Program

Wednesday, January 4, 2006

8:30 - 9:00 Registration
Outside the Board of Trustees Room on the 11th Floor

9:00 - 9:40 Opening Remarks
Session Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, Board of Trustees Room

  • Welcome and Remarks by President Frank Brogan of Florida Atlantic University
  • Signing Agreement of Cooperation between Caesarea-Rothschild Institute and Florida Atlantic University
  • Greetings and Opening Remarks by General Chair Martin Charles Golumbic


9:40 - 10:40 Keynote Speaker: Thomas Dean
Session Chair: Martin Charles Golumbic, Board of Trustees Room

Hierarchical Bayesian Models of the Primate Visual Cortex (slides)

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions

Optimization I
Session Chair: Shawn Martin, Room 910

Distributed AI
Session Chair: Shlomo Zilberstein, Room 911

12:00 - 1:40 Lunch Break (on your own)

1:40 - 3:40 Parallel Sessions

Search and Optimization
Special Session Chair: Weixiong Zhang, Room 910

Probabilistic Models
Session Chair: György Turán, Room 911

Invited Talks

3:40 - 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:30 Parallel Sessions

Optimization II
Session Chair: Marius-Calin Silaghi, Room 910

Knowledge Representation
Session Chair: Alan Mackworth, Room 911

Water Taxi Trip

 


Thursday, January 5, 2006


9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Jeffrey Rosenschein
Session Chair: Frederick Hoffman, Board of Trustees Room

Junta Distributions and the Average-Case Complexity of Manipulating Elections (slides)

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions

Markov Decision Processes
Session Chair: Sven Koenig, Room 910

Applications
Session Chair: Emad Saad, Room 911

12:00 - 1:40 Lunch Break (on your own)

1:40 - 3:40 Parallel Sessions

Planning under Uncertainty
Special Session Chair: Jussi Rintanen, Room 910

Learning
Session Chair: Zippora Arzi-Gonczarowski, Room 911

Invited Talks

3:40 - 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:00 Parallel Sessions

Satisfiability
Session Chair: Inês Lynce, Room 910

Algorithm Portfolios
Session Chair: Prashant Doshi, Room 911

7:00 Banquet at the Holiday Inn Fort Lauderdale Beach

 


Friday, January 6, 2006


9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Carla Gomes
Session Chair: Shlomo Zilberstein, Board of Trustees Room

Adventures in Randomized Computational Methods

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Sessions

Nonmonotonic Reasoning I
Special Session Chair: Michael Kaminski, Room 910

Decentralized POMDPs
Session Chair: Dmitri Dolgov, Room 911

Invited Talks

12:00 - 1:40 Lunch Break (on your own)

1:40 - 3:40 Parallel Sessions

Nonmonotonic Reasoning II
Special Session Chair: Michael Kaminski, Room 910

Mathematical Foundations
Session Chair: Gurumurthi Ramanan, Room 911

Invited Talks

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