Conference Committees
AAAI-07 Conference Committee
AAAI Conference Committee Chair
Yolanda Gil (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
AAAI-07 Technical Program Cochairs
Robert C. Holte (University of Alberta)
Adele Howe (Colorado State University)
IAAI-07 Chair and Cochair
William Cheetham (General Electric Research)
Mehmet Goker (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs
Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Peter Norvig (Google Inc.)
Special Track on Integrated Intelligence Cochairs
Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Pat Langley (Arizona State University / ISLE)
Senior Member Papers Cochairs
Michael Wellman (University of Michigan)
Charles Rich (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs)
Bill Swartout (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
AAAI Nectar Papers Cochairs
Elaine Rich (University of Texas at Austin)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Tutorial Forum Cochairs
Carla Gomes (Cornell University)
Andrea Danyluk (Williams College)
Workshop Cochairs
Bob Givan (Purdue University)
Simon Parsons (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Doctoral Consortium Chair and Cochair
Terran Lane (The University of New Mexico)
Colleen van Lent (California State University Long Beach)
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Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs
Mehran Sahami (Google Inc.)
Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Matt Gaston (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Cochairs
Rob Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Holger Hoos (University of British Columbia)
General Game Playing Competition Chair and Cochair
Michael Genesereth (Stanford University)
Eric Schkufza (Stanford University)
Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition General Cochairs
Jeffrey Forbes (Duke University)
Paul Oh (Drexel University)
Man Versus Machine Poker Challenge Chair
Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta)
Poker Competition Chair
Martin Zinkevich, University of Alberta
AAAI-07 Video Competition Cochairs
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory)
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University)
Student Participation Associate Cochairs
Martin Michalowski and Matt Michelson (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Technical Program Software Chair
Ken Barker (University of Texas at Austin)
AAAI-07 Senior Program Committee
Michael Bowling (University of Alberta)
Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig)
Eric Brill (Microsoft Research)
Carla Brodley (Tufts University)
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)
Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland)
Peter Clark (The Boeing Company)
Thomas Dean (Brown University)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
Oren Etzioni (University of Washington)
Lise Getoor (University of Maryland)
Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)
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Amy Greenwald (Brown University)
Russ Greiner (University of Alberta)
Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Eduard Hovy (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Lalana Kagal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)
Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University)
Craig Knoblock (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles)
Kathryn Laskey (George Mason University)
Ora Lassila (Nokia Research Center)
James Lester (North Carolina State University)
Michael Littman (Rutgers University)
Sridhar Mahadevan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Shaul Markovitch (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
David Martin (SRI International)
Maja Mataric (University of Southern California)
James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University APL)
Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts)
Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University)
Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto)
Chris Meek (Microsoft Research)
Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas at Austin)
Leora Morgenstern (Stanford University)
Dana Nau (University of Maryland)
Illah Nourbakhsh (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tim Oates (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Peter Patel-Schneider (Bell Laboratories)
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (Hebrew University)
Nicholas Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta)
Bart Selman (Cornell University)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Yoav Shoham (Stanford University)
Stephen F. Smith (Carnegie Mellon University)
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)
Peter van Beek (University of Waterloo)
Mark Wallace (Monash University)
Toby Walsh (University of New South Wales/NICTA)
Brian Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Witbrock (Cycorp)
Bianca Zadrozny (Fluminense Federal University (UFF))
Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
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AAAI-07 Program Committee
Steve Abney (University of Michigan)
Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)
Julie A. Adams (Vanderbilt University)
Charu Aggarwal (IBM)
John Mark Agosta (Intel Research)
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory)
Gregory Aist (Arizona State University)
Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jose Alferes (FCT/UNL)
Yasemin Altun (TTI-C)
Jose Luis Ambite (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano)
Eyal Amir (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Madsen Anders (HUGIN Expert A/S)
Rie Kubota Ando (IBM Research)
Jurgen Angele (Ontoprise GmbH)
Carlos Ansotegui (Universitat de Lleida)
