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 off 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