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IJCAI-97 Schedule

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Aug. 26 (Tues.)	SESSION A (09:00-10:30)	SESSION B (11:00-12:30)	SESSION C (14:00-15:30)	SESSION D (16:00-17:00)
Aug. 27 (Wed.)	SESSION E (09:00-10:00)	SESSION F (10:30-12:30)
Aug. 28 (Thurs.)	SESSION G (09:00-10:30)	SESSION H (11:00-12:30)	SESSION I (14:00-15:30)	SESSION J (16:00-17:30)
Aug. 29 (Fri.)	SESSION K (09:00-10:30)	SESSION L (11:00-12:30)	SESSION M (14:00-15:30)	SESSION N (16:00-17:00)

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SESSION A: Aug. 26 (Tues., 09:00-10:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (09:00-10:00)	Let's Plan it Deductively	Bibel
Conf. Rpt. (10:00-10:30)	Report on CADE '96	Slaney

Room 1

Cognitive Modeling 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J577	Acquisition of Human Feelings for Music Arrangement	Numao Kobayashi Sakaniwa
J674	Using Data and Theory in Multistrategy (Mis)Concept(ion) Discovery	Sison Numao Shimura
J561	An Aggregation Procedure for Building Episodic Memory	Ferret Grau

Room 2

Expert Systems
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J909	An Expert System for Benefits Inquiry in the Insurance Industry	Morgenstern Singh
J427	Can We Benefit from Metrics in KBS Development?	Kramer Kaindl Schlee
J393	Multi-Perspective Modelling of the Air Campaign Planning process	Kingston Griffith Lydiard

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 1: Belief Revision
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J768	Qualitative Relevance and Independence: A Roadmap	Dubois Farinas del Cerro Herzig Prade
J374	The Complexity of Belief Update	Liberatore
J441	Anytime Belief Revision	Williams

Room 4

Diagnosis 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J017	Locating Faults in Tree-Structured Networks	Leckie Dale
J425	Diagnosing Tree Structured Systems	Stumptner Wotawa
J354	Event-Based Reasoning for Short Circuit Diagnosis in Power Transmission Networks	Lamperti Pogliano

Room 5

Learning 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J328	Unbiased Assessment of Learning Algorithms	Scheffer Herbrich
J645	Is Nonparametric Learning Practical in Very High Dimensional Spaces?	Grudic Lawrence
J653	Discovering Admissible Models of Complex Systems Based on Scale-Types and Identity Constraints	Washio Motoda

SESSION B: Aug. 26 (Tues., 11:00-12:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (11:00-12:00)

Remote-Brained Robots

Inaba

Room 1

Cognitive Modeling 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J644	QUEM: An Achievment Test for Knowledge-Based Systems	Hayes Michael
J802	A Functional Theory of Design Patterns	Bhatta Goel
J803	Mental Tracking: A Computational Model of Spatial Development	Hiraki Sashima Phillips

Room 2

Planning 1: Relations among Techniques
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J847	Prioritized Goal Decomposition of Markov Decision Processes: Toward a Synthesis of Classical and Decision Theoretic Planning	Boutilier Brafman Geib
J884	Model Minimization, Regression, and Propositional STRIPS Planning	Givan Dean
J860	Tradeoffs in Automatic SAT-Compilation of Planning Problems	Ernst Millstein Weld

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 2: Belief Revision
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J132	Towards Generalized Rule-based Updates	Zhang Foo
J980	Representation Theorems for Multiple Belief Changes	Zhang Chen Zhu
J979	Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Multiple Belief Revision	Zhang Chen Zhu

Room 4

Diagnosis 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J575	Exploiting domain knowledge for approximate diagnosis	ten Teije van Harmelen
J725	Semantically Guided Theorem Proving for Diagnosis Applications	Baumgartner Froehlich Furbach Nejdl
J752	A Static Model-Based Engine for Model-Based Reasoning	Froehlich Nejdl

