Conference Committees AAAI Conference Committee Chair Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University, USA) AAAI-13 Program Cochairs Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Michael L. Littman (Brown University, USA) IAAI-13 Conference Chair and Cochair Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA) David Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) EAAI-13 Symposium Cochairs Laura E. Brown (Michigan Technological University, USA) David Kauchak (Middlebury College, USA) Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford, UK) 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) Doug Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Special Track on Robotics Cochairs Siddhartha Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Andrea L. Thomaz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Tutorial Program Cochairs Carmel Domshlak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada) Workshop Program Cochairs Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Holger Hoos (University of British Columbia, Canada) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Peter McBurney (King’s College London, UK) Ayanna Howard (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, UK) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn, Germany) Scott Sanner (NICTA/Australian National University, Australia) xxiv Computer Poker Competition Cochairs Neil Burch (University of Alberta, Canada) Eric Jackson General Game Playing Competition Organizers Gabe Alvarez (Stanford University, USA) Dustin Fink (Stanford University, USA) Michael Genesereth (Stanford University, USA) 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) AAAI-13 Local Arrangements Cochairs Mausam (University of Washington, USA) Luke Zettlemoyer (University of Washington, USA) Main Technical Track AAAI-13 Associate Chairs Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA) Jennifer Neville (Purdue University, USA) Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ben Taskar (University of Washington, USA) Senior Program Committee Jim Blythe (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) Carla Brodley (Tufts University, USA) Mark Burstein (SIFT, USA) Bradley Clement (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Sanmay Das (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Italy) Jennifer Dy (Northeastern University, USA) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Ahmed Elgammal (Rutgers University, USA) Tina Eliassi-Rad (Rutgers University, USA) Boi Faltings (EPFL, Switzerland) Ariel Felner (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Johannes Furnkranz (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Hector Geffner (ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Christopher Geib (Drexel University, USA) Alfonso Emilio Gerevini (University of Brescia, Italy) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Robert Givan (Purdue University, USA) Jennifer Golbeck (University of Maryland, USA) Robert P. Goldman (SIFT, LLC, USA) Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA) Tracy Hammond (Texas A&M University, USA) xxv Milos Hauskrecht (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Rob Holte (University of Alberta, Canada) Eyke Hullermeier (Philipps-University Marburg, Germany) Roni Khardon (Tufts University, USA) Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University, Israel and University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Terran Lane (Google, USA) Jerome Lang (LAMSADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, France) Kathryn Laskey (George Mason University, USA) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Richard Maclin (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA) Dragos Margineantu (Boeing, USA) Leora Morgenstern (SAIC, USA) Karen Myers (SRI International, USA) Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Nuria Oliver Ramirez (Telefonica Research, Spain) Diane Oyen (University of New Mexico, USA) David Parkes (Harvard University, USA) Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Nuance Communications, USA) Rob Platt (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) David Pynadath (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA) Soumya Ray (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire, USA) Scott Sanner (NICTA, Australia) Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University, USA) Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA) Prasad Tadepalli (Oregon State University, USA) Hannu Toivonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Peter van Beek (University of Waterloo, Canada) Pascal Van Hentenryck (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Michael Wellman (University of Michigan, USA) Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford, UK) Jennifer Wortman Vaughan (Microsoft Research, USA) Stefan Wrobel (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Program Committee Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Fabio Aiolli (University of Padova, Italy) Hassan Aït-Kaci (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) Leman Akoglu (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) xxvi Nancy Amato (Texas A&M University, USA) Francesco Amigoni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Bo An (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Animashree Anandkumar (UC Irvine, USA) Elliot Anshelevich (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Adam Anthony (Baldwin Wallace University, USA) Lisa Anthony (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Knarig Arabshian (Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent, USA) Shlomo Engelson Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Alexander Artikis (NCSR Demokritos, Greece) Javad Azimi (Microsoft, USA) Yoram Bachrach (Microsoft Research, UK) Chris Baker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Matteo Baldoni (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy) Linas Baltrunas (Telefonica Research, Spain) Bikramjit Banerjee (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA) Laura Barbulescu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Elias Bareinboim (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Roman Barták (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) Nicola Basilico (University of California Merced, USA) Jacob Beal (BBN Technologies, USA) Kostas Bekris (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA) Francesco Belardinelli (Université d’Evry, France) Brandon Bennett (University of Leeds, UK) Russell Bent (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) Jamal Bentahar (Concordia University, Canada) Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven, Belgium) Eva Besada-Portas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Antonis Bikakis (University College London, UK) Mikhail Bilenko (Microsoft Research, USA) Nate Blaylock (Nuance Communications, Canada) Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven, Belgium) Jim Boerkoel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Ladislau Bölöni (University of Central Florida, USA) Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK) Alexander Borgida (Rutgers University, USA) Daniel Borrajo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Henrik Boström (Stockholm University, Sweden) Adi Botea (IBM Research, Ireland) Jean-François Boulicaut (LIRIS - INSA Lyon, France) Sylvain Bouveret (LIG - Grenoble INP, France) Ulf Brefeld (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Jan Broersen (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dan Bryce (SIFT, LLC., USA) Olivier Buffet (INRIA, France) Hung Bui (Nuance, USA) xxvii Razvan Bunescu (Ohio University, USA) Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras, Greece) Manuel Cebrian (NICTA and University of Melbourne, Australia) Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece) Yee Seng Chan (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Minmin Chen (Washington University, USA) Yoonsuck Choe (Texas A&M University, USA) Jaesik Choi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Peter Clark (Vulcan Inc, USA) Gary Coen (The Boeing Company, USA) Michael Coen (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Amanda Coles (King’s College, London, UK) Andrew Coles (King’s College, London, UK) Simon Colton (Imperial College, London, UK) Jason Corso (SUNY at Buffalo, USA) Gabriella Cortellessa (CNR (Italian National Research Council), Italy) Paulo Costa (George Mason University, USA) Vitor Costa (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Bernardo Cuenca Grau (University of Oxford, UK) Peng Dai (Google, USA) Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Jessica Davies (University of Toronto, Canada) Artur d’Avila Garcez (City University London, UK) Ernie Davis (New York University, USA) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, Belgium) Alex Dekhtyar (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA) Juan José del Coz (University of Oviedo, Spain) Nicolás Della Penna (Australian National University, Australia) Krzysztof Dembczynski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Rodrigo de Salvo Braz (SRI International, USA) M. Bernardine Dias (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) John P. Dickerson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Catalin Dima (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France) Frank DiMaio (University of Washington, USA) Christos Dimitrakakis (EPFL, Switzerland) Li Ding (Qualcomm, USA) Minh Do (SGT Inc./NASA ARC, USA) Carlotta Domeniconi (George Mason University, USA) Justin Domke (NICTA, Australia) Carmel Domshlak (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Janardhan Rao Doppa (Oregon State University, USA) Prashant Doshi (University of Georgia, USA) Ivan Dotu (Boston College, USA) Mark Dredze (Johns Hopkins University) Kurt Driessens (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) Quang Duong (Google, USA) Stefan Edelkamp (University of Bremen, Germany) Hoda Eldardiry (Palo Alto Research Center, USA) xxviii Micha Elsner (Ohio State University, USA) Ulle Endriss (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Gabor Erdelyi (University of Siegen, Germany) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Andrew Fagg (University of Oklahoma, USA) Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona, Italy) Ad Feelders (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) George Ferguson (University of Rochester, USA) Thibaut Feydy (NICTA, Australia) Felix Fischer (University of Cambridge, UK) Radu Florian (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Achille Fokoue (IBM Research, USA) Nicoletta Fornara (Nicoletta Fornara (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Mary Ellen Foster Charles Fox (Sheffield University, UK) Enrique Frias-Martinez (Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain) Scott Friedman (SIFT, LLC, USA) Alan Frisch (University of York, UK) Yun Raymond Fu (Northeastern University, USA) Sunny Fugate (University of New Mexico, USA) Glenn Fung (Siemens Medical Solutions, USA) Kobi Gal (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Michel Galley (Microsoft Research, USA) Aram Galstyan (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Joao Gama (Universidade do Porto, Portugal) Alice Gao (Harvard University, USA) Serge Gaspers (The University of New South Wales and NICTA, Australia) Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Enrico Gerding (University of Southampton, UK) Melinda Gervasio (SRI International, USA) Carmen Gervet (German University in Cairo, Egypt) Mark Giuliano (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA) Birte Glimm (University of Ulm, Germany) Jared Glover (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Robby Goetschalckx (Oregon State University, USA) Vibhav Gogate (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Claudia V. Goldman (General Motors Advanced Technical Center, Israel) Dan Goldwasser (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) Kshanti Greene (Social Logic Institute, USA) Charles Gretton (NICTA / ANU / Griffith University, Australia) Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool, UK) Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens, Greece) Mingyu Guo (University of Liverpool, UK) Ricardo Gutierrez (Texas A&M University, USA) Yasaman Haghpanah (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Hannaneh Hajishirzi (University of Washington, USA) Chung-Wei Hang (North Carolina State University, USA) xxix James Harland (RMIT, Australia) Paul Harrenstein (University of Oxford, UK) Patrik Haslum (ANU, Australia) Jennifer Healey (Intel Labs, USA) Emmanuel Hebrard (LAAS-CNRS, France) Malte Helmert (University of Basel, Switzerland) Andreas Herzig (IRIT - Université Paul Sabatier and CNRS, France) Stijn Heymans (SRI International, USA) Koen Hindriks (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Chien-Ju Ho (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Jesse Hoey (University of Waterloo, Canada) Joerg Hoffmann (Saarland University, Germany) Mark Hoogendoorn (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Andreas Hotho (University of Würzburg, Germany) Dean F. Hougen (University of Oklahoma, USA) Thomas Ioerger (Texas A&M University, USA) Manish Jain (University of Southern California, USA) Shaili Jain (Microsoft, USA) Albert Jiang (University of Southern California, USA) Anders Jonsson (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) Saket Joshi (Tufts University, USA) Ulrich Junker Radu Jurca (Google, Switzerland) Froduald Kabanza (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) Lalana Kagal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Meir Kalech (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Ece Kamar (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) Balajee Kannan (GE Global Research, USA) Ashish Kapoor (Microsoft, USA) Alexandros Karatzoglou (Telefonica Research, Spain) Ian Kash (MSR, UK) Samuel Kaski (Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland) Rohit Kate (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) George Katsirelos (INRA, France) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Christopher Kiekintveld (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) Phil Kilby (NICTA Optimisation Research Group and ANU, Australia) Zeynep Kiziltan (University of Bologna, Italy) Alexandre Klementiev (Saarland University, Germany) W. Bradley Knox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Levente Kocsis (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary) Pranam Kolari (Walmart Labs, USA) J. Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) George Konidaris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Stefan Kramer (Universität Mainz, Germany) Scott Kuindersma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Gautam Kunapuli (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Hanna Kurniawati (University of Queensland, Australia) xxx Ugur Kuter (Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT), USA) Branislav Kveton (Technicolor Labs, USA) Sébastien Lahaie (Microsoft Research, USA) Tobias Lang (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany) Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada) Edith Law (Harvard University, USA) Jimmy Lee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Yves Lesperance (York University, Canada) Jason Jingshi Li (EPFL, Switzerland) Minyi Li (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Yuliya Lierler (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) Carlos Linares López (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Nir Lipovetzky (University of Melbourne, Australia) Fei Liu (Bosch Research, USA) Daniel Lizotte (University of Waterloo, Canada) Derek Long (King’s College London, UK) Annie Louis (University of Edinburgh, UK) Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon, USA) Eneldo Loza Mencía (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Michael Luck (King’s College London, UK) Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, UK) Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Lester Mackey (Stanford University, USA) Nitin Madnani (Educational Testing Service, USA) Malik Magdon-Ismail (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Roger Mailler (University of Tulsa, USA) Donato Malerba (Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro,” Italy) Tomasz Malisiewicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Shaul Markovitch (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) David Martins de Matos (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal) Christopher Matheus Nicholas Mattei (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Cynthia Matuszek (University of Washington, USA) Stan Matwin (Dalhousie University, Canada) Nicolas Maudet (LIP6, France) Michael May (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA) David McClosky (IBM Research, USA) David McDonald (SIFT, LLC, USA) Neville Mehta (Oregon State University, USA) Prem Melville (IBM Research, USA) Bob Mercer (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) Pedro Meseguer (IIIA - CSIC, Spain) Tomasz Michalak (University of Oxford, USA) Martin Michalowski (Adventium Labs, USA) Laurent Michel (University of Connecticut, USA) Ian Miguel (University of St. Andrews, UK) Claire Monteleoni (George Washington University, USA) xxxi Smaranda Muresan (Rutgers University, USA) Claudiu Cristian Musat (EPFL, Switzerland) Nina Narodytska (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia) Sriraam Natarajan (Wake Forest University, USA) Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Evdokia Nikolova (Texas A&M University, USA) Timothy J. Norman (University of Aberdeen, UK) Leliane Nunes de Barros (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Steven Okamoto (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Cheng Soon Ong (NICTA, Australia) Santiago Ontanon (Drexel University, USA) Charlie Ortiz (Nuance, USA) Brammert Ottens (Quintiq, Netherlands) Nikunj Oza (NASA, USA) Sebastian Pado (Heidelberg University, Germany) David Page (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Maurice Pagnucco (University of New South Wales, Australia) Héctor Palacios (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Praveen Parachuri (Perceptronics Solutions, USA) Toufiq Parag (Janelia Farm Research Campus- HHMI, USA) Charles Parker (BigML, Inc., USA) Ronald Parr (Duke University, USA) Fabio Patrizi (Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy) Heiko Paulheim (University of Mannheim, Germany) Brandon Paulson (CAPSHER Technology, USA) Justin Pearson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Ron Petrick (University of Edinburgh, UK) Marek Petrik (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) Duc Nghia Pham (Griffith University, Australia) Maria Silvia Pini (University of Padova, Italy) James Pita (RAND Corporation, USA) Sergey Plis (Mind Research Network, USA) Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton, UK) Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research, USA) Vamsi Potluru (UNM, USA) Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo, Canada) Sameer Pradhan (Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA) B. Aditya Prakash (Virginia Tech, USA) Deepak Ramachandran (Nuance Communications, USA) Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK) Miquel Ramirez (RMIT University, Australia) Jan Ramon (KU Leuven, Belgium) Parisa Rashidi (Northwestern University, USA) Soumi Ray (Georgetown University, USA) Umaa Rebbapragada (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Jean-Charles Régin (University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France) Roi Reichart (University of Cambridge, UK) xxxii David Reitter (Penn State University, USA) Mark Riedl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) David Roberts (North Carolina State University, USA) Mark Roberts (Colorado State University, USA) Paul Robertson (Doll Labs, USA) Valentin Robu (University of Southampton, UK) Gabriele Röger (University of Basel, Switzerland) Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK) Romer Rosales (LinkedIn, USA) Riccardo Rosati (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Andrew Rosenberg (CUNY Queens College, USA) Sushmita Roy (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA) Cynthia Rudin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie, Germany) Michel Rueher (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis - CNRS, France) Julian Ryde (University at Buffalo SUNY, USA) Ashish Sabharwal (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Alessandro Saetti (University of Brescia, Italy) Alessandro Saffiotti (Örebro University, Sweden) Jose San Pedro (Telefonica Research, Spain) Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University, Australia) Suchi Saria (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Uli Sattler (University of Manchester, UK) Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim, Germany) Andreas Schutt (NICTA, Australia) Stephen Scott (University of Nebraska, USA) Sandip Sen (The University of Tulsa, USA) Murat Sensoy (Ozyegin University, Turkey) Ivan Serina (University of Brescia, Italy) Sven Seuken (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Lokendra Shastri (Infosys Labs, India) Yue Shi (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Marius Silaghi (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) Maneesh K. Singh (Siemens Corporate Technology, USA) Parag Singla (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) Tomas Singliar (The Boeing Company, USA) Bob Sloan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Kevin Small (National Institutes of Health, USA) Stephen Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Shirin Sohrabi (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University, USA) Siddharth Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Isabelle Stanton (Google, USA) Roni Stern (Harvard University, USA) Matthew Stone (Rutgers University, USA) David Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Nick Street (University of Iowa, USA) Gerd Stumme (University of Kassel, Germany) xxxiii Nathan Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Peter Sunehag (Australian National University, Australia) Einoshin Suzuki (Kyushu University, Japan) Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Zareen Syed (NorthSide Inc., Canada) Guido Tack (Monash University, Australia) Partha Talukdar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Pingzhong Tang (Tsinghua University, China) Matthew E. Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Jordan Thayer (University of New Hampshire, USA) Georgios Theocharous (Adobe Research, USA) Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales, Australia) Rich Thomason (University of Michigan, USA) David R. Thompson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Hanghang Tong (City University of New York, USA) Lisa Torrey (St. Lawrence University, USA) Pete Trautman (California Institute of Technology, USA) Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky, USA) Grigorios Tsoumakas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University, USA) Gyorgy Turan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Karina Valdivia Delgado (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Wiebe van der Hoek (University of Liverpool, UK) Willem van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) M. Birna van Riemsdijk (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Tiago Stegun Vaquero (University of Toronto, Canada) Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Stavros Vassos (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) Prasanna Velagapudi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) K. Brent Venable (Tulane University and IHMC, USA) Joel Veness (University of Alberta, Canada) Paolo Viappiani (CNRS - LIP6, France) V. G.Vinod Vydiswaran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Shyam Visweswaran (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Marsette Vona (Northeastern University, USA) Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Sandia National Labs, USA) Willem Waegeman (NGDATA, Belgium) Byron Wallace (Brown University, USA) Thomas Walsh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Bernie Wang (Tufts University, USA) Ning Wang (Curious Lab LLC, USA) Yuyang Wang (Tufts University, USA) Grant Weddell (University of Waterloo, Canada) Aaron Wilson (Galois, Inc., USA) Stefan Witwicki (INESC-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) Weng-Keen Wong (Oregon State University, USA) Feng Wu (University of Southampton, UK) xxxiv Lei Wu (GE Global Research, USA) Lirong Xia (Harvard University, USA) Shasha Xie (Microsoft, USA) Yiliang Xu (Kitware Inc., USA) Fusun Yaman (BBN Technologies, USA) Alexander Yates (Temple University, USA) Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, USA) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA) Pinar Yolum (Bogazici University, Turkey) Changhe Yuan (Queens College/City University of New York, USA) Fabio Zambetta (RMIT University, Australia) Bruno Zanuttini (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France) Gerson Zaverucha (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Jie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China) Rong Zhou (Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Brian Ziebart (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Roie Zivan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University, Israel) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University of Samaria, Israel) Additional Reviewers Levent Burak Kara (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Bryant Chen (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Xi Chen (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Luis Ortiz (SUNY-Stony Brook, USA) Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA) Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs Jeff Heflin (Lehigh University, USA) Markus Krötzsch (University of Oxford, UK) Senior Program Committee Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile, Chile) Jean-François Baget (INRIA and LIRMM, France) Kevin Chang (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Philipp Cimiano (University of Bielefeld, Germany) Tim Furche (Oxford University, UK) Andreas Harth (AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Pascal Hitzler (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Craig Knoblock (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Rafael Peñaloza (TU Dresden, Germany) Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Österreich, Austria) Elena Simperl (University of Southampton, UK) Kewen Wang (Griffith University, Australia) xxxv Program Committee Chris Biemann (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) Jean-Paul Calbimonte (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain) Andrea Cali (University of London, Birkbeck College, UK) K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University, USA) David Carral (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Isabel Cruz (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Claudia d’Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Mathieu D’Aquin (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK) Felix Distel (TU Dresden, Germany) Doug Downey (Northwestern University, USA) Michel Dumontier (Carleton University, Canada) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA and LIG, France) Anna Fensel (FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria) Miriam Fernandez (Knowledge Media Institute, UK) Giorgos Flouris (FORTH-ICS, Greece) Peter Fox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) Giovanni Grasso (Oxford University, UK) Gerd Gröner (University of Koblenz, Germany) Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile, Chile) Peter Haase (fluid Operations AG, Germany) Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University, Germany) Alois Haselboeck (Siemens AG, Austria) Conor Hayes (NUI Galway, Ireland) Stijn Heymans (SRI International, USA) Aidan Hogan (Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) Seung-Won Hwang (POSTECH, Republic of Korea) Giovambattista Ianni (University of Calabria, Italy) Marcel Karnstedt (DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) C. Maria Keet (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Bonn, Germany) Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University, USA) Pavel Klinov (University of Ulm, Germany) Pranam Kolari (Yahoo! Labs, USA) Zornitsa Kozareva (Information Sciences Institute, USA) Thomas Krennwallner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Adila A. Krisnadhi (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Ora Lassila (Nokia, USA) Jens Lehmann (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Markus Luczak-Rösch (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Yue Ma (TU Dresden, Germany) Maria Maleshkova (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Xiannong Meng (Bucknell University, USA) Thomas Meyer (Centre for AI Research, UKZN and CSIR Meraka, South Africa) xxxvi Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK) Roberto Navigli (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Italy) Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover, Germany) Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo (University of Leipzig, Germany) Mathias Niepert (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Lyndon Nixon (STI International, Austria) Ermelinda Oro (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Giorgio Orsi (University of Oxford, UK) Josiane Xavier Parreira (DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) Carlos Pedrinaci (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK) Reinhard Pichler (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Andreas Pieris (University of Oxford, UK) Giuseppe Pirró (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Guilin Qi (Southeast University, China) Matthew Rowe (Lancaster University, UK) Vladislav Ryzhikov (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Marta Sabou (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Joel Sachs (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Cristina Sarasua (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria) Christian Schallhart (Oxford University, UK) Francois Scharffe (LIRMM, University of Montpellier, France) Stefan Schlobach (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) Michael Schmidt (fluid Operations AG, Germany) Thomas Schneider (University of Bremen, Germany) Juan F. Sequeda (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Yi-Dong Shen (The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Amit Sheth (Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University, USA) Marc Spaniol (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany) Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Pedro Szekely (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA) Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Ingo J. Timm (University of Trier, Germany) Thanh Tran (Institute AIFB, Germany) Volker Tresp (Siemens AG, Germany) Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela) Johanna Voelker (University of Mannheim, Germany) Dirk Walther (TU Dresden, Germany) Haofen Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Stefan Woltran (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Rosa Laura Zavala (Medgar Evers College of CUNY, US) Guo-Qiang Zhang (Case Western Reserve University, USA) Special Track on Cognitive Systems xxxvii Cochairs Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University, USA) James Allen (University of Rochester, USA) Program Committee David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Chitta Baral (Arizona State University, USA) Paul Baxter (Plymouth University, UK) Paul Bello (Office of Naval Research, USA) Michael T. Cox (University of Maryland, USA) Nate Derbinsky (Disney Research, Boston, USA) Susan L. Epstein (Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, USA) Scott E. Fahlman (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Kenneth Forbus (Northwestern University, USA) Olivier Georgeon (University of Lyon, France) Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham, UK) Randolph M. Jones (Soar Technology, USA) John Laird (University of Michigan, USA) Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Cetin Meriçli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Donald Perlis (University of Maryland, USA) Paul Rosenbloom (University of Southern California, USA) Lenhart Schubert (University of Rochester, USA) Jeffrey Mark Siskind (Purdue University, USA) David Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) William Swartout (University of Southern California, USA) Yorick Wilks (IHMC, USA) Special Track on Computational Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Cochairs Carla P. Gomes (Cornell University, USA) Doug Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Program Committee Tsz Chiu Au (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea) Ramon Bejar (Universitat de Lleida, Spain) Kenneth Brown (University College Cork, Ireland) Steve Chien (Jet Propulsion Laboratories, USA) Theodoros Damoulas (Cornell University, 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 Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France) Joao Gama (University of Porto, Portugal) Frank Hutter (Freiburg University, Germany) Andreas Krause (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) xxxviii Martin Leucker (University of Luebeck, Germany) Benjamin Lubin (Boston University, USA) Alan Mackworth (University of British Columbia, Canada) Manish Marwah (HP Labs, USA) Michela Milano (Universita’ di Bologna, Italy) Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland) Eric Pauwels (CWI, The Netherlands) Steven Phillips (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Warren B. Powell (Princeton University, USA) Gregory Provan (University College Cork, Ireland) John Quinn (Makerere University, Uganda) Naren Ramakrishnan (Virginia Tech, USA) Anand Ranganathan (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA) Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK) Regis Sabbadin (INRA, France) Ashish Sabharwal (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) Martin Sachenbacher (TU Muenchen, Germany) Daniel Sheldon (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Helmut Simonis (University College Cork, Ireland) Christine Solnon (INSA de Lyon, France) Allan Tucker (Brunel University, UK) Jean Paul Watson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Special Track on Robotics Cochairs Siddhartha Srinivasa (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Andrea L. Thomaz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Program Committee Baris Akgun (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Brenna Argall (Northwestern University, USA) Dmitry Berenson (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Stan Birchfield (Clemson University, USA) Byron Boots (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Katie Byl (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Maya Cakmak (Willow Garage, USA) Sylvain Calinon (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) Crystal Chao (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Matei Ciocarlie (Willow Garage, USA) Denver Dash (Intel, USA) Fernando De La Torre (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Mehmet Dogar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anca Dragan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dave Ferguson (Google, USA) Dan Grollman (Vecna Technologies, USA) Abhinav Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) xxxix Stephen Hart (General Motors R&D, USA) Kris Hauser (Indiana University, USA) Geoffrey Hollinger (University of Southern California, USA) Kaijen Hsiao (Willow Garage, USA) George Kantor (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Dov Katz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Zsolt Kira (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Ross Knepper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Marin Kobilarov (Johns Hopkins University, USA) George Konidaris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Max Likhachev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Çetin Meriçli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Mark Moll (Rice University, USA) Jose Neira (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Sarah Osentoski (Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA) Dejan Pangercic (Robert Bosch LLC, USA) Mihail Pivtoraiko (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Erion Plaku (The Catholic University of America, USA) Ingmar Posner (University of Oxford, UK) Nathan Ratliff (Google, USA) Xiaofeng Ren (Amazon.com and University of Washington, USA) Erol Sahin (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Uluc Saranli (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) Julie Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Stefanie Tellex (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) David S. Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, UK) Alan R. Wagner (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Chieh-Chih Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Matt Zucker (Swarthmore College, USA) Twenty-Fifth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference Chair Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA) Conference CoCchair David Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Program Committee David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Carl F. Andersen (Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA) Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) Markus Bohlin (SICS Swedish ICT AB, Sweden) William Cheetham (General Electric, USA) James Crawford (Moon Express, USA) Jon Curtis (Cycorp, USA) Tom Fawcett (Data Scientists, LLC, USA) Markus Fromherz (Xerox, USA) xl Matt Gaston (CMU SEI, USA) Christopher Geib (Drexel University, USA) Mehmet Goker (Salesforce.com, USA) David Gunning (PARC, a Xerox company, USA) Karen Haigh (BBN Technologies, USA) Neil Jacobstein (Singularity University, USA) Jana Koehler (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art, Switzerland) Hector Munoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA) Nestor Rychtyckyj (Ford Motor Company, USA) Ted Senator (SAIC, USA) Daniel G. Shapiro (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Hideo Shimazu (NEC System Technologies, Japan) Howard E. Shrobe (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA) Reid Smith (Marathon Oil Corporation, USA) David J. Stracuzzi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation (Retired), USA) Peter Z. Yeh (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) G. Michael Youngblood (PARC, a Xerox company, USA) Fourth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence Symposium Cochairs Laura E. Brown (Michigan Technological University, USA) David Kauchak (Middlebury College, USA) Symposium Organizing Committee Chris Brooks (University of San Francisco, USA) John DeNero (Google Inc., USA) Eric Eaton (Bryn Mawr College, USA) Todd Neller (Gettysburg College, USA) Matthew E. Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Kiri L. Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Symposium Program Committee Eric Aaron (Wesleyan University, USA) Stephanie E. August (Loyola Marymount University, USA) Steven Bogaerts (DePauw University, USA) Deb Burhans (Canisius College, USA) Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia, Canada) Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College, USA) Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Doug Fisher (Vanderbilt University, USA) Susan Eileen Fox (Macalester College, USA) Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA) Simon Levy (Washington & Lee University, USA) Percy Liang (Stanford University, USA) Jim Marshall (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) Fred Martin (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Vibhu Mittal (Root-One, Inc, USA) xli Dave Musicant (Carleton College, USA) Keith O’Hara (Bard College, USA) Jeff Pfaffmann (Lafayette College, USA) David Poole (University of British Columbia, Canada) Vasile Rus (The University of Memphis, USA) Paul Ruvolo (Olin College, USA) Devika Subramanian (Rice University, USA) Lisa Torrey (St. Lawrence University, USA) Douglas R. Turnbull (Ithaca College, USA) Michael Wollowski (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) AAAI-13 Student Abstract and Poster Program Cochairs Rudolph Triebel (Technical University Munich, Germany) Kristian Kersting (Fraunhofer IAIS, University of Bonn, Germany) Scott Sanner (NICTA/Australian National University, Australia) Program Committee Members Thomas Ågotnes (University of Bergen, Norway) Babak Ahmadi (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK) Josep Luis Arcos (IIIA-CSIC, Spain) Kai Arras (University of Freiburg, Germany) Roman Bartak (Charles University, Czech Republic) Christian Bauckhage (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Maren Benewitz (University of Freiburg, Germany) Mario Boley (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Sylvain Bouveret (Grenoble INP, France) Oliver Brock (TU Berlin, Germany) Rui Camacho (University of Porto, Portugal) Hubie Chen (Universidad del País Vasco and Ikerbasque, Spain) Amanda Clare (Aberystwyth University, UK) Alvaro Collet (Microsoft, USA) Fabio Cozman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Claudia D’Amato (University of Bari, Italy) Jesse Davis (KU Leuven, Belgium) Eric De La Clergerie (INRIA, France) Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Mehmet Dogar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Anca Dragan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Esra Erdem (Sabanci University, Turkey) Shaheen S. Fatima (Loughborough University, UK) Alan Fern (Oregon State University, USA) Daan Fierens (KU Leuven, Belgium) Thomas Gaertner (University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Guillame Infantes (ONERA, France) xlii Andreas Karwath (University of Mainz, Germany) Ian Kash (Microsoft, UK) Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Angelika Kimmig (KU Leuven, Belgium) Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex, UK) Oliver Kutz (University of Bremen, Germany) Tobias Lang (FU Berlin, Germany) Wenwen Li (Arizona State University, USA) Francesca A. Lisi (University of Bari, Italy) Weiru Liu (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Manuel Lopes (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France) Mausam (University of Washington, USA) Sriraam Natarajan (Wake Forest University, USA) Mathias Niepert (University of Washington, USA) Siegfried Nijssen (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) Eva Onaindia (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Hector Palacios (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK) Ingmar Posner (Oxford University, UK) Nathan Ratliff (Google Pittsburgh, USA) Achim Rettinger (KIT, Germany) Martin Rufli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Scott Sanner (NICTA / Australian National University, Australia) Carles Sierra (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) Matthijs Spaan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Cyrill Stachniss (University of Freiburg, Germany) Kostas Stergiou (University of Western Macedonia, Greece) Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany) Peter Sunehag (Australian National University, Australia) Florent Teichteil-Königsbuch (ONERA, France) Matthias Thimm (University of Koblenz, Germany) Marc Toussaint (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Rudolph Triebel (University of Oxford, UK) Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) Menno Van Zaanen (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Wamberto W. Vasconcelos (University of Aberdeen, UK) Stefan Woelfl (University of Freiburg, Germany) Inon Zuckerman (Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel) Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Peter McBurney (King’s College London, UK) Ayanna Howard (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Program Committee Adam Cannon (Columbia University, USA) xliii Sonia Chernova (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) Berthe Y. Choueiry (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA) Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) Benjamin Hirsch (EBTIC and Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates) Michael Kaisers (Maastricht University, Netherlands) Fred G. Martin (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Tim Miller (University of Melbourne, Australia) Katarzyna Musial (King’s College London, UK) Andrea Omicini (Università di Bologna, Italy) Simon Parsons (Brooklyn College CUNY, USA) Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Aguilar (IIIA – CSIC, Spain) Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College CUNY, USA) Bill Smart (Oregon State University, USA) Rob St. Amant (North Carolina State University, USA) Sebastian Stein (University of Southampton, UK) Matthew E. Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Rogier van Eijk (Utrecht University, Netherlands) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) AI Video Competition Chair Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Cochairs Mauro Birattari (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Rehan O’Grady (IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles) Program Committee David Aha (Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, USA) Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, Italy) Vinay K Chaudhri (SRI International, USA) Babak Esfandiari (Carleton University, Canada) Michael Floyd (Carleton University, Canada) Roderich Gross (University of Sheffield, UK) Sabine Hauert (MIT, USA) Mitja Jermol (JSI, Slovenia) Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (CSIC, Spain) Anders Lyhne Christensen (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland) Ray Perrault (SRI International, USA) Alessandro Saffiotti (University of Örebro, Sweden) Kiri L. Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) David C. Wilson (University of North Carolina, USA) G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina, USA) xliv