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Program Committee

Program Committee Chair Mauricio Ayala-Rincón (Universidade de Brasilia) Qiang (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 ( 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- (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 () Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Boi Faltings (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo Labs) Eduardo Ferme () Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University) Marcelo Finger (University of Sao Paulo) Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de ) Joao Gama (University of ) 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 () Hung Bui (Adobe Research) Xian-Sheng Hua (Microso Research) Son Tran Cao (New Mexico State University) Subbarao Kambhampati () Ioannis Caragiannis () Irwin King (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) James Caverlee Lang (Universite -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 ) 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 () 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 () Shuicheng Yan (NUS) Martin Cooper (University Paul Sabatier) Weixiong Zhang (Washington University) 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 ) Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (ICMC-USP Brazil) omas Agotnes (University of ) Ian Davidson (University of California, Davis) Marcelo Alejandro-Falappa (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Jessica Davies (Institute of Science and Technology ) Sandra Aluisio (University of São Paulo) Jesse Davis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Leila Amgoud (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de ) Andre P L F de Carvalho (University S. Paulo) Massih-Reza Amini (University Fourier) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Università di Roma La Sapienza) Bo An (Nanyang Technological University) Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University) Carlos Ansotegui () Valeria de Paiva (Nuance Communications Inc.) Alessandro Antonucci (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Institute of Technology) Artificiale ) 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 () Scott Kuindersma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania) Akshat Kumar (Singapore Management University) Stefano Ermon () 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 () Sebastien Lahaie (Microso Research) Jiashi Feng (University of California, Berkeley) Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University) Valeria Fionda (University of ) Pedro Larrañaga (Technical University of Madrid ) Felix Fischer (University of Cambridge) Kate Larson (University of Waterloo) Pierre Flener ( 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 () Nicola Gatti (Polytechnic ) Jimmy Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Ricard Gavalda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University) Hector Geffner (Universitat ) 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 's Ark Lab) Massimiliano Giacomin () Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia) Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology) Wu-Jun (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 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 () Marcus Hutter (Australian National University) omas Meyer (CAIR) Tsuyoshi Ide (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Tomasz Michalak (University of Warsaw and University of Oxford) Katsumi Inoue (International University of Japan) Laurent Michel (University of Conneticut) Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Ian Miguel (University of St. Andrews) Jianmin Ji (University of Science and Technology of China) Michela Milano (Università di ) Shuiwang Ji (Old Dominion University) Brian Milch (Google) Albert Jiang (Trinity University) Sanjay Modgil (Kings College London) Alipio Jorge (University of Porto) Abdel-Illah Mouaddib (University of Caen) Ian Kash (Microso Research) Remi Munos (INRIA) George Katsirelos (INRA ) Petri Myllymaki () Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund) Shinichi Nakajima (Technical University of Berlin) Kristian Kersting (Technical University of Dortmund University) Daniele Nardi (Sapienza University ) Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST) Sriraam Natarajan (Indiana University) Dragi Kocev (Josef Stefan Institute) Frans Oliehoek (University of Amsterdam) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California) Barry O'Sullivan () George Konidaris (Duke University) Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales) Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL and CNRS) John Paisley (Columbia University) Aryeh Kontorovich (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Sinno Jialin Pan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Frédéric Koriche (Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens) Weike Pan (Shenzhen University) Stefan Kramer (University of Mainz) Odile Papini (Aix-Marseille University) Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University) Simon Parsons ()

xxxviii Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) omas Stuetzle (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Yuxin Peng (Peking University) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver) David Pennock (Microso Research) Il-Hong Suh (Hanyang University) Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras) Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida) Jorge Perez (Universidad de Chile) Taiji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Gilles Pesant (Polytechnique Montreal) Stefan Szeider (Technical University of Wien) Olivier Pietquin (University 1) Guido Tack (Monash University) Joelle Pineau (McGill University) Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Ramón Pino-Pérez (Universidad de Los Andes) Jie Tang () Giuseppe Pirro (West University Koblenz) Ke Tang (University of Science and Technology of China) Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University) Pingzhong Tang (Tsinghua University) Axel Polleres (WU Wien Austria) Matthew Taylor (Washington State University) Cassio Polpo-de-Campos (Queen's University Belfast) John angarajah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Poole (University of British Columbia) Sylvie iébaux (Australian National University) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) ielscher (University of New South Wales) Pradeep Ravikumar (University of Texas) Peter Tino () Balaraman Ravindran (IIT Madras) Ryota Tomioka (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Jean-Charles Regin (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) Hanghang Tong (Arizona State University) Mark Reynolds (University of Western Australia) Francesca Toni (Imperial College Longon) Rita Ribeiro (University of Porto) Ivor-Wai-Hung Tsang ( Technology) Odinaldo Rodrigues (King's College London) Karl Tuyls (University of Liverpool) Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA-CSIC) Naonori Ueda (NTT CS Lab) Gabriele Röger (University of Basel) Alejandro Vaisman ( Université Libre de Bruxelles) Emma Rollon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Guy Van den Broeck (University of California, Los Angeles) Jeff Rosenschein (Hebrew University) Wiebe van-der-Hoek (University of Liverpool) Francesca Rossi (University of Padova and Harvard University) Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University) Joerg Rothe (Dusseldorf) Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University) Cynthia Rudin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) K. Brent Venable (Tulane University) Sebastian Rudolph (Technical University of Dresden) Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Vanderbilt University) Sivan Sabato (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Mark Wallace (Monash University) Patrick -Dizier (IRIT - CNRS) Fei Wang (IBM T. J. Watson) Horst C. Samulowitz (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Kewen Wang (Griffith University) Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University) Liwei Wang (Peking University) Scott Sanner (Australian National University) Yi Wang (IHPC) Paulo E. Santos (Centro Universitario da FEI) Renata Wassermann (Universidade de São Paulo) Vítor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto) Ji-Rong Wen (Renmin University of China) Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) Shimon Whiteson (University of Amsterdam) David Sarne (Bar-Ilan University) Jason Williams (Microso Research) Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester) Nic Wilson (Insight Centre for Data Analytics) Torsten Schaub (Potsdam) Stefan Woltran (Technical University of Wien) Bruno Scherrer (LORIA) Jennifer Wortman Vaughan (Microso Research) Matthas Scheutz (Tus University) Lirong (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) omas Schiex (INRA Toulouse) Xing Xie (Microso) Mark Schmidt (University of British Columbia) Hui Xiong (Rutgers University) Steven Schockaert (University of Cardiff) Peter Xu (e University of Auckland) Christian Schulte (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Yi Yang (Carnegie Mellon University) Meinolf Sellmann (IBM) Roland Yap (National University of Singapore) Daniel Sheldon (University of Massachusetts Amherst) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University) Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC) Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Jaime Simão Sichman (University of Sao Paulo) Wang Yi (A*STAR Institure of High Performance Computing) Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University) Laurent Simon (Labri University 1) Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut) Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) Yang Yu (Nanjing University) Stephen Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) Lei Yuan (Dow AgroSciences) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam) Xiaotong Yuan (nuist) Christine Solnon (CNRS) Bianca Zadrozny (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology) Michael Zakharyaschev (University of Longon, Birbeck) Yangqiu Song (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Bruno Zanuttini (GREYC) David Sontag (New York University) Gerson Zaverucha (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Matthijs Spaan (Del University of Technology) Jia Zeng (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab) Olivier Spanjaard (UPMC) Dongmo Zhang (University of Western Sydney) Vivek Srikumar (University of Utah) Lei Zhang (Microso) Siddharth Srivastava (United Technologies Research Center) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington) Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Labs) Min-Ling Zhang (SouthEast University) Kostas Stergiou (University of Western Macedonia) Xinhua Zhang (NICTA) Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin) Yu Zhang (Arizona State University) Oskar-von Stryk (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt) Jun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation)

