In this special issue, we selected six of the papers, including one of the invited talks, and asked the authors to expand their conference presentations to provide more explanatory material. We believe these articles are representative of the current state of the art in innovative applications of AI.

The structure of the book makes examples and applications, and a section such as the agent's ability to it useful for practitioners from AI and dedicated to the relationship between perceive the environment and maintain general computer science as well as multiagent systems and various knowledge about it, reason about other areas such as aviation, transportation, other research areas. This book compiles said environment, and execute particular and business. The book presents the important concepts and actions to solve tasks. The design the basics of all the components methodologies required to develop a of a single-agent system, although not required to build a multiagent system.

Deployed applications are three-dimensional scenes, speech input Rapid Development of a systems that have been in use for at for information access, multimodal Course-of-Action Critiquer," by Gheorghe least several months by individuals or dialog, machine learning in engineering Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Mike Bowman, organizations other than their developers, design, ontologies, agent models, and Dorin Marcu, describes a critiquing have measurable benefits, and and case-based reasoning.

The Council encouraged Science and Engineering Fair, to be sometimes after an appropriate the Conference Committee to gather held May 8-10 in San Jose. Carol asked waiting period agreeable to our copublisher, extensive feedback after the 2002 conference for a volunteer to replace Mel Montemerlo The MIT Press. The Council voted to gauge how well this new as the coordinator of the judging in favor of reaffirming this policy format was received.

The AAAI-2000 Workshop Program was held Sunday and Monday, 3031 July 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Austin and the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The 15 workshops held were (1) Agent-Oriented Information Systems, (2) Artificial Intelligence and Music, (3) Artificial Intelligence and Web Search, (4) Constraints and AI Planning, (5) Integration of AI and OR: Techniques for Combinatorial Optimization, (6) Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems, (7) Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets, (8) Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets, (9) Learning Statistical Models from Rela-tional Data, (10) Leveraging Probability and Uncertainty in Computation, (11) Mobile Robotic Competition and Exhibition, (12) New Research Problems for Machine Learning, (13) Parallel and Distributed Search for Reasoning, (14) Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems, and (15) Spatial and Temporal Granularity.

In this article, we describe some recent results and trends concerning hybrid neural symbolic systems based on a recent workshop on hybrid neural symbolic integration. The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) workshop on hybrid neural symbolic integration, organized by Stefan Wermter and Ron Sun, was held on 4 to 5 December 1998 in Breckenridge, Colorado.

The AAAI-2000 Workshop Program was held Sunday and Monday, 3031 July 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Austin and the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The 15 workshops held were (1) Agent-Oriented Information Systems, (2) Artificial Intelligence and Music, (3) Artificial Intelligence and Web Search, (4) Constraints and AI Planning, (5) Integration of AI and OR: Techniques for Combinatorial Optimization, (6) Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems, (7) Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets, (8) Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets, (9) Learning Statistical Models from Rela-tional Data, (10) Leveraging Probability and Uncertainty in Computation, (11) Mobile Robotic Competition and Exhibition, (12) New Research Problems for Machine Learning, (13) Parallel and Distributed Search for Reasoning, (14) Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems, and (15) Spatial and Temporal Granularity.

The Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference was held 18-22 July 1999 in Orlando, Florida. Ramasamy Uthurusamy was the Program Chair and Barbara Hayes-Roth was the Program Co-Chair. Although all the IAAI-99 papers and talks were certainly interesting and important, we present in this special issue of AI Magazine only a select subset because of page and other limitations. We include two invited talks and four applications as a snapshot of IAAI-99.

The Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference was held 18-22 July 1999 in Orlando, Florida. Ramasamy Uthurusamy was the Program Chair and Barbara Hayes-Roth was the Program Co-Chair. Although all the IAAI-99 papers and talks were certainly interesting and important, we present in this special issue of AI Magazine only a select subset because of page and other limitations. We include two invited talks and four applications as a snapshot of IAAI-99.

The Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98) was held in Madison, Wisconsin, on 26-30 July. The following four workshops were held in conjunction with the conference: (1) Case-Based Reasoning Integrations, (2) Learning for Text Categorization, (3) Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time-Series Problems, and (4) Software Tools for Developing Agents.