Tenth Annual AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium
July 9-10, 2005
Pittsburgh, PA (co-located with AAAI 2005)
Chair: Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Location: Allegheny III, third floor of the Westin Hotel

All AAAI attendees are invited to attend the Doctoral Consortium. Coffee and tea at breaks, and sandwiches for lunch, will be provided for student presenters and discussion leaders.

SATURDAY, JULY 9

TimePresenterTopic (link to abstract)Discussion Leader
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.Kiri Wagstaff Welcome
9:00 - 9:45Jennifer Neville Structure Learning for Statistical Relational Models Terran Lane
9:45 - 10:30Shimon Whiteson Improving Reinforcement Learning Function Approximators via Neuroevolution Terran Lane
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45Bhaskara Marthi Concurrent Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Sven Koenig
11:45 - 12:30 p.m.Trey Smith Rover Science Autonomy: Probabilistic Planning for Science-Aware Exploration Sven Koenig
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:15Snehal Thakkar Planning for Geospatial Data Integration Manuela Veloso
2:15 - 3:00Ozgur Simsek Towards Competence in Autonomous Agents Manuela Veloso
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:15Mykel J. Kochenderfer Adaptive Modeling and Planning for Reactive Agents Marie desJardins
4:15 - 5:00Vincent Conitzer Computational Aspects of Mechanism Design Michael Littman
6:30 - ? Group dinner, location TBD

SUNDAY, JULY 10

TimePresenterTopicDiscussion Leader
9:00 - 9:45 a.m.Jacob Beal Leveraging Language into Learning Kiri Wagstaff
9:45 - 10:30Xin Li Self-Emergence of Structures in Gene Expression Programming Kiri Wagstaff
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45Ellen Campana An Empirical Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Naturalness in Spoken Dialog System Rada Mihalcea
11:45 - 12:30 p.m.Ani Nenkova Discourse Factors in Multi-Document Summarization Dan Gildea
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30Marie desJardins and Terran Lane Group Discussion:
How To Get the Most out of Conference Attendance (Terran Lane)
How to Write up and Present Your Research (Marie desJardins)
2:30 - 3:15Radu Soricut Natural Language Generation for Text-Based Applications Using an Information-Slim Representation Dan Gildea
3:15 - 4:00Mark James Carman Learning Source Descriptions for Web Services Rob St. Amant
4:00 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:00Li Ding On Boosting Semantic Web Data Access Katia Sycara
5:00 - 5:45Wolfgang Ketter Dynamic Regime Identification and Prediction Based on Observed Behavior in Electronic Marketplaces Katia Sycara
5:45 - 6:00Kiri Wagstaff Wrap-up

Kiri Wagstaff < Email : kiri.wagstaff@jpl.nasa.gov >
Last modified: Sun Nov 6 14:23:19 2005