Room 5

Learning 2: Reinforcement Learning
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J570	An Adaptive Architecture for Modular Q-learning	Kohri Matsubayashi Tokoro
J583	A convergent Reinforcement Learning algorithm in the continuous case based on a Finite Difference method	Munos
J937	Ants and Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study in Packet Routing in Dynamic Networks.	Subramanian Druschel Chen

SESSION C: Aug. 26 (Tues., 14:00-15:30)

Plenary

Distinguished Papers
J508	Applications of the Situation Calculus To Formalizing Control and Strategic Information: The Prolog Cut Operator	Lin
J896	Translingual Information Retrieval: A Comparative Evaluation	Carbonell Yang Frederking Brown Geng Lee
J775	Object Identification in a Bayesian Context	Huang Russell

Room 1

Cognitive Modeling 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J286	In the Quest of the Missing Link	Bittencourt
J533	Implementing BDI Systems by Direct Execution	Fisher
J885	Managing decision resources in plan execution	Freed

Room 2

Scheduling
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J454	Combining Local Search and Look-Ahead for Scheduling and Constraint Satisfaction Problems	Schaerf
J605	Automatic Generation of Heuristics for Scheduling	Morris Bresina Rodgers
J774	Development of Iterative Real-time Scheduler to Planner Feedback	McVey Durfee Atkins Shin

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 3: Theorem Proving
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J079	High Performance ATP Systems by Combining Several AI Methods	Denzinger Fuchs Fuchs
J686	Equational Reasoning using AC Constraints	Plaisted Zhu
J737	Rigid variables considered harmful	Voronkov

Room 4

Diagnosis 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J194	Polynomial Temporal Band Sequences for Analog Diagnosis	Loiez Taillibert
J627	Fundamentals of Model-based Diagnosis of Dynamic Systems	Struss
J055	Comparative Analysis of Structurally Different Dynamical Systems	De Jong Van Raalte

Room 5

Learning 3: Decision Trees
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J031	Integrating Models of Discrimination and Characterization for Learning from Examples in Open Domains	Davidsson
J218	Decision Tree Grafting	Webb
J712	Noise-Tolerant Windowing	Fuernkranz

SESSION D: Aug. 26 (Tues., 16:00-17:00)

Plenary

Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Boden

Room 1

Game Playing 1: Go
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J960	A Model of Strategy for the Game of Go Using Abstraction Mecanisms	Ricaud
J711	An Evolutionary Algorithm Extended by Ecological Analogy and its Application to the Game of Go	Kojima Ueda Nagano

Room 2

Planning 2: Reactive Planning
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J853	A Reactive Planner for a Model-based Executive	Williams Nayak
J550	Modeling Command Entities	Howard

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 4: Propositional KBs
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J555	Tractable Cover Compilations	Boufkhad Gregoire Marquis Mazure Sais
J617	A Four-Valued Fuzzy Propositional Logic	Straccia

Room 4

Qualitative Reasoning 1: Modeling Support
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J797	Web-Based Compositional Modeling System for Sharing of Physical Knowledge	Iwasaki Farquhar Fikes Rice
J448	A Causal Time Ontology for Qualitative Reasoning	Kitamura Ikeda Mizoguchi

Room 5

Learning 4: Classification
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J900	Ensembles as a Sequence of Classifiers	Asker Maclin
J222	Stacked Generalization: when does it work?	Ting Witten

SESSION E: Aug. 27 (Wed., 09:00-10:00)

Plenary

Inheritance Comes of Age: Applying Nonmonotonic Techniques to Problems in Industry

Morgenstern

Room 1

Game Playing 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J866	Search Versus Knowledge in Game-Playing Programs Revisited	Junghanns Schaeffer
J579	Learning Strategies in Games by Anticipation	Meyer Ganascia Zucker

Room 2

Planning 3: Planning under Uncertainty
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J522	Vision-Motion Planning of a Mobile Robot considering Vision Uncertainty and Planning Cost	Miura Shirai
J724	Handling Duration Uncertainty in Meta-Level Control of Progressive Processing	Mouaddib Zilberstein

