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AAAI-19
IAAI-19
EAAI-19
Conference Program
Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence
Thirty-First Conference on
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Ninth Symposium on
Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
January 27 – February 1, 2019
Hilton Hawaiian Village
Honolulu,Hawaii, USA
Conference Highlights at a Glance
MORNING AFTERNOON EVENING
Sunday, January 27
Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Student Welcome Reception
Workshops Workshops
AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC
AIES 2019 AIES 2019 AIES Opening Reception
Monday, January 28
Tutorial Forum Tutorial Forum Opening Reception
Workshops Workshops AAAI Townhall
AAAI/SIGAI DC AAAI/SIGAI DC
EAAI Award Lecture: Goel EAAI Technical Program
AIES 2019 AIES 2019
Tuesday, January 29
AAAI / IAAI Welcome / AAAI Awards Lunch with a Fellow AI Debate
AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Breazeal Black in AI Lunch Poster / Demo Session 1
AAAI Classic Paper Award Talk: Melville IAAI RSE Award Lecture: Tambe Fellows Dinner
IAAI Technical Program IAAI Technical Program
EAAI Invited Talk: Medsker EAAI Technical Program
Exhibits Exhibits
Wednesday, January 30
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast Lunch with a Fellow
AAAI Invited Talk: Goodfellow AAAI Technical Program AAAI Invited Talk: Yang
IAAI Technical Program IAAI Technical Program Poster / Demo Session 2
Student Abstract Spotlights Senior Member Talks
Exhibits Exhibits
Thursday, January 31
AAAI Conference Awards Lunch with a Fellow AAAI Community Meeting
AAAI/IAAI Invited Talk: Zheng AAAI Invited Talk: Sandholm Poster / Demo Session 3
Exhibits Exhibits
AI Job Fair
Friday, February 1
AAAI Invited Talk: Gonzalez
AAAI Technical Program
2 CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
Contents
Sponsoring Organizations
AAAI Community Meeting / 5
AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the
Acknowledgments / 3 following organizations and individuals to AAAI-19:
AI Job Fair / 10
Platinum Sponsor
AIES 2019 / 6 AI Journal
Awards / 3 Didi
Elsevier
Black in AI Lunch / 6
IBM Research
Conference at a Glance / 2 JD.com
Doctoral Consortium / 8
Gold Sponsor
EAAI-19 Program / 9 Baidu
Exhibition / 11 Lionbridge
Uber
Games Night / 8 Unity
Invited Talks / 10 WeBank/Qianhai
Maps / 21-23 Silver Sponsor
Poster / Demo Sessions / 6 Amazon
Registration / 14 Diveplane
Eleme
Senior Member / Blue Sky Program / 11 Jane Street
Social and Special Events / 6 Lyft
Shanghai Yixue Educational Technology Co., Ltd.
Special Meetings / 5
Special Track: AI for Social Impact / 11 Bronze Sponsors
Sponsors / 3, 11 Alegion
Google AI
Student Abstracts / 8 iMerit Technology
Student Activities / 6–10 Microsoft Research
NextAI
Talk Length Key / 16 Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT)
AAAI/IAAI Program Overview / 16–19 University of Adger
University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute
Tutorial Forum / 7
Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 10 General Sponsors
ACM/SIGAI
Workshop Program / 8
CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC)
David E. Smith
Acknowledgments
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the follow-
ing individuals for their generous contributions
of time and energy to the successful creation and
planning of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Th d January 31, 8:20 – 8:40 AM in the
Thursday, h same tainedd contributions
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Artificial Intelligence and the Thirty-First Confer- location. ligence, and who have attained unusual distinc-
ence on Innovative Applications of Artificial In-
tion in the profession. AAAI is pleased to an-
telligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-19 and 2019 AAAI Special Awards & Honors nounce the seven newly elected Fellows for 2019,
IAAI-19 Program Committee members will ap-
AAAI Honors and Special Awards will be pre- who will be honored during the annual Fellows
pear in the conference proceedings.)
sented by Subbarao Kambhampati, Awards dinner on Tuesday, January 29:
Committee Chair and AAAI Past President, Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA)
Yolanda Gil, AAAI President, and Bart Selman, Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Bel-
Awards AAAI President-Elect. gium)
Kristen Grauman (University of Texas at Austin
AAAI Special Awards and honors will be pre- and Facebook AI Research, USA)
sented Tuesday, January 29, 8:10 – 8:40 AM, in 2019 AAAI Fellows Recognition
Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech, USA)
the Coral Ballroom on the 6th floor of the Mid- Each year, the Association for the Advancement Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA)
Pacific Conference Center of Hilton Hawaiian of Artificial Intelligence recognizes a small num- Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester, USA)
Village. AAAI-19 Awards will be presented on ber of members who have made significant sus- Peter Stuckey (Monash University, Australia)
CONTENTS/ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / SPONSORS / AWARDS 3
AAAI Conference Committee
AAAI Conference Committee Chair Doctoral Consortium Cochairs
Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Daniele Magazzeni (King’s College London, UK)
Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
AAAI-19 Program Cochairs
Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Student Abstract Cochairs
Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) Nir Lipovetzky (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Yang Yu (Nanjing University, China)
IAAI-19 Chair
Karen Myers (SRI International, USA) Student Activities Cochairs
Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas, Dallas, USA)
EAAI-19 Symposium Cochairs Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta, Canada)
Michael Wollowski (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA)
Nate Derbinsky (Northeastern University, USA)
Student Outreach Cochairs
Emerging Topic – AI for Social Impact Cochairs Brent Venable (Tulane University, USA)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada) Sheila Tejada (University of Southern California, USA)
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA)
AAAI/SIGAI Job Fair Cochairs
Presentation Chair John Dickerson (University of Maryland, USA)
Eugene Freuder (University College Cork, Ireland) Chris Amato (Northeastern University, USA)
Senior Member Track Cochairs Black in AI Lunch Cochairs
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Rediet Abebe (Cornell University, USA)
Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA) Emmanuel Johnson (USC/Institue for Creative Technolgies, USA)
Technical Demonstrations Chair Women’s Mentoring Event Cochairs
Monica Anderson (University of Alabama, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
Marie desJardins (Simmons College, USA)
Tutorial Forum Cochairs
