The Twelfth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2000) will run concurrently with the main technical conference this year on Tuesday, August 1, and Wednesday, August 2. IAAI-2000 will honor six case studies of fully deployed applications with measurable benefits whose value depends on the use of AI technology. This year's papers address applications in a wide variety of domains, including large-scale scheduling, biotechnology, medical data mining, civil engineering, financial modeling, email management, manufacturing, and interactive agents. AI techniques discussed include knowledge-based systems, vision, constraint programming, machine learning, software synthesis, planning and execution, natural language processing, diagnostic reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, neural networks, and cognitive simulation. The innovative applications conference is intended not only for those involved in applications but also for researchers interested in gaining a better understanding of the applications side of the AI equation. The AAAI-2000 exhibition will offer a wide variety of programs, including the Ninth Annual Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, the Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, the final round of the National Botball Tournament, and the finals of the AAAI-2000 Robot Building Laboratory contest.

AAAI President David L. Waltz presented the two new AAAI awards recently at AAAI-99 in Orlando, Florida. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2500. The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. The AAAI Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the first recipient of this award was Barbara J. Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science at Harvard University and a past president of AAAI. Grosz was honored for her contributions to the field of AI through sustained service in a multitude of academic, professional society, and government leadership roles at the local, national, and international levels, through which she has had a major effect on the field and on those working in it.

AAAI is pleased to announce the establishment of two new awards, to be presented annually at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (except in years when the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence is held in North America). This award will honor the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year. The 1999 award will be given to the most influential paper(s) from the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford, California.

RoboCup, World Cup Robot Soccer, is a task for a team of multiple, fastmoving robots in a dynamic environment. The first RoboCup Competition will be held as part of the special program at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, Japan, 23 to 29 August. There will be two tracks: one for physical robots and a second for software simulations. The Robo-Cup task offers opportunities for research on both the hardware and software aspects of multiagent systems. More information can be found at the RoboCup web site, http://www.robocup.org/RoboCup.

This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM-16 will be held May 17-20, 2016 in Cologne, Germany. AIIDE-16 will be held in October in the San Francisco Bay Area. HCOMP-16 will be held October 30-November 3 in Austin, Texas, USA.

Experts report on the latest artificial intelligence research concerning reasoning about reasoning itself. "This text provides a clear and systematic development of the essentials of mobile robotics. The second edition adds up-to-date material to a book that has already been adopted in robotics classes worldwide. With this guide in hand, students and readers will swiftly navigate the field toward more advanced systems." The author's Selective Tuning model of visual attention provides a framework that integrates the various expressions of visual attention and the biology of the visual system grounded in the logic of computation."

The AAAI-02 workshop program included 18 workshops covering a wide range of topics in AI. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the AAAI-02 Workshop Program on Sunday and Monday, 28-29 July 2002 at the Shaw Convention Center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The AAAI-02 workshop program included 18 workshops covering a wide range of topics in AI. The workshops were Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic-Commerce; Automation as a Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care; Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: From Interagent to Groups; Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments; Cognitive Robotics; Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents; Intelligent Service Integration; Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations; Meaning Negotiation; Multiagent Modeling and Simulation of Economic Systems; Ontologies and the Semantic Web; Planning with and for Multiagent Systems; Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches; Probabilistic Approaches in Search; Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems; Semantic Web Meets Language Resources; and Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. Spatial and Temporal Reasoning Technical reports containing the papers of these workshops are available from AAAI Press.

For example, an ASP program encoding a planning scenario has as many models as valid plans. This schema is similar to that underlying the application of propositional satisfiability (SAT) algorithms. In fact, the ranges of applicability of these two techniques are similar. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presented the 2001 Spring Symposium Series on Monday through Wednesday, 26 to 28 March 2001, at Stanford University. The symposium began with Bart Selman's invited lecture on randomized methods for SAT.

It was a pleasure to participate in the symposium entitled Building Dialogue Systems for Tutorial Applications along with 44 researchers from a variety of relevant application areas. The American Association for Artificial Intelligence presented the 2000 Fall Symposium Series was held on Friday through Sunday, 3 to 5 November, at the Sea Crest Oceanfront Conference Center. "Is'hintify' an acceptable morphological construction in standard English?" Nine working systems were showcased in two lively demo sessions. Knowing how to do things is an important category of knowledge underlying many kinds of intelligent behavior in artificial agents, such as critiquing, advice giving, tutoring, collaboration, and delegation.

Complex, real-world domains require rethinking traditional approaches to AI planning. Planning and executing the resulting plans in a dynamic environment implies a continual approach in which planning and execution are interleaved, uncertainty in the current and projected world state is recognized and handled appropriately, and replanning can be performed when the situation changes or planned actions fail. Furthermore, complex planning and execution problems may require multiple computational agents and human planners to collaborate on a solution. In this article, we describe a new paradigm for planning in complex, dynamic environments, which we term distributed, continual planning (DCP). We argue that developing DCP systems will be necessary for planning applications to be successful in these environments.