[clean-list] [isaim2008] Call for Participation: Tenth Int'l Symp. on AI and Math (ISAIM 2008)

Mehran Sahami sahami at cs.stanford.edu
Thu Nov 8 03:11:51 MET 2007


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			CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

		   Tenth International Symposium on
	       ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and MATHEMATICS
			      ISAIM 2008
		       http://isaim2008.unl.edu

			  January 2-4, 2008
		       Fort Lauderdale, Florida

       EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Thursday, December 20, 2007


CONTENT:
- ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
- INVITED SPEAKERS
- SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS
- REGISTRATION
- HOTEL RESERVATION (book your room ASAP)
- ORGANIZERS
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- SPONSORS
- LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS


ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM: 

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
(ISAIM) is a biennial meeting that fosters interactions between
mathematics, theoretical computer science, and artificial
intelligence.  This is the tenth Symposium in the series, which is
sponsored by Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence.
Traditionally, the Symposium attracts participants from a variety of
disciplines, thereby providing a unique forum for scientific exchange.
The three-day Symposium includes invited speakers, presentations of
technical papers, and special topic sessions.


INVITED SPEAKERS:

o  David McAllester, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
   "Mathematical Problems from Machine Learning" 
o  Francesca Rossi, Padova University, Italy
   "Preference Reasoning"
o  Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Israel
   "Extracting Relevant Information from Samples"


SPECIAL TOPIC INVITED SESSIONS:  

o Logic in Artificial Intelligence
    -Special Session in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Victor Marek
    -Organized by Michael Kaminski and Mirek Truszczynski.

    SPEAKERS:
    * Howard Blair (Syracuse University)
      Hybrid Programs: Symmetrically Combining Natively Discrete and
      Continuous Truth-values in a Single Logic Programming Formalism

    * Alex Bochman (Holon Academic Institute of Technology)
      Default Logic: Representation and Computation

    * Marc Denecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and John Schlipf 
      (University of Cincinnati)
      Complexity of First Order ID Logic

    * Thomas Eiter (Technische Universität Wien)
      Exploiting Conjunctive Queries in Description Logic Programs

    * Mel Fitting (City University of New York)
      Explicit Logics of Knowledge and Conservativity

    * Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University)
      Integrated inference engine for Answer Set Prolog - preliminary report

    * Georg Gottlob (Oxford University)
      Asymptotic Conditional Probability in Modal Logic: A
      Probabilistic Reconstruction of Nonmonotonic Logic

    * Johann Makowsky (Technion)
      From Hilbert's program to a logic toolbox: Reflections on
      teaching logic to Computer Science students

    * Ilkka Niemela (Helsinki University of Technology)
      Answer Set Programming and Difference Logic

    * Jeff Remmel (University of California at San Diego)
      A Mathematician Looks at Answer Set Programming

o Computation and Social Choice
    -Organized by Toby Walsh, NICTA and University of New South Wales

    SPEAKERS:
    * Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)

    * Edith Elkind (University of Southampton)

    * Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)

    * John Hooker (Carnegie Mellon University)

    * Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland)

o Effective Exploration in Active Learning and Reinforcement Learning
    -Organized by Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo

    SPEAKERS:
    * Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California, San Diego)

    * Joelle Pineau (McGill University)

    * Doina Precup (McGill University)

    * Irina Rish (IBM Research)

    * Alexander L. Strehl (Yahoo Research)


REGISTRATION:
For registration information, please see the website:
https://fauf.fau.edu/ISAIM2008

The deadline for early registration is December 20, 2007.


HOTEL RESERVATION:
For hotel information information, please see the website:
http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/fllsoes_dms/index.
jhtml

The block reservation cutoff date at the Symposium hotel is December
2nd, 2007.  Please note that rooms will be difficult to find because
of the Orange Bowl.  We strongly recommend making your room
reservations as early as possible.


