AAAI 2012 Conference Committees Chairs and Cochairs AAAI Conference Committee Chair Dieter Fox (University of Washington, USA) AAAI­12 Program Cochairs Jörg Hoffmann (Saarland University, Germany) Bart Selman (Cornell University, USA) IAAI­12 Conference Chair and Cochair Markus Fromherz (ACS, a Xerox Company, USA) Hector Munoz‐Avila (Lehigh University, USA) EAAI­12 Symposium Chair David Kauchak (Middlebury College, USA) Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs Denny Vrandecic (Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods, Germany) Chris Welty (IBM Research, USA) Special Track on Cognitive Systems Cochairs Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA) James Allen (University of Rochester, USA) Special Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Cochairs Carla P. Gomes (Cornell University, USA) Brian C. Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Special Track on Robotics Cochairs Kurt Konolige (Industrial Perception, Inc., USA) Siddhartha Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Turing Centenary Events Chair Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Tutorial Program Cochairs Carmel Domshlak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Patrick Pantel (Microsoft Research, USA) Workshop Program Cochairs Michael Beetz (University of Munich, Germany) Holger Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA) Peter McBurney (King’s College London, United Kingdom) Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn, Germany) Computer Poker Competition Cohairs Jonathan Rubin (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Eric Jackson Computer Poker Competition Symposium Chair Chris Archibald (University of Alberta, Canada) Robotics Multimedia Fair Cochairs Jim Little (University of British Columbia, Canada) Junaed Sattar (University of British Columbia, Canada) AI Video Competition Chair and Cochair Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Mauro Birattari (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Rehan O’Grady (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) AAAI­12 Program Committee AAAI­12 Area Chairs Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) Hal Daumé III (University of Maryland, USA) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, USA) Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ariel Felner (Ben‐Gurion University, Israel) Alan Fern (Oregon State University, USA) Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Holger H. Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada) Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps‐University Marburg, Germany) Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA) Fangzhen Lin (HKUST, Hong Kong) Ines Lynce (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Shaul Markovitch (Technion ‐ Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Ashutosh Saxena (Cornell University, USA) Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA) Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA) Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA) AAAI­12 Senior Program Committee Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA) David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Abdeslam Boularias (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany) Ronen Brafman (Ben‐Gurion University, Israel) Razvan Bunescu (Ohio University, USA) Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Italy) Bradley J. Clement (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Sanmay Das (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Edith Elkind (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) Dieter Fox (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Alfonso E. Gerevini (University of Brescia, Italy) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Robert Givan (Purdue University ECE, USA) Birte Glimm (University of Ulm, Germany) Robert P. Goldman (SIFT, LLC, USA) Dilan Gorur (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Abhinav Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland) Robert Holte (University of Alberta, Canada) Manfred Jaeger (Aalborg University, Denmark) Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA) Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Roni Khardon (Tufts University, USA) Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Sarit Kraus (Bar‐Ilan University, Israel and University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Jérôme Lang (LAMSADE, Université Paris‐Dauphine, France) Jimmy Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Wei Lu (University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign, USA) Toni Mancini (Sapienza University, Rome, Italy) Joao Marques‐Silva (University College Dublin, Ireland) Donald Metzler (University of Southern California, USA) Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Roth (University of Illinois, USA) Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire, USA) Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Thomas Schiex (INRA, France) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Tomas Singliar (The Boeing Company, USA) Siddhartha Srinivasa (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, USA) Joel Tetreault (Educational Testing Service, USA) Peter van Beek (University of Waterloo, Canada) Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Kilian Q. Weinberger (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer IAIS & University of Bonn, Germany) Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University, Japan) Elad Yom‐Tov (Yahoo Research, USA) Jia‐Huai You (University of Alberta, Canada) Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Nevin L. Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) AAAI­12 Program Committee Members Ryan P. Adams (Harvard University, USA) Mikhail Ageev (Moscow State University, Russia) Noa Agmon (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Babak Ahmadi (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Hua Ai (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Stephane Airiau (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Christopher Amato (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Bo An (University of Southern California, USA) Fabrizio Angiulli (University of Calabria, Italy) Carlos Ansotegui (Universitat de Lleida, Spain) Udi Apsel (Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile) Marta Arias (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Alessandro Artale (Free University of Bozen‐Bolzano, Italy) Alexander Artikis (National Centre for Scientific Research, Greece) Javier Artiles (Queens College, City University of New York, USA) Gilles Audemard (CRIL, Université d’Artois, France) Haris Aziz (TU Munich, Germany) Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom) Jorge A. Baier (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile) Niranjan Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA) Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Vince Barany (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Tony Barrett (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Roman Barták (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy) Nicola Basilico (University of California Merced, USA) Timo Baumann (University of Hamburg, Germany) Kostas Bekris (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) Francesco Belardinelli (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Michael Benisch (Rocket Fuel Inc., USA) Russell Bent (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Germany) Shane Bergsma (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Nick Bezhanishvili (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Mustafa Bilgic (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Susanne Biundo (Ulm University, Germany) Yngvi Björnsson (Reykjavik University, Iceland) Jim Blythe (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Bernhd Bohnet (University Stuttgart, Germany) Piero Bonatti (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Lucas Bordeaux (Microsoft Research, United Kingdom) Alexander Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Tibor Bosse (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Adi Botea (IBM Research, Ireland) Sylvain Bouveret (LIG ‐ Grenoble INP, France) Chris Brew (Educational Testing Service, USA) Will Bridewell (Stanford University, USA) Sam Brody (Google, USA) Chris Brooks (University of San Francisco, USA) Ken Brown (University College Cork, Ireland) Daniel Bryce (Utah State University, USA) Olivier Buffet (INRIA, France) Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta, Canada) Michael C. Burl (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Ethan Burns (University of New Hampshire, USA) Michael Buro (University of Alberta, Canada) Mark H. Burstein (SIFT, LLC, USA) Pedro Cabalar (Corunna University, Spain) Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, USA) Kevin Canini (Google Inc., USA) Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras, Greece) Alan Carlin (Aptima, Inc., USA) Zehra Cataltepe (ITU, Turkey) Ruggiero Cavallo (Yahoo! Research, USA) Amedeo Cesta (CNR ‐ Italian National Research Council, Italy) Yee Seng Chan (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Eugene Charniak (Brown University, USA) Boxing Chen (National Research Council, Canada) David L. Chen (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Hubie Chen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) XiaoPing Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China) Shih‐fen Cheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Yann Chevaleyre (Université Paris‐Nord, France) David Chiang (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Hai Leong Chieu (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) Yoonsuck Choe (Texas A&M University, USA) Dongkyu Choi (University of Kansas, USA) Jaesik Choi (University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA) Amit Chopra (University of Trento, Italy) Jennifer Chu‐Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Matei Ciocarlie (Willow Garage, USA) Stephen Clark (Cambridge, United Kingdom) Amanda Coles (King’s College, London, United Kingdom) Andrew Coles (King’s College London, United Kingdom) Alvaro Collet (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) John Collins (University of Minnesota, USA) Martin C. Cooper (IRIT, University of Toulouse, France) Fabio G. Cozman (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Susan Craw (Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aron Culotta (Southeastern LA University, USA) Padraig Cunningham (UC Dublin, Ireland) James Cussens (University of York, United Kingdom) Peng Dai (Google, USA) Mathieu d’Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute The Open University, United Kingdom) Dipanjan Das (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Denver Dash (Intel Science and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jessica Davies (University of Toronto, Canada) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, Belgium) Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine, USA) Simon de Givry (INRA, France) Tiago de Lima (University Lille Nord de France, France) Yves Demazeau (CNRS, Grenoble, France) Marc Denecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Pascal Denis (INRIA, France) Nina Dethlefs (Heriot‐Watt University, United Kingdom) Yannis Dimopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Xiaowen Ding (TheFind Inc., USA) Minh Do (SGT Inc./NASA ARC, USA) Carlotta Domeniconi (George Mason University, USA) Janardhan Rao Doppa (Oregon State University, USA) Agostino Dovier (University of Udine, Italy) Doug Downey (Northwestern University, USA) Gideon Dror (Yahoo! Research, Israel) Marek J. Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA and Bialystok University of Technology, Poland) Kevin Duh (NTT, Japan) Edmund H. Durfee (University of Michigan, USA) Jennifer Dy (Northeastern University, USA) Chris Dyer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Frederick Eberhardt (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni (LIP 6, France) Tina Eliassi‐Rad (Rutgers University, USA) Lloyd T. Elliott (gatsby.ucl.ac.uk, United Kingdom) Chris Elsaesser (MITRE, USA) Micha Elsner (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Yagil Engel (IBM Research, Israel) Charles A. Erignac (Boeing Research and Technology, USA) Stefano Ermon (Cornell University, USA) Tara Estlin (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria, Italy) Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Boi Faltings (EPFL, China) Li Fangtao (Google Research, China) Ali Farhadi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona, Italy) Alireza Fathi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Daan Fierens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Katja Filippova (Google, Switzerland) Michael Fink (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Pierre Flener (Uppsala University, Sweden) Achile Fokoue (IBM Research, USA) Nicoletta Fornara (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Jennifer Foster (NCLT, Dublin City University, Ireland) Jeremy Frank (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Paolo Frasconi (Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) Christian Fritz (PARC, USA) Olac Fuentes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Alex Fukunaga (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Alfredo Gabaldon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Andrew C. Gallagher (Kodak, USA) Sam Ganzfried (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Antonio Garrido (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Jan Gasthaus (UCL, United Kingdom) Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Martin Gebser (University of Potsdam, Germany) Christopher Geib (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Thomas Geier (Ulm University, Germany) Rayid Ghani (Accenture, USA) Chiara Ghidini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Andrew Gilpin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA) Robert P. Goldman (SIFT, LLC, USA) Dan Goldwasser (University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, USA) Gianluigi Greco (Università della Calabria, Italy) Charles Gretton (NICTA & ANU & Griffith University, Australia) Andreas Griesmayer (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Mingyu Guo (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Qi Guo (Emory University, USA) Siegfried Handschuh (DERI/NUIG, Ireland) Chung‐Wei Hang (North Carolina State University, USA) Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University, USA) Guohua Hao (Motorola Mobility Inc, USA) Paul Harrenstein (TU Munich, Germany) Andreas Harth (AIFB/KIT, Germany) Patrik Haslum (ANU, Australia) Kris Hauser (Indiana University, USA) Noam Hazon (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Xiaodong He (Microsoft Research, USA) Emmanuel Hebrard (LAAS‐CNRS, France) Andreas Herzig (IRIT ‐ Université Paul Sabatier and CNRS, France) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Katsutoshi Hirayama (Kobe University, Japan) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA) Matthew D. Hoffman (Columbia University, USA) Steven C. H. Hoi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, USA) Mark Hoogendoorn (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Matthew Horridge (Stanford University, USA) Kaijen Hsiao (Willow Garage, USA) Frank Hutter (University of British Columbia, Canada) Tuyen N. Huynh (SRI, USA) Giovambattista Ianni (Università della Calabria, Italy) Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Atsushi Iwasaki (Kyushu University, Japan) SakethaNath Jagarlapudi (IIT‐Bombay, India) Arpit Jain (University of Maryland College Park, USA) Dominik Jain (Technische Universität München, Germany) Wojciech Jamroga (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Mikolas Janota (INESC‐ID, Portugal) Matti Järvisalo (University of Helsinki, Finland) Christopher Jefferson (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom) Albert Xin Jiang (University of Southern California, USA) Jing Jiang (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA) Matthew Johnson (University of Southern California, USA) Patrick R. Jordan (Yahoo! Research, USA) Froduald Kabanza (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Lalana Kagal (MIT, USA) Ian Kash (MSR, United Kingdom) Rohit Kate (University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee, USA) George Katsirelos (INRA, France) Dov Katz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Yevgeny Kazakov (University of Ulm, Germany) Gabriele Kern‐Isberner (University of Technology Dortmund, Germany) Wolf Ketter (RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands) Emil Keyder (INRIA, France) David Kinny (Kyoto University, Japan) Sergey Kirshner (Purdue University, USA) Akihiro Kishimoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Kris Kitani (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Alexandre Klementiev (Saarland University, Germany) Matthew Klenk (PARC, USA) Russell Knight (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Marin Kobilarov (Caltech, USA) Stanley Kok (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) Aleksander Kolcz (Twitter, Inc., USA) Andrey Kolobov (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Sébastien Konieczny (CRIL ‐ CNRS, France) Christian König (Microsoft Research, USA) Tolga Konik (Stanford University, USA) Roman Kontchakov (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom) John Korah (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Richard E. Korf (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Frédéric Koriche (LIRMM ‐ Université de Montpellier, France) Wojciech Kotlowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Alexander Kotov (Emory University, USA) Zornitsa Kozareva (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Gautam Kunapuli (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Ugur Kuter (Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), USA) Jonas Kvarnström (Linköping University, Sweden) Branislav Kveton (Technicolor Labs, USA) Tom Kwiatkowski (University of Washington, USA) James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong) Sebastien Lahaie (Yahoo! Research, USA) Arnaud Lallouet (University of Caen, France) Niels Landwehr (University of Potsdam, Germany) Tobias Lang (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada) Kathryn Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Kennard R. Laviers (Air Force Institute of Technology, USA) Yat‐Chiu Law (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Daniel Le Berre (Université d’Artois, France) Christophe Lecoutre (CRIL, France) Joohyung Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Domenico Lembo (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) Hui Li (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) Thorsten Liebig (derivo GmbH, Germany) Maxim Likhachev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Thomas Lin (University of Washington, USA) Carlos Linares Lopez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Guohua Liu (Aalto University, Finland) Tie‐Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Ying Liu (University of Minnesota, USA) Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat‐Sen University, China) Daniel Lizotte (University of Waterloo, Canada) Derek Long (King’s College London, United Kingdom) Sushil Louis (University of Nevada, USA) Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon, USA) Ben