Program

Monday, January 4, 2016

Registration (8:00 — 9:00)

Opening Remarks, Greetings (9:00 — 9:15)

Keynote Speaker (9:15 — 10:15)

Time Description
9:15 Computational Fair Division
Ariel Procaccia

Coffee Break (10:20 — 10:40)

Morning Sessions (10:40 — 12:10)

Main Track Session 1

Time Description
10:40 False-Name-Proof Recommendations in Social Networks
Markus Brill, Vincent Conitzer, Rupert Freeman and Nisarg Shah
11:10 Rules for Choosing Societal Tradeoffs
Vincent Conitzer, Rupert Freeman, Markus Brill and Yuqian Li
11:40 Recovering Social Networks by Observing Votes
Benjamin Fish, Yi Huang and Lev Reyzin

Special Session on Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions 1

Time Description
10:40 Pattern-based Classification and Survival Analysis of Chronic Kidney Disease
Munevver M. Subasi, Melissa Moreno, Travaughn Bain, Megan Moreno, Ersoy Subasi, Katherine C. Carroll, Emily R. Cunningham and Michael Lipkowitz
11:10 A Classification Model to Predict the Rate of Decline of Kidney Function
Ersoy Subasi, Munevver M. Subasi, Michael Lipkowitz, John Roboz and Peter Hammer
11:40 Generating models of a matched formula with a polynomial delay
Petr Savicky and Petr Kučera

Lunch (12:10 — 2:00)

On your own.

After Lunch Sessions (2:00 — 3.30)

Main Track Session 2

Special Session on Integrating Constraint Programming and Operations Research 1

Time Description
2:00 Detecting and Exploiting Global Structures in MIP
Domenico Salvagnin
2:30 Model Combinators in the Scheduling Domain
Laurent Michel and Daniel Fontaine
3:00 An Integrated Solver for Multi-index Assignment
Stathis Plitsos, Dimitrios Magos and Ioannis Mourtos

Coffee Break (3:30 — 4:00)

Afternoon Sessions (4:00 — 5:30)

Main Track Session 3

Time Description
4:00 Kernelization, Generation of Bounds, and the Scope of Incremental Computation for Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems
T. K. Satish Kumar
4:30 Z-Equilibrium For a CSP Game
Kahina Bouchama, Mohammed Said Radjef and Lakhdar Sais

Special Session on Integrating Constraint Programming and Operations Research 2

Evening

Water Taxi Cruise in Ft. Lauderdale. Exact time to be announced.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Keynote Speaker (9:00 — 10:00)

Time Description
9:00 Interplay between machine learning and artificial intelligence
Yixin Chen

Coffee Break (10:00 — 10:30)

Morning Sessions (10:30 — 12:00)

Main Track Session 4

Time Description
10:30 Causal Discovery by Randomness Test
Steven Prestwich, Armagan Tarim and Ibrahim Ozkan
11:00 Partial Collective Matrix Factorization and its PAC Bound
Chao Lan, Xiaoli Li, Yujie Deng and Jun Huan
11:30 On the computational complexities of Quantified Integer Programming variants
Piotr Wojciechowski, K. Subramani and Pavlos Eirinakis

Special Session on Computational Approaches to Proof Construction

Lunch (12:10 — 2:00)

On your own.

After Lunch Sessions (2:00 — 3.30)

Main Track Session 5

Time Description
2:00 Conjunctive Choice Logic
Abdelhamid Boudjelida and Salem Benferhat
2:30 Sentence Entailment in Compositional Distributional Semantics
Esma Balkır, Dimitri Kartsaklis and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

Special Session on Integrating Constraint Programming and Operations Research 3

Time Description
2:00 Grammar-Based Integer Programming Models and Methods for Employee Scheduling Problems
Bernard Gendron and Louis-Martin Rousseau
2:30 Decomposition Methods for the Travelling Purchaser Problem
Kyle E. C. Booth, Tony T. Tran and J. Christopher Beck
3:00 Logic-Based Benders Decomposition for Multiagent Scheduling with Sequence-dependent Costs
Aliza Heching and John Hooker

Coffee Break (3:30 — 4:00)

Afternoon Sessions (4:00 — 6:00)

Main Track Session 6

Time Description
4:00 Computing multiple c-revision using OCF knowledge base
Salem Benferhat and Amen Ajroud
4:30 Robust Sequential Prediction in Linear Regression with Student’s t-distribution
Jussi Määttä and Teemu Roos

Special Session on Boolean and pseudo-Boolean Functions 2

Time Description
4:00 Logical Analysis of Multiclass Data
Munevver M. Subasi and Juan F. Avila-Herrera
4:30 Knowledge compilation from DNF to switch-list representations
Ondřej Čepek and Radek Hušek
5:00 On the Goal Value of a Boolean Function
Eric Bach, Lisa Hellerstein and Devorah Kletenik
5:30 A combinatorial min-max theorem related to Horn minimization
Endre Boros, Ondřej Čepek and Kaz Makino

Evening

Banquet in the hotel. Exact time to be announced.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Keynote Speaker (9:00 — 10:00)

Time Description
9:00 Modern Exact and Approximate Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms (max-product and max-sum-product) for Graphical models
Rina Dechter

Coffee Break (10:00 — 10:30)

Morning Sessions (10:30 — 12:00)

Main Track Session 7

Special Session on Applications of SAT

Time Description
10:30 Application of Hierarchical Hybrid Encodings to Solve CSPs as Equivalent SAT Problems
Miroslav N. Velev and Ping Gao
11:00 Cascading Solution to Data Dependence Constraints with Z3
Eric W. D. Rozier and Kristin Y. Rozier
11:30 Efficient Selection of Suspect Sets in Unreachable State Diagnosis
Ryan Berryhill and Andreas Veneris

Adjourn (12:00)