Marta Arias (Columbia University)
Budak Arpinar (University of Georgia)
Danny Ayers
Arindam Banarjee (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Bikramjit Banerjee (DigiPen Institute of Technology)
Chitta Baral (Arizona State University)
Anthony Barrett (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Roman Bartak (Charles University)
Maxim Batalin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Peter Baumgartner (NICTA)
Ana Bazzan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
Carole Beal (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Chris Beck (University of Toronto)
Michael Beetz (Technische Universität Muenchen)
Mikhail Belkin (Ohio State University)
Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo)
Salem Benferhat (CRIL)
Kristin Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Christian Bessiere (LIRMM (CNRS/U. Montpellier)
Bradley Best (Adaptive Cognitive Systems LLC)
Alina Beygelzimer (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Indrajit Bhattacharya (IBM, India Research Lab)
Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University)
Darse Billings (University of Alberta)
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington, Seattle)
Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University)
Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University)
David Blei (Princeton University)
Jim Blythe (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
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Daniel Bobrow (Palo Alto Research Center)
Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs)
Branimir Boguraev
Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar)
Richard Booth (Mahasarakham University)
Alex Borgida (Rutgers University)
Sebastian Brand (National ICT Australia)
Felix Brandt (University of Munich)
Karl Branting (MITRE)
Cynthia Breazeal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Bredin (Colorado College)
Chris Brew (Ohio State)
Daniel Bryce (Arizona State University)
Olivier Buffet (LAAS/CNRS)
Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta)
Robin Burke (Depaul University)
Michael Buro (University of Alberta)
Mark Burstein (BBN)
Pedro Cabalar (Universidade da Coruña)
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Jason Campbell (Intel Research)
Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia)
Vitor Carvalho (Carnegie Mellon University)
Nicholas Cassimatis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Tristan Cazenave (LIASD, Universite Paris 8)
Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi (University of Milan)
Amedeo Cesta (ISTC-CNR, Italian National Research Council)
Philip Chan (Florida Institute of Technology)
Kevin Chang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Yu-Han Chang (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Raja Chatila (LAAS-CNRS)
Vinay Chaudhri (SRI International)
Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame)
Harry Chen (Image Matters)
Hubie Chen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Li Cheng (National ICT Australia)
Sonia Chernova (Carnegie Mellon University)
Yann Chevaleyre (LAMSADE – Université Paris 9)
Max Chickering (Microsoft Live Labs)
Timothy Chklovski (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Junghoo Cho (University of California, Los Angeles)
Yoonsuck Choe (Texas A&M University)
Arthur Choi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Tanzeem Choudhury (Intel Research)
Ken Church (Microsoft Research)
Bradley Clement (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo)
David Cohn (Google Inc.)
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John Collins (University of Minnesota)
Simon Colton (Imperial College, London)
Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)
Richard Cooper (Birkbeck, University of London)
Marie-Odile Cordier (University Rennes 1, IRISA)
Paulo Costa (George Mason University)
Aaron Courville (Université de Montréal)
Koby Crammer (University of Pennsylvania)
Jacob Crandall (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mark Craven (University of Wisconsin)
Padraig Cunningham (University College Dublin)
Jon Curtis (Cycorp, Inc.)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
Adnan Darwiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California San Diego)
Denver Dash (Intel Research)
Hal Daume III (University of Utah)
Andrew Davenport (IBM)
Ian Davidson (SUNY – Albany)
Ernie Davis (New York University)
Larry Davis (University of Maryland)
Hasan Davulcu (Arizona State University)
Mike Dean (BBN Technologies)
Chris Deaton (Cycorp)
Jos de Bruijn (Free University of Bolzano)
Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI)
Dennis DeCoste (Microsoft Live Labs)
Nando de Freitas (University of British Columbia)
Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Thomas Degris (Laboratoire Informatique de Paris VI)
Ofer Dekel (The Hebrew University)
Alex Dekhtyar (University of Kentucky)
Johan de Kleer (Palo Alto Research Center)
James Delgrande (Simon Fraser University)
Marc Denecker (K.U.Leuven)
Grit Denker (SRI International)
Brian Dennis (Lockheed Martin ATL)
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Marie desJardins (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Ian Dickinson (HP)
Joachim Diederich (American University of Sharjah)
Chris Diehl (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
Li Ding (Stanford University)
Minh Do (Palo Alto Research Center)
Bill Dolan (Principal Researcher)
Dmitri Dolgov (Toyota Technical Center)
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Carmel Domshlak (The Technion)
Grégoire Dooms (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Kurt Driessens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Miroslav Dudik (Princeton University)
Jennifer Dy (Northeastern University)
Stefan Edelkamp (Universität Dortmund)
Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology)
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Gal Elidan (Stanford University)
Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego)
Andries Engelbrecht (University of Pretoria)
Susan L. Epstein (Hunter College)
Esra Erdem (Sabanci University)
David Etherington (On Time Systems, Inc)
Ryan Eustice (University of Michigan)
Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG)
Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria)
Scott Fahlman (LTI)
Boi Faltings (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL))
James Fan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Wei Fan (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Helene Fargier (IRIT-CNRS)
Adam Farquhar (The British Library)
David Farwell (Centre for Speech and Language Technologies)
Shaheen Fatima (University of Liverpool, UK)
Afsaneh Fazly (University of Toronto)
Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Ariel Felner (Ben-Gurion University)
Alan Fern (Oregon State University)
Xiaoli Zhang Fern (Oregon State University)
David Ferrucci (IBM Research)
Dennis Fetterly (Microsoft Research)
Radu Florian (IBM)
John Folkesson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University)
George Forman (Hewlett-Packard Labs)
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde)
Eibe Frank (University of Waikato)
Dayne Freitag (Fair Isaac Corporation)
Alan Frisch (University of York)
Richard Fritzson
Johannes Fürnkranz (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Alex Fukunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Glenn Fung (Siemens Medical Solutions)
Uli Furbach (University of Koblenz)
David Furcy (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
Vasco Furtado (Stanford University, Knowledge Systems Laboratory)
Alfredo Gabaldon (National ICT Australia)
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Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Yahoo! Research)
Thomas Gaertner (Fraunhofer IAIS)
Matjaz Gams (Institut Jozef Stefan)
Hector Geffner (ICREA)
Christopher Geib (University of Edinbugh)
Michael Gelfond (Texas Tech University)
John Gennari (University of Washington)
Ian Gent (University of St. Andrews)
Alfonso Gerevini (University of Brescia)
Brian Gerkey (SRI Artificial Intelligence Center)
Melinda Gervasio (SRI International)
Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs)
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh (University of Alberta)
Ali Ghodsi (University of Waterloo)
Joydeep Ghosh (University of Texas, Austin)
Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University)
Aristides Gionis (Yahoo! Research Barcelona)
Enrico Giunchiglia (DIST – University of Genova)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento)
Robert Givan (Purdue University ECE)
Oren Glickman (eBay)
Eric Glover (SearchMe.com)
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Robert Goldman (SIFT, LLC)
Moises Goldszmidt (Microsoft Research)
Carla Gomes (Cornell University)
Michael A. Goodrich (Brigham Young University)
Richard Goodwin (IBM Research)
Andrew Gordon (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Mark Greaves (Vulcan)
Gianluigi Greco (University of Calabria)
Russ Greiner (University of Alberta)
Charles Gretton (National ICT Australia)
Tom Griffiths (University of California, Berkeley)
Eric Grimson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tom Gruber (RealTravel.com)
Volker Haarslev (Concordia University)
Peter Haase (Karlsruhe University)
Karen Haigh (BBN Technologies)
Maria Halkidi (Athens University of Economics & Business)
Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University)
Mary Harper (University of Maryland)
Patrik Haslum (National ICT Australia)
Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh)
Sandro Hawke (W3C)
Pat Hayes (Florida IHMC)
Tian He (University of Minnesota)
Martial Hebert (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University)
Malte Helmert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)
Joerg Hoffmann (DERI Innsbruck)
Peter Hooper (University of Alberta)
Jingpeng Huai (Beijing University of A&A)
Jinbo Huang (National ICT Australia)
Daniel Huber (Carnegie Mellon University)
Todd Hughes (DARPA)
Luke Hunsberger (Vassar College)
Anthony Hunter (University College London)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
Luca Iocchi (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Samuel Ieong (Stanford University)
Felix Ingrand (LAAS/CNRS)
Thomas Ioerger (Texas A&M University)
Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Zack Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
Michael James (Toyota Technical Center)
Anthony Jameson (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Tomi Janhunen (Helsinki University of Technology)
Sverker Janson (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Philippe Jegou (LSIS CNRS - University Paul Cézanne)
Odest Jenkins (Brown University)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University)
Jeffrey Johns (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Chris Jones (iRobot Corporation)
Nicholas Jong (The University of Texas at Austin)
Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Hyuckchul Jung (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
Adam Kalai (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Meir Kalech (Bar-Ilan University)
Aditya Kalyanpur (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Murat Kantarcioglu (University of Texas at Dallas)
David Karger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Kassoff (Stanford University)
Vipul Kashyap (Partners HealthCare system)
Irit Katriel (Brown University)
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)
Richard Keller (NASA)
Charlie Kemp (Georgia Tech)
Elisa Kendall (Sandpiper Software, Inc.)