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 5: Description Logic
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J641	Autoepistemic Description Logics	Donini Nardi Rosati
J045	Reifying Concepts in Description Logics	Badea

Room 4

Qualitative Reasoning 2: Perception and Belief
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J687	Qualitative Reasoning about Perception and Belief	del Val Maynard-Reid II Shoham
J901	Rule-based Contact Monitoring Using Examples Obtained by Task Demonstration	Sikka McCarragher

Room 5

Learning 5: Applications
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J593	Alignment Algorithms for Learning to Read Aloud	Ling Wang
J566	Socially Embedded Learning of Office-Conversant Robot Jijo-2	Asoh Hayamizu Hara Motomura Akaho Matsui

Room 6

Constraint Satisfaction 1: Constraint Programming
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J422	Semiring-based Constraint Logic Programming	Bistarelli Montanari Rossi
J299	Computational Complexity of Multi-way, Dataflow Constraint Problems	Trombettoni Neveu

SESSION F: Aug. 27 (Wed., 10:30-12:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (10:30-11:30)	Vehicles Capable of Dynamic Vision	Dickmanns
Panel (11:30-12:30)	The Next Big Thing	Singh Bobrow Huhns Hayes-Roth Kitano KIng Reiter

Room 1

Neural Nets 1: Rule Extraction
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J419	On the Efficient Classification of Data Structures by Neural Networks	Frasconi Gori Sperduti
J291	On the Role of Hierarchy for Neural Network Interpretation	Rahmel Blum Hahn
J336	Law Discovery using Neural Networks	Saito Nakano
J682	Active Diagnosis by Self-Organization: An Approach by The Immune Network Metaphor	Ishida

Room 2

Planning 4: Reasoning about Plans
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J845	Adaptive goal recognition	Lesh
J288	Reasoning about Plans	Lukaszewicz Madalinska-Bugaj
J357	Reasoning about concurrent execution, prioritized interrupts, and exogenous actions in the situation calculus	De Giacomo Lesperance Levesque
J869	Learning to Improve both Efficiency and Quality of Planning	Estlin Mooney

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 6: Nonmonotonism
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J386	Circumscribing Inconsistency	Besnard Schaub
J870	A default interpretation of defeasible network	Wang You Yuan
J104	A Cumulative-Model Semantics for Dynamic Preferences on Assumptions	Junker
J410	Compiling reasoning with and about preferences into default logic	Delgrande Schaub

Room 4

Qualitative Reasoning 3: Geometric and Spatial Reasoning
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J065	On the Complexity of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning: A Maximal Tractable Fragment of the Region Connection Calculus	Renz Nebel
J057	Automation of Diagrammatic Reasoning	Jamnik Bundy Green
J892	Structural Inferences from Massive Datasets	Yip

Room 5

Learning 6: Logic and ILP
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J412	Tractable Induction and Classification in First Order Logic	Sebag Rouveirol
J459	RHB+: A Type-Oriented ILP System Learning from Positive Data	Sasaki Haruno
J723	Integrating Explanatory and Descriptive Learning in ILP	Dimopoulos Dzeroski Kakas

Room 6

Constraint Satisfaction 2: SAT
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J084	Heuristics Based on Unit Propagation for Satisfiability Problems	Li Anbulagan
J800	Hidden gold in random generation of SAT satisfiable instances	Castell Cayrol
J798	Discrete Lagrangian-based Search for Solving MAX-SAT Problems	Shang Wah
J013	Learning Short-Term Weights for GSAT	Frank

SESSION G: Aug. 28 (Thurs., 09:00-10:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (09:00-10:00)	Generating Multimedia Briefings: Language Generation in a Coordinated Multimedia Environment to Convey Information Concisely	McKeown
Conf. Rpt. (10-10:30)	Report on ICCBR '97	Leake

Room 1

Neural Nets 2: Language and Structure Processing
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J877	Meaning and the Mental Lexicon	Lowe
J440	Extracting Propositions from Trained Neural Networks	Tsukimoto
J157	Convergence time characteristics of an associative memory for natural language processing	Collier

