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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I wouldlike to thank the AmericanAssociationfor Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)for organizingthis
workshopon Intelligent Adaptive Agents. I would like to thank the programcommitteemembers
for establishing this workshop,and providing valuable opinions and suggestions to meand to the
authors of accepted papers: Jaime Carbonell, Gerald DeJong, Tun Finin, Brian Gaines, Diana
Gordon, Yves Kodratoff, Ryszard Michalski, Ashwin Ram, Nigel Shadbolt, Reid Simmons,
Walter Vande Velde, Brad Whitehall, and Stefan Wrobel.
A special thanks to Diana Gordonfor helping with organizational issues of the workshop,and to
all other reviewers whohelped by reviewing the submitted papers: John Doulami, Anthony
Francis, ThomasHaynes, Eric Jones, MarkMaloof, Herve Mignot, Caroline Ravise, Juan Carlos
Santamada,Michele Sebag, Rahul Sukthankar, and Haleh Vafaie.
I wouldlike to thank the invited speakers, Barbara Hayes-Rothand Brian Gaines for their kind
commitmentto give talks at the workshop. I would like to thank the chairs of the discussion
sessions, Sandip Sen and Kerstin Voigt, for their effort to add more depth to the workshop
through a set of discussion sessions. I wouldalso like to thank all authors of submittedpapers for
their interest in the workshop
(see the author index).
I would also like to thank the AmericanAssociation for Artificial Intelligence (AAA1)for
sponsoring this workshop, and thank the AAAIPress for printing the working notes of the
workshop, Special thanks to Carol Hamilton, Subbarao Kambhampati,and the AAAIstaff for
their help. I would also like to thank the MachineLearning and Inference Laboratory and the
School of Information Technologyand Engineering at GeorgeMasonUniversity for supporting the
workshop, Thanks to AndrewSage and Ryszard Michalski.
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