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2 min: Intro: Sebastian 6 min: Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue 2 min: Craig Boutilier: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper 2 min: Tony Cohn and Rita Dechter: AIJ awards 2 min: Craig Knoblock: three IJCAI Awards 3 min: Wolfgang Wahlster: Thank-you remarks 10 min: Program: Francesca 3 min: Closing: Sebastian
Organizing Entities
Welcome to China!
AI Obituaries
John McCarthy
David Waltz
Robert Wilensky
John Riedl
Doug Engelbart
Local Arrangement Chairs: Fei-Yue Wang, Derong Liu, Maosong Sun
Beijing (北京 , North Capital)
The Capital of the People's Republic of China One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China The second largest Chinese city by urban population The nation's political, cultural, and educational center A major hub for the national highway, expressway,
railway, and high-speed rail networks Home to a great number of colleges and universities,
including Tsinghua University and Peking University (two of the National Key Universities)
Where are we?
We are here!
BICC
Local Arrangement Chairs
Professor Qin Zhang
JAIR Editor-in-chief, Craig Boutilier
Daniel Golovin and Andreas Krause
Adaptive Submodularity: Theory and Applications in Active Learning and
Stochastic Optimization
August 6, 14:20 in Room 201CD
IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
AIJ Editors-in-Chief: Tony Cohn & Rina Dechter
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Roman Schondlauder, Hans Tompits
Computing Answer Set Programming with Descriptive Logics for the
Semantic Web
Artificial Intelligence 172(12-13): 2008
2013 Prominent Paper Award
Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson
STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving
to Problem Solving
Artificial Intelligence 2(3/4), 1971
2013 Classic Paper Award
Alan Mackworth
Consistency in Networks of Relations
Artificial Intelligence 8(1), 1977
2013 Classic Paper Award
IJCAI President: Craig Knoblock
Research Excellence Award
Hector Levesque
Knowledge representation and reasoning, including cognitive robotics, theory of belief, and tractable reasoning
Thursday, Aug 8, 11:10am
Computers and Thought Award
Kristen Grauman
Fundamental contributions to recognition and search problems in computer vision
Tuesday, Aug 6, 11:10am
Distinguished Service Award
Wolfgang Wahlster
Extensive service to the field of AI throughout his highly distinguished career
Distinguished Service Award: Wolfgang Wahlster
Program Chair: Francesca Rossi
IJCAI Program
8 invited talks 12 journal track presentations
36 best papers/dissertations
from sister conferences
presentations
413 accepted papers• 1473 submissions• All as posters, 195 also
as oral1 panel + 1 debate
3 Competitions• Robot competition• Video competition• Angry Birds AI
competition
23 tutorials 35 workshops
Some new services• myIjcai• Poster in my
Program Structure
August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9
8:30-9:00 welcome
8 parallel sessions + posters
8:30-9:20 Invited talk
7 parallel sessions + posters
9:00-9:45 Invited talk 9:20-9:45Video competition awards
9:45-10:15 coffee coffee coffee coffee
10:15-11:00 Invited talk 8 parallel sessions + posters
Invited talk7 parallel sessions + posters11:15-12:00 Award talk Award talk
12:00-13:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch
13:30-14:15
7 parallelsessions + posters
Invited talk8 parallel sessions + posters
13:30-15:00 Panel
14:30-15:15 Invited talk 15:10-16:00Invited talk
15:15-15:45 coffee coffee coffee 16:00-16:50Invited talk
15:45-17:30 8 parallel sessions + posters
8 parallel sessions + debate + posters
7 parallel sessions + posters
16:50-18:00Closing event
Invited Speakers
Andreas Herzig Jon Kleinberg Wei Li Rolf Pfeifer
Steven Phillips Thad Starner Joshua Tenenbaum
Pascal Van Hentenryck
Award Keynotes
IJCAI-13 Computers and Thought Award
• Kristen Grauman • Towards Large-Scale Visual
recognition and search
IJCAI-13 Arward for Research Excellence
• Hector Levesque • On our Best
Behaviour
Technical Program
• 1,473 submissions• 413 accepted papers (28%)• 195 also chosen for oral presentation
Record submission
• 35 Area Chairs• 397 Senior PC members• 1,799 PC members
Double blind review process
• Published by IJCAI and AAAI Press
Proceedings online and on memory stick!
