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Acknowledgments
AI Video Competition
Awards
Computer Poker Competition
Conference at a Glance
Doctoral Consortium
Exhibition
General Game Playing Competition
General Information
Intelligent Systems Demonstrations
Invited Talks
Man vs. Machine Poker Challenge
Posters
Registration
Robot Competition and Exhibition
Social Events
Special Meetings
Sponsoring Organizations
Technical Program
Trading Agents Competition
Tutorial Forum
Workshop Program
AAAI-07 / IAAI-07 Conference at a Glance
Sunday, July 22
Monday, July 23
- Registration
- Opening Reception
- AAAI Business Meeting
- Video Competition
- Tutorial Forum
- Man Versus Machine Poker Challenge
- Workshops
- AAAI/SIGART DC
- Game Playing Competition
Tuesday, July 24
- Registration
- AAAI-07 Presidential Address and IAAI-07 Invited Talks
- AAAI-07 and IAAI-07 Technical Program
- Exhibits and Robots
- Poker Competition
- Man Versus Machine Exhibition
- Trading Agent Competition
Wednesday, July 25
- Registration
- Posters/Demo Reception
- AAAI-07 and IAAI-07 Invited Talks
- AAAI-07 and IAAI-07 Technical Program
- Exhibits and Robots
- Poker Tournament
- Man Versus Machine Exhibition
- Trading Agent Competition
Thursday, July 26
AAAI-07 / IAAI-07 Technical Program Schedule
Monday, July 23
6:00–7:00 pm
AAAI-07 Opening Reception
Tuesday, July 24
8:30–9:00 am
AAAI-07/IAAI-07 Opening Ceremony
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Outstanding Award Presentations — Papers, SPC Member, PC Member
Robert C. Holte and Adele Howe, AAAI-07 Program Cochairs
Regency Ballroom
IAAI Welcome, Robert S. Engelmore Award, Deployed Application Award Announcements
William Cheetham, IAAI-07 Conference Chair, Mehmet Goker, IAAI-07 Program Cochair, and David Leake, AI Magazine Editor-in-Chief
Regency Ballroom
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
Toby Walsh, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Regency Ballroom
AAAI Classic Paper and Distinguished Service Awards
Ronald J. Brachman, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair
Alan Mackworth, AAAI President
Regency Ballroom
9:00–10:00 am
AAAI Presidential Address
Agents, Bodies, Constraints and Dynamics
Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia)
Regency Ballroom
10:20–11:20 am
AI and the Web: Semantic Web
Session Chair: Thomas Lukasiewicz
Regency A
Towards Large Scale Argumentation Support on the Semantic Web
Iyad Rahwan, Fouad Zablith, Chris Reed
Making the Difference in Semantic Web Service Composition
Freddy Lécue, Alexandre Delteil
Partial Matchmaking using Approximate Subsumption
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Constraint Reasoning-1
Session Chair: Toby Walsh
Regency C
Learning to Solve QBF
Horst Samulowitz, Roland Memisevic
Combining Multiple Heuristics Online
Matthew Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Smith
Restart Schedules for Ensembles of Problem Instances
Matthew Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Smith
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Session Chair: Jim Delgrande
Regency F
A Temporal Mereology for Distinguishing between Integral Objects and Portions of Stuff
Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly
Forgetting Actions in Domain Descriptions
Esra Erdem, Paolo Ferraris
A Generalized Gelfond-Lifschitz Transformation for Logic Programs with Abstract Constraints
Yi-Dong Shen, Jia-Huai You
Unsupervised Learning-1
Session Chair: Kagan Tumer
Georgia A
A Meta-learning Approach for Selecting between Response Automation Strategies in a Help-desk Domain
Yuval Marom, Ingrid Zukerman, Nathalie Japkowicz
Nectar: Manifold Denoising as Preprocessing for Finding Natural Representations of Data
Matthias Hein, Markus Maier
COD: Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
Tomás Singliar, Denver H. Dash
Multiagent Systems
Session Chair: Shlomo Zilberstein
Regency D
A Multi-Dimensional Trust Model for Heterogeneous Contract Observations
Steven Reece, Stephen Roberts, Alex Rogers, Nicholas R. Jennings
Improved State Estimation in Multiagent Settings with Continuous or Large Discrete State Spaces
Prashant Doshi
An α-approximation Protocol for the Generalized Mutual Assignment Problem
Katsutoshi Hirayama
POMDPs
Session Chair: Sridhar Mahadevan
Georgia B
Indefinite-Horizon POMDPs with Action-Based Termination
Eric A. Hansen
Scaling Up: Solving POMDPs through Value Based Clustering
Yan Virin, Guy Shani, Solomon Eyal Shimony, Ronen Brafman
Point-Based Policy Iteration
Shihao Ji, Ronald Parr, Hui Li, Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin
Human Studies
Session Chair: Brian Scassellati
Regency E
Humans Perform Semi-Supervised Classification Too
Xiaojin Zhu, Timothy Rogers, Ruichen Qian, Chuck Kalish
Modeling Reciprocal Behavior in Human Bilateral Negotiation
Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer
Nectar: Using Eye-Tracking Data for High-Level User Modeling in Adaptive Interfaces
Cristina Conati, Christina Merten, Saleema Amershi, Kasia Muldner
Machine Learning (IAAI)
Session Chair: Samy Uthurusamy
Regency B
Emerging: Stochastic Optimization for Collision Selection in High Energy Physics
Shimon Whiteson, Daniel Whiteson
Emerging: Adaptive Timeout Policies for Fast Fine-Grained Power Management
Branislav Kveton, Prashant Gandhi, Georgios Theocharous, Shie Mannor, Barbara Rosario, Nilesh Shah
11:30 am–12:30 pm
AI and the Web: Wikipedia
Session Chair: James Fan
Regency A
Deriving a Large-Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
