AAAI Workshop Papers

AAAI workshops afford participants a smaller, more intimate setting where they can share ideas and learn from each other’s research. Topics for the workshops change each year, and the limited seating capacity and relaxed atmosphere allow for interpersonal interaction. For papers and abstracts from selected AAAI Workshops, you should consult the following pages (to access individual workshops, select the report number)

| 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1994 |
| 1993 | 1992 |

2008

Advancements in POMDP Solvers — Guy Shani, Chair (WS-08-01)
AI Education Colloquium — Zachary Dodds, Haym Hirsh, and Kiri Wagstaff, Cochairs (WS-08-02)
Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems — Virginia Dignum and Eric Matson, Cochairs (WS-08-03)
Enhanced Messaging — Mark Dredze, Vitor R. Carvalho, and Tessa Lau, Cochairs (WS-08-04)
Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction — Ted Metzler, Chair (WS-08-05)
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems — Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Alfred Kobsa, and Dietmar Jannach, Cochairs (WS-08-06)
Metareasoning: Thinking about Thinking — Michael T. Cox and Anita Raja, Cochairs (WS-08-07)
Mobile Robot Workshop — Paul Oh, Chair
Advances in Preference Handling — Jan Chomicki, Vincent Conitzer, Ulrich Junker, and Patrice Perny, Cochairs (WS-08-09)
Search in Artificial Intelligence and Roboticse — David Furcy, Sven Koenig, Wheeler Ruml, and Rong Zhou, Cochairs (WS-08-10)
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning — Hans W. Guesgen, Gérard Ligozat, and Rita V. Rodriguez, Cochairs (WS-08-11)
Trading Agent Design and Analysis — Wolfgang Ketter, Chair (WS-08-12)
Transfer Learning for Complex Tasks — Matthew E. Taylor, Alan Fern, and Kurt Driessens, Cochairs (WS-08-13)
What Went Wrong and Why: Lessons from AI Research and Applications — Mehmet H. Göker and Daniel G. Shapiro, Cochairs (WS-08-14)
Wikipedia and Artificial Intelligence: An Evolving Synergy — Razvan Bunescu, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, and Rada Mihalcea, Cochairs (WS-08-15)

2007

Optimizing Player Satisfaction — Georgios N. Yannakakis and John Hallam, Cochairs (WS-07-01)
Acquiring Planning Knowledge via Demonstration — Mark Burstein and Jim Hendler, Cochairs (WS-07-02)
Configuration — Barry O'Sullivan and Klas Orsvarn, Cochairs (WS-07-03)
Evaluating Architectures for Intelligence — Gal A. Kaminka and Catherina R. Burghart, Cochairs (WS-07-04)
Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning II — Chris Drummond, William Elazmeh, Nathalie Japkowicz, and Sofus A. Macskassy, Cochairs (WS-07-05)
Explanation-Aware Computing — Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, Daniel Bahls, and David B. Leake, Cochairs (WS-07-06)
Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction — Ted Metzler, Cochairs (WS-07-07)
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems in E-Commerce — Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Alfred Kobsa, and Dietmar Jannach, Cochairs (WS-07-08)
Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition — Christopher Geib and David Pynadath, Cochairs (WS-07-09)
Preference Handling for Artificial Intelligence — Jon Doyle, Judy Goldsmith, Ulrich Junker, and Jérôme Lang, Cochairs (WS-07-10)
Semantic e-Science — Huajun Chen, Yimin Wang, Kei Cheung, and Zhaohui Wu, Cochairs (WS-07-11)
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning — Hans W. Guesgen, Gerard Ligozat, Jochen Renz, and Rita V. Rodriguez, Cochairs (WS-07-12)
Trading Agent Design and Analysis — John Collins, Cochairs (WS-07-13)
Information Integration on the Web — Ullas Nambiar and Zaiqing Nie, Cochairs (WS-07-14)