xxxix Yi Zhen (Georgia Institute of Technology) Robert Bredereck (Technische Universitaet Berlin) Jiayu Zhou (Samsung Research America) Ken Brown (University College Cork) Jerry Zhu (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Tim Brys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Hankz Hankui Zhuo (Sun Yat-Sen University China) Carlos Buil-Aranda (PUC-Chile) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore) Michael Buro (University of Alberta) Roie Zivan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Mark Burstein (SIFT) Aviv Zohar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Chengqing Zong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation) Rui Camacho (Universidade do Porto) Program Committee Heloisa Camargo (Federal University of Sao Carlos) Hadrien Cambazard (G-SCOP - INP) Sherief Abdallah (e British University in Dubai) Huiping Cao (New Mexico State University) Roy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Liangliang Cao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country) Nan Cao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory) Alan Carlin (Aptima) Stéphane Airiau (Université Paris Dauphine) Mats Carlsson (SICS) Ozgur Akgun (University of St. Andrews) Ariadne Carvalho (University of Campinas) Elvira Albert (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Giovanni Casini (CAIR) Juan Ale (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Michelangelo Ceci (Universita degli studi di ) Natasha Alechina (Nottingham University) Sofia Ceppi (Microso Research) Martin Allen (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) Cerquides (IIIA-CSIC) Vânia Almeida (LIAAD/INESC TEC) Ricardo Cerri (Federal University of Sao Carlos) Ofra Amir (Harvard University) Michal Chalamish (Ashkelon College) Waleed Ammar (Carnegie Mellon University) Archie Chapman (University of Sydney) Gabor Angeli (Stanford University) Jie Chen (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) Nicos Angelopoulos (Imperial College) Peixian Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Fabrizio Angiulli (University of Calabria) Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Manuel Atencia (University Grenoble Alpes) Yan-Ying Chen (FXPAL) Gilles Audemard (CRIL) Yingke Chen (University of Georgia) Azaria (Carnegie Mellon University) Zhiyuan Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago) Paulo J. Azevedo (Universidade do Minho) Wei Cheng (University of North Carolina) Aijun Bai (University of Science and Technology of China) Yu Cheng (NWU) Jorge Baier (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Martin Chmelik (IST Austria) José L. Balcázar (University of Politècnica de Catalunya) Jaesik Choi (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Matteo Baldoni (Università di Torino) Lukas Chrpa (University of Huddersfield) Bikramjit Banerjee (University of Southern Mississippi) Andre Cire (University of Toronto) Mark Bartlet (University of York) Christopher Clingerman (University of Pennsylvania) Libor Barto (Charles University in Prague) Cobe (University of São Paulo) Nicola Basilico (University of Milan) Rémi Coletta (LIRMM - Université de ) Christian Bauckhage (University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS) Esther Colombini (FEI) Dorothea Baumeister (Universitaet Duesseldorf) Stefano Coniglio (RWTH University Aachen) Rahmatollah Beheshti (University of Central Florida) Danish Contractor (IBM Research) Xiaohui Bei (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik) Amélie Cordier (LIRIS - University of ) Christoph Beierle (FernUniversitaet in Hagen) Cristina Cornelio (University of Padova) Francesco Belardinelli (Université d'Evry) Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR - Italian National Research Council) Nicolas Beldiceanu (Mines Nantes) Michele Coscia (Harvard University) J. Benton (Smart Information Flow Technologies) Mark Crowley (University of Waterloo) Jonathan Berant (Stanford University) Bin Cui (Peiking University) David Bergman (University of Connecticut) Peng Cui (Tsinghua University) Sara Bernardini (King's College London) William Cushing (University of California, Berkeley) Aurélie Beynier (LIP6) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria) Reinaldo Bianchi (Centro Universitario da FEI) Claudia d'Amato (Università degli Studi di Bari) Manuele Bicego (University of Verona) Artur d’Avila Garcez (City University London) Julien Bidot (Orebro University) Bruno da Silva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mauro Birattari (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)) Victor Dalmau (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Stefano Bistarelli (Università di Perugia) Mahashweta Das (HP Labs) Daan Bloembergen (University of Liverpool) Mehdi Dastani () Alexander Bochman (Holon Institute of Technology) Esther David (Ashkelon College) Miquel Bofill (Universitat de Girona) Guido de Croon (Del University of Technology) Dan Bohus (Microso Research) Geert De Cubber (Royal Military Academy of ) Iva Bojic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (Yahoo Labs) Ladislau Boloni (University of Central Florida) Simon de Givry (INRA) Grégory Bonnet (GREYC) Bart de Keijzer (Sapienza University of Rome) Elise Bonzon (Universite Paris Descartes) Marcilio de Souto (LIFO/Université d\'Orléans) Haitham Bou Ammar (University of Pennsylvania) Mathijs de Weerdt (Del University of Technology) Gauvain Bourgne (LIP6) Keith Decker (University of Delaware) Sylvain Bouveret (University Grenoble-Alpes) Karina Delgado (University of Sao Paulo) Simina Brânzei ( University) Argyrios Deligkas (University of Liverpool)

xl Erin Delisle (University of Toronto) Arnaud Gotlieb (SIMULA Research Laboratory) Bart Demoen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Stéphane Grandcolas (Aix Marseille Université) Lihi Dery (Ariel University) Umberto Grandi (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole) Yves Deville (UCL) Peter Gregory (University of Teesside) Sam Devlin (University of York) Tal Grinshpoun (Ariel University) Claudio Di Ciccio (Wirtschasuniversität Wien) Marek Grzes () Belen Diaz-Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Tias Guns (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Jilles Dibangoye (INSA Lyon) Jiafeng Guo (Institute of Computing Technology) Christos Dimitrakakis (Chalmers University of Technology) Yandong Guo (Microso) Jana Doppa (Washington State University) Julian Gutierrez (University of Oxford) Britta Dorn (Universität Tübingen) omas Guyet (AGROCAMPUS-OUEST) Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia) Djamal Habet (Aix-Marseille Université) John Doucette (University of Waterloo) Remy Haemmerle (IMDEA Soware Institute) João Duarte (INESCTEC) Yahong Han (Tianjin University) Ed Durfee (University of Michigan) Michael Hanus (Universität Kiel) Ines Dutra (University do Porto) Daniel Harabor (NICTA) Paul Dütting (London School of Economics) James Harland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lili Dworkin (University of Pennsylvania) Patrik Haslum (Australian National University) Marcin Dziubinski (Institute of Informatics) Bradford Heap (University of New South Wales) Stefan Edelkamp () Fredrik Heintz (Linköping University) Yagil Engel (Whipclip) Bernhard Hengst (University of New South Wales) Gabor Erdelyi (University of Siegen) Joachim Hertzberg (University Osnabruck) Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin) Marijn Heule (University of Texas) Guillaume Escamocher (University College) Chien-Ju Ho (University of California, Los Angeles) Nuno Escudeiro (ISEP-Instituto Politécnico do Porto) Trong Nghia Hoang (National University of Singapore) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA and LIG) Aidan Hogan (DCC) Patricia Everaere (Université de Lille 1) Hadi Hosseini (University of Waterloo) Jean-Guillaume Fages (Cosling SAS) Xia Hu (Arizona State University) Nikos Fakotakis (University of Patras) Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University) Stefan Falkner (University of Freiburg) Jomi Hubner (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) Bin Fan (NLPR) Alexey Ignatiev (INESC-ID Lisboa) Angelo Fanelli (Université de Caen Basse Normandie) Felix Ingrand (LAAS-CNRS) Fei Fang (University of Southern California) Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University of Rome) Rui Fang (omson Reuters) Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki) Fabio Fassetti (University of Calabria) Chandimal Jayawardena (Unitec Institute of Technology) John Fearnley (University of Liverpool) Peter Jeavons (Oxford University) Valéria Feltrim (Universidade Estadual de Maringá) Christopher Jefferson (University of St. Andrews) Fernando Fernández (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Philippe Jégou (Aix-Marseille University) Diodato Ferraioli (Università degli Studi di Salerno) Abhay Jha (Walmart Labs) Alexander Ferrein (FH Aachen) Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University) Carlos Ferreira (Polytechnic Institute of Porto) Sergio Jimenez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Guillaume Feuillade (University of Toulouse) Lianwen Jin (South China University of Technology) Aris Filos-Ratsikas () Xiaolong Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Peter Flach () Xiaoming Jin (Tsinghua University) Giorgos Flouris (FORTH-ICS) Michael Johanson (University of Alberta) Daniel Fontaine (University of Connecticut) Joshua Jones (CircleBack) Andrea Formisano (University di Perugia) Anders Jonsson (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Guillem Francès (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Peter Jonsson (Linköping University) Tim French (UWA) Saket Joshi (Cycorp Inc.) Abram Friesen (University of Washington) Nicolas Jozefowiez (LAAS-CNRS) Raquel Fuentetaja (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Radu Jurca (Google Zurich) Katsuhide Fujita (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) Panagiotis Kanellopoulos (University of Patras) Dov Gabbay (King's College London) Purushottam Kar (Microso Research India) Paulo (Federal University of Uberlandia) Lars Karlsson (Örebro University) Lucie Galand (LAMSADE - Université Paris-Dauphine) Erez Karpas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michel Galley (Microso Research Redmond) Michael Katz (IBM Haifa Research Lab) Sam Ganzfried (Carnegie Mellon University) Yiping Ke (Nanyang Technological University) Laurent Garcia () C. Maria Keet (University of Cape Town) Dinesh Garg (IBM Research) Brian Kell (Carnegie Mellon University) Serge Gaspers (University of New South Wales and NICTA) Lyndon Kennedy (Yahoo! Research) Ian Gent (University of St. Andrews) Peter Key (Microso) Carmen Gervet (Université de Savoie) Deepak Khemani (IIT Madras) Andrew Gilpin Tushar Khot (AI2) Jesús Giráldez-Cru (IIIA - CSIC) Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso) Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (University of Illinois at Chicago) Kangjin Kim (Arizona State University) Robby Goetschalckx (Oregon State University) Yoonheui Kim (University of Massachusetts) Aditya Gopalan (Indian Institute of Science) Akihiro Kishimoto (IBM Research)

