Program
  Preliminary schedule
  Preliminary program
  Invited talks
  Invited tutorials
  Accepted Papers
  Accepted Short Papers (Posters)
  Accepted PAIS Papers
  Active Workshops
  Accepted System Demostrations
  Accepted STAIRS

Accepted Papers


Long papers
  • Reducing Bias Effects in DOP Parameter Estimation
    Evita Linardaki

  • From belief change to preference change
    Jérôme Lang, Leon van der Torre

  • Advanced Preprocessing for Answer Set Solving
    Martin Gebser, Benjamin Kaufmann, Andre Neumann, Torsten Schaub

  • Multilingual Evidence Improves Clustering-based Taxonomy Extraction
    Hans Hjelm, Paul Buitelaar

  • Generating diagnoses from conflict sets with continuous elements
    Emmanuel Benazera, Louise Trave©-Massuyes

  • Interaction-Oriented Agent Simulations : From Theory to Implementation
    Yoann Kubera, Philippe Mathieu, Sébastien Picault

  • Optimal Coalition Structure Generation In Partition Function Games
    Tomasz Michalak, Andrew Dowell, Peter McBurney, Michael Wooldridge

  • Slide: A Useful Special Case of the Cardpath Constraint
    Christian Bessiere, Emmanuel Hebrard, Brahim Hnich, Zeynep Kiziltan, Toby Walsh

  • Coalition Structures in Weighted Voting Games
    Edith Elkind, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Nicholas R. Jennings

  • Automatic Page Turning for Musicians via Real-Time Machine Listening
    Andreas Arzt, Gerhard Widmer


  • Agents Preferences in Decentralized Task Allocation
    Mark Hoogendoorn, Maria Gini


  • A generic framework for comparing semantic similarities on a subsumption hierarchy
    Emmanuel Blanchard, Mounira Harzallah, Pascale Kuntz

  • Game Theoretical Insights in Strategic Patrolling: Model and Algorithm in Normal-Form
    Nicola Gatti

  • A Compositional Mathematical Model of Machines Transporting Rigid Objects
    Peter Struss, Axel Kather , Dominik Schneider , Tobias Voigt

  • A Practical Temporal Constraint Management System for Real-Time Applications
    Luke Hunsberger

  • Prototype-based Domain Description
    Fabrizio Angiulli

  • Model-based diagnosis of discrete event systems with an incomplete system model
    Xiangfu Zhao, Dantong Ouyang

  • Towards Efficient Belief Update for Planning-Based Web Service Composition
    Joerg Hoffmann

  • Frontier Search for Bicriterion Shortest Path Problems
    Lorenzo Mandow, José Luis Pérez de la Cruz

  • Monitoring the Execution of a Multi-Agent Plan: Dealing with Partial Observability
    Roberto Micalizio, Pietro Torasso

  • A hybrid approach to multi-agent decision-making
    Paulo Trigo, Helder Coelho

  • A General Model for Epistemic State Revision using Plausibility Measures
    Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu

  • Heuristics for Dynamically Adapting Propagation
    Kostas Stergiou

  • Coalition Formation Strategies for Self-Interested Agents
    Thomas Génin, Samir Aknine

  • Of Mechanism Design and Multiagent Planning
    Roman van der Krogt, Mathijs de Weerdt, Yingqian Zhang

  • Structure Learning of Markov Logic Networks through Iterated Local Search
    Marenglen Biba, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito

  • Near Admissible Algorithms for Multiobjective Search
    Olivier Spanjaard, Patrice Perny

  • Complexity of Subsumption in the EL Family of Description Logics: Acyclic and Cyclic TBoxes
    Christoph Haase, Carsten Lutz

  • Compressing Pattern Databases with Learning
    Mehdi Samadi, Maryam Siabani, Robert Holte, Ariel Felner