2006

AI-Driven Technologies for Services-Oriented Computing — Prashant Doshi, Richard Goodwin, and Amit Sheth, Cochairs (WS-06-01)
Cognitive Modeling and Agent-Based Social Simulation — M. Afzal Upal and Ron Sun, Cochairs (WS-06-02)
Cognitive Robotics — Michael Beetz, Kanna Rajan, Michael Thielscher, and Radu Bogdan Rusu, Cochairs (WS-06-03)
Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness — Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, Cochairs (WS-06-04)
Educational Data Mining — Joseph E. Beck, Esma Aimeur, and Tiffany Barnes, Cochairs (WS-06-05)
Evaluation Methods for Machine Learning — Chris Drummond, William Elazmeh, and Nathalie Japkowicz, Cochairs (WS-06-06)
Event Extraction and Synthesis — Naveen Ashish, Doug Appelt, Dayne Freitag, and Dmitry Zelenko, Cochairs (WS-06-07)
Heuristic Search, Memory-Based Heuristics and Their Applications — Ariel Felner, Robert C. Holte, and Hector Geffner, Cochairs (WS-06-08)
Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction — Ted Metzler, Chair (WS-06-09)
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization — Bamshad Mobasher and Sarabjot Singh, Cochairs (WS-06-10)
Learning for Search — Wheeler Ruml and Frank Hutter, Cochairs (WS-06-11)
Modeling and Retrieval of Context — Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, and David B. Leake, Cochairs (WS-06-12)
Modeling Others from Observations — Gal Kaminka, David Pynadath, and Christopher Geib, Cochairs (WS-06-13)
Statistical and Empirical Approaches for Spoken Dialogue Systems — Pascal Poupart, Stephanie Seneff, Jason Williams, and Steve Young, Cochairs (WS-06-14)
AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition — Bob Avanzato, Paul Rybski, and Jeffrey Forbes, Cochairs (WS-06-15)

2005

Contexts and Ontologies — Pavel Shvaiko, Chair (WS-05-01)
Educational Data Mining — Joseph E. Beck, Chair (WS-05-02)
Exploring Planning and Scheduling for Web Services, Grid, and Autonomic Computing — Biplav Srivastava and Jim Blythe, Cochairs (WS-05-03)
Human Comprehensible Machine Learning — Dan Oblinger, Chair (WS-05-04)
Inference for Textual Question Answering — Sanda Harabagiu, Dan Moldovan, Srini Narayanan, Christopher Manning, Daniel Bobrow, and Ken Forbus, Cochairs (WS-05-05)
Integrating Planning into Scheduling — Mark Boddy, Amedeo Cesta, and Stephen F. Smith, Cochairs (WS-05-06)
Link Analysis — Dunja Mladenic, Natasa Milic-Frayling, and Marko Grobelnik, Cochairs (WS-05-07)
Modular Construction of Humanlike Intelligence — Kristinn R. Thórisson, Hannes Vilhjalmsson, and Stacy Marsella, Cochairs (WS-05-08)
Multiagent Learning — Eduardo Alonso, Michael Bowling, Enric Plaza, and Peter Stone, Cochairs (WS-05-09)
Question Answering in Restricted Domain — Diego Molla and Jose Luis Vicedo, Cochairs (WS-05-10)
AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2005 — Bill Smart and Sheila Tejada, General Cochairs; Jeffrey Forbes, Workshop Chair (WS-05-11)

2004

Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining — Ion Muslea, Chair (WS-04-01)
Agent Organizations: Theory and Practice — Virginia Dignum, Daniel Corkill, Catholijn Jonker, and Frank Dignum, Cochairs (WS-04-02)
Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data — Silvia Coradeschi and Alessandro Saffiotti, Cochairs (WS-04-03)
Challenges in Game AI — Dan Fu, Stottler Henke, and Jeff Orkin, Cochairs (WS-04-04)
Fielding Applications of Artificial Intelligence — William Cheetham, Chair (WS-04-05)
Forming and Maintaining Coalitions and Teams in Adaptive Multiagent Systems — Leen-Kiat Soh and John E. Anderson, Cochairs (WS-04-06)
Intelligent Agent Architectures: Combining the Strengths of Software Engineering and Cognitive Systems Randolph M. Jones, Chair (WS-04-07)
Learning and Planning in Markov Processes: Advances and Challenges — Daniela Pucci de Farias, Shie Mannor, Doina Precup, and Georgios Theocharous, Cochairs (WS-04-08)
Semantic Web Personalization — Bamshad Mobasher, Sarabjot Singh Anand, Bettina Berendt, and Andreas Hotho, Cochairs (WS-04-09)
Supervisory Control of Learning and Adaptive Systems — Mike Rosenstein and Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Cochairs (WS-04-10)
AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition — Frederick Crabbe, William D. Smart, and Sheila Tejada, Cochairs (WS-04-11)

2003

AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2003 — Bruce Maxwell, General Cochair; Bill Smart, General Cochair; Magdalena Bugajska, Workshop Chair (WS-03-01)