William Yeoh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Fundraising Chair
James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Kong)
Guidebook Program Chair
Workshop Program Cochairs Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)
Matthew Taylor (Washington State University, USA)
Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China) Workflow Chair
Peng Zhao (Nanjing University, China)
2019 Senior Member Recognition ence on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2002 in Ed- 2019 Robert S. Engelmore
AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected monton, Alberta, Canada. Memorial Award and Lecture
2019 AAAI senior members, who are being rec- Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Improved The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by
ognized for their long-term participation in Recommendations
IAAI-19 and AI Magazine, and will be presented
Prem Melville, Raymond J. Mooney,
AAAI and their distinction in the field of artificial by Karen Myers, IAAI-19 chair, and Ashok Goel,
Ramadass Nagarajan
intelligence. For showing a way to complement content-based editor in chief, AI Magazine. The award and lec-
Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, and collaborative filtering approaches in recom- ture were established in 2003 to honor Dr. Engel-
Singapore) mendation systems. more’s extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Maga-
Roman Barták (Charles University, Czechia) zine, and the AI applications community, and his
The Classic Paper Award Talk, by Prem Melville,
Yiling Chen (Harvard University, USA) contributions to applied AI. The 2019 award will
Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia,
will be held Tuesday, January 29 at 11:30 AM in
South Pacific 4, Upper Level. An honorable men- be presented to Milind Tambe (University of
Canada)
Southern California) for outstanding research
Minh Do (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) tion will be presented to Sven Koenig and Maxim
contributions in the area of multi-agent systems
Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Likhachev for D*Lite.
and their application to problems of societal sig-
Vincent Ng (The University of Texas at Dallas,
nificance. The lecture will be held on Tuesday,
USA) 2019 Distinguished Service Award
Marco Valtorta (University of South Carolina, January 29, 4:15 AM, in the Coral Ballroom on the
USA) The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recog- main level. (See lecture description on page 10.)
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in nizes one individual each year for extraordinary
St. Louis, USA) service to the AI community. The 2019 recipient 2019 Feigenbaum Prize
Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) is Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Mas- The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize was established to
sachusetts Amherst), who is being recognized for recognize and encourage outstanding artificial
2019 AAAI Classic Paper Award sustained and conscientious service and leader- intelligence research advances that are made by
The 2019 AAAI Classic Paper award honors the ship both to AAAI as a councilor and conference using experimental methods of computer sci-
authors of the following paper deemed most in- committee chair, and to the broader AI commu- ence. The 2019 prize is being awarded to Stuart
fluential from the Eighteenth National Confer- nity, as the president of ICAPS. Russell, University of California, Berkeley In
4 AWARDS / CONFERENCE COMMITTE
recognition of his high-impact contributions to
the field of artificial intelligence through innova- Special Meetings
tion and achievement in probabilistic knowledge
representation, reasoning, and learning, includ- AAAI Community Meeting / Annual Business Meeting
ing its application to global seismic monitoring
for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. AAAI welcomes all conference attendees to the AAAI community meeting, which will also serve
The Feigenbaum Prize is supported by a grant as the AAAI Annual Business Meeting. Please join us as we explore current initiatives, and help
from the Feigenbaum Nii Foundation. chart the future course and objectives of AAAI. The meeting will be held Thursday, January 31,
5:15 - 6:15 PM in the Coral Ballroom.
2019 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Moderator: Yolanda Gil, AAAI President
Educator Award and Lecture AAAI Conference Committee Meeting
The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
The AAAI Conference Committee Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
was established to recognize a person (or group
Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level.
of people) who has (have) made major contribu-
tions to AI education that provide long-lasting AAAI Executive Council Meeting
benefits to the AI community. The 2019 award is
The AAAI Executive Council Meeting will be held Monday, January 28, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Ilima
being presented to Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute
Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center. Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30
of Technology), for sustained excellence in teach-
AM.
ing, innovation in using AI to teach AI, scientific
experimentation and scholarship to assess and
AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner
improve AI pedagogy, and the many resources
he has shared with the community at large. This The AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner will be held Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Rain-
award is jointly sponsored by AAAI and the bow Room and Patio, Rainbow Tower.
Symposium on Educational Advances in Artifi-
cial Intelligence. The lecture will be held during
AAAI Publications Committee Meeting
EAAI-19 on Monday, January 28, 9:10 AM, in the The AAAI Publications Committee Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
Sea Pearl Suite on the upper level. (See lecture Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center.
description on page 10.)
AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting
IAAI-19 Deployed The AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM,
Applications Awards Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center.
The five IAAI-19 Deployed Application Awards
will be announced during the Opening Ceremo-
ny on Tuesday, January 29 by IAAI-19 Chair
Karen Myers. Certificates will be presented dur-
ing paper sessions. tion and exposition by regular and student au- above and beyond the expectations for the role,
A Genetic Algorithm for Finding a Small and Diverse thors. showing exceptional judgment, clarity, knowl-
Set of Recent News Stories on a Given Subject: How
AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award edgeability, and leadership in reaching a consen-
We Generate AAAI’s AI-Alert
Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen sus decision.
