22nd European
Conference on
Artificial
Intelligence
29 aug - 02 sep

Program

ECAI 2016 is held in convention center the World Forum in The Hague.

For details about the programs of the workshops, tutorials and the STAIRS conference on Monday and Tuesday, please visit their respective sites.

Please contact Program Chairs if you have any conflicts.

ECAI – CI X Opening Reception on Tuesday 18.30-21:00
Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
King Willem Alexander
chair: Jaap v.d. Herik

Reinforcement Learning

Papers:

  • Revisiting the Cross Entropy Method with Applications in Stochastic Global Optimization and RL
    Ajin George Joseph, Shalabh Bhatnagar
  • Online Adaptation of Deep Architectures through Reinforcement Learning
    Thushan Ganegedara, Fabio Ramos, Lionel Ott
  • Dynamic Choice of State Abstraction in Q-learning
    Marco Tamassia, Fabio Zambetta, William Raffe, Florian Mueller, Xiaodong Li
  • Budgeted Multi-Armed Bandit in Continuous Action Space
    Francesco Trovò, Stefano Paladino, Marcello Restelli, Nicola Gatti
  • Socially-aware Multiagent Learning towards Socially Optimal Outcomes
    Xiaohong Li, Chengwei Zhang, Jianye Hao, Karl Tuyls, Siqi Chen

 

Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 1
chair: Daniele Magazzeni

Planning

Papers:

  • Analysing Approximability and Heuristics in Planning Using the Exponential-time Hypothesis
    Meysam Aghighi, Christer Bäckström, Peter Jonsson, Simon Ståhlberg
  • Combining Deterministic and Nondeterministic Search for Optimal Journey Planning Under Uncertainty
    Akihiro Kishimoto, Adi Botea, Elizabeth Daly
  • Interval-Based Relaxation for General Numeric Planning
    Enrico Scala, Patrik Haslum, Sylvie Thiébaux
  • Mathematical Programming Models for Optimizing Partial-Order Plan Flexibility
    Buser Say, Andre Augusto Cire, Chris Beck
  • More than a Name? – On Implications of Preconditions and Effects of Compound HTN Planning Tasks
    Pascal Bercher, Daniel Höller, Gregor Behnke, Susanne Biundo

 

Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 2
chair: Reyhan Aydogan

Robotics

Papers:

  • Multi-Robot Adversarial Coverage
    Roi Yehoshua, Noa Agmon
  • A Probabilistic Logic Programming Approach to Automatic Video Montage
    Bram Aerts, Toon Goedemé, Joost Vennekens
  • Adaptive symbiotic collaboration for targeted complex manipulation tasks
    Rui Silva, Francisco Melo, Manuela Veloso
  • Towards Lifelong Object Learning by Integrating Situated Robot Perception and Semantic Web Mining
    Jay Young, Valerio Basile, Lars Kunze, Elena Cabrio, Nick Hawes
  • Interruptible Task Execution with Resumption in Golog
    Gesche Gierse, Tim Niemueller, Jens Claßen, Gerhard Lakemeyer

 

Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
Mississippi
chair: Wojtek Jamroga

Game Theory

Papers:

  • Leader-Follower MDP models with factored state space and many followers — Followers abstraction
    Regis Sabbadin, Anne-France Viet
  • A Distributed Asynchronous Solver for Nash Equilibria in Hypergraphical Games
    Mohamed Wahbi, Kenneth Brown
  • Formalizing Commitment-based Deals in Boolean Games
    Sofie De Clercq, Steven Schockaert, Anne Nowe, Martine De Cock
  • On the Construction of High Dimensional Simple Games
    Martin Olsen, Sascha Kurz, Xavier Molinero
  • Situation Calculus Game Structures and GDL
    Giuseppe De Giacomo, Yves Lesperance, Adrian Pearce

 

Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
Amazon
chair: Christoph Schwering

Knowledge Representation

Papers:

