IBERAMIA 2014. Santiago de Chile, November 24-27, 2014 |
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General Information
IBERAMIA'2014 is the 14th edition of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
This is the leading symposium where the Ibero-American AI community
comes together to share research results and experiences with
researchers in Artificial Intelligence from all over the world.
IBERAMIA 2014 will be held in Santiago, Chile, on November 24-27, 2014.
The conference will take in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,
which is located in the city centre of Santiago and can be reached easily by train,
by car, by tram or by foot.
The conference will feature a pre-conference program of workshops. The
main technical program will consist of invited talks by leading
scientists working in the area, presentations of technical papers, as
well as system demonstrations.
The Proceedings of IBERAMIA 2014 will be published, as in past
editions, by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNCS/LNAI series.
IBERAMIA 2014 Organization
Programme Committee Chair: Ana Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.
Organization Chair: Karim Pichara, Pontifica Universidad Católica (PUC) , Chile.
P.C Area Chairs
| Area | Chairs |
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| Ambient inteligence | Juan Botía - Univ.Murcia, Spain Paulo Novais - Univ. Minho, Portugal |
| AI in Education, Affective Computing and Human-Computer Interaction |
Silvana Aciar - Univ.Girona, Spain Silvia Schiaffino - UNICEN, Argentina Rosa Vicari- UFRGS, Brazil |
| Computer Vision | Luis Enrique Sucar - INAOE, Mexico José Manuel Menéndez - UPM, Spain |
| Bio-Inspired Computing | Luis Correia - Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Marcilio Souto - Univ.Orleans, France Camelia Chira - Tech. Univ. Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| Information and Knowledge Processing Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining |
Ana Gabriela Maguitman - UNS, Argentina Gisele Pappa - UFMG, Brazil |
| Applications of AI | Ana Cristina Bicharra - UFF,Brazil Fernando Koch - Samsung Res. Inst., Brazil |
| Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Representation and Probabilistic Reasoning |
Guillermo Simari - UNS, Argentina Renata Wassermann - USP, Brazil Fabio Cozman - USP, Brazil |
| Machine Learning | Paulo Cortez - Univ.Minho, Portugal Joao Gama - Univ.Porto, Portugal Estevam Rafael Hruschka - UFSCAR, Brazil |
| Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation | Jaime Sichman - USP, Brazil Giuseppe Vizari - Univ. Milano Bicocca, Italy |
| Multi-Agent Systems | Valérie Camps - IRIT, France Jomi Fred Hubner - UFSC, Brazil Carles Sierra - IIIA CSIC, Spain Juan Carlos Burguillo - Univ.Vigo, Spain |
| Natural Language Processing | Manuel Montes - INAOE, Mexico Aline Villavicencio - UFRGS, Brazil |
| Planning and Scheduling | Eva Onaindia - DSIC UPV, Spain Felipe Meneguzzi - PUC-RS, Brazil |
| Fuzzy Systems | Andrea Tettamanzi - Univ.Nice, France Andrés Soto - Bityvip Tech, Spain |
| Robotics | Luis Paulo Reis - Univ.Minho, Portugal Luis Chaimowicz - UFMG, Brazil |
Workshops
Workshop on Big Data
Paper submission deadline: September 29, 2014
Workshop on Combinatorial Search
Paper submission deadline: September 29, 2014
Conference
Plenary Talks
Professor Guillermo Simari
Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca. Argentina
Defeasible Argumentation and Belief Revision: A Common Ground for Research in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Abstract: Belief Revision and Argumentation represent two rich and fertile areas in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Philosophy; both are concerned with the problem of handling beliefs and support commonsense reasoning.
In this talk we will first present the basic intuitive elements on their foundation, and then we will consider the common ground they share and the differences that can be found between these two research fields.
Finally, we will suggest some possible lines of research that can be explored in their confluence to further our understanding of the general patterns of reasoning that are necessary to support a cognitive architecture for intelligence.
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Short Bio:
Guillermo Simari is a full Professor, Artificial Intelligence and Logic for Computer Science, Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca. Argentina, Chair of the Institute for Computer Science and Engineering. Ph.D. and Master of Science from Washington University, USA. His research focus is on the formal foundations, and effective implementation, of Defeasible Reasoning Systems for Autonomous Agents and is carried out as the leader of the AI R&D Laboratory where several lines of research are pursued: Argumentation, Reasoning under Uncertainty, Belief Revision, Computational Logic, Reasoning on the Web, and E-Governance. The Lab is also involved in applied research and development in multi-agent systems and robotics for a wide range of applications of interest to government and industry. |
Professor Blai Bonet
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Recent Advances in Domain-Independent Heuristics for Optimal Planning
Abstract:
Automated planning is the model-based approach for autonomous behaviour in Artificial Intelligence. Mainstream research in automated planning can be understood in terms of developing solvers for particular classes of models. The simplest model in automated planning is the classical planning model that deals with problems with known initial situation and deterministic actions. Despite of its simplicity, the classical planning model is intractable and very expressive.
