Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09)

The Interdisciplinary Reach of Artificial Intelligence

Pasadena Conference Center
http://www.ijcai-09.org

Sponsored by The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

IJCAI-09 Program Committee

IJCAI -09 Program Chair
Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto, Canada)


IJCAI-09 Area Chairs

Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)
Frank Dellaert (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Boi Faltings (EPFL)
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde)
Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Carlos Guestrin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University)
Jérôme Lang (LAMSADE, CNRS - Univ. Paris Dauphine)
Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Fanzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Deborah McGuinness (Stanford University)
Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois)
Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)
Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta)
Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW)
Daniel S. Weld (University of Washington)
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)
Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University)

IJCAI-09 Senior Program Committee

Thomas Agotnes (Bergen University College)
Jose Luis Ambite (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute)
Franz Baader (TU Dresden)
Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool)
Christian Bessiere (University of Montpellier, CNRS)
Mikhail Bilenko (Microsoft Research)
Yngvi Bjornsson (Reykjavik University)
Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar)
Michael Bowling (University of Alberta)
Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University)
Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg)
Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International)
Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
Berthe Y. Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)
Koby Crammer (University of Pennsylvania)
James Curran (University of Sydney)
Adnan Darwiche (University of California, Los Angeles)
Carmel Domshlak (Technion, Israel)
Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology)
Edith Elkind (University of Southampton and Nanyang Technological University)
Tim Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Ken Forbus (Northwestern University)
Dieter Fox (University of Washington)
Paolo Frasconi (University of Firenze)
Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard University and Microsoft Research)
Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park)
Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute)
Russ Greiner (University of Alberta)
Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University)
Jim Hendler (RPI)
Joerg Hoffmann (SAP Research)
Robert Holte (University of Alberta)
Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford)
Takayuki Ito (Nagoya institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)
Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University)
Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)
Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage and Stanford University)
Pedro Larranaga (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia)
Dekang Lin (Google)
Derek Long (University of Strathclyde)
Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen)
Sridhar Mahadevan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Robert Mateescu (California Institute of Technology)
Chris Meek (Microsoft)
Pedro Meseguer (IIIA CSIC)
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University)
Karen Myers (SRI International)
Roberto Navigli (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover)
Ilkka Niemelä (Helsinki University of Technology - TKK)
Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Joelle Pineau (McGill University)
David Poole (University of British Columbia)
Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo)
Jussi Rintanen (NICTA)
Riccardo Rosati (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Jeffrey Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Marie-Christine Rousset (University of Grenoble)
Nicholas Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire)
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University)
Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester)
Tobias Scheffer (University of Potsdam)
Thomas Schiex (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)
Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin)
Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Satinder Singh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University)
David Smith (NASA Ames Research Center)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Peter Struss (Technical University of Munich)
Erik Sudderth (Brown University)
Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)
Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania)
Moshe Tennenholtz (Microsoft Israel R&D Center)
Yee-Whye Teh (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)
Michael Thielscher (Dresden University of Technology)
Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky)
Michael Wellman (University of Michigan)
Chris Welty (IBM Research)
Shimon Whiteson (University of Amsterdam)
Brian Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nic Wilson (Cork Constraint Computation Centre)
Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research)
Richard Zemel (University of Toronto)
Nevin Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