2407: How to Combine Tree-Search Methods in Rein-
Large Scale Personalized Categorization of Financial forcement Learning Outstanding Senior Program Committee Awards
Transactions Yonathan Efroni, Gal Dalal, Bruno Scherrer, Shie Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and
Christopher Lesner, Alexander Ran, Marko Rukonic, Mannor Technology, China)
Wei Wang Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Honorable Mention: 451: Solving Imperfect-Informa-
Transforming Underwriting in the Life Insurance In- Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
tion Games via Discounted Regret Minimization
dustry Noam Brown, Tuomas Sandholm
Michele Lombardi (Universià di Bologna, Italy)
Marc Maier, Hayley Carlotto, Freddie Sanchez, Sher- Aditya Menon (Google Research, USA)
riff Balogun, Sears Merritt Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK)
AAAI-19 Outstanding
Automated Dispatch of Helpdesk Email Tickets: Outstanding Program Committee Awards
Pushing the Limits with AI
Student Paper Award Pascal Bercher (University of Ulm, Germany)
Atri Mandal, Nikhil Malhotra, Shivali Agarwal, Anu- 6560: Zero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New
pama Ray, Giriprasad Sridhara Sampling with Deep Learning Inference Zealand)
Grading Uncompilable Programs Mike Wu, Milan Mosse, Noah Goodman, Chris Piech Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aero-
Rohit Takhar, Varun Aggarwal Honorable Mention: 2545: Learning to Teach in Co- nautics and Astronautics, China)
operative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Dan Malinsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Giovanni Sileno (Télécom ParisTech, France)
AAAI-19 Awards Shayegan Omidshafiei, Dong Ki Kim, Miao Liu, Ger-
ald Tesauro, Matthew Riemer, Chris Amato, Murray
The AAAI-19 Awards will be presented by Pro- Campbell, Jonathan How AAAI-19 Blue Sky Idea Awards
gram Cochairs Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-
AAAI, in cooperation with the Computing Re-
Hua Zhou. AAAI-19 Outstanding Program search Association Computing Community Con-
AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award Committee Members sortium (CCC), is pleased to present three Blue
This year, AAAI’s Conference on Artificial Intel- Each year, AAAI recognizes several outstanding Sky Awards for papers that present ideas and vi-
ligence honors the following four papers, which program committee and senior program com- sions that can stimulate the research community
exemplify high standards in technical contribu- mittee members. These individuals have gone to pursue new directions, such as new problems,
AWARDS / SPECIAL MEETINGS 5AAAI-19 Social and Special Events
AAAI Opening Reception Preregistration was encouraged. Onsite inquiries can be directed to the
Monday, January 28, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM onsite registration desk in the Coral Lobby or by email to aaai19@aaai.
The Great Lawn org.
The AAAI-19 Opening Reception will be held on the Great Lawn of the
Hilton Hawaiian Village (adjacent to the Lagoon). A variety of heavy hors AAAI Meet-Up Room
d’oeuvres and one complimentary beverage will be served. A no-host bar January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM
will also be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level
AAAI-19 technical registration. A $125.00 per person fee ($20.00 for chil- AAAI-19 has reserved a room as an evening drop-in and meetup location.
dren over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical It is primarily intended for the use of conference attendees who are re-
conference registrants. searchers or practitioners working at schools, businesses or organizations
without a large AI group. The objective is to provide an additional oppor-
AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Sessions tunity to meet new AI people, share the experience of the conference, and
Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 – 8:30 PM perhaps initiate collaborations. If they wish, prospective attendees may
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 – 8:30 PM post “calls for collaboration” beforehand at Google Group AVAILAB
Thursday, January 31, 6:30 – 8:30 PM (groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/availab) to arrange specific meet-
Coral Lounge ings; but this is not required. AAAI Councilor Gene Freuder will be avail-
Each AAAI-19 poster / demo session will include posters by authors of able at 9:00 PM on Thursday, January 31 to facilitate a general discussion
main technical track papers, including all who are presenting poster spot- of challenges and opportunities.
lights as well as those who have made full oral presentations (if they elect-
ed to do so). In addition, a total of 15 technical demos will be divided Townhall: A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research
among the three evening sessions. Tuesday evening will include Doctoral January 28, 2019, 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Consortium and EAAI posters. Student abstract posters will be presented Coral 3, Mid-Pacific Conference Center, Hilton Hawaiian Village
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. For a listing of posters and The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), working with the NSF, is
demos, please see the online technical schedule via Guidebook and the sponsoring a roadmap of AI research priorities for the next twenty years.
AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program Guide. This AI Research Roadmap is intended to provide guidance for US fund-
Poster / Demo sessions will include light suppers and complimentary ing agencies and Congress. This activity is analogous to the 2009 Robotics
soft drinks. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the recep- Roadmap that led to the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency,
tion is included in the AAAI-19 registration. A $65.00 per person fee multi-year investment by the US federal government. In this session, the
($15.00 for children over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and oth- chairs of the AI Research Roadmap roadmap will summarize the activities
er nontechnical conference registrants per night. to date, and solicit feedback from the AAAI community.
AI Roadmap Cochairs: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California and Bart
Black in AI Lunch Selman, Cornell University; Integrated Intelligence Cochairs: Ken Forbus,
Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM Northwestern University and Marie desJardins, Simmons University; AI
Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level Roadmap Interaction Cochairs: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University and
AAAI is pleased to announce the first Black in AI lunch, designed to facil- Dan Weld, University of Washington; AI Roadmap Machine Learning and
Robotics Cochairs: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University and Fei-Fei Li,
itate networking, discussion of different career opportunities in AI, and
Stanford University
sharing of ideas to increase participation of black researchers in the field.
new application domains, or new methodologies. can find the best ways to address these concerns, Journal, AAAI is pleased to offer the following
The recipients of the Blue Sky Idea travel awards, including experts of various disciplines, such as student activities designed to enrich the student
sponsored by the CCC, are: ethics, philosophy, economics, sociology, psy- experience at the AAAI conference.
First Place: Pat Langley for Explainable, Normative, chology, law, history, and politics. In order to ad-
and Justified Agency
dress these issues in a scientific context, AAAI Student Welcome Reception
Second Place: Francesca Rossi and Nicholas Mattei and ACM joined forces to start this conference in Sponsored by USC/Information Sciences Institute
for Building Ethically Bounded AI
2018. Attendance at AIES 2019 is available for an Sunday, January 27, 7:00 – 8:00 PM
Third Place: Barry Smyth for Recommender Sys-
additional fee. The full schedule for the AIES Tapa Ballroom 1
tems: A Healthy Obsession
2019 Conference is available at www.aies-confer-
ence.com, and will be distributed in hard copy to All students are welcome at the AAAI-19 Student
Welcome Reception. Light refreshments will be
AAAI/ACM Conference on registered attendees.
served.
