IAAI-07 Preliminary Schedule
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
9:00 – 10:00 am
AAAI Presidential Address
Alan K. Mackworth (University of British Columbia)
10:00 – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
Session: Machine Learning
Stochastic Optimization for Collision Selection in High Energy Physics
Shimon Whiteson, Daniel Whiteson
Adaptive Timeout Policies for Fast Fine-Grained Power Management
Branislav Kveton, Prashant Gandhi, Georgios Theocharous, Shie Mannor, Barbara Rosario, Nilesh Shah
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Session: Space Applications
Machine Learning for Automatic Mapping of Planetary Surfaces
Tomasz F. Stepinski, Soumya Ghosh, Ricardo Vilalta
The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory: A Deployed Semantic Web Application Case Study for Scientific Research
Deborah McGuinness, Peter Fox, Luca Cinquini, Patrick West, Jose Garcia, James L. Benedict, Don Middleton
12:30 – 1:50 pm
Lunch
1:50 – 2:50 pm
Session: IAAI Invited Talk
Revolutionizing Prostheses: A Program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Geoffrey S. F. Ling (DARPA)
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Session: Medical Applications
Biomind ArrayGenius and GeneGenius: Web Services Offering Microarray and SNP Data Analysis via Novel Machine Learning Methods
Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Lucio Coelho, Leonardo Shikida, Murilo Queiroz
Real-Time Identification of Operating Room State from Video
Beenish Bhatia, Tim Oates, Yan Xiao, Peter Hu
4:00 – 4:20 pm
Coffee Break
4:20 – 5:20 pm
Session: Information Systems
Using AI for e-Government Automatic Assessment of Immigration Application Forms
Andy Hon Wai Chun
Journal-Ranking.com: An Online Interactive Journal Ranking System
Andrew Lim, Hong Ma, Qi Wen, Zhou Xu, Brenda Cheang, Bernard Tan, Wenbin Zhu
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
9:00 – 10:00 am
AAAI-07 Invited Talks
Graph Identification
Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park)
Logic for Automated Mechanism Design — A Progress Report
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
9:00 – 10:00 am
Session: Agents
9:00 am
Deployed: Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses
Peter R. Wurman, Raffaello D'Andrea, Mick Mountz
9:30 am
Emerging: A Multi-Agent Approach to Distributed Rendering Optimization
Carlos Gonzalez-Morcillo, Gerhard Weiss, Luis Jimenez, David Vallejo
10:00 – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture
AI in a Moore's Law World: the Stories of Farecast and KnowItAll
Oren Etzioni (University of Washington)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Session: Decision Support
MasDISPO: A Multiagent Decision Support System for Steel Production and Control
Sven Jacobi, Esteban León-Soto, Cristián Madrigal-Mora, Klaus Fischer
Optimizing Anthrax Outbreak Detection Using Reinforcement Learning
Masoumeh T. Izadi, David L. Buckeridge
12:30 – 1:50 pm
Lunch
1:50 – 2:50 pm
Session: Business Automation
The VITA Financial Services Sales Support Environment
Alexander Felfernig, Klaus Isak, Kalman Szabo, Peter Zachar
Custom DU—A Web Based Business User Driven Automated Underwriting System
Srinivas Krovvidy, Robin Landsman, Steve Opdahl, Nancy Templeton, Sydnor Smalera
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Session: Human Computer Interaction
Enabling Intelligent Content Discovery on the Mobile Internet
Barry Smyth, Paul Cotter, Stephen Oman
Supporting Feedback and Assessment of Digital Ink Answers to In-Class Exercises
Kimberle Koile, Kevin Chevalier, Michel Rbeiz, Adam Rogal, David Singer, Jordan Sorensen, Amanda Smith, Kah Seng Tay, Kenneth Wu
4:00 – 4:20 pm
Coffee Break
4:20 – 5:20 pm
Session: Planning and Workflow
Optimal Multi-Agent Scheduling with Constraint Programming
Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman, Michele Lombardi
Wings for Pegasus: Creating Large-Scale Scientific Applications Using Semantic Representations of Computational Workflows
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, Jihie Kim
5:30 – 9:30 pm
AAAI-07 Poster/Demo Session
Thursday, July 26, 2007
9:00 – 10:00 am
AAAI-07 Invited Talks
Moving Toward Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction
Alan C. Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory)
Representing and Reasoning about Preferences
Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales)
10:00 – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
Session: IAAI Invited Talk
Big “A,” Small “I”: Smart Ends from Simple Means
Matt Brown (Maxis / Electronic Arts)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Session: Agents in Virtual Environments
An Integrated Development Environment and Architecture for Soar-Based Agents
Ari Yakir, Gal Kaminka
RETALIATE: Learning Winning Policies in First-Person Shooter Games
Megan Smith, Stephen Lee-Urban, Héctor Muñoz-Avila
12:30 – 1:50 pm
Lunch
1:50 – 2:50 pm
Session: Machine Learning II
Adaptive Traitor Tracing with Bayesian Networks
Philip Zigoris, Hongxia Jin
Fish Inspection System using a Parallel Neural Network Chip and Image Knowledge Builder Application
Anne Menendez, Guy Paillet