Graham Kendall (The University of Nottingham)
Eamonn Keogh (University of California, Riverside)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund)
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Roni Khardon (Tufts University)
Deepali Khushraj (Nokia Research Center)
Dan Kifer (Cornell University)
Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST)
Sergey Kirshner (University of Alberta)
Zeynep Kiziltan (University of Bologna)
Mykel Kochenderfer (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
Paul Kogut (Lockheed-Martin)
Aleksander Kolcz (Microsoft)
Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University)
Kevin Korb (Monash University)
David Kortenkamp (TRACLabs Inc.)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
Raghu Krishnapuram (IBM India Research Lab)
Lukas Kroc (Cornell University)
Antonio Krüger (University of Münster)
Jeremy Kubica (Google Inc.)
Benjamin Kuipers (University of Texas at Austin)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo!)
T. K. Satish Kumar (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas Kushmerick (QL2)
Yannis Labrou (Fujitsu Labs of America)
Michail Lagoudakis (Technical University of Crete)
Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen)
Ramshaw Lance (BBN Technologies)
H. Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Terran Lane (University of New Mexico)
Jerome Lang (IRIT – CNRS)
Kevin Lang (Yahoo!)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Steve LaValle (University of Illinois)
Ron Lavi (The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Sonia Leach (University of Colorado)
Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jimmy H.M. Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yves Lesperance (York University)
James Lester (North Carolina State University)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia)
Henry Lieberman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vladimir Lifschitz (University of Texas)
Dekang Lin (University of Alberta)
Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University)
Michael Littman (Rutgers University)
Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Huan Liu (Arizona State University)
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Jorge Lobo (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Brian Logan (University of Nottingham)
Derek Long (University of Strathclyde)
Bryan Loyall (BAE Systems)
Thomas Lukasiewicz (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Carsten Lutz (Technische Universität Dresden)
Ines Lynce (IST/INESC-ID, Technical University of Lisbon)
Richard Maclin (University of Minnesota Duluth)
Rajiv Maheswaran (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Roger Mailler (SRI International)
Inderjeet Mani (MITRE)
Christopher D. Manning (Stanford University)
Shie Mannor (McGill University)
Dragos Margineantu (The Boeing Company)
Lluís Màrquez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Pierre Marquis (CRIL-CNRS)
Stacy Marsella (University of Southern California)
David Martin (SRI International)
Tony Martinez (Brigham Young University)
Alcherio Martinoli (EPFL)
Shigeo Matsubara (Kyoto University)
Cynthia Matuszek (Cycorp)
Paula Matuszek (GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals)
Marty Mayberry (Saarland University)
Peter McBurney (University of Liverpool)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex)
Kathleen McCoy (University of Delaware)
Drew McDermott (Yale University)
Robin McEntire (GSK)
Marina Meila (University of Washington)
Prem Melville (IBM Research)
Fil Menczer (Indiana University)
Srujana Merugu (Yahoo! Research)
Thomas Meyer (National ICT Australia)
Ian Miguel (University of St Andrews)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas)
Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University)
Rob Miller (University College London)
Vibhu Mittal (Google Inc.)
Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University)
Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute)
Jay Modi (Drexel University)
Chilukuri Mohan (Syracuse University)
Mark Moll (Rice University)
Mike Montemerlo (Stanford University)
Bradford Mott (Emergent Game Technologies)
Enrico Motta (The Open University)
John Mount (Kosmix.com)
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Joerg Mueller (Clausthal University of Technology)
Martin Mueller (University of Alberta)
Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
Dragos Munteanu (Language Weaver)
David Musliner (Honeywell)
Daniele Nardi (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover)
Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)
Ann Nicholson (Monash University)
Monica Nicolescu (University of Nevada, Reno)
Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Natasha Noy (Stanford University)
Tim Oates (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Daniel Olmedilla (L3S Research Center)
Charlie Ortiz (SRI International)
Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh)
Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork)
Maurice Pagnucco (The University of New South Wales)
Bo Pang (Yahoo! Research)
Patrick Pantel (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
James Park (BioDiscovery Inc)
Austin Parker (University of Maryland)
Chris Parker (IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)
Bijan Parsia (University of Manchester)
Simon Parsons (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Praveen Paruchuri (University of Southern California)
Terry Payne (University of Southampton)
David Pearce (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
Jonathan Pearce (University of Southern California)
Liam Pedersen (Carnegie Mellon University)
Yannick Pencolé (LAAS-CNRS)
Yun Peng (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
David Pennock (Yahoo! Research)
Pavlos Peppas (University of Patras)
Francisco Pereira (Carnegie Mellon University)
Filip Perich (Shared Spectrum Company)
Claudia Perlich (IBM Research)
Gilles Pesant (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)
Matti Pietikainen (University of Oulu, Finland)
Joelle Pineau (McGill University)
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva (University of Texas at El Paso)
Fiora Pirri (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma)
Marco Pistore (IRST)
David Poole (University of British Columbia)
Bruce Porter (University of Texas at Austin)
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Tom Potok (ORNL)
Line Catherine Pouchard (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo)
Daryl Pregibon (Google Inc.)
Steve Prestwich (Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C))
Bob Price (Palo Alto Research Center)
Danil Prokhorov (Toyota Tech Center)
Gregory Provan (University College Cork)
Frederic Py (MBARI)
David Pynadath (University of Southern California)
Claude-Guy Quimper (Oméga Optimisation)
Zinovi Rabinovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Iyad Rahwan (British University in Dubai)
Anita Raja (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Kanna Rajan (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Anand Ranganathan (IBM Research)
Chris Reed (University of Dundee)
Daniel Reeves (Yahoo! Research)
Silja Renooij (Utrecht University)
Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Thomas Richardson (University of Washington)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
Mark Riedl (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Martin Riedmiller (University of Osnabrueck)
German Rigau (Basque Country University)
Jussi Rintanen (NICTA)
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton)
Khashayar Rohanimanesh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Carolyn Rosé (LTI-HCII)
Francesca Rossi (University of Padova)
Maayan Roth (Carnegie Mellon University)
Joerg Rothe (Universität Düsseldorf)
Nicholas Roy (MIT CSAIL)
Wheeler Ruml (Palo Alto Research Center)
Jean-David Ruvini (eBay Research Lab)
Paul Rybski (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ashish Sabharwal (Cornell University)
Martin Sachenbacher (Technische Universität Muenchen)
Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University)
Dario Salvucci (Drexel University)
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University)
Alberto Sardinha (Carnegie Mellon University)
Uli Sattler (University of Manchester)
Brian Scassellati (Yale University)
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University)
Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam)
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Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame)
Jeff Schneider (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christian Schulte (KTH – Royal Institute of Technology)
Alan Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory)
Kent Seamons (BYU)
Meinolf Sellmann (Brown University)
Sandip Sen (University of Tulsa)
Nigel Shadbolt (University of Southampton)
Mubarak Shah (University of Central Florida)
Gregory Shakhnarovich (Brown University)
Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Hebrew University)
Guy Shani (Ben Gurion University)
Steven Shapiro (University of Toronto)
Prakash Shenoy (University of Kansas)
Blake Shepard (Cycorp, Inc.)
Amit Sheth (University of Georgia)
Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC)
Ozgur Simsek (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Vikas Sindhwani (University of Chicago)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University)
Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia, LLC)
Jeffrey Mark Siskind (Purdue University)
Marjorie Skubic (University of Missouri-Columbia)
John Slaney (Australian National University)
Bill Smart (Washington University in St. Louis)
David Smith (NASA Ames Research Center)
Stephen J. Smith (Great Game Products)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin)
Stefano Soatto (University of California, Los Angeles)
Finnegan Southey (Google Inc.)
Ramakrishnan Srikant (Google Inc.)