AI, Ethics, and Society
Student Activities and AAAI 2019 Sticker Social Event
Sunday and Monday, January 27-28
Coral 4, Main Level Outreach In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed
dating event to facilitate social interactions at the
As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its
impact on society is more significant and con- For complete information about Student Pro- conference. This year, there will not be a single
cerns and issues are raised regarding aspects grams at AAAI-19, please see aaai.org/Confer- social event for this purpose, but participants are
such as value alignment, data handling and bias, ences/AAAI-19/aaai-19-student-activities- encouraged to interact throughout the confer-
regulations, and workforce displacement. Only a overview. ence. To facilitate this, participants will be pro-
multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder effort In cooperation with and with support from AI vided with stickers and are encouraged to place
6 AIES 2019 / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH / SOCIAL AND SPECIAL EVENTSTutorial Forum
The AAAI-19 Tutorial Forum is open to all technical registrants for a small fee per tutorial. Half-day tutorials are 4 hours, including breaks;
quarter-day tutorials are one hour and 45 minutes with no break. Quarter-day tutorials are denoted by a ‘Q’ at the end of the tutorial code.
Sunday, January 27, 2019 Monday, January 28, 2019
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
MA1: Adversarial Machine Learning
SA1: Answer Set Engineering Bo Li, Dawn Song and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Roland Kaminski, Javier Romero, Torsten Schaub, Philipp Wanko Coral 5, Main level
South Pacific 1, Upper level
MA2: Deep Bayesian and Sequential Learning
SA2: Deep Multi-View Visual Data Analytics Jen-Tzung Chien
Zhengming Ding, Hongfu Liu, Handong Zhao Coral 1, Main level
Coral 1, Main level
MA3: Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Models, Solvers, and Systems
SA3: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Transportation Roman Barták, Philipp Obermeier, Torsten Schaub, Tran Cao Son, Roni Stern
Zhiwei Qin, Jian Tang, Jieping Ye South Pacific 1, Upper level
Coral 2, Main level
MA4: Neural Vector Representations beyond Words: Sentence and Document
SA4: On Explainable AI: From Theory to Motivation, Applications and Limita- Embeddings
tions Gerard de Melo
Luca Costabello, Freddy Lecue, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti, Pascal Hit- Coral 2, Main level
zler, Pasquale Minervini, Kamruzzaman Sarker
Coral 5, Main level MA5: Recent Advances in Scalable Retrieval of Personalized Recommendations
Dung Le, Hady Lauw
SA5: Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (PAIR) South Pacific 2, Upper level
Sarah Keren, Reuth Mirsky, Christopher Geib
South Pacific 2, Upper level 1:30 – 5:30 PM
1:30 – 5:30 PM MP1: End-to-End Goal-Oriented Question Answering Systems
Deepak Agarwal, Bee-Chung Chen, Qi He, Jaewon Yang, Liang Zhang
SP1: Behavior Analytics: Methods and Applications Coral 1, Main level
Longbing Cao
South Pacific 1, Upper level MP2: Graph Representation Learning
William Hamilton and Jian Tang
SP2: Building Deep Learning Applications for Big Data Platforms Coral 5, Main level
Jason Dai
Coral 5, Main level MP3: Imagination Science: Beyond Data Science
Sridhar Mahadevan
SP3: New Frontiers of Automated Mechanism Design for Pricing and Auctions South Pacific 1, Upper level
Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm, Ellen Vitercik
Coral 1, Main level MP4: Integrating Human Factors into AI for Fake News Prevention: Challenges
and Opportunities
1:30 – 3:15 PM Amulya Yadav, Aiping Xiong
South Pacific 2, Upper level
SP4Q: Federated Learning: User Privacy, Data Security and Confidentiality in
Machine Learning 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Yang Liu, Qiang Yang, Zhuoshi Wei, Tianjian Chen
Coral 2, Main level MP5Q: Knowledge-Based Sequential Decision-Making under Uncertainty
Shiqi Zhang, Mohan Sridharan
SP5Q: An Overview of the International Planning Competition Coral 2, Main level
Amanda Coles, Andrew Coles, Florian Pommerening, Álvaro Torralba
Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level 3:45 – 5:15 PM
SP6Q: Presenting a Paper MP6Q: Human Identification at a Distance by Gait Recognition
Eugene C. Freuder Shiqi Yu, Yongzhen Huang, Yasushi Makihara, Daigo Muramatsu, Liang Wang,
South Pacific 2, Upper level Yasushi Yagi, Tieniu Tan
Coral 2, Main level
3:45 – 5:15 PM
SP7Q: Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control
Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith
Coral 2, Main level
SP8Q: The Road to Industry
John Kolen
Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level
the answer to social questions on their name tag. Unofficial Student Slack Channel AAAI Meet-Up Room:
Doing so means that you are open to social inter- Not Just for Students!
actions with people at the conference that you do If you are interested in finding and meeting
not know. Find stickers and instructions near the other students to participate in activities at January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM
registration desk and at the student reception. A AAAI, consider joining the (unofficial) student Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center
special AI sticker will be given to those who meet slack channel. Instructions for joining can be Please see page 6 (Social and Special Events) for
new people at the conference. found at movingai.com/AAAI19. details.
TUTORIAL FORUM / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH 7Workshop Program
Registration for a workshop requires a supplemental fee for AAAI-19 technical registrants. Individuals who do not wish to participate in
any other AAAI-19 programs or events may elect the workshop only registration fee. Coffee breaks will be held at 10:30 AM and 3:15 AM
outside the designated meeting space. Please consult the website to confirm final times.