xli Zeynep Kiziltan () Tyler Lu (Google) Jens Kober (Technical University of Del) Zhongqi Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Stanley Kok (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Teresa Ludermir (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) Andrey Kolobov (Microso Research) Zhigang Ma (Carnegie Mellon University) Mamoru Komachi (Tokyo Metropolitan University) James MacGlashan () Antonin Komenda (Czech Technical University) Omid Madani (Yahoo) Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles) Florent Madelaine (Université de Caen) Konstantinos Kotis (University of Piraeus) Daniele Magazzeni (King's College London) Lars Kotthoff (Insight Centre for Data Analytics) Michael Maher (University of New South Wales) Nick Koudas (University of Toronto) Arnaud Malapert (University Nice Sophia Antipolis) Marcin Kozik Yuri Malitsky (IBM omas J. Watson Research Center) Maithilee Kunda (Georgia Institute of Technology) Enrico Malizia (University of Oxford) Ugur Kuter (SIFT) Suresh Manandhar (University of York) Ondrej Kuzelka (Cardiff University) Marco Maratea (University of Genova) Maria Kyropoulou (University of Oxford) Enrico Marchioni (University of Oxford) Christophe Labreuche (ales Research and Technology) Daniel Marcu (Information Sciences Institute) Marie-Christine Lagasquie-Schiex (University Paul Sabatier) Radu Marinescu (IBM Research) Kiran Lakkaraju (Sandia National Labs) Joao Marques-Silva (INESC-ID/IST. ) Arnaud Lallouet (Université de Caen) Ruben Martins (Oxford University) Wai Lam (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) Franco Mascia (Université libre de Bruxelles) Luis Lamb (UFRGS) Laetitia Matignon (University of LyonI) Evelina Lamma (Universitity of Ferrara) Toshihiro Matsui (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Javier Larrosa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) Tim Laue (University of Bremen) Nicholas Mattei (NICTA) Alessandro Lazaric (INRIA Lille) Matteo Matteucci (Politecnico Milano) Daniel Le Berre () Robert Mattmüller (University of Freiburg) Kyumin Lee (Utah State University) Bertrand Mazure (CRIL - Université d'Artois) Levi Lelis (Universidade Federal de Viçosa) Keith McGreggor (Georgia Institute of Technology) Matteo Leonetti (University of Texas at Austin) Christopher Mears (Monash University) Joshua Letchford (Sandia National Laboratories) Tao Mei (Microso Research) Omer Lev (Hebrew University) Amnon Meisels (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Jordi Levy (IIIA-CSIC) Felipe Meneguzzi (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul) Chu-Min Li (University PIcardie) Aditya Menon (NICTA) Jessie Li (Pennsylvania State University) omas Mensink (University of Amsterdam) Lihong Li (Microso Research) Çetin Meriçli (Carnegie Mellon University) Shuangyin Li (Sun Yat-sen University) João Messias (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Siyi Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Fei Mi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Li (Renmin University of China) Tim Miller (University Of Melbourne) Yong Li (Tencent) Martin Mladenov (Technical University of Dortmund University) Defu Lian (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Kaixiang Mo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Xiang Lian (UTPA) Jean-Noel Monette () Zhouhui Lian (Peking University) Eric Monfroy (University Nantes) Zhao Liang (University of Säo Paulo) Marco Montali (KRDB) Jean Lieber (Université de Lorraine) Angelo Montanari (University of Udine) Somchaya Liemhetcharat (Institute for Infocomm Research) Stefania Montani (Universita' del Piemonte Orientale) Mark Liffiton (Illinois Wesleyan University) Il Chul Moon (KAIST) Maxim Likhachev (Carnegie Mellon University) Antonio Morgado (University of Lisbon) Raz Lin (BIU) Hala Mostafa (Singapore Management University) Stephen Ching-Feng Lin (University of New South Wales) Kira Mourao () Nir Lipovetzky (University of Melbourne) Konstantinos Moustakas (University of Patras) Lantao Liu (Carnegie Mellon University) Stephen H. Muggleton (Imperial College) Miao Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Christian Muise (University of Melbourne) Qun Liu (Dublin City University (DCU)) Enrique Munoz de Cote (INAOE) Wei Liu (University of Western Australia) J. William Murdock (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Weicong Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Murilo Naldi (Federal University of Vicosa) Xiaomo Liu (omsonreuters) Cláudia Nalon (University of Brasília) Yan Liu (University of Southern California) Daniele Nantes (Universidade de Brasilia) Yang Liu (Tsinghua University) Nina Narodytska (Carnegie Mellon University) Alneu Lopes (Universidade de São Paulo) Aniruddh Nath (University of Washington) Carlos Linares Lopez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Abhaya Nayak (Macquarie University) Pierre Lopez (LAAS - CNRS) Bertrand Neveu (Ecole des Ponts Paristech) Manuel López-Ibáñez (IRIDIA) M. A. Hakim Newton (Griffith University) Maite Lopez-Sanchez (University of ) Brenda Ng (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Xavier Lorca (Mines de Nantes) anh Nguyen (University of Southern California) Andrea Loreggia (University of Padova) Maria Nicoletti (Federal University of São Carlos) Emiliano Lorini (IRIT CNRS) Feiping Nie (UTA) Pinyan Lu (Microso Research) Vivek Nigam (Federal University of Paraíba)

xlii Peter Nightingale (St. Andrews University) David Rajaratnam (University of New South Wales Sydney) Peter Novak (Del University of Technology) Ashwin Ram (PARC) Ann Nowe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Deepak Ramachandran (Nuance Communications) Svetlana Obraztsova (Tel Aviv University) Subramanian Ramamoorthy (University of Edinburgh) Angelo Oddi (CNR - Italian National Research Council) Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton) Alice Oh (KAIST) Miquel Ramirez (Australian National University) Orlando Ohashi (Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia) Riccardo Rasconi (CNR - Italian National Research Council) Steven Okamoto (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Siamak Ravanbakhsh (University of Alberta) Albert Oliveiras (Technical University of ) Jesse Read () Eugenio Omodeo () Philippe Refalo (IBM) Eva Onaindía (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia) Santiago Ontañón Villar (Drexel University) Mauricio Reis (Universidade da Madeira) Ezequiel Orbe (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba) Andrea Rendl (NICTA) Nicola Ordio (University of Padova) Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano) Sigal Oren (Hebrew University) Anja Rey (Universitaet Duesseldorf) Nicola Orio (University of Padova) Bruno Ribeiro (Carnegie Mellon University) Andrea Orlandini (CNR - Italian National Research Council) Bram Ridder (King's College London) Robert Ormandi (Yahoo! Inc) Jussi Rintanen (Aalto University) Charles Ortiz (Nuance Comms) Mark Roberts (NRC) Nardine Osman (IIIA-CSIC) Valentin Robu (Heriot-Watt University) Diane Oyen (Los Alamos National Labs) Camilo Rocha (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria) Julian Padget (University of Bath) Amirmohammad Rooshenas (University of Oregon) Aline Paes (Fluminense Federal Universtiy) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza University Roma) Renato Paes Leme (Google Research) Benjamin Rosman (CSIR) Hector Palacios (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Olivier Roussel (CRIL) Yan Pan (Sun Yat-sen University) Ji Ruan (AUT) Alessandro Panella (University of Illinois at Chicago) Zachary Rubinstein (Carnegie Mellon University) Pance Panov (Jožef Stefan Institute) Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire) Anastasia Paparrizou (Université Montpellier) Derek Ruths (McGill University) Ulrich Paquet (Microso) Julian Ryde (UTRC) Ivandre Paraboni (University of São Paulo) Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw) iago Pardo (University of São Paulo) Jordi Sabater-Mir (IIIA-CSIC) Fanny Pascual (LIP6 - UPMC) Orkunt Sabuncu () Fabio Patrizi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Fariba Sadri (Imperial College) Russel Pears (AUT University) Abdallah Saffidine (University of New South Wales) Justin Pearson (Uppsala University) Francesco Santini (IIT-CNR) Federico Pecora (University Orebro) Sebastian Sardina (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Truls Pedersen () Somdeb Sarkhel (University of Texas at Dallas) Patrice Perny (LIP6 - UPMC) Vadim Savenkov (Vienna University of Economics and Business) Laurent Perron (Google) Pierre Schaus (Université catholique de Louvai) ierry Petit (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Aaron Schein (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Justyna Petke (University College London) Stephan Schiffel (Reykjavik University) Ron Petrick (University of Edinburgh) Jonathan Scholz () Dinh Phung (Deakin University) Christoph Schommer () Luis Pineda (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Marco Schorlemmer (IIIA-CSIC) Maria Silvia Pini (University of Padova) Tom Schrijvers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Alessandro Pinto (United Technologies Research Center) Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University) Erion Plaku (Catholic University of America) Roberto Sebastiani () Enric Plaza (IIIA-CSIC) Raquel Sebastião (IEETA-UA) Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton) Juan Sequeda (University of Texas at Austin) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Leonard Poon (e Hong Kong Institute of ) Ivan Serina (University of Brescia) Julie Porteous (University of Teesside) Edoardo Serra (University of Maryland) Cédric Pralet (ONERA) Kyriakos Sgarbas (University of Patras) Steve Prestwich (University College Cork) Antonio Sgorbissa () Alberto Pretto (Sapienza University Rome) Nisarg Shah (Carnegie Mellon University) Bob Price (PARC) Jiaying Shen (Nuance Communications) Ricardo Prudencio (Federal University of Pernambuco) Lei Shi (Chinese Academy of Sciences) David Pynadath (University of Southern California) Xingjian Shi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Zhang Qi (Fudan University) Anshumali Shrivastava (Cornell University) Buyue Qian (IBM T. J. Watson Research) Yanchuan Sim (Carnegie Mellon University) Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University) Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University) You Quanzeng (University of Rochester) Jivko Sinapov (University of Texas at Austin) Zinovi Rabinovich (Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd) Sameer Singh (University of Washington) Md Arifur Rahman (University of New South Wales) Sudhanshu Singh (IBM Research) Tahrima Rahman (University of Texas at Dallas) Adish Singla (ETH Zurich) Talal Rahwan (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology) Oskar Skibski (Kyushu University)

xliii Piotr Skowron (University of Warsaw) do Rio Grande do Sul/BRASIL) Sebastian Skritek (Technical ) Petr Vilim (IBM) Arkadii Slinko (e University of Auckland) Mateu Villaret (Universitat de Girona) David Smith (University of Texas at Dallas) Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA) Jon Sneyers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Meritxell Vinyals (Commissariat à l’énergie Atomique) Lauro Snidaro (University of Udine) Julien Vion (Universite Valenciennes) Jasper Snoek (Harvard University) Philippe Vismara (LIRMM) Dongjin Song (University of California, San Diego) Domagoj Vrgoc (PUC Chile) Shaoxu Song (Tsinghua University) Magnus Wahlström (Royal Holloway) Ekhlas Sonu (University of Georgia) Dirk Walther (Technical University of Dresden) Francesca Spezzano (University of Maryland) Hai Wan (Sun Yat-sen University) Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean) Chenguang Wang (Peking University) Manfred Stede (Potsdam University) Hao Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Gerald Steinbauer (Graz University of Technology) Jun Wang (Columbia University) Roni Stern (Ben Gurion University) Liaoruo Wang (Oracle) Søren Kristoffer Stiil Frederiksen (Aarhus University) Ling Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) Sabine Storandt (University of Freiburg) Naiyan Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Paul Stursberg (Technical University of Munich) Ting Wang (IBM Research) Zhaonan Sun (IBM) Xin-Jing Wang (Microso) Philippe Suter (IBM Research) Yi Wang (Zhejiang University) Andrew Sutton (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) Yilin Wang (Arizona State Univerity) Samarth Swarup (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Zihe Wang (IIIS) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University) Ian Watson (University of Auckland) Vasilis Syrgkanis (Microso Research) Ying Wei (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Sébastien Tabary (Cril University Artois) Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) Armando Tacchella (University of Genova) Paul Weng (SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of ) Ben Tan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Tim Weninger () Bo Tang (University of Liverpool) Emil Weydert (University of Luxembourg) Sheng Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Martha White (Indiana University) Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch (ONERA) Maggie Wigness (Colorado State University) Pankaj Telang (Cisco Systems) Aaron Wilson (PARC) Moritz Tenorth (University of Bremen) Christoph Wintersteiger (Microso Research) Andreas ten Pas (NEU) Jens Witkowski (University of Pennsylvania) Cyril Terrioux (Aix-Marseille University) Cees Witteveen (Del University of Technology) Jordan ayer (SIFT) Chin Yeow Wong (University of New South Wales) Christian eil Have (Copenhagen University) Lawson Wong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Matthias imm (Universität Koblenz) Wei Lee Woon (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology) Philip omas (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Kyle Wray (University of Massachussetts at Amherst) David ompson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Fei Wu (Zhejiang University) Gian Diego Tipaldi (University of Freiburg) Feng Wu (University of Science and Technology of China) Taiki Todo (Kyushu University) Xiaojian Wu (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Ljupco Todorovski () Yi Wu (NUIST) Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology) Zhong Wu Yongxin Tong (Beihang University) Eric Würbel (University of ) Alvaro Torralba (Saarland University) Yanghua Xiao (Fudan University) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna) Fan Xie (University of Alberta) Truyen Tran (Deakin University) Yusheng Xie (Northwestern University) Felipe Trevizan (NICTA) Haifeng Xu (University of Southern California) Nicolas Troquard (Universté Paris Est Creteil) Jin Xu (Behavior Matrix) Charlotte Truchet (LINA) Nitin Yadav (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Paolo Turrini () Hongxia Yang (Yahoo!) Mohammadreza Valizadeh (Ilam University) Pei Yang (Arizona State University) Mauro Vallati (University of Huddersfield) Rong Yang (PARC) Menkes van den Briel (NICTA) Wenzhuo Yang (NUS) Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Yingzhen Yang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Tijn van der Zant (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences) Yuan Yao (Nanjing University) Jan Van Haaren (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Mehran Yazdi (Shiraz University) Harm van Seijen (University of Alberta) Nan Ye (National University of Singapore) Ivan Varzinczak (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Mingxuan Yuan (Huawei Noah's Arak Lab) Wamberto Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen) Anna Zamansky (University of Haifa) Swaroop Vattam (US Naval Research Laboratory) Yifeng Zeng (Teesside University) Daniel Ventura (Universidade Federal de Goiais) Chongjie Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sicco Verwer (Del University of Technology) Heng Zhang (University of Western Sydney) Paolo Viappiani (LIP6) Jiajun Zhang (Institute of Automation of the CAS) ierry Vidal (ENIT) Jie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University) Angelina Vidali (Pierre and Marie Curie University-LIP6) Min Zhang (Tsinghua University) Renata Vieira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica Minjie Zhang (University of Wollongong)

