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

AAAI-19 IAAI-19 EAAI-19

Conference Program

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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

Conference Highlights at a Glance

Contents AAAI Community Meeting / 5

Acknowledgments / 3

AI Job Fair / 10

AIES 2019 / 6

Awards / 3

Black in AI Lunch / 6

Conference at a Glance / 2

Doctoral Consortium / 8

EAAI-19 Program / 9

Exhibition / 11

Games Night / 8

Invited Talks / 10

Maps / 21-23

Poster / Demo Sessions / 6

Registration / 14

Senior Member / Blue Sky Program / 11

Social and Special Events / 6

Special Meetings / 5

Special Track: AI for Social Impact / 11

Sponsors / 3, 11

Student Abstracts / 8

Student Activities / 6–10

Talk Length Key / 16

AAAI/IAAI Program Overview / 16–19

Tutorial Forum / 7

Women’s Mentoring Breakfast / 10

Workshop Program / 8

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 Artificial Intelligence and the Thirty-First Confer-ence on Innovative Applications of Artificial In-telligence. (A complete listing of the AAAI-19 and IAAI-19 Program Committee members will ap-pear in the conference proceedings.)

Awards AAAI Special Awards and honors will be pre-sented Tuesday, January 29, 8:10 – 8:40 AM, in the Coral Ballroom on the 6th floor of the Mid-Pacific Conference Center of Hilton Hawaiian Village. AAAI-19 Awards will be presented on

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Thursday, January 31, 8:20 – 8:40 AM in the same location.

2019 AAAI Special Awards & Honors AAAI Honors and Special Awards will be pre-sented by Subbarao Kambhampati, Awards Committee Chair and AAAI Past President, Yolanda Gil, AAAI President, and Bart Selman, AAAI President-Elect.

2019 AAAI Fellows Recognition Each year, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence recognizes a small num-ber of members who have made significant sus-

tained contributions to the field of artificial intel-ligence, and who have attained unusual distinc-tion in the profession. AAAI is pleased to an-nounce the seven newly elected Fellows for 2019, who will be honored during the annual Fellows dinner on Tuesday, January 29:

Vincent Conitzer (Duke University, USA) Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Bel-gium) Kristen Grauman (University of Texas at Austin and Facebook AI Research, USA) Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech, USA) Huan Liu (Arizona State University, USA) Jiebo Luo (University of Rochester, USA) Peter Stuckey (Monash University, Australia)

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Sponsoring Organizations AAAI gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of the

following organizations and individuals to AAAI-19:

Platinum Sponsor AI Journal

Didi Elsevier

IBM Research JD.com

Gold Sponsor Baidu

Lionbridge Uber Unity

WeBank/Qianhai

Silver Sponsor Amazon

Diveplane Eleme

Jane Street Lyft

Shanghai Yixue Educational Technology Co., Ltd.

Bronze Sponsors Alegion

Google AI iMerit Technology Microsoft Research

NextAI Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT)

University of Adger University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute

General Sponsors ACM/SIGAI

CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) David E. Smith

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2019 Senior Member Recognition AAAI is pleased to announce the newly elected 2019 AAAI senior members, who are being rec-ognized for their long-term participation in AAAI and their distinction in the field of artificial intelligence.

Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Roman Barták (Charles University, Czechia) Yiling Chen (Harvard University, USA) Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia, Canada) Minh Do (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Vincent Ng (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Marco Valtorta (University of South Carolina, USA) Yevgeniy Vorobeychik (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)

2019 AAAI Classic Paper Award The 2019 AAAI Classic Paper award honors the authors of the following paper deemed most in-fluential from the Eighteenth National Confer-

ence on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2002 in Ed-monton, Alberta, Canada. Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering for Improved Recommendations

Prem Melville, Raymond J. Mooney, Ramadass Nagarajan For showing a way to complement content-based and collaborative filtering approaches in recom-mendation systems.

The Classic Paper Award Talk, by Prem Melville, will be held Tuesday, January 29 at 11:30 AM in South Pacific 4, Upper Level. An honorable men-tion will be presented to Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev for D*Lite.

2019 Distinguished Service Award The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recog-nizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. The 2019 recipient is Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Mas-sachusetts Amherst), who is being recognized for sustained and conscientious service and leader-ship both to AAAI as a councilor and conference committee chair, and to the broader AI commu-nity, as the president of ICAPS.

2019 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award and Lecture The Robert S. Engelmore Award is sponsored by IAAI-19 and AI Magazine, and will be presented by Karen Myers, IAAI-19 chair, and Ashok Goel, editor in chief, AI Magazine. The award and lec-ture were established in 2003 to honor Dr. Engel-more’s extraordinary service to AAAI, AI Maga-zine, and the AI applications community, and his contributions to applied AI. The 2019 award will be presented to Milind Tambe (University of Southern California) for outstanding research contributions in the area of multi-agent systems and their application to problems of societal sig-nificance. The lecture will be held on Tuesday, January 29, 4:15 AM, in the Coral Ballroom on the main level. (See lecture description on page 10.)

2019 Feigenbaum Prize The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize was established to recognize and encourage outstanding artificial intelligence research advances that are made by using experimental methods of computer sci-ence. The 2019 prize is being awarded to Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkeley In

AAAI Conference Committee Chair Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

AAAI-19 Program Cochairs Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

IAAI-19 Chair Karen Myers (SRI International, USA)

EAAI-19 Symposium Cochairs Michael Wollowski (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA) Nate Derbinsky (Northeastern University, USA)

Emerging Topic – AI for Social Impact Cochairs Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada) Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA)

Presentation Chair Eugene Freuder (University College Cork, Ireland)

Senior Member Track Cochairs David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory, USA) Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky, USA)

Technical Demonstrations Chair Monica Anderson (University of Alabama, USA)

Tutorial Forum Cochairs William Yeoh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Workshop Program Cochairs Matthew Taylor (Washington State University, USA) Min-Ling Zhang (Southeast University, China)

Doctoral Consortium Cochairs Daniele Magazzeni (King’s College London, UK) Laura Hiatt (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Student Abstract Cochairs Nir Lipovetzky (University of Melbourne, Australia) Yang Yu (Nanjing University, China)

Student Activities Cochairs Sriraam Natarajan (University of Texas, Dallas, USA) Nathan Sturtevant (University of Alberta, Canada) William Yeoh (New Mexico State University, USA)

Student Outreach Cochairs Brent Venable (Tulane University, USA) Sheila Tejada (University of Southern California, USA)

AAAI/SIGAI Job Fair Cochairs John Dickerson (University of Maryland, USA) Chris Amato (Northeastern University, USA)

Black in AI Lunch Cochairs Rediet Abebe (Cornell University, USA) Emmanuel Johnson (USC/Institue for Creative Technolgies, USA)

Women’s Mentoring Event Cochairs Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) Marie desJardins (Simmons College, USA)

Fundraising Chair Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)

Guidebook Program Chair Blai Bonet (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela)

Workflow Chair Peng Zhao (Nanjing University, China)

AAAI Conference Committee

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recognition of his high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innova-tion and achievement in probabilistic knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning, includ-ing its application to global seismic monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The Feigenbaum Prize is supported by a grant from the Feigenbaum Nii Foundation.

2019 AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award and Lecture The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award was established to recognize a person (or group of people) who has (have) made major contribu-tions to AI education that provide long-lasting benefits to the AI community. The 2019 award is being presented to Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology), for sustained excellence in teach-ing, innovation in using AI to teach AI, scientific experimentation and scholarship to assess and improve AI pedagogy, and the many resources he has shared with the community at large. This award is jointly sponsored by AAAI and the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artifi-cial Intelligence. The lecture will be held during EAAI-19 on Monday, January 28, 9:10 AM, in the Sea Pearl Suite on the upper level. (See lecture description on page 10.)

IAAI-19 Deployed Applications Awards 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. A Genetic Algorithm for Finding a Small and Diverse Set of Recent News Stories on a Given Subject: How We Generate AAAI’s AI-Alert

Joshua Eckroth, Eric Schoen Large Scale Personalized Categorization of Financial Transactions

Christopher Lesner, Alexander Ran, Marko Rukonic, Wei Wang

Transforming Underwriting in the Life Insurance In-dustry

Marc Maier, Hayley Carlotto, Freddie Sanchez, Sher-riff Balogun, Sears Merritt

Automated Dispatch of Helpdesk Email Tickets: Pushing the Limits with AI

Atri Mandal, Nikhil Malhotra, Shivali Agarwal, Anu-pama Ray, Giriprasad Sridhara

Grading Uncompilable Programs Rohit Takhar, Varun Aggarwal

AAAI-19 Awards The AAAI-19 Awards will be presented by Pro-gram Cochairs Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua Zhou.

AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award This year, AAAI’s Conference on Artificial Intel-ligence honors the following four papers, which exemplify high standards in technical contribu-

tion and exposition by regular and student au-thors.

