In order to give IJCAI attendees a better picture of what is going on in the various subareas of AI, and to counter the fragmentation of the field, 13 distinguished recent papers from international conferences in robotics, vision, knowledge representation, machine learning, planning and other areas have been selected to be presented again at IJCAI. These papers either received "best paper" awards at the respective conferences or were nominated as outstanding work by the PC Chairs/committee members or the IJCAI PC members. To make these research results accessible to a general AI audience, a significantly extended presentation of each of them will be given.
In addition to the presentation at the conference, the authors revised and extended their papers for a book co-edited by Gerhard Lakemeyer and Bernhard Nebel to be published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book is intended as a show-case of the state of the art in AI. In order to make the book as accessible as possible to a wide range of people interested in AI, the authors have been asked to broaden the scope of their presentation so that the paper does not just focus on the particular results, but also introduces the respective research area, its history, milestones, open issues, etc. To ensure the highest standards, each paper will be reviewed by an eminent scholar in the respective field.
| 10:00-11:00 am | Learning Theory and Language Modeling David McAllester and Robert E. Schapire |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Probabilistic Algorithms for Mobile Robot Mapping Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox |
| 3:10-4:10 pm | A First-Order Davis-Putnam-Logeman-Loveland Procedure Peter Baumgartner |
| 4:30-5:30 pm | Planning with Generic Types Derek Long and Maria Fox |
| 10:00-11:00 am | D-Learning: What we can learn from dogs
about building characters that can learn Song-Yee Yoon, Bruce M. Blumberg, and Gerald E. Schneider |
| 10:00-11:00 am | User-Oriented Evalutation Methods for IR: Case Study Based on Conceptual
Models for Query Expansion Jaana Kekäläinen and Kalervo Järvelin |
| 11:40 am-12:40 pm | Data Mining for Manufacturing Control: An Application in Optimizing IC
Test Tony Fountain, Thomas Dietterich, Bill Sudyka |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Bayesian Inference of Visual Motion Boundaries Michael J. Black, David J. Fleet |
| 3:10-4:10 pm | Understanding Belief Propagation and its Generalizations Jonathan Yedidia, William Freeman, and Yair Weiss |
| 4:30-5:30 pm | New Tractable Classes From Old David Cohen, Peter Jeavons, and Richard Gault |
| 10:00-11:00 am | Qualitative Spatio-Temporal
Representation and Reasoning: A Computational Perspective Frank Wolter and Michal Zakharyaschev |
| 2:00-3:00 pm | Virtual Humans for Team Training in
Virtual Reality Jeff Rickel and W. Lewis Johnson |
| 3:10-4:10 pm | Identifying Semantic Roles in Text Daniel Gildea and Daniel Jurafsky |