2006 AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium Schedule

Eleventh Annual AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium
July 16-17, 2006
Boston, MA (part of AAAI 2006 and UAI 2006)
Chair: Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Co-chair: Terran Lane, University of New Mexico
Location: Constitution Room, Mezzanine Level of the Seaport Hotel

All AAAI attendees are invited to attend the Doctoral Consortium. Coffee and tea at breaks, and sandwiches for lunch, will be provided for mentors and student presenters (oral and poster).

SUNDAY, JULY 16

Time	Presenter	Topic	Discussion Leader
8:45 - 9:00 a.m.	Kiri Wagstaff	Welcome/Introductions
9:00 - 9:45	Chaofan Sun	Adaptive Support Vector Machine Learning with Data Selection	Kiri Wagstaff
9:45 - 10:30	Tao Wang	Action Selection in Bayesian Reinforcement Learning [ Slides ]	Terran Lane
10:30 - 11:00		Break
11:00 - 11:45	Bhaskar Mehta	Cross System Personalization by Learning Manifold Alignments	David Aha
11:45 - 12:45 p.m.	Poster Presenters	Poster Overviews (3 minutes each)
12:45 - 2:00		Lunch
2:00 - 2:45	Rachel Greenstadt	Privatizing Constraint Optimization [ Slides ]	Rob St. Amant
2:45 - 3:30	Mohan Sridharan	Robust Autonomous Structure-based Color Learning on a Mobile Robot [ Slides ]	Dragos Margineantu
3:30 - 4:00		Break
4:00 - 4:45	Janae N. Foss	Techniques for Generating Optimal, Robust Plans when Temporal Uncertainty is Present	Doina Precup
4:45 - 5:30	Arnav Jhala	Darshak: An Intelligent Cinematic Camera Planning System [ Slides ]	Sven Koenig
7:00 - ? (meet at 6:15 in the lobby)		Group banquet, Elephant Walk

MONDAY, JULY 17

Time	Presenter	Topic	Discussion Leader
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	Rod Brooks Eugene Charniak Tom Mitchell	Panel: What Has AI Accomplished, and Where is it Going?
10:00 - 10:45	Michel Galley	Automatic Summarization of Conversational Multi-party Speech [ Slides ]	Rada Mihalcea
10:45 - 11:15		Break
11:15 - 12:00	Yun Gyung Cheong	A Computational Model of Narrative Generation for Suspense [ Slides ]	Colleen van Lent
12:00 - 12:45 p.m.	Martin Michalowski	A Generalized Query Framework for Geospatial Reasoning [ Slides ]	Colleen van Lent
12:45 - 2:00		Lunch
2:00 - 3:00	Jennifer Dy Silviu-Petru Cucerzan Colleen van Lent	Panel: What Can I Do with a Ph.D.? Perspectives on Research, Teaching, and Industry Careers
3:00 - 3:45	Andrew Fast	Learning Models of Macrobehavior in Complex Adaptive Systems [ Slides ]	Michael Littman
3:45 - 4:15		Break
4:15 - 5:00	Eric Eaton	Multi-Resolution Learning for Knowledge Transfer	Michael Littman
5:00 - 5:45	Abraham Bagherjeiran	A Value Theory of Meta-Learning Algorithms [ Slides ]	Marie desJardins
5:45 - 6:00	Kiri Wagstaff	Wrap-up

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19

Poster presentations by all student participants, in the main AAAI poster session (time and location TBA).

Poster-only presenters:

Fernanda Caropreso (University of Ottowa): Towards a Text Representation for Sentence Selection
Jinying Chen (University of Pennsylvania): Towards High-Performance Word Sense Disambiguation by Combining Rich Linguistic Knowledge and Machine Learning Approaches
Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez (University of Oklahoma): Choosing Characteristics for Genetic Algorithms
Laura Dietz (IPSI, Germany): Probabilistic Topic Models to Support a Scientific Community
Seyda Ertekin (Pennsylvania State University): Fast Automatic Classification with Online Support Vector Machines
Harry Halpin (University of Edinburgh, UK): A Functional Framework for Creating Shallow Semantics
Ron Katz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Automated Negotiators Using Generic and Demographic Opponent Modeling
Wenhui Liao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): Dynamic and Active Information Fusion for Decision Making Under Uncertainty
James Niehaus (North Carolina State University): Employing Cognitive Theories of Discourse Comprehension to Improve Learning in Interactive Narratives
Peter Owotoki (Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg, Germany): Intelligent Monitoring for Preventive Maintenance of Aircraft Systems
Ashwin Satyanarayana (State University of New York, Albany): Intelligent Data Selection Using Sampling and Filtering
Gita Sukthankar (Carnegie Mellon University): Activity Recognition for Physically-Embodied Agent Teams
Jim Thomas (North Carolina State University): A Collaborative Authoring Environment for Plan-Based Interactive Narrative
Rattapoom Tuchinda (University of Southern California, ISI): Interactively Building Information Integration Agents

Kiri Wagstaff < Email : kiri.wagstaff@jpl.nasa.gov >

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