AAAI-19 Outstanding Paper Award 2407: How to Combine Tree-Search Methods in Rein-forcement Learning

Yonathan Efroni, Gal Dalal, Bruno Scherrer, Shie Mannor

Honorable Mention: 451: Solving Imperfect-Informa-tion Games via Discounted Regret Minimization

Noam Brown, Tuomas Sandholm

AAAI-19 Outstanding Student Paper Award 6560: Zero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Sampling with Deep Learning Inference

Mike Wu, Milan Mosse, Noah Goodman, Chris Piech Honorable Mention: 2545: Learning to Teach in Co-operative Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Shayegan Omidshafiei, Dong Ki Kim, Miao Liu, Ger-ald Tesauro, Matthew Riemer, Chris Amato, Murray Campbell, Jonathan How

AAAI-19 Outstanding Program Committee Members Each year, AAAI recognizes several outstanding program committee and senior program com-mittee members. These individuals have gone

above and beyond the expectations for the role, showing exceptional judgment, clarity, knowl-edgeability, and leadership in reaching a consen-sus decision. Outstanding Senior Program Committee Awards

Xiang Bai (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven, Belgium) Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michele Lombardi (Universià di Bologna, Italy) Aditya Menon (Google Research, USA) Steven Schockaert (Cardiff University, UK)

Outstanding Program Committee Awards Pascal Bercher (University of Ulm, Germany) Stephen Cranefield (University of Otago, New Zealand) Sheng-Jun Huang (Nanjing University of Aero-nautics and Astronautics, China) Dan Malinsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Giovanni Sileno (Télécom ParisTech, France)

AAAI-19 Blue Sky Idea Awards AAAI, in cooperation with the Computing Re-search Association Computing Community Con-sortium (CCC), is pleased to present three Blue Sky Awards for papers that present ideas and vi-sions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems,

Special Meetings

AAAI Community Meeting / Annual Business Meeting AAAI welcomes all conference attendees to the AAAI community meeting, which will also serve as the AAAI Annual Business Meeting. Please join us as we explore current initiatives, and help 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. Moderator: Yolanda Gil, AAAI President

AAAI Conference Committee Meeting The AAAI Conference Committee Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level.

AAAI Executive Council Meeting The AAAI Executive Council Meeting will be held Monday, January 28, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center. Continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 AM.

AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner The AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner will be held Tuesday, January 29, 7:00 – 10:00 PM, Rain-bow Room and Patio, Rainbow Tower.

AAAI Publications Committee Meeting The AAAI Publications Committee Meeting will be held Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center.

AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting The AI Magazine Editorial Board Meeting will be held Wednesday, January 30, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Ilima Boardroom, Kalia Executive Conference Center.

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new application domains, or new methodologies. The recipients of the Blue Sky Idea travel awards, sponsored by the CCC, are:

First Place: Pat Langley for Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency Second Place: Francesca Rossi and Nicholas Mattei for Building Ethically Bounded AI Third Place: Barry Smyth for Recommender Sys-tems: A Healthy Obsession

AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

Sunday and Monday, January 27-28 Coral 4, Main Level

As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its impact on society is more significant and con-cerns and issues are raised regarding aspects such as value alignment, data handling and bias, regulations, and workforce displacement. Only a multi-disciplinary and multistakeholder effort

can find the best ways to address these concerns, including experts of various disciplines, such as ethics, philosophy, economics, sociology, psy-chology, law, history, and politics. In order to ad-dress these issues in a scientific context, AAAI and ACM joined forces to start this conference in 2018. Attendance at AIES 2019 is available for an additional fee. The full schedule for the AIES 2019 Conference is available at www.aies-confer-ence.com, and will be distributed in hard copy to registered attendees.

Student Activities and Outreach For complete information about Student Pro-grams at AAAI-19, please see aaai.org/Confer-ences/AAAI-19/aaai-19-student-activities-overview.

In cooperation with and with support from AI

Journal, AAAI is pleased to offer the following student activities designed to enrich the student experience at the AAAI conference.

Student Welcome Reception Sponsored by USC/Information Sciences Institute Sunday, January 27, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Tapa Ballroom 1

All students are welcome at the AAAI-19 Student Welcome Reception. Light refreshments will be served.

AAAI 2019 Sticker Social Event In past years AAAI has hosted a research speed dating event to facilitate social interactions at the conference. This year, there will not be a single social event for this purpose, but participants are encouraged to interact throughout the confer-ence. To facilitate this, participants will be pro-vided with stickers and are encouraged to place

AAAI Opening Reception Monday, January 28, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM The Great Lawn

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 d’oeuvres and one complimentary beverage will be served. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the reception is included in the AAAI-19 technical registration. A $125.00 per person fee ($20.00 for chil-dren over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and other nontechnical conference registrants.

AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Sessions Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Thursday, January 31, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Coral Lounge

Each AAAI-19 poster / demo session will include posters by authors of main technical track papers, including all who are presenting poster spot-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 among the three evening sessions. Tuesday evening will include Doctoral Consortium and EAAI posters. Student abstract posters will be presented Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. For a listing of posters and demos, please see the online technical schedule via Guidebook and the AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program Guide.

Poster / Demo sessions will include light suppers and complimentary soft drinks. A no-host bar will also be available. Admittance to the recep-tion is included in the AAAI-19 registration. A $65.00 per person fee ($15.00 for children over the age of 12) will be charged for guests and oth-er nontechnical conference registrants per night.

Black in AI Lunch Tuesday, January 29, 12:30 – 2:00 PM Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level

AAAI is pleased to announce the first Black in AI lunch, designed to facil-itate networking, discussion of different career opportunities in AI, and sharing of ideas to increase participation of black researchers in the field.

Preregistration was encouraged. Onsite inquiries can be directed to the onsite registration desk in the Coral Lobby or by email to aaai19@aaai. org.

AAAI Meet-Up Room January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center, Main Level

AAAI-19 has reserved a room as an evening drop-in and meetup location. It is primarily intended for the use of conference attendees who are re-searchers or practitioners working at schools, businesses or organizations without a large AI group. The objective is to provide an additional oppor-tunity to meet new AI people, share the experience of the conference, and perhaps initiate collaborations. If they wish, prospective attendees may post “calls for collaboration” beforehand at Google Group AVAILAB (groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/availab) to arrange specific meet-ings; but this is not required. AAAI Councilor Gene Freuder will be avail-able at 9:00 PM on Thursday, January 31 to facilitate a general discussion of challenges and opportunities.

Townhall: A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research January 28, 2019, 7:30 - 9:00 PM Coral 3, Mid-Pacific Conference Center, Hilton Hawaiian Village

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), working with the NSF, is sponsoring a roadmap of AI research priorities for the next twenty years. This AI Research Roadmap is intended to provide guidance for US fund-ing agencies and Congress. This activity is analogous to the 2009 Robotics Roadmap that led to the National Robotics Initiative, a multi-agency, multi-year investment by the US federal government. In this session, the chairs of the AI Research Roadmap roadmap will summarize the activities to date, and solicit feedback from the AAAI community.

AI Roadmap Cochairs: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California and Bart Selman, Cornell University; Integrated Intelligence Cochairs: Ken Forbus, Northwestern University and Marie desJardins, Simmons University; AI Roadmap Interaction Cochairs: Kathy McKeown, Columbia University and Dan Weld, University of Washington; AI Roadmap Machine Learning and Robotics Cochairs: Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University and Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University

AAAI-19 Social and Special Events

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the answer to social questions on their name tag. Doing so means that you are open to social inter-actions with people at the conference that you do not know. Find stickers and instructions near the registration desk and at the student reception. A special AI sticker will be given to those who meet new people at the conference.

Unofficial Student Slack Channel

If you are interested in finding and meeting other students to participate in activities at AAAI, consider joining the (unofficial) student slack channel. Instructions for joining can be found at movingai.com/AAAI19.

AAAI Meet-Up Room: Not Just for Students!

January 29-31, 7:00 PM – 12:00 AM Hibiscus Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center

Please see page 6 (Social and Special Events) for details.

Sunday, January 27, 2019

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

SA1: Answer Set Engineering Roland Kaminski, Javier Romero, Torsten Schaub, Philipp Wanko South Pacific 1, Upper level

SA2: Deep Multi-View Visual Data Analytics Zhengming Ding, Hongfu Liu, Handong Zhao Coral 1, Main level

SA3: Deep Reinforcement Learning with Applications in Transportation Zhiwei Qin, Jian Tang, Jieping Ye Coral 2, Main level

SA4: On Explainable AI: From Theory to Motivation, Applications and Limita-tions

Luca Costabello, Freddy Lecue, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti, Pascal Hit-zler, Pasquale Minervini, Kamruzzaman Sarker Coral 5, Main level

SA5: Plan, Activity and Intent Recognition (PAIR) Sarah Keren, Reuth Mirsky, Christopher Geib South Pacific 2, Upper level

1:30 – 5:30 PM

SP1: Behavior Analytics: Methods and Applications Longbing Cao South Pacific 1, Upper level

SP2: Building Deep Learning Applications for Big Data Platforms Jason Dai Coral 5, Main level

SP3: New Frontiers of Automated Mechanism Design for Pricing and Auctions Maria-Florina Balcan, Tuomas Sandholm, Ellen Vitercik Coral 1, Main level

1:30 – 3:15 PM

SP4Q: Federated Learning: User Privacy, Data Security and Confidentiality in Machine Learning

