AAAI-19 IAAI-19 EAAI-19 Conference Program

Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Thirty-First Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Ninth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

January 27 – February 1, 2019 Hilton Hawaiian Village Honolulu,Hawaii, USA Conference Highlights at a Glance

MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING Sunday, January 27 Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Student Welcome Reception Workshops Workshops AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC AIES 2019 AIES 2019 AIES Opening Reception

Monday, January 28 Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Opening Reception Workshops Workshops AAAI Townhall AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC EAAI Award Lecture: Goel EAAI Technical Program AIES 2019 AIES 2019

Tuesday, January 29 AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards Lunch with a Fellow AI Debate AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Breazeal Black in AI Lunch Poster / Demo Session 1 AAAI Classic Paper Award Talk: Melville IAAI RSE Award Lecture: Tambe Fellows Dinner IAAI Technical Program IAAI Technical Program EAAI Invited Talk: Medsker EAAI Technical Program Exhibits Exhibits

Wednesday, January 30 Women’s Mentoring Breakfast Lunch with a Fellow AAAI Invited Talk: Goodfellow AAAI Technical Program AAAI Invited Talk: Yang IAAI Technical Program IAAI Technical Program Poster / Demo Session 2 Student Abstract Spotlights Senior Member Talks Exhibits Exhibits

Thursday, January 31 AAAI Conference Awards Lunch with a Fellow AAAI Community Meeting AAAI/IAAI Invited Talk: Zheng AAAI Invited Talk: Sandholm Poster / Demo Session 3 Exhibits Exhibits AI Job Fair

Friday, February 1 AAAI Invited Talk: Gonzalez AAAI Technical Program

2 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE Contents Sponsoring Organizations AAAI Community Meeting / 5 AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the Acknowledgments / 3 following organizations and individuals to AAAI-19: AI Job Fair / 10 Platinum Sponsor AIES 2019 / 6 AI Journal Awards / 3 Didi Elsevier Black in AI Lunch / 6 IBM Research Conference at a Glance / 2 JD.com Doctoral Consortium / 8 Gold Sponsor EAAI-19 Program / 9 Baidu Exhibition / 11 Lionbridge Uber Games Night / 8 Unity Invited Talks / 10 WeBank/Qianhai Maps / 21-23 Silver Sponsor Poster / Demo Sessions / 6 Amazon Registration / 14 Diveplane Eleme Senior Member / Blue Sky Program / 11 Jane Street Social and Special Events / 6 Lyft Shanghai Yixue Educational Technology Co., Ltd. Special Meetings / 5 Special Track: AI for Social Impact / 11 Bronze Sponsors Sponsors / 3, 11 Alegion Google AI Student Abstracts / 8 iMerit Technology Student Activities / 6–10 Microsoft Research NextAI Talk Length Key / 16 Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT) AAAI/IAAI Program Overview / 16–19 University of Adger University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute Tutorial Forum / 7 Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 10 General Sponsors Workshop Program / 8 ACM/SIGAI CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) David E. Smith Acknowledgments The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the follow- ing individuals for their generous contributions of time and energy to the successful creation and planning of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Thursday,Th d January 31, 8:20 – 8:40 AM in theh same tainedd contributionsb to theh fieldfi ld fof artificialfi l intel-l Artificial Intelligence and the Thirty-First Confer- location. ligence, and who have attained unusual distinc- ence on Innovative Applications of Artificial In- tion in the profession. AAAI is pleased to an- telligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-19 and 2019 AAAI Special Awards & Honors nounce the seven newly elected Fellows for 2019, IAAI-19 Program Committee members will ap- AAAI Honors and Special Awards will be pre- who will be honored during the annual Fellows pear in the conference proceedings.) sented by Subbarao Kambhampati, Awards dinner on Tuesday, January 29: Committee Chair and AAAI Past President, Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA) Awards Yolanda Gil, AAAI President, and Bart Selman, Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Bel- AAAI President-Elect. gium) Kristen Grauman (University of Texas at Austin AAAI Special Awards and honors will be pre- 2019 AAAI Fellows Recognition and Facebook AI Research, USA) sented Tuesday, January 29, 8:10 – 8:40 AM, in Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech, USA) the Coral Ballroom on the 6th floor of the Mid- Each year, the Association for the Advancement Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA) Pacific Conference Center of Hilton Hawaiian of Artificial Intelligence recognizes a small num- Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester, USA) Village. AAAI-19 Awards will be presented on ber of members who have made significant sus- Peter Stuckey (Monash University, Australia)

CONTENTS/ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / SPONSORS / AWARDS 3 AAAI Conference Committee

AAAI Conference Committee Chair Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Daniele Magazzeni (King’s College London, UK) Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) AAAI-19 Program Cochairs Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Student Abstract Cochairs Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Nir Lipovetzky (University of Melbourne, Australia) Yang Yu (Nanjing University, China) IAAI-19 Chair Karen Myers (SRI International, USA) Student Activities Cochairs Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas, Dallas, USA) EAAI-19 Symposium Cochairs Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta, Canada) Michael Wollowski (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA) Nate Derbinsky (Northeastern University, USA) Student Outreach Cochairs Emerging Topic – AI for Social Impact Cochairs Brent Venable (Tulane University, USA) Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada) Sheila Tejada (University of Southern California, USA) Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA) AAAI/SIGAI Job Fair Cochairs Presentation Chair John Dickerson (University of Maryland, USA) Eugene Freuder (University College Cork, Ireland) Chris Amato (Northeastern University, USA) Senior Member Track Cochairs Black in AI Lunch Cochairs David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Rediet Abebe (Cornell University, USA) Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA) Emmanuel Johnson (USC/Institue for Creative Technolgies, USA) Technical Demonstrations Chair Women’s Mentoring Event Cochairs Monica Anderson (University of Alabama, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Marie desJardins (Simmons College, USA) Tutorial Forum Cochairs William Yeoh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Fundraising Chair James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Kong) Guidebook Program Chair Workshop Program Cochairs Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela) Matthew Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China) Workflow Chair Peng Zhao (Nanjing University, China)

