AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger A Few Highlights from IJCAI 2001, Seattle, USA

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Summary of Conference 7 Days Program 31 Workshops 20 Tutorials 4 IJCAI Awards Keynote Address: Bill Gate 8 Invited Talks and Panels Technical Program

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Workshops 9 types of Workshops: Agent: 3 Onto: 4 Web: 2 ML: 5 CSP: 2 KRR: 4 Planning and Robots: 3 Task (general): 4 Others: 3

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Tutorials Knowledge Management Agent Communication and Systems Knowledge Mark-Up Machine Learning from Text Questions and Answering Search algorithms, empirical methods, Lisp, NN, OR and CSP, Computer Games

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Technical Program Knowledge Rep and Reasoning: 21 (DL 8) Planning: 15 Logic Programming and Theorem Proving: 10 Machine Learning and Data Mining:23 CBR: 5 Multi-Agent Systems: 27 Web Applications: 4 NLP and IR: 14 Planning: 15 Cog. Modelling, Games, Diagnosis, Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning, NN+GA, Search, Satisfiability and CSP.

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Highlights Knowledge Management Agent Communication for Knowledge Based E- Market Information Extraction The Hal 9000 Computer and the Vision of 2001: A Space odyssey - by David G Stork IJCAI Computers and Thought Award - by Daphne Koller Keynote Address: AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and Opportunities - by Bill Gate RoboCup IJCAI Award for Research Excellence - by Donald Michie and more !!

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Cooking Up Knowledge Management

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Knowledge Management Process Stefan Decker and Steffen Staab Knowledge Goals Knowledge Identification Knowledge Capturing Knowledge Structuring Knowledge Dissemination Knowledge Usage Knowledge Preservation Knowledge Assessment

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger AI Techniques used for Knowledge Management IR and IE CBR Knowledge Discovery Onto-based KM MetaData-based KM Topic Maps Visualisation Techniques CommonKADS for KM

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Unleash Agent Communication

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Agent Communication for Knowledge Based E-Market Benjamin Grosof and Yannis Labrou Intelligent Agents in Web E-Commerce Sales agents Buyer agents Billions/Trillions of agents automatically perform knowledge gathering, reasoning, economic optimisation and bidding. The world is XML structured detailed descriptions Open standards

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Agent Communication and Semantic Web Agent Communication using a common language over the Web- wide scale Revolution of Internet: 1st generation: Internet 2nd generation: World Wide Web 3rd generation: Semantic Web "The Semantic Web approach proposes Languages for expressing info and relationships between info over time, they will accommodate formal system techniques for verification, inconsistency checking and reasoning." - W3C

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Tim Berners-Lee's Vision of Semantic Web UnicodeURI XML + NS + XML Schema RDF + RDF Schema Ontology Vocabulary Logic Proof Trust Self- Desc. Doc Data Rules Digital Signature

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger The Hal 9000 Computer and the Vision of 2001: A Space odyssey David G Stork

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Machine Learning and Game Theory IJCAI Computers and Thought Award Winner - Daphne Koller

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Keynote Address: AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and Opportunities Bill Gate User Profiling, Modelling and Paper Clips Natural Language Understanding and Processing Information Extraction Image Processing and Understanding

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger RoboCup Soccer Simulation Small-sized Robot Medium-sized Robot Sony Legged Robot League

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Soccer Competition

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Sony Robots

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Coming Up in CISA The IJCAI Research Excellence Award Winner - Donald Michie - will give us a talk in the CISA seminar series on October 4th, 11am, FH Jim Howe's Room. "Discovery as Collaboration: it takes two (at least) to a Tango".

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Low Flying Fish in Seattle

AIAI, The University of Edinburgh Jessica Chen-Burger Good Bye Seattle