  • Exploring Parallel Tractability of Ontology Materialization
    Zhangquan Zhou, Guilin Qi, Birte Glimm
  • Complexity of Probabilistic Datalog+\-
    Ismail Ceylan, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Rafael Penaloza Nyssen
  • Entity Embeddings with Conceptual Subspaces as a Basis for Plausible Reasoning
    Shoaib Jameel, Steven Schockaert
  • Strategy Representation and Reasoning in the Situation Calculus
    Liping Xiong, Yongmei Liu
  • A Minimization-Based Approach to Iterated Multi-Agent Belief Change
    Paul Vicol, James Delgrande, Torsten Schaub

 

Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:10
Europe 1&2
chair: Guido Governatori

Argumentation

Papers:

  • Synthesizing Argumentation Frameworks from Examples
    Andreas Niskanen, Johannes Wallner, Matti Järvisalo
  • Strategical Argumentative Agent for Human Persuasion
    Rosenfeld Ariel, Sarit Kraus
  • A Rational Account of Classical Logic Argumentation for Real-world Agents
    Marcello DAgostino, Sanjay Modgil
  • Two Dimensional Uncertainty in Persuadee Modelling in Argumentation
    Anthony Hunter
  • Solving Set Optimization Problems by Cardinality Optimization with an Application to Argumentation
    Wolfgang Faber, Mauro Vallati, Federico Cerutti, Massimiliano Giacomin

 

Wednesday, 12:10 – 13:30
Lobby & Onyx

Lunch – Posters – Demos –
Exhibition – Soapbox presentations

Demos:

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
King Willem Alexander
chair: Barry O’Sullivan

PhD Award Session

Schedule:

13:30 – 13:35:Introduction to the award and winner
13:35 – 14:05:EurAI Best Disseration Award 2015:
Planning and Scheduling in Temporally Uncertain Domains
Andrea Micheli
14:05 – 14:10:Introduction to the honourable mentions
14:10 – 14:30:EurAI Dissertation Award Honourable Mention 2015:
Reinforcement Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
Matteo Pirotta
14:30 – 14:50:EurAI Dissertation Award Honourable Mention 2015:
Search, propagation, and learning in sequencing and scheduling problems
Mohamed Siala

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
Yangtze 1
chair: Louise Dennis

Norms in MAS

Papers:

  • Accelerating Norm Emergence through Hierarchical Heuristic Learning
    Tianpei Yang, Zhaopeng Meng, Jianye Hao, Sandip Sen, Chao Yu
  • A Bayesian approach to norm identification
    Stephen Cranefield, Felipe Meneguzzi, Nir Oren, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu
  • A Dynamic Logic of Norm Change
    Max Knobbout, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer
  • Distributed Controllers for Norm Enforcement
    Bas Testerink, Mehdi Dastani, Nils Bulling

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
Yangtze 2
chair: Eyke Hullermeyer

PAIS

Papers:

  • Planning Search and Rescue Missions for UAV Teams
    Chris A. B. Baker, Sarvapali Ramchurn, W. T. Luke Teacy and Nicholas R. Jennings
  • Rapid Adaptation of Air Combat Behaviour
    Armon Toubman, Jan Joris Roessingh, Pieter Spronck, Aske Plaat and H. Jaap Van den Herik
  • A Practical Approach to Fuse Shape and Appearance Information in a Gaussian Facial Action Estimation Framework
    Teena Hassan, Dominik Seuss, Johannes Wollenberg, Jens Garbas and Ute Schmid
  • Learning the Repair Urgency for a Decision Support System for Tunnel Maintenance
    Yiannis Gatsoulis, Vania Dimitrova, Derek Magee, Bastien Sage-Vallier, Patrick Thiaudiere, Joaquin Valdes and Anthony Cohn

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
Mississippi
chair: Concha Bielza

Learning

Papers:

  • Student-t Process Regression with dependent Student-t noise
    Qingtao Tang, Yisen Wang, Shu-Tao Xia
  • Semi-supervised Group Sparse Representation: Model, Algorithm and Applications
    Longwen Gao, Yeqing Li, Junzhou Huang, Shuigeng Zhou
  • Making sense of item response theory in machine learning
    Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Ricardo Prudêncio, Adolfo Martinez-Uso, Jose Hernandez-Orallo
  • Constant Time EXPected Similarity Estimation for Large-Scale Anomaly Detection
    Markus Schneider, Wolfgang Ertel, Günther Palm

