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2 min: Intro: Sebastian 6 min: Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue 2 min: Craig Boutilier: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper 2 min: Tony Cohn and Rita Dechter: AIJ awards 2 min: Craig Knoblock: three IJCAI Awards 3 min: Wolfgang Wahlster: Thank-you remarks 10 min: Program: Francesca 3 min: Closing: Sebastian Doug Engelbart John Riedl Robert Wilensky David Waltz John McCarthy Local Arrangement Chairs: Fei-Yue Wang, Derong Liu, Maosong Sun The Capital of the People's Republic of China One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China The second largest Chinese city by urban population The nation's political, cultural, and educational center A major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks Home to a great number of colleges and universities, including Tsinghua University and Peking University (two of the National Key Universities) Where are we? We are here! Professor Qin Zhang JAIR Editor-in-chief, Craig Boutilier Daniel Golovin and Andreas Krause Adaptive Submodularity: Theory and Applications in Active Learning and Stochastic Optimization August 6, 14:20 in Room 201CD AIJ Editors-in-Chief: Tony Cohn & Rina Dechter Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Roman Schondlauder, Hans Tompits Computing Answer Set Programming with Descriptive Logics for the Semantic Web Artificial Intelligence 172(12-13): 2008 Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving to Problem Solving Artificial Intelligence 2(3/4), 1971 Alan Mackworth Consistency in Networks of Relations Artificial Intelligence 8(1), 1977 IJCAI President: Craig Knoblock Hector Levesqu e Knowledge representation and reasoning, including cognitive robotics, theory of belief, and tractable reasoning Thursday, Aug 8, 11:10am Kristen Grauman Fundamental contributions to recognition and search problems in computer vision Tuesday, Aug 6, 11:10am Wolfgang Wahlster Extensive service to the field of AI throughout his highly distinguished career Distinguished Service Award: Wolfgang Wahlster Program Chair: Francesca Rossi 8 invited talks 12 journal track presentations 413 accepted papers • 1473 submissions • All as posters, 195 also as oral 36 best papers/dissertations from sister conferences presentations 3 Competitions 1 panel + 1 debate • Robot competition • Video competition • Angry Birds AI competition Some new services 23 tutorials 35 workshops • myIjcai • Poster in my pocket August 6 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:45 August 7 welcome 8 parallel Program Structure Invited talk sessions + August 8 August 9 8:30-9:20 Invited talk posters 9:20-9:45 Video competition awards 7 parallel sessions + posters coffee 9:45-10:15 coffee coffee coffee 10:15-11:00 Invited talk Invited talk 11:15-12:00 Award talk 8 parallel sessions + posters Award talk 7 parallel sessions + posters 12:00-13:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch 13:30-14:15 Invited talk 13:30-15:00 Panel 14:30-15:15 7 parallel sessions + posters Invited talk 8 parallel sessions + posters 15:15-15:45 coffee coffee coffee 16:00-16:50 Invited talk 15:45-17:30 8 parallel sessions + posters 8 parallel sessions + debate + posters 7 parallel sessions + posters 16:50-18:00 Closing event 15:10-16:00 Invited talk Andreas Herzig Jon Kleinberg Wei Li Rolf Pfeifer Steven Phillips Thad Starner Joshua Tenenbaum Pascal Van Hentenryck IJCAI-13 Arward for Research Excellence IJCAI-13 Computers and Thought Award • Hector Levesque • On our Best Behaviour • Kristen Grauman • Towards Large-Scale Visual recognition and search Record submission • 1,473 submissions • 413 accepted papers (28%) • 195 also chosen for oral presentation Double blind review process • 35 Area Chairs • 397 Senior PC members • 1,799 PC members Proceedings online and on memory stick! • Published by IJCAI and AAAI Press Submission Support • Thomas Preuss (Confmaster) • Domenico Salvagnin Submissions: • 98 technical papers • 6 data challenge papers Accepted: • Oral + poster: 12 technical • Poster: 11 technical + 3 data challenge • Total: 26 papers (25%) Chair: Carla Gomes IJCAI Distinguished papers • Bayesian Optimization in High Dimensions via Random Embeddings by Ziyu Wang, Masrour Zoghi, Frank Hutter, David Matheson, Nando de Freitas • Maximizing Flexibility in Simple Temporal Networks by Bob Huisman, Tomas Klos, Michel Wilson, Cees Witteveen Outstanding paper (AICS Track) • Semi-Supervised Learning for Integration of Aerosol Predictions from Multiple Satellite Instruments by Nemanja Djuric, Lakesh Kansakar, Slobodan Vucetic Outstanding student paper (AICS Track) • A Hidden Markov Model-Based Cicada Detector for Crowdsourced Smartphone Biodiversity Monitoring by Davide Zilli, Oliver Parson, Geoff V Merrett, Alex Rogers 30 presentation, from best papers at the following conferences: • ACL 2012, CHI 2013, COLT 2012, EC 2012, ECML 2012, FOIS 2012, ICCBR 2011, ICCBR 2012, ICLP 2011, ICLP 2012, ICRA 2012, ISWC 2012, IUI 2012, JELIA 2012, KDD 2012, PKDD 2012, RecSys 2011, RecSys 2012, RR 2012, RSS 2012, SAT 2012, TARK 2013, UAI 2012, UMAP 2011, WSDM 2012 6 best theses: • 2012 ACP Doctoral Research Award 2012 SiGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award ECCAI 2011 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation Award IFAAMAS-11 and 12 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award Plus ECCAI 2012 thesis award and IJCAI-JAIR best paper Also 4 page paper and poster Chair: Berthe Choueiry 12 papers from past 2 years • Never presented at AI conference • AI Journal (6) • JAIR (6) • 4 page paper, poster Chair: Umberto Grandi Debate on banning autonomous weapons • Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield and Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control) Panel on The Future of AI: What if We Succeed? • • • • • Moderator: Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley) Joanna Bryson (University of Bath) Henry Kautz (University of Rochester) Anders Sandberg (Oxford University) Sebastian Thrun (Google, Stanford, and Udacity) Supported by AI Journal Video Competition • • • • Goal: Reward best AI videos 17 shortlisted videos 6 award categories Organizers: Patrick Doherty and Jonas Kvanstrom Robot Competition • Goal: Foster innovative new robotics systems • 10 Robot Teams • Organizers: Mary-Anne Williams and Xiaoping Chen Angry Birds Competition • Goal: Build AI that plays as good as best human players • Man against machine, Best AI Agent • Organizers: Jochen Renz, Stephen Gould, and Gary Ge Tutorial chair: Boi Faltings 23 tutorials August 3-5 35 workshops Workshop chairs: Edith Elking, Eyal Amir Chairs: Maria Gini, Jimmy Lee, Talks Doctoral Consortium: 33 Students Posters Mentors Michela Milano Vote for best presentation / poster • Online voting by all attendees, to be awarded at closing event MyIjcai • Create a personalized conference schedule on smartphones and PCs Poster in your pocket (by Elsevier) • To download posters (PDF) to smartphones 700 600 41% 34% 500 400 18% 300 200 5% 100 1% 1% 0 AS AS EU EU NA NA OC OC SA SA AF AF 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% NA NA OC OC EU EU AS AS SA SA AF AF 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 CN US GB FR AU JP DE IT CA SG ES IL IN NL AT CH HK IE BR BE KR PT SE CY FI GR LU TN CZ DK EG MX NO NZ TR ZA 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 US CN GB AU FR CA DE SG IT AT IL JP ES HK NL CH IE BE IN KR CZ DK EG FI NO VE BR CY GR IS LU NC PL PT SE TR 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 ML AG KR CSP NLP WEB MD PS CS ROB UAI Program Committee • 35 Area Chairs • 397 Senior PC members • 1,799 PC members Authors • 3,171 authors • 1,473 submissions Event Organizers / speakers • 7 Competition chairs • 3 Tutorial and workshop chairs • 4 Special track and special event chairs • 3 Doctoral consortium chairs • 47 tutorial speakers • 107 workshop organizers Web Chair • Francisco Cruz Conference Chair: Sebastian Thrun Program Chair: Francesca Rossi Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue Wang Local Arrangement: Derong Liu Local Arrangement: Maosong Sun Executive Secretary: Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz IJCAI SecretaryTreasurer: Bernhard Nebel