Yang Liu, Qiang Yang, Zhuoshi Wei, Tianjian Chen Coral 2, Main level

SP5Q: An Overview of the International Planning Competition Amanda Coles, Andrew Coles, Florian Pommerening, Álvaro Torralba Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level

SP6Q: Presenting a Paper Eugene C. Freuder South Pacific 2, Upper 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

Monday, January 28, 2019 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

MA1: Adversarial Machine Learning Bo Li, Dawn Song and Yevgeniy Vorobeychik Coral 5, Main level

MA2: Deep Bayesian and Sequential Learning Jen-Tzung Chien Coral 1, Main level

MA3: Multi-Agent Pathfinding: Models, Solvers, and Systems Roman Barták, Philipp Obermeier, Torsten Schaub, Tran Cao Son, Roni Stern South Pacific 1, Upper level

MA4: Neural Vector Representations beyond Words: Sentence and Document Embeddings

Gerard de Melo Coral 2, Main level

MA5: Recent Advances in Scalable Retrieval of Personalized Recommendations Dung Le, Hady Lauw South Pacific 2, Upper level

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 Coral 1, Main level

MP2: Graph Representation Learning William Hamilton and Jian Tang Coral 5, Main level

MP3: Imagination Science: Beyond Data Science Sridhar Mahadevan South Pacific 1, Upper level

MP4: Integrating Human Factors into AI for Fake News Prevention: Challenges and Opportunities

Amulya Yadav, Aiping Xiong South Pacific 2, Upper level

1:30 PM – 3:15 PM

MP5Q: Knowledge-Based Sequential Decision-Making under Uncertainty Shiqi Zhang, Mohan Sridharan Coral 2, Main level

3:45 – 5:15 PM

MP6Q: Human Identification at a Distance by Gait Recognition Shiqi Yu, Yongzhen Huang, Yasushi Makihara, Daigo Muramatsu, Liang Wang, Yasushi Yagi, Tieniu Tan Coral 2, Main level

Tutorial 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.

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AAAI Tutorials The following tutorials have been designated as particularly valuable for student attendees: SP6Q: Presenting a Paper by Eugene C. Freuder (University College Cork) Sunday, January 27, 2019, 1:30 – 3:15 PM South Pacific 2, Upper level SP8Q: The Road to Industry by John Kolen (Elec-tronic Arts) Sunday, January 27, 2019, 3:45 – 5:15 PM Sea Pearl 1/2, Upper level

AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium (DC)

Sunday and Monday, January 27-28 Lehua Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center

The Twenty-Fourth AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Con-sortium provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their re-search interests and career objectives in an inter-

disciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. The nineteen students accepted to participate in this program will also participate in the AAAI-19 evening Poster / De-mo Session 1 on Tuesday, January 29. All inter-ested AAAI-19 student registrants are invited to observe the presentations and participate in dis-cussions at the workshop.

AAAI and SIGAI gratefully acknowledge the generous grants from AI Journal and David E. Smith, which make this program possible. The Doctoral Consortium schedule is available at aaai-dc.github.io.

AAAI Fellow / Student Lunches Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31 12:30 – 2:00 PM

First held in 2006, this program provides an op-portunity for a small number of students to chat with a AAAI Fellow over an informal lunch dur-ing the conference. Sign-up sheets will be avail-

able AFTER 3:00 PM on Monday, January 28 at the onsite registration desk in Coral Lobby on the main level of the conference center. Students should meet their designated Fellow in onsite registration on their assigned day.

Student Abstract and Poster Program Oral Presentations: 10:25 – 11:25 AM, Wednesday, January 30, Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level Poster Presentations: 6:30 – 8:30 PM, Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31, Coral Lounge

This program provides a forum in which students can present and discuss their work during its ear-ly stages, meet some of their peers who have re-lated interests, and introduce themselves to more senior members of the field. Students who have been selected as part of a group of 18 finalists to compete for the “Best Student 3-Minute Presen-tation” will present their work in 3-minute spot-light talks in parallel with other technical ses-sions. These students will present their posters

Sunday, January 27 W1: Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W3: Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W4: Artificial Intelligence Safety 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Nautilus 1, Main Level

W5: Dialog System Technology Challenge 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM South Pacific 3, Upper Level

W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days) 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Nautilus 2, Main Level

W9: Knowledge Extraction from Games 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W12: Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM South Pacific 4, Upper Level

W16: Reproducible AI 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center

Monday, January 28 W2: Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W6: Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Kahili 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W7: Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 1, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W8: Health Intelligence (1.5 Days) 9:00 AM - 12:20 PM Nautilus 2, Main Level

W10: Network Interpretability for Deep Learning 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM South Pacific 3, Upper Level

W11: Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Hibiscus 2, Kalia Executive Conference Center

W13: Reasoning for Complex Question Answering 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Nautilus 1, Main Level

W14: Recommender Systems Meet Natural Language Processing (half day)

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

Workshop 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.

EAAI 2019 SYMPOSIUM 9

Monday, January 28 9:00 - 9:10 AM Welcome to EAAI-19

Michael Wollowski, Nate Derbinsky (EAAI Cochairs)

9:10 – 10:00 AM Outstanding Educator Talk

Experiments in Teaching AI Ashok Goel (Georgia Tech)

10:00 – 10:20 AM Main Track

Session Chair: Michael Wollowski A Lightweight Approach to Academic Research Group Management Using Online Tools

Eric Eaton

10:20 – 10:50 AM Break

10:50 – 11:10 AM Main Track

Session Chair: Michael Wollowski An Integrative Framework for Artifi-cial Intelligence Education

Pat Langley

11:10 AM – 12:00 PM Panel Discussion

How to Best Teach AI Moderator: Michael Wollowski Panelists: Ashok Goel, Pat Langley, and Larry Medsker

12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:50 PM AI for Education and Outreach Special Track

Chair: Justin Li Automatic Generation of Leveled Visu-al Assessments for Young Learners

Anjali Singh, Ruhi Sharma Mittal, Shubham Atreja, Mourvi Sharma, Seema Nagar, Prasenjit Dey, Mohit Jain

Automating Analysis and Feedback to Improve Mathematics’ Teachers’ Classroom Discourse

Abhijit Suresh, Tamara Sumner, Jennifer Jacobs, William Foland, Wayne Ward

Get IT Scored Using AutoSAS — An Automated System for Scoring Short Answers

Yaman Kumar, Swati Aggarwal, De-banjan Mahata, Rajiv Shah, Ponnu-rangam Kumaraguru, Roger Zimmer-mann

Concept Extraction and Prerequisite Relation Learning from Educational Data

Weiming Lu, Yangfan Zhou, Jiale Yu, Chenhao Jia

2:50 – 3:20 PM Main Track

Chair: Ananya Christman A Preliminary Report of Integrating Science and Computing Teaching Using Logic Programming

Yuanlin Zhang, Jianlan Wang, Fox Bolduc, William G Murray, Wendy Staffen

Lightning Talk: Khan Academy: A So-cial Networking and Community Q&A Perspective

Sneha Mondal, Akshay Gugnani, Renuka Sindhgatta

Lightning Talk: Artificial Intelligence Competencies for Data Science Under-graduate Curricula

Andrea Danyluk, Scott Buck

3:20 - 3:50 PM Break

3:50 – 4:10 PM Nontraditional Research Experiences for Undergraduates Special Track

Chair: Ananya Christman From Lab to Internship and Back Again: Learning Autonomous Systems through Creating a Research and De-velopment Ecosystem

Trevor Bihl, Todd Jenkins, Chad Cox, Ashley Demange, Kerry Hill, Ed Zelnio

4:10 – 5:58 PM Birds of a Feather Research Challenge

Chair: Todd Neller Introduction, Awarding of Prizes

Todd Neller Computational Intractability and Solv-ability for the Birds of a Feather Game

Richard Hoshino, Max Notarangelo Determining Solvability in the Birds of a Feather Card Game

Shuto Araki, Juan Pablo Arenas Uribe, Zach Wilkerson, Steven Bogaerts, Chad Byers

A Monte Carlo Tree Search Player for Birds of a Feather Solitaire

Christian Roberson, Katarina Sperduto

Machine Learning Based Heuristic Search Algorithms to Solve Birds of a Feather Card Game

Bryon Kucharski, Azad Deihim, Mehmet Ergezer

A Neural Network Approach for Birds of a Feather Solvability Prediction

Benjamin Sang, Sejong Yoon Efficient Solving of Birds of a Feather Puzzles

Todd Neller, Connor Berson, Jivan Kharel, Ryan Smolik

Computer Generation of Birds of a Feather Puzzles

Todd Neller, Daniel Ziegler Predicting Unsolvable Deals in the Birds of a Feather Solitaire Game

Richard Hoshino, Maximilian Kahn

Tuesday, January 29 8:10 - 8:40 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks, AAAI Organizational Awards and Honors

8:40 - 9:40 AM

AAAI-19 Invited Talk Cynthia Brezeal

9:40 – 10:25 AM Break

10:25 – 11:15 AM EAAI-19 Invited Talk

Future of Work, AI Education, and Public Policy

Larry Medsker

11:15 – 11:35 AM

Main Track Chair: Nate Derbinsky

PopBots: Designing an Artificial Intel-ligence Curriculum for Early Child-hood Education

