Preliminary Schedule of the Eighteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference

Subject to change without notice

Monday, July 17

6:00–8:00 pm

AAAI-06/IAAI-06 Opening Reception

Tuesday, July 18

8:30–9:00 am

AAAI-06/IAAI-06 Opening Ceremony

Welcome and Opening Remarks/Outstanding Award Presentations
Yolanda Gil and Raymond Mooney, AAAI-06 Program Cochairs

IAAI Welcome, Robert S. Engelmore Award, Deployed Application Awards
Bruce Porter, IAAI-06 Conference Chair, William Cheetham, IAAI-06 Program Cochair, and David Leake, AI Magazine Editor-in-Chief

AAAI Classic Paper and Distinguished Service Awards
Ronald J. Brachman, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair

9:00–10:00 am

AAAI-06 Keynote Address
AI and the Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web Consortium

10:00–10:20 am

Break

10:20–11:20 am

Session: Knowledge-Based Systems

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
Case-Based Reasoning for General Electric Appliance Customer Support
William Cheetham

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Heuristic Search and Information Visualization Methods for School Redistricting
Marie desJardins, Blazej Bulka, Ryan Carr, Andrew Hunt, Priyang Rathod, and Penny Rheingans

11:30 am–12:30 pm

Session: Data Mining

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
Predicting Electricity Distribution Feeder Failures Using Machine Learning Susceptibility Analysis
Philip Gross, Albert Boulanger, Marta Arias, David Waltz, Philip M. Long, Charles Lawson, Roger Anderson, Matthew Koenig, Mark Mastrocinque, William Fairechio, John A. Johnson, Serena Lee, Frank Doherty, and Arthur Kressner

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
A Sequential Covering Evolutionary Algorithm for Expressive Music Performance
Rafael Ramirez, Amaury Hazan, Jordi Mariner, and Esteban Maestre

12:30–1:50 pm

Lunch

1:50-2:50 pm

IAAI-06

Invited Talk: Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge
Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University

3:00–4:00 pm

Session: Biomedical Applications

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Visual Explanation of Evidence with Additive Classifiers
Brett Poulin, Roman Eisner, Duane Szafron, Paul Lu, Russ Greiner, D. S. Wishart, Alona Fyshe, Brandon Pearcy, Cam MacDowell , and John Anvik

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
MedEthEx: A Prototype Medical Ethics Advisor
Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen

4:00–4:20 pm

Break

4:20–5:20 pm

Session: Software Agents

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Multiagent Coalition Formation for Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning
Leen-Kiat Soh, Nobel Khandaker, and Hong Jiang

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Local Negotiation in Cellular Networks: From Theory to Practice
Raz Lin, Daphna Dor-Shifer, Sarit Kraus, and David Sarne

5:30–6:30 pm

AAAI Fellows 50th Anniversary Panel

Wednesday, July 19

9:00–10:00 am

AAAI-06 Invited Talks

Developing an Intelligent Personal Assistant: The CALO Project
Karen Myers, SRI International

Global Inference and Learning: Towards Natural Language Understanding
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:00–10:20 am

Break

10:20–11:20 am

IAAI-06

Invited Talk: Electrifying Knowledge Work: 362 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 1989-2006
Neil Jacobstein, TEKNOWLEDGE Corporation

11:30 am–12:30 pm

Session: Biomedical Applications 2

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
CM-Extractor: An Application for Automating Medical Quality Measures Abstraction in a Hospital Setting
Mark L. Morsch, Joel L. Vengco, Ronald E. Sheffer, Jr., and Daniel T. Heinze

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Monitoring Food Safety by Detecting Patterns in Consumer Complaints
Artur Dubrawski, Kimberly Elenberg, Andrew Moore, and Maheshkumar Sabhnani

12:30–1:50

Lunch

1:50–2:50 pm

Session: Constraint-Based Systems

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
Constraint-Based Random Stimuli Generation for Hardware Verification
Yehuda Naveh, Michal Rimon, Itai Jaeger, Yoav Katz, Michael Vinov, Eitan Marcus, and Gil Shurek

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
AWDRAT: A Cognitive Middleware System for Information Survivability
Howard Shrobe, Robert Laddaga, Bob Balzer, Neil Goldman, Dave Wile, Marcelo Tallis, Tim Hollebeek, and Alexander Egyed

3:00–4:00 pm

Session: Knowledge-Based Systems 2

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
Machine Translation for Manufacturing: A Case Study at Ford Motor Company
Nestor Rychtyckyj

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Ontology Based Semantic Modeling for Chinese Ancient Architectures
Yong Liu, Congfu Xu, Qiong Zhang, and Yunhe Pan

4:00–4:20 pm

Break

4:20–5:20 pm

Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture
What Do We Know About Knowledge?
Bruce G. Buchanan, University Professor of Computer Science Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh

5:30–9:30 pm

AAAI-06 Poster/Demo Session

Thursday, July 20

9:00–10:00 am

AAAI-06 Invited Talks

Unifying Logical and Statistical AI
Pedro Domingos, University of Washington

Cognitive Tutors and Opportunities for Convergence of Human and Machine Learning Theory
Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00–10:20 am

Break

10:20–11:20 am

Session: Knowledge-Based Agents

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Building Explainable Artificial Intelligence Systems
Mark G. Core, H. Chad Lane, Michael van Lent, Dave Gomboc, Steve Solomon, and Milton Rosenberg

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Design and Implementation of the CALO Query Manager
Jose-Luis Ambite, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Richard Fikes, Jessica Jenkins, Sunil Mishra, Maria Muslea, Tomas Uribe, and Guizhen Yang

11:30 am–12:00 pm

Session: Constraint-Based Reasoning

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
Expressive Commerce and Its Application to Sourcing
Tuomas Sandholm

12:30–1:50 pm

Lunch

1:50–2:50 pm

Session: Personalization Technologies

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
CPM: Context-Aware Power Management in WLANs
Fahd Albinali and Chris Gniady

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Trip Router with Individualized Preferences (TRIP): Incorporating Personalization into Route Planning
Julia Letchner, John Krumm, and Eric Horvitz

3:00–4:00 pm

Session: Knowledge-Based Systems 3

IAAI-06 Deployed Application
TPBOSCourier: A Transportation Procurement System (for the Procurement of Courier Services)
Andrew Lim, Zhou Xu, Brenda Cheang, Ho Wee Kit, and Steve Au-yeung

IAAI-06 Emerging Application
Hand Grip Pattern Recognition for Mobile User Interfaces
Kee-Eung Kim, Wook Chang, Sung-Jung Cho, Junghyun Shim, Hyunjeong Lee, Joonah Park, Youngbeom Lee, and Sangryoung Kim