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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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