Conference Committees
Conference Chair
G. Michael Youngblood (PARC, a Xerox Company, USA)
Conference Program Cochairs
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
Conference Special Tracks Coordinator
Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford, USA)
General Conference Program Committee
Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel, Germany)
Juan Banda (Montana State University, USA)
Roman Barták (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany)
Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Ateet Bhalla (Oriental Institute of Science and Technology, India)
David Bisant (e Laboratory for Physical Sciences, USA)
Ismail Biskri (Université de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada)
Emmanuel Blanchard (ATLAS Laboratory, McGill University, Canada)
Paul Brna (University of Leeds, UK)
Justin Brunelle (Old Dominion University, USA)
Rebecca Caldwell (Winston Salem State University, USA)
Ricardo A. Calix (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
John Champaign (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Jeff Chastain (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Maher Chaouachi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Soon Ae Chun (City University of New York, USA)
Vincent Cicirello (Richard Stockton College, USA)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Emre Celebi (Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Mark Core (University of Southern California)
Andrea Corradini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Douglas Dankel (University of Florida, USA)
Richard Dapoigny (Université de Savoie, France)
Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
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Belén Díaz-Agudo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Sylvie Doutre (University of Toulouse, France)
Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Michael W. Floyd (Carleton University, Canada)
Susan Fox (Macalester College, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University)
TZU-Keng Fu (e University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Gilles Richard (Paul Sabatier University, France)
Mehmet Goker (Salesforce.com, USA)
Vera Goodacre (George Mason University, USA)
Rachel Green (Onyx Point Inc., USA)
Hyoil Han (Marshall University, USA)
Catherine Havasi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Larry Holder (Washington State University, USA)
Manfred Huber (University of Texas – Arlington, USA)
Leili Javadpour (Louisiana State University, USA)
Christophe Jouis (Universié Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
Imène Jraidi (University of Montreal, Canada)
Christel Kemke (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Joseph Kendall-Morwick (DePauw University, USA)
Mehdi Khazaeli (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ziad Kobti (University of Windsor, Canada)
Leila Kosseim (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Luc Lamontagne (Laval University, Canada)
Chad Lane (University of Southern California, USA)
Florence Le Priol (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Xiaofei Lu (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Jeremy Ludwig (Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., USA)
Cristina Manfredotti (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Zdravko Markov (Central Connecticut State University, USA)
Phil McCarthy (Decooda, USA)
Jean-Guy Meunier (Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Takunari Miyazaki (Trinity College, USA)
Andrea Moro (Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Italy)
Malek Mouhoub (University Regina, Canada)
Chas Murray (Carnegie Learning Inc., USA)
Eric Neufeld (University Saskatchewan, Canada)
Nobal Niraula (University of Memphis, USA)
Michael O’Mahony (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Manish Mehta (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Kasia Muldner (Arizona State University, USA)
Santiago Ontanon (Drexel University, USA)
Anca Pascu (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Chao Peng (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Laurent Perrussel (IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France)
Niels Pinkwart (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
Jeff Pittges (Radford University, USA)
Jon Preston (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
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Crystal Redman (Colorado State University, USA)
Gilles Richard (British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, UK)
Cian Robinson (University of Louisiana – Lafayette, USA)
Antonio A. Sánchez Ruiz-Granados (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Roberto Santana (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Eugene Santos Jr. (Dartmouth College, USA)
Stephan Schulz (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University, Egypt)
Fahad Shah (University of Central Florida, USA)
Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina)
Dan Simovici (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Paul Snow (University of New Hampshire, USA)
David Stracuzzi (Arizona State University, USA)
Geoff Sutcliffe (University of Miami, USA)
Choh-Man Teng (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)
Leon Van Der Torre (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Erin Walker (Arizona State University, USA)
David C. Wilson (University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
Pierre-Henri Wuillemin (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, France)
Yang Xiang (University of Guelph, Canada)
G. Michael Youngblood (PARC, a Xerox Company, USA)
Slawomir Zadrozny (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Special Track on Affective Computing
Track Chairs
Gerald M. Knapp (Louisiana State University, USA)
Sidney D’Mello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Program Committee
Ricardo A. Calix (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Leili Javadpour (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Mehdi Khazaeli (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Cian Robinson (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Special Track on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business