xliv Ping Zhang (IBM) James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Ruiliang Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Honglak Lee (University of Michigan) Shiqi Zhang (University of Texas at Austin) Wu-Jun Li (Nanjing University) Xiang Zhang (CWRU) Yu-Feng Li (Nanjing University) Xiao Zhang (Google) Ji Liu (University of Rochester) Alex Zhao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Jun Liu (SAS Institute Inc.) Dengji Zhao (University of Southampton) Jose A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country) Li Zhao (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Stan Matwin (Dalhousie University) Shiqi Zhao (Baidu) Remi Munos (Google DeepMind) Zhe Zhao (University of Science and Technology of China) Petri Myllymaki (University of Helsinki) Wenya Zhu (University of Electronic Science and Technology) Shinichi Nakajima (Technical University of Berlin) Yada Zhu (IBM) John Paisley (Columbia University) Yin Zhu (Citadel LLC) Olivier Pietquin (University Lille 1) Zichen Zhu (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) Joelle Pineau (McGill University) Zhiqiang Zhuang (Griffith University) Barnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University) Yair Zick (Carnegie-Mellon University) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Michael Zillich (Vienna University of Technology) Pradeep Ravikumar (University of Texas) Stanislav Zivny (University of Oxford) Cynthia Rudin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University) Sivan Sabato (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University) Machine Learning Track Bruno Scherrer (LORIA) Mark Schmidt (University of British Columbia) Track Chairs Le Song (Georgia Institute of Technology) David Sontag (New York University) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University ) Taiji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta) Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Area Chairs Ke Tang (University of Science and Technology of China) Fabio Cozman (University of Sao Paulo) Peter Tino (University of Birmingham) Ran El-Yaniv (Technion) Ryota Tomioka (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Jennifer Neville (Purdue University) Ivor-Wai-Hung Tsang (University of Sydney Technology) Bernhard Pfahringer (University of Waikato) Naonori Ueda (NTT CS Lab) Doina Precu (McGill University) Liwei Wang (Peking University) Irena Rish (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Michele Sebag (INRIA Saclay) Yang Yu (Nanjing University) Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo University) Lei Yuan (Dow AgroSciences) Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta) Bianca Zadrozny (IBM Research) Xin Yao (University of Birmingham) Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington) Jieping Ye (Arizona State University) Min-Ling Zhang (SouthEast University) Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University ) Xinhua Zhang (NICTA) Jiayu Zhou (Samsung Research America) Senior Program Committee Jerry Zhu (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Massih-Reza Amini (University Joseph Fourier) Program Committee Peter Auer (University of Leoben) Peter Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley) Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori (Queensland University of Technology) Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo) Margareta Ackerman (Florida State University) Alina Beygelzimer (Yahoo! Labs) Arvind Agarwal (Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)) Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Anima Anandkumar (University of California, Irvine) Francesco Bonchi (Yahoo Labs) Peter Andreae (Victoria University of Wellington) Huanhuan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) David Andrzejewski (Sumo Logic) James Cussens (University of York) Mauricio Araya (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María) Ian Davidson (University of California, Davis) Andreas Argyriou (Ecole Centrale de Paris) Cassio de Campos (Queen's University Belfast) Marta Arias (University Politècnica de Catalunya) Colin de-la-Higuera (Nantes University) Ozlem Aslan (University of Alberta) Ricard Gavalda (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Hideki Asoh (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Xin Geng (SouthEast University) Science and Technology) Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (Adobe Research) Tsz-Chiu Au (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Yuhong Guo (Temple University) Rohit Babbar (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Andras Gyorgy (University of Alberta) Derin Babcan (Google) Jingrui He (Arizona State University) José L. Balcázar (University of Politècnica de Catalunya) Xiaofei He (Zhejiang University) Borja Balle (McGill University) Geoff Holmes (University of Waikato) David Barber (UCL) Jean Honorio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Andre Barreto (LNCC) Marcus Hutter (Australian National University) Daniel Bartz (Technical University of Berlin) Tsuyoshi Ide (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Sugato Basu (Google) Shuiwang Ji (Old Dominion University) Gustavo Batista (Universidade de São Paulo) Aryeh Kontorovich (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) Lluís Belanche (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Stefan Kramer (University of Mainz) Marc Bellemare (Google)

xlv Wei Bi (HK University of Science and Technology) Cícero dos Santos (IBM Research) Michael Biehl () Finale Doshi (Harvard University) Liefeng Bo (Amazon) Kurt Driessens (Maastricht University) Edwin Bonilla (University of New South Wales) Chris Drummond (National Research Council Canada) Byron Boots (Georgia Institute of Technology) Nan Du (Georgia Institute of Technology) Giacomo Boracchi (Politecnico di Milano) Lixin Duan (Amazon) omas Boucher (University of Massachusetts) David duVerle (Tokyo University) Laurent Bougrain (Université de Lorraine) Dumitru Erhan (Google) Michael Brautbar (Crisply) Amir-massoud Farahmand (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) Ulf Brefeld (Technical University of Darmstadt) Mehrdad Farajtabar (Georgia Institute of Technology) Paul Brooks (Virginia Commonwealth University) Vitaly Feldman (IBM Research - Almaden) Olivier Buffet (INRIA) Raphael Feraud (Orange Labs) Wray Buntine (Monash University) Rob Fergus (New York University) Stefano Cagnoni (Università degli Studi di Parma) Raphaël Fonteneau (University of Liège (Belgium)) Deng Cai (Zhejiang University) Vojtech Franc (Czech Technical University) Nan Cao (IBM Research) Nick Freris (NYU Abu Dhabi) CJ Carey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Yun (Northeastern University) Gaetan Marceau Caron (INRIA-Saclay) Ryohei Fujimaki (NEC Laboratories America) Alexandra Carpentier (University of Cambridge) Johannes Fürnkranz (Technical University of Darmstadt) Volkan Cevher (EPFL) Victor Gabillon (Queensland University of Technology) Pritam Chanda (Dow AgroSciences) Joao Gama (University of Porto) Hong Chang (Chinese Academy of Science) Shenghua Gao (ShanghaiTech University) Shiyu Chang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Wei Gao (Nanjing University) Xiangyu Chang (Xi’an Jiaotong University) Xiaoying Gao (Victoria University of Wellington) Yi Chang (Yahoo Labs) Xinbo Gao (Xidian University) Art Chaovalitwongse (University of Washington) Yang Gao (Nanjing University) Aaron Chen (Victoria University of Wellington) Aurelien Garivier (University Toulouse) Changyou Chen (Duke University) Romaric Gaudel (CRISTAL (University Lille) Dongqu Chen (Yale University) Matthieu Geist (Supélec) Enhong Chen (University of Science and Technology of China) Claudio Gentile (DiSTA) Jianhui Chen (Yahoo! Labs) Ali Ghodsi (University of Waterloo) Ke Chen (University of Manchester) Nikos Gianniotis (Heidelberg Institute for eoretical Studies) Ning Chen (Tsinghua University) Hadrien Glaude (ales Airbone Systems) Songcan Chen (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (MPI for Sofware Systems) Tianqi Chen (University of Washington) Maoguo Gong (Xidian University) Wei Chen (Microso Research) Boqing Gong (University of Southern California) Xinlei Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) Pinghua Gong (University of Michigan) Yutian Chen (University of Cambridge) Parantapa Goswami (University of Grenoble-Alps) Hao Cheng (University of Washington) Stephen Gould (Australian National University) William Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University) Cyril Goutte (National Research Center) Chun-An Chou (University of Binghamton) Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo! Labs) Yin-lam Chow (Stanford University) Yuri Grinberg (Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) Dan Ciresan (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale) Quanquan Gu (University of Virginia) Marianne Clausel (Université Joseph Fourier) Ziyu Guan (Northwestern University) Giorgio Corani (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale) Yann Guermeur (CNRS) Koby Crammer (e Technion) Arthur Guez (Google DeepMind) Ivor Cribben (Alberta School of Business) Jie Gui (Chinese Academy of Science) Lehel Csató (Universitatea Babes-Bolyai) Suriya Gunasekar (e University of Texas at Austin) Marco Cuturi (Kyoto University) Guodong Guo (West Virginia University) Qing Da (Nanjing University) Pedro Antonio Gutiérrez (University of Cordoba) Bo (Georgia Institute of Technology) Michael Gutmann (University of Helsinki) Mochihashi Daichi (Institute of Statistical ) Gholamreza Haffari (Monash University) Gautam Dasarathy (Carnegie Mellon University) Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University) Hal Daumé-III (University of Maryland) Blaise Hanczar (LIPADE) Tijl De-Bie (University of Bristol) Steve Hanneke (Independent scholar) Aaron Defazio (Australian National University) Kohei Hayashi (National Institute of Informatics) Krzysztof Dembczynski (Poznan University of Technology) Tamir Hazan (University of Haifa) Zhi-Hong Deng (Peking University) Di He (Microso Research Asia) Ludovic Denoyer (Université Pierre et Marie Curie) Niao He (Georgia Institute of Technology) Soma Dhavala (Canopus Consulting) Shan He (University of Birmingham) Amit Dhurandhar (IBM Research) Yunlong He (Yahoo! Labs) Grant Dick (University of Otago) Qing He (ICT) Nan Ding (Google) Chinmay Hegde (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Justin Domke (Australian National University) Mark Herbster (University College London) Frank Dondelinger (MRC Biostatistics Unit) Qirong Ho (Institute for Infocomm Research) Junyu Dong (Ocean University of China) Steven Hoi (Singapore Management University) Weishan Dong (IBM Research-China) M. Shahriar Hossain (University of Texas at El Paso)

