The Ninth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Ted E. Senator and Bruce G. Buchanan
July 27–31, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This proceedings is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
AAAI Organization / xxi
Corporate Sponsors / xxiv
Preface / xxv
AAAI-97 / IAAI-97 Program Committee / xxviii
Deployed Applications
Pimtool, An Expert System
to Troubleshoot Computer Hardware Failures / 852
Narendra Dev and Bart Anderson, Hewlett-Packard Company
Case and Constraint-Based
Apartment Construction Project Planning System: FASTrak-APT / 861
Kyoung Jun Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Hyun
Woo Kim, Hyundai Information Technology, Co. Ltd.; Jae Kyu Lee, Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology; Tae Hwan Kim, Hyundai Engineering and
Construction, Co., Ltd.; Chang Gon Kim, Hyundai Information Technology,
Co. Ltd.; Myoung Kyun Yoon, Eui Jun Hwang and Hyun Jeong Park, Hyundai Engineering
and Construction, Co., Ltd.
PST: The Provider Selection
Tool / 867
Howard Marmorstein, Jayesh Ghia, Sandeep Sathaye, Akshay Gupta and Eva
Baron-Vartian, Oxford Health Plans
Desktop Underwriter:
Fannie Mae’s Automated Mortgage Underwriting Expert System / 875
David W. McDonald, Fannie Mae; Charles O. Pepe, Brightware, Inc.; Henry
M. Bowers, Fannie Mae; and Edward J. Dombroski, The Parallax Corporation
Design of High Performance
Help Desk Application and Its Implementation Results / 883
Charles S. Moon, Thomas A. Shore, Gary Brophy and Dennis Koski, IBM Corporation
CREWS_NS: Scheduling
Train Crew in The Netherlands / 893
Ernesto M. Morgado and João P. Martins, SISCOG - Sistemas Cognitivos
Lda.
The Scheduling of Rail at
Union Pacific Railroad / 903
Kathleen Murphy, Elizabeth Ralston and David Friedlander, Brightware,
Inc.; Rodney Swab and Paul Steege, Union Pacific Railroad
SunRay V - An Intelligent
Container Trucking Operations Management and Control System / 913
Ian Ng, Andrew Gill, Ian Chia, Mei-Leng Koh and Chris Yeung, Clarity
Systems Pte Ltd.; Lih-Wee Chew, Information Technology Institute
DISXPERT: A Social Security
Disability Screening Expert System / 919
James R. Nolan, Siena College
STHANA: Profitability Forecast
and Situation Analysis for Automated Teller Machines / 926
Cyril Way, ISoft
ChemReg: Using Case-Based
Reasoning to Support Health and Safety Compliance in the Chemical Industry
/ 932
Kirk D. Wilson, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Emerging Applications
The Role of WordNet in the
Creation of a Trainable Message Understanding System / 941
Amit Bagga, Joyce Yue Chai and Alan W. Biermann, Duke University
Using a Robot Control Architecture
to Automate Space Shuttle Operations / 949
R. Peter Bonasso and David Kortenkamp, NASA Johnson Space Center; Troy
Whitney, North Dakota State University
Anymation with CATHI
/ 957
Andreas Butz, DFKI
Automated Generation of
Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas / 963
S. Chien, A. Govindjee, T. Estlin, X. Wang and R. Hill, Jr., Jet Propulsion
Laboratory/California Institute of Technology
Building Brains for Rooms:
Designing Distributed Software Agents / 971
Michael H. Coen, Massachusetts Intitute of Technology
Mulitmodal Interaction for
Distributed Interactive Simulation / 978
Philip R. Cohen, Michael Johnston, David McGee, Sharon Oviatt, Jay Pittman,
Ira Smith, Liang Chen and Josh Clow, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science
and Technology
ADDVAC: Applying Active
Design Documents for the Capture, Retrieval and Use of Rationale during
Offshore Platform VAC Design / 986
Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Joper Cezar de Andrade, Rogério
Ferreira Rodrigues and Ricardo Moura, Universidade Federal Fluminense
MITA: An Information Extraction
Approach to Analysis of Free-Form Text in Life Insurance Applications
/ 992
Barry Glasgow and Alan Mandell, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company;
Dan Binney, Lila Ghemri and David Fisher, Brightware, Inc.
Blackboard Agents for Mixed-Initiative
Management of Integrated Process-Planning/Production-Scheduling Solutions
across the Supply Chain / 1000
David W. Hildum and Norman M. Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University; Thomas
J. Laliberty and John McA'Nulty, Raytheon Company; Stephen F. Smith and
Dag Kjenstad, Carnegie Mellon University
Intelligent Agents for the
Synthetic Battlefield: A Company of Rotary Wing Aircraft / 1006
Randall W. Hill, Jr., Johnny Chen, Jonathan Gratch, Paul Rosenbloom and
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Information Extraction
Based Multiple-Category Document Classification for the Global Legal Information
Network / 1013
Richard D. Holowczak and Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University
An Intelligent Control Architecture
for Accelerator Beamline Tuning / 1019
William B. Klein and Carl R. Stern, Vista Control Systems, Inc; George
F. Luger and Eric T. Olsson, University of New Mexico
Attitude and Position Control
Using Real-Time Color Tracking / 1026
David P. Miller, Anne Wright and Randy Sargent, KISS Institute for Practical
Robotics; Rob Cohen and Teresa Hunt, University of Maryland
A Hybrid Architecture
for Real-Time Mixed-Initiative Planning and Control / 1032
Steven W. Mitchell, Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Inc.
Intelligent Command Control
for VLSI CAD Systems / 1038
Motohide Otsubo, Satoru Fujita and Toru Yamanouchi, NEC Corporation
A Generic Knowledge-Base
Browser and Editor / 1045
Suzanne M. Paley, John D. Lowrance and Peter D. Karp, SRI International
Multiple Fault Diagnosis
from FMEA / 1052
Chris Price and Neil Taylor, University of Wales
Smokey: Automatic Recognition
of Hostile Messages / 1058
Ellen Spertus, Microsoft Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and University of Washington
MultiADD: A Multiagent
Active Design Document Model to Support Group Design / 1066
Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua and Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia, Universidade
Federal Fluminense
Rationale-Supported Mixed-Initiative
Case-Based Planning / 1072
Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University; Alice M. Mulvehill, BBN;
Michael T. Cox, Carnegie Mellon University
IDS: Improving Aircraft
Fleet Maintenance / 1078
Rob Wylie, Robert Orchard, Michael Halasz and François Dubé,
National Research Council of Canada
Index
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