Relation Extraction from Wikipedia Using Subtree Mining
Dat P. T. Nguyen, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka
Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: An Illustration with Wikipedia
Yann Ollivier, Pierre Senellart
Consistency and Resolution
Session Chair: Willem-Jan van Hoeve
Regency C
Data Structures for Generalised Arc Consistency for Extensional Constraints
Ian P. Gent, Chris Jefferson, Ian Miguel, Peter Nightingale
Conservative Dual Consistency
Christophe Lecoutre, Stéphane Cardon, Julien Vion
Nectar: Refutation by Randomised General Resolution
Steven Prestwich, Inês Lynce
Fundamental Algorithms
Session Chair: Ashish Sabharwal
Regency F
Computational Aspects of Covering in Dominance Graphs
Felix Brandt, Felix Fischer
Graph Partitioning Based on Link Distributions
Bo Long, Mark (Zhongfei) Zhang, Philip S. Yu
Discovering Near Symmetry in Graphs
Maria Fox, Derek Long, Julie Porteous
Semisupervised Learning
Session Chair: Kiri Wagstaff
Georgia A
Improving Learning in Networked Data by Combining Explicit and Mined Links
Sofus A. Macskassy
Semi-supervised Learning by Mixed Label Propagation
Wei Tong, Rong Jin
Semi-Supervised Learning with Very Few Labeled Training Examples
Zhi-Hua Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan, Qiang Yang
Negotiation
Session Chair: Shlomo Zilberstein
Regency D
On the Benefits of Exploiting Underlying Goals in Argument-based Negotiation
Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Frank Dignum
Reasoning about Bargaining Situations
Dongmo Zhang
Heuristic Search-1
Session Chair: Rich Korf
Georgia B
Near-Optimal Search in Continuous Domains
Samuel Ieong, Nicolas Lambert, Yoav Shoham, Ronen Brafman
Parallel Structured Duplicate Detection
Rong Zhou, Eric A. Hansen
Best-First Search for Treewidth
P. Alex Dow, Richard E. Korf
Integrated Intelligence: Spatial Cognition
Session Chair: Benjamin Kuipers
Regency E
Spatial Representation and Reasoning for Human-Robot Collaboration
William G. Kennedy, Magdalena D. Bugajska, Matthew Marge, William Adams, Benjamin R. Fransen, Dennis Perzanowski, Alan C. Schultz, J. Gregory Trafton
An Integrated Robotic System for Spatial Understanding and Situated Interaction in Indoor Environments
Hendrik Zender, Patric Jensfelt, Óscar Martínez Mozos, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Wolfram Burgard
Predicate Projection in a Bimodal Spatial Reasoning System
Samuel Wintermute, John E. Laird
Space Applications (IAAI)
Session Chair: Samy Uthurusamy
Regency B
Emerging: Machine Learning for Automatic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces
Tomasz F. Stepinski, Soumya Ghosh, Ricardo Vilalta
Deployed: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research
Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, Don Middleton
1:50–2:50 pm
AI and the Web: User Interactions
Session Chair: Vinay Chaudhri
Regency A
Modeling Contextual Factors of Click Rates
Hila Becker, Christopher Meek, David Maxwell Chickering
KA-CAPTCHA: An Opportunity for Knowledge Acquisition on the Web
Bruno Norberto da Silva, Ana Cristina Bicharra Garcia
PhotoSlap: A Multi-player Online Game for Semantic Annotation
Chien-Ju Ho, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu
NL-Based Inference
Session Chair: TBA
Regency C
Semantic Inference at the Lexical-Syntactic Level
Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental, Eyal Shnarch
Recognizing Textual Entailment Using a Subsequence Kernel Method
Rui Wang, Günter Neumann
Nectar: Learning and Inference for Hierarchically Split PCFGs
Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
Causal Models
Session Chair: Denver Dash
Regency F
On the Identification of a Class of Linear Models
Jin Tian
Possibilistic Causal Networks for Handling Interventions: A New Propagation Algorithm
Salem Benferhat, Salma Smaoui
Learning Causal Models for Noisy Biological Data Mining: An Application to Ovarian Cancer Detection
Ghim-Eng Yap, Ah-Hwee Tan, Hwee-Hwa Pang
Reinforcement Learning-1
Session Chair: Shimon Whiteson
Georgia A
Nectar: Temporal Difference and Policy Search Methods for Reinforcement Learning: An Empirical Comparison
Matthew E. Taylor, Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Polynomial Interaction Complexity for Only-Costly-Observable MDPs
Roy Fox, Moshe Tennenholtz
Compact Spectral Bases for Value Function Approximation Using Kronecker Factorization
Jeff Johns, Sridhar Mahadevan, Chang Wang
Mechanism Design-1
Session Chair: Jeff Rosenschein
Regency D
Implementing the Maximum of Monotone Algorithms
Liad Blumrosen
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert Kleinberg, Tuomas Sandholm
An Ironing-Based Approach to Adaptive Online Mechanism Design in Single-Valued Domains
David C. Parkes, Quang Duong
Heuristic Search-2
Session Chair: Rich Korf
Georgia B
Domain-Independent Construction of Pattern Database Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Planning
Patrik Haslum, Adi Botea, Malte Helmert, Blai Bonet, Sven Koenig
Theta*: Any-Angle Path Planning on Grids
Alex Nash, Kenny Daniel, Sven Koenig, Ariel Felner
On the Value of Good Advice: The Complexity of A* Search with Accurate Heuristics
Hang Dinh, Alexander Russell, Yuan Su
Localization
Session Chair: Maria Gini
Regency E
Hybrid Inference for Sensor Network Localization Using a Mobile Robot
Dimitrios Marinakis, David Meger, Ioannis Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek
Online Co-Localization in Indoor Wireless Networks by Dimension Reduction
Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Qiang Yang, Sinno Jialin Pan
Adaptive Localization in a Dynamic WiFi Environment through Multi-view Learning
Sinno Jialin Pan, James T. Kwok, Qiang Yang, Jeffrey Junfeng Pan
Invited Talk (IAAI)
Revolutionizing Prostheses: A Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Geoffrey S. F. Ling (DARPA)
Regency B
3:00–4:00 pm
AI and the Web: Supporting Business
Session Chair: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Regency A
Towards Efficient Dominant Relationship Exploration of the Product Items on the Web
Zhenglu Yang, Lin Li, Botao Wang, Masaru Kitsuregawa
Design of a Mechanism for Promoting Honesty in E-Marketplaces
Jie Zhang, Robin Cohen
Representing and Reasoning about Commitments in Business Processes
Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Munindar P. Singh
Information Gathering
Session Chair: TBA
Regency C
Nonmyopic Informative Path Planning in Spatio-Temporal Models
Alexandra Meliou, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Joseph M. Hellerstein
Purely Epistemic Markov Decision Processes
Régis Sabbadin, Jérôme Lang, Nasolo Ravoanjanahry
VOILA: Efficient Feature-value Acquisition for Classification
Mustafa Bilgic, Lise Getoor
Action/Agent Logics
Session Chair: Iyad Rahwan
Regency F
A Logic of Agent Programs
N. Alechina, M. Dastani, B. S. Logan, J.-J. Ch. Meyer
Optimal Regression for Reasoning about Knowledge and Actions
Hans van Ditmarsch, Andreas Herzig, Tiago de Lima
ESP: A Logic of Only-Knowing, Noisy Sensing and Acting
Alfredo Gabaldon, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Transfer Learning
Session Chair: Pedro Domingos
Georgia A
Measuring the Level of Transfer Learning by an AP Physics Problem-Solver
Matthew Klenk, Kenneth D. Forbus
Mapping and Revising Markov Logic Networks for Transfer Learning
Lilyana Mihalkova, Tuyen Huynh, Raymond J. Mooney
Transferring Naive Bayes Classifiers for Text Classification
Wenyuan Dai, Gui-Rong Xue, Qiang Yang, Yong Yu
Auctions
Session Chair: Jeff Rosenschein
Regency D
Nectar: Making VCG More Robust in Combinatorial Auctions via Submodular Approximation
Makoto Yokoo, Atsushi Iwasaki
Valuation Uncertainty and Imperfect Introspection in Second-Price Auctions
David R. M. Thompson, Kevin Leyton-Brown
Revenue Monotonicity in Combinatorial Auctions
Baharak Rastegari, Anne Condon, Kevin Leyton-Brown
Optimal Planning
Session Chair: Joerg Hoffmann
Georgia B
Filtering, Decomposition and Search Space Reduction for Optimal Sequential Planning
Stéphane Grandcolas, Cyril Pain-Barre
Planning as Satisfiability with Preferences
Enrico Giunchiglia, Marco Maratea
Asymptotically Optimal Encodings of Conformant Planning in QBF
Jussi Rintanen
Probabilistic Methods-1
Session Chair: Denver Dash
Regency E
Best-First AND/OR Search for Graphical Models
Radu Marinescu, Rina Dechter
Sampling with Memoization
Avi Pfeffer
Generalized Evidence Pre-propagated Importance Sampling for Hybrid Bayesian Networks
Changhe Yuan, Marek J. Druzdzel
Medical Applications (IAAI)
Session Chair: Randy Hill
Regency B
Deployed: Biomind ArrayGenius and GeneGenius: Web Services Offering Microarray and SNP Data Analysis via Novel Machine Learning Methods
Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Lucio Coelho, Leonardo Shikida, Murilo Queiroz
Emerging: Real-Time Identification of Operating Room State from Video
Beenish Bhatia, Tim Oates, Yan Xiao, Peter Hu
4:20–5:20 pm
Planning on the Web
Session Chair: Craig Knoblock
Regency A
Senior Member: Model-lite Planning for the Web Age Masses: The Challenges of Planning with Incomplete and Evolving Domain Models
Subbarao Kambhampati
Web Service Composition as Planning, Revisited: In Between Background Theories and Initial State Uncertainty
Jörg Hoffmann, Piergiorgio Bertoli, Marco Pistore
AIW: A Planning Approach for Message-Oriented Semantic Web Service Composition
Zhen Liu, Anand Ranganathan, Anton Riabov
Search Algorithm Synthesis/Comparison
Session Chair: Steve Minton
Regency C
Nectar: An Experimental Comparison of Constraint Logic Programming and Answer Set Programming
Agostino Dovier, Andrea Formisano, Enrico Pontelli
Synthesis of Constraint-Based Local Search Algorithms from High-Level Models
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Laurent Michel
Automatic Algorithm Configuration Based on Local Search
Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Thomas Stützle
Models of Agency
Session Chair: Yoav Shoham
Regency F
A Logic of Emotions for Intelligent Agents
Bas R. Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Intention Guided Belief Revision
Timothy William Cleaver, Abdul Sattar
A Modal Logic for Beliefs and Pro Attitudes
Kaile Su, Abdul Sattar, Han Lin, Mark Reynolds
Collective Inference
Session Chair: Kagan Tumer
Georgia A
Joint Inference in Information Extraction
Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos
Cautious Inference in Collective Classification
Luke K. McDowell, Kalyan Moy Gupta, David W. Aha
Nectar: Online Collective Entity Resolution
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor
Game Theory-1
Session Chair: Sam Ieong
Regency D
A New Algorithm for Generating Equilibria in Massive Zero-Sum Games
Martin Zinkevich, Michael Bowling, Neil Burch
Learning Equilibrium in Resource Selection Games
Itai Ashlagi, Dov Monderer, Moshe Tennenholtz
On the Reasoning Patterns of Agents in Games
Avi Pfeffer, Ya'akov Gal
Vision
Session Chair: TBA
Georgia B
A Vision-Based System for a UGV to Handle a Road Intersection
Javed Ahmed, Mubarak Shah, Andrew Miller, Don Harper, M. N. Jafri