Track Chairs
Rachel Green (Onyx Point, USA)
Chayan Chakrabarti (University of New Mexico, USA)
Philip McCarthy (Decooda Inc., USA)
Program Committee
Rachel Green (Onyx Point, USA)
Chayan Chakrabarti (University of New Mexico, USA)
Philip McCarthy (Decooda Inc., USA)
George F. Luger (University of New Mexico, USA)
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Brandon Loudermilk (Decooda Inc., USA)
Ricardo Calix (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Sachin Joglekar (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India)
Kevin Carter (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Tae-Hoon Kim (Purdue University Calumet, USA)
Nina Marhamati (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Michael Winterrose (MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA)
Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing
Track Chairs
Fazel Keshtkar (Southeast Missouri State University, USA)
Chutima Boonthum (Hampton University, USA)
Program Committee
Michael Wiegand (Spoken Language Systems, Saarland University, Germany)
Shiyan Ou (Nanjing University, China)
Andrea Moro (Sapienza, Universita di Roma, Italy)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale – CNR, Canada)
H. Andrew Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Asif Ekbal (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Verena Henrich (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Nobal B. Niraula (University of Memphis, USA)
Christian F. Hempelmann (RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University, USA)
Manishauthor Mehta (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Eric Bell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Xiaofei Lu (e Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, USA)
Christel Kemke (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Gilles Richard (British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, UK)
Xiaoxi Xu (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Taher Pilehvar (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Games and Multimedia
Track Chair
D. Michael Franklin (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Program Committee
Jon Preston (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Jeffrey Chastine (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
Chao Peng (Southern Polytechnic State University, USA)
G. Michael Youngblood (PARC, a Xerox Company, USA)
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Special Track on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Informatics
Track Chairs
Doug Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Steve Talbert (University of Central Florida, USA)
Program Committee
Manfred Huber (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
David Kong (Duke University, USA)
Russ Waitman (University of Kansas, USA)
Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning
Track Chairs
Joseph Kendall-Morwick (Capital University, USA)
Vahid Jalali (Indiana University, USA)
Program Committee
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
Isabelle Bichindaritz (State University of New York at Oswego, USA)
Sarah Jane Delany (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Michael Floyd (Carleton University, Canada)
Pedro González-Calero (Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain)
Mehmet Göker (Salesforce.com, USA)
Luc Lamontagne (Université Laval, Canada)
David Leake (Indiana University, USA)
Hector Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University, USA)
Santiago Ontañón (Drexel University, USA)
Ashwin Ram (PARC, a Xerox Company, USA)
Juan Recio-García (Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain)
omas Roth-Berghofer (University of West London, England)
Antonio Sánchez-Ruiz (Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain)
Ian Watson (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Rosina Weber (Drexel University, USA)
David Wilson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Nirmalie Wiratunga (Robert Gordon University, Scotland)
Special Track on Culture-Aware AI Systems
Track Chair
Colette Faucher (AMU, France)
Program Committee
Serge Agostinelli (AMU, France)
Emmanuel Blanchard (McGill University, Canada)
Enrico Blanzieri (University of Trento, Italy)
Helen Bond (Howard University, USA)
Jacqueline Bourdeau (TELUQ, Canada)
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Fernando Ferri (Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione et Politiche Sociali, Italy)
Paolo Giorgini (University of Trento, Italy)
Clark Glymour (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Patrizia Grifoni (Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione et Politiche Sociali, Italy)
Eva Hudlicka (Psychometrix Associates, USA)
W. Lewis Johnson (Alelo Inc., USA)
Cat Kutay (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Christine Lisetti (Florida International University, USA)
Douglas M. Medin (Northwestern University, USA)
Riichiro Misoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
Martin Neumann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Amy Ogan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Elaine Raybourne (Sandia National Labs, USA)
Matthias Rehm (Aalborg University, Denmark)
German Rigau (Departamento de LSI, Facultad de Informática de San Sebastián, Spain)
Special Track on Data Mining
Track Chairs
David Bisant (Central Security Svcs., USA)
William Eberle (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Program Committee
Rafal Angryk (Georgia State University, USA)
Martin Atzmueller (University of Kassel, Germany)
Jim Austin (e University of York, United Kingdom)
Juan Banda (Montana State University, USA)
Emre Celebi (Louisiana State University, USA)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA )
Serge Dolenko (D. V. Skobeltsyn Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Federation)
Olac Fuentes (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Jesus Gonzalez (NIAOE, Mexico)