Room 2

Planning 5: Applications and Support
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J945	Plan Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft	Pell Gat Keesing Muscettola Smith
J722	System Assistance in Structured Domain Model Development	Biundo Stephan
J903	Par-KAP: a Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Building Practical Planning Systems	Barros Hendler Benjamins

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 7: Nonmonotonism for Logic Programming
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J267	Learning Extended Logic Programs	Inoue Kudoh
J121	Compiling Prioritized Circumscription into Extended Logic Programs	Wakaki Satoh

Room 4

Qualitative Reasoning 4: Causality
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J111	Qualitative Analysis of Causal Graphs with Equilibrium Type-Transition	Kurumatani Nakamura
J503	Action Localness, Genericity and Invariants in STRIPS	Foo Zhang Peppas Pagnucco Nayak
J925	Causality, Constraints and the Indirect Effect of Actions	Geffner

Room 5

Learning 7: Dynamic Environments
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J485	Combining Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning for the Control of Dynamic Systems	Shiraz Sammut
J610	Skill reconstruction as induction of LQ controllers with subgoals	Suc Bratko
J765	Learning Topological Maps with Weak Local Odometric Information	Shatkay Kaelbling

Room 6

Constraint Satisfaction 3: Local Consistency
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J377	Local consistency for ternary numeric constraints	Faltings Gelle
J355	Arc consistency for general constraint networks: preliminary results	Bessiere Regin
J139	Constraint Satisfaction over Connected Row Convex Constraints	Deville Barette Van Hentenryck

SESSION H: Aug. 28 (Thurs., 11:00-12:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (11:00-12:00)

Reinforcement Learning: Lessons for AI

Sutton

Room 1

Neural Nets 3: Neurobiologically Inspired Computation
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J927	Combining Probabilistic Population Codes	Zemel Dayan
J449	Self-Organization and Segmentation with Laterally Connected Spiking Neurons	Choe Miikkulainen
J706	A Music Stream Segregation System Based on Adaptive Multi-Agents	Kashino Murase

Room 2

Temporal Reasoning 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J545	Reasoning by Regression: Pre- and Postdiction Procedures for Logics of Action and Change with Nondeterminism	Bjäreland Karlsson
J922	Change, Change, Change: three approaches	Costello

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 8: Modal Logic
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J200	Prefixed tableaux systems for modal logics with enriched languages	Balbiani Demri
J747	A Set-Theoretic Approach to Automated Deduction in Graded Modal Logics	Montanari Policriti
J421	On evaluating decision procedures for modal logic	Hustadt Schmidt

Room 4

Qualitative Reasoning 5
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J810	Redesigning the Problem-Solver's Operators to Improve the Quality of its Solutions	Stroulia Goel
J910	Formal Specification for a Hybrid Dynamical System Simulator	Mosterman Biswas

Room 5

Learning 8
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J445	Discovering Interesting Holes in Data	Liu Ku Hsu
J325	An Analysis on Crossovers for Real Number Chromosomes in an Infinite Population Size	Nomura
J437	Minimum Split Based Discretization for Continuous features	Wang Han Chong

Room 6

Constraint Satisfaction 4
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J367	Some Practicable filtering techniques	Debruyne Bessiere
J375	Structuring Techniques for Constraint Satisfaction Problems	Weigel Faltings
J458	Merging constraint satisfaction subproblems to avoid redundant search	Larrosa

SESSION I: Aug. 28 (Thurs., 14:00-15:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (14:00-15:30)

The New Millennium Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before

Muscettola Nayak Pell Williams

Room 1

Neural Nets 4: Learning Algorithms and Architectures
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J082	An effective learning method for max-min neural networks	Teow Loe
J098	Avoiding Overfitting with BP-SOM	Weijters van den Herik van den Bosch Postma
J748	Evolvable Hardware for Generalized Neural Networks	Murakawa Yoshizawa Kajitani Higuchi