IJCAI-09 Program Committee

Eneko Agirre
Noa Agmon
Motilal Agrawal
Edoardo Airoldi
Natasha Alechina
Martin Allen
Fadi Aloul
Alon Altman
Yasemin Altun
Eyal Amir
Jürgen Angele
Carlos Ansotegui
Itai Ashlagi
Kevin Ashley
Ruth Aylett|
Moshe Babaioff
Antonio Bahamonde
Matteo Baldoni
Jie Bao
Ken Barker
Pietro Baroni
Tony Barrett
Roman Bartak
Sugato Basu
Sumit Basu
Peter Baumgartner
Ron Bekkerman
Nahla BenAmor
Salem Benferhat
Alexander Berg
Matt Berlin
Piergiorgio Bertoli
Indrajit Bhattacharya
Bozhena Bidyuk
Concha Bielza
Armin Biere
Walter Binder
Stefano Bistarelli
Brian Blake
John Blitzer
Liad Blumrosen
Alexander Bochman
Mark Boddy
Guido Boella
Piero Bonatti
Richard Booth
Rafael Bordini
Karsten Borgwardt
Daniel Borrajo
Adi Botea
Paolo Bouquet
Bruno Bouzy
Gary Bradski
Felix Brandt
Sebastian Brandt
Cynthia Breazeal
Bert Bredeweg
Ulf Brefeld
Derek Bridge
Oliver Brock
Jan Broersen
Ken Brown
Matthew Brown
Emma Brunskill
Daniel Bryce
Joanna Bryson
Francesco Buccafurri
Hung Bui
Vadim Bulitko
Razvan Bunescu
Diego Calvanese
Hadrien Cambazard
Son Cao Tran
Peter Carbonetto
Guiseppe Carenini
Xavier Carreras
Vitor Carvalho
Nick Cassimatis
Luis Castillo
Ruggiero Cavallo
Tristan Cazenave
Brahim Chaib-draa
Georgios Chalkiadakis
Yee Seng Chan
Mark Chavira
Gal Chechik
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Hubie Chen
Yiling Chen
Yixin Chen
Colin Cherry
Carlos Chesnevar
William Kwok-Wai Cheung
Yann Chevaleyre
Max Chickering
Sachin Chitta
Arthur Choi
Tanzeem Choudhury
Seung Chung
Philipp Cimiano
Peter E. Clark
James Clarke
Michael Coen
Amanda Coles
Andrew Coles
Marie-Odile Cordier
Gabriella Cortellessa
Timothee Cour
Aaron Courville
Fabio Cozman
Jacob Crandall
Isabel Cruz
Bernardo Cuenca Grau
Aron Culotta
James Cussens
Carlos Damasio
Mehdi Dastani
Hal Daume III
Jesse Davis
Jos de Bruijn
Nando de Freitas
Giuseppe De Giacomo
Simon de Givry
Johan de kleer
Luc De Raedt
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
Mathijs de Weerdt
Richard Dearden
Stefan Decker
Thomas Degris-Dard
James Delgrande
Marc Denecker
M. Bernardine Dias
Bistra Dilkina
Frank DiMaio
Yannis Dimopoulos
Li Ding
Ying Ding
Carlos Diuk
Jürgen Dix
Minh B. Do
Dmitri Dolgov
Francesco Donini
Prashant Doshi
Doug Downey
Mark Dredze
Oskar Dressler
Kurt Driessens
Marek J. Druzdzel
Tom Duckett
Gregory Dudek
Paul Dunne
Jennifer Dy
Stefan Edelkamp
Gal Elidan
Charles Elkan
Yagil Engel
Esra Erdem
Damien Ernst
Jerome Euzenat
Wolfgang Faber
James Fan
Shaheen Fatima
Michal Feldman
Ariel Felner
Rob Fergus
Alan Fern
Michael Fink
Achille Fokoue
Mary Ellen Foster
Charless Fowlkes
Enrico Franconi
Eibe Frank
Jeremy Frank
Gerhard Friedrich
Alex Fukunaga
Glenn Fung
David Furcy
Johannes Fürnkranz
Alfredo Gabaldon
Brian Gallagher
Kuzman Ganchev
Aldo Gangemi
Antonio Garrido
Thomas Gärtner
Biswas Gautam
Chris Geib
Claudio Gentile
Enrico Gerding
Alfonso E. Gerevini
Brian Gerkey
Pierre Geurts
Lee Giles
Andrew Gilpin
Maria Gini
Christophe Giraud-Carrier
Roxana Girju
Enrico Giunchiglia
Bob Givan
Birte Glimm
Francois Goasdoue
Randy Goebel
Vibhav Gogate
Jennifer Golbeck
Claudia Goldman
Robert Goldman
Sharon Goldwater
Carla Gomes
Asuncion Gomez-Perez
Valentin Goranko
Guido Governatori
Mark Greaves
