Special Topic Sessions

We are pleased to announce the following special sessions for the 8th Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, January 4-6, 2004 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

• Preferences
  Organizer: Ronen Brafman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

  Speakers (tentative)
  • Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto, Canada
    "Minimax Regret Methods for Decision Making with Imprecise Utility Functions"
  • Carmel Domshlak, Cornell University, USA
    "On Quantitative Reasoning About Qualitative Preferences"
  • Piero La Mura, Leipzig University, Germany
    "A tractable utility representation for non-linear risk preferences"
  • Tuomas Sandholm, CMU, USA
    "Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions"

• Portfolio Design for Combinatorial Problems
  Organizers: Carla Gomes, Bart Selman, Cornell, USA

  Speakers (tentative)
  • Joao Marques-Silva, INESC, Portugal
    "Backtracking Relaxations and Portfolios in Satisfiability"
  • Tad Hogg, HP Labs, USA
    "Portfolios of Quantum Algorithms"
  • Kevin Leyton-Brown, UBC, Canada

• Artificial Intelligence and Game Theory
  Organizers: Kevin Leyton-Brown, UBC, Canada; Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Israel

  Speakers (tentative)
  • Tuomas Sandholm, CMU, USA
    "Complexity Results about Nash Equilibria"
  • Christian Shelton, Intel & UC Riverside, USA
    "Structured Game Representations and Efficient Nash Calculations"
  • Piero La Mura, Leipzig University, Germany
    "Computation of Strategic Equilibria in Game Networks"
  • Kevin Leyton-Brown, UBC, Canada

• Intelligent Text Processing
  Organizer: Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

  Speakers (tentative)
  • Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih
    "Mapping Dependencies Trees: An application to Question Answering", (PDF).
  • Dan Roth, Wen-tau Yih
    "A Linear Programming Formulation for Global Inference in Natural Language Tasks", (PDF).
  • Maojin Jiang, Eric Jensen, Steven Beitzel, Shlomo Argamon
    "Effective Use of Phrases in Language Modeling to Improve Information Retrieval", (PDF).
  • Moshe Koppel, Jonathan Schler, Dror Mughaz
    "Text Categorization for Authorship Verification", (PDF).