2019 Senior Member Recognition ence on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2002 in Ed- 2019 Robert S. Engelmore AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected monton, Alberta, Canada. Memorial Award and Lecture 2019 AAAI senior members, who are being rec- Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Improved The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by ognized for their long-term participation in Recommendations IAAI-19 and AI Magazine, and will be presented AAAI and their distinction in the field of artificial Prem Melville, Raymond J. Mooney, Ramadass Nagarajan by Karen Myers, IAAI-19 chair, and Ashok Goel, intelligence. For showing a way to complement content-based editor in chief, AI Magazine. The award and lec- Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, and collaborative filtering approaches in recom- ture were established in 2003 to honor Dr. Engel- Singapore) mendation systems. more’s extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Maga- Roman Barták (Charles University, Czechia) The Classic Paper Award Talk, by Prem Melville, zine, and the AI applications community, and his Yiling Chen (Harvard University, USA) contributions to applied AI. The 2019 award will will be held Tuesday, January 29 at 11:30 AM in Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, be presented to Milind Tambe (University of Canada) South Pacific 4, Upper Level. An honorable men- Southern California) for outstanding research Minh Do (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) tion will be presented to Sven Koenig and Maxim contributions in the area of multi-agent systems Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Likhachev for D*Lite. and their application to problems of societal sig- Vincent Ng (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) 2019 Distinguished Service Award nificance. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Marco Valtorta (University of South Carolina, January 29, 4:15 AM, in the Coral Ballroom on the USA) The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recog- main level. (See lecture description on page 10.) Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in nizes one individual each year for extraordinary St. Louis, USA) service to the AI community. The 2019 recipient 2019 Feigenbaum Prize Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) is Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Mas- The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize was established to sachusetts Amherst), who is being recognized for recognize and encourage outstanding artificial 2019 AAAI Classic Paper Award sustained and conscientious service and leader- intelligence research advances that are made by The 2019 AAAI Classic Paper award honors the ship both to AAAI as a councilor and conference using experimental methods of computer sci- authors of the following paper deemed most in- committee chair, and to the broader AI commu- ence. The 2019 prize is being awarded to Stuart fluential from the Eighteenth National Confer- nity, as the president of ICAPS. Russell, University of California, Berkeley In

4 AWARDS / CONFERENCE COMMITTE recognition of his high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innova- Special Meetings tion and achievement in probabilistic knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning, includ- AAAI Community Meeting / Annual Business Meeting ing its application to global seismic monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. AAAI welcomes all conference attendees to the AAAI community meeting, which will also serve The Feigenbaum Prize is supported by a grant as the AAAI Annual Business Meeting. Please join us as we explore current initiatives, and help from the Feigenbaum Nii Foundation. chart the future course and objectives of AAAI. The meeting will be held Thursday, January 31, 5:15 - 6:15 PM in the Coral Ballroom. 2019 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Moderator: Yolanda Gil, AAAI President Educator Award and Lecture AAAI Conference Committee Meeting The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award The AAAI Conference Committee Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, was established to recognize a person (or group Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level. of people) who has (have) made major contribu- tions to AI education that provide long-lasting AAAI Executive Council Meeting benefits to the AI community. The 2019 award is The AAAI Executive Council Meeting will be held Monday, January 28, 9:00AM - 4:00 PM, Ilima being presented to Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center. Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 of Technology), for sustained excellence in teach- AM. ing, innovation in using AI to teach AI, scientific experimentation and scholarship to assess and AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner improve AI pedagogy, and the many resources he has shared with the community at large. This The AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner will be held Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 – 10:00PM , Rain- award is jointly sponsored by AAAI and the bow Room and Patio, Rainbow Tower. Symposium on Educational Advances in Artifi- AAAI Publications Committee Meeting cial Intelligence. The lecture will be held during EAAI-19 on Monday, January 28, 9:10 AM, in the The AAAI Publications Committee Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00PM , Sea Pearl Suite on the upper level. (See lecture Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center. description on page 10.) AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting IAAI-19 Deployed The AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Applications Awards Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center. The five IAAI-19 Deployed Application Awards will be announced during the Opening Ceremo- ny on Tuesday, January 29 by IAAI-19 Chair Karen Myers. Certificates will be presented dur- ing paper sessions. tion and exposition by regular and student au- above and beyond the expectations for the role, A Genetic Algorithm for Finding a Small and Diverse thors. showing exceptional judgment, clarity, knowl- Set of Recent News Stories on a Given Subject: How edgeability, and leadership in reaching a consen- We Generate AAAI’s AI-Alert AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award sus decision. Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen 2407: How to Combine Tree-Search Methods in Rein- Large Scale Personalized Categorization of Financial forcement Learning Outstanding Senior Program Committee Awards Transactions Yonathan Efroni, Gal Dalal, Bruno Scherrer, Shie Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and Christopher Lesner, Alexander Ran, Marko Rukonic, Mannor Technology, China) Wei Wang Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven, Belgium) Honorable Mention: 451: Solving Imperfect-Informa- Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Transforming Underwriting in the Life Insurance In- tion Games via Discounted Regret Minimization Michele Lombardi (Universià di Bologna, Italy) dustry Noam Brown, Tuomas Sandholm Marc Maier, Hayley Carlotto, Freddie Sanchez, Sher- Aditya Menon (Google Research, USA) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK) riff Balogun, Sears Merritt AAAI-19 Outstanding Automated Dispatch of Helpdesk Email Tickets: Student Paper Award Outstanding Program Committee Awards Pushing the Limits with AI Pascal Bercher (University of Ulm, Germany) Atri Mandal, Nikhil Malhotra, Shivali Agarwal, Anu- 6560: Zero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New pama Ray, Giriprasad Sridhara Sampling with Deep Learning Inference Zealand) Grading Uncompilable Programs Mike Wu, Milan Mosse, Noah Goodman, Chris Piech Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aero- Rohit Takhar, Varun Aggarwal Honorable Mention: 2545: Learning to Teach in Co- nautics and Astronautics, China) operative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Dan Malinsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Giovanni Sileno (Télécom ParisTech, France) AAAI-19 Awards Shayegan Omidshafiei, Dong Ki Kim, Miao Liu, Ger- ald Tesauro, Matthew Riemer, Chris Amato, Murray The AAAI-19 Awards will be presented by Pro- Campbell, Jonathan How AAAI-19 Blue Sky Idea Awards gram Cochairs Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi- AAAI, in cooperation with the Computing Re- Hua Zhou. AAAI-19 Outstanding Program search Association Computing Community Con- AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award Committee Members sortium (CCC), is pleased to present three Blue This year, AAAI’s Conference on Artificial Intel- Each year, AAAI recognizes several outstanding Sky Awards for papers that present ideas and vi- ligence honors the following four papers, which program committee and senior program com- sions that can stimulate the research community exemplify high standards in technical contribu- mittee members. These individuals have gone to pursue new directions, such as new problems,