ORGANIZERS:

o General Chair:     Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa
o Conference Chair:  Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University
o Program Co-Chairs: Berthe Y. Choueiry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                     and Bob Givan, Purdue University
o Publicity Chair:   Mehran Sahami, Stanford University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Michael Bowling       University of Alberta
Ronen Brafman         Ben-Gurion University
Yixin Chen            Washington University in St Louis
Vincent Conitzer      Duke University
Rina Dechter          University of California, Irvine
Thomas Eiter          Technische Universitaet Wien
Alan Fern             Oregon State University
Hector Geffner        Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Carla P. Gomes        Cornell University
Georg Gottlob         Oxford University
Eric Hansen	          Mississipi State University
Milos Hauskrecht      University of Pittsburgh
Malte Helmert         Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
Michael Kaminski      Technion
Kristian Kersting     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roni Khardon          Tufts University
Sven Koenig           University of Southern California
Richard Korf          University of California, Los Angeles
Manolis Koubarakis    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Gerhard Lakemeyer     Aachen University of Technology
Guy Lebanon           Purdue University-West Lafayette
Hector Levesque       University of Toronto
Kevin Leyton-Brown    University of British Columbia
Karl Lieberherr	    Northeastern University
Vladimir Lifschitz    University of Texas, Austin
Alan K. Mackworth     University of British Columbia
Michela Milano        Universita di Bologna
Brian Milch           Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bernhard Nebel        Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg
David Page            University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ronald Parr           Duke University
Pascal Poupart        University of Waterloo
Henri Prade           IRIT and Universite de Toulouse
Steven Prestwich      Cork Constraint Computation Center
Jussi Rintanen        NICTA
Jeff Rosenschein      The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wheeler Ruml          University of New Hampshire 
Andrea Schaerf        University of Udine
Bart Selman           Cornell University
Meinolf Sellmann      Brown University
Jude W. Shavlik       University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thomas Stuetzle       Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Miroslaw Truszczynski University of Kentucky
Hudson Turner         University of Minnesota, Duluth
Peter van Beek        University of Waterloo
Toby Walsh            NICTA and University of New South Wales
Nic Wilson            Cork Constraint Computation Center
Michael Wooldridge    University of Liverpool
Neil Yorke-Smith      SRI International
Luke Zettlemoyer      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Weixiong Zhang        Washington University
Shlomo Zilberstein    University of Massachusetts, Amherst


ADVISORY COMMITTEE: 

The Editor-in-Chief (Martin Charles Golumbic) and the members of the
Editorial Board of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
serve as the permanent Advisory Committee of the Symposium.


SPONSORS: 

The Symposium is partially supported by:
o Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
o Caesarea Rothschild Institute at the University of Haifa
o Florida Atlantic University (Department of Mathematical Sciences)
o Florida-Israel Institute
o Google Inc.
o Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI) at Cornell University 
o Microsoft Research
ISAIM 2008 is held in cooperation with AAAI.

Send inquiries and requests: isaim2008 AT cse.unl.edu.
Check symposium web-page: http://isaim2008.unl.edu.
Join isaim at googlegroups.com to receive announcements related to ISAIM.


LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPERS:

Estimating the Number of Local Maxima for k-SAT Instances 
Andreas Albrecht, Peter Lane , Kathleen Steinhoefel 

Hard Sat and CSP Instances with Expander Graphs 
Carlos Ansotegui, Ramon Bejar, Cesar Fernandez, Carles Mateu 

More Flexible Term Schematisations via Extended Primal Grammars 
Vincent Aravantinos, Ricardo Caferra, Nicolas Peltier 

Formalising Interaction-Situated Semantic Alignment: The Communication
Product 
Manuel Atencia, Marco Schorlemmer

Scalable Action Respecting Embedding 
Michael Biggs, Ali Ghodsi, Dana Wilkinson, Michael Bowling 

A Lazy Approach to Online Learning with Constraints 
Kveton Branislav, Jia Yuan Yu, Georgios Theocharous, Shie Mannor 

Continuous-State POMDPs with Hybrid Dynamics 
Emma Brunskill, Leslie Kaelbling, Tomas Lozano-Perez, Nicholas Roy 

A Connection between Cantor-Bendixson Derivatives and the Well-Founded 
Semantics of Logic Programs 
Douglas Cenzer, Jeffrey Remmel 

An Interpretation of Consistent Belief Functions in terms of 
Simplicial Complexes
Fabio Cuzzolin 

