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AAAI-15 / IAAI-15 Conference Program January 25 – 30, 2015 Hyatt Regency Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Twenty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence AAAI-15 / IAAI-15 Conference Program January 25 – 30, 2015 Hyatt Regency Austin, Austin, Texas, USA Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Cosponsored by the National Science Foundation, AI Journal, Baidu, Infosys, Microsoft Research, BigML, Disney Research, Google, NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network, University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, Yahoo Labs!, ACM/SIGAI, CRA Computing Community Consortium, and David E. Smith In cooperation with the University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Department, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and the RoboCup Federation MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING Sunday, January 25 Student Newcomer Lunch Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Workshops / NSF Workshop Workshops / NSF Workshop AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC Monday, January 26 Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Speed Dating Workshops Workshops Opening Reception AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC Open House Open House Invited Talks Robotics / RoboCup Robotics / RoboCup Tuesday, January 27 AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards Invited Talks: Bagnell and Etzioni Shaky Celebration AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AAAI / IAAI Technical Program Poster / Demo Session 1 Funding Information Session Senior Member Blue Sky / Doctoral Consortium, What’s Hot Talks / RSS Talks Virtual Agent Demos Robotics / RoboCup / Exhibits Robotics / RoboCup / Exhibits Robotics Demos General Game Playing Fellows Dinner Wednesday, January 28 Women’s Mentoring Breakfast Student Abstract Poster Ads / AAAI Community Meeting Lunch with a Fellow AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AAAI / IAAI Technical Program Poster / Demo Session 2 Senior Member Blue Sky / Invited Talks: Hinton and Ghani Student Abstract Posters What’s Hot Talks Games Showcase, Classic Paper / Robotics Students Senior Member Summary Talks Robotics Demos General Game Playing Easily Accessible Papers Robotics / Exhibits Robotics / Exhibits Game Night Thursday, January 29 Invited Talks: Sellmann Student Abstract Poster Ads / Debate on Autonomous Lunch with a Fellow Weapons AI Video Competition Awards AAAI / IAAI Technical Program AAAI / IAAI Technical Program Poster / Demo Session 3 What’s Hot Talks RSS / Robotics Student Talks Student Abstract Posters Games Showcase General Game Playing Easily Accessible Papers Robotics / Exhibits Robotics / Exhibits Robotics Demos Friday, January 30 Invited Talks: Getoor and Bowling AAAI-15 Awards Ceremony AAAI / Technical Program Senior Member Summary Talks 2 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE Contents Acknowledgments / 3-4 Sponsoring Organizations AI Video Competition / 12 AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the following organizations and individuals to AAAI-15: Awards / 4-5 Platinum Sponsor Conference at a Glance / 2 National Science Foundation Debate on Autonomous Weapons / 6 AI Journal Baidu Doctoral Consortium / 9, 18 Exhibition / 12–14 Gold Sponsor Infosys Funding Information Session / 6 Games Night / 10 Silver Sponsor Games Showcase / 10 Microsoft Research IAAI-15 Program / 15-26 Bronze Sponsors Invited Presentations / 8 BigML Maps / 18, 21, 23, 25 Disney Research Google Open House / 10 NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN) University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute Poster / Demo Sessions / 5, 18 , 23, 28 Yahoo Labs! Registration / 14 General Sponsors Robotics Events / 11 ACM/SIGAI Senior Member / Blue Sky Program / 5, 8 CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) David E. Smith Shakey Celebration / 6 In Cooperation Organizations Social Events / 5 University of Texas at Austin Computer Science Department Special Events / 6 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) RoboCup Federation Special Meetings / 6 Speed Dating / 5 Sponsors / 3, 12-14 Acknowledgments Student Activities / 9-10 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 Student Abstracts / 9, 21, 23, 25, 28 Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-15 and IAAI-15 Program Committee Talk Length Key / 15 members appears in the conference proceedings.) Technical Program / 15-28 AAAI Conference Committee AI and the Web Track Cochairs Tutorial Forum / 7 Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics and AAAI Conference Committee Chair Business, Austria) Virtual Agents Demos / 18 Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University, USA) Amherst, USA) Cognitive Systems Track Cochairs What’s Hot Talks / 8 AAAI-15 Program Cochairs Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 