Biplav Srivastava (IBM India Research Lab)
Steffen Staab (University Koblenz)
Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University)
Timo Steffens (Fraunhofer IAIS)
Lynn Andrea Stein (Olin College)
Kostas Stergiou (University of the Aegean)
Mark Stickel (SRI International)
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin)
Umberto Straccia (ISTI-CNR)
Ashley Stroupe (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Michael Strube (EML Research gGmbH)
Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe)
Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta)
VS Subrahmanian (University of Maryland)
Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University)
Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta)
Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University)
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Masami Takikawa (Cleverset, Inc.)
Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania)
Gheorghe Tecuci (George Mason University)
Jay M. Tenenbaum (Commerce Net)
Georgios Theocharous (Intel Research)
Daniele Theseider Dupré (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Michael Thielscher (Technische Universität Dresden)
Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas at Dallas)
Peter Tino (University of Birmingham)
Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo!)
Hans Tompits (Vienna University of Technology)
Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST)
Miroslaw Truszczynski (University of Kentucky)
Walt Truszkowski (NASA)
Charles Twardy (Information Extraction & Transport, Inc.)
Jos Uiterwijk (Universiteit Maastricht)
Paul Utgoff (University of Massachusetts)
Jaideep Vaidya (Rutgers University)
Marco Valtorta (University of South Carolina)
H. Jaap van den Herik (MICC-IKAT)
Marc van Dongen (University College Cork)
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Cornell University)
Pradeep Varakantham (University of Southern California)
Kristen Brent Venable (University of Padova)
Katja Verbeeck (Maastricht University)
Gérard Verfaillie (ONERA)
Dirk Vermeir (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
S V N Vishwanathan (Australian National University)
Tom Wagner (DARPA/IPTO/IXO)
Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
William Walsh (CombineNet)
David Waltz (Columbia University)
Shaojun Wang (Wright State University)
Jean-Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories)
Kilian Weinberger (University of Pennsylvania)
Gary Weiss (Fordham University)
Carl Wellington (Carnegie Mellon University)
Christopher Welty (IBM Research)
Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia)
Michael White (The Ohio State University)
Shimon Whiteson (The University of Texas at Austin)
Jan Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)
David E. Wilkins (SRI International)
Mary-Anne Williams (University of Technology, Sydney)
Steve Willmott (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Mark Winands (Universiteit Maastricht)
David Wingate (University of Michigan)
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Frank Wolter (University of Liverpool)
Michael Wolverton (SRI International)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
Robert Wray (Soar Technology)
Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer IAIS)
Annie Wu (University of Central Florida)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Fusun Yaman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Roland Yap (National University of Singapore)
Peter Yeh (Accenture Technology Labs)
Sungwook Yoon (Arizona State University)
Neil Yorke-Smith (SRI International)
Joel Young (US Air Force, Naval Postgraduate School)
Michael Young (North Carolina State University)
Lei Yu (Binghamton University)
Lintao Zhang (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab)
Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis)
Yan Zhang (University of Western Sydney)
Shi Zhongzhi (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dengyong Zhou (Microsoft Research)
Liang Zhou (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Lina Zhou (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Rong Zhou (Palo Alto Research Center)
Yan Zhou (University of South Alabama)
Song Chun Zhu (University of California, Los Angeles)
Alexander Zien (MPI for Biological Cybernetics)
Terry Zimmerman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Martin Zinkevich (University of Alberta)
Roie Zivan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Nina Zumel (Quimba Software)
AAAI-07 Nectar Reviewers
Eyal Amir (University of Illinois)
Kevin Ashley (University of Pittsburgh)
Chris Beck (University of Toronto)
Chris Brew (Ohio State University)
Alex Borgida (Rutgers University)
Michael Bowling (University of Alberta)
Eugene Charniak (Brown University)
Max Chickering (Microsoft)
Adnan Darwiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)
Minh Do (Xerox PARC)
Oren Etzioni (University of Washington)
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David Fogel (Natural Selection)
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde)
Yolanda Gil (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Peter Haddawy (Asian Institute of Technology)
Alon Halevy (Google Inc.)
Joe Halpern (Cornell University)
Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University)
Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University)
Thomas Hofmann (Google Inc.)
