Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut. His research interests include planning and scheduling, preference modelling, machine learning and data mining, agents, and their real-world applications. Previously, Dr.Yorke-Smith was a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University and aResearch Scientist at SRI International, where he led design ofpersonalized intelligent agent technology. Dr. Yorke-Smith receivedhis Ph.D. from Imperial College London with thesis research focused onhandling uncertainty in business applications of constraint-basedreasoning.