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Day 1: Friday, June 24
Time Title Authors/Presenters
8:30 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome
9:15 AM Keynote: Bricks, Walls, and Arches: In Pursuit of Deeper Human-Computer Symbioses Eric Horvitz
10:15 AM Break
10:45 AM Session 1 (3 talks)
A Theory of Attention for Cognitive Systems Will Bridewell and Paul Bello
DeepIU: An Architecture to Understand and Reason about Images Somak Aditya, Chitta Baral, Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermuller
Interactively Learning Strategies for Handling References to Unseen or Unknown Objects Aaron Mininger and John Laird
12:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Session 2 (3 talks)
Slashing Metaphor with Occam’s Razor Sergei Nirenburg and Marjorie McShane
Story-enabled hypothetical reasoning Dylan Holmes and Patrick Winston
Learning by Reading: Extending & Localizing Against a Model Scott Friedman, Mark Burstein, David McDonald, Rusty Bobrow, Brent Cochran, Amandalynne Paullada, Alex Plotnick, James Pustejovsky and Peter Anick.
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM Session 3 (3 talks)
Using Watson for Constructing Cognitive Assistants Ashok Goel, Tory Anderson, Jordan Belknap, Brian Creeden, William Hancock, Mithun Kumble, Shanu Salunke, Bradley Sheneman, Abhinaya Shetty and Bryan Wiltgen
Improving the Robustness of Team Collaboration through Analysis of Qualitative Interactions Matthew Klenk, Daniel Bobrow, Johan de Kleer, Wendy Mungrovan and Jorge Tierno.
Exploiting Graph Structure to Abstract & Compress Relational Data Scott Friedman
5:00 PM Poster Reception/Dinner
Day 2: Saturday, June 25th
Time Title Authors/Presenters
8:30 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM Keynote: Industrial Cognition, Reasoning at Scale Michael Witbrock
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Session 1 (3 talks)
Goal Reasoning with Information Measures Benjamin Johnson, Mark Roberts, Tom Apker and David Aha
Online Goal Recognition through Mirroring: Humans and Agents Mor Vered, Gal Kaminka and Sivan Biham
Goals, Utilities, and Simulation in Planning Pat Langley, Mike Barley, Ben Meadows, Dongkyu Choi and Ed Katz
12:00 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Session 2 (3 talks)
A model of planning, action, and interpretation with goal reasoning Michael Cox
Variations on a Theory of Problem Solving Pat Langley, Chris Pearce, Yu Bai, Mike Barley and Charlotte Worsfold
Situated Mapping for Transfer Learning Tesca Fitzgerald, Kalesha Bullard, Andrea Thomaz and Ashok Goel.
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM Session 3 (3 talks)
Controlling Search in Very Large Commonsense Knowledge Bases: A Machine Learning Approach Abhishek Sharma, Michael Witbrock and Keith Goolsbey
Elementary School Science as a Cognitive System Domain: How much qualitative reasoning is required? Max Crouse and Kenneth Forbus
Learning General and Efficient Representations of Novel Games Through Interactive Instruction James Kirk and John Laird
5:00 PM Poster Reception/Dinner
Day 3: Sunday, June 26th
Time Title Authors/Presenters
8:30 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM Keynote: Moral Preferences Francesca Rossi
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Session 1 (2 talks)
Selective Induction of Rate-Based Process Models Adam Arvay and Pat Langley
Automated Hypothesis Testing with Large Scientific Data Repositories Yolanda Gil, Daniel Garijo, Varun Ratnakar, Rajiv Mayani, Parag Mallick, Ravali Adusumilli and Hunter Boyce
12:00 PM Box Lunches



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