Photometric and Geometric Restoration of Document Images Using Inpainting and Shape-from-Shading
Li Zhang, Andy M. Yip, Chew Lim Tan
Detection of Multiple Deformable Objects using PCA-SIFT
Stefan Zickler, Alexei Efros
Integrated Intelligence: Learning/Teaching
Session Chair: Dragos Margineantu
Regency E
AAAI-07 Outstanding Paper
4: PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent
James Allen, Nathanael Chambers, George Ferguson, Lucian Galescu, Hyuckchul Jung, Mary Swift, William Taysom
Integrated Introspective Case-Based Reasoning for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Leen-Kiat Soh
Integrating Natural Language, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and Analogical Processing to Learn by Reading
Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek Sharma, Leo Ureel
Information Systems (IAAI)
Session Chair: Ted Senator
Regency B
Deployed: Using AI for e-Government Automatic Assessment of Immigration Application Forms
Andy Hon Wai Chun
Deployed: Journal-Ranking.com: An Online Interactive Journal Ranking System
Andrew Lim, Hong Ma, Qi Wen, Zhou Xu, Brenda Cheang, Bernard Tan, Wenbin Zhu
Wednesday, July 25
9:00–10:00 am
Invited Talks (AAAI)
Graph Identification
Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park)
Regency C
Logic for Automated Mechanism Design - A Progress Report
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
Regency D
Agents (IAAI)
Session Chair: Nestor Rychtyckyj
Regency B
Deployed: Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses
Peter R. Wurman, Raffaello D'Andrea, Mick Mountz
Emerging: A Multi-Agent Approach to Distributed Rendering Optimization
Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo, Gerhard Weiss, Luis Jimenez, David Vallejo
10:20–11:20 am
AI and the Web: Trust and Authority
Session Chair: Robin Cohen
Regency A
SUNNY: A New Algorithm for Trust Inference in Social Networks Using Probabilistic Confidence Models
Ugur Kuter, Jennifer Golbeck
From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking
Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison, Baoning Wu
Reasoning about Attribute Authenticity in a Web Environment
Thomas Wölfl
Constraint Reasoning-2
Session Chair: Steve Prestwich
Regency C
Propagating Knapsack Constraints in Sublinear Time
Irit Katriel, Meinolf Sellmann, Eli Upfal, Pascal Van Hentenryck
Dynamic DFS Tree in ADOPT-ing
Marius C. Silaghi, Makoto Yokoo
On the Partial Observability of Temporal Uncertainty
Michael D. Moffitt
Action/Agent Languages
Session Chair: Jussi Rintanen
Regency F
A Modular Action Description Language for Protocol Composition
Nirmit Desai, Munindar P. Singh
Expressiveness of ADL and Golog: Functions Make a Difference
Gabriele Röger, Bernhard Nebel
The Semantics of Variables in Action Descriptions
Vladimir Lifschitz, Wanwan Ren
Kernel Methods
Session Chair: Richard Maclin
Georgia A
A Randomized String Kernel and Its Application to RNA Interference
Shibin Qiu, Terran Lane, Ljubomir Buturovic
Kernel Regression with Order Preferences
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg
Nectar: The Pyramid Match: Efficient Learning with Partial Correspondences
Kristen Grauman
Agents Modeling Other Agents
Session Chair: Shlomo Zilberstein
Regency D
Approximate Solutions of Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams Using Model Clustering
Yifeng Zeng, Prashant Doshi, Qiongyu Chen
Minimal Mental Models
David V. Pynadath, Stacy C. Marsella
Incorporating Observer Biases in Keyhole Plan Recognition (Efficiently!)
Dorit Avrahami-Zilberbrand, Gal A. Kaminka
Sensor-Based Systems
Session Chair: Maria Gini
Georgia B
Nectar: Dominance and Equivalence for Sensor-Based Agents
Jason M. O'Kane, Steven M. LaValle
Topological Mapping with Weak Sensory Data
Gregory Dudek, Dimitri Marinakis
Simple Robots with Minimal Sensing: From Local Visibility to Global Geometry
Subhash Suri, Elias Vicari, Peter Widmayer
AI in Art and Science
Session Chair: TBA
Regency E
Recognition of Hand Drawn Chemical Diagrams
Tom Y. Ouyang, Randall Davis
Posterior Probability Profiles for the Automated Assessment of the Recovery of Stroke Patients
Gert Van Dijck, Jo Van Vaerenbergh, Marc M. Van Hulle
A Corpus-Based Hybrid Approach to Music Analysis and Composition
Bill Manaris, Patrick Roos, Penousal Machado, Dwight Krehbiel, Luca Pellicoro, Juan Romero
Invited Talk (IAAI)
Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture
AI in a Moore's Law World: the Stories of Farecast and KnowItAll
Oren Etzioni (University of Washington)
Regency B
11:30 am–12:30 pm
AI and the Web: Ontologies
Session Chair: Chris Welty
Regency A
Approximating OWL-DL Ontologies
Jeff Z. Pan, Edward Thomas
Repairing Ontology Mappings
Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Andrei Tamilin
A Semantic Importing Approach to Knowledge Reuse from Multiple Ontologies
Jie Bao, Giora Slutzki, Vasant Honavar
Constrained Optimization
Session Chair: K. Brent Venable
Regency C
Search Space Reduction and Russian Doll Search
Kenil C. K. Cheng, Roland H. C. Yap
Multi-Objective Russian Doll Search
Emma Rollon, Javier Larrosa
Computing Optimal Subsets
Maxim Binshtok, Ronen I. Brafman, Solomon E. Shimony, Ajay Martin, Craig Boutilier
Logic/Database Query Answering
Session Chair: Mirek Truszczynski
Regency F
Scalable Semantic Retrieval through Summarization and Refinement
Julian Dolby, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, Li Ma
Approximate Query Answering in Locally Closed Databases
Álvaro Cortés-Calabuig, Marc Denecker, Ofer Arieli, Maurice Bruynooghe
