IAAI-12 Preliminary Schedule
Subject to change without notice.
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Monday, July 23
6:00 – 7:00 pm
AAAI-12/IAAI-12 Opening Reception
Tuesday, July 24
8:30 – 9:00 am
Grand Ballroom, Lower Concourse
AAAI-12/IAAI-12 Opening Ceremony
Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Awards
9:00 am – 10:00 am
AAAI Presidential Address: Revisiting the Dream
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)
10:00 – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
AAAI-12/IAAI-12 Joint Invited Talk:
ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture
The Mechanization of Causal Inference: A "Mini Turing Test" and Beyond
Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles)
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
IAAI Session:
Training and Tutoring Systems
Deployed: Mechanix: A Sketch-Based Tutoring System for Statics Courses
Stephanie Valentine, Francisco Vides, George Lucchese, David Turner, Hong-hoe Kim, Wenzhe Li, Julie Linse, Tracy Hammond
Integrating Learner Help Requests Using a POMDP in an Adaptive Training System
Jeremiah T. Folsom-Kovarik, Gita Sukthankar, Sae Schatz
12:20 – 1:25 pm
Lunch Break
1:25 pm – 2:25 pm
AAAI-12 Invited Talk:
Duolingo: Translating the Web with Millions of People
Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University)
2:25 pm – 3:55 pm
IAAI Session:
Health Care
Deployed: Advisor Agent Support for Issue Tracking in Medical Device Development
Touby Drew, Maria Gini
Cost-Sensitive Risk Stratification in the Diagnosis of Heart Disease
Selen Uguroglu, Jaime Carbonell, Mark Doyle, Robert Biederman
Statistical Relational Learning to Predict Primary Myocardial Infarction from Electronic Health Records
Jeremy C. Weiss, David Page, Sriraam Natarajan, Peggy L. Peissig, Catherine McCarty
3:55 – 4:15 pm Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:45 pm
IAAI Session:
Recommender and Automated Assistants Systems
Deployed: A Real-Time Decision Support System for High Cost Oil-Well Drilling Operations
Odd Erik Gundersen, Frode Sørmo, Agnar Aamodt, Pål Skalle
Toward Habitable Assistance from Spoken Dialogue Systems
Susan L. Epstein, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Tiziana Ligorio, Joshua Gordon
Using a Critic to Promote Less Popular Candidates in a People-to-People Recommender System
A. Krzywicki, W. Wobcke, X. Cai, M. Bain, A. Mahidadia, P. Compton, Y. S. Kim
Wednesday, July 25
9:00 am – 10:00 am
AAAI Turing Lecture:
The Origin of Computable Numbers: A Tale of Two Classics
Christos Papadimtriou (University of California, Berkeley)
10:00 – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
IAAI-12 Invited Talk:
Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture
Building AI: Our Shared Enterprise
Steven Minton (President, InferLink Corporation)
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
IAAI Session:
Machine Learning
Deployed: Statistical Anomaly Detection for Train Fleets
Anders Holst, Markus Bohlin, Jan Ekman, Ola Sellin, Björn Lindström, Stefan Larsen
Learning Driver's Behavior to Improve the Acceptance of Adaptive Cruise Control
Avi Rosenfeld, Zevi Bareket, Claudia V. Goldman, Sarit Kraus, David J. LeBlanc, Omer Tsimoni
12:20 – 1:25 pm
Lunch Break
1:25 pm – 2:25 pm
AAAI-12 Invited Talk: Automating Biology Using Robot Scientists
Ross D. King (University of Manchester, UK)
2:25 -3:55 pm
IAAI Session:
Trajectory and Air-Traffic Control
Intelligent Computation of Reachability Sets for Space Missions
Erik Komendera, Daniel Scheeres, Elizabeth Bradley
Local Search for Designing Noise-Minimal Rotorcraft Approach Trajectories
Robert A. Morris, K. Brent Venable, Marco Pegoraro, James Lindsey
Multi-Agent Simulation of En-Route Human Air-Traffic Controller
David Sislák, Premysl Volf, Michal Pechoucek, Christopher T. Cannon, Duc N. Nguyen, William C. Regli
3:55 pm – 4:15 pm Coffee Break
4:15 – 5:45 pm
IAAI Session:
Constraint Management and Configuration Systems
Applying Constraint Programming to Incorporate Engineering Methodologies into the Design Process of Complex Systems
Odellia Boni, Fabiana Fournier, Nir Mashkif, Yehuda Naveh, Aviad Sela, Uri Shani, Zvi Lando, Alon Modai
Deployed: Using AI Local Search to Improve an OR Optimizer
F. Morgado, R. L. Saldanha, J. Roussado, L. Albino, E. Morgado, J. P. Martins
QuickPup: A Heuristic Backtracking Algorithm for the Partner Units Configuration Problem
Erich C. Teppan, Gerhard Friedrich, Andreas A. Falkner
Thursday, July 26
9:00 am – 10:00 am
AAAI-12 Invited Talk:
Learning to Behave by Reading
Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:00 am – 10:20 am
Coffee Break
10:20 – 11:20 am
IAAI-12 Invited Talk:
Recent Progress on Self-Driving Cars
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University/Google)
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
IAAI Session:
Machine Translation
Deployed: Transcription System Using Automatic Speech Recognition for the Japanese Parliament (Diet)
Tatsuya Kawahara
Deployed: Applying Automated Language Translation at a Global Enterprise Level
Nestor Rychtyckyj, Craig Plesco
12:20 pm – 1:25 pm
Lunch Break
1:25 pm – 2:25 pm
AAAI-12 Invited Talk:
How to Grow a Mind: Statistics, Structure and Abstraction
Joshua B. Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2:25 pm – 3:55 pm
IAAI Session:
Surveillance and Monitoring
A Methodology for Deploying the Max-Sum Algorithm and a Case Study on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
F. M. Delle Fave, A. Farinelli, A. Rogers, N. R. Jennings
Using POMDPs to Control an Accuracy-Processing Time Trade-Off in Video Surveillance
Komal Kapoor, Christopher Amato, Nisheeth Srivastava, Paul Schrater
TRUSTS: Scheduling Randomized Patrols for Fare Inspection in Transit Systems
Zhengyu Yin, Albert Xin Jiang, Matthew P. Johnson, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Tuomas Sandholm, John P. Sullivan
3:55 pm – 4:15 pm
Coffee Break
4:15 pm – 5:15 pm
IAAI Session:
Sketching and Learning
Using Quantitative Information to Improve Analogical Matching between Sketches
Maria D. Chang, Kenneth D. Forbus
Deployed: eBird: A Human/Computer Learning Network for Biodiversity Conservation and Research
Steve Kelling, Jeff Gerbracht, Daniel Fink, Carl Lagoze, Weng-Keen Wong, Jun Yu, Theodoros Damoulas, Carla Gomes