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
Amazon
chair: Jens Claßen

Inference

Papers:

  • Skeptical, Weakly Skeptical, and Credulous Inference Based on Preferred Ranking Functions
    Christoph Beierle, Christian Eichhorn, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Steven Kutsch
  • Propositional Abduction with Implicit Hitting Sets
    Alexey Ignatiev, Antonio Morgado, Joao Marques-Silva
  • Decidable Reasoning in a First-Order Logic of Limited Conditional Belief
    Christoph Schwering, Gerhard Lakemeyer
  • Parameterised Model Checking for Alternating-time Temporal Logic
    Panagiotis Kouvaros, Alessio R. Lomuscio

 

Wednesday, 13:30 – 14:50
Europe 1&2
chair: Christoph Sommer

Sentiment in Social Media

Papers:

  • Annotate-Sample-Average (ASA): A New Distant Supervision Approach for Twitter Sentiment Analysis
    Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Eibe Frank, Bernhard Pfahringer
  • Aspect-Based Relational Sentiment Analysis Using a Stacked Neural Network Architecture
    Soufian Jebbara, Philipp Cimiano
  • An Assessment Study of Features and Meta-level Features in Twitter Sentiment Analysis
    Jonnathan Carvalho, Alexandre Plastino
  • A Joint Model for Sentiment-Aware Topic Detection on Social Media
    Kang Xu, Guilin Qi, Junheng Huang, Tianxing Wu

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
King Willem Alexander
chair: Catholijn Jonker

Information Retrieval and NLP

Papers:

  • A Novel Cross-Modal Topic Correlation Model for Cross-Media Retrieval
    Yong Cheng, Fei Huang, Cheng Jin, Yuejie Zhang, Tao Zhang
  • Validating Cross-Perspective Topic Modeling for Extracting Political Parties’ Positions from Parliam
    Janneke Zwaan, van der, Maarten Marx, Jaap Kamps
  • Emotion Analysis as a Regression Problem — Dimensional Models and Their Implications on Emotion Representation and Metrical Evaluation
    Sven Buechel, Udo Hahn
  • Unsupervised Ranking of Knowledge Bases for Named Entity Recognition
    Yassine Mrabet, Halil Kilicoglu, Dina Demner-Fushman
  • Cluster-Driven Model for Better Word and Text Embedding
    Zhe Zhao, Tao Liu, Bofang Li, Xiaoyong Du
  • Plan-based Narrative Generation with Coordinated Subplots
    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
Yangtze 1
chair: Meir Kalech

Clustering

Papers:

  • Classtering: Joint Classification and Clustering with Mixture of Factor Analysers
    Emanuele Sansone, Andrea Passerini, Francesco De Natale
  • A Scalable Clustering-Based Local Multi-Label Classification Method
    Lu Sun, Mineichi Kudo, Keigo Kimura
  • Analogical classifiers: a theoretical perspective
    Nicolas Hug, Henri Prade, Gilles Richard, Mathieu Serrurier
  • Adaptive Binary Quantization for Fast Nearest Neighbor Search
    Zhujin Li, Xianglong Liu, Junjie Wu, Hao Su
  • Hybrid Gaussian and von Mises model-based clustering
    Sergio Luengo-Sanchez, Concha Bielza, Pedro Larranaga
  • A Data Driven Similarity Measure and Example Mapping Function for General, Unlabelled Data Sets
    Damien Lejeune, Kurt Driessens

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
Yangtze 2
chair: Paolo Bouquet

PAIS

Papers:

  • An Intelligent System for Personalized Conference Event Recommendation and Scheduling
    Aldy Gunawan, Hoong Chuin Lau, Pradeep Varakantham and Wenjie Wang
  • Integrating ARIMA and Spatio-temporal Bayesian Networks for High Resolution Malaria Prediction
    A. H. M. Imrul Hasan and Peter Haddawy
  • ONE – A Personalized Wellness System
    Ajay Chander and Ramya Srinivasan
  • An Intelligent System for Aggression De-escalation Training
    Tibor Bosse, Charlotte Gerritsen and Jeroen de Man
  • Planning tourist agendas for different travel styles
    Jesus Ibañez, Laura Sebastia and Eva Onaindia
  • Continuous Live Stress Monitoring with a Wristband
    Martin Gjoreski, Hristijan Gjoreski, Mitja Luštrek and Matjaž Gams