2002

Agent-Based Technologies for B2B Electronic Commerce — M. Brian Blake, Chair (WS-02-01)
Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care — Karen Haigh, Chair (WS-02-02)
Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: From Inter-Agent to Groups — Henry Hexmoor, Rino Falcone, Cochairs (WS-02-03)
Coalition Formation in Dynamic Multiagent Environments — Leen-Kiat Soh, Chair (WS-02-04)
Cognitive Robotics — Chitta Baral and Sheila McIlraith, Cochairs (WS-02-05)
Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents — Piotr Gmytrasiewicz and Simon Parsons, Cochairs (WS-02-06)
Intelligent Service Integration -- Dean Allemang, Eleni Stroulia, and John Mylopoulos, Cochair s (WS-02-07)
Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations — Rainer Malaka and Antonio Krügeri, Cochairs (WS-02-08)
Meaning Negotiation — Paolo Bouquet, Chair (WS-02-09)
Multi-Agent Modeling and Simulation of Economic Systems — Koichi Kurumatani, Shu-Heng Chen, and Azuma Ohuchi, Cochairs (WS-02-10)
Ontologies and the Semantic Web — Adam Pease, Chair (WS-02-11)
Planning with and for Multiagent Systems — Michael Brenner and Marie desJardins, Cochairs (WS-02-12)
Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches — Ulrich Junker, Chair (WS-02-13)
Probabilistic Approaches in Search — Carla Gomes and Toby Walsh, Cochairs (WS-02-14)
Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems — Haipeng Guo, Eric Horvitz, William H. Hsu, and Eugene Santos Jr., Cochairs (WS-02-15)
Semantic Web Meets Language Resources — Nancy Ide and Chris Welty, Cohairs (WS-02-16)
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning — Frank D. Anger, Hans W. Guesgen, and Gerard Ligozat, Cochairs (WS-02-17)
AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition — William D. Smart, Workshop Chair, Tucker Balch, Competition General Chair, Holly Yanco, Competition General Chair (WS-02-18)

2001

AAAI Mobile Robot Competition — Brian Scassellati, Chair (WS-01-01)

2000

Artificial Intelligence for Web Search — Kurt Bollacker, Chair (WS-00-01)
Constraints and Artificial Intelligence Planning — Alexander Nareyek, Chair (WS-00-02)
Intelligent Lessons Learned Systems — David W. Aha and Rosina Weber, Cochairs (WS-00-03)
Knowledge-Based Electronic Markets — Tim Finin and Benjamin Grosof, Cochairs (WS-00-04)
Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets — Nathalie Japkowicz, Cochairs (WS-00-05)
Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data — Lise Getoor and David Jensen, Cochairs (WS-00-06)
Representational Issues for Real-World Planning Systems — Yolanda Gil and Karen L. Myers, Cochairs (WS-00-07)
Spatial and Temporal Granularity — Claudio Bettini and Angelo Montanari, Chair (WS-00-08)

1999

Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce — Tim Finin and Benjamin Gosof, Cochairs (WS-99-01)
Agent-Based Systems in the Business Context — Brian Drabble and Peter Jarvis Cochairs (WS-99-02)
Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Information Networking — Sue Abu-Hakima and Steven Willmott, Cochairs (WS-99-03)
Computation with Neural Systems — Victoria Hodge and Jim Austin, Cochairs (WS-99-04)
Configuration — Boi Faltings, Eugene C. Freuder, Gerhard Friedrich, and Alexander Felfernig, Cochairs (WS-99-05)
Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms: Research Directions — Alex A. Freitas, Chair (WS-99-06)
Environmental Decision Support Systems and Artificial Intelligence — Ulises Corté and Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Cochairs (WS-99-07)
Agents’ Conflicts — Catherine Tessier and Laurent Chaudron, Cochairs (WS-99-08)
Intelligent Software Engineering — Aditya Ghose, Time Menzies, and Ken Satoh, Cochairs (WS-99-09)
Exploring Synergies of Knowledge Management and Case-Based Reasoning — David Aha, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Frank Maurer, and Hector Munoz-Avila, Cochairs (WS-99-10)
Machine Learning for Information Extraction — Mary Elaine Califf, Chair (WS-99-11)
Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities — Sandip Sen, Chair (WS-99-12)
Ontology Management — Adam Farquhar and Kilian Stoffel, Cochairs (WS-99-13)
Reasoning in Context for AI Applications — Patrick Brézillon, Roy Turner, Jean-Charles Pomerol, and Elise Turner, Cochairs (WS-99-14)
Eighth AAAI Mobile Robot Competition — Alan C. Schultz, Chair (WS-99-15)

1998

Qualitative Reasoning The Twelfth International Workshop — Kenneth Yip & Feng Zhao, Cochairs (WS-98-01)
Integrating Planning, Scheduling, and Execution in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments: Papers from the 1998 AIPS Workshop — Ralph Bergman & Alexander Kott, Cochairs (WS-98-02)
Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition for Planning: Papers from the 1998 AIPS Workshop — Leliane Nunes de Barros et al., Cochairs (WS-98-03)
Knowledge Sharing Across Biological and Medical Knowledge-Based Systems: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Gary Merrill & Dhiraj Pathak, Cochairs (WS-98-04)
Learning for Text Categorization: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Mehran Sahami, Chair (WS-98-05)
The Grounding of Word Meaning — Michael Gasser, Chair (WS-98-06)
Predicting the Future: AI Approaches to Time-Series Problems: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Andrea Danyluk, Chair (WS-98-07)
Recommender Systems: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Henry Kautz, Chair (WS-98-08)
Representations for Multi-Modal Human-Computer Interaction: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Syed Ali & Susan McRoy, Cochairs (WS-98-09)
Software Tools for Developing Agents: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Jeremy Baxter & Brian Logan, Cochairs (WS-98-10)
Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based systems: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Daniel O'Leary & Alun Preece, Cochairs (WS-98-11)
Textual Case-Based Reasoning: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Mario Lenz & Kevin Ashley, Cochairs (WS-98-12)
Using AI for Knowledge Management and Business Process Reengineering: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Rose Gamble, Chair (WS-98-13)
AI and Information Integration: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Craig Knoblock & Alon Levy, Cochairs (WS-98-14)
Case-Based Reasoning Integrations: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — David Aha & Jody J. Daniels, Cochairs (WS-98-15)
The Methodology of Applying Machine Learning: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop — Robert Engles, Chair (WS-98-16)

1997

Verification & Validationof Knowledge-Based Systems: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Robert Plant & Grigoris Antoniou, Cochairs (WS-97-01)
Using AI in Electronic Commerce, Virtual Organizations, & Enterprise Knowledge Management to Reengineer the Corporation: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Daniel E. O'Leary & Rose Gamble, Cochairs (WS-97-02)
Multiagent Learning: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Sandip Sen, Chair (WS-97-03)
Deep Blue Versus Kasparov: The Significance for Artificial Intelligence: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Robert Morris, Chair (WS-97-04)
Constraints & Agents: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Eugene C. Freuder, Chair (WS-97-05)
Building Resource-Bounded Reasoning Systems: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Shlomo Zilberstein and Louis Hoebel, Cochairs (WS-97-06)
AI Approaches to Fraud Detection and Risk Management: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Tom Fawcett, Chair (WS-97-07)
Abstractions, Decisions, and Uncertainty: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Christopher Geib, Chair (WS-97-08)
Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Management: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Bradley Whitehall, Chair (WS-97-09)
On-line Search: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Sven Koenig, Chair (WS-97-10)
Spatial and Temporal Reasoning: Papers from the 1997 AAAI Workshop — Frank D. Anger, Chair (WS-97-11)

1996

Qualitative Reasoning: The Tenth International Workshop — Yumi Iwasaki & Adam Farquhar, Program Cochairs (WS-96-01)
Agent Modeling: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Milind Tambe and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Program Cochairs (WS-96-02)
Entertainment and AI / A-Life: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Hiroaki Kitano, Program Chair (WS-96-03)
Intelligent Adaptive Agents: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Ibrahim F. Imam, Program Chair (WS-96-04)
International Description Logics: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Lin Padgham, Enrico Franconi, Manfred Gehrke, Deborah L. McGuinness, and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Editors (WS-96-05)
Internet-Based Information Systems: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Alexander Franz & Hiroaki Kitano, Program Cochairs (WS-96-06)
Theories of Action, Planning, and Robot Control: Bridging the Gap: Papers from the 1996 AAAI Workshop — Chitta Baral, Program Chair (WS-96-07)

1994

Case-Based Reasoning — David W. Aha, Program Chair (WS-94-01)
Distributed Artificial Intelligence — Mark Klein, Workshop Chair (WS-94-02)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases — Usama M. Fayyad and Ramasamy Uthurusamy, Program Cochairs (WS-94-03)
Models of Conflict Management in Cooperative Problem Solving — Mark Klein and Susan Lander, Program Cochairs (WS-94-04)

1993

Case-Based Reasoning — David Leake, Program Chair (WS-93-01)
Knowledge Discovery in Databases — Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Program Chair (WS-93-02)
AI and Theories of Groups & Organizations: Conceptual and Empirical Research — Mike Prietula, Program Chair (WS-93-03)
AI in Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems — Yukiko Sekine, Program Chair (WS-93-04)
Validation and Verification of Knowledge-Based Systems — Alun D. Preece, Program Chair (WS-93-05)
Learning Action Models — Wei-Min Shen, Program Chair (WS-93-06)
AI and Collaborative Design — John S. Gero, Mary Lou Maher, and Fay Sudweeks, Program Cochairs (WS-93-07)

1992

Statistically-Based Natural Language Programming Techniques — Carl Weir, Program Chair (WS-92-01)
AAAI 1992 Robot Competition — Tom Dean and R. Peter Bonasso, Program Cochairs (WS-92-02)