AWARDS / SPECIAL MEETINGS 5 AAAI-19 Social and Special Events AAAI Opening Reception Preregistration was encouraged. Onsite inquiries can be directed to the Monday, January 28, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM onsite registration desk in the Coral Lobby or by email to aaai19@aaai. The Great Lawn org. The AAAI-19 Opening Reception will be held on the Great Lawn of the Hilton Hawaiian Village (adjacent to the Lagoon). A variety of heavy hors AAAI Meet-Up Room d’oeuvres and one complimentary beverage will be served. A no-host bar January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM will also be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level AAAI-19 technical registration. A $125.00 per person fee ($20.00 for chil- AAAI-19 has reserved a room as an evening drop-in and meetup location. dren over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical It is primarily intended for the use of conference attendees who are re- conference registrants. searchers or practitioners working at schools, businesses or organizations without a large AI group. The objective is to provide an additional oppor- AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Sessions tunity to meet new AI people, share the experience of the conference, and Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 – 8:30 PM perhaps initiate collaborations. If they wish, prospective attendees may Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 – 8:30 PM post “calls for collaboration” beforehand at Google Group AVAILAB Thursday, January 31, 6:30 – 8:30PM (groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/availab) to arrange specific meet- Coral Lounge ings; but this is not required. AAAI Councilor Gene Freuder will be avail- Each AAAI-19 poster / demo session will include posters by authors of able at 9:00 PM on Thursday, January 31 to facilitate a general discussion main technical track papers, including all who are presenting poster spot- of challenges and opportunities. lights as well as those who have made full oral presentations (if they elect- ed to do so). In addition, a total of 15 technical demos will be divided Townhall: A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research among the three evening sessions. Tuesday evening will include Doctoral January 28, 2019, 7:30 - 9:00 PM Consortium and EAAI posters. Student abstract posters will be presented Coral 3, Mid-Pacific Conference Center, Hilton Hawaiian Village Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. For a listing of posters and The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), working with the NSF, is demos, please see the online technical schedule via Guidebook and the sponsoring a roadmap of AI research priorities for the next twenty years. AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program Guide. This AI Research Roadmap is intended to provide guidance for US fund- Poster / Demo sessions will include light suppers and complimentary ing agencies and Congress. This activity is analogous to the 2009 Robotics soft drinks. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the recep- Roadmap that led to the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency, tion is included in the AAAI-19 registration. A $65.00 per person fee multi-year investment by the US federal government. In this session, the ($15.00 for children over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and oth- chairs of the AI Research Roadmap roadmap will summarize the activities er nontechnical conference registrants per night. to date, and solicit feedback from the AAAI community. AI Roadmap Cochairs: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California and Bart Black in AI Lunch Selman, Cornell University; Integrated Intelligence Cochairs: Ken Forbus, Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM Northwestern University and Marie desJardins, Simmons University; AI Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level Roadmap Interaction Cochairs: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University and AAAI is pleased to announce the first Black in AI lunch, designed to facil- Dan Weld, University of Washington; AI Roadmap Machine Learning and itate networking, discussion of different career opportunities in AI, and Robotics Cochairs: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University and Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University sharing of ideas to increase participation of black researchers in the field.

new application domains, or new methodologies. can find the best ways to address these concerns, Journal, AAAI is pleased to offer the following The recipients of the Blue Sky Idea travel awards, including experts of various disciplines, such as student activities designed to enrich the student sponsored by the CCC, are: ethics, philosophy, economics, sociology, psy- experience at the AAAI conference. First Place: Pat Langley for Explainable, Normative, chology, law, history, and politics. In order to ad- and Justified Agency dress these issues in a scientific context, AAAI Student Welcome Reception Second Place: Francesca Rossi and Nicholas Mattei and ACM joined forces to start this conference in Sponsored by USC/Information Sciences Institute for Building Ethically Bounded AI 2018. Attendance at AIES 2019 is available for an Sunday, January 27, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Third Place: Barry Smyth for Recommender Sys- additional fee. The full schedule for the AIES tems: A Healthy Obsession Tapa Ballroom 1 2019 Conference is available at www.aies-confer- ence.com, and will be distributed in hard copy to All students are welcome at the AAAI-19 Student registered attendees. Welcome Reception. Light refreshments will be AAAI/ACM Conference on served. AI, Ethics, and Society AAAI 2019 Sticker Social Event Sunday and Monday, January 27-28 Student Activities and Coral 4, Main Level Outreach In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its dating event to facilitate social interactions at the impact on society is more significant and con- For complete information about Student Pro- conference. This year, there will not be a single cerns and issues are raised regarding aspects grams at AAAI-19, please see aaai.org/Confer- social event for this purpose, but participants are such as value alignment, data handling and bias, ences/AAAI-19/aaai-19-student-activities- encouraged to interact throughout the confer- regulations, and workforce displacement. Only a overview. ence. To facilitate this, participants will be pro- multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder effort In cooperation with and with support from AI vided with stickers and are encouraged to place

6 AIES 2019 / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH / SOCIAL AND SPECIAL EVENTS Tutorial Forum

The AAAI-19 Tutorial Forum is open to all technical registrants for a small fee per tutorial. Half-day tutorials are 4 hours, including breaks; quarter-day tutorials are one hour and 45 minutes with no break. Quarter-day tutorials are denoted by a ‘Q’ at the end of the tutorial code.

Sunday, January 27, 2019 Monday, January 28, 2019 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM MA1: Adversarial Machine Learning SA1: Answer Set Engineering Bo Li, Dawn Song and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik Roland Kaminski, Javier Romero, Torsten Schaub, Philipp Wanko Coral 5, Main level South Pacific 1, Upper level MA2: Deep Bayesian and Sequential Learning SA2: Deep Multi-View Visual Data Analytics Jen-Tzung Chien Zhengming Ding, Hongfu Liu, Handong Zhao Coral 1, Main level Coral 1, Main level MA3: Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Models, Solvers, and Systems SA3: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Transportation Roman Barták, Philipp Obermeier, Torsten Schaub, Tran Cao Son, Roni Stern Zhiwei Qin, Jian Tang, Jieping Ye South Pacific 1, Upper level Coral 2, Main level MA4: Neural Vector Representations beyond Words: Sentence and Document SA4: On Explainable AI: From Theory to Motivation, Applications and Limita- Embeddings tions Gerard de Melo Luca Costabello, Freddy Lecue, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti, Pascal Hit- Coral 2, Main level zler, Pasquale Minervini, Kamruzzaman Sarker Coral 5, Main level MA5: Recent Advances in Scalable Retrieval of Personalized Recommendations Dung Le, Hady Lauw SA5: Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (PAIR) South Pacific 2, Upper level Sarah Keren, Reuth Mirsky, Christopher Geib South Pacific 2, Upper level 1:30 – 5:30 PM