  • Online Rule Learning via Weighted Model Counting
    Frederic Koriche

  • Reasoning about Dynamic Depth Profiles
    Mikhail Soutchanski, Paulo Santos

  • Comparing Abductive Theories
    Katsumi Inoue, Chiaki Sakama

  • Unsupervised Grammar Induction Using a Parent Based Constituent Context Model
    Seyed Abolghassem Mirroshandel, Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani

  • Chronicles for On-line Diagnosis of Distributed Systems
    Xavier Le Guillou, Marie-Odile Cordier, Sophie Robin, Laurence Roze

  • Focused Ensemble Selection: A Diversity-Based Method for Greedy Ensemble Selection
    Ioannis Partalas, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Ioannis Vlahavas

  • Test Generation for Model-Based Diagnosis
    Gregory Provan

  • An Attentive Machine Interface for Geo-Contextual Awareness in Mobile Vision Tasks
    Katrin Amlacher, Lucas Paletta

  • IAMwildCAT: The Winning Strategy for the TAC Market Design Competition
    Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Ioannis Vetsikas, Bing Shi, Nicholas R. Jennings

  • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm with Variable Optimistic-Pessimistic Criterion
    Natalia Akchurina

  • As Safe As It Gets: Near-Optimal Learning in Multi-Stage Games with Imperfect Monitoring
    Danny Kuminov, Moshe Tennenholtz

  • $\mathcal{CDL}$: an Integrated Framework for Context Specification and Recognition
    Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, Antonello Scalmato, Antonio Sgorbissa, Renato Zaccaria

  • Privacy-Preserving Query Answering in Logic-based Information Systems
    Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks

  • Learning Functional Object Categories from a Relational Spatio-Temporal Representation
    Muralikrishna Sridhar, Anthony Cohn, Hogg David C

  • A Decomposition Technique for Solving Max-CSP
    Hachemi Bennaceur, Christophe Lecoutre, Olivier Roussel

  • Observation-Subsumption Checking in Similarity-Based Diagnosis of Discrete-Event Systems
    Marina Zanella, Gianfranco Lamperti

  • Evolutionary Optimization of the Multi-Location Transshipment Problem with Limited Storage Capacity
    Nabil BELGASMI, Lamjed BEN SAID, Khaled GHEDIRA

  • Regression for Classical and Nondeterministic Planning
    Jussi Rintanen

  • Local Consistency and Junction Tree for Diagnosis of Discrete-Event Systems
    Priscilla Kan John, Alban Grastien

  • Fast Set Bounds Propagation using BDDs
    Graeme Gange, Peter Stuckey, Vitaly Lagoon

  • MTForest: A New Way to Ensemble Decision Trees based on Multi-Task Learning
    Qing Wang, Liang Zhang, Mingmin Chi, Jiankui Guo

  • Combining domain-independent planning and HTN planning: the Duet planner
    Alfonso Gerevini, Ugur Kuter, Dana Nau, Alessandro Saetti, Nathaniel Waisbrot

  • A Heuristic Based Seller Agent For Simultaneous English Auctions
    Patricia Anthony, Edwin Law

  • Learning in Planning with Temporally Extended Goals and Uncontrollable Events
    Andre Cire, Adi Botea

  • Optimizing Causal Link Based Web Service Composition
    Freddy Lecue

  • Extending the Knowledge Compilation Map: Closure Principles
    Hélène Fargier, Pierre Marquis

  • Sequential spatial reasoning in images based on pre-attention mechanisms and fuzzy attribute graphs
    Geoffroy Fouquier, Jamal Atif, Isabelle BLOCH

  • Semantic Modularity and Module Extraction in Description Logics
    Boris Konev, Carsten Lutz, Dirk Walther, Frank Wolter

  • New Results for Horn Cores and Envelopes of Horn Disjunctions
    Thomas Eiter, Kazuhisa Makino

  • A Truthful Two-Stage Mechanism for Eliciting Probabilistic Estimates with Unknown Costs
    Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Alex Rogers, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R. Jennings