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
Mississippi
chair: Ulle Endriss

Social Choice

Papers:

  • Modeling Bounded Rationality for Sponsored Search Auctions
    Jiang Rong, Tao Qin, Bo An, Tie-Yan Liu
  • Towards Better Models of Externalities in Sponsored Search Auctions
    Nicola Gatti, Marco Rocco, Paolo Serafino, Carmine Ventre
  • Efficient Computation of IRV Margins
    Blom Michelle, Vanessa Teague, Peter Stuckey, Ron Tidhar
  • Online Auctions for Dynamic Assignments: Theory and Empirical Evaluation
    Sujit Gujar, Boi Faltings
  • False-Name-Proof Mechanisms for Path Auctions in Social Networks
    Lei Zhang, Haibin Chen, Jun Wu, Chong-Jun Wang, Junyuan Xie
  • Strategic voting in a social context: considerate equilibria
    Laurent Gourvès, Julien Lesca, Anaelle Wilczynski

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
Amazon
chair: Danielle Magazzeni

Logic Programming and Verification

Papers:

  • You Can’t Always Forget What You Want: on the limits of forgetting in answer set programming
    Ricardo Gonçalves, Matthias Knorr, Joao Leite
  • Automatic Verification of Golog Programs via Predicate Abstraction
    Mo Peiming, Li Naiqi, Yongmei Liu
  • Clique-Width and Directed Width Measures for Answer-Set Programming
    Bernhard Bliem, Sebastian Ordyniak, Stefan Woltran
  • Knowledge-Based Programs with Defaults in a Modal Situation Calculus
    Jens Claßen, Malte Neuss
  • Abstraction-based Verification of Infinite-state Reactive Modules
    Francesco Belardinelli, Alessio R. Lomuscio
  • Agent-based Refinement for Predicate Abstraction of Multi-Agent Systems
    Francesco Belardinelli, Alessio R. Lomuscio, Jakub Michaliszyn

 

Wednesday, 15:30 – 17:30
Europe 1&2
chair: Joanna Bryson

AI in Social Media

Papers:

  • Uncertainty-Sensitive Reasoning for Inferring sameAs Facts in Linked Data
    Mustafa Al-Bakri, Manuel Atencia, Jérôme David, Steffen Lalande, Marie-Christine Rousset
  • An Extension of the Owen Value Interaction Index and Its Application to Inter-links Prediction
    Piotr Szczepanski, Tomasz Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Michael Wooldridge
  • Leveraging Stratification in Twitter Sampling
    Vikas Joshi, Deepak P, LV Subramaniam
  • Real-time Timeline Summarisation for High-impact Events in Twitter
    Yiwei Zhou, Nattiya Kanhabua, Alexandra Cristea
  • A Computational Method for Extracting, Representing, and Predicting Social Closeness
    Katherine Metcalf, David Leake
  • A Temporal-Causal Modelling Approach to Integrated Contagion and Network Change in Social Networks
    Romy Blankendaal, Sarah Parinussa, Jan Treur

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
King Willem Alexander
chair: Annette ten Teije

Classification

Papers:

  • A New Kernelized Associative Memory and some of its Applications
    Matthew Saltz, Lluis Belanche
  • On Stochastic Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Approach for Compositely Regularized Minimization
    Linbo Qiao, Tianyi Lin, Yugang Jiang, Fan Yang, Wei Liu, Xicheng Lu
  • Parallel Filter-Based Feature Selection Based on Balanced Incomplete Block Designs
    Antonio Salmeron, Anders Madsen, Frank Jensen, Helge Langseth, Thomas Nielsen, Darío Ramos-López, Ana Martinez, Andrés Masegosa
  • AUC Maximization in Bayesian Hierarchical Models
    Mehmet Gonen
  • Higher-order Correlation Coefficient Analysis for EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface
    Ye Liu, Qibin Zhao, Liqing Zhang

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 1
chair: Regis Sabbadin

Planning

Papers:

  • On Redundancy in Simple Temporal Networks
    Jae Hee Lee, Sanjiang Li, Zhiguo Long, Michael Sioutis
  • Constructing Hierarchical Task Models Using Invariance Analysis
    Damir Lotinac, Anders Jonsson
  • A simple account of multi-agent epistemic planning
    Martin Cooper, Andreas Herzig, Faustine Maffre, Frederic Maris, Pierre Regnier
  • Observation-Based Multi-Agent Planning with Communication
    Luca Gasparini, Timothy Norman, Martin Kollingbaum
  • Solving Dynamic Controllability Problem of Multi-agent Plans with Uncertainty using MILP
    Guillaume Casanova, Cedric Pralet, Charles Lesire, Thierry Vidal

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 2
chair: Noa Agmon

Robotics

Papers:

  • Hierarchical Strategy Synthesis for Pursuit-Evasion Problems
    Rattanachai Ramaithitima, Siddharth Srivastava, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Alberto Speranzon, Vijay Kumar
  • Efficient SAT Approach to Multi-Agent Path Finding under the Sum of Costs Objective
    Surynek Pavel, Ariel Felner, Roni Stern, Eli Boyarski
  • Skeleton-Based Orienteering for Level Set Estimation
    Lorenzo Bottarelli, Manuele Bicego, Jason Blum, Alessandro Farinelli
  • Learning the Structure of Dynamic Hybrid Relational Models
    Davide Nitti, Irma Ravkic, Jesse Davis, Luc De Raedt
  • Partial Order Temporal Plan Merging for Mobile Robot Tasks
    Lenka Mudrova, Bruno Lacerda, Nick Hawes

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
Mississippi
chair: Julian Padget

Social Choice

Papers:

  • Complexity of Control by Partitioning Veto and Maximin Elections and of Control by Adding Candidat
    Cynthia Maushagen, Jörg Rothe
  • Dichotomy for Pure Scoring Rules Under Manipulative Electoral Actions
    Edith Hemaspaandra, Henning Schnoor
  • Complexity and Tractability Islands for Combinatorial Auctions on Discrete Intervals with Gaps
    Janosch Döcker, Britta Dorn, Ulle Endriss, Dominikus Krüger
  • Parameterized Complexity Results for the Kemeny Rule in Judgment Aggregation
    Ronald de Haan
  • A Deliberation Procedure for Judgment Aggregation Problems
    Marija Slavkovik, Wojtek Jamroga

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
Amazon
chair: Stefania Constantini

Description Logics

Papers:

  • Fixed-Domain Reasoning for Description Logics
    Sarah Alice Gaggl, Sebastian Rudolph, Lukas Schweizer
  • Description Logics Reasoning w.r.t. general TBoxes is decidable for Concrete Domains with the EHD-p, Claudia Carapelle, Anni-Yasmin Turhan
  • Markov Logic Networks with Numerical Constraints
    Melisachew Chekol, Jakob Huber, Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  • Extending the Description Logic tEL(deg) with Acyclic TBoxes
    Oliver Fernandez Gil, Franz Baader
  • On Metric Temporal Description Logics
    Victor Gutierrez Basulto, Jean Jung, Ana Ozaki

 

Thursday, 10:30 – 12:10
Europe 1&2
chair: Stefan Woltran

Argumentation

Papers:

  • A Dialectical Proof Theory for Universal Acceptance in Coherent Logic-based Argumentation Frameworks
    Arioua Abdallah, Madalina Croitoru
  • A Uniform Account of Realizability in Abstract Argumentation
    Thomas Linsbichler, Jörg Pührer, Hannes Strass
  • On Labelling Statements in Multi-labelling Argumentation
    Pietro Baroni, Guido Governatori, Regis Riveret
  • On the Computation of Top-k Extensions in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks
    Said Jabbour, Badran Raddaoui, Lakhdar Sais, Yakoub Salhi

 

Thursday, 12:10 – 13:30
Lobby & Onyx

Lunch – Posters – Demos –
Exhibition – Soapbox presentations

Demos:

 

Thursday, 15:00 – 16:00
King Willem Alexander
chair: Henry Prakken

AI and Human Values

Papers:

  • Value Based Reasoning and the Actions of Others
    Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon
  • Even Angels Need the Rules: AI, Roboethics, and the Law
    Ugo Pagallo
  • When Do Rule Changes Count-as Legal Rule Changes?
    Thomas King, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn Jonker

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
King Willem Alexander
chair: Georgios Chalkiadakis

Learning in Use

Papers:

  • Learning Invariant Representation for Malicious Network Traffic Detection
    Karel Bartos, Michal Sofka, Vojtech Franc
  • A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Trajectory Prediction under Uncertainty and Budget Constraint
    Truc Viet Le, Siyuan Liu, Hoong Chuin Lau
  • Automatic Bridge Bidding Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Chih-Kuan Yeh, Hsuan-Tien Lin
  • The Need for Knowledge Extraction: Understanding Harmful Gambling Behavior with Neural Networks
    C. Percy, A. S. d’Avila Garcez, S. Dragicevic, M. Franca, G. Slabaugh and T. Weyde
  • Online Prediction of Exponential Decay Time Series with Human-Agent Application
    Rosenfeld Ariel, Joseph Keshet, Claudia Goldman, Sarit Kraus

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 1
chair: Jaap v.d. Herik

Image Recognition and Vision

Papers:

  • Person Re-Identification Via Multiple Course-To-Fine Deep Metrics
    Mingfu Xiong, Jun Chen, Zheng Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Ruimin Hu, Chao Liang, Daming Shi
  • Multiscale Triangular Centroid Distance for Shape-based Plant Leaf Recognition
    Chengzhuan Yang, Hui Wei, Qian Yu
  • Randomized Distribution Feature for Image Classification
    Hongming Shan, Junping Zhang
  • Randomized Canonical Correlation Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition
    Bo Ma, Hui He, Hongwei Hu, Meili Wei
  • ShapeLearner: Towards Shape-Based Visual Knowledge Harvesting
    KHuayong Xu, Yafang Wang, Kang Feng, Gerard de Melo, Wei Wu, Andrei Sharf, Baoquan Chen

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
Yangtze 2
chair: Michael Cashmore

Constraints

Papers:

  • A Framework for Actionable Clustering using Constraint Programming
    Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Christel Vrain, Ian Davidson, Khanh-Chuong Duong
  • Repetitive Branch-and-Bound using Constraint Programming for Constrained MSS Clustering
    Tias Guns, Thi-Bich-Hanh Dao, Christel Vrain, Khanh-Chuong Duong
  • Finite Unary Relations and Qualitative Constraint Satisfaction
    Peter Jonsson
  • Subsumed Label Elimination for Maximum Satisfiability
    Jeremias Berg, Paul Saikko, Matti Järvisalo
  • Combining Efficient Preprocessing and Incremental MaxSAT Reasoning for MaxClique in Large Graphs
    Hua Jiang, Chu-Min Li, Felip Manya

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
Mississippi
chair: Marija Slavkovik

Social Choice

Papers:

  • Using the Sugeno Integral in Optimal Assignment Problems with Qualitative Utilities
    Soufiane Drissi Oudghiri, Patrice Perny, Olivier divjard, Mohamed Hachimi
  • A Computational Approach to Consensus-Finding
    Eric Grégoire, Jean-Marie Lagniez
  • How Hard Is Bribery with Distance Restrictions?
    Yongjie Yang, Yash Raj Shrestha, Jiong Guo
  • Can a Condorcet Rule Have a Low Coalitional Manipulability?
    François Durand, Fabien Mathieu, Ludovic Noirie
  • Welfare of Sequential Allocation Mechanisms for Indivisible Goods
    Haris Aziz, Thomas Kalinowski, Toby Walsh, Lirong Xia

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
Amazon
chair: John-Jules Meyer

Belief Revision

Papers:

  • Reconsidering AGM-Style Belief Revision in the Context of Logic Programs
    Zhiqiang Zhuang, James Delgrande, Abhaya Nayak, Abdul Sattar
  • Belief contraction within fragments of propositional logic
    Nadia Creignou, Raida Ktari, Odile Papini
  • On Distances between KD45n Kripke Models and their Use for Belief Revision
    Thomas Caridroit, Sebastien Konieczny, Tiago de Lima, Pierre Marquis
  • AGM-Style Revision of Beliefs and Intentions
    Marc van Zee, Dragan Doder
  • Beyond IC Postulates: Classification Criteria for Merging Operators
    Adrian Haret, Andreas Pfandler, Stefan Woltran