Room 2

Temporal Reasoning 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J362	Reasoning with Incomplete Initial Information and Nondeterminism in Situation Calculus	Karlsson
J837	Defeasible specifications in action theories	Baral Lobo
J149	Reasoning about Action in Polynomial Time	Drakengren Bjäreland

Room 3

Automated Reasoning 9: Analogy
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J436	Preduction: A Common Form of Induction and Analogy	Arima
J388	Analogy and Abduction in Automated Deduction	Defourneaux Peltier

Distributed AI
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J309	Cooperation Structures	d'Inverno Luck Wooldridge

Room 4

Challenge Papers 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J556	The Predictive Toxicology Evaluation Challenge	Srinivasan King Muggleton Sternberg
J917	Challenge:Where is the Impact of Bayesian Networks in Learning?	Friedman Goldszmidt Heckerman Russell
J875	Adaptive Web Sites: an AI Challenge	Perkowitz Etzioni

Room 5

Natural-Language Processing 1: Generation
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J878	Dynamically Improving Explanations: A Revision-Based Approach to Explanation Generation	Callaway Lester
J540	Exploiting the Addressee's Inferential Capabilities in Presenting Mathematical Proofs	Fehrer Horacek
J463	Proof Verbalization as an Application of NLG	Huang Fiedler

Room 6

Challenge Papers 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J331	The RoboCup Synthetic Agents Challenge 97	Kitano Veloso Stone Tambe Coradeschi Osawa Noda Matsubara Asada
J734	Understanding Three Simultaneous Speeches	Okuno Nakatani Kawabata
J623	Distributed Vision System: An Informative Infrastructure for Robot Navigation	Ishiguro

SESSION J: Aug. 28 (Thurs., 16:00-17:30)

Plenary

RoboCup Finals (16:00-17:30)

Room 1

Search 1: Depth-First Search
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J509	Interleaved depth-first search	Meseguer
J052	Depth-bounded Discrepancy Search	Walsh

Room 2

Temporal Reasoning 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J168	Qualitative Temporal Reasoning with Points and Durations	Sanchez Morales
J659	On Finding a Solution in Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems	Gerevini Cristani
J105	Towards a Complete Classification of Tractability in Allen's Algebra	Drakengren Jonsson

Room 3

Distributed AI 1: Interagent Communication
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J862	Middle-Agents for the Internet	Decker Sycara Williamson
J615	Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language	Labrou Finin
J457	Persuasion among Agents : An Approach to Implement a Group Decision Support System Based on Multi-Agent Negotiation	Ito Shintani

Room 4

Video Session
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
Video-1	Real-time face tracking and gesture recognition	Zelinsky
Video-2	PAC - Personality and cognition: an interactive system for modelling agent scenarios	Padgham Taylor

Room 5

Natural-Language Processing 1: Machine Translation
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J072	Corpus-Based Chinese-Korean Abstracting Translation System	Li Choi
J920	A Hybrid Approach to Interactive Machine Translation ---Integrating Rule-based, Corpus-based, and Example-based Method ---	Yamabana Kamei Muraki Doi Tamura Satoh
J669	Improving Performance of Transfer-DrivenMachine Translation with Extra-Linguistic Information from Context, Situation and Environment	Mima Furuse Iida

Room 6

Case-Based Reasoning 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J277	How Similar is VERY YOUNG to 43 Years of Age? On the Representation and Comparison of ...	Dubitzky Schuster Hughes Bell Adamson
J240	The Competence of Sub-Optimal Theories of Structure-Mapping on Hard Analogies	Veale Keane
J444	An Average-Case Analysis of the k-Nearest Neighbor Classifier for Noisy Domains	Okamoto Yugami

SESSION K: Aug. 29 (Fri., 09:00-10:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (09:00-10:00)	Machine Learning Techniques to Make Computers Easier to Use	Motoda
Conf. Rpt.(10:00-10:30)	Report on QR '96 and QR '97	Struss