  • Web Page Prediction Based on Conditional Random Fields
    Yong Zhen Guo, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Laurence Park

  • Many-valued concept lattices for conceptual clustering and information retrieval
    Nizar Messai, Marie-Dominique Devignes, Amedeo Napoli, Malika Smail_Tabbone

  • Goal Generation and Adoption from Partially Trusted Beliefs
    Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi

  • Solving Satisfiability Problems with Qualitative Preferences: a new approach
    Emanuele Di Rosa, Enrico Giunchiglia, Marco Maratea

  • Online optimisation for variable selection in data streams
    Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris Tasoulis, David J. Hand, Niall M. Adams

  • Word Sense Induction Using Graphs & Collocations
    Klapaftis Ioannis, Suresh Manandhar

  • Adaptive play in Texas Hold'em Poker
    Raphaël Maîtrepierre, Jérémie Mary, Rémi Munos

  • A Formal Model of Emotions: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Aspects
    Bas Steunebrink, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules Meyer

  • Single-Peaked consistency and its complexity
    Escoffier Bruno, Jérôme Lang, Meltem Ozturk

  • Learning context-free grammars to extract relations from text
    Georgios Petasis, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Georgios Paliouras, Constantine D. Spyropoulos

  • Combining binary constraint networks in qualitative reasoning
    Jason Jingshi Li, Tomasz Kowalski, Jochen Renz, Sanjiang Li

  • Modeling Collaborative Similarity with the Signed Resistance Distance Kernel
    Jérôme Kunegis, Stephan Schmidt, Christian Bauckhage, Martin Mehlitz, Sahin Albayrak

  • Talking Points in Metaphor: A Concise Usage-based representation for Figurative Processing
    Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao

  • Solving Necklace Constraint Problems
    Pierre Flener, Justin Pearson

  • Hierarchical explanation of inference for Bayesian networks with population of independent agents.
    Peter Sutovsky, Gregory Cooper

  • Belief revision with reinforcement learning for interactive object recognition
    Thomas Leopold, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Gabriele Peters

  • Belief Revision through Forgetting Conditionals in Conditional Probabilistic Logic Programs
    Anbu Yue, Weiru Liu

  • A Formal Approach for RDF/S Ontology Evolution
    George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris Antoniou, Vassilis Christophides

  • Semantic Decomposition for Question Answering
    Sven Hartrumpf

  • Vivifying propositional clausal formulae
    Cédric Piette, Youssef Hamadi, Lakhdar Saïs

  • Hybrid tractable CSPs which generalize tree structure
    Martin Cooper, Peter Jeavons, Andras Salamon

  • Justification-Based Non-Clausal Local Search for SAT
    Matti Järvisalo, Tommi Junttila, Ilkka Niemela

  • Sub Node Extraction with Tree Based Wrappers
    Stefan Raeymaekers, Maurice Bruynooghe

  • Formalizing Dynamics of Mood and Depression
    Fiemke Both, Mark Hoogendoorn, Michel Klein, Jan Treur

  • Modular Equivalence in General
    Tomi Janhunen

  • Automatic Configuration of Multi-Robot Systems: Planning for Multiple Steps
    Robert Lundh, Lars Karlsson, Alessandro Saffiotti

  • A Simulation-based Approach for Solving Temporal Markov Problems
    Emmanuel Rachelson, Patrick Fabiani, Frédérick Garcia, Gauthier Quesnel

  • Mastering the Processing of Preferences by Using Symbolic Priorities in Possibilistic Logic
    Souhila Kaci, Henri PRADE

  • Finding Key Bloggers, One Post at a Time
    Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke

  • Automatic Recurrent ANN development for signal classification: detection of seizures in EEGs
    Daniel Rivero, Julian Dorado, Juan Rabuñal, Alejandro Pazos

  • Coupling Continuous and Discrete Event System Techniques for Hybrid System Diagnosability Analysis
    Mehdi Bayoudh, Louise Trave-Massuyes, Xavier Olive