xlvi Estevam Hruschka-Jr. (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) Sergey Levine (University of California, Berkeley) Yao Hu (Zhejiang University) Chun-Liang Li (Carnegie Mellon University) Ouyang Hua (Yahoo! Labs) Chunlei Li (Dow AgroSciences) Bert Huang (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Gang Li (Deakin University) Ruitong Huang (University of Alberta) Guozheng Li (TongJi) Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Haiguang Li (Google) Shuai Huang (University of Washington) Jiuyong Li (University of South Australia) Tzu-Kuo Huang (Microso Research) Ming Li (Nanjing University) Eyke Hüllermeier (University of Paderborn) Mu Li (Carnegie Mellon University) Inaki Inza (University of the Basque Country) Nan Li (Soochow University) Katsuhiko Ishiguro (NTT Communication Science Labs) Sheng Li (Northeastern University) Tomoharu Iwata (NTT Communication Science Labs) Wen Li (Nanyang Technological University) Prateek Jain (Microso Research) Xiaodong Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Kevin G. Jamieson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Yaliang Li (SUNY Buffalo) Nathalie Japkowicz (University of Ottawa) Wenzhao Lian (Duke University) Szymon Jaroszewicz (Institute of ) Dawen Liang (Columbia University) Matti Jarvisalo (University of Helsinki) Ronghua Liang (Zhejiang University of Technology) Ming Ji (Google) Yingyu Liang (Princeton University) Xiaowei Jia (State University of New York at Buffalo) Shizhong Liao (Tianjin University) Zhuolin Jiang (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab) Binbin Lin (University of Michigan) Danilo Jimenez Rezende (Google Deepmind) Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan University) Hongxia Jin (Samsung Research) Ming Lin (Carnegie Mellon University) Liping Jing (BJTU) Tong Lin (Peking University) Pooria Joulani (University of Alberta) Youzuo Lin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Ata Kaban (University of Birmingham) Zhouchen Lin (Peking University) David Kale (University of Southern California) Charles Ling (Western University) Toshihiro Kamishima (National Institute of Advanced Bin Liu (Rutgers University) Industrial Science and Technology) Bo Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Varun Kanade (Ecole normale superieure) Jialu Liu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Masayuki Karasuyama (Kyoto University) Jie Liu (University of Washington) Shiva Kasiviswanathan (GE Global Research) Han Liu (Princeton University) Kaski (Aalto University) Jing Liu (Xidian University) Ioannis Katakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athen) Kefei Liu (University of Michigan) Saurabh Kataria Li-Ping Liu (Oregon State University) Yoshinobu Kawahara (Osaka University) Qi Liu (University of Science and Technology of China) Sathiya Keerthi (Yahoo! Labs) Qingshan Liu (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology) Mikaela Keller (Université de Lille) Wei Liu (IBM Research) Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan (EPFL) Weiwei Liu (University of Technology) Been Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Xin Liu (Chinese Academy of Science) Hyunwoo Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madision) Yashu Liu (Arizona State University) Young-Min Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) Daniel Lizotte (Western University) Franz Király (University College London) Beatriz López () Arto Klami (University of Helsinki) Zhengdong Lu (Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab) Marius Klo (Humbolt-University of Berlin) Zhiwu Lu (Renmin University) David Knowles (Stanford University) Zhongqi Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Mario Koeppen (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Haipeng Luo (Princeton University) Yun Sing Koh (University of Auckland) Shiqian Ma (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) Mikko Koivisto (University of Helsinki) Sridhar Mahadevan (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Mladen Kolar (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) Mehrdad Mahdavi (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University) Odalric-Ambrym Maillard (INRIA) Deguang Kong (Samsung Research) Dmitry Malioutov (IBM Research) Xiangnan Kong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Brandon Malone (Max Planck Institute for of Aging) George Konidaris (Duke University) Gideon Mann (Google) Wouter Koolen (Queensland University of Technology) Qi Mao (University of Buffalo) Nathaniel Korda (Oxford University) Jeremie Mary (University Lille) Wojciech Kotlowski (Poznan University of Technology) Gonzalo Mateos (University of Rochester) Akshay Krishnamurthy (Carnegie Mellon University) Shin Matsushima (University of Tokyo) Anastasia Krithara (NCSR Demokritos) Denis Maua (Universidade de Sao Paulo) Branislav Kveton (Adobe Research) Yi Mei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Prashanth L.A. (Indian Institute of Science) Alessio Micheli () Niels Landwehr (University of Potsdam) Paul Mineiro (Microso Cloud and Information Services Lab) Ni Lao (Google) Leandro Minku (University of Birmingham) Pedro Larrañanga (Technical University of Madrid) Joseph Modayil (University of Alberta) Tor Lattimore (University of Alberta) Shakir Mohamed (Google) Soren Laue () Andrea Montanari (Stanford University) Alessandro Lazaric (INRIA) Krikamol Muandet (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Guy Lebanon (Amazon) Brian Murphy (Queen's University Belfast)

xlvii Sahand Negahban (Yale University) Ohad Shamir (Weizmann Institute of Science) Willie Neiswanger (Carnegie Mellon University) Hao Shao (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics) Kourosh Neshatian (University of Canterbury) Christian Shelton (University of California, Riverside) Gergely Neu (INRIA Lille) Yuan Shen (University of Birmingham) Frank Neumann (University of Adelaide) Victor Sheng (University of Central Arkansas) Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil (NEC Laboratories America) Lei Shi (Chinese Academy of Science) Feiping Nie (University of Texas) Shimkin (e Technion) Zhi Nie (Arizona State University) Kevin Small (Amazon) Xia Ning (Indiana University and Purdure University Indianapolis) Jasper Snoek (Harvard) Chris Oates () Andy Song (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Guojie Song (Peking University) Hidekazu Oiwa (University of Tokyo) Nati Srebro (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Pietro-S. Oliveto (University of Sheffield) Karthik Sridharan (Cornell University) Laurent Orseau (Google) Bharath Sriperumbudur (e Pennsylvania State University) Takayuki Osogami (IBM Research-Tokyo) J. Stefanowski (Instytut Informatyki Politechnika Poznan) Lionel Ott (University of Sydney) Hang Su (Tsinghua Univesity) Satoshi Oyama (Hokkaido University) Mahito Sugiyama (Osaka University) Deepti Pachauri Jianyong Sun (University of Greenwich) Aline Paes (Universidade Federal Fluminense) Qian Sun (Arizona State University) Tapio Pahikkala (University of ) Shiliang Sun (East China Normal University) David Pal (Yahoo! Labs) Peter Sunehag (Google) Gang Pan (Zhejiang University) Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University) Ankur Parikh (Carnegie Mellon University) Rikiya Takahashi (SmartNews) Pekka Parviainen (Aalto University) Partha Talukdar (Indian Institute of Science) Andrea Passerini (University di Trento) Mingkui Tan (University of Adelaide) Mykola Pechenizkiy (Eindhoven University of Technology) Xiaoyang Tan (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Dmitry Pechyony (Microso) Huajin Tang (Institute for Infocomm Research) Jose Peña (Linkoping University) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University) Bilal Piot (Université Lille 3) Dacheng Tao (University of Technology) Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo) Nikolaj Tatti (Aalto University) Philippe Preux (Université de Lille) Matthew Taylor (Washington State University) Guo-jun Qi (University of Central Florida) Olivier Teytaud Yanjun Qi (University of Virginia) Chuan-Kang Ting (National Chung Cheng University) Buyue Qian (IBM Research) Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of essaloniki) Chao Qian (Nanjing University) eja Tulabandhula (Xerox Research Center India) Yuhua Qian (School of Computer and Information Technology) Ruth Urner (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Kai Qin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Nicolas Usunier (Facebook) Novi Quadrianto (University of Sussex) Giorgio Valentini (Università degli Studi di Milano) Deepak Ramachandran (Nuance) Michal Valko (INRIA) Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University) Martijn van-Otterlo (Radboud University) Huzefa Rangwala (George Mason University) Harm van Seijen (University of Alberta) Ratsaby (Ariel University) Joaquin Vanschoren (Eindhoven University of Technology) Siamak Ravanbakhsh (University of Alberta) Adriano Veloso (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) Oliver Ray (University of Bristol) Sicco Verwer (Del University of Technology) Sashank Reddi (Carnegie Mellon University) Michail Vlachos (IBM Research) Roi Reichart (Faculty of Industrial Engineering) Max Vladymyrov (Yahoo! Labs) Chuan-Xian Ren (Sun Yat-Sen University) Slobodan Vucetic (Temple Univeristy) Lev Reyzin (University of Illinois at Chicago) Chong Wang (Princeton University) Fabrizio Riguzzi (University di Ferrara) Fei Wang (University of Connecticut) Mark Ring (Ring Consulting) Jie Wang (Arizona State University) Teemu Roos (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) Jingdong Wang (Microso Research Asia) Juho Rousu (Aalto University) Naiyan Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technolog) Nicolas-Le Roux (Criteo) Rui Wang (Alibaba Group) Manuel Roveri (Politecnico di Milano) Shusen Wang (Zhejiang University) Ankan Saha (LinkedIn) Wei Wang (Nanjing University) Jun Sakuma (University of Tsukuba) Weiran Wang (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) Wojciech Samek (Fraunhofer HHI) William Yang Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) Vitor Santos-Costa (University of Porto) Xiang Wang (Google) Issei Sato (University of Tokyo) Xiaolong Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) Taisuke Sato Xuezhi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) Hiroshi Sawada (NTT Communication Science Labs) Yang Wang () Tom Schaul (Google DeepMind) Yi Wang (IHPC) Frank-Michael Schleif (University of Birmingham) Yu-Chiang Frank Wang (Academia Sinica) Jürgen Schmidhuber (Swiss AI Lab IDSIA) Yuxuan Wang (Ohio State University) Oliver Schulte (Simon Fraser University) Zheng Wang (University of Michigan) omas Seidl (RWTH Aachen University) Takashi Washio (Osaka University) Shai Shalev-Schwarz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Kazuho Watanabe (Toyohashi University of Technology)