Gianluigi Greco
Paul Groth
Nicola Guarino
Alon Halevy
Joe Halpern
Youssef Hamadi
Tracy Hammond
David Hardoon
Paul Harrenstein
Patrik Haslum
Hiromitsu Hattori
Milos Hauskrecht
Xuming He
Emmanuel Hebrard
Jeff Heflin
Malte Helmert
Edith Hemaspaandra
Lane A. Hemaspaandra
Mark Hepple
Natalia Hernandez-Gardiol
Andreas Herzig
Koen Hindriks
Pascal Hitzler
Brahim Hnich
Jesse Hoey
Michael Hofbaur
Andreas Hofmann
Alan Holland
Holger Hoos
Ian Horswill
Adele Howe
John Hsu
Jinbo Huang
Jane Hunter
Ullrich Hustadt
Giovambattista Ianni
Samuel Ieong
Alexander Ihler
Luca Iocchi
Shahid Jabbar
Manfred Jaeger
Anthony Jameson
Tomi Janhunen
Philippe Jegou
Odest Jenkins
Patric Jensfelt
Heng Ji
Albert Xin Jiang
Zhi Jin
Nicholas Jong
Catholijn Jonker
Anders Jonsson
Ari Jonsson
Audun Josang
Ulrich Junker
Tommi Junttila
Radu Jurca
Lalana Kagal
Meir Kalech
Ashish Kapoor
Simon Kasif
Kalev Kask
George Katsirelos
Daniel Kayser
Yevgeny Kazakov
Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Kristian Kersting
Roni Khardon
Christopher Kiekintveld
Kee-Eung Kim
Irwin King
Sergey Kirshner
Akihiro Kishimoto
Zeynep Kiziltan
Robert Kleinberg
Russell Knight
Alex Kolcz
Tom Kollar
George Konidaris
Sebastien Konieczny
Richard Korf
Anna Korhonen
David Kortenkamp
Hatice Kose-Bagci
Walter Kosters
Sarit Kraus
Markus Krötzsch
Alex Kulesza
Giridhar Kumaran
Oren Kurland
Ralf Küsters
Ugur Kuter
Oliver Kutz
Branislav Kveton
Han La Poutre
Simon Lacoste-Julien
Sebastien Lahaie
Niels Landwehr
Javier Larrosa
Kate Larson
Kathryn Laskey
Tessa Lau
Georg Lausen
Neil Lawrence
Alessandro Lazaric
Christophe Lecoutre
Jimmy Lee
Joohyung Lee
Lillian Lee
Wee Sun Lee
Domenico Lembo
Nicola Leone
Tze Yun Leong
Kristina Lerman
James Lester
ChuMin Li
Lin Liao
Paolo Liberatore
Maxim Likhachev
Achim Lilienthal
Zuoquan Lin
Carlos Linares Lopez
Weiru Liu
Yang Liu
Yongmei Liu
Dan Lizotte
Alessio Lomuscio
Jose A. Lozano
Zhiyong Lu
Peter Lucas
Thomas Lukasiewicz
Ines Lynce
Omid Madani
Rajiv Maheswaran
Vikash Mansinghka
Felip Manya
Massimo Marchiori
Janusz Marecki
Victor Marek
Radu Marinescu
Shaul Markovitch
Benjamin Marlin
Lluís Màrquez
Joao Marques-Silva
Pierre Marquis
Stacy Marsella
Shigeo Matsubara
Tokuro Matsuo
Nicolas Maudet
Mausam
Prem Melville
Paola Merlo
Thomas Meyer
Ian Miguel
Michela Milano
Brian Milch
Peter Bro Miltersen
Einat Minkov
David Mitchell
Prasenjit Mitra
Ralf Moeller
Eric Monfroy
Greg Mori
Paul Morris
Robert Morris
Boris Motik
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
Martin Mueller
Stephen Muggleton
Marie-Laure Mugnier
Nicola Muscettola
Petri Myllymaki
Daniele Nardi
Sriraam Natarajan
Jose Neira
Jennifer Neville
Paul Newman
Vincent Ng
Claudia Niederee
Siegfried Nijssen
Sergei Nirenburg
Itsuki Noda
Natasha Noy
Tim Oates
Leo Obrst
Manabu Okumura
Nuria Oliver
Edwin Olson
Eva Onaindia
Peter Orbanz
Sarah Osentoski
Eric Pacuit
Julian Padget
Maurice Pagnucco
Hector Palacios
Luigi Palopoli
Jeff Pan
Junfeng Pan
Caroline Pantofaru
Bryan Pardo
Bijan Parsia
Simon Parsons
Praveen Paruchuri
Andrea Passerini
Peter Patel-Schneider
Adrian Pearce
David Pearce
Ted Pedersen
Bart Peintner
Jose M. Peña
Jose-Maria Peña
David Pennock
Pavlos Peppas
Claudia Perlich
Patrice Perny
Gilles Pesant