  • A Method for Classifying Vertices of Labeled Graphs applied to Knowledge Discovery in Molecules
    Frédéric Pennerath, Géraldine Polaillon, Amedeo Napoli

  • Description Logic Rules
    Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Rudolph, Pascal Hitzler

  • Structure segmentation and recognition in images guided by structural constraint propagation
    Olivier Nempont, Jamal ATIF, Elsa Angelini, Isabelle Bloch

  • Impossibility Results for Iterated Belief Revision
    Pavlos Peppas, Anastasios Michael Fotinopoulos, Stella Seremetaki

  • Theoretical and Computational Properties of Preference-based Argumentation
    Yannis Dimopoulos, Pavlos Moraitis, Leila Amgoud

  • Ontologies as Structured Logical Theories
    Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski

  • Nonnegative Decompositions with Resampling for Improving Gene Expression Data Biclustering Stability
    Liviu Badea, Doina Tilivea

  • Heuristics for Planning with Actions Costs Revisited
    Emil Keyder, Hector Geffner

  • A Probabilistic Analysis of Diagnosability in Discrete Event Systems
    Farid Nouioua, Philippe Dague

  • Removed Set Fusion: Performing off the shelf
    Julien Hue, Odile Papini, Eric Wurbel

  • Multi-valued Pattern Databases
    Carlos Linares Lopez

  • Temporal Logic Patterns for Querying Qualitative Models of Genetic Regulatory Networks
    Pedro Monteiro, Delphine Ropers, Radu Mateescu, Ana T. Freitas, Hidde de Jong

  • Norm Defeasibility in an Institutional Normative Framework
    Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugenio Oliveira

  • A Coherent Well-founded model for Hybrid MKNF knowledge bases
    Matthias Knorr, Jose Julio Alferes, Pascal Hitzler

  • Why is this Wrong? — Diagnosing Erroneous Speech Recognizer Output with a Two Phase Parser
    Bernd Ludwig, Martin Hacker

  • Theoritical study of ant-based algorithms for multi-agent patrolling
    Arnaud Glad, Olivier Simonin, Olivier Buffet, Francois Charpillet

  • Fighting Knowledge Acquisition Bottleneck with Argument Based Machine Learning
    Martin Mozina, Matej Guid, Jana Krivec, Aleksander Sadikov, Ivan Bratko

  • Groovy Neural Networks
    Axel Tidemann, Yiannis Demiris

  • Task Driven Coreference Resolution for Relation Extraction
    Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Hong Li

  • Exploiting locality of interactions using a policy-gradient approach in multiagent learning
    Francisco Melo

  • A Fast Method for Property Prediction in Graph-Structured Data from Positive and Unlabelled Examples
    Susanne Hoche, Peter Flach

  • VCD bounds for some GP genotypes
    José Luis Montaña

  • Diagnosis of Simple Temporal Networks
    Nico Roos, Cees Witteveen

  • Robust Division in Clustering of Streaming Time Series
    Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Gama

  • WWW sits the SAT: Measuring Relational Similarity from the Web
    Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuka

  • Using Abstraction in Two-Player Games
    Mehdi Samadi, Jonathan Schaeffer, Fatemeh Torabi Asr, Majid Samar, Zohreh Azimifar

  • Incremental Component-Based Construction and Verification of a Robotic System
    Ananda Basu, Saddek Bensalem, Matthieu Gallien, Felix Ingrand, Charles Lesire, Thanh-Hung Nguyen, Joseph Sifakis

  • Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Monolingual Paraphrases
    Preslav Nakov

  • Salience-driven Contextual Priming of Speech Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction
    Pierre Lison, Geert-Jan Kruijff

  • Orthographic similarity search for dictionary lookup of Japanese words
    Lars Yencken, Timothy Baldwin

  • An Efficient Student Model Based on Student Performance and Metadata
    Arndt Faulhaber, Erica Melis

 

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