Randi Williams, Hae Won Park, Lauren Oh, Cynthia Breazeal

11:35 AM – 12:25 PM Panel Discussion

The AI4K12 Initiative and How to Contribute to It

Moderator: Nate Derbinsky Panelists: Dave Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Cynthia Breazeal

12:25 – 1:55 PM Lunch Break

1:55 – 2:25 PM Blue Sky Idea Lightning Talks

Chair: Nate Derbinsky Presenters: Marion Neumann, Abhijit Suresh, Giulia Toti, Zhen Bai, Michael Guerzhoy, Pat Virtue

2:25 – 3:25 PM Model AI Assignments Special Track

Chair: Todd Neller Implementing a Recommender System Using MapReduce

Raja Sooriamurthi Building a Fake News Detector

Michael Guerzhoy, Lisa Zhang Using Ultimate Tic Tac Toe to Motivate AI Game Agents

Paul Talaga The Minecraft Projects

Adam Summerville, Joseph Osborn

3:25 – 3:55 PM Break

3:55 – 5:25 PM Model AI Assignments Special Track

Chair: Todd Neller RISK AI Project

Christopher Archibald Nearest Neighbor Classification (with Almost No Background)

Nate Derbinsky, Elena Strange Depth First Learning: DeepStack

Cinjon Resnick, Avital Oliver, Surya Bhupatiraju, Kumar Krishna Agrawal

Introduction to Python for Data Science

Marion Neumann, Jonathan Chen Introducing the Data Science Work-flow Using Sentiment Analysis

Marion Neumann , Zac Christensen A Gentle Introduction to the Back-propagation Algorithm and Feedfor-ward Networks

Michael Wollowski, Oscar Youngquist

The 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.

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on Wednesday evening during the conference-wide poster/demo session. An award will also be presented for the “Best Student Poster.” For a list of posters each night, please see the online sched-ule and the AAAI-19 Poster/Demo Program Guide.

Breakfast with Champions: A Women’s Mentoring Event

Wednesday, January 30, 7:30 – 8:45 AM Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level

AAAI is holding the fifth annual women’s men-toring event for women students and junior women professionals to meet with senior women in computer science and/or artificial intelligence. Pre-registration was required and admittance is by ticket only. Sponsored by AI Journal and AAAI.

AAAI-19 Games Night Wednesday, January 30, 8:00 – 10:00 AM Sea Pearl Suite, Upper Level

Come put your game theory into practice! The games night this year will feature a rock-paper-scissors competition, followed by an open time for playing games and solving puzzles. Everyone is invited to participate in the rock-paper-scis-sors competition, with fame and prizes for the winners. A mixer activity from the opening re-ception will also continue at the games night. Re-member to pack an extra game to play after-wards!

AAAI/SIGAI AI Job Fair Thursday, January 31, 12:30 – 3:00 PM 1-Minute Company Presentations: Coral 4, Main Level (12:30 – 1:00 PM) Tabletop exhibits: Coral Lounge, Main Level

The AAAI and ACM SIGAI AI Job Fair will pro-vide an opportunity for a host of companies and institutions to highlight their current job oppor-tunities. The short presentations will be followed by meet-and-greet sessions. Over 20 employers will be participating. Be sure to stop in during the lunch break. For a list of participating companies and a schedule of presentations, please see the online schedule and aaaijobfair.com.

AAAI/IAAI/EAAI Schedule Information Included in this program is the full EAAI sched-ule, and the technical session locations for AAAI/IAAI. Please note that EAAI overlaps AAAI/IAAI on Tuesday, January 29. The full list of AAAI and IAAI papers is available in the on-line schedule and via the AAAI-19 Guidebook app. A limited number of hard copies of the schedule are available in onsite registration for individuals who do not have online access.

Invited Presentations, Senior Member Talks AAAI-19 and IAAI-19 Invited Presentations will be held in the Coral Ballroom, January 29 – February 1. EAAI-19 Invited Presentations will be held in the Sea Pearl Suite (upper level), January 28-29. Please consult the online paper schedule for listings of the Senior Member papers.

Monday, January 28 9:10 – 10:00 AM AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Lecture (Sea Pearl Suite) Experiments in Teaching AI

Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) With the ongoing growth of interest in AI, we have a responsibility to teach AI to rapidly increasing numbers of students. This also presents a wonder-ful opportunity to use AI to teach AI, and to use the teaching of AI as a testbed for AI techniques and tools. I will present several experiments in teaching AI, and, in particular, teaching cognitive systems. These experiments include not only face-to-face learning, but also online and blended learning. I will share results from assessments of learning in these classes. I will also draw out some general principles for teaching AI and using AI to teach AI.

Tuesday, January 29 8:10 - 8:40 AM

AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Welcome and Opening Re-marks, AAAI Organizational Awards/Honors

8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk Living and Flourishing with AI

Cynthia Breazeal (MIT, USA) Beyond automating productivity and supporting de-cision making, Artificial Intelligence can also be de-signed to help people to flourish and grow. As people across ages and stages begin to live with AI in the home, we have the opportunity to develop au-tonomous machines that can support a diversity peo-ple as emotionally intelligent and capable allies. This is particularly poignant as societies struggle to meet the growing demands of aging, chronic disease man-agement, mood disorders, and lifelong learning. This gives rise to important challenges and opportunities for how to design, deploy and evaluate the long-term impact of socially and emotionally intelligent ma-chines in the real world to help people learn, thrive and emotionally connect. This requires a tightly in-terwoven approach at the intersection of design, hu-man social psychology, ethics, and AI. We have the opportunity to develop AI that places human growth and wellbeing at the center to benefit everyone in personally meaningful and uplifting ways.

10:25 – 11:15 AM EAAI-19 Invited Talk (Sea Pearl Suite) Future of Work, AI Education, and Public Policy

Larry Medsker (The George Washington Univ., USA) The emerging impact of AI and other automation technologies on all parts of society, including the workforce, is clear. The controversy is about the degree of disruption, for whom, and how public and private sectors should respond. The pace of

change is unprecedented compared to previous in-dustrial revolutions and will disproportionately af-fect different segments of society. Discussions, planning, and policymaking regarding the impact of AI should directly involve AI educators and pol-icymakers in forecasting and reacting to the work-force and educational needs of the future. I will give an overview of the issues and current efforts to prepare for anticipated AI education requirements, including data on the different skills and knowl-edge needed and how institutions are likely, and unlikely, to respond in the predicted timeframes.

4:15 - 5:15 PM IAAI-19 Robert S. Engelmore Award Lecture AI and Multiagent Systems for Social Good

Milind Tambe (Univ. of Southern California, USA) With the maturing of AI and multiagent systems research, we have a tremendous opportunity to di-rect these advances towards addressing complex societal problems. I will focus on the problems of public safety and security, wildlife conservation and public health in low-resource communities, and present research advances in multiagent sys-tems to address one key cross-cutting challenge: how to effectively deploy our limited intervention resources in these problem domains. Results from our deployments from around the world show con-crete improvements over the state of the art. In pushing this research agenda, we believe AI can in-deed play an important role in fighting social injus-tice and improving society.

5:15 PM – 6:15 PM Oxford-Style Debate The Future of AI

Moderator: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada) This lighthearted and entertaining debate will ex-amine the broad theme of whether machine learn-ing or good, old fashioned AI will be more critical to bringing AI systems beyond prediction to acting autonomously. Teams of two will argue each side as forcefully as they can (regardless of more nu-anced positions the participants may hold), but will then conclude by seeking a middle ground and reflecting on strong arguments from the other side. Finally, we'll hear from the audience.

Wednesday, January 30 8:45 – 9:45 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk Adversarial Machine Learning

Ian Goodfellow (Google AI, USA) Until about 2013, most researchers studying ma-chine learning for artificial intelligence all worked on a common goal: get machine learning to work for AI-scale tasks. Now that supervised learning works, there is a Cambrian explosion of new re-search directions: making machine learning se-cure, making machine learning private, getting machine learning to work for new tasks, reducing the dependence on large amounts of labeled data, and so on. In this talk I survey how adversarial techniques in machine learning are involved in several of these new research frontiers.

5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk GDPR, Data Shortage and AI

Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

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Despite its great progress so far, artificial intelli-gence (AI) is facing a serious challenge in the avail-ability of high-quality Big Data. In many practical applications, data are in the form of isolated is-lands. Efforts to integrate the data are increasingly difficult partly due to serious concerns over user privacy and data security. The problem is exacer-bated by strict government regulations such as Eu-rope’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR). In this talk, I will review these challenges and de-scribe possible technical solutions to address them. In particular, I will give an overview of recent ad-vances in transfer learning and show how it can al-leviate the problems of data shortage. I will also give an overview of recent efforts in federated learning and transfer learning, which aims to bridge data repositories without compromising da-ta security and privacy.