• Thomas Preuss (Confmaster)• Domenico Salvagnin
Submission Support
Track: AI and Sustainability
• 98 technical papers• 6 data challenge papers
Submissions:
• Oral + poster: 12 technical• Poster: 11 technical + 3 data challenge• Total: 26 papers (25%)
Accepted:
Chair: Carla Gomes
Distinguished Papers
• Bayesian Optimization in High Dimensions via Random Embeddings by Ziyu Wang, Masrour Zoghi, Frank Hutter, David Matheson, Nando de Freitas
• Maximizing Flexibility in Simple Temporal Networks by Bob Huisman, Tomas Klos, Michel Wilson, Cees Witteveen
IJCAI Distinguished papers
• Semi-Supervised Learning for Integration of Aerosol Predictions from Multiple Satellite Instruments by Nemanja Djuric, Lakesh Kansakar, Slobodan Vucetic
Outstanding paper (AICS Track)
• A Hidden Markov Model-Based Cicada Detector for Crowdsourced Smartphone Biodiversity Monitoring by Davide Zilli, Oliver Parson, Geoff V Merrett, Alex Rogers
Outstanding student paper (AICS Track)
Best Papers from Sister Conferences
• ACL 2012, CHI 2013, COLT 2012, EC 2012, ECML 2012, FOIS 2012, ICCBR 2011, ICCBR 2012, ICLP 2011, ICLP 2012, ICRA 2012, ISWC 2012, IUI 2012, JELIA 2012, KDD 2012, PKDD 2012, RecSys 2011, RecSys 2012, RR 2012, RSS 2012, SAT 2012, TARK 2013, UAI 2012, UMAP 2011, WSDM 2012
30 presentation, from best papers at the following conferences:
• 2012 ACP Doctoral Research Award2012 SiGKDD Doctoral Dissertation AwardECCAI 2011 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation AwardIFAAMAS-11 and 12 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award
6 best theses:
Plus ECCAI 2012 thesis award and IJCAI-JAIR best paper
Also 4 page paper and poster
Chair: Berthe Choueiry
Journal Track
• Never presented at AI conference• AI Journal (6)• JAIR (6)• 4 page paper, poster
12 papers from past 2 years
Chair: Umberto Grandi
Impact of AI on Society
• Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield and Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control)
Debate on banning autonomous weapons
• Moderator: Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley)• Joanna Bryson (University of Bath)• Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)• Anders Sandberg (Oxford University)• Sebastian Thrun (Google, Stanford, and Udacity)
Panel on The Future of AI: What if We Succeed?
Supported by AI Journal
Competitions
• Goal: Reward best AI videos• 17 shortlisted videos• 6 award categories• Organizers: Patrick Doherty and Jonas Kvanstrom
Video Competition
• Goal: Foster innovative new robotics systems• 10 Robot Teams• Organizers: Mary-Anne Williams and Xiaoping Chen
Robot Competition
• Goal: Build AI that plays as good as best human players• Man against machine, Best AI Agent• Organizers: Jochen Renz, Stephen Gould, and Gary Ge
Angry Birds Competition
Tutorials, Workshops, and the Doctoral Consortium
August 3-5
23 tutorials35 workshops
Tutorial chair: Boi Faltings Workshop chairs: Edith Elking, Eyal Amir
Doctoral Consortium: 33 Students
TalksPostersMentors
Chairs: Maria Gini, Jimmy Lee, Michela Milano
New Ideas
• Online voting by all attendees, to be awarded at closing event
Vote for best presentation / poster
• Create a personalized conference schedule on smartphones and PCs
MyIjcai
• To download posters (PDF) to smartphones
Poster in your pocket (by Elsevier)
Geography of Submissions
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Acceptance Rates by Continent
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Submissions by Country
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Accepted Papers by Country
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THANK YOU !!!
• 35 Area Chairs• 397 Senior PC members• 1,799 PC members
Program Committee
• 3,171 authors• 1,473 submissions
Authors
• 7 Competition chairs• 3 Tutorial and workshop chairs• 4 Special track and special event chairs• 3 Doctoral consortium chairs• 47 tutorial speakers• 107 workshop organizers
Event Organizers / speakers
• Francisco Cruz
Web Chair
Conference Chair: Sebastian Thrun
Key IJCAI Organizers
Program Chair: Francesca Rossi
Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue Wang
Local Arrangement: Derong Liu
Local Arrangement: Maosong Sun
Executive Secretary: Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Secretary-Treasurer: Bernhard
Nebel
We thank our Sponsors
We thank all of you