Room 1

Search 2: Bin Packing
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J253	From Approximate to Optimal Solutions: Constructing Pruning and Propagation Rules	Gent Walsh
J153	An Approximate 0-1 Edge-Labeling Algorithm for Constrained Bin-Packing Problem	Lee Trumbo

Room 2

Information Retrieval 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J450	Adaptive Personal Information Filtering System that Organizes personal profiles Automatically	Kindo Yoshida Morimoto Watanabe
J171	An Index Navigator for Understanding and Expressing User's Coherent Interest	Ohsawa Yachida
J418	Wrapper Induction for Information Extraction	Kushmerick Weld Doorenbos

Room 3

Distributed AI 2: Coordintation and Coopeartion
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J717	Exploration and Adaptation in Multiagent Systems: A Model-based Approach	Carmel Markovitch
J879	The Effects of Runtime Coordination Strategies Within Static Organizations	Durfee So

Room 4

Robotics 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J893	Multi-Robot Exploration of an Unknown Environment, Efficiently Reducing the Odometry Error.	Rekleitis Dudek Milios
J894	Active Mobile Robot Localization	Burgard Fox Thrun
J935	Reactive Combination of Belief Over Time Using Direct Perception	Murphy Hawkins Schoppers

Room 5

Natural-Language Processing 3: Dialogue and Discourse
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J727	Dynamic, User-Centered Resolution in Interactive Stories	Sgouros
J707	Tall, Good, High - Compared to What?	Staab Hahn
J953	Charts, interaction-free grammars, and the compact representation of ambiguity	Dymetman

Room 6

Case-Based Reasoning 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J921	Learning to Integrate Multiple Knowledge Sources for Case-Based Reasoning	Leake Kinley Wilson
J282	Aggregating Features and Matching Cases on Vague Linguistic Expressions	Schuster Dubitzky Lopes Bell Adamson Hughes White
J273	Using Case-Based Reasoning In Interpreting Unsupervised Inductive Learning Results	Ho Luong

SESSION L: Aug. 29 (Fri., 11:00-12:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (11:00-12:00)

Numerica: A Modeling Language for Global Optimization

van Hentenryk

Room 1

Probabilistic Reasoning 1: Efficiency
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J432	Probabilistic Partial Evaluation: Exploiting rule structure in probabilistic inference	Poole
J815	Space-efficient inference in dynamic probabilistic networks	Binder Murphy Russell
J855	Mini-Buckets: A General Scheme of Generating Approximations in Automated Reasoning	Dechter

Room 2

Information Retrieval 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J373	COSPEX: A System for Constructing Private Digital Libraries	Sugimoto Katayama Takasu
J586	Using Bayesian Network Induction Approach to Text Categorization	Lam Low Ho
J919	Toward Structured Retrieval in Semi-structured Information Spaces	Huffman Baudin

Room 3

Distributed AI 3: Multiagent Algorithms
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J876	Dynamic Prioritization of Complex Agents in Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems	Armstrong Durfee
J677	A dynamic theory of incentives in multi-agent systems	Tanaka Shoham
J955	On the Gains and Losses of Strategic Behavior in Equilibrium Markets	Sandholm Ygge

Room 4

Robotics 2
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J829	Dynamic Path Planning on Mulitple Spatial Scales	Large Christensen Bajcsy
J874	Learning to Coordinate Controllers - Reinforcement Learning on a Control Basis	Huber Grupen
J301	Situated Actions and Cognition	Penders Braspenning

Room 5

Natural-Language Processing 4: Dialogue and Discourse
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J709	On the Interaction of Metonymies and Anaphora	Markert Hahn
J397	Computing Parallelism in Discourse	Gardent Kohlhase
J131	Content Ordering in the Generation of Persuasive Discourse	Reed Long

Room 6

Computer-Aided Education
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J664	Use of abstraction and complexity levels in intelligent educational systems design	Lelouche Morin
J636	Reasoning Symbolically about Partially Matched Cases	Ashley Aleven
J630	Task Ontology Makes It Easier To Use Authoring Tools	Ikeda Kazuhisa Mizoguchi