Thursday, January 31 8:20 – 8:40 AM

AAAI-19 Conference Awards Presented by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua Zhou, AAAI-19 Program Cochairs

8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Joint Invited Talk Urban Computing: Building Intelligent Cities Using Big Data and AI Yu Zheng (JD.com, China)

Urban computing is a synergy among cloud com-puting, big data and AI models in the context of cities, tackling urban challenges, such as air pollu-tion, energy consumption and traffic congestion, to create win-win-win solutions that improve urban environment, human life quality and city operation systems. This talk presents the vision of urban computing, demonstrating how AI technology helps to build intelligent cities. A series of AI-driv-en applications, such as location selection for busi-ness, forecasting air and water quality, and reduc-ing energy consumption are also introduced in this talk. More information can be found through the website: icity.jd.com.

4:15 – 5:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk New Results for Solving Imperfect-Information Games

Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA) Most real-world settings are imperfect-information games. They present challenges beyond those in per-fect-information games. In 2017, our AI Libratus beat top humans in the main benchmark, heads-up no-limit Texas hold’em. In this talk I will discuss some of our more recent work on imperfect-infor-mation games. Topics include a unified framework for abstracting games with bounds on solution qual-ity, a sound depth-limited search framework, the fastest equilibrium-finding algorithms, deep learn-ing as an alternative to abstraction, a general frame-work for online convex optimization for sequential decision processes and extensive-form games, the first scalable algorithm for trembling-hand equilib-rium refinements, and trembling-hand refinement of Stackelberg equilibria.

Friday, February 1 8:50 – 9:50 AM

AAAI-18 Invited Talk: Marta Gonzalez (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA) Marta C. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Califor-

nia, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). With the support of several companies, cities and foun-dations, her research team develops computer models to analyze digital traces of information me-diated by devices. They process this information to manage the demand in urban infrastructures in re-lation to energy and mobility. Her recent research uses billions of mobile phone records to under-stand the appearance of traffic jams and the inte-gration of electric vehicles into the grid, smart me-ter data records to compare the policy of solar en-ergy adoption and card transactions to identify habits in spending behavior. Prior to joining Berkeley, Marta worked as an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, a member of the Operations Research Center and the Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is a member of the scientific council of technology companies such as Gran Data, PTV and the Pecan Street Pro-ject consortium.

Senior Member Presentations Tuesday, January 29 South Pacific 4, Upper Level 10:25 – 11:25 AM (Blue Sky, following the Classic Paper Award Lecture) Wednesday, January 30 South Pacific 4, Upper Level 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Blue Sky) 2:00 – 3:30 PM (Summary) 3:35 – 4:35 PM (Blue Sky)

The AAAI-19 Senior Member Presentation track comprises two subtracks: Summary Talks: estab-lished researchers provide broad talks on a well-developed body of research or an important new research area; and Blue Sky Talks: authors pre-sent ideas and visions that can stimulate the re-search community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies, that are likely to stimulate significant new research. Six summary talks and nine Blue Sky talks will be presented (please see the online conference schedule for exact times). For more information about the Blue Sky Awards, please see page 5.

AAAI-19 Emerging Topic: AI for Social Impact

Tuesday – Wednesday, January 29-30, Coral 1 Friday, February 1, South Pacific 1

AAAI-19 is pleased to present the special AAAI-19 Emerging Topic Program on AI for Social Im-pact. This track recognizes that high-quality re-search on social impact domains often leads to papers that differ from traditional AAAI submis-sions along multiple dimensions. These are moti-vated by the following issues: (1) Data collection may be difficult and may require innovative methods and validations, for instance to address large scale data gathering in the field, eliminate bias and ensure fairness; (2) problem modeling is a time-intensive activity that require significant collaborations with domain experts and need to

balance a variety of tradeoffs in decision making; (3) social impact is only realized through time-consuming field studies that typically compare a baseline with the application of novel algorithms in the real world.

The goal of this track at AAAI 2019 is to high-light these technical challenges and opportuni-ties and to showcase the social benefits of artifi-cial intelligence. The program includes 22 techni-cal papers in full oral and spotlight/poster pre-sentations, scheduled during sveral of the AI for Social Impact sessions, and identified as Special Track papers.

For complete schedule information, please consult the online program.

Sponsor and Exhibit Program

Tuesday – Thursday, January 29 – 31 Coral Lounge, Main level

The AAAI-19 sponsor and exhibit program pro-vides an opportunity for AI-related companies and publishers to support the goals of AAAI and reach out to AI professionals. In some cases, sponsors have elected to exhibit at AAAI-19. AAAI wishes to thank all sponsors and exhibitors for their participation at AAAI-19!

Exhibit Hours Tuesday, January 29: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM Wednesday, January 30: 9:40 AM – 4:00 PM Thursday, January 31: 9:40 AM – 12:00 PM Job Fair: 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Exhibitors / Sponsors

Sponsor AI Journal ijcai.org/aijd.php  www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) is one of the longest established and most respected journals in AI, and since it was founded in 1970, it has published many of the key papers in the field. The operation of the Editorial Board is supported financially through an arrangement with AIJ’s publisher, Elsevier. The editorial board of Artifi-cial Intelligence is now in the unique position of being able to make available substantial funds, of the order of EUR 240,000 per annum to support the promotion and dissemination of AI re-search. 

Exhibitor Aimesoft www.aimesoft.com/en

Aimesoft develop Multimodal AI solutions. Mul-timodal AI combines multiple input sources (text, voice, image, numerical data, ...) and vari-ous intelligence algorithms into a single system

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to solve complicated problems. We will present various Multimodal AI solutions for smart docu-ment processing, billnote processing, stock pre-diction and Healthcare.

Exhibitor AITopics aitopics.org

The Internet’s Largest Collection of Information on Research, People, News, and Applications of AI. Stop by the AITopics booth for a luggage tag or sticker! Sign up for the free AI-Alert service for weekly summaries of AI news! See what AITopics can provide for your classroom in-struction or term papers. Review our list of clas-sic papers and articles to add your favorites. Fol-low us on Twitter @ai_topics and Register to Win a $100 Amex Gift Card!

Sponsor / Exhibitor Alegion alegion.com Alegion offloads from enterprise data science teams the preparation of training data for ma-chine learning initiatives. Our offering operates at massive scale, combining a data and task man-agement software platform with a nearly million-member global pool of trained data specialists. We assist data science teams throughout the AI lifecycle, delivering custom training datasets, providing human-scored model testing, and making available human-in-the-loop exception handling. We completely offload these activities, freeing data professionals to focus on their areas of specialization. We support machine learning projects broadly, with particular emphasis on computer vision, natural language processing and entity resolution, in financial services, retail, defense, technology and manufacturing.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Amazon amazon.jobs/AAAI AAAI2019@amazon.com

Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-cen-tric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. The world’s brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technolo-gy that improves the lives of shoppers, sellers and developers. For more information about Re-search at Amazon, visit amazon.jobs/AAAI.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Baidu www.baidu.com

Baidu is the biggest Chinese search engine and Chinese website worldwide. With the develop-ment of 18 years, Baidu has thousands of R&D engineers, who constitutes the best technical team around China and even the world. The team is holding the most advanced search engine tech-

nology in the world, which enables China to be-come one of the four countries worldwide with the core technology of search engines besides America, Russia and the Republic of Korea.

Exhibitor Beijing Magic Data Technology Co., Ltd. www.imagicdatatech.com

Founded in 2016, Beijing Magic Data Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the leading domestic providers of artificial intelligence data services. Placing its headquarters in Beijing, Magic Data has estab-lished several data processing centers in China. The company is committed to providing a wide range of customized data services in the field of speech recognition, intelligent image and NLU.

Sponsor CRA Computing Community Consortium cra.org/ccc/visioning/blue-sky

The mission of the Computing Research Associa-tion’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research. CCC conducts activities that strengthen the research community, articu-late compelling research visions, and align those visions with pressing national and global chal-lenges. CCC communicates the importance of those visions to policymakers, government and industry stakeholders, the public, and the re-search community itself.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Didi Chuxing www.didiglobal.com 

Didi Chuxing (“DiDi”) is the world’s leading mo-bile transportation platform. The company offers a full range of app-based transportation options for 550 million users, including Taxi, Express, Premier, Luxe, Hitch, Bus, Minibus, Designated Driving, Enterprise Solutions, Bike Sharing, E-bike Sharing, Car Sharing and Food Delivery. Daily rides have reached 30 million, allowing over 30.66 million drivers on the DiDi platform to find flexible work and income opportunities. DiDi is committed to collaborating with cities, the taxi industry and communities to solve the world’s transportation, environmental, and em-ployment challenges with smart transportation innovations. The company is working with a growing alliance of car industry players to build out an auto-solution and operation platform.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Diveplane www.diveplane.com

Diveplane Corporation is dedicated to keeping the best of humanity in AI. Diveplane has created a general-purpose machine learning algorithm

that is uniquely explainable, auditable, and ed-itable. Our cloud platform enables data scientists and programmers to utilize supervised and un-supervised learning techniques in a unified mod-el based on information theory, solving many of the problems associated with kNN techniques. Each decision is provided with a comprehensive and defensible explanation, addressing the tech-nical shortcomings and societal concerns that have kept many from trusting and adopting ma-chine learning and reinforcement learning.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Eleme www.ele.me/home

Eleme is a local life services platform that found-ed in 2008, providing people with online take-out, new retail, instant delivery service, etc. The online take-out platform has covered 670 cities nationwide and more than thousand counties in China, including 3.5 million online restaurants and 260 million users. In April 2018, Alibaba Group and Ant Financial Services Group jointly succeeded in the buyout of Eleme. 