State-of-the-art solvers for classical planning perform heuristic search on implicitly-defined graphs using heuristic functions that are automatically extracted from the problem representation. In this talk we present recent advances for the automatic extraction of admissible heuristics for classical planning. This type of heuristics, admissible, is the one required for developing an optimal solver for classical planning.
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Blai Bonet is a professor in the computer science department at Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela.
He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
His research interests are in the areas of automated planning, heuristic search and knowledge
representation.
He has received six best paper awards or honorable mentions, including the 2009 and 2014 ICAPS Influential Paper Awards for pioneering work on the heuristic search approach for domain-independent planning. Dr. Bonet is a co-author (with Hector Geffner) of the book titled "A Concise Introduction to Models and Methods for Automated Planning." He is an associate editor of Artificial Intelligence and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Dr. Bonet served as the co-chair of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS-12) and is currently a program co-chair of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15). |
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Pavlos Protopapas
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Machine Learning Applications in Astronomy
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Short Bio:
Pavlos Protopapas received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn he served as the associate director of the National Scalable Cluster Project (NSCP), one of the initial attempts at large-scale distributed computing on a grid-like model. An active collaborator and mentor in the astrostatistics research community, Protopapas holds a research appointment at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and also served as senior scientist/project leader for the Time Series Center, a project launched by the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing. His research interests lie in planetary transits, the outer solar system, photometric variability, microlensing; in computer science he is interested in large databases and data mining in astronomy, with emphasis on feature extraction, anomaly detection, and similarity searches in time series. |
Program at a glance
Monday 24th November
| 08:30 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 17:30 | Workshop on Big Data (Detailed schedule here) (San Agustin Auditorium) Workshop on Combinatorial Search (Detailed schedule here) (H4) |
Tuesday 25th November
| 08:30 | Registration. | 09:00 - 09:30 | Opening Ceremony. (San Agustin Auditorium) |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Plenary Talk A: TITLE: Machine Learning Applications in Astronomy. Prof. Pavlos Protopapas. (San Agustin Auditorium) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break. |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Technical Sessions (BIO-1, NLP-1, KDD-1).
(BIO-1 at H1) (NLP-1 at H2) (KDD-1 at H3) |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch break. |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Technical Sessions (KRR-1, AA&MAS-1, ACEHCI-1)
(KRR-1 at H1) (AA&MAS-1 at H2) (ACEHCI-1 at H3) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break. |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Technical Sessions (ROB-1, ML-1, APP-1).
(ROB-1 at H1) (ML-1 at H2) (APP-1 at H3) |
| 19:00 | Social event. |
Wednesday 26th November
| 08:30 | Registration. |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Technical Sessions (ROB-2, APP-2, ML-2)
(ROB-2 at H1) (APP-2 at H2) (ML-2 at H3) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Plenary Talk B: TITLE: Recent Advances in Domain-Independent Heuristics for Optimal Planning. Prof. Blai Bonet (San Agustin Auditorium) |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch break. |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Technical Sessions (NLP-2, AA&MAS-2, BIO-2).
(NLP-2 at H1) (AA&MAS-2 at H3) (BIO-2 at H2) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break. |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Technical Session (KDD-2) and steering and community meeting.
(KDD-2 at H1) |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday 27th November
| 08:30 | Registration. |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Technical Sessions (AMI-1, APP-3, ML-3).
(AMI-1 at H2) (APP-3 at H3) (ML-3 at H1) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Plenary Talk C: TITLE:
Defeasible Argumentation and Belief Revision: A Common Ground for Research in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Prof. Guillermo Simari (San Agustin Auditorium) |
| 12:30 | Closing. |
Download the Program and Technical Sessions details as PDF here.
Proceedings
The Proceedings of IBERAMIA 2014 are published, by Springer, in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science/Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series:
| LNCS/LNAI 8864 | Advances in Artificial Intelligence -- IBERAMIA 2014 |
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Travel and Turist Info
Venue
All events will be held at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Campus San Joaquín, located at Av Vicuña Mackenna 4686. Santiago, Chile. Specifically, all the talks will be at the San Agustín Building.