1:30 – 5:30 PM MP1: End-to-End Goal-Oriented Question Answering Systems Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen, Qi He, Jaewon Yang, Liang Zhang SP1: Behavior Analytics: Methods and Applications Coral 1, Main level Longbing Cao South Pacific 1, Upper level MP2: Graph Representation Learning William Hamilton and Jian Tang SP2: Building Deep Learning Applications for Big Data Platforms Coral 5, Main level Jason Dai Coral 5, Main level MP3: Imagination Science: Beyond Data Science Sridhar Mahadevan SP3: New Frontiers of Automated Mechanism Design for Pricing and Auctions South Pacific 1, Upper level Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm, Ellen Vitercik Coral 1, Main level MP4: Integrating Human Factors into AI for Fake News Prevention: Challenges and Opportunities 1:30 – 3:15 PM Amulya Yadav, Aiping Xiong South Pacific 2, Upper level SP4Q: Federated Learning: User Privacy, Data Security and Confidentiality in Machine Learning 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM Yang Liu, Qiang Yang, Zhuoshi Wei, Tianjian Chen Coral 2, Main level MP5Q: Knowledge-Based Sequential Decision-Making under Uncertainty Shiqi Zhang, Mohan Sridharan SP5Q: An Overview of the International Planning Competition Coral 2, Main level Amanda Coles, Andrew Coles, Florian Pommerening, Álvaro Torralba Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level 3:45 – 5:15 PM SP6Q: Presenting a Paper MP6Q: Human Identification at a Distance by Gait Recognition Eugene C. Freuder Shiqi Yu, Yongzhen Huang, Yasushi Makihara, Daigo Muramatsu, Liang Wang, South Pacific 2, Upper level Yasushi Yagi, Tieniu Tan Coral 2, Main level 3:45 – 5:15 PM SP7Q: Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith Coral 2, Main level SP8Q: The Road to Industry John Kolen Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level the answer to social questions on their name tag. Unofficial Student Slack Channel AAAI Meet-Up Room: Doing so means that you are open to social inter- Not Just for Students! actions with people at the conference that you do If you are interested in finding and meeting not know. Find stickers and instructions near the other students to participate in activities at January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM registration desk and at the student reception. A AAAI, consider joining the (unofficial) student Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center special AI sticker will be given to those who meet slack channel. Instructions for joining can be Please see page 6 (Social and Special Events) for new people at the conference. found at movingai.com/AAAI19. details.

TUTORIAL FORUM / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH 7 Workshop Program

Registration for a workshop requires a supplemental fee for AAAI-19 technical registrants. Individuals who do not wish to participate in any other AAAI-19 programs or events may elect the workshop only registration fee. Coffee breaks will be held at 10:30AM and 3:15 AM outside the designated meeting space. Please consult the website to confirm final times.

Sunday, January 27 Monday, January 28 W1: Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action W2: Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center W3: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security W6: Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center W4: Artificial Intelligence Safety W7: Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Nautilus 1, Main Level Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center W5: Dialog System Technology Challenge W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 12:20 PM South Pacific 3, Upper Level Nautilus 2, Main Level W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days) W10: Network Interpretability for Deep Learning 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Nautilus 2, Main Level South Pacific 3, Upper Level W9: Knowledge Extraction from Games W11: Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center W12: Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues W13: Reasoning for Complex Question Answering 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM South Pacific 4, Upper Level Nautilus 1, Main Level W16: Reproducible AI W14: Recommender Systems Meet Natural Language Processing (half day) 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nautilus 2, Main Level W15: Reinforcement Learning in Games 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM South Pacific 4, Upper Level

AAAI Tutorials disciplinary workshop together with a panel of able AFTER 3:00 PM on Monday, January 28 at established researchers. The nineteen students the onsite registration desk in Coral Lobby on the The following tutorials have been designated as accepted to participate in this program will also main level of the conference center. Students particularly valuable for student attendees: participate in the AAAI-19 evening Poster / De- should meet their designated Fellow in onsite SP6Q: Presenting a Paper by Eugene C. Freuder mo Session 1 on Tuesday, January 29. All inter- registration on their assigned day. (University College Cork) ested AAAI-19 student registrants are invited to Sunday, January 27, 2019, 1:30 – 3:15 PM observe the presentations and participate in dis- Student Abstract and Poster Program South Pacific 2, Upper level cussions at the workshop. Oral Presentations: 10:25 – 11:25 AM, Wednesday, SP8Q: The Road to Industry by John Kolen (Elec- AAAI and SIGAI gratefully acknowledge the January 30, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level tronic Arts) generous grants from AI Journal and David E. Poster Presentations: 6:30 – 8:30 PM, Tuesday – Sunday, January 27, 2019, 3:45 – 5:15 PM Smith, which make this program possible. The Thursday, January 29 – 31, Coral Lounge Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level Doctoral Consortium schedule is available at This program provides a forum in which students aaai-dc.github.io. AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium can present and discuss their work during its ear- (DC) ly stages, meet some of their peers who have re- AAAI Fellow / Student Lunches lated interests, and introduce themselves to more Sunday and Monday, January 27-28 Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31 senior members of the field. Students who have Lehua Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center 12:30 – 2:00 PM been selected as part of a group of 18 finalists to The Twenty-Fourth AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Con- First held in 2006, this program provides an op- compete for the “Best Student 3-Minute Presen- sortium provides an opportunity for a group of portunity for a small number of students to chat tation” will present their work in 3-minute spot- Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their re- with a AAAI Fellow over an informal lunch dur- light talks in parallel with other technical ses- search interests and career objectives in an inter- ing the conference. Sign-up sheets will be avail- sions. These students will present their posters

8 WORKSHOPS / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH The Ninth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Monday - Tuesday, January 28-29, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level Registration for EAAI-19 is included in the AAAI-19 technical program registration. The proceedings of the EAAI program are included in the full AAAI- 19 proceedings, and electronic copies of all papers are available via the online schedule (Guidebook). EAAI posters will also be presented Tuesday, Jan- uary 29 in the AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session in the Coral Lounge. EAAI-19 Main Track full paper presentation lengths will be 20 minutes each. Main Track Poster lightning talks will be 5 minutes each. Model AI Assignment papers presentations will be 15 minutes each. Birds of a Feather paper pre- sentations will be 13 minutes each. For full information on invited talks and panels, please see page 10.

Monday, January 28 Get IT Scored Using AutoSAS — An A Monte Carlo Tree Search Player for 12:25 – 1:55 PM Automated System for Scoring Short Birds of a Feather Solitaire Lunch Break 9:00 - 9:10 AM Answers Christian Roberson, Katarina Welcome to EAAI-19 Yaman Kumar, Swati Aggarwal, De- Sperduto 1:55 – 2:25 PM banjan Mahata, Rajiv Shah, Ponnu- Machine Learning Based Heuristic Blue Sky Idea Lightning Talks Michael Wollowski, Nate Derbinsky rangam Kumaraguru, Roger Zimmer- Search Algorithms to Solve Birds of a Chair: Nate Derbinsky (EAAI Cochairs) mann Feather Card Game Presenters: Marion Neumann, 9:10 – 10:00 AM Concept Extraction and Prerequisite Bryon Kucharski, Azad Deihim, Abhijit Suresh, Giulia Toti, Zhen Bai, Outstanding Educator Talk Relation Learning from Mehmet Ergezer Michael Guerzhoy, Pat Virtue Educational Data Experiments in Teaching AI A Neural Network Approach for Birds 2:25 – 3:25 PM Weiming Lu, Yangfan Zhou, of a Feather Solvability Prediction Ashok Goel (Georgia Tech) Model AI Assignments Special Track Jiale Yu, Chenhao Jia Benjamin Sang, Sejong Yoon 10:00 – 10:20 AM Chair: Todd Neller 2:50 – 3:20 PM Efficient Solving of Birds of a Feather Main Track Main Track Puzzles Implementing a Recommender System Using MapReduce Session Chair: Michael Wollowski Chair: Ananya Christman Todd Neller, Connor Berson, Jivan Kharel, Ryan Smolik Raja Sooriamurthi A Lightweight Approach to Academic A Preliminary Report of Integrating Research Group Management Using Computer Generation of Birds of a Building a Fake News Detector Science and Computing Teaching Michael Guerzhoy, Lisa Zhang Online Tools Using Logic Programming Feather Puzzles Eric Eaton Yuanlin Zhang, Jianlan Wang, Fox Todd Neller, Daniel Ziegler Using Ultimate Tic Tac Toe to Motivate AI Game Agents 10:20 – 10:50 AM Bolduc, William G Murray, Wendy Predicting Unsolvable Deals in the Staffen Birds of a Feather Solitaire Game Paul Talaga Break Lightning Talk: Khan Academy: A So- Richard Hoshino, Maximilian Kahn The Minecraft Projects 10:50 – 11:10 AM cial Networking and Community Q&A Adam Summerville, Joseph Osborn Main Track Perspective Tuesday, January 29 3:25 – 3:55 PM Sneha Mondal, Akshay Gugnani, Session Chair: Michael Wollowski Break Renuka Sindhgatta 8:10 - 8:40 AM An Integrative Framework for Artifi- Lightning Talk: Artificial Intelligence 3:55 – 5:25 PM cial Intelligence Education Welcome and Opening Remarks, AAAI Competencies for Data Science Under- Pat Langley Organizational Awards and Honors Model AI Assignments Special Track graduate Curricula Chair: Todd Neller 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM Andrea Danyluk, Scott Buck 8:40 - 9:40 AM RISK AI Project Panel Discussion 3:20 - 3:50 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk Christopher Archibald Cynthia Brezeal How to Best Teach AI Break Nearest Neighbor Classification (with Moderator: Michael Wollowski 9:40 – 10:25 AM Almost No Background) 3:50 – 4:10 PM Panelists: Ashok Goel, Pat Langley, Break Nate Derbinsky, Elena Strange and Larry Medsker Nontraditional Research Experiences Depth First Learning: DeepStack for Undergraduates Special Track 10:25 – 11:15 AM 12:00 – 1:30 PM Cinjon Resnick, Avital Oliver, Surya Chair: Ananya Christman Lunch Break EAAI-19 Invited Talk Bhupatiraju, Kumar Krishna Agrawal From Lab to Internship and Back Future of Work, AI Education, and Introduction to Python for 1:30 – 2:50 PM Again: Learning Autonomous Systems Public Policy Data Science through Creating a Research and De- AI for Education and Larry Medsker Marion Neumann, Jonathan Chen Outreach Special Track velopment Ecosystem Trevor Bihl, Todd Jenkins, Chad Cox, 11:15 – 11:35 AM Introducing the Data Science Work- Chair: Justin Li Ashley Demange, Kerry Hill, Ed Zelnio flow Using Sentiment Analysis Automatic Generation of Leveled Visu- Main Track Marion Neumann , Zac Christensen 4:10 – 5:58 PM al Assessments for Young Learners Chair: Nate Derbinsky A Gentle Introduction to the Back- Birds of a Feather Research Challenge Anjali Singh, Ruhi Sharma Mittal, PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intel- propagation Algorithm and Feedfor- Shubham Atreja, Mourvi Sharma, Chair: Todd Neller ligence Curriculum for Early Child- ward Networks Seema Nagar, Prasenjit Dey, Mohit Introduction, Awarding of Prizes hood Education Michael Wollowski, Oscar Youngquist Jain Todd Neller Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Automating Analysis and Feedback to Computational Intractability and Solv- Lauren Oh, Cynthia Breazeal Improve Mathematics’ Teachers’ ability for the Birds of a Feather Game Classroom Discourse 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM Richard Hoshino, Max Notarangelo Abhijit Suresh, Tamara Sumner, Panel Discussion Jennifer Jacobs, William Foland, Determining Solvability in the Birds of The AI4K12 Initiative and How to Wayne Ward a Feather Card Game Shuto Araki, Juan Pablo Arenas Uribe, Contribute to It Zach Wilkerson, Steven Bogaerts, Moderator: Nate Derbinsky Chad Byers Panelists: Dave Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Cynthia Breazeal