Boolean and Matroidal Independence in Uncertainty Theory 
Fabio Cuzzolin 	

Tradeoffs in Backdoor Detection for Sat and Unsat Formulas 
Bistra Dilkina, Carla Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal 

Paired Sampling in Density-Sensitive Active Learning 
Pinar Donmez, Jaime Carbonell 

Reinforcement Learning with Limited Reinforcement: Using Bayes Risk 
for Active Learning in POMDPs 
Finale Doshi, Joelle Pineau, Nicholas Roy 

Best-First Search with Maximum Edge Cost Functions 
P. Alex Dow, Richard Korf 

Sampling for Approximate Inference in Continuous Time Bayesian Networks 
Yu Fan, Christian Shelton 

A Fast Way to Produce Optimal Fixed-Depth Decision Trees 
Alireza Farhangfar, Russell Greiner, Martin Zinkevich 

Practical Methods for Exploiting Bounds on Change in the Margin 
Andrew Guillory, Jeff Bilmes 

Planning Aims for a Network of Horizontal and Overhead Sensors 
Erik Halvorson, Ronald Parr 

Rare Class Discovery Based on Active Learning 
Jingrui He, Jaime Carbonell 

Minimal Residual Approaches for Learning to Predict in Large 
Sparse Markov Chains
Yao Hengshuai, Liu Zhiqiang 

On The Power of Clause Learning 
Philipp Hertel, Fahiem Bacchus, Toniann Pitassi, Daniel Zabawa 	

Classifier Utility Visualization by Distance-Preserving Projection 
of High Dimensional Performance D 
Nathalie Japkowicz, Pritika Sanghi, Peter Tischer 	

Solving Structured Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes 
Kin Fai Kan, Christian Shelton 

A Bayesian Approach to Cluster Validation 
Hoyt Koepke, Bertrand Clarke 

Leveraging Belief Propagation, Backtrack Search, and Statistics for 
Model Counting 
Lukas Kroc, Bart Selman, Ashish Sabharwal 

Combinatorial problems for Horn clauses 
Marina Langlois, Dhruv Mubayi, Robert Sloan, Gyorgy Turan 

Efficient Value-Function Approximation via Online Linear Regression 
Lihong Li, Michael Littman 

A Refutation Approach to Local Interchangeability in CSPs 
Chavalit Likitvivatanavong, Roland Yap

A Polynomial-time Nash Equilibrium Algorithm for Repeated Stochastic Games 
Enrique Munoz de Cote, Michael Littman 

Approximate Solutions of Interactive POMDPs Using Point Based Value
Iteration 
Dennis Perez, Prashant Doshi 

Order-based Discriminative Structure Learning for Bayesian Network
Classifiers 
Franz Pernkopf, Jeff Bilmes 

A Successive Approximation Algorithm for Coordination Problems 
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilbertstein 

Approximation Techniques for Space-Efficient Compilation in 
Abductive Inference
Gregory Provan 

Extending the Bellman equation for MDPs to Continuous Actions and Continuous

Time in the Discounted Case 
Emmanuel Rachelson, Frédérick Garcia 

Predictive Linear-Gaussian Models of Dynamical Systems with 
Vector-Valued Actions and Observations 
Matthew Rudary, Satinder Singh 

On the Relationship between Hybrid Probabilistic Logic Programs
and Stochastic Satisfiability 
Emad Saad 

Lifting Techniques for Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems 
T. K. Satish Kumar 

Probabilistic Sequential Diagnosis by Compilation 
Sajjad Siddiqi, Jinbo Huang 

Approximation strategies for Routing in Stochastic Dynamic Networks 
Tomas Singliar, Milos Hauskrecht 

Using Abstraction for Generalized Planning 
Siddharth Srivastava, Neil Immerman, Shlomo Zilbertstein 

Building Incomplete but Accurate Models 
Erik Talvitie, Britton Wolfe, Satinder Singh 

Declarative Programming of Search Problems with Built-in Arithmetic 
Eugenia Ternovska, David Mitchell 

Verifying RUP Proofs of Propositional Unsatisfiability 
Allen Van Gelder
 

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