xlviii Kevin Waugh (Carnegie Mellon University) Joey Tianyi Zhou (Nanyang Technological University) Greg Wayne (Google DeepMind) Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas at Austin) eo Weber (Google DeepMind) Tianyi Zhou (University of Washington) Roi Weiss (Ben-Gurion University) Yin Zhou (Samsung Research) Martha White (Indiana University) Hengshu Zhu (Baidu Research-Big Data Lab) Guillaume Wisniewski (Université Paris Sud and LIMSI) Jianke Zhu (Zhejiang University) Michal Wozniak (Politechnika Wroclawska) Xiaodan Zhu (National Research Council Canada) John Wright (Columbia University) Yada Zhu (IBM Research) Feng Wu (University of Science and Technology of China) Fuzhen Zhuang (ICT) Shiming Xiang (NLPR) Andreas Ziehe (Technical University of Berlin) Shuo Xiang (Pinterest) Yanghua Xiao (Fudan University) Bo Xie (Georgia Institute of Technology) Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Track Yao Xie Track Chairs (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Jianpeng Xu (Michigan State University) James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University) Junming Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Linli Xu (University of Science and Technology of China) Area Chairs Miao Xu (Nanjing University) Minjie Xu (Tsinghua University) Adnan Darwiche (University of California) Xinxing Xu (Nanyang Technological University) Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam) Zenglin Xu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) omas Eiter (Technical University of Wien) Bing Xue (Victoria University of Wellington) Tony Hunter (University College London) Hui Xue (Southeast University) Pierre Marquis (CRIL-CNRS and Universitíé d'Artois) Makoto Yamada (Yahoo! Labs) Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto) Keisuke Yamazaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool) Junchi Yan (IBM Research-China) Yan Zhang (University of Western Sydney) Hongxia Yang (IBM Research) Senior Program Committee Jian-Bo Yang (Duke University) Pei Yang (Arizona State University) Leila Amgoud (IRIT) Sen Yang (Alibaba RandD) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University) Shuang Yang (Twitter Inc.) Meghyn Bienvenu (CNRS) Jinfeng Yi (IBM omas J. Watson Research Center) Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig) Yiming Ying (State University of New York at Albany) Son Tran Cao (New Mexico State University) Kui Yu (Simon Fraser University) Vítor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto) Yaoliang Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford) Zhiwen Yu (South China University of Technology) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Università di Roma) Changhe Yuan (City University of New York) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University) Ming Yuan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Eduardo Ferme (University of Madeira) Nicholas Jing Yuan (Microso Research) Maria Garcia-de-la-Banda (Monash University) De-Chuan Zhan (Nanjing University) Massimiliano Giacomin (Università di Brescia) Aonan Zhang (Columbia University) Katsumi Inoue (NII) Changshui Zhang (Tsinghua University) Jianmin Ji (University of Science and Technology of China) Daoqiang Zhang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Frédéric Koriche (CRIL-CNRS) Harry Zhang (University of New Brunswick) Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University) Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University) Junping Zhang (Fudan University) Joao Leite (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Kai Zhang (Alibaba Group) Nicola Leone (University of Calabria) Kun Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas) Lijun Zhang (Nanjing University) omas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford) Nevin L. Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technolog) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen) Peng Zhang (University of Technology) Sanjay Modgil (King's College London) Qiang Zhang (Samsung Research) Teng Zhang (Nanjing University) Sebastian Rudolph (Technical University of Dresden) Wenlu Zhang (Old Dominion University) Scott Sanner (NICTA) Yu Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester) Yuchen Zhang (University of California, Berkeley) Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam) Zhihua Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Guillermo Simari (Universdad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca) Peilin Zhao (Institute for Infocomm Research) Stefan Szeider (Technical University of Wien) Xin Zhao (Renmin University of China) Michael ielscher (University of New South Wales) Yuchen Zhao (AppDynamics) Francesca Toni (Imperial College London) Wenming Zheng (Southeast University) Guy Van den Broeck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Xun Zheng (Carnegie Mellon University) Kewen Wang (Griffith University) Guoqiang Zhong (Ocean University of China) Nic Wilson (University College Cork) Wenliang Zhong (Alibaba Group) Stefan Woltran (Technical University of Vienna) Dengyong Zhou (Microso Research) Michael Zakharyaschev (University of London, Birkbeck) De-Yu Zhou (Southeast University) Dongmo Zhang (University of Western Sydney)

xlix Program Committee Remy Haemmerle (IMDEA Soware Institute) José Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Amelia Harrison (University of Texas at Austin) Mario Alviano (University of Calabria) Fredrik Heintz (Linkoping University) Andre Hernich (University of Liverpool) Alessandro Artale (Free University Bozen-Bolzano) Matthew Horridge (Stanford University) Jorge Baier (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Aaron Hunter (British Columbia Institute of Technology) Marcello Balduccini (Drexel University) Magdalena Ivanovska (University of ) Ringo Baumann (University of Leipzig) Tomi Janhunen (Aalto University) Vaishak Belle (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Guifei Jiang (University of Western Sydney) Leo Bertossi () Ulrich Junker Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen) Antonis Kakas () Elizabeth Black (King's College London) Meir Kalech (Ben Gurion University) Bart Bogaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Mark Kaminski (University of Oxford) Piero Bonatti (University of Naples Federico II) Yevgeny Kazakov (University of Ulm) Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University) Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Technical University of Dortmund) Alex Borgida (Rutgers University) Evgeny Kharlamov (University of Oxford) Stefan Borgwardt (Technische Universität Dresden) Matthias Knorr (NOVA LINCS) Simone Bova (Vienna University of Technology) Boris Konev (University of Liverpool) Davide Bresolin (University of Bologna) Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL - CNRS) Krysia Broda (Imperial College London) Roman Kontchakov (University of London, Birkbeck) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University) Egor Kostylev (University of Oxford) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Markus Krötzsch (Technical University of Dresden) Martin Caminada (University of Aberdeen) Clemens Kupke (University of Strathclyde) Giovani Casini (CSIR Meraka and ) Martin Lackner (Vienna University of Technology) Federico Cerutti (University of Aberdeen) Jean-Marie Lagniez (CRIL-CNRS and Université d'Artois) Liang Chang (Guilin University of Electronic and Technology) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza University of Rome) Yann Chevaleyre (LIPN) Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza University Roma) Arthur Choi (University of California, Los Angeles) Yves Lesperance (York University Toronto) Jens Claßen (RWTH Aachen University) Jason Li (Australian National University) Antoine Cornuejols (AgroParisTech) Sanjiang Li (University of Technology) Madalina Croitoru (LIRMM) Beishui Liao (Zhejiang University) Jessica Davies (IST Austria) Yuliya Lierler (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Ernest Davis (New York University) Marco Lippi (Bologna University) Marina De Vos (University of Bath) Fenrong Liu (Qinghua University) Marc Denecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-sen University) Pascal Denis (LIFL) Morgan Magnin (IRCCyN) Sylvie Doutre (University of Toulouse 1) Marco Manna (University of Calabria) Jianfeng Du (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) Marco Maratea (University of Genova) Paul Dunne (University of Liverpool) Maria Vanina Martinez (University Nacional del Sur and CONICET) Wolfgang Dvorak (University of Vienna) Pedro Mediano (Imperial College London) Stefan Ellmauthaler () Wannes Meert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Marcelo Errecalde (Universidad Nacional de San Luis) Yunsong Meng (Samsung Research America) Wolfgang Faber (University of Huddersfield) Jerome Mengin (Insitut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) James Fan (IBM) Robert Mercer (University of Western Ontario) Xiuyi Fan (Imperial College London) omas Meyer (CSIR Meraka) Luis Farinas (University of Toulouse) Jakub Michaliszyn (Imperial College London) Maryam Fazel-Zarandi (Nuance Communications) Alessandra Mileo (INSIGHT Research Center) Bettina Fazzinga (University of Calabria) Cristian Molinaro (University of Calabria) Paolo Felli (University of Melbourne) Leora Morgenstern (Leidos) Paolo Ferraris (Google Inc) Till Mossakowski (University of Magdeburg) Edgardo Ferretti (Universidad Nacional de San Luis) Boris Motik (University of Oxford) Andrea Formisano (University di Perugia) Marie-Laure Mugnier (Université de Montpellier) Jeremy Forth (IWEng Consulting) Nysret Musliu (Vienna University of Technology) Christian Fritz (PARC) Yavor Nenov (University of Oxford) Alfredo Gabaldon (GE Global Research) Mathias Niepert (University of Washington) Sarah Gaggl (Technical University of Dresden) Nadeschda Nikitina (University of Oxford) Yang Gao (Imperial College London) Alexandre Niveau (University of Caen) Laurent Garcia (University of Angers. France) Farid Nouioua (LSIS UMR CNRS) Romaric Gaudel (CRISTAL) Manuel Ojeda-Aciego (Universidad de Málaga) Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam) Tenda Okimoto (Kobe University) Laura Giordano (Università del Piemonte Orientale ) Sebastian Ordyniak () François Goasdoué (Université de 1) Nir Oren (University of Aberdeen) Ricardo Gonçalves (NOVALINCS) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology) Christophe Gonzales (LIP6 - UPMC) Umut Oztok (University of California, Los Angeles) Giovanni Grasso (University of Oxford) Meltem Ozturk (Université Paris Dauphine) Alban Grastien (NICTA and Australian National University) Ravi Palla (GE Global Research) Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool) Odile Papini (Aix-Marseille University)

