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We report on the staging of the first competition on knowledge engineering for AI planning and scheduling systems, held in Monterey, California, in colocation with the ICAPS 2005 conference. The background and motivation is discussed, together with the relationship of this new competition with the current international planning competition. We report on the new competition's format, its outcome, and the benefits we hope it will bring to the research area.

Several special tracks included a significant number of presentations. Zdravko Markov and Larry Holder, was the most extensive, with 18 papers presented of the 35 submitted. The conference continues by Vasile Rus, was the second largest. The last few years have seen a significant reception. This year's conference received version for publication consideration A best paper award was presented to Jeffrey A. Coble, Diane J. Cook, and The program included a general session Lawrence B. Holder of the University with many excellent papers spanning of Texas at Arlington for their paper titled a broad range of AI research areas "Structure Discovery in Sequentially and covering traditional topics such as Connected Data."

The submission deadline is Canada!

Utrecht is more than 1,300 years old and located in the center of the Netherlands, about 40 minutes by train from Amsterdam. School (EASSS 2005) for about 120 students, which was organized by Europe's coordination network for agent systems (AgentLink) and was as successful as previous summer schools in Utrecht, Saarbruecken, Prague, Barcelona, Bologna, and Liverpool. Overall, in the theory and practice of AAMAS 2005 had 778 academic and autonomous agents and multiagent industrial participants from 44 countries systems. AAMAS 2005 is the fourth on six continents. The main room of this can with some justification AAMAS 2005 was held on July building, in which the Treaty of claim to be one of the most active.

The AAAI-06 workshops will be held rather than a regular AAAI paper.

The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference, which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), received 803 submissions to the technical program. All papers were double-blind reviewed, and 150 papers were accepted for oral presentation, while 79 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The keynote address was delivered by Marvin Minsky.

Preference Crystal City, Arlington Virginia, adjacent languages such as RDF and OWL. will be given to student scholars to Washington, DC.

Every year four new councilors are Raymond J. Mooney, University of elected to serve three-year terms on Chair: Thomas Roth-Nominating Committee encourages Conference Chair is Bruce Porter, Berghofer (trb at dfki.uni-kl.de), Committee, in turn, will nominate to miss 2006! From Reactive to Anticipatory eight candidates for councilor The calls for papers for both conferences, Cognitive Embodied Systems in the spring. Cochairs: Cristiano recommendations, the committee workshop proposals, student abstracts, Castelfranchi (c.castelfranchi at will actively recruit individuals in intelligent systems demonstrations, istc.cnr.it), Christian Balkenius order to provide a balanced slate of and the robot competition will (Christian.Balkenius at lucs.

Posters, and the AAAI/ SIGART consist of two phases: a qualification Doctoral Consortium. Please visit the round and a runoff competition. A AAAI is pleased to announce the AAAI-05 web site periodically for upto-date $10,000 prize will be awarded to the launch of the First Annual Artificial information. We hope you will winning entrant. The competition is Intelligence for Interactive Digital join us in Pittsburgh!