafner
Program Committee Members
James Allen, University of Rochester
Kevin Ashley, Learning R & D Center
James Bennett, Coherent Thought
Hans Berliner, Carnegie Mellon University
Ronald J. Brachman, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh
Wray Buntine, NASA Ames Research Center
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
Greg Clemenson, IntelliCorp
Daniel Corkill, University of Massachusetts
Bruce D’Ambrosio, Oregon State University
Thomas Dean, Brown University
Gerald DeJong, University of Illinois
Johan de Kleer, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Jon Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mark Drummond, NASA Ames Research Center
Michael Dyer, University of California at Los Angeles
Thomas Ellman, Rutgers University
David Etherington, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Brian Falkenhainer, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Ron Fearing, University of California at Berkeley
Jerry Feldman, ICSI
Douglas Fisher, Vanderbilt University
Kenneth Forbus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eugene Freuder, University of New Hampshire
Peter Friedland, NASA Ames Research Center
John Grefensette, Naval Center Al Research
Ramanathan Guha, MCC
Walter Hamscher, Price-Waterhouse Technology Centre
Barbara Hayes-Roth, Stanford University
Julia Hirschberg, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Eric Horvitz, Stanford University
John Hotchkiss, Symbolics Inc.
Michael Huhns, MCC
David Israel, SRI International
Paul Jacobs, General Electric Corporation
Leo Joskowicz, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Leslie Kaelbling, Teleos Research
Robert Kasper, University of Southern California-ISI
Henry Kautz, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Phil Klahr, Inference Corporation
Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kurt Konolige, SRI International
Richard Korf, University of California at Los Angeles
Benjamin Kuipers, University of Texas at Austin
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Peter Ladkin, University of California at Berkeley
Philip Laird, NASA Ames Research Center
Amy Lansky, NASA Ames Research Center
Jim Little, University of British Columbia
Robert Mac Gregor, University of Southern California-ISI
Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia
Pattie Maes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jitendra Malik, University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Mark, Lockheed Al Center
David McAllester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John McDermott, Digital Equipment Corporation
Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
Daniel Miranker, University of Texas at Austin
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Sanjay Mittal, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh
Robert Neches, University of Southern California-lSI
Peter Patel-Schneider, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Ramesh Patil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Judea Pearl, University of California at Los Angeles
Edwin Pednault, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Raymond Perrault, SRI International
David Plaisted, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Poole, University of British Columbia
Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts
Stuart Russell, University of California at Berkeley
Elisha Sacks, Princeton University
Jeffrey Schlimmer, Carnegie Mellon University
James Schmolze, Tufts University
Alberto Segre, Cornell University
Ross Shachter, Stanford University
Lokendra Shastri, University of Pennsylvania
Yoav Shoham, Stanford University
Howard Shrobe, Symbolics
Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University
Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan
Mark Stickel, SRI International
Devika Subramanian, Cornell University
Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
Paul Utgoff, University of Massachusetts
Kurt VanLehn, Carnegie Mellon University
Marc Vilain, The MITRE Corporation
Richard Waters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jay Weber, Lockheed
Daniel Weld, University of Washington
Michael Weliman, WRDC/TXI
David Wilkins, SRI International
Yorick Wilks, New Mexico State University
Brian Williams, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Mike Williams, IntelliCorp
Auxiliary Reviewers
Kenneth Basye
Mark Boddy
Robert Cassels
Lisa Dent
Kurt Eiselt
Ashok Goel
Klaus Gross
Anshul Gupta
Keiji Kanazawa
Diane Litman
Andre Ljolje
Ambuj Mahanti
Bernard Nadel
Tony Plate
Ashwin Ram
Michael Redmond
Steve Robinson
Enrique Ruspini
Shashi Shekhar
Munindar P. Singh
Richard Sproat
Jaydeep Srivastava
Ming Tan