Sunday, January 27 Monday, January 28
W1: Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action W2: Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center
W3: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security W6: Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center
W4: Artificial Intelligence Safety W7: Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Nautilus 1, Main Level Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center
W5: Dialog System Technology Challenge W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 12:20 PM
South Pacific 3, Upper Level Nautilus 2, Main Level
W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days) W10: Network Interpretability for Deep Learning
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Nautilus 2, Main Level South Pacific 3, Upper Level
W9: Knowledge Extraction from Games W11: Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center
W12: Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues W13: Reasoning for Complex Question Answering
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
South Pacific 4, Upper Level Nautilus 1, Main Level
W16: Reproducible AI W14: Recommender Systems Meet Natural Language Processing
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (half day)
Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Nautilus 2, Main Level
W15: Reinforcement Learning in Games
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
South Pacific 4, Upper Level
AAAI Tutorials disciplinary workshop together with a panel of able AFTER 3:00 PM on Monday, January 28 at
established researchers. The nineteen students the onsite registration desk in Coral Lobby on the
The following tutorials have been designated as
accepted to participate in this program will also main level of the conference center. Students
particularly valuable for student attendees:
participate in the AAAI-19 evening Poster / De- should meet their designated Fellow in onsite
SP6Q: Presenting a Paper by Eugene C. Freuder
mo Session 1 on Tuesday, January 29. All inter- registration on their assigned day.
(University College Cork)
ested AAAI-19 student registrants are invited to
Sunday, January 27, 2019, 1:30 – 3:15 PM
observe the presentations and participate in dis- Student Abstract and Poster Program
South Pacific 2, Upper level
cussions at the workshop. Oral Presentations: 10:25 – 11:25 AM, Wednesday,
SP8Q: The Road to Industry by John Kolen (Elec- January 30, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level
AAAI and SIGAI gratefully acknowledge the
tronic Arts) generous grants from AI Journal and David E. Poster Presentations: 6:30 – 8:30 PM, Tuesday –
Sunday, January 27, 2019, 3:45 – 5:15 PM Smith, which make this program possible. The Thursday, January 29 – 31, Coral Lounge
Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level Doctoral Consortium schedule is available at This program provides a forum in which students
aaai-dc.github.io. can present and discuss their work during its ear-
AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium
ly stages, meet some of their peers who have re-
(DC) AAAI Fellow / Student Lunches lated interests, and introduce themselves to more
Sunday and Monday, January 27-28 Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31 senior members of the field. Students who have
Lehua Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center 12:30 – 2:00 PM been selected as part of a group of 18 finalists to
The Twenty-Fourth AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Con- First held in 2006, this program provides an op- compete for the “Best Student 3-Minute Presen-
sortium provides an opportunity for a group of portunity for a small number of students to chat tation” will present their work in 3-minute spot-
Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their re- with a AAAI Fellow over an informal lunch dur- light talks in parallel with other technical ses-
search interests and career objectives in an inter- ing the conference. Sign-up sheets will be avail- sions. These students will present their posters
8 WORKSHOPS / STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACHThe Ninth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Monday - Tuesday, January 28-29, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level
Registration for EAAI-19 is included in the AAAI-19 technical program registration. The proceedings of the EAAI program are included in the full AAAI-
19 proceedings, and electronic copies of all papers are available via the online schedule (Guidebook). EAAI posters will also be presented Tuesday, Jan-
uary 29 in the AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session in the Coral Lounge. EAAI-19 Main Track full paper presentation lengths will be 20 minutes each. Main
Track Poster lightning talks will be 5 minutes each. Model AI Assignment papers presentations will be 15 minutes each. Birds of a Feather paper pre-
sentations will be 13 minutes each. For full information on invited talks and panels, please see page 10.
Monday, January 28 Get IT Scored Using AutoSAS — An A Monte Carlo Tree Search Player for 12:25 – 1:55 PM
Automated System for Scoring Short Birds of a Feather Solitaire Lunch Break
9:00 - 9:10 AM Answers Christian Roberson, Katarina
Welcome to EAAI-19 Yaman Kumar, Swati Aggarwal, De- Sperduto 1:55 – 2:25 PM
banjan Mahata, Rajiv Shah, Ponnu- Machine Learning Based Heuristic Blue Sky Idea Lightning Talks
Michael Wollowski, Nate Derbinsky rangam Kumaraguru, Roger Zimmer-
(EAAI Cochairs) Search Algorithms to Solve Birds of a Chair: Nate Derbinsky
mann Feather Card Game Presenters: Marion Neumann,
9:10 – 10:00 AM Concept Extraction and Prerequisite Bryon Kucharski, Azad Deihim, Abhijit Suresh, Giulia Toti, Zhen Bai,
Outstanding Educator Talk Relation Learning from Mehmet Ergezer Michael Guerzhoy, Pat Virtue
Educational Data A Neural Network Approach for Birds
Experiments in Teaching AI Weiming Lu, Yangfan Zhou, 2:25 – 3:25 PM
Ashok Goel (Georgia Tech) of a Feather Solvability Prediction
Jiale Yu, Chenhao Jia Model AI Assignments Special Track
Benjamin Sang, Sejong Yoon
10:00 – 10:20 AM Chair: Todd Neller
2:50 – 3:20 PM Efficient Solving of Birds of a Feather
Main Track Puzzles Implementing a Recommender System
Main Track
Session Chair: Michael Wollowski Todd Neller, Connor Berson, Jivan Using MapReduce
Chair: Ananya Christman Raja Sooriamurthi
A Lightweight Approach to Academic Kharel, Ryan Smolik
A Preliminary Report of Integrating Building a Fake News Detector
Research Group Management Using Science and Computing Teaching Computer Generation of Birds of a
Online Tools Feather Puzzles Michael Guerzhoy, Lisa Zhang
Using Logic Programming
Eric Eaton Yuanlin Zhang, Jianlan Wang, Fox Todd Neller, Daniel Ziegler Using Ultimate Tic Tac Toe to
Bolduc, William G Murray, Wendy Predicting Unsolvable Deals in the Motivate AI Game Agents