Nicholas Jennings (University of Southampton)
Jaewoo Kang (Korea University)
Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Alfred Kobsa (University of California, Irvine)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University)
Ben Kuipers (University of Texas)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research)
Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota)
John Langford (Yahoo! Research)
Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)
David Leake (Indiana University)
Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Omid Madani (Yahoo! Research)
Steven Minton (Fetch Technologies)
David Mitchell (Simon Fraser University)
Hector Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
Karen Myers (SRI International)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover)
Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork)
Charles Petrie (Stanford University)
Elaine Rich (University of Texas)
Mirek Riedewald (Cornell University)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
Luis Rocha (Indiana University)
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (Hebrew University)
Francesca Rossi (University of Padova)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign)
Lawrence Saul (University of California, San Diego)
Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta)
Bart Selman (Cornell University)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University)
Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Armin Stahl (University of Kaiserslautern)
Kenneth Stanley (University of Central Florida)
Oliviero Stock (IRST)
Son Cao Tran (New Mexico State University)
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University)
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Michael Uschold (The Boeing Company)
Michael van Lent (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Toby Walsh (University of New South Wales/NICTA)
R. Michael Young (North Carolina State University)
Weixiong Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis)
Xiaojin Zhu (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
AAAI-07 Auxiliary Reviewers
Luca di Gaspero
Yu Ding
Jeroen Donkers
Bharat Dravid
Conrad Drescher
David Dupplaw
Edith Elkind
Piotr Faliszewski
Alessandro Farinelli
Lee Feigenbaum
Jure Ferlez
Eduardo Fermé
Paolo Ferraris
Michael Fink
Felix Fischer
Thomas Finley
Achille Fokoue-Nkoutche
Blaz Fortuna
Santo Fortunato
Gemma C. Garriga
Jonathan Gaudreault
Nicola Gatti
Martin Gebser
Nicholas Gibbins
Andrew Gilpin
Jesús Giménez
Shantanu Godbole
Judy Goldsmith
Edgar González
Julius Goth
Paul Harrenstein
Noam Hazon
Timothy Hinrichs
Bo Hu
Ali Inan
Guillaume Infantes
Yannet Interian
Shahid Jabbar
Albert Xin Jiang
David E. Johnson
Sherief Abdallah
Harith Alani
Leila Amgoud
Anbulagan
Sander Bakkes
Laura Barbulescu
Patrick Beeson
Andre Bergholz
Yngvi Björnsson
Manuel Bodirsky
Simon Boivin
Sylvain Bouveret
Janez Brank
Katarina Britz
Paul Brobst
Eric Brochu
Mauro Brunato
John Burge
Daniele Calisi
Mustafa Canim
Ana Casali
John Charnley
Guillaume Chaslot
Mark Chavira
Li Chen
Kenil C.K. Cheng
Carlos Chesñevar
Amit Chopra
Ching-Hua Chuan
Christopher Cianci
Pere R. Comas
Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva
Nikolaus Correll
Robert Dale
Peter Danenberg
Pilar Dellunde
Xi Deng
Nirmit Desai
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Sindhu Joseph
Yannis Kalfoglou
Kalapriya Kannan
Lars Karlsson
Tom Kelsey
William Kennedy
Sergey Kirshner
Peter Kissmann
Sébastien Konieczny
Christine Körner
Chase Krumpelman
Arun Kumar
Branislav Kveton
Loredana Laera
Mikael Z. Lagerkvist
Yat-Chiu Law
Seung Y. Lee
Domenico Lembo
Jure Leskovec
Hao Li
Shao F. Liang
Steve Linton
Alex Liu
Carsten Lutz
Conor McGann
Scott McQuiggan
Efrat Manisterski
Felip Manyà
Marco Maratea
Ben Markines
Yves Martin
Francisco Martin-Recuerda
Mark Meiss
Joseph Modayil
Boris Motik
Sai Moturu
Jonathan Mugan
Michael Munie
Peter Nightingale
Quan Nguyen
Blaz Novak
Angelo Oddi
Bart Peintner
Dennis Perzanowski
Robert Phillips
Knot Pipatsrisawat
Maria Silvia Pini
Eric Postma
James Pugh
Kunal Punera
Filip Radlinski
Dave Rajaratnam
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Baharak Rastegari
Jacob Ratkiewicz
Wanwan Ren
Francesco Ricca
Silvia Richter
Riccardo Rosati
Avi Rosenfeld
Stephane Ross
Sushmita Roy
Marta Sabou
Jahn Saito
Stephan Schiffel
Stefan Schlobach
Shilad Sen
Dafna Shahaf
Benyah Shaparenko
Mei Si
Peter Stuckey
Armando Tacchella
Guido Tack
Lei Tang
Cyril Terrioux
David Thompson
Jennifer Tillett
Gian Diego Tipaldi
Pedro Torres
Ferhan Ture
Yathi Udupi
Shankar Vembu
ChunNam Yu
Richard Waldinger
Taowei David Wang
Yonghong Wang
Nic Wilson
Mark Winands
Stefan Woltran
Jia-Hong Wu
Guizhen Yang
Alessandro Zanarini
Jie Zhang
Zheng Zhao
Yi Zhou
Lin Zhu
Inon Zuckerman
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IAAI-07 Program Committee
William Cheetham, Chair (General Electric)
Diane Cook (Washington State University)
Usama Fayyad (Yahoo! Inc.)