l Fabio Patrizi (University of Bolzano) Computational Sustainability Track Adrian Pearce (University of Melbourne) Rafael Peñaloza (Technical University of Dresden) Track Chair Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras) Carla Gomes (Cornell University) Simona Perri (University of Calabria) Laurent Perrussel (University of Toulouse) Senior Program Committee Andreas Pieris (Vienna University of Technology) Bistra Dilkina (Georgia Institute of Technology) Ramón Pino Pérez (Universidad de Los Andes) Stefano Ermon (Stanford University) Antonella Poggi (Sapienza University of Rome) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich) Sylwia Polberg (Vienna University of Technology) Alex Rogers (University of Southamption) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Program Committee Henry Prakken (Utrecht University) Alexandre Albore (Onera) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (University of Manchester) Tsz-Chiu Au (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) Livia Predoiu (University of Oxford) Ramon Bejar Torres (Universitat de Lleida) Joerg Puehrer (Leipzig University) Russel Bent (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, Nanjing) Ken Brown (University College Cork) Igor Razgon (Birkbeck University of London) Matthew Brown (University of Southern California) Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria) Iadine Chades (CSIRO) Javier Romero (University of Potsdam) Mark Crowley (University of Waterloo) Stefan Rümmele (Vienna University of Technology) eodoros Damoulas (New York University) Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London) Kamalika Das (NASA Ames Research Center) Vladislav Ryzhikov (Free University of Bozen - Bolzano) Keith Decker (University of Delaware) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University) Wei Ding (University of Massachusetts) Ganesh Ram Santhanam (Iowa State University) Yann Dujardin (CSIRO) Frederic Saubion (LERIA) James Faghmous (University of Minnesota) Stefan Schlohbach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ) Fei Fang (University of Southern California) Tom Schrijvers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Serge Fenet (Universite Lyon 1) Peter Schüller (Marmara University) Cesar Fernandez (University of Lleida) Claudia Schulz (Imperial College London) Daniel Fink (Cornell University) Nicolas Schwind (Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center) Doug Fisher (Vanderbilt University) Alice Gao (University of British Columbia) Yi-Dong Shen (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Marco Gavanellii () Yuping Shen (Institute of Logic and Cognition) Shahriar Hossain (University Texas El Paso) Gerardo Simari (University Nacional del Sur and CONICET) Jack Kelly (Imperial College Longon) Mantas Simkus (Vienna University of Technology) Kristian Kersting (Technical University of Dortmund University) Sameer Singh (University of Washington) J. Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University) Hannes Strass (Leipzig University) Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota) Kaile Su (Griffith University) Edith Law (University of Waterloo) Dan Tecuci (IBM) Ronan Le Bras (Cornell University) Eugenia Ternovska (Simon Fraser University (SFU)) Martin Leuker (University of Luebeck) Giorgio Terracina (University of Calabria) Jason Li (Australian National University) Michaël omazo (Technical University of Dresden) Yan Liu (University of Southern California) Fernando Tohme (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Michele Lombardi (University of Bologna) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Technical University of Dresden) Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (National University of Singapore) Federico Ulliana (University of Montpellier 2) Benjamin Lubin (Boston University) Leendert van der Torre (University of Luxembourg) Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia) Stavros Vassos (Sapienza University of Rome) Manish Marwah (HP Labs) Pierfrancesco Veltri (University of Calabria) Carles Mateu (University Lleida) Joost Vennekens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Michela Milano (DISI Universita’ di Bologna) Srdjan Vesic (CRIL) Sriraam Natarajan (Indiana University) Serena Villata (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) anh Nguyen (University of Southern California) Johannes Wallner (Technical University of Vienna) Oliver Parson (University of Southampton) Emmanuel Prados (INRIA) Hai Wan (School of Soware) Gregory Provan (University College Cork) Yisong Wang (Guizhou University) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech) Zhe Wang (Griffith University) Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton) Renata Wassermann (University of Sao Paulo) Alistair Reid (NICTA) Georg Weissenbacher (Vienna University of Technology) Valentin Robu (Heriot-Watt University) Maonian Wu (Huzhou University) Regis Sabbadin (MIAT INRA) Fangkai Yang (Schlumberger Ltd) Ashish Sabharwal (Allen Institute for AI) Jia-Huai You (University of Alberta) René Schönfelder (Universität zu Lübeck) Anthony Young (King's College London) Anika Schumann (IBM Research) Zahra Zamani (Telstra) Bart Selman (Cornell University) Heng Zhang (University of Western Sydney) Helmut Simonis (University College Cork) Yi Zhou (Artificial Intelligence Research Group) Adish Singla (ETH Zurich) Zhiqiang Zhuang (Griffith University) Arunesh Sinha (University of Southern California)

li Sucheta Soundarajan (Rutgers University) Stephen Guy (University of Minnesota) Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton) Gabriela Henning (INTEC) Karsten Steinhaeuser (University of Minnesota) Huei Lee (Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná - Unioeste) Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (New York University) Jimmy Lee (e Chinese University of Hong Kong) Sylvie iebaux (Australian National University) Ramon Lopez De Mantaras (IIIA-CSIC) Allan Tucker (Brunel University) Damian (Fordham University) Daniel Urieli (University of Texas at Austin) Weng-Keen Wong (Oregon State University) Ana Gabriela Maguitman (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Yexiang Xue (Cornell University) Michela Milano (Università di Bologna) Rong Yang (Palo Alto Research Center) Diego Milone (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) Ariel Monteserin (Unicen University) AI and the Arts Track Nancy Reed (University of Hawaii) María Cristina Riff (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria) Track Chairs Fabrizio Riguzzi (University of Ferrara) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire) Mark d'Inverno (Goldsmiths, University of London) Jaime Sichman (University of Sao Paulo) Francois Pachet (SONY Computer Science Laboratory Paris) Georgina Stegmayer (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) Program Committee Matthew E. Taylor (Washington State University) Paolo Torroni (University of Bologna) Josep Lluis Arcos (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute) Lirong Xia (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Emilios Cambouropoulos (Aristotle University of essaloniki) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University) Amícar Cardoso () Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut) Simon Colton (Goldsmiths, University of London) Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia) Palle Dahlstedt (Chalmers University) Pablo Gervas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology) Amy Hoover (University of Central Florida) Anna Jordanous (University of Kent) Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra) Mary Lou Maher (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Jon McCormack (Monash University) David C. Moffat (Glasgow Caledonian University) Philippe Pasquier (Simon Fraser University) Rafael Perez y Perez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Mark Riedl (Georgia Institute of Technology) Xavier Serra (Pompeu Fabra University) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Tony Veale (University College Dublin) Dan Ventura (Brigham Young University) Gerhard Widmer (Johannes Kepler University) David Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Francisco Pereira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Doctoral Consortium Chairs Maria Gini (University of Minnesota) Silvia Schiaffino (ISISTAN – CONICET) Program Committee Silvana Aciar (Universidad Nacional de San Juan) Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano) Nicola Basilico (Università degli Studi di Milano) Gustavo Batista (University of São Paulo) Facundo Bromberg (UTN-Mendoza- CONICET) Li Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University) Alejandro Garcia (Universidad Nacional del Sur) Giuseppina Gini (Politecnico di Milano) Daniela Godoy (ISISTAN Research Institute) Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky) Pablo M. Granitto (CIFASIS)

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