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## ECAI-2008 ## Programme ## ECAI-2008 ##
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ECAI 2008 -- 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Patras, Greece, 21-25 July 2008
http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/
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## SCHEDULE ##
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Sunday, July 20
14:00 - 18:45 Registration
Monday, July 21
09:00 - 10:00 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
Tuesday, July 22
09:00 - 10:00 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 STAIRS, Tutorials, Parallel Workshops
17:45 - 19:45 ECAI-08 opening, Invited Talk
20:00 Welcome Reception
Wednesday, July 23
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
17:45 - 18:45 ECCAI General Assembly
Thursday, July 24
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
20:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, July 25
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:30 Parallel Paper Sessions, PAIS, Posters, Demos
12:30 - 13:30 Invited Talk, Awards
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
Please notice that registration and exhibitions are running in parallel
for the entire duration of the conference.
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## INVITED TALKS ##
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* Monique Thonnat (INRIA, France)
Semantic Activity Recognition
* Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge, UK)
Bayesian Methods for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
* Pascal Van Hentenryck (Brown University, USA)
The Impact of Constraint Programming
* Georges Metakides (University of Patras, Greece)
(title not announced on the site)
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## INVITED TUTORIALS ##
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Monday, 21 July 2008
morning:
Knowledge Compilation: A Sightseeing Tour
Pierre Marquis (CRIL, Université Lille-Nord de France, Artois, France)
afternoon:
Temporal and Numeric Planning
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
morning:
Reasoning about Cooperative Games
Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
afternoon:
Dynamic Trust, Reputation and Recommender Systems for Web-based
Social Networks
John S. Baras (University of Maryland College Park, USA)
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## WORKSHOPS ##
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Workshop schedule
Monday 21 July 2008
W01, W02, W04, W10, W12, W14, W16, W17, W20, W21, W26, W30, W31, W32
Tuesday 22 July 2008
W02, W12 (morning), W21, W26 (morning), W05, W07, W08, W09, W11,
W13 (afternoon), W15, W19, W23, W28
W1 4th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and
Reasoning (NeSy'08)
Pascal Hitzler, Artur d'Avila Garcez
W2 Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and Their
Applications (SUEMA)
Oleg Okun, Giorgio Valentini
W3 Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
Hans W. Guesgen, Gerard Ligozat, Jochen Renz
W4 Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence
Doron Peled, Michael Wooldridge
W5 Inference methods based on graphical structures of knowledge
Nic Wilson, Helene Fargier, Jurg Kohlas, Jerome Mengin,
Gerard Verfaillie
W7 3rd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population (OLP3)
Paul Buitelaar, Philipp Cimiano, George Paliouras,
Myra Spiliopoulou
W8 1st International Workshop on Combinations of Intelligent Methods
and Applications (CIMA-08)
Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, Constantinos Koutsojannis, Vasile Palade
W9 Artificial Intelligence in Games (AIG'08)
Adi Botea, Carlos Linares Lopez
W10 Mining Social Data (MSODA)
Grigorios Tsoumakas, Alexandros Nanopoulos
W11 MBS 2008 - Workshop on Model-Based Systems
Bernhard Peischl, Neil Snooke, Gerald Steinbauer, Cees Witteveen
W12 Workshop on Configuration Systems
Juha Tiihonen, Alexander Felfernig, Markus Zanker, Tomi Mannisto
W13 2nd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications (RuleApps)
Adrian Giurca, Anastasia Analyti
W14 3rd International Workshop on Explanation-aware Computing
(ExaCt 2008)
Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Stefan Schulz, David Leake, Daniel Bahls
W15 Bioinformatics, Genomics & Proteomics, an Artificial Intelligence
Approach
Skarlas Lambros, Tsakalides Athanasios
W16 Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Software Engineering
Ioannis Stamelos, Michalis Vazirgiannis
W17 Computational aspects of affectual and emotional interaction
(CAFFEi)
Stasinos Konstantopoulos, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Colin Matheson,
Jon Oberlander
W19 ECAI'08 Workshop on Recommender Systems
Alexander Felfernig, Robin Burke, Markus Zanker
W20 Knowledge Management for Healthcare Processes
David Riano
W21 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient
Intelligence (AITAmI'08)
Juan Carlos Augusto, Daniel Shapiro
W23 Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misuse
(PAN'08)
Benno Stein, Efstathios Stamatatos, Moshe Koppel
W26 Cognitive Robotics
Yves Lesperance, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Fiora Pirri, Jan Peters
W28 International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning
for Autonomous Robot Systems
Nils T Siebel, Josef Pauli
W30 Contexts and Ontologies (C&O-2008)
Guilin Qi, Pavel Shvaiko, Jerome Euzenat
W31 Workshop on Modeling and Solving Problems with Constraints
Claude-Guy Quimper, Steve Prestwich, Toby Walsh
W32 8th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural
Argument (CMNA)
Floriana Grasso, Nancy Green, Rodger Kibble, Chris Reed
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## SUB-CONFERENCES ##
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PAIS 2008 5th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems
STAIRS 2008 4th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium
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## COLLOCATED EVENTS ##
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PETRA 2008 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies
Related to Assistive Environments
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