Sponsor / Exhibitor Elsevier www.elsevier.com

We are a global information analytics business providing the scientific, medical and research communities of the world with information and technology that empower discovery. Elsevier is going through an impressive transformation. Our own challenge is to use the latest technology to put the right data in their hands. Researchers, practitioners and institutions seek a digital envi-ronment where ideas can be exchanged, exam-ined, and applied with tools that empower scien-tific, medical and technical knowledge. The link-ing of our traditional strengths of our publishing business to leading edge technology is critical to our global success.  

Sponsor / Exhibitor Google AI ai.google

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s infor-mation and make it universally accessible and useful. AI is helping us do that in exciting new ways, solving problems for our users, our cus-tomers, and the world. AI is making it easier for people to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of loved ones, breaking down language barriers in Google Translate, typ-ing emails on the go, or getting things done with the Google Assistant. AI also provides new ways of looking at existing problems, from rethinking healthcare to advancing scientific discovery.

Sponsor / Exhibitor IBM Research www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence

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IBM Research is one of the world’s largest and most influential corporate research labs, driving research, discovery and innovation from its 12 labs located across six continents. From artificial intelligence breakthroughs in speech and vision technologies, to advancing trust and transparen-cy in algorithms, our IBM Research AI team is pi-oneering the most promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society.

Sponsor / Exhibitor iMerit Technology imerit.net

iMerit provides high-volume data labeling ser-vices using our internal workforce of 1,800+ full time data technicians. We specialize in text, au-dio, and image/video data with over 40 million data points labeled to date. Teams partner with iMerit for our balance of scalability, consultation, security, competitive pricing, and quality. Our flexible team of solutions architects, project managers, and data technicians have the exper-tise to work with you through the ebbs and flows of your nuanced projects. Whether just starting a labeling project or are well underway, we would love to connect and explore ways we can support your team. 

Sponsor / Exhibitor Jane Street www.janestreet.com jobs@janestreet.com

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm that uses innovative technology, a scientific approach, and a deep understanding of markets to guide our business. We employ over 800 people in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam. The environment is intellectual and collaborative; ev-ery day, there are new problems to solve and new theories to test. We’re always looking for our next great idea.

Sponsor / Exhibitor JD.com corporate.jd.com

JD.com is China’s leading online retailer and the country’s largest Internet company by revenue. The company strives to offer consumers the best online shopping experience. Through its user-friendly website, native mobile apps, WeChat and Mobile QQ entry points, JD offers consumers a superior shopping experience. The company has the largest fulfillment infrastructure of any e-commerce company in China. As of December 31, 2016,  JD.com  operated 7 fulfillment centers and 256 warehouses, and in total of 6,906 deliv-ery stations and pickup stations in 2,655 counties and districts across China, staffed by its own em-ployees. JD.com is a member of the NASDAQ100 and a Fortune Global 500 company.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Lionbridge www.lionbridge.com

The Global Services for Machine Intelligence di-vision at Lionbridge helps companies train, test, and build intelligent systems to benefit cus-tomers worldwide. With unparalleled scalability, we are able to support text, image, speech, video, handwriting, and search applications, and our dedicated recruiting professionals find and qual-ify more than 120K candidates each year to work for you onsite, near-site, off-site, or in one of our 47 offices around the globe. For more informa-tion about Lionbridge, please visit  www.lion-bridge.com or contact GSMI@lionbridge.com

Sponsor / Exhibitor Lyft www.lyft.com/self-driving-vehicles/engineers

Our mission at Level 5 is to build the most cost-effective and reliable self-driving system for ridesharing. From offices in Palo Alto, Munich, and London, our team of over 300 world-class engineers is testing our autonomous vehicles on public roads in California. We believe in a future where self-driving cars make transportation safer and more accessible for everyone. With fewer cars on the road and less pollution in the air, we can reshape cities around people instead of cars.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Microsoft Research microsoft.com/research

Microsoft Research is where leading scientists and engineers have the freedom and support to propel discovery and innovation.  Here, they pur-sue and publish curiosity-driven research in a range of scientific and technical disciplines that can be translated into products. With access to vast computing power, global multi-disciplinary teams tackle complex problems that drive break-through technologies and improve lives. 

Exhibitor The MIT Press mitpress.mit.edu

The MIT Press is a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, tech-nology, and the arts. MIT Press books and jour-nals are known for their intellectual daring, scholarly standards, and distinctive design. Visit our table and receive 30% discounts on all titles.

Exhibitor Morgan Claypool www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com

Morgan & Claypool publishes the Synthesis Lec-tures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, edited by Ronald Brachman, Peter Stone, and Francesca Rossi. Synthesis lectures are 75- to 200-page electronic and print books

presenting key topics written by prominent con-tributors for an audience of students, re-searchers, and developers.

Sponsor / Exhibitor NextAI www.nextai.com

NextAI is Canada’s premiere AI startup accelera-tor located in Toronto and Montreal - two global hotspots for AI research and commercialization.  NextAI is for entrepreneurs, researchers and sci-entists looking to launch AI-enabled ventures.   We provide up to $200K of seed funding and founder development in the form of in-depth business and technical education taught by award-winning global faculty and entrepreneurs.   All NextAI teams are given workspace and in-kind startup perks and access to corporate part-ners providing resources, including technology tools, data sets and mentorship.

Exhibitor Paperspace www.paperspace.com Gradient.cloud

Paperspace is the cloud platform built for the fu-ture. Tens of thousands of individuals, startups and enterprises use Paperspace to power a range of next-generation applications. Gradient° by Pa-perspace is a deep learning platform built for de-velopers. From exploration to production de-ployment, Gradient° enables individuals and teams to quickly develop and collaborate on deep learning models. Join over a hundred thousand developers on the platform and enjoy 1-click Jupyter notebooks, prebuilt templates, a python library, and powerful low-cost GPUs.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Shanghai Yixue Educational Technology Inc. www.squirrelai.us

Yixue Squirrel AI is a leading AI-based adaptive learning service provider for K-12 students in China. Squirrel AI offers after-school courses for math, English, Chinese, physics and chemistry subjects, powered by its proprietary AI adaptive engine and custom-built courseware. Students can enjoy a supervised adaptive learning experi-ence that has been proven to improve both effica-cy and student engagement.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Smart Information Flow Technologies, LLC (SIFT) www.sift.net

SIFT conducts R&D in AI and human-automa-tion collaboration in collaboration with academ-ic and industrial partners. We employ top  re-searchers in computer science and the social sci-ences, including AI (planning, plan recognition, NLP, deep semantic reasoning, machine  learn-

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ing), cybersecurity (program analysis, fuzz-test-ing), software  engineering (testing, verification, formal methods), linguistics,  neuroscience, and human performance modeling.  We work in do-mains from satellites to submarines, from PTSD to provably-correct plans. Headquartered in Minneapolis, SIFT has staff across the nation.  Nearly  half of SIFT researchers hold PhDs. We are hiring in all areas mentioned above, so come visit us at the AAAI-19 job fair.

Sponsor Uber uber.ai

Uber’s mission is to bring transportation — for everyone, everywhere. More than five billion trips later, we’ve started tackling even greater challenge — making transportation safer with self-driving cars, delivering food quickly and af-fordably with Uber Eats, and reducing conges-tion in cities by getting more people into fewer cars. AI and machine learning are core to Uber’s mission and technology. Uber AI Labs was founded in 2016 with the aim is to be at the cut-ting edge of artificial intelligence and machine learning research, and to use this research to help solve Uber’s most pressing problems. We offer an environment where research can be published and open-sourced, as well as the possibility to have tremendous real-world impact.

Sponsor / Exhibitor Unity unity3d.com

Unity is the world’s largest 3D creation platform and is used to create half of the world’s games. Our real time platform, powered by tools and services, offer incredible possibilities for game developers, and creators across industries and applications.

Sponsor / Exhibitor CAIR / University of Agder cair.uia.no

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) is hosted by the Department of ICT at the University of Agder in Norway. CAIR opened 2nd of March 2017 and conducts fundamental artificial intelligence research. The centre has 28 researchers with expertise in the theory, algo-rithms and philosophy of artificial intelligence. Our mission is to attack unsolved problems and push the research frontier, seeking superintelli-gence. CAIR aims to provide an attractive envi-ronment for cutting-edge research. We think groundbreaking results and practical benefits at the same time. Our research shall break down barriers and drive innovation, for the greater good.

Sponsor / Exhibitor University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute www.isi.edu/

ISI is home to more than one hundred and fifty researchers and PhD students in Artificial Intel-ligence. ISI is part of USC’s School of Engineer-ing, currently ranked in the top ten in the coun-try due in part to ISI’s standing. AI research areas include natural language processing, informa-tion integration, knowledge capture, complex networks, human behavior, and semantic web.  If interested, please send email ai-contact@isi.edu.

