ISAIM 2006: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM 2006), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, January 4-6, 2006. 2006
Keynote Speakers
Thomas Dean: Hierarchical Bayesian Models of the Primate Visual Cortex.
Carla P. Gomes: Adventures in Randomized Computational Methods.
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein: Junta Distributions and the Average-Case Complexity of Manipulating Elections.
Special Sessions
Nonmonotonic Reasoning
Alexander Bochman: Two Paradigms of Nonmonotonic Reasoning.
Jim Delgrande: Towards a Rule-Based Interpretation of Conditional Defaults.
Riccardo Rosati: Multimodal Nonmonotonic Logics of Minimal Knowledge.
Mirek Truszczynski: Strong Equivalence of Nonmonotonic Theories -- an Algebraic Approach.
Planning under Uncertainty
Blai Bonet: Bounded Branching and Modalities in Non-Deterministic Planning.
Zhengzhu Feng: Region-Based Dynamic Programming for POMDPs.
Milos Hauskrecht: Approximate Linear Programming for Solving Hybrid Factored MDPs.
Search and Optimization Techniques and their Applications
Yixin Chen: Solving Constrained Nonlinear Optimization Problems Through Constraint Partitioning.
Adele E. Howe: Modeling Search for Scheduling.
Sven Koenig: Search for Robot Navigation under Incomplete Information.
Technical Papers
Andreas Alexander Albrecht, Kathleen Steinhöfel: Run-time Estimates for Protein Folding Simulation in the H-P Model.
Christopher Amato, Daniel S. Bernstein, Shlomo Zilberstein: Finding Optimal POMDP Controllers Using Quadratically Constrained Linear Programs.
Zippora Arzi-Gonczarowski: Understanding One Another: Making Out AI Meanings with Boolean Equations.
Vincent Auvray, Pierre Geurts, Louis Wehenkel: A Semi-Algebraic Description of Naive Bayes Models with Two Hidden Classes.
Tao Chen, Nevin Lianwen Zhang: Quartet-Based Learning of Hierarchical Latent Class Models: Discovery of Shallow Latent Variables.
David S. Dean, David Lancaster, Satya N. Majumdar: A Statistical Mechanics Approach to Random Euclidean MAX TSP.
Thomas Dean: Scalable Inference in Hierarchical Generative Models.
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee: Symmetric Primal-Dual Approximate Linear Programming for Factored MDPs.
Prashant Doshi, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz: On the Difficulty of Achieving Equilibrium in Interactive POMDPs.
Valnir Ferreira Jr.: Backbone Guided Dynamic Local Search for Propositional Satisfiability.
Moshe Fresko, Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman: A Hybrid Approach to NER by Integrating Manual Rules into MEMM.

Francesco Di Giunta, Nicola Gatti: Bargaining in Bundle over Multiple Issues in Finite-Horizon Alternating-Offers Protocol.

Yannet Interian, Gabriel Corvera, Bart Selman, Ryan Williams: Finding Small Unsatisfiable Cores to Prove Unsatisfiability of QBFs.
Marina Langlois, Robert H. Sloan, György Turán: Horn Upper Bounds of Random 3-CNF: A Computational Study.
Lihong Li, Thomas J. Walsh, Michael L. Littman: Towards a Unified Theory of State Abstraction for MDPs.
Shawn Martin: The Numerical Stability of Kernel Methods.
Eric Mjolsness: Stochastic Process Semantics for Dynamical Grammar Syntax: An Overview.
Praveen Paruchuri, Milind Tambe, Fernando Ordóñez, Sarit Kraus: Security in Multiagent Systems by Policy Randomization.
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Tambe: Solution Sets for DCOPs and Graphical Games: Metrics and Bounds.


Robert St-Aubin, Joel Friedman, Alan K. Mackworth: A Formal Mathematical Framework for Modeling Probabilistic Hybrid Systems.
Tapesh Santra, K. S. Venkatesh, Amitabha Mukerjee: The Cooperative Behavior of a Human Work Group: A Distributed Learning Approach.
Marius-Calin Silaghi, Boi Faltings, Adrian Petcu: Secure Combinatorial Optimization Simulating DFS Tree-Based Variable Elimination.
Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar: Independence, Decomposability and Functions which Take Values into an Abelian Group.
Mingzhou Song, Hongbin Wang: Detecting Low Complexity Clusters by Skewness and Kurtosis in Data Stream Clustering.
Xiaohai Sun, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf: Causal Inference by Choosing Graphs with Most Plausible Markov Kernels.
Ana Paula Tomás, António Leslie Bajuelos, Fábio Marques: On Visibility Problems in the Plane -- Solving Minimum Vertex Guard Problems by Successive Approximations.
John R. Wicks, Amy Greenwald: A Quotient Construction on Markov Chains with Applications to the Theory of Generalized Simulated Annealing.