Lubin (Boston University, USA) Andrew Maas (Stanford University, USA) Richard Maclin (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Sofus A. Macskassy (Information Sciences Institute, USA) Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, USA) Subhransu Maji (TTI Chicago, USA) Tomasz Malisiewicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Felip Manya (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Marco Maratea (University of Genova, Italy) Janusz Marecki (IBM Research, USA) Dragos Margineantu (Boeing Research & Technology, USA) Evangelos Markakis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) Shigeo Matsubara (Kyoto University, Japan) Toshihiro Matsui (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Robert Mattmüller (Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Germany) Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, France) David D. McDonald (SIFT, LLC, USA) Luke McDowell (US Naval Academy, USA) Neville Mehta (Oregon State University, USA) Aditya Krishna Menon (University of California, San Diego, USA) Pedro Meseguer (IIIA ‐ CSIC, Spain) Haitao Mi (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Lukas Michelbacher (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Ian Miguel (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom) Michela Milano (Universita’ di Bologna, Italy) Einat Minkov (University of Haifa, Israel) David G. Mitchell (SFU, Canada) Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada, Canada) Behrang Mohit (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, USA) Taesun Moon (University of Maryland, USA) Paul Morarescu (SRI International, USA) Vlad Morariu (University of Maryland, USA) Alessandro Moschitti (Trento University, Italy) Hala Mostafa (BBN Technologies, USA) Felix Mueller (Ulm University, Germany) Martin Mueller (University of Alberta, Canada) Daniel Munoz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Pradeep Murukannaiah (North Carolina State University, USA) Karen Myers (SRI International, USA) Preslav I. Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar) Amedeo Napoli (LORIA, France) Nina Narodytska (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Vivi Nastase (University of Heidelberg, Germany) Sriraam Natarajan (Wake Forest University, USA) Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jennifer Neville (Purdue University, USA) Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Truc Vien T. Nguyen (Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), Italy) Matthias Nickles (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Mathias Niepert (University of Mannheim, Germany) Raz Nissim (Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Olaf Noppens (Ulm University, Germany) Keith Noto (Tufts University, USA) Angelo Oddi (ISTC‐CNR, Italy) Sangmin Oh (Kitware, USA) Sylvie C.W. Ong (McGill University, Canada) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) David Page (University of Wisconsin‐Madison, USA) John Paisley (UC Berkeley, USA) Hector Palacios (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Alexis Palmer (Saarland University, Germany) Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, USA) Jeff Pan (The University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Devi Parikh (TTIC, USA) Charles L. Parker (BigML, Inc., USA) Praveen Paruchuri (Perceptronics Solutions, USA) Volkan Patoglu (Sabanci University, Turkey) Fabio Patrizi (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) Heiko Paulheim (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Terry R. Payne (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Justin Pearson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Dmitry Pechyony (Akamai Technologies, USA) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) David Pennock (Yahoo! Research, USA) Patrice Perny (LIP6 ‐ Université Paris 6, France) Gilles Pesant (École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada) Ron Petrick (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Duc Nghia Pham (QRL, NICTA Ltd, Australia) Marc Pickett (ITT and NRL, USA) Gabriella Pigozzi (LAMSADE ‐ Université Paris‐Dauphine, France) Emily Pitler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jeremy Pitt (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Robert Platt (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Österreich, Austria) Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University, USA) Simone Paolo Ponzetto (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy) Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research, USA) Ian Porteous (Google Inc., USA) Matt Post (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Steve Prestwich (Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland) Luca Pulina (University of Sassari, Italy) David V. Pynadath (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA) Abir Qasem (Bridgewater College, USA) Yuan Qi (Purdue University, USA) Claude‐Guy Quimper (Université Laval, Canada) Kira Radinsky (Technion, Israel) Hema Raghavan (IBM Research, USA) Iyad Rahwan (Masdar Institute, United Arab Emirates) Franco Raimondi (School of Engineering and Information Sciences, United Kingdom) Vinayak Rao (UCL, United Kingdom) Ari Rappoport (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Lev Ratinov (Google Inc., USA) Balaraman Ravindran (IIT Madras, India) Soumya Ray (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Igor Razgon (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Ioannis Refanidis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Joseph Reisinger (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Xiaofeng Ren (Intel Labs, USA) Jochen Renz (ANU, Australia) Marcello Restelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Achim Rettinger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Francesco Ricca (University of Calabria, Italy) Patricia J. Riddle (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Mark Riedl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah, USA) Laura Rimell (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Jussi Rintanen (Griffith University, Australia) Alan Ritter (University of Washington, USA) Paul Robertson (DOLLabs, USA) Stéphane Robin (AgroParisTech, France) Marko Robnik‐Sikonja (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Juan A. Rodriguez‐Aguilar (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Gabriele Röger (University of Basel, Switzerland) Emma Rollón (Univ. Pol. Catalunya, Spain) Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie, Germany) Tyrel Russell (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada) Martin Sachenbacher (Technische Universität München, Germany) Alessandro Saetti (University of Brescia, Italy) Chiaki Sakama (Wakayama University, Japan) Yuko Sakurai (Kyushu University, Japan) Horst Samulowitz (IBM Research, USA) Scott Sanner (NICTA, Australia) Vitor Santos Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University, Australia) Abdul Sattar (Griffith University, Australia) Paul R. Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Paul Schermerhorn (Indiana University, USA) Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA) David Schlangen (Bielefeld University, Germany) Nathan Schneider (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) D. Sculley (Google, USA) Meinolf Sellmann (IBM Research, USA) Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Ivan Serina (Free University of Bolzano, Italy) Burr Settles (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Guy Shani (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Dou Shen (CityGrid Media, USA) Yi‐Dong Shen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Solomon Shimony (Ben‐Gurion University, Israel) Marius C. Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) Ricardo Silva (University College London, United Kingdom) Mantas Simkus (Technische Universität Wien, Austria) Laurent Simon (Université Paris 11, France) Parag Singla (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Kevin Small (Tufts Medical Center, USA) Jan‐Georg Smaus (IRIT, Université de Toulouse, France) Stephen F. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matthew Snover (BBN Technologies, USA) Benjamin Snyder (University of Wisconsin‐Madison, USA) Christine Solnon (INSA Lyon, France) Tran Son (New Mexico State University, USA) Troels Bjerre Sørensen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Matthijs Spaan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Vivek Srikumar (University of Illinois, USA) Biplav Srivastava (IBM Research, India) Siddharth Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Amanda Stent (AT&T Labs ‐ Research, USA) Kostas Stergiou (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) Roni Stern (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Giorgos Stoilos (The University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Svetlana Stoyanchev (Columbia University, USA) Umberto Straccia (ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy) Michael Strube (HITS gGmbH, Germany) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Peter Stuckey (University of Melbourne, Australia) L Venkata Subramaniam (IBM Research, India) Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA) Stefan Szeider (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Erik Talvitie (Franklin & Marshall College, USA) Pingzhong Tang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Matthew Taylor (Lafayette College, USA) Jordan T. Thayer (University of New Hampshire, USA) Georgios Theocharous (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Sylvie Thiébaux (NICTA & ANU, Australia) Ivan Titov (Saarland University, Germany) Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Wei Tong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Lisa Torrey (St. Lawrence University, USA) Volker Tresp (Siemens, Germany) Raphael Troncy (EURECOM, France) Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Yuancheng Tu (University of Illinois, USA) David Uthus (NRC/NRL, USA) Hamed Valizadegan (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Michal Valko (INRIA, France) Tim Van De Cruys (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Jur van den Berg (University of Utah, USA) Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom) Hans van Ditmarsch (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) Willem‐Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Colleen van Lent (University of Michigan, USA) Michael van Lent (Soar Technology, Inc., USA) Ondrej Vanek (FEE, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) Wamberto W. Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Virginia Vassilevska Williams (UC Berkeley and Stanford University, USA) Javier Vázquez‐Salceda (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain) Miroslav Velev (Aries Design Automation, LLC, USA) Mario Verdicchio (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy) Paolo Viappiani (Aalborg University, Denmark) Serena Villata (INRIA, France) Gary Viviani (Insitu, USA) Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Sandia National Labs, USA) Gabriel Wachman (Lincoln Laboratory, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA & UNSW, Australia) Jun Wang (IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, USA) Tao Wang (Purdue University, USA) Yisong Wang (Guizhou University, China) Zhe Wang (The University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Jean‐Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Carl Wellington (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Simon A. Williamson (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Sinead Williamson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Aaron Wilson (Oregon State University, USA) Theresa Wilson (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Stefan Wölfl (Albert‐Ludwigs‐Universität Freiburg, Germany) Jia‐Hong Wu (Delta Electronics, TW) Lei Wu (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Wei Wu (Peking University, China) Lirong Xia (Harvard University, USA) Li Xiaoli (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Gu Xu (Microsoft Bing, USA) Wei Xu (New York University, USA) Zenglin Xu (Purdue University, USA) Zhao Xu (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Tianbao Yang (Michigan State University, USA) Roland Yap (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Alexander Yates (Temple University, USA) William Yeoh (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Sungwook Yoon (PARC, USA) Neil Yorke‐Smith (American University of Beirut, LB and SRI International, USA) G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Stefanos Zaferiou (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Omar F. Zaidan (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Bruno Zanuttini (GREYC, Université de Caen Basse‐Normandie, France) Sina Zariess (IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany) Torsten Zesch (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Dongmo