EAAI 2019 SYMPOSIUM 9 on Wednesday evening during the conference- Invited Presentations, change is unprecedented compared to previous in- wide poster/demo session. An award will also be dustrial revolutions and will disproportionately af- Senior Member Talks fect different segments of society. Discussions, presented for the “Best Student Poster.” For a list planning, and policymaking regarding the impact of posters each night, please see the online sched- AAAI-19 and IAAI-19 Invited Presentations will of AI should directly involve AI educators and pol- ule and the AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program icymakers in forecasting and reacting to the work- be held in the Coral Ballroom, January 29 – Guide. force and educational needs of the future. I will February 1. EAAI-19 Invited Presentations will be give an overview of the issues and current efforts to held in the Sea Pearl Suite (upper level), January prepare for anticipated AI education requirements, Breakfast with Champions: including data on the different skills and knowl- A Women’s Mentoring Event 28-29. Please consult the online paper schedule for listings of the Senior Member papers. edge needed and how institutions are likely, and Wednesday, January 30, 7:30 – 8:45 AM unlikely, to respond in the predicted timeframes. Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level Monday, January 28 4:15 - 5:15 PM AAAI is holding the fifth annual women’s men- IAAI-19 Robert S. Engelmore Award Lecture 9:10 – 10:00 AM toring event for women students and junior AI and Multiagent Systems for Social Good AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Lecture women professionals to meet with senior women (Sea Pearl Suite) Milind Tambe (Univ. of Southern California, USA) in computer science and/or artificial intelligence. Experiments in Teaching AI With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems Pre-registration was required and admittance is research, we have a tremendous opportunity to di- Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) rect these advances towards addressing complex by ticket only. Sponsored by AI Journal and With the ongoing growth of interest in AI, we have societal problems. I will focus on the problems of AAAI. a responsibility to teach AI to rapidly increasing public safety and security, wildlife conservation numbers of students. This also presents a wonder- and public health in low-resource communities, AAAI-19 Games Night ful opportunity to use AI to teach AI, and to use the and present research advances in multiagent sys- teaching of AI as a testbed for AI techniques and tems to address one key cross-cutting challenge: Wednesday, January 30, 8:00 – 10:00 AM tools. I will present several experiments in teaching how to effectively deploy our limited intervention Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level AI, and, in particular, teaching cognitive systems. resources in these problem domains. Results from Come put your game theory into practice! The These experiments include not only face-to-face our deployments from around the world show con- learning, but also online and blended learning. I crete improvements over the state of the art. In games night this year will feature a rock-paper- will share results from assessments of learning in pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can in- scissors competition, followed by an open time these classes. I will also draw out some general deed play an important role in fighting social injus- for playing games and solving puzzles. Everyone principles for teaching AI and using AI to teach AI. tice and improving society. is invited to participate in the rock-paper-scis- Tuesday, January 29 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM sors competition, with fame and prizes for the Oxford-Style Debate winners. A mixer activity from the opening re- 8:10 - 8:40 AM The Future of AI AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Welcome and Opening Re- ception will also continue at the games night. Re- Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of marks, AAAI Organizational Awards/Honors member to pack an extra game to play after- British Columbia, Canada) wards! 8:40 – 9:40 AM This lighthearted and entertaining debate will ex- AAAI-19 Invited Talk amine the broad theme of whether machine learn- AAAI/SIGAI AI Job Fair Living and Flourishing with AI ing or good, old fashioned AI will be more critical to bringing AI systems beyond prediction to acting Thursday, January 31, 12:30 – 3:00PM Cynthia Breazeal (MIT, USA) autonomously. Teams of two will argue each side 1-Minute Company Presentations: Coral 4, Main Beyond automating productivity and supporting de- as forcefully as they can (regardless of more nu- Level (12:30 – 1:00 PM) cision making, Artificial Intelligence can also be de- anced positions the participants may hold), but Tabletop exhibits: Coral Lounge, Main Level signed to help people to flourish and grow. As people will then conclude by seeking a middle ground and reflecting on strong arguments from the other side. The AAAI and ACM SIGAI AI Job Fair will pro- across ages and stages begin to live with AI in the home, we have the opportunity to develop au- Finally, we'll hear from the audience. vide an opportunity for a host of companies and tonomous machines that can support a diversity peo- institutions to highlight their current job oppor- ple as emotionally intelligent and capable allies. This Wednesday, January 30 tunities. The short presentations will be followed is particularly poignant as societies struggle to meet by meet-and-greet sessions. Over 20 employers the growing demands of aging, chronic disease man- 8:45 – 9:45 AM agement, mood disorders, and lifelong learning. This AAAI-19 Invited Talk will be participating. Be sure to stop in during the gives rise to important challenges and opportunities lunch break. For a list of participating companies for how to design, deploy and evaluate the long-term Adversarial Machine Learning and a schedule of presentations, please see the impact of socially and emotionally intelligent ma- Ian Goodfellow (Google AI, USA) online schedule and aaaijobfair.com. chines in the real world to help people learn, thrive Until about 2013, most researchers studying ma- and emotionally connect. This requires a tightly in- chine learning for artificial intelligence all worked terwoven approach at the intersection of design, hu- on a common goal: get machine learning to work man social psychology, ethics, and AI. We have the for AI-scale tasks. Now that supervised learning AAAI/IAAI/EAAI opportunity to develop AI that places human growth works, there is a Cambrian explosion of new re- and wellbeing at the center to benefit everyone in search directions: making machine learning se- Schedule Information personally meaningful and uplifting ways. cure, making machine learning private, getting 10:25 – 11:15 AM machine learning to work for new tasks, reducing Included in this program is the full EAAI sched- the dependence on large amounts of labeled data, EAAI-19 Invited Talk (Sea Pearl Suite) ule, and the technical session locations for and so on. In this talk I survey how adversarial AAAI/IAAI. Please note that EAAI overlaps Future of Work, AI Education, techniques in machine learning are involved in AAAI/IAAI on Tuesday, January 29. The full list and Public Policy several of these new research frontiers. of AAAI and IAAI papers is available in the on- Larry Medsker (The George Washington Univ., USA) 5:15 – 6:15 PM line schedule and via the AAAI-19 Guidebook The emerging impact of AI and other automation AAAI-19 Invited Talk app. A limited number of hard copies of the technologies on all parts of society, including the GDPR, Data Shortage and AI workforce, is clear. The controversy is about the schedule are available in onsite registration for degree of disruption, for whom, and how public Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and individuals who do not have online access. and private sectors should respond. The pace of Technology, China)

