Schedule of Presentations and Events
Twelfth Annual AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium
Schedule of Presentations and Events
The Doctoral Consortium will take place July 22 and 23 (Sun/Mon), 2007. Each student is allocated a 45 minute block, divided into 25 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.
| Time | Presenter/Event | Discussion Leader | Paper Title |
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| 8:00-8:15 AM | Opening Remarks | Terran Lane Collen van Lent |
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| 8:15-9:00 | Marc Pickett | David Aha | The Übercruncher: Concept Formation by Analogy Discovery |
| 9:00-9:45 | Mark Roberts | Marie des Jardins | Harnessing Algorithm Bias in Classical Planning |
| 9:45-10:30 | Emma Brunskill | Michael Littman | Continuous State POMDPs for Object Manipulation Tasks |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Christopher Kiekintveld | Michael Littman | Empirical Game-Theoretic Methods for Strategy Design and Analysis in Complex Games |
| 11:45-12:30 PM | Akshay Java | Chris Brooks | A Framework for Modeling Influence, Opinions and Structure in Social Media |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:45 | David Thompson | Kiri Wagstaff | Predictive Exploration for Autonomous Science |
| 2:45-3:30 | Kate Lockwood | Kiri Wagstaff | Using Spatial Language in Multi-Modal Knowledge Capture |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break | ||
| 4:00-4:45 | Jie Zhang | Michael Bowling | An Incentive Mechanism for Promoting Honesty in E-Marketplaces |
| 4:45-5:30 | Sebastian Stein | Berthe Choueiry | Flexible Provisioning of Service Workflows |
| 6:30-??? | BANQUET | TBA | - |
| Time | Presenter/Event | Discussion Leader | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:15-9:00 AM | Matthew Taylor | Terran Lane | Autonomous Inter-Task Transfer in Reinforcement Learning Domains |
| 9:00-9:45 | Carlos Gómez Gallo | Dragos Margineantu | Handling Non-Sentential Utterances in a Continuous Understanding Framework |
| 9:45-10:30 | Vibhab Gogate | Dragos Margineantu | Approximate Inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models with Determinism |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-11:45 | Antonio Roque | Nicholas Roy | Reacting to Agreement and Error in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Degrees of Groundedness |
| 11:45-12:45 PM | PANEL: Now that I have my PhD, what do I do with it? |
Paul Bennett (Microsoft) Nicholas Roy (MIT) Scott Wallace (WSU Vancouver) |
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| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-2:45 | Sensoy Murat | Bhaskar Mehta | A Framework for Ontology-Based Service Selection in Dynamic Environments |
| 2:45-3:30 | Brian Harrington | Bhaskar Mehta | ASKNet: Automatically Generating Semantic Knowledge Networks |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break | ||
| 4:00-4:45 | Timothy Weale | Ray Mooney | Spatial Reference Resolution for an Embodied Dialogue Agent |
| 4:45-5:30 | Scott McQuiggan | Ray Mooney | Responding to Student Affect and Efficacy through Empathetic Companion Agents in Interactive Learning Environments |
| 5:30-5:45 | Wrap-up | Terran Lane Colleen van Lent |
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