Facts Do Not Cease to Exist Because They Are Ignored: Relativised Uniform Equivalence with Answer-Set Projection
Johannes Oetsch, Hans Tompits, Stefan Woltran
Unsupervised Learning-2
Session Chair: Dragos Margineantu
Georgia A
Clustering with Local and Global Regularization
Fei Wang, Changshui Zhang, Tao Li
Isometric Projection
Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Jiawei Han
Discovering Multivariate Motifs using Subsequence Density Estimation and Greedy Mixture Learning
David Minnen, Charles L. Isbell, Irfan Essa, Thad Starner
Multiagent Coordination
Session Chair: Iyad Rahwan
Regency D
Anytime Coordination Using Separable Bilinear Programs
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
A Logical Theory of Coordination and Joint Ability
Hojjat Ghaderi, Hector Levesque, Yves Lespérance
Anytime Optimal Coalition Structure Generation
Talal Rahwan, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Viet D. Dang, Andrea Giovannucci, Nicholas R. Jennings
Games-1
Session Chair: Rich Korf
Georgia B
Visualization and Adjustment of Evaluation Functions Based on Evaluation Values and Win Probability
Shogo Takeuchi, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Kazunori Yamaguchi, Satoru Kawai
Heuristic Evaluation Functions for General Game Playing
James Clune
Fluxplayer: A Successful General Game Player
Stephan Schiffel, Michael Thielscher
Integrated Intelligence: Producing Pictures or Songs
Session Chair: Bryan Loyall
Regency E
A Text-to-Picture Synthesis System for Augmenting Communication
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Mohamed Eldawy, Charles R. Dyer, Bradley Strock
An Intelligent System for Chinese Calligraphy
Songhua Xu, Hao Jiang, Francis C. M. Lau, Yunhe Pan
Learning to Sing Like a Bird: The Self-Supervised Acquisition of Birdsong
Michael H. Coen
Decision Support (IAAI)
Session Chair: Reid Smith
Regency B
Deployed: MasDISPO: A Multiagent Decision Support System for Steel Production and Control
Sven Jacobi, Esteban León-Soto, Cristián Madrigal-Mora, Klaus Fischer
Emerging: Optimizing Anthrax Outbreak Detection Using Reinforcement Learning
Masoumeh T. Izadi, David L. Buckeridge
1:50–2:50 pm
AI and the Web: Networks and Semantics
Session Chair: TBA
Regency A
Provisioning Heterogeneous and Unreliable Providers for Service Workflows
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Payne
A Distributed Constraint Optimization Solution to the P2P Video Streaming Problem
Theodore Elhourani, Nathan Denny, Michael Marefat
GRIN : A Graph Based RDF Index
Octavian Udrea, Andrea Pugliese, V. S. Subrahmanian
Constraint Reasoning-3
Session Chair: Francesca Rossi
Regency C
Transposition Tables for Constraint Satisfaction
Christophe Lecoutre, Lakhdar Sais, Sébastien Tabary, Vincent Vidal
Representative Explanations for Over-Constrained Problems
Barry O'Sullivan, Alexandre Papadopoulos, Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu
Diagnosis of Discrete-Event Systems Using Satisfiability Algorithms
Alban Grastien, Anbulagan, Jussi Rintanen, Elena Kelareva
Reasoning with Beliefs
Session Chair: Mirek Truszczynski
Stanley, 34th Floor
Mutual Belief Revision: Semantics and Computation
Yi Jin, Michael Thielscher, Dongmo Zhang
An Egalitarist Fusion of Incommensurable Ranked Belief Bases under Constraints
Salem Benferhat, Sylvain Lagrue, Julien Rossit
Belief Change and Cryptographic Protocol Verification
Aaron Hunter, James P. Delgrande
Mathematical Programming
Session Chair: TBA
Georgia A
A Mathematical Programming Formulation for Sparse Collaborative Computer Aided Diagnosis
Jinbo Bi, Tao Xiong
Refining Rules Incorporated into Knowledge-Based Support Vector Learners Via Successive Linear Programming
Richard Maclin, Edward Wild, Jude Shavlik, Lisa Torrey, Trevor Walker
A Method for Large-Scale l1-Regularized Logistic Regression
Kwangmoo Koh, Seung-Jean Kim, Stephen Boyd
Mechanism Design-2
Session Chair: Jeff Rosenschein
Grouse, 34th Floor
Partial Revelation Automated Mechanism Design
Nathanaël Hyafil, Craig Boutilier
Strongly Decomposable Voting Rules on Multiattribute Domains
Lirong Xia, Jérôme Lang, Mingsheng Ying
Llull and Copeland Voting Broadly Resist Bribery and Control
Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Hemaspaandra, Lane A. Hemaspaandra, Jörg Rothe
Games-2
Session Chair: Nathan Sturtevant
Georgia B
M2ICAL Analyses HC-Gammon
Wee-Chong Oon, Martin Henz
Potential-Aware Automated Abstraction of Sequential Games, and Holistic Equilibrium Analysis of Texas Hold'em Poker
Andrew Gilpin, Tuomas Sandholm, Troels Bjerre Sørensen
Particle Filtering for Dynamic Agent Modelling in Simplified Poker
Nolan Bard, Michael Bowling
Probabilistic Methods-2
Session Chair: Thomas Lukasiewicz
Cypress, 34th Floor
Logical Generative Models for Probabilistic Reasoning about Existence, Roles and Identity
David Poole
Efficient Structure Learning in Factored-State MDPs
Alexander L. Strehl, Carlos Diuk, Michael L. Littman
Authorial Idioms for Target Distributions in TTD-MDPs
David L. Roberts, Sooraj Bhat, Kenneth St. Clair, Charles L. Isbell
Business Automation (IAAI)
Session Chair: Samy Uthurusamy
Regency B
Deployed: The VITA Financial Services Sales Support Environment
Alexander Felfernig, Klaus Isak, Kalman Szabo, Peter Zachar
Deployed: Custom DU(r) - A Web Based Business User Driven Automated Underwriting System
Srinivas Krovvidy, Robin Landsman, Steve Opdahl, Nancy Templeton, Sydnor Smalera
3:00–4:00 pm
AI and the Web: Language Technology
Session Chair: Chris Welty
Regency A