SESSION M: Aug. 29 (Fri., 14:00-15:30)

Plenary

Invited Talk (14:00-15:00)	Modeling Social Action for AI Agents	Castelfranchi
Conf. Rpt. (15:00-15:30)	Report on ICMAS '96	Tokoro

Room 1

Probabilistic Reasoning 2: Causal Discovery
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J018	A Study of Causal Discovery With Weak Links and Small Samples	Dai Korb Wallace
J726	ILP with Noise and Fixed Example Size: A Bayesian Approach	McCreath Sharma
J926	Learning probabilities for noisy rules	Koller Pfeffer

Room 2

Information Retrieval 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J672	The Self-Organizing Desk	Rus de Santis
J594	A Learning System for Selective Dissemination of Information	Amati Crestani Ubaldini
J817	WebWatcher: A Tour Guide for the World Wide Web	Joachims Freitag Mitchell

Room 3

Challenge Papers 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J518	Can we bridge refinement-based and SAT-based planning techniques?	Kambhampati
J828	Computational Challenges in Propositional Reasoning and Search	Selman Kautz McAllester
J983	Challenge: How IJCAI 1999 can Prove the Value of AI by using AI	Geller

Room 4

Vision 1
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J128	Comparing Random-Starts Local Search with Key-Feature Matching	Beveridge Graves Steinborn
J262	Chain of Circles for Matching and Recognition of Planar Shapes	Chung Ohnishi
J891	Name-It: Naming and Detecting Faces in Video by the Integration of Image and Natural Language Processing	Satoh Nakamura Kanade

Room 5

Natural-Language Processing 3: Dialogue and Discourse
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J563	ARTIMIS: Natural Dialogue meets Rational Agency	Sadek Bretier Panaget
J611	An Information-based Principle for Guiding Multi-Modal Human-Computer Interaction	Denecke
J451	Interactive Disambiguation of Natural Language Input: a Methodology and Two Implementations for French and English	Blanchon

SESSION N: Aug. 29 (Fri., 16:00-17:00)

Plenary

Invited Talk (16:00-17:00)

The Origins of Syntax in Visually Grounded Robotic Agents

Steels

Room 1

Probabilistic Reasoning 3
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J507	A mechanism for reasoning about utilities (and probabilities)	Shoham
J142	PRISM: A Language for Symbolic-Statistical Modeling	Sato Kameya

Room 2

Information Retrieval 4
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J688	Recursive Plans for Information Gathering	Duschka Levy
J918	Efficiently Executing Information-Gathering Plans	Friedman Weld Kwok

Room 3

Distributed AI 4: Multiagent Algorithms
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J830	The Use of Meta-level Information in Learning Situation-Specific Coordination	Nagendra Prasad Lesser
J446	Analysis of Inheritance Mechanisms in Agent-Oriented Programming	Crnogorac Rao Ramamohanarao

Room 4

Vision 2: Stereo Vision
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J338	Neural network based photometric stereo using illumination planning	Iwahori Kato Bhuiyan Woodham
J661	A General expression of the Fundamental Matrix for Both Projective and Affine Cameras	Zhang Xu

Room 5

Graphics
No.	TITLE	AUTHOR(S)
J229	A Method of Generating Calligraphy of Japanese Character using Deformable Contours	Wang Yamada Seki Itoh
J907	The Representation and Use of a Visual Lexicon for Automated Graphics Generation	Zhou Feiner

History of Fixes since May 11, 1997

May 12: "Session B, Room 5, (J445, J325, J437)" and "Session H, Room 5, (J570, J583, J937)" were swapped.
May 20: Conference Report schedule was added.
May 29: Titles of Invited talk and Session E, G and N were fixed.
Jun 8: Title and Author of J373 is fixed
Jun 25: J309 at Room 3 of Session K is moved to Room 3 of Session I
Jul 30: fix co-author of J273
Aug 6: fix co-author of J674

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Last modified: Wed Aug 6 00:08:28 JST 1997