10 OUTREACH / INVITED PRESENTATIONS Despite its great progress so far, artificial intelli- nia, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the balance a variety of tradeoffs in decision making; gence (AI) is facing a serious challenge in the avail- Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence (3) social impact is only realized through time- ability of high-quality Big Data. In many practical Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). With applications, data are in the form of isolated is- the support of several companies, cities and foun- consuming field studies that typically compare a lands. Efforts to integrate the data are increasingly dations, her research team develops computer baseline with the application of novel algorithms difficult partly due to serious concerns over user models to analyze digital traces of information me- in the real world. privacy and data security. The problem is exacer- diated by devices. They process this information to The goal of this track at AAAI 2019 is to high- bated by strict government regulations such as Eu- manage the demand in urban infrastructures in re- light these technical challenges and opportuni- rope’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR). lation to energy and mobility. Her recent research In this talk, I will review these challenges and de- uses billions of mobile phone records to under- ties and to showcase the social benefits of artifi- scribe possible technical solutions to address them. stand the appearance of traffic jams and the inte- cial intelligence. The program includes 22 techni- In particular, I will give an overview of recent ad- gration of electric vehicles into the grid, smart me- cal papers in full oral and spotlight/poster pre- vances in transfer learning and show how it can al- ter data records to compare the policy of solar en- sentations, scheduled during sveral of the AI for leviate the problems of data shortage. I will also ergy adoption and card transactions to identify give an overview of recent efforts in federated habits in spending behavior. Prior to joining Social Impact sessions, and identified as Special learning and transfer learning, which aims to Berkeley, Marta worked as an Associate Professor Track papers. bridge data repositories without compromising da- of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, a For complete schedule information, please ta security and privacy. member of the Operations Research Center and the consult the online program. Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is a member Thursday, January 31 of the scientific council of technology companies such as Gran Data, PTV and the Pecan Street Pro- 8:20 – 8:40 AM ject consortium. Sponsor and AAAI-19 Conference Awards Exhibit Program Presented by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua Senior Member Presentations Zhou, AAAI-19 Program Cochairs Tuesday, January 29 Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31 South Pacific 4, Upper Level 8:40 – 9:40 AM Coral Lounge, Main level 10:25 – 11:25 AM (Blue Sky, following the Classic AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Joint Invited Talk Paper Award Lecture) The AAAI-19 sponsor and exhibit program pro- Urban Computing: Building Intelligent Wednesday, January 30 vides an opportunity for AI-related companies Cities Using Big Data and AI South Pacific 4, Upper Level and publishers to support the goals of AAAI and Yu Zheng (JD.com, China) 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Blue Sky) reach out to AI professionals. In some cases, Urban computing is a synergy among cloud com- 2:00 – 3:30 PM (Summary) sponsors have elected to exhibit at AAAI-19. puting, big data and AI models in the context of 3:35 – 4:35 PM (Blue Sky) cities, tackling urban challenges, such as air pollu- AAAI wishes to thank all sponsors and exhibitors tion, energy consumption and traffic congestion, to The AAAI-19 Senior Member Presentation track for their participation at AAAI-19! create win-win-win solutions that improve urban comprises two subtracks: Summary Talks: estab- environment, human life quality and city operation lished researchers provide broad talks on a well- Exhibit Hours systems. This talk presents the vision of urban computing, demonstrating how AI technology developed body of research or an important new Tuesday, January 29: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM helps to build intelligent cities. A series of AI-driv- research area; and Blue Sky Talks: authors pre- Wednesday, January 30: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM en applications, such as location selection for busi- sent ideas and visions that can stimulate the re- Thursday, January 31: 9:40 AM – 12:00 PM Job Fair: 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM ness, forecasting air and water quality, and reduc- search community to pursue new directions, ing energy consumption are also introduced in this talk. More information can be found through the such as new problems, new application domains, Exhibitors / Sponsors website: icity.jd.com. or new methodologies, that are likely to stimulate significant new research. Six summary talks and 4:15 – 5:15 PM Sponsor nine Blue Sky talks will be presented (please see AAAI-19 Invited Talk AI Journal the online conference schedule for exact times). New Results for Solving ijcai.org/aijd.php For more information about the Blue Sky Imperfect-Information Games Awards, please see page 5. www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Artificial Intelligence Journal(AIJ) is one of the Most real-world settings are imperfect-information longest established and most respected journals games. They present challenges beyond those in per- fect-information games. In 2017, our AI Libratus AAAI-19 Emerging Topic: in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has beat top humans in the main benchmark, heads-up AI for Social Impact published many of the key papers in the field. no-limit Texas hold’em. In this talk I will discuss The operation of the Editorial Board is supported some of our more recent work on imperfect-infor- financially through an arrangement with AIJ’s mation games. Topics include a unified framework Tuesday – Wednesday, January 29-30, Coral 1 publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artifi- for abstracting games with bounds on solution qual- Friday, February 1, South Pacific 1 ity, a sound depth-limited search framework, the AAAI-19 is pleased to present the special AAAI- cial Intelligence is now in the unique position of fastest equilibrium-finding algorithms, deep learn- 19 Emerging Topic Program on AI for Social Im- being able to make available substantial funds, of ing as an alternative to abstraction, a general frame- pact. This track recognizes that high-quality re- the order of EUR 240,000 per annum to support work for online convex optimization for sequential the promotion and dissemination of AI re- decision processes and extensive-form games, the search on social impact domains often leads to first scalable algorithm for trembling-hand equilib- papers that differ from traditional AAAI submis- search. rium refinements, and trembling-hand refinement sions along multiple dimensions. These are moti- Exhibitor of Stackelberg equilibria. vated by the following issues: (1) Data collection Aimesoft Friday, February 1 may be difficult and may require innovative methods and validations, for instance to address www.aimesoft.com/en 8:50 – 9:50 AM large scale data gathering in the field, eliminate Aimesoft develop Multimodal AI solutions. Mul- AAAI-18 Invited Talk: Marta Gonzalez (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) bias and ensure fairness; (2) problem modeling is timodal AI combines multiple input sources Marta C. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of City a time-intensive activity that require significant (text, voice, image, numerical data, ...) and vari- and Regional Planning at the University of Califor- collaborations with domain experts and need to ous intelligence algorithms into a single system

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GENERAL INFORMATION / AAAI TECHNICAL SESSIONS 15 AAAI-19 Wifi Access Breaks

Select: Hilton Meetings Coffee breaks will be available each day at 9:40 AM and 3:30 PM, Tuesday – Thursday, January 29-31, and 11:00 – 11:15 AM on Friday, February 1, in the Coral Lounge and outside other tech- Password: AAAI19 nical session rooms. The lunch break will be from 12:30 – 2:00PM each day. The conference con- cludes at 12:30 PM on Friday, February 1. Guidebook App Talk Lengths

Download the Guidebook App AAAI Talks: 15 minutes Redeem Code: aaai19guide AAAI Spotlight Talks: 2 minutes Senior Member Blue Sky Talks: 15 minutes Online: guidebook.com/g/aaai19 Senior Member Summary Talks: 15 minutes IAAI Deployed Talks = 20 minutes IAAI Emerging Talks = 15 minutes

