Staff

Speaker: Bowen Hui, University of Toronto

Due to its increasing complexity, there is a need to adapt software in order to maximize end-user experience. In this talk, I will describe my PhD work on developing and learning a user model in the domain of intelligent assistance.

Speaker: Lachlan Dufton, University of Waterloo

Policy teaching through environment design is a new framework that allows an interested party to modify an agent's environment by providing incentives, in order to achieve a desired behaviour.

Speaker: Rita Ackerman

We investigate measures of the clusterability of data sets. Namely, ways to define how `strong' or `conclusive' is the clustering structure of a given data set.

Speaker: Angele Hamel, Wilfrid Laurier University

A contract algorithm is an algorithm which is given, as part of its input, a specified amount of allowable computation time. In contrast, interruptible algorithms may be interrupted throughout their execution, at which point they must report their current solution.

Speaker: Jesse Hoey, University of Dundee

In this talk, I will present a class of devices, called ePADs, for use by art therapists working with older adults with a progressive illness such as Alzheimer's disease.

Speaker: Georgia Kastidou

We introduce a framework so that communities can exchange reputation information about agents in environments where agents are migrating between communities.

Speaker: Casba Szepesvari, University of Alberta

It is known that the nonparametric minimax rate for regression in the active and passive settings are the same for various smoothness classes. In this talk, I will look into the simpler problem when the regression domain is finite, but the response variance is location dependent, i.e., the noise is heteroscedastic.

Speaker: Meinolf Sellmann, Brown University

When dealing with real-world optimization problems, we frequently face complicated side constraints which are hard to formulate in integer programming and constraint programming.

Speaker: Tyrel Russell

This talk will have two parts. The first part will be a short talk on the work that I will be presenting at CPAIOR this year.

Speaker: Fabien Benureau

Poker research has made great progress recently, and is constantly searching for smarter way to computers play poker.