AI Magazine - Spring 2018

Mark Roberts (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)

Francisco Jesus Rodriguez Ruiz (Columbia University, USA)

Michael Schober (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)

Nisarg Shah (University of Toronto, Canada)

Erik Talvitie (Franklin and Marshall College, USA)

Carsten Witt (Technical University of Denmark)

AAAI- 18 Outstanding Paper Awards This year, AAAI’s Conference on Artificial Intelligence honored the following four papers, which exemplify high standards in technical contribution and exposition by regular and student authors.

AAAI- 18 Outstanding Paper Award:

Chenjun Xiao, Jincheng Mei, Martin Müller for Memory-Augmented Monte Carlo Tree Search

Outstanding Paper Award, Honorable Mention: Juan D. Correa, Jin Tian, Elias Bareinboim for Generalized Adjustment under Confounding and Selection Biases

AAAI- 18 Outstanding Student Paper Award: Jakob N. Foerster, Gregory Farquhar, Triantafyllos Afouras, Nantas Nardelli, Shimon Whiteson for Counterfactual Multi-Agent Policy Gradients

Outstanding Student Paper Award, Hon-
orable Mention: Rachel Freedman, Jana
Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Arm-
strong, John P. Dickerson, Vincent
Conitzer for Adapting a Kidney
Exchange Algorithm to Align with
Human Values
IAAI- 18 Innovative
Application Awards
Each year the AAAI Conference on
Innovative Applications selects the
recipients of the IAAI Innovative
Application Award. These deployed
application case study papers must
describe deployed applications with
measurable benefits that include some
aspect of AI technology. The applica-
tion needs to have been in production
use by its final end-users for sufficient-
ly long so that the experience in use
can be meaningfully collected and
reported. The 2018 winners are:

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ICWSM- 18 Registration Opens in March!

The Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media will be held June 25 – 28 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA. This interdisciplinary conference is a forum for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important and challenging questions about human social behavior through social media while advancing computational tools for vast and unstructured data.

ICWSM- 18 will include a lively program of technical talks and posters, invited presentations, and keynote talks by Elena Grewal (Airbnb), Miguel Luengo-Oroz (UN Global Pulse), and Sarita Schoenebeck (University of Michigan). The ICWSM Workshop program will continue in 2018 with up to 13 half-day and two full-day workshops, running in parallel with the 2018 Tutorial Program. Both will be held on the first day of the conference, June 25. For complete details about these programs, please see icwsm.org/2018/.

Registration information is available at the ICWSM- 18 website www.icwsm.org/2018/attending/registration. The early registration deadline is April 27, and the late registration deadline is May 25. For full details about the conference program, please visit the ICWSM- 18 website ( icwsm.org) or write to icwsm18@aaai.org.

AIIDE- 18 to be Held in Edmonton, Canada
Please join us for AIIDE- 18, to be held in mid-November at the
University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. AIIDE- 18 is
the next in an annual series of conferences showcasing interdisci-
plinary research on modeling, developing, and evaluating intelli-
gent systems in entertainment. AIIDE- 18 provides a meeting place
for academic AI researchers and professional software developers
to discuss the latest advances in entertainment-focused AI. The
conference has a long-standing history of featuring research on
artificial intelligence in computer games. We also invite
researchers, developers, and digital artists to share ideas on topics
at the intersection of all forms of entertainment and artificial
intelligence broadly. AIIDE- 18 will feature invited speakers, paper
sessions, workshops, tutorials, playable experiences, panels,
posters, the Starcraft AI Competition, and a doctoral consortium.