AAAI 2012 Conference Committees Chairs and Cochairs AAAI Conference Committee Chair Dieter Fox (University of Washington, USA) AAAI­12 Program Cochairs Jörg Hoffmann (Saarland University, Germany) Bart Selman (Cornell University, USA) IAAI­12 Conference Chair and Cochair Markus Fromherz (ACS, a Xerox Company, USA) Hector Munoz‐Avila (Lehigh University, USA) EAAI­12 Symposium Chair David Kauchak (Middlebury College, USA) Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs Denny Vrandecic (Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany) Chris Welty (IBM Research, USA) Special Track on Cognitive Systems Cochairs Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA) James Allen (University of Rochester, USA) Special Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Cochairs Carla P. Gomes (Cornell University, USA) Brian C. Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Special Track on Robotics Cochairs Kurt Konolige (Industrial Perception, Inc., USA) Siddhartha Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Turing Centenary Events Chair Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Tutorial Program Cochairs Carmel Domshlak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, USA) Workshop Program Cochairs Michael Beetz (University of Munich, Germany) Holger Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA) Peter McBurney (King’s College London, United Kingdom) Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn, Germany) Computer Poker Competition Cohairs Jonathan Rubin (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Eric Jackson Computer Poker Competition Symposium Chair Chris Archibald (University of Alberta, Canada) Robotics Multimedia Fair Cochairs Jim Little (University of British Columbia, Canada) Junaed Sattar (University of British Columbia, Canada) AI Video Competition Chair and Cochair Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Mauro Birattari (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Rehan O’Grady (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) AAAI­12 Program Committee AAAI­12 Area Chairs Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) Hal Daumé III (University of Maryland, USA) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, USA) Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ariel Felner (Ben‐Gurion University, Israel) Alan Fern (Oregon State University, USA) Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps‐University Marburg, Germany) Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA) Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong) Ines Lynce (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Shaul Markovitch (Technion ‐ Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell University, USA) Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA) Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA) Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA) AAAI­12 Senior Program Committee Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Abdeslam Boularias (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany) Ronen Brafman (Ben‐Gurion University, Israel) Razvan Bunescu (Ohio University, USA) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Italy) Bradley J. Clement (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Sanmay Das (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Dieter Fox (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Alfonso E. Gerevini (University of Brescia, Italy) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Robert Givan (Purdue University ECE, USA) Birte Glimm (University of Ulm, Germany) Robert P. Goldman (SIFT, LLC, USA) Dilan Gorur (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Abhinav Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland) Robert Holte (University of Alberta, Canada) Manfred Jaeger (Aalborg University, Denmark) Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA) Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Roni Khardon (Tufts University, USA) Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Sarit Kraus (Bar‐Ilan University, Israel and University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Jérôme Lang (LAMSADE, Université Paris‐Dauphine, France) Jimmy Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Wei Lu (University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign, USA) Toni Mancini (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy) Joao Marques‐Silva (University College Dublin, Ireland) Donald Metzler (University of Southern California, USA) Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Roth (University of Illinois, USA) Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire, USA) Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Thomas Schiex (INRA, France) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Tomas Singliar (The Boeing Company, USA) Siddhartha Srinivasa (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, USA) Joel Tetreault (Educational Testing Service, USA) Peter van Beek (University of Waterloo, Canada) Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Kilian Q. Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer IAIS & University of Bonn, Germany) Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University, Japan) Elad Yom‐Tov (Yahoo Research, USA) Jia‐Huai You (University of Alberta, Canada) Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Nevin L. Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) AAAI­12 Program Committee Members Ryan P. Adams (Harvard University, USA) Mikhail Ageev (Moscow State University, Russia) Noa Agmon (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Babak Ahmadi (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Hua Ai (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Stephane Airiau (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Christopher Amato (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Bo An (University of Southern California, USA) Fabrizio Angiulli (University of Calabria, Italy) Carlos Ansotegui (Universitat de Lleida, Spain) Udi Apsel (Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile) Marta Arias (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Italy) Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research, Greece) Javier Artiles (Queens College, City University of New York, USA) Gilles Audemard (CRIL, Université d’Artois, France) Haris Aziz (TU Munich, Germany) Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom) Jorge A. Baier (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile) Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA) Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Vince Barany (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Tony Barrett (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Roman Barták (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy) Nicola Basilico (University of California Merced, USA) Timo Baumann (University of Hamburg, Germany) Kostas Bekris (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) Francesco Belardinelli (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Michael Benisch (Rocket Fuel Inc., USA) Russell Bent (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Germany) Shane Bergsma (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Mustafa Bilgic (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Susanne Biundo (Ulm University, Germany) Yngvi Björnsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Jim Blythe (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Bernhd Bohnet (University Stuttgart, Germany) Piero Bonatti (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Lucas Bordeaux (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom) Alexander Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Tibor Bosse (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Adi Botea (IBM Research, Ireland) Sylvain Bouveret (LIG ‐ Grenoble INP, France) Chris Brew (Educational