9 Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela) Paul Rosenbloom (University of Southern Califor- Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, nia, USA) USA) Workshop Program / 7 Computational Sustainability Track Cochairs IAAI Chair and Cochair Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) David Gunning (PARC, USA) Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Peter Z. Yeh (Nuance Communications, USA) Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) CONTENTS / SPONSORS / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 Integrated Systems Track Cochairs Mauro Birattari (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bel- term participation in AAAI and their distinction in Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University, Sweden) gium) the field of artificial intelligence. Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Susan Craw (Robert Gordon University, UK) Virtual Agents Exhibit Stan Franklin (University of Memphis, USA) Senior Member Track Cochairs Marc Cavazza (Teesside University, UK) Yong Gao (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada) Ariel Felner (Ben Gurion University, Israel) Fundraising Cochairs Jérôme Lang (Université Paris Dauphine, France) Helen M. Gigley, Ph.D. (Central Intelligence Agency Vasant Honavar (Penn State University, USA) (retired), USA) What's Hot Cochairs Sandip Sen (The University of Tulsa, USA) David B. Leake (Indiana University, USA) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Mausam (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) Publicity and Social Media Chair Yi L. Murphey (University of Michigan Dearborn, USA) Michael Thielscher (University New South Wales, Yixin Chen (Washington University in St. Louis, Leo J. Obrst (The MITRE Corporation, USA) Australia) USA) Doina Precup (McGill University, Canada) Tutorial Cochairs David S. Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Funding Information Session Cochairs Franz Wotawa (Technische Universität Graz, Austria) Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Berthe Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mausam (Indian Institute of Technology, India) USA) Classic Paper Award Workshop Cochairs Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa, USA) The 2015 AAAI Classic Paper award honors the fol- WengKeen Wong (Oregon State University, USA) Debate on Autonomous Weapons Cochairs lowing authors of paper(s) deemed most influential Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon, USA) Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley, from the Fourteenth National Conference on Artifi- Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs USA) cial Intelligence, held in 1997 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Sriraam Natarajan (Indiana University, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Daniele Magazzeni (King's College London, UK) 2015 AAAI Classic Paper Award Sebastian Sardina (RMIT, Australia) AAAI-15 Advisory Board Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Word Statistics Carla E. Brodley (Northeastern University, USA) Matthew Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Eugene Charniak Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Balti- David L. Roberts (North Carolina State University, For significant contributions to sentence parsing and more County, USA) USA) language models based on probabilities of possible al- Jörg Hoffmann (Saarland University, Germany) ternative parses. General Student Activities and Outreach Michael Littman (Brown University, USA) The Classic Paper Award recipient Eugene Charniak Cochairs Bart Selman (Cornell University) will present a talk on Wednesday, January 28, at William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA) Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 9:20 am, Texas Ballroom I, second level. Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Honorable Mention Women's Mentoring Breakfast Awards Using CSP Look-Back Techniques to Solve Real- Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Balti- World SAT Instances Roberto J. Bayardo Jr. and Robert C. Schrag more County, USA) AAAI Special Awards and honors will be presented Amy McGovern (University of Oklahoma, USA) For significant contributions to enhance proof proce- Tuesday, January 27, 8:30 – 8:55 am, in Zilker Ball- dures for propositional satisfiability on large instances Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) room on the first level of the Hyatt Regency Austin. of real-world problems. Demos Chair AAAI-15 Awards will be presented on Friday, Jan- uary 30, 9:50 – 10:00 AM in the same location. Carlos Linares Lopez (Universidad Carlos III de 2015 Distinguished Service Award Madrid, Spain) AAAI Special Awards and Honors The AAAI Distinguished Service award recognizes Robotics Cochairs one individual each year for extraordinary service to AAAI Honors
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