The best way to arrive to the Campus by foot is by using the metro. San Joaquín Station, of line 5, has direct access to the entrance of the campus. If you enter through that entrance, the first building to the right is the San Agustín.
To arrive at the Campus San Joaquín during the morning (6:00-9:00) and the evening (18:00-21:00) Line 5 runs two services, and only the red one stops at San Joaquin.
San Agustín Building:
View from the entrance.
More info:
By car, there are multiple entrances. The parking has a rate variable depending on the time spent on the campus and that must be canceled on your way out at the 4 available checkouts (click here to see the map)
Ticket rates:
| Time (min) | Hour | Rate (CLP) |
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| 0-30 | 0.5 | $ 0 |
| 31-90 | 1 | $ 950 |
| 91-150 | 2 | $ 1900 |
| 151-210 | 3 | $ 2850 |
| 211-270 | 4 | $ 3800 |
| 271-330 | 5 | $ 4750 |
| 331-390 | 6 | $ 4750 |
| 391-450 | 7 | $ 4750 |
| 451-510 | 8 | $ 4750 |
Travel Info
The Santiago International Airport is located approximately 20 kms west of downtown. There are different options for getting from the airport to the city: airport buses, airport vans, and taxis.
Airport Buses:
There are two lines of buses that go from the airport to the city. You can catch the buses immediately upon exiting the main airport terminal. During the day they run frequently. You pay the driver directly. Once you arrive to Santiago you can use the subway (click here to see the subway map).
Turbus:
The service runs every day from 06:00 to 24:00.
| Prices | 1400 CLP (CLP stands for "Chilean Peso $") for one way ticket. 2500 CLP for return ticket. |
| Stopping Places: | Universidad de Santiago Metro Station Pajaritos Metro Station Las Rejas Metro Station |
| Phones | (56 2) 822 7741 (56 2) 882 7742 |
The service runs every day from 06:00 to 23:30.
| Prices | 1350 CLP (CLP stands for "Chilean Peso $") for one way ticket. 2600 CLP for return ticket. |
| Stopping Places: | Pajaritos Metro Station Las Rejas Metro Station Universidad de Santiago Metro Station Estación Central Metro Station Los Héroes Metro Station |
| Phones | (56 2) 2601 9883 (56 2) 2601 0549 |
Airport Vans:
There are many vans, like Transvip, that make transfers from the airport to the city. Transfer prizes start in 5700 CLP.
Taxis:
Inside the main terminal - when you exit customs - you will find official taxi booths. There, you can arrange for a taxi to take you to your destination. The cost of a taxi depends on your final destination.
| Official Taxis | Service runs 24 hours 7 days a week |
| Prices | From the airport to the Catholic University 15000 CLP. |
| Phones | (56 2) 690 1381 |
Turist Info
Main Office: (56 2) 2672 77 35 Mobile 24 hours:: (56 9) 9534 56 08 Mail: reservas@explorerturismo.cl Web site: www.explorerturismo.cl
Available Programs:Accommodations
Hotelera Neruda Phone: (56 2) 2663 31 65 Cellphone: (56 9) 6303 97 24 Front Desk: (56 2) 2679 07 00 Email: ventas5@hotelneruda.cl Website: www.hotelneruda.cl
Hotel Principado de Asturias Address: Ramón Carnicer 21, Providencia Phone (Central): (56 2) 2222 70 22 Phone (Direct): (56 2) 2222 76 28 Email: reservas@hotelesprincipado.com Website: www.hotelesprincipado.com Time of cancellation up to 48 hours before check-in, otherwise it will use the charge of No Show for one night.
Hotel Ismael 312 Address: Ismael Valdés Vergara 312, Santiago Phone: (56 2) 2616 76 00 Cellphone: (56 9) 8408 21 65 Email: pfica@hotelismael312.com Website: http://www.hotelismael312.com/
Sponsors
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IBERAMIA Sociedad Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial |
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PUC Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
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MetricArts Business Intelligence |
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GRIMA Grupo de Inteligencia de Máquina |
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APPIA Associacao Portuguesa para Inteligencia Artificial |
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AEPIA Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial |
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SBC Sociedade Brasileira de Computação |
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SMIA Sociedad Mexicana de Inteligencia Artificial |
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SCMC Soc. Cubana de Matemática y Computación |
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SCC Sociedad Colombiana de Computacion |
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SPIA Sociedad Peruana de Inteligencia Artificial |
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SADIO Sociedad Argentina de Informática |