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Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence The Sixth Symposium on Educational Advances in AI AAAI-16 / IAAI-16 / EAAI-16 Program February 12–17, 2016 Phoenix Convention Center / Hyatt Regency Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Cosponsored by AI Journal, the National Science Foundation, Baidu, IBM Research, Infosys, Lionbridge, Microsoft Research, Disney Research, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, Yahoo Labs!, ACM/SIGAI, CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and David E. Smith MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING (AFTER 5:00 PM) Friday, February 12 Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Student Welcome Reception Workshops Workshops AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC Saturday, February 13 Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Speed Dating Workshops Workshops Opening Reception AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC EAAI EAAI Open House Invited Talks Open House Robotics Exhibits Robotics Exhibits Sunday, February 14 AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards Lunch with a Fellow Presidential Address: Dietterich IAAI Invited Talk: Rao AAAI Invited Talk: Krause AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AI Job Fair Classic Paper/Robotics Talks What’s Hot Talks / Robotics Talks Poster / Demo Session 1 EAAI EAAI Fellows Dinner Robotics/Vendor Exhibits Robotics/Vendor Exhibits Video Competition Viewing Video Competition Viewing Monday, February 15 Women’s Mentoring Breakfast AAAI Invited Talk: Bostrom AI Labor Panel AAAI Invited Talk: Murphy AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AAAI / IAAI Technical Program Robotics Talks Engelmore Award Lecture: Smith Senior Member Blue Sky Talks Lunch with a Fellow Student Abstract Spotlights Robotics/Vendor Exhibits Poster / Demo Session 2 Robotics/Vendor Exhibits Video Competition Awards Game Night Video Competition Viewing Video Competition Viewing Tuesday, February 16 AAAI Conference Awards / Lunch with a Fellow AAAI Community Meeting Allen AI Science Challenge Award AAAI / IAAI Technical Program Autonomous Flight Panel AAAI Invited Talk: Hassabis Senior Member / What’s Hot Talks Poster / Demo Session 3 What’s Hot Talks Video Competition Viewing Video Competition Viewing Robotics / Vendor Exhibits Robotics / Vendor Exhibits Wednesday, February 17 Invited Talk: Tomlin AAAI Technical Program What’s Hot Talks 2 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE Contents Sponsoring Organizations AAAI Community Meeting / 6 AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the AAAI Presidential Address / 9 following organizations and individuals to AAAI-16: Acknowledgments / 3–4 Platinum Sponsors AI Journal AI Job Fair / 6 National Science Foundation AI Labor Market Panel / 8 Gold Sponsors AI Video Competition / 5 Baidu IBM Research Autonomous Flight Panel / 8 Infosys Awards / 4–5 Silver Sponsors Conference at a Glance / 2 Lionbridge Microsoft Research Doctoral Consortium / 5 Bronze Sponsors EAAI-16 Program / 11 Disney Research Exhibition / 10-11 University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute Yahoo Labs! Games Night / 5, 6 General Sponsors IAAI-16 Program / 13–22 ACM/SIGAI Invited Presentations / 8–9 CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) David E. Smith Maps / 12, 16, 20 Open House / 5–6 Poster / Demo Sessions / 5, 16, 20, 24 Registration / 12 Acknowledgments Research Speed Dating / 6 The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the following indi- viduals for their generous contributions of time and energy to the successful creation and planning of the Thir- Robotics Events / 9 tieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applica- tions of Artificial Intelligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-16 and IAAI-16 Program Committee members Senior Member / Blue Sky Program / 8 appears in the conference proceedings.) Social Events / 5 AAAI Conference Committee Integrated AI Capabilities Track Cochairs Special Meetings / 6 Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University, Sweden) AAAI Conference Committee Chair Malik Ghallab (LAAS-CNRS, France) Sponsors / 3 Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Senior Member Track Cochairs Amherst, USA) Student Activities / 5–6 Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel) AAAI-16 Program Cochairs Jeffrey Mark Siskind (Purdue University, USA) Student Abstracts / 6 Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta, Canada) What’s Hot Cochairs Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA) Talk Length Key / 12 Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) IAAI-16 Chair and Cochair Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Technical Program / 13–24 Peter Z. Yeh (Nuance Communications, USA) Tutorial Cochairs James Crawford (Orbital Insight, USA) Tutorial Forum / 7 Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland) EAAI-16 Symposium Cochairs Mausam (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, What’s Hot Talks / 8 Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, India) USA) Workshop Cochairs Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 6 Todd Neller Gettysburg College, USA) Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas Workshop Program / 7 Cognitive Systems Track Cochairs El Paso, USA) David Leake (University of Indidana, USA) Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon, USA) James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Computational Sustainability Track Cochairs David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) David Roberts (North Carolina State University, Claire Monteleoni (George Washington University, USA) USA) CONTENTS / SPONSORS / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Rome La Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Daniele Magazzeni (King’s College London, UK) Sapienza, Italy) Award and Lecture Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management Daniel D. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA) The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by University, Singapore) Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California, IAAI-16 and AI Magazine, and will be presented by Student Outreach Cochairs USA) Peter Yeh and James Crawford, IAAI-16 chair and Eric Poe Xing (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) cochair, and David B. Leake, editor-in-chief, AI Sriraam Natarajan (Indiana University, USA) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Magazine. The award and lecture was established in William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA) 2003 to honor Dr. Engelmore’s extraordinary ser- Senior Member Recognition vice to AAAI, AI Magazine, and the AI applications Open House Chair AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected 2016 community, and his contributions to applied AI. Jingrui He (Arizona State University, USA) AAAI senior member, who is being recognized for The 2016 award will be presented to Reid G. Smith his long-term participation in AAAI and his distinc- (i2k Connect) for pioneering research contributions Demos Chair tion in the field of artificial intelligence. and high-impact applications in knowledge man- Daniel Lizotte (University of Western Ontario, Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire, USA) agement and for extensive contributions to AAAI, Canada) including educating and inspiring the broader com- Robotics Cochairs Classic Paper Awards munity about AI through AITopics. The lecture will be held on Monday, February 15, 5:10 PM, in West Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham, UK) The 2016 AAAI Classic Paper awards honor the au- 101ABC on the first level of the Phoenix Convention George Konidaris (Duke University, USA) thors of the following two paper(s) deemed most in- fluential from the Fifteenth National Conference on Center. (See lecture description on page 9.) Video Competition Cochairs Artificial Intelligence, held in 1998 in Madison, Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol, UK) Wisconsin, USA. IAAI-16 Deployed Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology) 2016 AAAI Classic Paper Awards Applications Awards The three IAAI-16 Deployed Application Awards Women’s Mentoring Breakfast Cochairs and The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Organizers Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dirk will be announced during the Opening Ceremony Hähnel, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Dirk Schulz, Walter on Sunday, February 14 by IAAI-16 Chair Peter Yeh Amy McGovern (University of Oklahoma, USA) Steiner, and Sebastian Thrun and Cochair James Crawford. Certificates will be Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) For significant contributions to probabilistic robot presented during paper sessions. Sarah Brown (Northeastern University, USA) navigation and the integration with high-level plan- Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protec- Marzyeh Ghassemi (Massachusetts Institute of ning methods. tion Assistant for Wildlife Security Technology, USA) Boosting Combinatorial Search through Randomiza- Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, tion Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, AI’s Impact on Labor Markets Panel Chair Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, and Henry Kautz Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux Toby Walsh (Data61, Australia) For significant contributions to the area of automated Ontology Re-Engineering: A Case Study from the Au- reasoning and constraint solving through the intro- tomotive Industry Autonomous Flight Panel Cochairs duction of randomization and restarts into complete Nestor Rychtyckyj, Baskaran Sankaranarayanan, P Sreenivasa Kumar, Deepak Khemani, Mykel Kochenderfer