Tutorial Program & Descriptions

Sunday, August 5

SA 9:00am - 1:00pm

• (SA1) AI Techniques for Knowledge Management
  Stefan Decker and Steffen Staab
  Meeting Room 602
• (SA2) Economically Founded Multiagent Systems
  Tuomas Sandholm
  Meeting Room 606
• (SA3) Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition:  The Impact of Architecture 
  Miroslav Kubat
  Meeting Room 607
• (SA4) Phase Transitions and Structure in Combinatorial Problems 
  Carla P. Gomes, Tad Hogg, Toby Walsh, and Weixiong Zhang
  Meeting Room 608
• (SA5) Question Answering
  Dan Moldovan and Sanda Harabagiu
  Meeting Room 609

SP 2:00pm - 6:00pm

• (SP1)Agent Communication in Knowledge Based Electronic Markets
  Benjamin Grosof and Yannis Labrou
  Meeting Room 607
• (SP2) Computer Games 
  Michael van Lent and John E. Laird
  Meeting Room 602
• (SP3) Philosophical Foundations:  Some Key Questions 
  Aaron Sloman and Matthias Scheutz
  Meeting Room 606
• (SP4) Stochastic Search Algorithms 
  Holger H. Hoos and Thomas Stützle
  Meeting Room 608
• (SP5) Systems that Adapt to their Users
  Anthony Jameson
  Meeting Room 609

Monday, August 6

MA 9:00am - 1:00pm

• (MA1) Search Algorithms for Quantum Computers
  Tad Hogg
  Meeting Room 606
• (MA2) Distributed Knowledge-Based Search
  Jörg Denzinger
  Meeting Room 609
• (MA3) Empirical Methods in CS and AI 
  Paul Cohen, Ian Gent, and Toby Walsh
  Meeting Room 608
• (MA4) Integrating Lisp with the World 
  Vladimir A. Kulyukin
  Meeting Room 607
• (MA5) Machine Learning for Categorization of Text Documents and Web Pages 
  Fabrizio Sebastiani & Alessandro Sperduti
  Meeting Room 602

MP 2:00pm - 6:00pm

• (MP1) Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence
  Marco Dorigo
  Meeting Room 607
• (MP2) Integration of Operations Research and AI Constraint-Based Techniques for  Combinatorial Optimization 
  Michela Milano
  Meeting Room 608
• (MP3) Knowledge Markup and Resource Semantics 
  Harold Boley, Stefan Decker, and Michael Sintek
  Meeting Room 602
• (MP4) Practical Machine Learning for Software 
  Tim Menzies
  Meeting Room 606
• (MP5) Tractability in Qualitative Spatial and Temporal Reasoning
  Frank Anger, Hans Guesgen, and Gerard Ligozat
  Meeting Room 609

The IJCAI tutorial program for 2001 features 20 four-hour tutorials, each covering a concentrated technical topic of current or emerging interest. Tutorials will be presented by experienced researchers and practitioners expert in the corresponding subject area. A separate registration fee applies to each tutorial. Tutorials designated (SA) will be held Sunday, August 5, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. (SP) tutorials will be held Sunday, August 5, from 2:00 - 6:00 pm. (MA) tutorials will be held Monday, August 6, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. (MP) tutorials will be held Monday, August 6, from 2:00 - 6:00 pm.