10:20 – 10:50 AM Paul Talaga
Staffen Birds of a Feather Solitaire Game
Break Richard Hoshino, Maximilian Kahn
Lightning Talk: Khan Academy: A So- The Minecraft Projects
10:50 – 11:10 AM cial Networking and Community Q&A Adam Summerville, Joseph Osborn
Main Track Perspective Tuesday, January 29 3:25 – 3:55 PM
Sneha Mondal, Akshay Gugnani,
Session Chair: Michael Wollowski 8:10 - 8:40 AM Break
Renuka Sindhgatta
An Integrative Framework for Artifi-
Lightning Talk: Artificial Intelligence Welcome and Opening Remarks, AAAI 3:55 – 5:25 PM
cial Intelligence Education
Competencies for Data Science Under- Organizational Awards and Honors Model AI Assignments Special Track
Pat Langley
graduate Curricula
8:40 - 9:40 AM Chair: Todd Neller
11:10 AM – 12:00 PM Andrea Danyluk, Scott Buck
RISK AI Project
Panel Discussion 3:20 - 3:50 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk Christopher Archibald
Cynthia Brezeal
How to Best Teach AI Break Nearest Neighbor Classification (with
Moderator: Michael Wollowski 9:40 – 10:25 AM Almost No Background)
Panelists: Ashok Goel, Pat Langley, 3:50 – 4:10 PM
Break Nate Derbinsky, Elena Strange
and Larry Medsker Nontraditional Research Experiences
for Undergraduates Special Track Depth First Learning: DeepStack
12:00 – 1:30 PM 10:25 – 11:15 AM Cinjon Resnick, Avital Oliver, Surya
Chair: Ananya Christman EAAI-19 Invited Talk Bhupatiraju, Kumar Krishna Agrawal
Lunch Break
From Lab to Internship and Back Future of Work, AI Education, and Introduction to Python for
1:30 – 2:50 PM Again: Learning Autonomous Systems Public Policy Data Science
AI for Education and through Creating a Research and De- Larry Medsker Marion Neumann, Jonathan Chen
Outreach Special Track velopment Ecosystem
Trevor Bihl, Todd Jenkins, Chad Cox, 11:15 – 11:35 AM Introducing the Data Science Work-
Chair: Justin Li flow Using Sentiment Analysis
Ashley Demange, Kerry Hill, Ed Zelnio
Automatic Generation of Leveled Visu- Main Track Marion Neumann , Zac Christensen
al Assessments for Young Learners 4:10 – 5:58 PM Chair: Nate Derbinsky A Gentle Introduction to the Back-
Anjali Singh, Ruhi Sharma Mittal, Birds of a Feather Research Challenge propagation Algorithm and Feedfor-
PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intel-
Shubham Atreja, Mourvi Sharma, Chair: Todd Neller ward Networks
ligence Curriculum for Early Child-
Seema Nagar, Prasenjit Dey, Mohit Michael Wollowski, Oscar Youngquist
Introduction, Awarding of Prizes hood Education
Jain
Todd Neller Randi Williams, Hae Won Park,
Automating Analysis and Feedback to Lauren Oh, Cynthia Breazeal
Computational Intractability and Solv-
Improve Mathematics’ Teachers’
ability for the Birds of a Feather Game 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM
Classroom Discourse
Richard Hoshino, Max Notarangelo Panel Discussion
Abhijit Suresh, Tamara Sumner,
Jennifer Jacobs, William Foland, Determining Solvability in the Birds of
a Feather Card Game The AI4K12 Initiative and How to
Wayne Ward
Shuto Araki, Juan Pablo Arenas Uribe, Contribute to It
Zach Wilkerson, Steven Bogaerts, Moderator: Nate Derbinsky
Chad Byers Panelists: Dave Touretzky, Christina
Gardner-McCune, Cynthia Breazeal
EAAI 2019 SYMPOSIUM 9on Wednesday evening during the conference- Invited Presentations, change is unprecedented compared to previous in-
wide poster/demo session. An award will also be dustrial revolutions and will disproportionately af-
presented for the “Best Student Poster.” For a list Senior Member Talks fect different segments of society. Discussions,
planning, and policymaking regarding the impact
of posters each night, please see the online sched- of AI should directly involve AI educators and pol-
AAAI-19 and IAAI-19 Invited Presentations will
ule and the AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program icymakers in forecasting and reacting to the work-
be held in the Coral Ballroom, January 29 – force and educational needs of the future. I will
Guide.
February 1. EAAI-19 Invited Presentations will be give an overview of the issues and current efforts to
held in the Sea Pearl Suite (upper level), January prepare for anticipated AI education requirements,
Breakfast with Champions: including data on the different skills and knowl-
28-29. Please consult the online paper schedule
A Women’s Mentoring Event for listings of the Senior Member papers. edge needed and how institutions are likely, and
Wednesday, January 30, 7:30 – 8:45 AM unlikely, to respond in the predicted timeframes.
Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level Monday, January 28 4:15 - 5:15 PM
AAAI is holding the fifth annual women’s men- IAAI-19 Robert S. Engelmore Award Lecture
9:10 – 10:00 AM AI and Multiagent Systems for Social Good
toring event for women students and junior
AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Lecture
women professionals to meet with senior women (Sea Pearl Suite) Milind Tambe (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
in computer science and/or artificial intelligence. Experiments in Teaching AI With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems
Pre-registration was required and admittance is research, we have a tremendous opportunity to di-
Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) rect these advances towards addressing complex
by ticket only. Sponsored by AI Journal and With the ongoing growth of interest in AI, we have societal problems. I will focus on the problems of
AAAI. a responsibility to teach AI to rapidly increasing public safety and security, wildlife conservation
numbers of students. This also presents a wonder- and public health in low-resource communities,
AAAI-19 Games Night ful opportunity to use AI to teach AI, and to use the and present research advances in multiagent sys-
teaching of AI as a testbed for AI techniques and tems to address one key cross-cutting challenge:
Wednesday, January 30, 8:00 – 10:00 AM tools. I will present several experiments in teaching how to effectively deploy our limited intervention
Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level AI, and, in particular, teaching cognitive systems. resources in these problem domains. Results from
These experiments include not only face-to-face our deployments from around the world show con-
Come put your game theory into practice! The
learning, but also online and blended learning. I crete improvements over the state of the art. In
games night this year will feature a rock-paper- will share results from assessments of learning in pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can in-
scissors competition, followed by an open time these classes. I will also draw out some general deed play an important role in fighting social injus-
for playing games and solving puzzles. Everyone principles for teaching AI and using AI to teach AI. tice and improving society.