Monday, January 28

9:00 – 9:10 AM EAAI-19 Welcome (Michael Wollowski and Nate Derbinsky) Sea Pearl Suite 9:10 – 10:00 AM EAAI-19 Outstanding Educator Award Lecture: Ashok Goel Sea Pearl Suite 10:00 – 10:20 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 10:50 – 11:10 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM EAAI-19 Panel Discussion Sea Pearl Suite 1:30 – 2:50 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: AI for Education and Outreach Sea Pearl Suite 2:50 – 3:20 PM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 3:50 – 4:10 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Non-Traditional Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sea Pearl Suite 4:10 – 5:58 PM EAAI-19 Birds of a Feather (BoF) Research Challenge Sea Pearl Suite 5:30 – 7:00 PM AAAI-19 Opening Reception The Great Lawn 7:30 – 9:00 PM AAAI Townhall: A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research Coral Ballroom

16 MONDAY SCHEDULE / WIFI ACCESS / GUIDEBOOK Tuesday, January 29

8:10 – 8:40 AM AAAI Welcome and Opening Remarks, AAAI Organizational Awards/Honors Coral Ballroom 8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Cynthia Breazeal Coral Ballroom 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 1 Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 1 Coral 2 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 1 South Pacific 1 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Semantics and Summarization 1 South Pacific 2 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Object Detection South Pacific 3 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Clustering South Pacific 4 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Kernel Methods Hibiscus Suite 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 1 Kahili Suite 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Computational Sustainability Lehua 10:25-11:25 AM IAAI-19: E-Commerce and Retail Nautilus Suite 10:25-11:15 AM EAAI-19 Invited Talk: Larry Medsker Sea Pearl Suite 11:15-11:35 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Transfer/Adaptation/Multi-task Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 2 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 2 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 2 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Information Extraction 1 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Object Recognition South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI Classic Paper Award / AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 1 South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Dimensionality Reduction/Feature Selection Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 2 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Cognitive Systems Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Improving Interactions through NL and Dialog Nautilus Suite 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM EAAI-19 Panel Discussion Sea Pearl Suite 12:30 – 2:00 PM AAAI-19 Black in AI Lunch Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 3 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 3 Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 3 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Discourse and Dialogue South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Transfer/Adaptation/Multi-task Learning 2 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Learning Theory Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 3 Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 1 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Medicine Nautilus Suite 1:55 – 2:25 PM EAAI-19 Blue Sky Idea Lightning Talks Sea Pearl Suite 2:25 – 3:25 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Model AI Assignments Sea Pearl Suite 3:55 – 5:25 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Model AI Assignments Sea Pearl Suite 4:15 – 5:15 PM IAAI-19 Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture (Tambe) Coral Ballroom 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI Oxford-Style Debate: The Future of AI Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 1 Coral Lounge 7:00 – 10:00 PM AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner Rainbow Suite and Patio

TUESDAY SCHEDULE 17 Wednesday, January 30

7:30 – 8:45 AM Women's Mentoring Breakfast Sea Pearl Suite 8:45 – 9:45 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Ian Goodfellow Coral Ballroom 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: GANs Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 4 Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Recommender Systems Coral 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Question Answering South Pacific 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 1 South Pacific 3 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 1 South Pacific 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 1 Hibiscus Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 4 Kahili Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 1 Lehua 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Student Abstract Spotlights Sea Pearl Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM IAAI-19: Assistance via Analysis of Human-Generated Artifacts Nautilus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Adversarial Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 5 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Language and Vision 1 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 4 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Information Extraction 2 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 2 South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 2 (Blue Sky) South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 2 Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 5 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 2 Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Computer Systems and Sofware Nautilus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 2 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Language and Vision 2 Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 5 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Text Classification South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 3 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 3 (Summary) South Pacific 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 3 Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 6 Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 3 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 3 Sea Pearl Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Science Nautilus Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 3 Coral 1 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Online Learning Coral 2 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Semantics and Summarization 2 South Pacific 2 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 4 South Pacific 3 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 4 (Blue Sky) South Pacific 4 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 4 Hibiscus Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Gane Theory and Economic Paradigms 7 Kahili Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 4 Lehua 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 4 Sea Pearl Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM IAAI-19: Education Nautilus Suite 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Qiang Yang Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 2 Coral Lounge 8:00 – 10:00 PM AAAI-19 Games Night Sea Pearl Suite

18 WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE Thursday, January 31

8:20 – 8:40 AM AAAI-19 Conference Awards (Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua Zhou) Coral Ballroom 8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Joint Invited Talk: Yu Zheng Coral Ballroom 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Multi-Instance/Multi-Label/Multi-View Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Relational/Symbolic Learning Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 4 Coral 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 1 South Pacific 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 2 South Pacific 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Motion South Pacific 3 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 2 South Pacific 4 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 5 Hibiscus Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Bayesian Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Model 1 Kahili Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Humans and AI Lehua 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 1 Sea Pearl Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM IAAI-19: Transportation and Navigation Nautilus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 4 Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 2 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 5 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 3 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 4 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Categorization and Recognition 1 South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 3 South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 6 Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Bayesian Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Model 2 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Human-AI Collaboration 1 Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Defence, Security, and Privacy Nautilus Suite 12:30 – 3:00 PM AI Job Fair Coral Lounge 12:30 – 1:00 PM AI Job Fair Intro Talks Coral 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Weakly Supervised Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 3 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Logic Based AI Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 5 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 6 South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Categorization and Recognition 2 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 4 South Pacific 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 7 Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Data Mining Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Human-AI Collaboration 2 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 1 Sea Pearl Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Insurance and Finance Nautilus Suite 4:15 – 5:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Tuomas Sandholm Coral Ballroom 4:15 – 5:15 PM IAAI-19: Forecasting Nautilus Suite 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI Community Meeting Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 3 Coral Lounge

THURSDAY SCHEDULE 19 Friday, February 1

8:50 – 9:50 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Marta Gonzalez Coral Ballroom 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Weakly Supervised Learning 2 Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 4 Coral 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 5 Coral 2 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 6 South Pacific 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 7 South Pacific 2 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Applications South Pacific 3 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 5 South Pacific 4 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 2 Nautilus Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Robotics 1 Hibiscus Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 8 Kahili Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 9 Lehua 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Causal Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 6 Coral 1 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 6 Coral 2 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 7 South Pacific 1 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 8 South Pacific 2 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Ensemble Methods South Pacific 3 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 7 South Pacific 4 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 3 Nautilus Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Robotics 2 Hibiscus Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 10 Kahili Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 3 Lehua 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 3 Sea Pearl Suite

20 FRIDAY SCHEDULE Mid-Peninsula Conference Center and Kalia Executive Conference Center

MAPS 21 Mid-Pacific Conference Center

22 MAPS Kalia Executive Conference Center

MAPS 23 AAAI-20 / IAAI-20

New York City 7 – 12 February 2020 New York Hilton Midtown New York, NY USA

Program Cochairs

Vincent Conitzer (Duke University) Fei Sha (University of Southern California) www.aaai.org/aaai20