Mehmet Goker, Cochair (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Karen Haigh (BBN)
Micheal Hewett (Evincii)
Randall Hill (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Neil Jacobstein (Teknowledge)
Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin)
Bruce Porter (University of Texas at Austin)
Elaine Rich (University of Texas at Austin)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)
Nestor Rychtyckyj (Ford Motor Company)
Ted Senator (SAIC)
Howard Shrobe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Reid Smith (R.G. Smith & Associates)
Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation)
Student Abstract Reviewers
David Aha (Naval Research Labs)
Sugato Basu (SRI International)
Claire Cardie (Cornell University)
Philip Chan (Florida Institute of Technology)
Jake Crandall (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Marie desJardins (University Maryland, Baltimore)
Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College)
Noemie Elhadad (City College of New York)
Tracy Hammond (Texas A & M University)
Amanda Holland-Minkley (Washington & Jefferson College)
William (Bill) Hsu (Kansas State University)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Amy McGovern (University of Oklahoma)
Vibhu Mittal (Google Inc.)
Jennifer Neville (Purdue University)
Nikunj Oza (NASA Ames Research Center)
Mark Paskin (Google Inc.)
Avi Pfeffer (Harvard University)
Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sheila Tejada (Tulane University)
Fusun Yaman (University of Maryland, College Park)
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SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium Reviewers
David Aha (Naval Research Lab)
Doina Caragea (Iowa State University)
Rebecca Castano (Jet Propulsion Lab)
Berthe Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Brad Clement (Jet Propulsion Lab)
Mark Core (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Marie desJardins (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Jihie Kim (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Chad Lane (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Terran Lane (University of New Mexico)
Michael Littman (Rutgers University)
George Luger (University of New Mexico)
Brian Magerko (Michigan University)
Dragos Margineantu (Boeing)
Ray Mooney (University of Texas at Austin)
Bart Peintner (SRI International)
Daniel Reeves (University of Michigan)
Mark Riedl (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
William Smart (Washington University in St. Louis)
Rob St. Amant (North Carolina State University)
David Traum (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Colleen van Lent (California State University, Long Beach)
Michael van Lent (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Lab)
Robot Competition Event Chairs
Human Robot Interaction Challenge
Matthias Scheutz (University of Notre Dame)
Paul Schermerhorn (University of Notre Dame)
The Robot Exhibition
Research: Andrea L. Thomaz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Education: Zach Dodds (Harvey Mudd College)
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge
Paul Rybski (Carnegie Mellon University)
Alexei Efros (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Mobile Robot Workshop
Chad Jenkins (Brown University)
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Video Competition Program Committee
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory), Cochair
Bruce Buchanan (University of Pittsburgh)
James Diebel (Stanford University)
Marko Grobelnik (Josef Stefan Institute)
Kalyan Gupta (Knexus Research)
Michael van Lent (USC/Institute for Creative Technologies)
Michael Littman (Rutgers University)
Martin Michalowski (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Héctor Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
David Musliner (Honeywell)
Andrew Ng (Stanford University)
Ray Perrault (SRI International)
Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta)
Alan Schultz (Naval Research Laboratory)
Reid Smith (R. G. Smith & Associates)
David Stavens (Stanford University)
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University), Cochair
Rosina Weber (Drexel University)
Michael Witbrock (Cycorp)
Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
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