Sponsor / Exhibitor WeBank/Qianhai www.webank.com/en/ WeBank was built with technology at its core, and with technology as a key driver behind the bank’s development. As such, WeBank is com-mitted to promoting innovative technologies. Since its formal launch, WeBank has already completed the construction of a comprehensive banking platform with self-owned intellectual properties, capable of handling high-volume, high-frequency transactions and has applied for more than 100 patents across a variety of tech-nology areas. WeBank is also the very first com-mercial bank to be recognized as a national high-tech enterprise by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. WeBank strongly em-braces the oft-stated “ABCD” technologies (A.I., blockchain, cloud computing, big data) as its strategic focuses and is an active leader in their related researches and applications in the finan-cial sector.

Registration Preregistration is located in Coral Lounge in front of Coral 2. If you have already registered, please go directly to this area. Onsite registration is located in Coral Lobby between MPCCI and MPCCII. If you have not yet registered, wish to make a change to your registration, or have a bal-ance due, please proceed to this area. Registra-tion hours are:

Sunday, January 27 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Monday, January 28 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Tuesday, January 29 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM Wednesday, January 30 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Thursday, January 31 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Friday, February 1 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM

All onsite registrations must be accompanied by payment via credit card, check or cash. In addi-tion, AAAI attendees are required to register via the online system at aaaiconf.cvent.com/aaai19 within 24 hours after their onsite registration. When registering online, please select payment type “other.” We will apply your onsite payment at a later date. AAAI will contact you if there is a problem with your online registration.

General Information

ADA Accessibility The Hilton Hawaiian Village is an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant facility. The facility design includes accessible parking and entrances, wheelchair ramps, multiple eleva-tors, automatic doors and accessible restroom fa-cilities.

Admission Each conference attendee will receive a name badge upon registration. This badge is required for admittance to the technical, AIES, IAAI, EAAI, AI Job Fair, tutorial, and workshop pro-grams, as well as all social events. The Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel is a smoke-free facility, and smoking is strictly forbidden in all meeting and sleeping rooms, as well as public areas.

Business Center A Xerox Office (business center) is located on the first floor of the Diamond Head Tower Hilton New Orleans Riverside near the Atrium. The cen-ter is Monday-Sunday 6 AM-10 PM. Self service is available 24 hours with a room key.

Career Information A general information table for job opportunities in the artificial intelligence industry will be made available in the registration area. Attendees are welcome to post job descriptions of openings at their company or institution. Please also visit the AI Job Fair for additional career information.

Family Friendly Initiative Tiare Suite, Kalia Executive Conference Center

AAAI has arranged for a room (Sunday – Thurs-day) for young family needs and for families to relax between sessions. We ask that you be re-spectful of others’ privacy, as this room may be used by nursing mothers. The room locks from the inside when being used privately. In addition, we welcome young children (under 12) at all AAAI social events, such as the reception or poster and demo receptions, for no additional charge. If your child would like a souvenir of at-tendance at the conference, please come by regis-tration for a badge!

Guidebook App and Online Schedule The full list of AAAI and IAAI papers is available in the online schedule and via the AAAI-19 Guidebook app. A very limited number of hard copies of the schedule are available in onsite reg-istration for those individuals who do not have online access.

Internet Access AAAI-19 has arranged for complimentary wifi

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access for AAAI-19 registrants in meeting areas. To access the internet in the meeting space area, please select Hilton Meetings, and enter the fol-lowing password: AAAI19. AAAI-19 attendees staying at the Hilton Hawaiian Village will also enjoy complimentary wifi access in their sleeping rooms.

List of Attendees A list of preregistered attendees of the conference will be available for review at the AAAI Desk in the registration area. Attendee lists will not be distributed.

Printed Materials Display tables for the distribution of promotional and informational materials of interest to confer-ence attendees will be located in the registration area.

Proceedings/Technical Reports AAAI final published proceedings will be avail-able approximately 6 months after the confer-ence in electronic format only via the AAAI Dig-ital Library. Preliminary PDFs of all papers are available via the online AAAI-19 schedule (Guidebook). For more information, please in-quire at the registration desk.

Volunteer Station The volunteer station will be located in the onsite registration area. All volunteers are required to sign in prior to their shift, and sign out when they finish.

Honolulu Hotel Information Oahu Visitors Bureau: (808) 524-0722. For more information, including restaurant suggestions, activities and additional information about the area please visit  www.gohawaii.com/islands/ oahu

Hotel Parking Hotel overnight parking is $45.00/night, motor-cycle/moped: $10/day, plus tax for self-parking, $52.00/night for valet. There are several addition-al garages nearby, including one at Lagoon Beach and one on Hobron Lane at Lipeepee Street. 

Hotel Restaurants Bali Steak & Seafood

Casual fine dining; dinner Tues-Sat, 5:00 PM-9:00 PM

Rainbow Lanai Continental and full breakfast buffet daily, 5:30 AM-11:00 AM

Tropics Bar & Grill: Beachside restaurant; breakfast: 7:00am - 11:00 AM, lunch: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, dinner: 5:00 PM-10:00 PM

Has Tree Cantina Mexican fare, lunch and dinner, 5:00 PM-9:00 PM

ROCKY Japanese Steak Teppan Restaurant Teppanyaki favorites & innovative Japanese dishes; lunch, 11.30 AM–2:00 PM, dinner, 5:00 PM–10:00 PM

CJ’S New York Style Delicatessen Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, 7 AM-9.30 PM

Fresco Italian Restaurant Italian cuisine; lunch, 11.00 AM–3:00 PM, dinner, 3:00 PM–9:30 PM

Hatsuhana Japanese delicacies: 6:00 AM–10:00 PM, Happy Hour, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Round Table Pizza 11 PM-midnight

Grab & Go Wiki Wiki Market at Ali’i Tower

Grab & go, 6:00 AM-10:00 PM Lagoon Grill at Paradise Pool

Grab & go, 10:30 AM-5:30 AM DQ/Orange Julius at the Beach:

Sun-Thurs, 11:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat, 11:00 AM-9:00 PM

Lanikai Juice Hawaii Breakfasts, snacks & lunch, open daily, 6:30 AM-8:00 PM

Lappert’s Hawaii Gourmet ice cream, open daily, 5:30 AM-11:00 PM

Wiki Wiki In Room Dining 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM; 5:45 PM-9:00 PM

Coffee Shops AAAI-19 will serve coffee at the mid-morning and afternoon breaks. For early morning coffee, please visit Starbucks on the ground floor of the Ali’i Tower 5:30 AM - 8:00 AM or the ground floor of the Kalia Tower 5:30 AM - 7:00 AM.

The following locations are a 5-10 minute walk from the hotel:

Hiking Hawaii Cafe: 1956 Ala Moana Blvd Goofy Cafe & Dine: 1831 Ala Moana Blvd

Groceries/Sundries ABC Market: Hilton Hawaiian Village Whalers General Store: Hilton Hawaiian Village Food Pantry: 438 Hobron Ln

Pharmacy Longs Drugs is located at 2155 Kalakaua Ave.

Disclaimer In offering the Hilton Hawaiian Village, ICS Hawaii., PSAV, and all other service providers (hereinafter referred to as “Supplier(s)” for the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Innovative Applications Conference), AAAI acts only in the capacity of agent for the Suppliers that are the providers of the service. Because AAAI has no control over the personnel, equip-ment or operations of providers of accommoda-tions or other services included as part of the AAAI-19/IAAI-19 program, AAAI assumes no responsibility for and will not be liable for any

personal delay, inconveniences or other damage suffered by conference participants which may arise by reason of (1) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any Supplier or its employees, (2) any defect in or failure of any vehicle, equipment or instrumentality owned, operated or otherwise used by any Supplier, or (3) any wrongful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of any other party not under the con-trol, direct or otherwise, of AAAI.

AAAI/IAAI Technical Sessions

Attention! AAAI-19 technical session attendees! This year, we are encouraging session audiences to interact with the speakers (questions, com-ments) during presentations. Of course, this has always been allowed, but often audiences wait until the end, when little or no time is left. (And by that time it is possible that many in the audi-ence may have lost contact with the talk and be checking their email.) A more interactive session can take advantage of physical presence at the conference, better engage the audience with the speakers’ work, help the audience understand and remember it, increase audience interest, and provide speakers with useful feedback. We have asked session chairs to encourage and participate in this interaction

In particular, please ask for clarification if the talk becomes more difficult to follow than it should be. Chances are that others in the audi-ence are having the same problem. It does the speakers no favors to let them waste the opportu-nity to communicate their work while the audi-ence gives up and returns to their email. 

We are asking the speakers to allow time for this interaction in preparing their talk. Of course, they, or the session chairs, can still ask that an ex-tended back and forth on a topic be taken off-line. Nevertheless, extensive audience interest in interacting with a talk may prevent the speaker from presenting all their prepared material. Therefore, we are recommending to speakers that they communicate the essential contribu-tion of their paper early on, and are prepared to skip to a simple summary if they find that their time is running out. 

More details will always be available in the pa-per. The opportunity for direct interaction be-tween speaker and audience is a special opportu-nity that comes with physical presence at the conference. Please take advantage of this to pro-mote livelier and more productive sessions. 

