AI 2015 includes a technical program consisting of presentations of research papers, invited speakers, and tutorials describing the state-of-the-art in artificial intelligence. A Graduate Student Symposium occurs on the first day of the conference. AI 2015 is part of the 2015 AI/GI/CRV Conference, a confederation of three leading conferences: Artificial Intelligence 22015, Graphics Interface 2015, and Computer and Robot Vision 2015. A single registration will let you attend any session in the three conferences, which are scheduled in parallel tracks.
Conference proceedings
AI 2015 Program (tentative)
Long papers: 20min, Short papers: 10min, Questions during the poster session.
Invited talks: 45min (incl. 10min for questions)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015: Saint Mary’s University
09:00-12:00 AI Tutorials
T1: Deep networks (Thomas Trappenberg, Paul Hollensen)
T2: Visual Text Analytics (Axel Soto, Evangelos Milios)
T3: Rough Sets in KDD (Dominik Slezak)
12:00-13:00 Lunch (provided)
13:00-15:00 Graduate Student Symposium: 4 talks, each of 20min with 10min of Q&A
15:00-15:30 Networking break – refreshments provided
15:30-17:30 Graduate Student Symposium: 4 talks, each of 20min with 10min of Q&A
17:30-18:30 CAIAC 2014 Masters Thesis Award Winner Talk
Wednesday, June 3, 2015: Saint Mary’s University
08:30-9:00 Joint Welcoming Session
9:00-10:30 Session 1: Agents, Uncertainty & Games
(chair: Minglun Gong, Memorial University of Newfoundland)
L21 Anders Madsen and Cory Butz:
Exploiting Semantics in Bayesian Network Inference Using Lazy Propagation
L28 Cory Butz, Jhonatan Oliveira and Andre Dos Santos:
Darwinian Networks
L38 Jean-François Landry, Jean-Pierre Dussault and Eric Beaudry:
Improvements to the linear optimization models of patrol scheduling for mobile targets
S34 Jason Bindewald, Gilbert Peterson and Michael Miller:
Trajectory Generation with Player Modeling
S50 Rob Kremer and Roberto Flores:
Policies, Conversations, and Conversation Composition
S81 Aryo Jamshidpey and Mohsen Afsharchi:
Task Allocation in Robotic Swarms: Explicit Communication Based Approaches
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: AI Applications
(chair: Roberto Flores, Christopher Newport University, USA)
L27 Yiming Qian, Hao Yuan and Minglun Gong:
Budget-Driven Big Data Classification – BEST PAPER AWARD
L39 Raïssa Yapan Dougnon, Philippe Fournier-Viger and Roger Nkambou:
PGPI: Inferring User Profiles in Online Social Networks using a Partial Social Graph
L17 Ray Ruvinskiy and Peter van Beek:
An Improved Machine Learning Approach for Selecting a Polyhedral Model Transformation
S20 Eric Friedman, Miklos Z. Racz and Scott Shenker:
Dynamic Budget-Constrained Pricing in the Cloud
S36 Jason Rhinelander, Mathew Kallada and Pawan Lingras
Visual Predictions of Traffic Conditions
S79 Yasser Jafer, Stan Matwin and Marina Sokolova:
Privacy-aware Wrappers
12:30-14:00 Lunch (provided) – NSERC-LC information session
14:00-15:30 Session 3 – Keynote Speaker (Industry) – Charles Elkan: Theory versus practice in data science
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Session 4 (Poster Session for the papers of the day)
18:00-21:00 Reception Alexander Keith Brewery
Thursday, June 4, 2015: Saint Mary’s University
9:00-10:30 Session 5: NLP, Text and Social Media Mining
(chair: Xin Wang, University of Calgary)
L06 Gabriel Murray:
Analyzing Productivity Shifts in Meetings
L42 Ludovic Trottier, Brahim Chaib-Draa and Philippe Giguere:
Temporal Feature Selection for Noisy Speech Recognition
L60 Yannick Marchand and Robert Damper:
Simulating naming latency effects
L78 Sifei Han and Ramakanth Kavuluru:
On Assessing the Sentiment of General Tweets
S40 Khantil Patel, Orland Hoeber and Howard Hamilton:
Real-time Sentiment-Based Anomaly Detection in Twitter Data Streams
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 6 – Keynote speaker (academic) – Jan Wiebe: An NLP Framework for Interpreting Implicit and Explicit Opinions in Text and Dialog
12:30-14:00 Lunch (attendees on their own) – AI/GI/CRV steering committee
14:00-15:30 Session 7 – NLP, Text and Social Media Mining
(chair: Yannick Marchand, Dalhousie University and Socialliferaft.com)
I1: Diana Inkpen:
Detecting Locations from Twitter Messages (Invited Talk – 45min)
S44 Victoria Bobicev, Marina Sokolova and Michael Oakes:
Sentiment Transitions in Online Medical Forums
S29 Gabriel Murray:
Abstractive Meeting Summarization as a Markov Decision Process
L86 Daniel L. Silver and Ti Wang:
Learning Paired-associate Images with An Unsupervised Deep Learning Architecture
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Session 8 (Poster Session for the papers of the day)
17:30-19:00 Societies’ Annual General Meetings
19:00-22:00 Awards Banquet: Saint Mary’s University
Friday, June 5, 2015: Dalhousie University
9:00-10:30 Session 9 – Invited Speaker – PhD award winner
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Session 10: Data Mining & Machine Learning
(chair: Robert Mercer, Western University, Ontario)
L13 Morteza Mashayekhi and Robin Gras:
Rule Extraction from Random Forest: the RF+HC Methods
L77 Behrouz Haji Soleimani, Stan Matwin and Erico N. De Souza:
A Density-Penalized Distance Measure for Clustering
S52 Elnaz Bigdeli, Mahdi Mohammadi, Bijan Raahemi and Stan Matwin:
Incremental Cluster Updating Using Gaussian Mixture
S61 Arvid Frydenlund and Frank Rudzicz:
Emotional affect estimation using video and EEG data in deep neural networks
S67 Saul Berardo, Eloi Favero and Nelson Neto:
Active Learning with Clustering and Unsupervised Feature Learning
12:30-14:00 Lunch (provided) – Industry showcase session
14:00-15:30 Session 11 – Data Mining & Machine Learning
(chair: Gabriel Murray)
I2: Csaba Szepesvári: How to Explore to Maximize Future Return (Invited Talk – 45min)
L25 Yiming Qian, Minglun Gong and Li Cheng:
STOCS: An Efficient Self-Tuning Multiclass Classification Approach
L84 Daniel Silver, Geoffrey Mason and Lubna Eljabu:
Consolidation using Sweep Task Rehearsal: Overcoming the Stability-Plasticity Problem
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Session 12 (Poster Session for the papers of the day)