Zhang (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Lijun Zhang (Zhejiang University, China) Ruofei Zhang (Yahoo Labs, USA) Yan Zhang (University of Western Sydney, Australia) Yuanlin Zhang (Texas Tech University, USA) Yue Zhang (University of Cabmridge, United Kingdom) Le Zhao (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Shanheng Zhao (Elance, USA) Guodong Zhou (Soochow University, China) Rong Zhou (Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Yang Zhou (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Hankz Hankui Zhuo (Sun Yat‐sen University, China) Sandra Zilles (University of Regina, Canada) Roie Zivan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Standa Zivny (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Aviv Zohar (Microsoft Research, USA) Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs Denny Vrandecic (KIT, Germany) Chris Welty (IBM Research, USA) Senior Program Committee Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) Jeffrey Bigham (University of Rochester, USA) Philipp Cimiano (CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany) Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Dekang Lin (Google, USA) Sofus A. Macskassy (Information Sciences Institute, USA) Mehmet A. Orgun (Macquarie University, Australia) Elena Simperl (KIT, Germany) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Zhi‐Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Program Committee Enrique Alfonseca (Google, Switzerland) Reda Alhajj (University of Calgary, Canada) Naveen Ashish (University of California, Irvine, USA) Ching Man Au Yeung (ASTRI, Hong Kong) Sören Auer (University of Leipzig, Germany) Lars Backstrom (Facebook, USA) Jean‐François Baget (INRIA, France) Michele Banko (Microsoft, USA) Chris Biemann (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Jan Broersen (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Paul Buitelaar (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA) Longbing Cao (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Mark Carman (Monash University, Australia) James Caverlee (Texas A&M University, USA) Enhong Chen (USTC, China) Hong Cheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Pu‐Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Yao‐Yi Chiang (University of Southern California, USA) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Claudia d’Amato (Unversity of Bari, Italy) Wenyuan Dai (Baidu, China) Stefan Decker (DERI, Ireland) Debora Donato (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Atilla Elci (Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey) Tanveer A Faruquie (IBM Research, India) George Ferguson (University of Rochester, USA) Miriam Fernandez (KMi, Open University, United Kingdom) Brian Gallagher (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) Aram Galstyan (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Kavita Ganesan (UIUC, USA) Yang Gao (Nanjing University, China) Xin Geng (Southeast University, China) Aurona J. Gerber (Meraka, CSIR, South Africa) Manolis Gergatsoulis (Ionian University, Greece) Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Catherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab, USA) Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis, Wright State University, USA) Steven Hoi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg, Germany) Geert‐Jan Houben (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Chun‐Nan Hsu (University of Southern California, USA) Wei Hu (Nanjing University, China) Zhisheng Huang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Seung‐won Hwang (POSTECH, Korea) Giovambattista Ianni (Universitá della Calabria, Italy) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) In‐Young Ko (KAIST, Korea) Walter S. Lasecki (University of Rochester, USA) Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Ming Li (Nanjing University, China) Yu‐Feng Li (Nanjing University, China) Shasha Liao (New York University, USA) Ee‐Peng Lim (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Chao Liu (Tencent Inc., USA) Yan Liu Yi Liu (Google, USA) Hao Ma (Microsoft Research, USA) Arun Maiya (Institute for Defense Analyses, USA) Maria Maleshkova (Open University, United Kingdom) Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada) Martin Michalowski (Adventium Labs, USA) Peter Mika (Yahoo! Research, Spain) David Mimno (Princeton University, USA) Dunja Mladenic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Olfa Nasraoui (University of Louisville, USA) Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Jeffrey Nichols (IBM Almaden, USA) Mathias Niepert (Universitaet Mannheim, Germany) Natasha Noy (Stanford University, USA) Alice Oh (KAIST, Korea) Magdalena Ortiz (Vienna University of Tehcnology, Austria) Marco Pistore (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Emily Pitler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Oesterreich, Austria) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Davood Rafiei (University of Alberta, Canada) Mohammad Reza Beik Zadeh (MIMOS) Matthew Richardson (Microsoft Research, USA) Matthew Rowe (Open University, United Kingdom) Shourya Roy (Xerox Research Centre, India) Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Adam Sadilek (University of Rochester, USA) Stefan Schlobach (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands) Friedhelm Schwenker (University of Ulm, Germany) Rohini K. Srihari (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) L. Venkata Subramaniam (IBM Research India, India) Vojtech Svatek (University of Economics Prague, Czech Republic) György Szarvas (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Jie Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Lei Tang (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Kerry Taylor (CSIRO, Australia) Thanh Tran (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Frank van Harmelen (VU University, Amsterdam, Netherlands) Juan Velasquez (University of Chile, Chile) Felisa Verdejo (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain) Maria‐Esther Vidal (Universidad Simön BolÌvar, Venezuela) Johanna Völker (University of Mannheim, Germany) Claudia Wagner (TU Graz, Austria) Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia) Gerhard Weikum (MPI Saarbrücken, Germany) Zenglin Xu (Purdue University, USA) Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, USA) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey) Yang Yu (Nanjing University, China) De‐Chuan Zhan (Nanjing University, China) Min‐Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China) Kang Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Special Track on Cognitive Systems Cochairs Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA) James Allen (University of Rochester, USA) Program Committee Members Jerry Ball (Air Force Research Laboratory, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Paul Baxter (University of Plymouth, United Kingdom) Paul Bello (Office of Naval Research, USA) Michael T. Cox (University of Maryland, USA) Scott E. Fahlman (Carnegie Mellon University, LTI, USA) Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Kenneth D. Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom) Randolph M. Jones (Soar Technology, USA) David Kortenkamp (TRACLabs, USA) John Laird (University of Michigan, USA) Pat Langley (Arizona State University, USA) Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS‐LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, France) Don Perlis (University of Maryland, USA) Charles Rich (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Frank Ritter (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Paul Schermerhorn (Indiana University, USA) Lenhart Schubert (University of Rochester, USA) Murray Shanahan (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) Stuart C. Shapiro (University at Buffalo, USA) Jeffrey M. Siskind (Purdue University, USA) William Swartout (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA) Yorick Wilks (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA) Patrick H. Winston (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Special Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Cochairs Carla Gomes (Cornell University, USA) Brian C. Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Program Committee Members Naoki Abe (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Tsz‐Chiu Au (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Ramón Béjar (Universitat de Lleida, Spain) Kenneth Brown (University College Cork, Ireland) Iadine Chades (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia) Steve Chien (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Theodoros Damoulas (Cornell University, USA) Keith Decker (University of Delaware, USA) Thomas Dietterich (Oregon State University, USA) Bistra Dilkina (Cornell University, USA) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Stefano Ermon (Cornell University, USA) Serge Fenet (Université Lyon 1, France) Douglas Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Maria Fox (Kings College London, United Kingdom) Joao Gama (Univerisade do Porto, Portugal) Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research, USA) Frank Hutter (University of British Columbia, Canada) Sertac Karaman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) J. Zico Kolter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, USA) Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, Germany) Hui Li (The Boeing Company, USA) Aurelie Lozano (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Ben Lubin (Boston University, USA) Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia, Canada) Manish Marwah (HP Labs, USA) Michela Milano (DEIS Universita’ di Bologna, Italy) Claire Monteleoni (George Washington University, USA) Masahiro Ono (Keio University, Japan) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Eric Pauwels (CWI, The Netherlands) Steven Phillips (AT&T Labs‐Research, USA) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Warren B. Powell (Princeton University, USA) Gregory M. Provan (University College Cork, Ireland) John A. Quinn (Makerere University, Uganda) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA) Anand Ranganathan (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Paul Robertson (DOLL Inc, USA) Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) Régis Sabbadin (INRA ‐ UBIA Toulouse, France) Ashish Sabharwal (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Martin Sachenbacher (TU München, Germany) Bart Selman (Cornell University, USA) Daniel Sheldon (Oregon State University, USA) David Shmoys (Cornell University, USA) Helmut Simonis (Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Ireland) Christine Solnon (Université Lyon 1, France) Biplav Srivastava (IBM Research, India) Karsten Steinhaeuser (University of Minnesota, USA) Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean‐Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Special Track on Robotics Cochairs Kurt Konolige (Industrial Perception, Inc., USA) Siddhartha Srinivasa (The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Program Committee Members Dmitry Berenson (University of California, Berkeley USA) Byron Boots (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michael Bosse (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia) Maya Cakmak (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Matei Ciocarlie (Willow Garage, USA) Andrew I. Comport (CNRS France) Denver Dash (Intel Science and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Frank Dellaert (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mehmet R. Dogar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anca D. Dragan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Tom Drummond (Monash University, Australia) Ryan Eustice (University of Michigan, USA) Dave Ferguson (Google, USA) Udo Frese (DFKI, Germany) Giorgio Grisetti (Universita Sapienza di Roma, Italy and University of Freiburg, Germany) Steffen Gutmann (Evolution Robotics, USA) Kris Hauser (Indiana University, USA) Kaijen Hsiao (Willow Garage, USA) Leslie Kaelbling (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Michael Kaess (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Mrinal Kalakrishnan (University of Southern California, USA) Dov Katz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ross A. Knepper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Marin Kobilarov (California Institute of Technology, USA) Benjamin Kuipers (University of Michigan, USA) Max Likhachev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jose Neira (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) Andreas Nuechter (Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) Edwin Olson (University of Michigan, USA) Peter Pastor (University of Southern California, USA) Robert Platt (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) Nathan Ratliff (Google, USA) Xiaofeng Ren (Intel University of Washington, USA) Davide Scaramuzza (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Gabe Sibley (George Washington University, USA) Rudolph A. Triebel (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Carl Wellington (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Robert Zlot (CSIRO, Australia) Twenty­Fourth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI­12) IAAI­12 Conference Chair Markus Fromherz (Xerox, USA) IAAI­12 Conference CoChair Hector Munoz‐Avila (Lehigh University, USA) IAAI­12 Program Committee Carl Andersen (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) Markus Bohlin (SICS, Sweden) William Cheetham (General Electric, USA) James Crawford (Google, USA) Jon Curtis (Cycorp, USA) Matt Gaston (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Christopher Geib (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Yolanda Gil (Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California, USA) Mehmet Goker (Salesforce.com, USA) David Gunning (Vulcan, USA) Karen Haigh (BBN Technologies, USA) Neil Jacobstein (Singularity University, USA) Nestor Rychtyckyj (Ford Motor Company, USA) Ted Senator (SAIC, USA) Daniel Shapiro (ISLE, USA) Hideo Shimazu (NEC System Technologies, Japan) Howard E. Shrobe (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA) Reid G. Smith (Marathon Oil Corporation, USA) David J. Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation, USA (Retired)) Peter Z. Yeh (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) Third Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI­12) Organizing Committee David Kauchak (Chair), (Middlebury College, USA) Laura E. Brown (Michigan Technological University, USA) Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Tom Lauwers (BirdBrain Technologies, USA) Todd W. Neller (Gettysburg College, USA) Mehran Sahami (Stanford University, USA) Matthew E. Taylor (Lafayette College, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Program Committee Eric Aaron (Wesleyan University, USA) Christine Alvarado (University of California, San Diego, USA) Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University, USA) Chris Brooks (University of San Francisco, USA) Deb Burhans (Canisius College, USA) Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia, Canada) Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA) John DeNero (Google, USA) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Susan E. Fox (Macalester College, USA) Emily Hamner (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia, Canada) Jim Marshall (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) Robert McCartney (University of Connecticut, USA) Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore College, USA) Vibhu Mittal (Root‐One, USA) Peter Norvig (Google, USA) Keith J. O’Hara (Bard College, USA) Jeff O. Pfaffmann (Lafayette College, USA) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA) Devika Subramanian (Rice University, USA) Michael Wollowski (Rose‐Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) AAAI­12 Student Abstract and Poster Program Cochairs Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, UK) Program Committee Babak Ahmadi (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Kai O. Arras (University of Freiburg, Germany) Roman Bartak (Charles University, Czech Republic) Alvaro Collet (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, Belgium) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University, United Kingdom) Guillaume Infantes (ONERA, France) Alexander Kleiner (Linköping University, Sweden) Wenwen Li (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Sriraam Natarajan (Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA) Mathias Niepert (University of Mannheim, Germany) Martin Rufli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Scott Sanner (NICTA, Australia) Florent Teichteil‐Königsbuch (Onera, The French Aerospace Lab, France) Matthias Thimm (University of Koblenz, Germany) Stefan Woelfl (University of Freiburg, Germany) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel) AAAI­12 Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Elizabeth Sklar (CUNY Brooklyn College, USA) Peter McBurney (King’s College London, UK) Program Committee Katie Atkinson (University of Liverpool, UK) Michael Bowling (University of Alberta, Canada) Berthe Y. Choueiry (University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, USA) Marie desJardins (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Noemie Elhadad (DBMI, Columbia University, USA) Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Maria L. Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Heng Huang (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Sarit Kraus (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts, USA) Yan Liu (University of Southern California, USA) Tim Miller (University of Melbourne, Australia) Pablo Noriega (Intitut d’Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial, Spain) Andrea Omicini (Università di Bologna, Italy) Simon Parsons (CUNY Brooklyn College, USA) Juan A. Rodriguez‐Aguilar (IIIA‐CSIC, Spain) Anika Schumann (IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland) Bill Smart (Washington University, USA) Matthew E. Taylor (Lafayette College, USA) Francesca Toni (Imperial College, London, UK) Rogier van Eijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA/UNSW, Australia) Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) AI Video Competition Cochairs Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Mauro Birattari (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Rehan O’Grady (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Program Committee David Aha (Naval Research Labs, USA) Luigina Carlucci Aiello (Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy) Anders Lyhne Christensen (Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE‐IUL, Portugal) Patrick Doherty (Linköping University, Sweden) Dario Floreano (EPFL, Switzerland) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Roderich Gross (The University of Sheffield, UK) Sabine Hauert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Mitja Jermol (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Arnav Jhala (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC), Spain) Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland) Raymond Perrault (Stanford Research Institute, USA) Alessandro Saffiotti (Örebro University, Sweden) David Wilson (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA) G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA)