Conference Committees
Conference Chair
H. Chad Lane (University of Southern California, USA)
Conference Program Cochairs
G. Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Philip M. McCarthy (Decooda Marketing Insights / e University of Memphis, USA)
Conference Special Tracks Chair
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
General Conference Program Committee
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Elkhlifi Aymen (Université Paris Sorbonne, France)
Motasem Alrahabi (Université Paris Sorbonne, France)
Leopoldo Altamirano (Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Mexico)
Tiffany Barnes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Carole Beal (University of Arizona, USA)
Cosmin Bejan (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Ralph Bergmann (Universität Trier, Germany)
Ateet Bhalla (NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology, India)
Mehul Bhatt (University of Bremen, Germany)
Ismail Biskri (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Justin Brunelle (Old Dominion University, USA)
Debra Burhans (Canisius College, USA)
Leslie Carr (University of Southhampton, UK)
John Champaign (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Maher Chaouachi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
Vincent Cicirello (Richard Stockton College, USA)
Bill Clancey (NASA/Ames Research Center, USA)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Jens Dalgaard Nielsen (Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Spain)
Douglas Dankel (University of Florida, USA)
Belen Diaz-Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Brahim Djioua (Université Paris Sorbonne, France)
Sylvie Doutrie (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France)
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Paula Durlach (US Army Research Institute, USA)
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Rim Faiz (Réseau National Universitaire Tunisien, Tunisia)
Stefano Faralli (Università di Roma, Italy)
Philippe Fournier-Viger (University of Moncton, Canada)
Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Boris Galitsky (University of Girona, Spain)
James Geller (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Konstantinos Georgatos (City University of New York, USA)
Kevin Gold (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Jesus A. Gonzalez (National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico)
Tarek Hamrouni (Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia)
Catherine Havasi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Christian F. Hempelmann (Purdue University, USA)
Verena Henrich (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA)
orna Humphries (Norfolk State University, USA)
Adel Jebali (University Concordia, Canada)
Imène Jraidi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Joseph Kendall-Morwick (DePauw University, USA)
Taghi Khoshgoaar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Ziad Kobti (University of Windsor, Canada)
Jacek Kukluk (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Amruth Kumar (Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA)
Luc Lamontagne (Université Laval, Canada)
Othalia Larue (GDAC Research Laboratory, Canada)
Nguyen-inh Le (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Florian Lemmerich (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Florence Le Priol (Université Paris Sorbonne, France)
James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)
Tao Li (Florida International University, USA)
Weiru Liu (Queens University Belfast, UK)
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
Jeremy Ludwig (Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., USA)
Zdravko Markov (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Noboru Matsuda (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, USA)
Andrew Neel (University of Memphis, USA)
Hien Nguyen (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)
Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Michael O’Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Santiago Ontañón (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain)
Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Laurent Perrussel (Université Tolouse, France)
Paolo Petta (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Austria)
Wuillemin Pierre-Henri (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, France)
Jeff Pittges (Radford University, USA)
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Aliva Pradhan (Montclair State University, USA)
Jorge C. G. Ramirez (Apple, Inc., USA)
B Ravindran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Crystal Redman (Colorado State University, USA)
Carolina Reta (National Institute for Astrophysics, Optics, and Electronics, Mexico)
Kirk Roberts (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Hana Rudová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Vasile Rus (e University of Memphis, USA)
Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford, USA)
Stephan Schulz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Oussema Sellmi (Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis, Tunisia)
Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University, Egypt)
Fahad Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Dan Simovici (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Gheric Speiginer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Brian Stensrud (Soar Technology, Inc., USA)
David Stracuzzi (Arizona State University, USA)
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA)
Doug Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Dan Tamir (Texas State University, USA)
Matthias imm (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)
Art Ward (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Ian Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Dan Wu (University of Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
Additional Reviewers
Mathieu Marquis Bolduc (University of Usherbrooke, Canada)
John A. Doucette (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Michael Eagle (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Usef Faghih (University of Usherbrooke, Canada)
Sarah Gessinger (Universität Trier, Germany)
Sebastian Grg (Universität Trier, Germany)
Drew Hicks (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Matthew Johnson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Andrea Nickel (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Shivashankar Subramanian (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Ilya Waldstein (Drexel University, USA)
Special Track on Affective Computing
Track Chairs
Rafael A. Calvo (University of Sydney, Australia)
Sidney D’Mello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
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Program Committee
Omar Alzoubi (University of Sydney, Australia)
Nick Duran (University of California, Merced, USA)
Roland Goecke (Australian National University, Australia)
Md. Sazzad Hussain (University of Sydney, Australia)
James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)
Blair Lehman (University of Memphis, USA)
Christine Lisetti (Florida International University, USA)
Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Daniel Messinger (University of Miami, USA)
Amber Strain (University of Memphis, USA)
Egon L. Van Den Broek (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Special Track on AI, Cognitive Semantics,
Computational Linguistics, and Logic
Track Chairs
Ismail Biskri (Université de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada)
Adel Jebali (Concordia University, Canada)
Florence Le Priol (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Anca Pascu (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Program Committee
Maryvonne Abraham (TELECOM-Bretagne, France)
David Banks (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Walter Carnielli (University of Campinas, Brazil)
François-Gilles Carpentier (Université de Brest, France)
Richard Dapoigny (Université de Savoie, France)
Kathelijne Denturck (University College Ghent, Belgium)
Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Brahim Djioua (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Rim Faiz (Université du 7 novembre à Carthage, Tunisia)
Boris Galitsky (Knowledge Trail, USA)
Vera Goodacre (George Mason University, USA)
Zlatka Guentchéva (CNRS, France)
Ewa Gwiazdecka (Universiy of Warsawa, Poland)
Eva Hajiova (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Susan Haller (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Klara Ladji (University of Tirana, Albania)
Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Peter Lazarov (Université de Sofia, Bulgaria)
Leila Kosseim (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Jean-Guy Meunier (Université de Québec à Montréal,Canada)
Ghassan Mourad (Université de Beyrouth, Lebanon)
Patrice Pognan (INALCO, Paris, France)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Christophe Roche (Université de Savoie, France)
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Benoît Sauzay (France TELECOM)
Jong-Seok Soh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)
Jungyeon Suh (Seoul Women’s University, Korea)
Jana Sukkariek (ETS, USA)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Track Chairs
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
Mihai Linten (University of Memphis, USA)
Program Committee
Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India)
Lee Becker (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
Cosmin Adrian Bejan (University of Southern California, USA)
Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Chutima Boonthum (Hampton University, USA)
Justin Brunelle (Old Dominion University, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Andrea Corradini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Asif Ekbal (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
Stefano Faralli (University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy)
Anna Feldman (Montclair State University, USA)
Katherine M. Forbes Riley (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Christian Hempelmann (RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University, USA)
Verena Henrich (University of Tubingen, Germany)
Diana Inkpen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Pamela Jordan (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Christel Kemke (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Fazel Keshtkar (University of Memphis, USA)
Travis Lamkin (University of Memphis, USA)
Mihai Lintean (University of Memphis, USA)
Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mehdi Manshadi (University of Rochester, USA)
Phil McCarthy (University of Memphis, USA)
Manish Mehta (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Cristian Moldovan (University of Memphis, USA)
Cristina Nicolae (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Nobal Niraula (University of Memphis, USA)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Shiyan Ou (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Gilles Richard (Paul Sabatier University, France)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)
Hansen A. Schwartz (University of Central Florida, USA)
Svetlana Stoyanchev (e Open University, UK)
Rene Venegas (Pontificia University, Chile)
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Nina Wacholder (Rutgers University, USA)
Michael Wiegand (Saarland University, Germany)
Alistair Willis (e Open University, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Amitava Das (Jadavpur University, India)
Dipankar Das (Jadavpur University, India)
Nathan Michalov (Montclair State University, USA)
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education
Track Chairs
Jim Marshall (Sarah Lawrence College, USA)
Todd Neller (Gettysburg College, USA)
Program Committee
Bob Aiken (Temple University, USA)
Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University, USA)
Debra Burhans (Canisius College, USA)
Eric Chown (Bowdoin College, USA)
Andrea Danyluk (Williams College, USA)
Zachary Dodds (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
David Furcy (University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, USA)
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis (University of Patras, Greece)
Ellen Hildreth (Wellesley College, USA)
Frank Klassner (Villanova University, USA)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
Simon Levy (Washington and Lee University, USA)
Chun Wai Liew (Lafayette College, USA)
Shieu-Hong Lin (Biola University, USA)
Derek Long (University of Strathclyde, UK)
R. Mark Meyer (Canisius College, USA)
Dave Mooney (Shippensburg University, USA)
Jeffrey Pfaffmann (Lafayette College, USA)
John Rager (Amherst College, USA)
Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford, USA)
Mehran Sahami (Stanford University, USA)
Rebecca omas (Bard College, USA)
Ellen Walker (Hiram College, USA)
Sarah Zelikovitz (City University of New York, USA)
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Track Chairs
Michael W. Floyd (Carleton University, Canada)
Antonio A. Sánchez-Ruiz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
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Program Committee
David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Isabelle Bichindaritz (University of Washington, Tacoma, USA)
Bill Cheetham (GE Global Research, USA)
Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Belén Díaz-Agudo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Pedro Antonio González-Calero (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Luc Lamontagne (Laval University, Canada)
