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Program Committee Program Committee Program Committee Chair Mauricio Ayala-Rincón (Universidade de Brasilia) Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Haris Aziz (NICTA and University of New South Wales) Moshe Babaioff (Microso Research) Main Track Area Chairs Yoram Bachrach (Microso Research) Christopher Amato (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christer Bäckström (Linköping University) University of New Hampshire) Laura Barbulescu (Carnegie Mellon University) Roman Bartak (Charles University in Prague) Pablo Barcelo (Universidad de Chile) Christian Bessiere (CNRS) Leliane N. Barros (University of Sao Paulo) Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar) Peter Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley) Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo) Yiling Chen (Harvard University) Ralph Bergmann (University of Trier) Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University) Alina Beygelzimer (Yahoo! Labs) Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (SRI International) Albert Bifet (Huawei) Edith Elkind (University of Oxford) Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Boi Faltings (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo Labs) Eduardo Ferme (University of Madeira) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University) Marcelo Finger (University of Sao Paulo) Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Joao Gama (University of Porto) Adi Botea (IBM Research) Lluis Godo (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) Felix Brandt (University of Munich) Jose Guivant (University of New South Wales) Gerhard Brewka (Universität Leipzig) Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile) Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University) Malte Helmert (University of Basel) Hung Bui (Adobe Research) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microso Research) Son Tran Cao (New Mexico State University) Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University) Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras) Irwin King (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) James Caverlee Jerome Lang (Universite Paris-Dauphine) Amedeo Cesta (ISTC-CNR) Wee Sun Lee (National University of Singapore) Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete) Huan Liu (Arizona State University) Huanhuan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London) Lei Chen Pedro Meseguer González (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) Ning Chen (Nanyang Technological University) Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University) Berthe Y. Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University) Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University) Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University) Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Peter van Beek (University of Waterloo) Dave Cohen (Royal Holloway) Toby Walsh (NICTA and the University of New South Wales) Amanda Coles (King's College London) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Andrew Coles (King's College London) Hua Wu (Baidu Inc.) Vincent Conitzer (Duke University) Shuicheng Yan (NUS) Martin Cooper (University Paul Sabatier) Weixiong Zhang (Washington University) Jacob Crandall (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology) Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Susan Craw (Robert Gordon University) James Cussens (University of York) Senior Program Committee Sanmay Das (Washington University in St. Louis) Shivani Agarwal (Indian Institute of Science India) Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (ICMC-USP Brazil) omas Agotnes (University of Bergen) Ian Davidson (University of California, Davis) Marcelo Alejandro-Falappa (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Jessica Davies (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Sandra Aluisio (University of São Paulo) Jesse Davis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Leila Amgoud (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Andre P L F de Carvalho (University S. Paulo) Massih-Reza Amini (University Joseph Fourier) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Università di Roma La Sapienza) Bo An (Nanyang Technological University) Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University) Carlos Ansotegui (University of Lleida) Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications Inc.) Alessandro Antonucci (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Institute of Technology) Artificiale Switzerland) Minh Do (NASA) Ofer Arieli (Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo Israel) Carmel Domshlak (Technion) Peter Auer (University of Leoben) Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia) xxxvii Agostino Dovier (University of Udine) Scott Kuindersma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania) Akshat Kumar (Singapore Management University) Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) Jonas Kvarnström (Linköping University) Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology) James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Hadi Fanaee (University Porto) Ngai Kwok (University of New South Wales) Elaine Faria (University Uberlandia) Philippe Laborie (IBM) Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona) Sebastien Lahaie (Microso Research) Jiashi Feng (University of California, Berkeley) Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University) Valeria Fionda (University of Calabria) Pedro Larrañaga (Technical University of Madrid Spain) Felix Fischer (University of Cambridge) Kate Larson (University of Waterloo) Pierre Flener (Uppsala University) Kathryn B. Laskey (George Mason University) Alan Frisch (University of York) David Leake (Indiana University) om Fruehwirth (Universität Ulm) Christophe Lecoutre (CRIL CNRS) Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google) Dongwon Lee Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University) Honglak Lee (University of Michigan) Nicola Gatti (Polytechnic University of Milan) Jimmy Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Ricard Gavalda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University) Hector Geffner (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Joao Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Xin Geng (SouthEast University) Nicola Leone (Università Della Calabria) Alfonso Gerevini (Università degli Studi di Brescia) Tze-Yun Leong (National University of Singapore) Malik Ghallab (LAAS) Kristina Lerman Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (Adobe Research) Cane Leung (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab) Massimiliano Giacomin (University of Brescia) Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia) Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology) Wu-Jun Li (Nanjing University) Vibhav Gogate (University of Texas at Dallas) Yu-Feng Li (Nanjing University) Claudia Goldman (GM Advanced Technical Center) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas at Austin) Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria) Yu-Ru Lin (University of Pittsburgh) Mingyu Guo (University of Adelaide) Ji Liu (University of Rochester) Yuhong Guo (Temple University) Jun Liu (SAS Institute Inc.) Andras Gyorgy (University of Alberta) Ting Liu Edward Hermann Haeusler (Pontificia Universidad Católica Weiru Liu (Queens University Belfast) do Rio de Janeiro) Bryan Low (National University of Singapore) Jingrui He (Arizona State University) Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon) Xiaofei He (Zhejiang University) Jose A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) Emmanuel Hebrard (LAAS-CNRS) omas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford) Andreas Herzig (University of Toulouse and CNRS) Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester) Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo) Ines Lynce (INESC-ID/IST) Joerg Hoffmann (Saarland University) Roger Mailler (University of Tulsa) Geoff Holmes (University of Waikato) Felip Manya (CSIC) Jean Honorio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) João Marcos (DIMAp / UFRN) Samulowitz Horst (IBM) Sandra Maria (University of São Paulo) Adele Howe (Colorado State University) Vangelis Markakis (Athens University of Economics and Business) Estevam R. Hruschka Jr. (Federal University of São Carlos) Stan Matwin (Dalhousie University) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University) Mausam (IIT Delhi India) Yuheng Hu (IBM Almaden Labs USA) Reshef Meir (Harvard) Frank Hutter (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) João Mendes Moreira (University of Porto) Marcus Hutter (Australian National University) omas Meyer (CAIR) Tsuyoshi Ide (IBM T.J. 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