Jan Peters
Jean-Marc Petit
Ron Petrick
Karen Petrie
Marek Petrik
Bernhard Pfahringer
Avi Pfeffer
Matthai Philipose
Roland Philippsen
Christine Piatko
Marco Pistore
Christian Plagemann
Axel Polleres
Maria Polukarov
Simone Ponzetto
Fred Popowich
Henry Prakken
Cédric Pralet
Partha Pratim Talukdar
Doina Precup
Philippe Preux
Bob Price
Ariel Procaccia
Gregory Provan
Vasin Punyakanok
David Pynadath
Claude-Guy Quimper
Zinovi Rabinovich
Filip Radlinski
Iyad Rahwan
Deva Ramanan
Fabio Ramos
Rajesh Rao
Louiqa Raschid
Nathan Ratliff
Soumya Ray
Chris Reed
Daniel Reeves
Ioannis Refanidis
Jean-Charles Régin
Xiaofeng Ren
Matthew Richardson
Valentin Robu
Benjamin Rode
Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar
Alex Rogers
Emma Rollon
David Ross
Francesca Rossi
Maayan Roth
Joerg Rothe
Michael Rovatsos
Daniel Roy
Michel Rueher
Ashish Sabharwal
Martin Sachenbacher
Lakhdar Sais
Chiaki Sakama
Yuko Sakurai
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Djamila Sam-Haroud
Horst Samulowitz
Ted Sandler
Scott Sanner
Vitor Santos Costa
Benjamin Sapp
David Sarne
Paul Scerri
Torsten Schaub
Bruno Scherrer
Stephan Schiffel
Renate Schmidt
Thomas Schneider
Oliver Schulte
Alan Schultz
Dirk Schulz
Stephen Scott
Laura Sebastia
Satoshi Sekine
Meinolf Sellmann
Bart Selman
Sandip Sen
Ivan Serena
Guy Shani
Rita Sharma
Onn Shehory
Christian Shelton
Carles Sierra
Leonid Sigal
Marius Silaghi
Ricardo Silva
David Silver
Rob Sim
Ozgur Simsek
Tomas Singliar
Noam Slonim
Trey Smith
Finnegan Southey
Matthijs Spaan
Pieter Spronck
Mohan Sridharan
Biplav Srivastava
William Stafford-Noble
Kenneth Stanley
Konstantinos Stergiou
David Stern
Umberto Straccia
Gerd Stumme
Nathan Sturtevant
Masashi Sugiyama
Charles Sutton
Stefan Szeider
Pedro Szekely
István Szita
Stan Szpakowicz
Prasad Tadepalli
Valentina Tamma
Matthew Taylor
Cyril Terrioux
Sergio Tessaris
Georgios Theocharous
Sylvie Thiebaux
Kristinn Thorisson
Jin Tian
David Toman
Hans Tompits
Pietro Torasso
Paolo Torroni
Marc Toussaint
Kristina Toutanova
Louise Trave-Massuyes
Gilles Trombettoni
Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Lyle Ungar
Raquel Urtasun
Peter van Beek
Jur van den Berg
Menkes van den Briel
Wiebe Van der Hoek
Leon Van Der Torre
Hans Van Ditmarsch
Marc van Dongen
M. Birna van Riemsdijk
Pradeep Varakantham
Wamberto Vasconcelos
Paola Velardi
Brent Venable
Rineke Verbrugge
Gerard Verfaillie
Bart Verheij
Vandi Verma
Loannis Vetsikas
Evelyne Viegas
Hannes Vilhjalmsson
S V N Vishwanathan
Jirka Vomlel
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
Arild Waaler
Kewen Wang
Jean-Paul Watson
Bonnie Webber
Grant Weddell
David Weir
Gerhard Widmer
Eric Wiewiora
Jason Williams
Oliver Williams
Mark Winands
Michael Winikoff
Alicia Wolfe
Frank Wolter
Stefan Woltran
Weng-Keen Wong
Yuk Wah Wong
Jenn Wortman
Yang Xiang
Guizhen Yang
Qiang Yang
Roland Yap Hock Chuan
PInar Yolum
Sungwook Yoon
Neil Yorke-Smith
Haakan Younes
Kai Yu
Shipeng Yu
Changhe Yuan
Michael Zakharyaschev
Chenqqi Zhang
Dongmo Zhang
Lei Zhang
Minjie Zhang
Weixiong Zhang
Yan Zhang
Alice Zheng
Rong Zhou
Yi Zhou
Brian Ziebart
Sandra Zilles
Terry Zimmerman
Martin Zinkevich
Roie Zivan
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