is invited to participate in the rock-paper-scis- 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM
sors competition, with fame and prizes for the Tuesday, January 29 Oxford-Style Debate
winners. A mixer activity from the opening re- 8:10 - 8:40 AM
The Future of AI
ception will also continue at the games night. Re- AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Welcome and Opening Re-
Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of
member to pack an extra game to play after- marks, AAAI Organizational Awards/Honors
British Columbia, Canada)
wards! 8:40 – 9:40 AM This lighthearted and entertaining debate will ex-
AAAI-19 Invited Talk amine the broad theme of whether machine learn-
AAAI/SIGAI AI Job Fair Living and Flourishing with AI
ing or good, old fashioned AI will be more critical
Thursday, January 31, 12:30 – 3:00 PM to bringing AI systems beyond prediction to acting
Cynthia Breazeal (MIT, USA) autonomously. Teams of two will argue each side
1-Minute Company Presentations: Coral 4, Main Beyond automating productivity and supporting de- as forcefully as they can (regardless of more nu-
Level (12:30 – 1:00 PM) cision making, Artificial Intelligence can also be de- anced positions the participants may hold), but
Tabletop exhibits: Coral Lounge, Main Level signed to help people to flourish and grow. As people will then conclude by seeking a middle ground and
across ages and stages begin to live with AI in the reflecting on strong arguments from the other side.
The AAAI and ACM SIGAI AI Job Fair will pro- Finally, we'll hear from the audience.
home, we have the opportunity to develop au-
vide an opportunity for a host of companies and tonomous machines that can support a diversity peo-
institutions to highlight their current job oppor- ple as emotionally intelligent and capable allies. This Wednesday, January 30
tunities. The short presentations will be followed is particularly poignant as societies struggle to meet
by meet-and-greet sessions. Over 20 employers the growing demands of aging, chronic disease man- 8:45 – 9:45 AM
agement, mood disorders, and lifelong learning. This AAAI-19 Invited Talk
will be participating. Be sure to stop in during the gives rise to important challenges and opportunities
lunch break. For a list of participating companies for how to design, deploy and evaluate the long-term
Adversarial Machine Learning
and a schedule of presentations, please see the impact of socially and emotionally intelligent ma- Ian Goodfellow (Google AI, USA)
online schedule and aaaijobfair.com. chines in the real world to help people learn, thrive Until about 2013, most researchers studying ma-
and emotionally connect. This requires a tightly in- chine learning for artificial intelligence all worked
terwoven approach at the intersection of design, hu- on a common goal: get machine learning to work
man social psychology, ethics, and AI. We have the for AI-scale tasks. Now that supervised learning
AAAI/IAAI/EAAI opportunity to develop AI that places human growth works, there is a Cambrian explosion of new re-
and wellbeing at the center to benefit everyone in
Schedule Information personally meaningful and uplifting ways.
search directions: making machine learning se-
cure, making machine learning private, getting
10:25 – 11:15 AM machine learning to work for new tasks, reducing
Included in this program is the full EAAI sched- the dependence on large amounts of labeled data,
EAAI-19 Invited Talk (Sea Pearl Suite)
ule, and the technical session locations for and so on. In this talk I survey how adversarial
AAAI/IAAI. Please note that EAAI overlaps Future of Work, AI Education, techniques in machine learning are involved in
AAAI/IAAI on Tuesday, January 29. The full list and Public Policy several of these new research frontiers.
of AAAI and IAAI papers is available in the on- Larry Medsker (The George Washington Univ., USA) 5:15 – 6:15 PM
line schedule and via the AAAI-19 Guidebook The emerging impact of AI and other automation AAAI-19 Invited Talk
technologies on all parts of society, including the GDPR, Data Shortage and AI
app. A limited number of hard copies of the
workforce, is clear. The controversy is about the
schedule are available in onsite registration for degree of disruption, for whom, and how public Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and
individuals who do not have online access. and private sectors should respond. The pace of Technology, China)
10 OUTREACH / INVITED PRESENTATIONSDespite its great progress so far, artificial intelli- nia, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the balance a variety of tradeoffs in decision making;
gence (AI) is facing a serious challenge in the avail- Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence (3) social impact is only realized through time-
ability of high-quality Big Data. In many practical Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). With
applications, data are in the form of isolated is- the support of several companies, cities and foun-
consuming field studies that typically compare a
lands. Efforts to integrate the data are increasingly dations, her research team develops computer baseline with the application of novel algorithms
difficult partly due to serious concerns over user models to analyze digital traces of information me- in the real world.
privacy and data security. The problem is exacer- diated by devices. They process this information to The goal of this track at AAAI 2019 is to high-
bated by strict government regulations such as Eu- manage the demand in urban infrastructures in re-
lation to energy and mobility. Her recent research
light these technical challenges and opportuni-
rope’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR).
In this talk, I will review these challenges and de- uses billions of mobile phone records to under- ties and to showcase the social benefits of artifi-
scribe possible technical solutions to address them. stand the appearance of traffic jams and the inte- cial intelligence. The program includes 22 techni-
In particular, I will give an overview of recent ad- gration of electric vehicles into the grid, smart me- cal papers in full oral and spotlight/poster pre-
vances in transfer learning and show how it can al- ter data records to compare the policy of solar en-
sentations, scheduled during sveral of the AI for
leviate the problems of data shortage. I will also ergy adoption and card transactions to identify
give an overview of recent efforts in federated habits in spending behavior. Prior to joining Social Impact sessions, and identified as Special
learning and transfer learning, which aims to Berkeley, Marta worked as an Associate Professor Track papers.
bridge data repositories without compromising da- of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, a For complete schedule information, please
ta security and privacy. member of the Operations Research Center and the consult the online program.
Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is a member
Thursday, January 31 of the scientific council of technology companies
such as Gran Data, PTV and the Pecan Street Pro-
8:20 – 8:40 AM ject consortium. Sponsor and
AAAI-19 Conference Awards
Senior Member Presentations Exhibit Program
Presented by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua
Zhou, AAAI-19 Program Cochairs Tuesday, January 29 Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31
South Pacific 4, Upper Level
8:40 – 9:40 AM Coral Lounge, Main level
10:25 – 11:25 AM (Blue Sky, following the Classic
AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Joint Invited Talk The AAAI-19 sponsor and exhibit program pro-
Paper Award Lecture)
Urban Computing: Building Intelligent vides an opportunity for AI-related companies
Wednesday, January 30
Cities Using Big Data and AI South Pacific 4, Upper Level and publishers to support the goals of AAAI and
Yu Zheng (JD.com, China) reach out to AI professionals. In some cases,
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Blue Sky)
Urban computing is a synergy among cloud com-
2:00 – 3:30 PM (Summary) sponsors have elected to exhibit at AAAI-19.
puting, big data and AI models in the context of
3:35 – 4:35 PM (Blue Sky) AAAI wishes to thank all sponsors and exhibitors
cities, tackling urban challenges, such as air pollu-
tion, energy consumption and traffic congestion, to The AAAI-19 Senior Member Presentation track for their participation at AAAI-19!
create win-win-win solutions that improve urban comprises two subtracks: Summary Talks: estab-
environment, human life quality and city operation Exhibit Hours
lished researchers provide broad talks on a well-
systems. This talk presents the vision of urban
computing, demonstrating how AI technology developed body of research or an important new Tuesday, January 29: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM
helps to build intelligent cities. A series of AI-driv- research area; and Blue Sky Talks: authors pre- Wednesday, January 30: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM
en applications, such as location selection for busi- Thursday, January 31: 9:40 AM – 12:00 PM
sent ideas and visions that can stimulate the re-
ness, forecasting air and water quality, and reduc- Job Fair: 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM
search community to pursue new directions,
ing energy consumption are also introduced in this
talk. More information can be found through the such as new problems, new application domains, Exhibitors / Sponsors
website: icity.jd.com. or new methodologies, that are likely to stimulate
significant new research. Six summary talks and Sponsor
4:15 – 5:15 PM
nine Blue Sky talks will be presented (please see
AAAI-19 Invited Talk AI Journal
the online conference schedule for exact times).
New Results for Solving ijcai.org/aijd.php
For more information about the Blue Sky
Imperfect-Information Games www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence
Awards, please see page 5.
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the
Most real-world settings are imperfect-information longest established and most respected journals
games. They present challenges beyond those in per-
fect-information games. In 2017, our AI Libratus AAAI-19 Emerging Topic: in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has
beat top humans in the main benchmark, heads-up
no-limit Texas hold’em. In this talk I will discuss
AI for Social Impact published many of the key papers in the field.
The operation of the Editorial Board is supported
some of our more recent work on imperfect-infor- financially through an arrangement with AIJ’s
mation games. Topics include a unified framework Tuesday – Wednesday, January 29-30, Coral 1
for abstracting games with bounds on solution qual- Friday, February 1, South Pacific 1 publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artifi-
ity, a sound depth-limited search framework, the AAAI-19 is pleased to present the special AAAI- cial Intelligence is now in the unique position of
fastest equilibrium-finding algorithms, deep learn- 19 Emerging Topic Program on AI for Social Im- being able to make available substantial funds, of
ing as an alternative to abstraction, a general frame- the order of EUR 240,000 per annum to support
work for online convex optimization for sequential pact. This track recognizes that high-quality re-
search on social impact domains often leads to the promotion and dissemination of AI re-
decision processes and extensive-form games, the
first scalable algorithm for trembling-hand equilib- papers that differ from traditional AAAI submis- search.
rium refinements, and trembling-hand refinement sions along multiple dimensions. These are moti-
of Stackelberg equilibria. Exhibitor
vated by the following issues: (1) Data collection
may be difficult and may require innovative
Aimesoft
Friday, February 1 methods and validations, for instance to address www.aimesoft.com/en
8:50 – 9:50 AM large scale data gathering in the field, eliminate Aimesoft develop Multimodal AI solutions. Mul-
AAAI-18 Invited Talk:
Marta Gonzalez (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) bias and ensure fairness; (2) problem modeling is timodal AI combines multiple input sources
Marta C. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of City a time-intensive activity that require significant (text, voice, image, numerical data, ...) and vari-
and Regional Planning at the University of Califor- collaborations with domain experts and need to ous intelligence algorithms into a single system
AI FOR SOCIAL IMPACT EMERGING TOPIC / SPONSOR AND EXHIBIT PROGRAM 11to solve complicated problems. We will present nology in the world, which enables China to be- that is uniquely explainable, auditable, and ed-
various Multimodal AI solutions for smart docu- come one of the four countries worldwide with itable. Our cloud platform enables data scientists
ment processing, billnote processing, stock pre- the core technology of search engines besides and programmers to utilize supervised and un-
diction and Healthcare. America, Russia and the Republic of Korea. supervised learning techniques in a unified mod-
el based on information theory, solving many of
Exhibitor Exhibitor the problems associated with kNN techniques.
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Alegion Community Consortium China, including 3.5 million online restaurants
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We assist data science teams throughout the AI late compelling research visions, and align those We are a global information analytics business
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the Google Assistant. AI also provides new ways
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Baidu is the biggest Chinese search engine and of looking at existing problems, from rethinking
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