Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the new Millenium

Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium offers a unique presentation of the entire spectrum of ongoing research in Artificial Intelligence. Each self-contained chapter is based on a presentation given at IJCAI 2001.

The speakers, all leading researchers in their fields, were chosen by the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Track Committee because of their outstanding work in robotics, vision, knowledge representation, machine learning, planning and other areas of AI research. The authors have broadened the scope of their original presentations and have updated and revised their talks especially for this publication.

Individually, the lectures provide a significant exploration of a key area in AI research. Taken together they offer a rich survey of the field as a whole: its core issues, progress, and future directions.

Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the New Millennium provides researchers and graduate students in AI with essential reading that fosters discussion across the sub-areas of AI.

Gerhard Lakemeyer leads the Knowledge-Based Systems group at Aachen University of Technology where he is an associate professor of computer science. His research focuses on knowledge representation, cognitive robotics in artificial intelligence, and applying logics of action to the control of mobile robots and to requirements engineering. Dr. Lakemeyer is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence.

Bernhard Nebel chairs the Artificial Intelligence Research group at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. He is also a member of the IJCAI Inc. board of trustees, the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence and AI Communication, and the advisory board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning.