AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia Reports

Authors

  • Marcello Balduccini Eastman Kodak Company
  • Chitta Baral Arizona State University
  • Boyan Brodaric Geological Survey of Canada
  • Simon Colton Imperial College, London
  • Peter Fox National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • David Gutelius SRI International
  • Knut Hinkelmann University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
  • Ian Horswill Northwestern University
  • Bernardo Huberman HP Labs
  • Eva Hudlicka Psychometrix Associates
  • Kristina Lerman USC Information Sciences Institute
  • Christine Lisetti Florida International University
  • Deborah L. McGuinness Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Mary Lou Maher National Science Foundation
  • Mark A. Musen Stanford University
  • Mehran Sahami Stanford University
  • Derek Sleeman University of Aberdeen
  • Barbara Thönssen University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
  • Juan D. Velasquez MIT CSAIL
  • Dan Ventura Brigham Young University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2148

Abstract

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) was pleased to present the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium Series, held Wednesday through Friday, March 26–28, 2008 at Stanford University, California. The titles of the eight symposia were as follows: (1) AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management, (2) Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents, (3) Creative Intelligent Systems, (4) Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior, (5) Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration, (6) Social Information Processing, (7) Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering, (8) Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science The goal of the AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management AAAI symposium was to investigate the various approaches and standards to represent business rules, business process management and the semantic web with respect to expressiveness and reasoning capabilities. The focus of the Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents AAAI symposium was the definition of architectures for intelligent theory-based agents, comprising languages, knowledge representation methodologies, reasoning algorithms, and control loops. The Creative Intelligent Systems Symposium included five major discussion sessions and a general poster session (in which all contributing papers were presented). The purpose of this symposium was to explore the synergies between creative cognition and intelligent systems. The goal of the Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior symposium was to examine fundamental issues in affect and personality in both biological and artificial agents, focusing on the roles of these factors in mediating social behavior. The Semantic Scientific Knowledge Symposium was interested in bringing together the semantic technologies community with the scientific information technology community in an effort to build the general semantic science information community. The Social Information Processing's goal was to investigate computational and analytic approaches that will enable users to harness the efforts of large numbers of other users to solve a variety of information processing problems, from discovering high-quality content to managing common resources. The goal of the Symbiotic Relationships between the Semantic Web and Software Engineering symposium was to explore how the lessons learned by the knowledge-engineering community over the past three decades could be applied to the bold research agenda of current workers in semantic web technologies. The purpose of the Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science symposium was to identify ways that topics in AI may be used to motivate greater student participation in computer science by highlighting fun, engaging, and intellectually challenging developments in AI-related curriculum at a number of educational levels. Technical reports of the symposia were published by AAAI Press.

Author Biographies

Marcello Balduccini, Eastman Kodak Company

Research LaboratoriesResearch Scientist

Chitta Baral, Arizona State University

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Professor 

Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada

Geological Survey of Canada

Simon Colton, Imperial College, London

Department of ComputingSenior Lecturer

Peter Fox, National Center for Atmospheric Research

National Center for Atmospheric Research

David Gutelius, SRI International

Artificial Intelligence CenterResearch Staff

Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

Professor

Ian Horswill, Northwestern University

 Computer Science Department

Associate Professor 

Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs

Social Computing LabSenior HP Fellow and Director

Eva Hudlicka, Psychometrix Associates

Principal Scientist

Kristina Lerman, USC Information Sciences Institute

Computer Science DepartmentProject leader and research assistant professor

Christine Lisetti, Florida International University

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Associate Professor 

Deborah L. McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Department of Computer Science

Professor

Mary Lou Maher, National Science Foundation

Information and Intelligent Systems Division, National Science FoundationProgram Director

Mark A. Musen, Stanford University

Biomedical Informatics Research and Computer Science

Professor of Medicine  

Mehran Sahami, Stanford University

Computer Science DepartmentAssociate Professor and Associate Chair for Education

Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen

Computing Science

Professor 

Barbara Thönssen, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

Research Staff

Juan D. Velasquez, MIT CSAIL

MIT CSAIL

Research Staff 

Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University

Department of Computer ScienceAssociate Professor

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Published

2008-09-06

How to Cite

Balduccini, M., Baral, C., Brodaric, B., Colton, S., Fox, P., Gutelius, D., Hinkelmann, K., Horswill, I., Huberman, B., Hudlicka, E., Lerman, K., Lisetti, C., McGuinness, D. L., Maher, M. L., Musen, M. A., Sahami, M., Sleeman, D., Thönssen, B., Velasquez, J. D., & Ventura, D. (2008). AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia Reports. AI Magazine, 29(3), 107. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2148

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Workshop Reports