Planning under Uncertainty in Dynamic Domains - Carnegie Mellon ...

AcknowledgmentsMany, many people have helped me with the ideas and presentation of this thesis.Of course my committeehave been great at both generating and rening ideas: JaimeCarbonell, Manuela Veloso, Reid Simmons and Judea Pearl. Jaime and Manuela inparticular have been very instrumental in the work. The Prodigy project over theyears has always been an excellent group of people to work with. Alicia Perez, MeiWang, Mike Cox, Scott Reilly, Eugene Fink, Rujith de Silva, Karen Haigh, PeterStone and Will Uther all gave mevaluable feedback in many meetings. Eugene andMike greatly improved the thesis with their detailed comments. Outside the Prodigygroup, Lonnie Chrisman, Sven Koenig, Rich Goodwin, John Mount, Bryan Loyall,Gary Pelton, Mike Williamson, Steve Hanks, Martha Pollack, Steve Chien, LouisePryor and Robert Goldman have been sources of inspiration and of many usefulconversations. The AI group at NASA Ames provided a great environment to homein on a thesis topic over the summer, with help from Steve Minton, Mark Drummondand Peter Cheeseman. I owe the greatest debt of thanks, though, to my wife Cathy,whose love and support allowed me to nish this thesis and laugh about it afterwards.xvii