SCAI 2008 Program
Program
Monday May 26, 2008
| 12.00 | Registration |
| 13.00 | Erik Sandewall: Artificial Intelligence - past, present and future |
| 13.45 | Patrick Doherty: Integrating AI and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technologies - A tsunami based emergency services scenario and the use of AI technologies |
| 14.30 | Short break |
| 14.45 | Industrial aspects: Marcus Bjäreland, AstraZeneca Bengt Österlund, GE Healthcare Nicklas Lundblad, Google Lars Mollberg, Ericsson |
| 15.45 | Coffee break with SAIS 25 years anniversary celebration |
| 16.15 | Carl Gustaf Jansson: Impressions from Swedish AI through the years |
| 16.45- 17.30 | Panel discussion: Where is AI going? Panel consists of the speakers from the day |
| 18.00 | Dinner at IVA |
Tuesday May 27, 2008
| 8.30 | Registration |
| 9.00 | Opening talk |
| 9.15 | Invited talk: Kathleen McCormick, USA: The Many Faces of Biosurveillance |
| 10.15 | Coffee |
| 10.30 | Technical session 1 Per-Magnus Olsson and Patrick Doherty: The Observer Algorithm for Visibility Approximation" Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Hanna Suominen, Jorma Boberg and Tapio Salakoski: Efficient AUC Maximization with Regularized Least-Squares Christian Balkenius and Stefan Winberg: Fast Learning in an Actor-Critic Architecture with Reward and Punishment Anders Kofod-Petersen, Jörg Cassens and Agnar Aamodt: Explanatory Capabilities in the CREEK Knowledge-Intensive Case-Based Reasoner |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Technical session 2 Eva Blomqvist: Case-based Reasoning for Ontology Engineering Manu Hietaniemi, Ulla Elsilä, Perttu Laurinen and Juha Röning: Defect Prediction in Hot Strip Rolling using ANN and SVM Marcello Cirillo, Lars Karlsson and Alessandro Saffiotti: A Framework For Human-Aware Robot Planning Vadim N. Vagin, Marina V. Fomina and Aleksej V. Kulikov: The Problem of Object Recognition in the Presence of Noise in Original Data |
| 14.30 | Coffee |
| 15.00 | Invited talk: Manfred Jaeger, Denmark: Probabilistic Modeling and Learning in a Relational World |
| 15.45 | Brief poster presentations Anna Pernestål and Mattias Nyberg: Bayesian Inference Under Probability Constraints Nicolaj Søndberg-Jeppsen and Finn Verner Jensen: Acting under Interference by other Agents with unknown Goals Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and Daniel Persson: Sharing Moral Responsibility with Robots: A Pragmatic Approach Erkki Laitila: Foundation for program understanding Lukas Chrpa and Roman Barták: Looking for Planning Problems Solvable in Polynomial Time via Investigation of Structures of Action Dependencies Per Kreuger, Malin Forsgren and Martin Aronsson: Reducing temporal delays in a real time train management system |
| 16.45 | Poster session |
| 17.15 | (SAIS annual meeting) |
| 19.00 | Conference banquet at IVA |
Wednesday May 28, 2008
| 9.00 | Invited talk: Agnar Aamodt, Norway, Case-based reasoning for advice-giving in data-intensive environments |
| 9.45 | Coffee |
| 10.15 | Technical session 3 Håkan Warnquist, Mattias Nyberg and Petter Säby: Troubleshooting when Action Costs are Dependent with Application to a Truck Engine Evgeni Tsivtsivadze, Tapio Pahikkala, Antti Airola, Jorma Boberg and Tapio Salakoski: A Sparse Regularized Least-Squares Preference Learning Algorithm Maria Riveiro, Fredrik Johansson, Göran Falkman and Tom Ziemke: Supporting Maritime Situation Awareness Using Self Organizing Maps and Gaussian Mixture Models Thorsten Ottosen and Finn Verner Jensen: Better Safe than Sorry - Optimal Troubleshooting through A* Search with Efficiency-Based Pruning |
| 11.50 | Lunch |
| 12.50 | SAIS Master's Thesis Award presentation: Malin Aktius: Modeling Habituation in the Cnidarian Hydra |
| 13.20 | Technical session 4 Pasi Lehtimäki and Kimmo Raivio: Combining Measurement Data and Erlang-B Formula for Blocking Prediction in GSM Networks Maciej Grzenda: Load Prediction Using Combination of Neural Networks and Simple Strategies Per Nyblom and Patrick Doherty: Towards Automatic Model Generation by Optimization |
| 14.30 | Coffee |
| 15.00 | Technical session 5 Teemu Saukonoja and Tomi A. Pasanen: A Heuristic Based Approach for a Betting Strategy in Texas Hold'em Poker Ulf Johansson, Cecilia Sönströd, Tuve Löfström and Henrik Bostrom: Chipper - A Novel Algorithm for Concept Description Ning Xiong and Peter Funk: A Novel Framework for Case-Based Decision Analysis |
| 16.10 | Closing |