Improving Similarity Measures for Short Segments of Text
Wen-tau Yih, Christopher Meek
Topic Segmentation Algorithms for Text Summarization and Passage Retrieval: An Exhaustive Evaluation
Gaël Dias, Elsa Alves. José Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Robust Estimation of Google Counts for Social Network Extraction
Yutaka Matsuo, Hironori Tomobe, Takuichi Nishimura
CSPs
Session Chair: K. Brent Venable
Regency C
Using Expectation Maximization to Find Likely Assignments for Solving CSP's
Eric I. Hsu, Matthew Kitching, Fahiem Bacchus, Sheila A. McIlraith
On Balanced CSPs with High Treewidth
Carlos Ansótegui, Ramón Béjar, César Fernàndez, Carles Mateu
Inference Rules for High-Order Consistency in Weighted CSP
Carlos Ansótegui, María L. Bonet, Jordi Levy, Felip Manyà
Description Logics-1
Session Chair: Giuseppe De Giacomo
Stanley, 34th Floor
Complexity Boundaries for Horn Description Logics
Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler
DL-Lite in the Light of First-Order Logic
Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchakov, Michael Zakharyaschev
Answering Regular Path Queries in Expressive Description Logics: An Automata-Theoretic Approach
Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter, Magdalena Ortiz
Link Mining
Session Chair: Pedro Domingos
Georgia A
Probabilistic Community Discovery Using Hierarchical Latent Gaussian Mixture Model
Haizheng Zhang, C. Lee Giles, Henry C. Foley, John Yen
Relationship Identification for Social Network Discovery
Christopher P. Diehl, Galileo Namata, Lise Getoor
L2R: A Logical Method for Reference Reconciliation
Fatiha Saïs, Nathalie Pernelle, Marie Christine Rousset
Scheduling
Session Chair: David E. Smith
Grouse, 34th Floor
Understanding Performance Tradeoffs in Algorithms for Solving Oversubscribed Scheduling
Laurence A. Kramer, Laura V. Barbulescu, Stephen F. Smith
Randomized Adaptive Spatial Decoupling for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing with Time Windows
Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
Population-Based Simulated Annealing for Traveling Tournaments
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Yannis Vergados
Games-3
Session Chair: Bryan Loyall
Georgia B
Acquiring Visibly Intelligent Behavior with Example-Guided Neuroevolution
Bobby D. Bryant, Risto Miikkulainen
Nectar: Beyond Individualism: Modeling Team Playing Behavior in Robot Soccer through Case-Based Reasoning
Raquel Ros, Manuela Veloso, Ramon López de Mántaras, Carles Sierra, Josep Lluis Arcos
II: R-CAST: Integrating Team Intelligence for Human-Centered Teamwork
Xiaocong Fan, John Yen
Cognitive/Brain Models
Session Chair: Bill Swartout
Cypress, 34th Floor
Senior Member: On the Prospects for Building a Working Model of the Visual Cortex
Thomas Dean, Glenn Carroll, Richard Washington
A Connectionist Cognitive Model for Temporal Synchronisation and Learning
Luís C. Lamb, Rafael V. Borges, Artur S. d'Avila Garcez
Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory
Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka
Human Computer Interaction (IAAI)
Session Chair: Randy Hill
Regency B
Deployed: Enabling Intelligent Content Discovery on the Mobile Internet
Barry Smyth, Paul Cotter, Stephen Oman
Emerging: Supporting Feedback and Assessment of Digital Ink Answers to In-Class Exercises
Kimberle Koile, Kevin Chevalier, Michel Rbeiz, Adam Rogal, David Singer, Jordan Sorensen, Amanda Smith, Kah Seng Tay, Kenneth Wu
4:20–5:20 pm
Web Mining/Retrieval
Session Chair: Shieu-Hong Lin
Regency A
Mining Web Query Hierarchies from Clickthrough Data
Dou Shen, Min Qin, Weizhu Chen, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen
TableRank: A Ranking Algorithm for Table Search and Retrieval
Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles
Model Counting
Session Chair: Toby Walsh
Regency C
Approximate Counting by Sampling the Backtrack-free Search Space
Vibhav Gogate, Rina Dechter
Using More Reasoning to Improve #SAT Solving
Jessica Davies, Fahiem Bacchus
Counting CSP Solutions Using Generalized XOR Constraints
Carla P. Gomes, Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
Description Logics-2
Session Chair: Diego Calvenese
Stanley, 34th Floor
Description Logics for Multi-Issue Bilateral Negotiation with Incomplete Information
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M. Donini
On the Approximation of Instance Level Update and Erasure in Description Logics
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Antonella Poggi, Riccardo Rosati
On Capturing Semantics in Ontology Mapping
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Learning Semantics from Text
Session Chair: Shieu-Hong Lin
Georgia A
Learning Language Semantics from Ambiguous Supervision
Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney
A Robot That Uses Existing Vocabulary to Infer Non-Visual Word Meanings from Observation
Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
Nectar: Modeling and Learning Vague Event Durations for Temporal Reasoning
Feng Pan, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jerry R. Hobbs
Trading/Negotiating Agents
Session Chair: John Collins
Grouse, 34th Floor
Efficient Statistical Methods for Evaluating Trading Agent Performance
Eric Sodomka, John Collins, Maria Gini
Allocating Goods on a Graph to Eliminate Envy
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulle Endriss, Nicolas Maudet
Gender-Sensitive Automated Negotiators
Ron Katz, Sarit Kraus
Robots that Learn
Session Chair: Benjamin Kuipers
Georgia B
Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot
Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers
Stochastic Filtering in a Probabilistic Action Model
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Eyal Amir
Detecting Execution Failures Using Learned Action Models
Maria Fox, Jonathan Gough, Derek Long
Diagnosis
Session Chair: Martin Sachenbacher
Cypress, 34th Floor
A Qualitative Approach to Multiple Fault Isolation in Continuous Systems
Matthew Daigle, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas
Nectar: Efficient Datalog Abduction through Bounded Treewidth
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Fang Wei
A Spectrum of Symbolic On-line Diagnosis Approaches
Anika Schumann, Yannick Pencolé, Sylvie Thiébaux
Planning and Workflow (IAAI)
Session Chair: Reid Smith
Regency B
Emerging: Optimal Multi-Agent Scheduling with Constraint Programming
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Michele Lombardi
Emerging: Wings for Pegasus: Creating Large-Scale Scientific Applications Using Semantic Representations of Computational Workflows
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, Jihie Kim
6:30–10:00 pm
AAAI-07 Poster Demo Reception
Regency Ballroom
Thursday, July 26
9:00–10:00 am
Invited Talks (AAAI)
Moving Toward Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction
Alan C. Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory)
Regency C
Representing and Reasoning about Preferences
Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales)
Regency D
10:20–11:20 am
AI and the Web: Extraction and Understanding
Session Chair: Chris Welty
Regency A
Harvesting Relations from the Web - Quantifiying the Impact of Filtering Functions
Sebastian Blohm, Philipp Cimiano, Egon Stemle
Template-Independent News Extraction Based on Visual Consistency
Shuyi Zheng, Ruihua Song, Ji-Rong Wen
Comprehending and Generating Apt Metaphors: A Web-driven, Case-based Approach to Figurative Language
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
NL Summarization And Interfaces
Session Chair: TBA
Regency C
Turning Lectures into Comic Books Using Linguistically Salient Gestures
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis
Single Document Summarization with Document Expansion
Xiaojun Wan, Jianwu Yang
Enabling Domain-Awareness for a Generic Natural Language Interface
Yunyao Li, Ishan Chaudhuri, Huahai Yang, Satinder Singh, H. V. Jagadish
Modal Logic
Session Chair: Yves Lesperance
Regency F
Probabilistic Modal Logic
Afsaneh Shirazi, Eyal Amir
Prime Implicates and Prime Implicants in Modal Logic
Meghyn Bienvenu
The Modal Logic S4F, the Default Logic, and the Logic Here-and-There
Miroslaw Truszczynski
Training Sample Selection
Session Chair: Dragos Margineantu
Georgia A
Active Algorithm Selection
Feilong Chen, Rong Jin
Actively Exploring Creation of Face Space(s) for Improved Face Recognition
Nitesh V. Chawla, Kevin W. Bowyer
Nectar: Informed Case Base Maintenance: A Complexity Profiling Approach
Susan Craw, Stewart Massie, Nirmalie Wiratunga
Distributed AI
Session Chair: John Collins
Regency D
Centralized, Distributed or Something Else? Making Timely Decisions in Multi-Agent Systems
Tim Harbers, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro Szekely
Automatic Synthesis of a Global Behavior from Multiple Distributed Behaviors
Sebastian Sardina, Fabio Patrizi, Giuseppe De Giacomo
Agent Influence as a Predictor of Difficulty for Decentralized Problem-Solving
Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein
Planning Representation Issues
Session Chair: Jussi Rintanen
Georgia B
Action-Space Partitioning for Planning
Natalia H. Gardiol, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
Concurrent Action Execution with Shared Fluents
Michael Buro, Alexander Kovarsky
A Situation-Calculus Semantics for an Expressive Fragment of PDDL
Jens Claßen, Yuxiao Hu, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Probabilistic Methods-3
Session Chair: Xiaojin Zhu
Regency E
Macroscopic Models of Clique Tree Growth for Bayesian Networks
Ole J. Mengshoel
Nectar: A Kernel Approach to Comparing Distributions
Arthur Gretton, Karsten M. Borgwardt, Malte Rasch, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alexander J. Smola
Learning Graphical Model Structure Using L1-Regularization Paths
Mark Schmidt, Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil, Kevin Murphy
Invited Talk (IAAI)
Big "A," Small "I": Smart Ends from Simple Means
Matt Brown (Maxis / Electronic Arts)
Regency B
11:30 am–12:30 pm
AI and the Web: Reputation and Sentiment
Session Chair: TBA
Regency A
Unsupervised Shilling Detection for Collaborative Filtering
Bhaskar Mehta
Mobile Service for Reputation Extraction from Weblogs - Public Experiment and Evaluation
Takahiro Kawamura, Shinichi Nagano, Masumi Inaba, Yumiko Mizoguchi
The Impact of Time on the Accuracy of Sentiment Classifiers Created from a Web Log Corpus
Kathleen T. Durant, Michael D. Smith
NL Analysis
Session Chair: James Fan
Regency C
Disambiguating Noun Compounds
Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin
Content Analysis for Proactive Intelligence: Marshaling Frame Evidence
A. P. Sanfilippo, A. J. Cowell, S. C. Tratz, A. M. Boek, A. K. Cowell, C. Posse, L. C. Pouchard
Mining Sequential Patterns and Tree Patterns to Detect Erroneous Sentences
Guihua Sun, Gao Cong, Xiaohua Liu, Chin-Yew Lin, Ming Zhou
Argumentation
Session Chair: Iyad Rahwan
Regency F
Action-Based Alternating Transition Systems for Arguments about Action
Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon
Reasoning from Desires to Intentions: A Dialectical Framework
Nicolás D. Rotstein, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari
Real Arguments are Approximate Arguments
Anthony Hunter
Machine Learning
Session Chair: Kiri Wagstaff
Georgia A
Nectar: Learning by Combining Observations and User Edits
Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence Bergman, Daniel Oblinger
Multi-Label Learning by Instance Differentiation
Min-Ling Zhang, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Game Theory-2
Session Chair: Kevin Leyton-Brown
Regency D
AAAI-07 Outstanding Paper
324: Thresholded Rewards: Acting Optimally in Timed, Zero-Sum Games
Colin McMillen, Manuela Veloso
Computational Complexity of Weighted Threshold Games
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul Goldberg, Michael Wooldridge
A Unification of Extensive-Form Games and Markov Decision Processes
H. Brendan McMahan, Geoffrey J. Gordon
Optimization
Session Chair: Xiaojin Zhu
Georgia B
Nectar: Near-optimal Observation Selection using Submodular Functions
Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin
Solving a Stochastic Queueing Design and Control Problem with Constraint Programming
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck, Kenneth N. Brown
Evolutionary and Lifetime Learning in Varying NK Fitness Landscape Changing Environments: An Analysis of Both Fitness and Diversity
Dara Curran, Colm O'Riordan, Humphrey Sorensen
Integrated Intelligence: Integration Issues
Session Chair: Nick Cassimatis
Regency E
Extending Cognitive Architecture with Episodic Memory
Andrew M. Nuxoll, John E. Laird
Towards an Integrated Robot with Multiple Cognitive Functions
Nick Hawes, Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Michael Zillich, Henrik Jacobsson, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Michael Brenner, Gregor Berginc, Danijel Skocaj
An Architecture for Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids
Nicholas Cassimatis, Magdalena Bugajska, Scott Dugas, Arthi Murugesan, Paul Bello
Agents in Virtual Environments (IAAI)
Session Chair: Bill Cheetham
Regency B
Emerging: An Integrated Development Environment and Architecture for Soar-Based Agents
Ari Yakir, Gal Kaminka
Emerging: RETALIATE: Learning Winning Policies in First-Person Shooter Games
Megan Smith, Stephen Lee-Urban, Héctor Muñoz-Avila
1:50–2:50 pm
AI and the Web: Social Networks
Session Chair: Mark Greaves
Regency A
Extracting Influential Nodes for Information Diffusion on a Social Network
Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Ryohei Nakano
Temporal and Information Flow Based Event Detection from Social Text Streams
Qiankun Zhao, Prasenjit Mitra, Bi Chen
Analyzing Reading Behavior by Blog Mining
Tadanobu Furukawa, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Yutaka Matsuo, Ikki Ohmukai, Koki Uchiyama
Decision Diagrams
Session Chair: TBA
Regency C
Knowledge Compilation Properties of Tree-of-BDDs
Sathiamoorthy Subbarayan, Lucas Bordeaux, Youssef Hamadi
Compressing Configuration Data for Memory Limited Devices
Esben Rune Hansen, Peter Tiedemann
Interactive Configuration with Regular String Constraints
Esben Rune Hansen, Henrik Reif Andersen
Theory Merging
Session Chair: Dongmo Zhang
Regency F
A Model-based Approach for Merging Prioritized Knowledge Bases in Possibilistic Logic
Guilin Qi
Generality and Equivalence Relations in Default Logic
Katsumi Inoue, Chiaki Sakama
Equilibria in Heterogeneous Nonmonotonic Multi-Context Systems
Gerhard Brewka, Thomas Eiter
Reinforcement Learning-2
Session Chair: Shimon Whiteson
Georgia A
Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Relocatable Action Models
Bethany R. Leffler, Michael L. Littman, Timothy Edmunds
Active Imitation Learning
Aaron P. Shon, Deepak Verma, Rajesh P. N. Rao
Abstraction in Predictive State Representations
Vishal Soni, Satinder Singh
Game Theory-3
Session Chair: Sam Ieong
Regency D
Computing Pure Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Action Graph Games
Albert Xin Jiang, Kevin Leyton-Brown
The Impact of Network Topology on Pure Nash Equilibria in Graphical Games
Bistra Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal
Learning Voting Trees
Ariel D. Procaccia, Aviv Zohar, Yoni Peleg, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein
Heuristic Search-3
Session Chair: Sven Koenig
Georgia B
Inconsistent Heuristics
Uzi Zahavi, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer, Nathan Sturtevant
Analyzing the Performance of Pattern Database Heuristics
Richard E. Korf
Nectar: A* Search via Approximate Factoring
Aria Haghighi, John DeNero, Dan Klein
Knowledge Base Construction
Session Chair: James Fan
Regency E
ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
Brian Harrington, Stephen Clark
Learning Large Scale Common Sense Models of Everyday Life
William Pentney, Matthai Philipose, Jeff Bilmes, Henry Kautz
Learning by Reading: A Prototype System, Performance Baseline and Lessons Learned
Ken Barker, Bhalchandra Agashe, Shaw-Yi Chaw, James Fan, Noah Friedland, Michael Glass, Jerry Hobbs, Eduard Hovy, David Israel, Doo Soon Kim, Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Sourabh Patwardhan, Bruce Porter, Dan Tecuci, Peter Yeh
Machine Learning II (IAAI)
Session Chair: Nestor Rychtyckyj
Regency B
Emerging: Adaptive Traitor Tracing with Bayesian Networks
Philip Zigoris, Hongxia Jin
Deployed: Fish Inspection System Using a Parallel Neural Network Chip and Image Knowledge Builder Application
Anne Menendez, Guy Paillet