David B. Leake (Indiana University, USA)
Hector Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA)
Santiago Ontañón (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Spain)
Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Juan A. Recio-García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
omas Roth-Berghofer (University of West London, UK)
Ian Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
David C. Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Nirmalie Wiratunga (e Robert Gordon University, UK)
Additional Reviewers
Ibrahim Adeyanju (e Robert Gordon University, UK)
Jonathan Rubin (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence
Track Chairs
Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah (Mimos Berhad, Malaysia)
Bill Clancey (NASA Ames / Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
Program Committee
Duarte Araujo (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Stephen Briner (DePaul University, USA)
Les A. Carr (University of Southampton, UK)
Sylvain Chartier (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Wai-Tat Fu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Hans-Christian Jetter (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Khamsum Kinley (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Jerry Lin (University of Southern California, USA)
Luis Morgado (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal)
Stellan Ohlsson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Marc Spraragen (University of Southern California, USA)
Special Track on Data Mining
Track Chairs
David Bisant (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
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William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Program Committee
Rafal Angryk (Montana State University, USA)
Martin Atzmueller (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Jim Austin (e University of York, UK)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Serge Dolenko (Skobeltsyn Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Federation)
Jesus Gonzalez (NIAOE, Mexico)
Steven Gutstein (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Hyoil Han (Drexel University, USA)
Lawrence Holder (Washington State University, USA)
Mike James (Infomax Group, UK)
Jacek Kukluk (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA)
SeungJin Lim (Marshall University, USA)
Luis Marti (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Eduardo Morales (NIAOE, Mexico)
Jeff Pittges (Radford University, USA)
Jorge Ramirez (Apple Computer, USA)
Sergio Roa (German Research Center for AI, Germany)
Roberto Santana (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Douglas Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Reza Tayebnejad (Verizon Business Solutions, USA)
Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Special Track on Games and Entertainment
Track Chairs
D. Hunter Hale (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Fritz Heckel (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Program Committee
Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta, Canada)
Jeff Orkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida, USA)
Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Track Chairs
Robert G. M. Hausmann (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
G. Tanner Jackson (Arizona State University, USA)
Program Committee
Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Carole R. Beal (University of Arizona, USA)
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Stephen Blessing (University of Tampa, USA)
Paul Brna (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Winslow Burleson (Arizona State University, USA)
Mark G. Core (University of Southern California / ICT, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Rania Hodhod (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
H. Chad Lane (University of Southern California, ICT, USA)
James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)
R. Charles Murray (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
Roger Nkambou (University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada)
Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Niels Pinkwart (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Steve Ritter (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
Rod Roscoe (Arizona State University, USA)
Art Ward (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Samantha Finkelstein (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction
Track Chairs
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
Rebecca Caldwell (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Program Committee
Blaize Blackmon (Hampton University, USA)
orna Humphries (Norfolk State University, USA)
Elva Jones (Winston-Salem State University, USA)
Jessica Jones (Clemson University, USA)
Xuejun Liang (Jackson State University, USA)
LaVonne Manning (University of District of Columbia, USA)
Aaron Rababaah (University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA)
Gheric Speiginer (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Cheryl Swanier (Fort Valley State University, USA)
Ju Wang (Virginia State University, USA)
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Track Chairs
Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany)
Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada)
Program Committee
Xiangdong An (York University, Canada)
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Salem Benferhat (University of Artois, France)
Fabio Cozman (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Fabio Cuzzolin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Sylvie Doutre (University of Toulouse, France)
Marek Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Konstantinos Georgatos (City University New York, USA)
Kevin Grant (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Souhila Kaci (University of Montpellier 2, France)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Kristian Kersting (University of Bonn, Germany)
Weiru Liu (Queen’s University of Belfast, UK)
Tsai-Ching Lu (HRL Laboratories, USA)
Anders Madsen (HUGIN Expert, Denmark)
Cristina Manfredotti (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Malek Mouhoub (University of Regina, Canada)
Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
omas Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Laurent Perrussel (University of Toulouse, France)
Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, USA)
Paul Snow (New Hampshire, USA)
Luis Enrique Sucar (NIAOE, Mexico)
Choh-Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
Dan Wu (University of Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
Changhe Yuan (Mississippi State University, USA)
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