Best Paper Awards (AAAI)

1996-2018

Posted by pxzhang on December 30, 2018
Year Title Authors
2018 Memory-Augmented Monte Carlo Tree Search Chenjun Xiao, University of Alberta
Jincheng Mei, University of Alberta
Martin Müller, University of Alberta
2017 Label-Free Supervision of Neural Networks with Physics and Domain Knowledge Russell Stewart & Stefano Ermon, Stanford University
2016 Bidirectional Search That Is Guaranteed to Meet in the Middle Robert C. Holte, University of Alberta
Ariel Felner, Ben-Gurion University
Guni Sharon, Ben-Gurion University
Nathan R. Sturtevant, University of Denver
2015 From Non-Negative to General Operator Cost Partitioning Florian Pommerening, University of Basel
Malte Helmert, University of Basel
Gabriele Röger, University of Basel
Jendrik Seipp, University of Basel
2014 Recovering from Selection Bias in Causal and Statistical Inference Elias Bareinboim, University of California Los Angeles
Jin Tian, Iowa State University
Judea Pearl, University of California Los Angeles
2013 HC-Search: Learning Heuristics and Cost Functions for Structured Prediction Janardhan Rao Doppa, Oregon State University
Alan Fern, Oregon State University
Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University
2013 SMILe: Shuffled Multiple-Instance Learning Gary Doran & Soumya Ray, Case Western Reserve University
2012 Learning SVM Classifiers with Indefinite Kernels Suicheng Gu & Yuhong Guo, Temple University
2012 Document Summarization Based on Data Reconstruction Zhanying He, Zhejiang University
Chun Chen, Zhejiang University
Jiajun Bu, Zhejiang University
Can Wang, Zhejiang University
Lijan Zhang, Zhejiang University
Deng Cai, Zhejiang University
Xiaofei He, Zhejiang University
2011 Dynamic Resource Allocation in Conservation Planning Daniel Golovin, California Institute of Technology
Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich
Beth Gardner, North Carolina State University
Sarah J. Converse, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Steve Morey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2011 Complexity of and Algorithms for Borda Manipulation Jessica Davies, University of Toronto
George Katsirelos, Université Paris-Sud
Nina Narodytska, University of New South Wales
Toby Walsh, NICTA
2010 How Incomplete Is Your Semantic Web Reasoner? Systematic Analysis of the Completeness of Query Answering Systems Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Oxford University
Ian Horrocks, Oxford University
2010 A Novel Transition Based Encoding Scheme for Planning as Satisfiability Ruoyun Huang, Washington University in St. Louis
Yixin Chen, Washington University in St. Louis
Weixiong Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
2008 How Good is Almost Perfect? Malte Helmert & Gabriele Röger, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2008 Optimal False-Name-Proof Voting Rules with Costly Voting Liad Wagman & Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
2007 PLOW: A Collaborative Task Learning Agent James Allen, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Nathanael Chambers, Stanford University
George Ferguson, University of Rochester
Lucian Galescu, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Hyuckchul Jung, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Mary Swift, University of Rochester
William Taysom, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
2007 Thresholded Rewards: Acting Optimally in Timed, Zero-Sum Games Colin McMillen & Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University
2006 Model Counting: A New Strategy for Obtaining Good Bounds Carla P. Gomes, Cornell University
Ashish Sabharwal, Cornell University
Bart Selman, Cornell University
2006 Towards an Axiom System for Default Logic Gerhard Lakemeyer, RWTH Aachen University
Hector J. Levesque, University of Toronto
2005 The Max K- Armed Bandit: A New Model of Exploration Applied to Search Heuristic Selection Vincent A. Cicirello, Drexel University
Stephen F. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University
2004 Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines Lin Liao, University of Washington
Dieter Fox, University of Washington
Henry Kautz, University of Washington
2002 On Computing All Abductive Explanations Thomas Eiter, Technische Universität Wien
Kazuhisa Makino, Osaka University
2000 The Game of Hex: An Automatic Theorem-Proving Approach to Game Programming Vadim V. Anshelevich, Vanshel Consulting
1999 PROVERB: The Probabilistic Cruciverbalist Greg A. Keim, Duke University
Noam M. Shazeer, Duke University
Michael L. Littman, Duke University
Sushant Agarwal, Duke University
Catherine M. Cheves, Duke University
Joseph Fitzgerald, Duke University
Jason Grosland, Duke University
Fan Jiang, Duke University
Shannon Pollard, Duke University
Karl Weinmeister, Duke University
1998 Learning Evaluation Functions for Global Optimization and Boolean Satisfiability Justin A. Boyan & Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University
1998 Acceleration Methods for Numeric CSPs Yahia Lebbah & Olivier Lhomme, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
1998 The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Wolfram Burgard, University of Bonn
Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn
Dieter Fox, University of Bonn
Dirk Hähnel, University of Bonn
Gerhard Lakemeyer, Aachen University of Technology
Dirk Schulz, University of Bonn
Walter Steiner, University of Bonn
Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University
1997 Statistical Parsing with a Context-Free Grammar and Word Statistics Eugene Charniak, Brown University
1997 A Practical Algorithm for Finding Optimal Triangulations Krill Shoikhet & Dan Geiger, Technion
1997 Fast Context Switching in Real-Time Propositional Reasoning P. Pandurang Nayak & Brian C. Williams, NASA Ames Research Center
1997 Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components Peter Clark, Boeing
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
1996 Verification of Knowledge Bases Based on Containment Checking Alon Y. Levy, AT&T Laboratories
Marie-Christine Rousset, Université Paris-Sud
1996 A Novel Application of Theory Refinement to Student Modeling Paul T. Baffes, SciComp
Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
1996 Pushing the Envelope: Planning, Propositional Logic, and Stochastic Search Henry Kautz & Bart Selman, AT&T Laboratories