 

Friday, 10:30 – 12:10
Europe 1&2
chair: Alessio Lomuscio

Cool Frontiers

Papers:

  • A Framework for Automatic Debugging of Functional and Degradation Failures
    Nuno Cardaso, Abreu Rui, Alexander Feldman, Johan de Kleer
  • The Complexity of Deciding Legality of a Single Step of Magic: the Gathering
    Krishnendu Chatterjee, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen
  • h-Index Manipulation by Undoing Merges
    René van Bevern, Christian Komusiewicz, Hendrik Molter, Rolf Niedermeier, Jiehua Chen, Toby Walsh
  • CUBE: A CUDA approach for Bucket Elimination on GPUs
    Filippo Bistaffa, Nicola Bombieri, Alessandro Farinelli

 

Friday, 12:10 – 13:20
Lobby & Onyx

Lunch – Posters – Demos –
Exhibition – Soapbox presentations

Demos:

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
King Willem Alexander
chair: Derek Long

Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition

Papers:

  • Unsupervised Activity Recognition using Latent Semantic Analysis on a Mobile Robot
    Paul Duckworth, Muhannad Alomari, Yiannis Gatsoulis, David Hogg, Anthony Cohn
  • Robust Real-time Human Perception with Depth Camera
    Guyue Zhang, Luchao Tian, Ye Liu, Jun Liu, Xiang An Liu, Yang Liu, Yan Qiu Chen
  • Learning temporal context for activity recognition
    Claudio Coppola, Tom Krajnik, Tom Duckett, Nicola Bellotto
  • Gaining Insight by Structural Knowledge Extraction
    Pietro Cottone, Salvatore Gaglio, Giuseppe Lo Re, Marco Ortolani

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
Yangtze 1
chair: Alessandro Farinelli

Multi-Class Classification

Papers:

  • Multi-Class Probabilistic Active Learning
    Daniel Kottke, Georg Krempl, Dominik Lang, Johannes Teschner, Myra Spiliopoulou
  • One-class to Multi-class Model Update using the Class-Incremental Optimum-Path Forest Classifier
    Mateus Riva, Moacir Ponti, Teofilo de Campos
  • Improved Multi-Label Classification using Inter-dependence Structure via a Generative Mixture Model
    Ramanuja Simha, Hagit Shatkay
  • Declaratively Capturing Local Label Correlations with Multi-Label Trees
    Reem Al-Otaibi, Meelis Kull, Peter Flach

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
Yangtze 2
chair: Nadia Abchiche-Mimouni

Distributed Problem Solving

Papers:

  • Is Spearman’s Law of Diminishing Returns (SLODR) Meaningful for Artificial Agents?
    Jose Hernandez-Orallo
  • Factors of collective intelligence: how smart are agent collectives?
    Nader Chmait, David Dowe, Yuan-Fang Li, David Green, Javier Insa-Cabrera
  • Solving Multi-agent Knapsack Problems Using Incremental Approval Voting
    Nawal Benabbou, Patrice Perny

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
Mississippi
chair: Rineke Verbrugge

Game Theory

Papers:

  • Get Me to My GATE On Time: Efficiently Solving General-Sum Bayesian Threat Screening Games
    Aaron Schlenker, Matthew Brown, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Ruta Mehta
  • Facility Location Games with Optional Preference
    Hongning Yuan, Kai Wang, Chi Kit Ken Fong, Yong Zhang, Minming Li
  • The Game of Reciprocation Habits
    Gleb Polevoy, Mathijs De Weerdt, Catholijn M. Jonker
  • Crowdfunding Public Projects with Provision Point: A Prediction Market Approach
    Praphul Chandra, Sujit Gujar, Y. Narahari

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
Amazon
chair: Sofia Pinto

Reasoning about Knowledge and Data

Papers:

  • Exploiting MUS Structure to Measure Inconsistency of Knowledge Bases
    Said Jabbour, Lakhdar Sais
  • Schema-based Debugging of Federated Data Sources
    Andreas Nolle, Christian Meilicke, Melisachew Chekol, German Nemirovski, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
  • An Efficient Approach for the Generation of Allen Relations
    Kleanthi Georgala, Mohamed Sherif, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo
  • Translation-based Revision and Merging for Minimal Horn Reasoning
    Gerhard Brewka, Jean-Guy Mailly, Stefan Woltran

 

Friday, 13:20 – 14:40
Europe 1&2
chair: Maria Fox

Possibilistic Reasoning

Papers:

  • Set-valued conditioning in a possibility theory setting
    Salem Benferhat, Vladik Kreinovich, Amélie Levray, Karim Tabia
  • Preference modeling with possibilistic networks and symbolic weights: a theoretical study
    Nahla Ben Amor, Didier Dubois, Héla Gouider, Henri Prade
  • Lexicographic refinements in possibilistic decision trees
    Nahla Ben Amor, zeineb el khalfi, Hélène Fargier, Régis Sabaddin
  • Interpretable Encoding of Densities using Possibilistic Logic
    Ondrej Kuzelka, Jesse Davis, Steven Schockaert

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
King Willem Alexander
chair: Gal Kaminka

Particle Filters

Papers:

  • Exact Particle Filter Modularization Improves Runtime Performance
    Padraic Edgington, Anthony Maida
  • An Improved State Filter Algorithm for SIR Epidemic Forecasting
    Weipeng Huang, Gregory Provan

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
Yangtze 1
chair: Enrico Scala

Planning

Papers:

  • Planning using Actions with Control Parameters
    Emre Savas, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Daniele Magazzeni
  • Upper and Lower Time and Space Bounds for Planning
    Christer Bäckström, Peter Jonsson
  • Summary Information for Reasoning about Hierarchical Plans
    Lavindra de Silva, Sebastian Sardina, Lin Padgham

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
Yangtze 2
chair: Mathijs de Weerdt

Optimization

Papers:

  • Realisability of Production Recipes
    Lavindra de Silva, Paolo Felli, Jack Chaplin, Brian Logan, David Sanderson, Svetan Ratchev
  • Vertical Optimization of Resource Dependent Flight Paths
    Anders Knudsen, Marco Chiarandini, Kim Larsen
  • Fixed-Parameter Tractable Optimization under DNNF Constraints
    Frederic Koriche, Daniel Le Berre, Emmanuel Lonca, Pierre Marquis

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
Mississippi
chair: Filippo Bistaffa

AI for Sustainable Energy

Papers:

  • Decentralized Large-Scale Electricity Consumption Shifting by Prosumer Cooperatives
    Charilaos Akasiadis, Georgios Chalkiadakis
  • Managing energy markets in future smart grids using bilateral contracts
    Romain Calliere, Samir Aknine, Antoine Nongaillard, Sarvapali Ramchurn
  • Planning under Uncertainty for Aggregated Electric Vehicle Charging with Renewable Energy Supply
    Erwin Walraven, Matthijs Spaan

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
Amazon
chair: Yves Lesperance

Ontologies and Conformance

Papers:

  • Attuning Ontology Alignments to Semantically Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Interactions
    Paula Chocron, Marco Schorlemmer
  • Checking the Conformance of Requirements in Agent Designs using ATL
    Nitin Yadav, John Thangarajah
  • The Complexity of Threshold Query Answering in Probabilistic Ontological Data Exchange
    Thomas Lukasiewicz, Livia Predoiu

 

Friday, 15:00 – 16:00
Europe 1&2
chair: Ann Nowe

Probabilistic Reasoning

Papers:

  • An Improved CNF Encoding Scheme for Probabilistic Inference
    Anicet Bart, Frédéric Koriche, Jean-Marie Lagniez, Pierre Marquis
  • Exploiting Bayesian Network Sensitivity Functions for Inference in Credal Networks
    Janneke Bolt, Jasper De Bock, Silja Renooij
  • On Revision of Partially Specified Convex Probabilistic Belief Bases
    Gavin Rens, Thomas Meyer, Giovanni Casini