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AAAI-19 Wifi Access Select: Hilton Meetings

Password: AAAI19

Guidebook App Download the Guidebook App

Redeem Code: aaai19guide

Online: guidebook.com/g/aaai19

Breaks Coffee breaks will be available each day at 9:40 AM and 3:30 PM, Tuesday – Thursday, January

29-31, and 11:00 – 11:15 AM on Friday, February 1, in the Coral Lounge and outside other tech-nical session rooms. The lunch break will be from 12:30 – 2:00 PM each day. The conference con-cludes at 12:30 PM on Friday, February 1.

Talk Lengths AAAI Talks: 15 minutes AAAI Spotlight Talks: 2 minutes Senior Member Blue Sky Talks: 15 minutes Senior Member Summary Talks: 15 minutes IAAI Deployed Talks = 20 minutes IAAI Emerging Talks = 15 minutes

Monday, January 28

9:00 – 9:10 AM EAAI-19 Welcome (Michael Wollowski and Nate Derbinsky) Sea Pearl Suite 9:10 – 10:00 AM EAAI-19 Outstanding Educator Award Lecture: Ashok Goel Sea Pearl Suite 10:00 – 10:20 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 10:50 – 11:10 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM EAAI-19 Panel Discussion Sea Pearl Suite 1:30 – 2:50 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: AI for Education and Outreach Sea Pearl Suite 2:50 – 3:20 PM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 3:50 – 4:10 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Non-Traditional Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sea Pearl Suite 4:10 – 5:58 PM EAAI-19 Birds of a Feather (BoF) Research Challenge Sea Pearl Suite 5:30 – 7:00 PM AAAI-19 Opening Reception The Great Lawn 7:30 – 9:00 PM AAAI Townhall: A 20-Year Roadmap for AI Research Coral Ballroom

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Tuesday, January 29

8:10 – 8:40 AM AAAI Welcome and Opening Remarks, AAAI Organizational Awards/Honors Coral Ballroom 8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Cynthia Breazeal Coral Ballroom 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 1 Coral Ballroom

3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 1 Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 1 Coral 2 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 1 South Pacific 1 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Semantics and Summarization 1 South Pacific 2 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Object Detection South Pacific 3 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Clustering South Pacific 4 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Kernel Methods Hibiscus Suite 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 1 Kahili Suite 10:25-11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Computational Sustainability Lehua 10:25-11:25 AM IAAI-19: E-Commerce and Retail Nautilus Suite 10:25-11:15 AM EAAI-19 Invited Talk: Larry Medsker Sea Pearl Suite 11:15-11:35 AM EAAI-19 Main Track Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Transfer/Adaptation/Multi-task Learning 1 Coral Ballroom

3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 2 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 2 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 2 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Information Extraction 1 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Object Recognition South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI Classic Paper Award / AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 1 South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Dimensionality Reduction/Feature Selection Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 2 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Cognitive Systems Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Improving Interactions through NL and Dialog Nautilus Suite 11:35 AM – 12:25 PM EAAI-19 Panel Discussion Sea Pearl Suite 12:30 – 2:00 PM AAAI-19 Black in AI Lunch Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 1 Coral Ballroom

3-5 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 3 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 3 Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 3 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Discourse and Dialogue South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Transfer/Adaptation/Multi-task Learning 2 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Learning Theory Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 3 Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 1 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Medicine Nautilus Suite 1:55 – 2:25 PM EAAI-19 Blue Sky Idea Lightning Talks Sea Pearl Suite 2:25 – 3:25 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Model AI Assignments Sea Pearl Suite 3:55 – 5:25 PM EAAI-19 Special Track: Model AI Assignments Sea Pearl Suite 4:15 – 5:15 PM IAAI-19 Engelmore Memorial Award Lecture (Tambe) Coral Ballroom 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI Oxford-Style Debate: The Future of AI Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 1 Coral Lounge 7:00 – 10:00 PM AAAI Fellows Recognition Dinner Rainbow Suite

and Patio

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7:30 – 8:45 AM Women's Mentoring Breakfast Sea Pearl Suite 8:45 – 9:45 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Ian Goodfellow Coral Ballroom 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: GANs Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 4 Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Recommender Systems Coral 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Question Answering South Pacific 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 1 South Pacific 3 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 1 South Pacific 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 1 Hibiscus Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 4 Kahili Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 1 Lehua 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Student Abstract Spotlights Sea Pearl Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM IAAI-19: Assistance via Analysis of Human-Generated Artifacts Nautilus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Adversarial Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 5 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Language and Vision 1 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 4 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Information Extraction 2 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 2 South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 2 (Blue Sky) South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 2 Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 5 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 2 Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Computer Systems and Sofware Nautilus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 2 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Language and Vision 2 Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI and Web 5 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Text Classification South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 3 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 3 (Summary) South Pacific 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 3 Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 6 Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 3 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 3 Sea Pearl Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Science Nautilus Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 3 Coral 1 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Online Learning Coral 2 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP: Semantics and Summarization 2 South Pacific 2 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision and Video Analysis 4 South Pacific 3 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Senior Member Papers 4 (Blue Sky) South Pacific 4 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 4 Hibiscus Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Gane Theory and Economic Paradigms 7 Kahili Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Planning, Routing, and Scheduling 4 Lehua 3:35 – 4:35 PM AAAI-19 Session: Applications and the Web 4 Sea Pearl Suite 3:35 – 4:35 PM IAAI-19: Education Nautilus Suite 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Qiang Yang Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 2 Coral Lounge 8:00 – 10:00 PM AAAI-19 Games Night Sea Pearl Suite

Wednesday, January 30

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8:20 – 8:40 AM AAAI-19 Conference Awards (Pascal Van Hentenryck and Zhi-Hua Zhou) Coral Ballroom 8:40 – 9:40 AM AAAI-19/IAAI-19 Joint Invited Talk: Yu Zheng Coral Ballroom 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Multi-Instance/Multi-Label/Multi-View Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Relational/Symbolic Learning Coral 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 4 Coral 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 1 South Pacific 1 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 2 South Pacific 2 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Motion South Pacific 3 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 2 South Pacific 4 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 5 Hibiscus Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Bayesian Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Model 1 Kahili Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Humans and AI Lehua 10:25 – 11:25 AM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 1 Sea Pearl Suite 10:25 – 11:25 AM IAAI-19: Transportation and Navigation Nautilus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 4 Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 2 Coral 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 5 Coral 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 3 South Pacific 1 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 4 South Pacific 2 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Categorization and Recognition 1 South Pacific 3 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 3 South Pacific 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 6 Hibiscus Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Bayesian Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Model 2 Kahili Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Human-AI Collaboration 1 Lehua 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IAAI-19: Defence, Security, and Privacy Nautilus Suite 12:30 – 3:00 PM AI Job Fair Coral Lounge 12:30 – 1:00 PM AI Job Fair Intro Talks Coral 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Weakly Supervised Learning 1 Coral Ballroom 3-5 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 3 Coral 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Logic Based AI Coral 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 5 South Pacific 1 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 6 South Pacific 2 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision: Categorization and Recognition 2 South Pacific 3 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Vision (General) 4 South Pacific 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Search, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization 7 Hibiscus Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Data Mining Kahili Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Human-AI Collaboration 2 Lehua 2:00 – 3:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 1 Sea Pearl Suite 2:00 – 3:30 PM IAAI-19: Insurance and Finance Nautilus Suite 4:15 – 5:15 PM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Tuomas Sandholm Coral Ballroom 4:15 – 5:15 PM IAAI-19: Forecasting Nautilus Suite 5:15 – 6:15 PM AAAI Community Meeting Coral Ballroom 6:30 – 8:30 PM AAAI-19 Poster / Demo Session 3 Coral Lounge

Thursday, January 31

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Friday, February 1

8:50 – 9:50 AM AAAI-19 Invited Talk: Marta Gonzalez Coral Ballroom 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Weakly Supervised Learning 2 Coral Ballroom 3-5 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 4 Coral 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Deep Learning 5 Coral 2 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 6 South Pacific 1 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 7 South Pacific 2 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Applications South Pacific 3 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 5 South Pacific 4 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 2 Nautilus Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Robotics 1 Hibiscus Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 8 Kahili Suite 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 9 Lehua 10:00 – 11:00 AM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 2 Sea Pearl Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Causal Learning Coral Ballroom 3-5 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 6 Coral 1 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning 6 Coral 2 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: AI for Social Impact 7 South Pacific 1 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: NLP (General) 8 South Pacific 2 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Ensemble Methods South Pacific 3 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Machine Learning 7 South Pacific 4 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reinforcement Learning 3 Nautilus Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Robotics 2 Hibiscus Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 10 Kahili Suite 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Reasoning under Uncertainty 3 Lehua 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM AAAI-19 Session: Multiagent Systems 3 Sea Pearl Suite

MAPS 21

Mid-Peninsula Conference Center and Kalia Executive Conference Center

22 MAPS

Mid-Pacific Conference Center

MAPS 23

Kalia Executive Conference Center

AAAI-20 / IAAI-20

New York City 7 – 12 February 2020

New York Hilton Midtown

New York, NY USA

www.aaai.org/aaai20

Program Cochairs

Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)

Fei Sha (University of Southern California)