Hyoil Han (Marshall University, USA)
Lawrence Holder (Washington State University, USA)
Mike James (iProgrammer, United Kingdom)
Jacek Kukluk (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, USA)
SeungJin Lim (Marshall University, USA)
Eduardo Morales (NIAOE, Mexico)
Jeff Pittges (Radford University, USA)
Roberto Santana (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Douglas Talbert (Tennessee Technological University, USA)
Slawomir Zadrozny (Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Mohammad Tayebnejad (Verizon Business Solutions, USA)
Florian Lemmerich (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
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Special Track on Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Track Chairs
Roman Barták (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
David Obdržálek (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Program Committee
Dimitris Alimisis (School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece)
Richard Balogh (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)
Jean-Daniel Dessimoz (West Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Malik Ghallab (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Achim Gottscheber (SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany)
Tara Estlin (NASA JPL, USA)
Nick Hawes (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California, USA)
Miroslav Kulich (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Maxim Likhachev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Libor Přeučil (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Martin Saska (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
David Vernon (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Track Chairs
Rod D. Roscoe (Arizona State University, USA)
James R. Segedy (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Program Committee
Satabdi Basu (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Mark Core (University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)
Scotty Craig (Arizona State University, USA)
Reva Freedman (Northern Illinois University, USA)
Manolis Mavrikis (London Knowledge Lab, UK)
Katarzyna Muldner (Arizona State University, USA)
Chas Murray (Carnegie Learning, Inc., USA)
Niels Pinkwart (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Erin Walker (Arizona State University, USA)
Ruth Wylie (Arizona State University, USA)
Special Track on Robotics
Track Chairs
Rebecca Caldwell (Winston-Salem State Univiersity, USA)
LaVonne Manning (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Program Committee
David Barnett (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
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Elva Jones (Winston-Salem State Univiersity, USA)
Lily Liang (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Cheryl Swanier (Fort Valley State University, USA)
Briana Wellman (University of the District of Columbia, USA)
Emil Weydert (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Special Track on Semantics, Logics, and Information Extraction
Track Chairs
Christophe Jouis (Université de Paris 6, France)
Ismail Biskri (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Adel Jebali (Université Concordia, Montréal, Canada)
Anca Pascu (Université de Brest, France)
Program Committee
Maryvonne Abraham (Institut Telecom, Telecom-Bretagne, France)
Jean-Yves Beziau (Brazilian Research Council, Brazil)
Walter Carnielli (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Richard Dapoigny (Université de Savoie, France)
Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Al Moatasem Alrahabi (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France, and Abu-Dhabi, UAE)
Rim Faiz (IHEC de Carthage, Université du 7 novembre à Carthage, Tunisia)
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (Université Paris 3, LIP6 – CNRS, France)
Vera Goodacre (George Mason University, USA)
Eva Hajiova (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Ankit Jain (Google, USA)
Leila Kosseim (University Concordia, Montreal, Canada)
Vladislav Kubon (University Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Florence Le Priol (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France)
Jean-Guy Meunier (Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Ghassan Mourad (Université de Beyrouth, Lebanon)
Widad Mustafa El Hadi (Université Lille, France)
Patrice Pognan (INALCO, Paris, France)
Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning
Track Chairs
Souhila Kaci (University of Montpellier 2, France)
Matthias imm (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Program Committee
Xiangdong An (York University, Canada)
Claudia D’Amato (Bari University, Italy)
Christoph Beierle (University of Hagen, Germany)
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Cory Butz (University of Regina, Canada)
Fabio Cuzzolin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Sylvie Doutre (University Toulouse, France)
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Marek Druzdzel (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Love Ekenberg (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Konstantinos Georgatos (CUNY, USA)
Lluis Godo (IIIA, Spanish National Research Council, Spain)
Gabriele Kern-Isberner (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Weiru Liu (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Anders Madsen (HUGIN Expert, Denmark)
Nicholas Mattei (NICTA/University of New South Wales, Australia)
Eric Neufeld (University Saskatchewan, Canada)
Laurent Perrussel (IRIT, University of Toulouse, France)
Eugene Santos (Dartmouth College, USA)
Paul Snow (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Luis E. Sucar (Institute for Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics, Mexico)
Choh-Man Teng (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, USA)
Dan Wu (University Windsor, Canada)
Yang Xiang (University Guelph, Canada)
Changhe Yuan (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
Additional Reviewers
Giuseppe Rizzo (Bari University, Italy)
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