AAAI 2006 in Boston
by Jordan Katz
I’m now at the AAAI conference in Boston. Jen Golbeck and I gave our talk yesterday, presenting this paper:
Social Network-based Trust in Prioritized Default Logic
by Yarden Katz and Jennifer Golbeck
We were part of the “Special Track on AI & the Web: Trust & Security”. The talk went well — we got lots of questions when the talk ended, and after.
Tomorrow Vladimir Lifschitz will be heading a session on Logic Programming that looks very interesting. I hope to gather enough courage and Schmooze-Groove to ask Prof. Lifschitz a few questions about his work on MBNF and default logic after, maybe during the coffee break. Aside from the logico-semanticy things, I sat through two very interesting sessions on game theory. A paper that I especially liked was:
The Complexity of Bribery in Elections
by Piotr Faliszewski, Edith Hemaspaandra, and Lane A. Hemaspaandra
which had some results about the complexity of bribery in voting systems. The examples they gave were centered around elections that are won over by plurality. One of the problems they gave as an example is the following: given a list of people who have some preference (a total order) over a list of candidates who are running for the election, and knowledge about how much money it would take for any given person to change their mind about their most preferred candidate, could one ensure that candidate X wins the election with N amount of money? (Where the N amount of money is obviously used to bribe the voters on their choice of most preferred candidate.) Cool stuff.
Aside from the conference, I went to the MIT Media Lab open house, where I heard Henry Lieberman briefly explain some of the work on commonsense reasoning that they’re doing.
Other people from Maryland here (that I’ve seen, at least) are Ugur Kuter, Lise Getoor, and of course Jim Hendler. Anyway, that’s it for now, email me if you want to see some pictures (or check out CrunchyLogic.)
