*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

*** on hiatus until the summer or until further notice.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
May 29th, 2006	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
June 12th, 2006	Bowen Hui	"Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning" (Ramachandran & Amir 2006)	paper
July 10th, 2006 (3pm, PT266)	Scott Sanner*	Practical Linear Value-approximation Techniques for First-order MDPs	paper
July 12th, 2006 (3pm, PT266)	Yilan Gu*	A Logic For Decidable Reasoning About Services	paper
July 13th, 2006 (1pm, PT266)	Nathanael Hyafil*	Regret-based Incremental Partial Revelation Mechanism Design	paper

*: Additional/External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
January 16th, 2006	Bowen Hui	Who's Asking for Help? A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Assistance	paper,
January 23rd, 2006	n/a	cancelled	n/a
January 30th, 2006	Scott Sanner	"Samuel Meets Amarel: Automating Value Function Approximation using Global State Space Analysis" (Mahadevan 2005), "Proto-Value Functions: Developmental Reinforcement Learning" (Mahadevan 2005)	paper1, paper2
February 06th, 2006	n/a	cancelled	n/a
February 13th, 2006	Jesse Hoey	"Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes" (Engel, Mannor, Meir 2005), "Learning to Control an Octopus Arm with Gaussian Process Temporal Difference Methods" (Engel, Szabo, Volkinshtein 2005)	paper 1, paper 2
February 20th, 2006	Scott Sanner	Rich Representations for Reinforcement Learning	paper, slides
February 27th, 2006	Darius Braziunas	"Polyhedral Methods for Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis," (Toubia, Hauser, & Simester 2004)	paper
March 06th, 2006	Darius Braziunas	Computational Approaches to Preference Elicitation	paper
March 13th, 2006	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 20th, 2006	Georgios Chalkiadakis	"Order Independent Equilibria" (Moldovanu and Winter 1995)	paper
March 27th, 2006	n/a	cancelled	n/a
April 03rd, 2006	Rich Sutton*	Experience-Oriented Artificial Intelligence	abstract
April 10th, 2006	Georgios Chalkiadakis	"The Advantages of Compromising in Coalition Formation with Incomplete Information" (Kraus, Shehory, & Taase 2004) "Feasible Formation of Coalitions Among Autonomous Agents in Non-Super-Additive Environments" (Shehory & Kraus 1999)	paper1, paper2
April 17th, 2006	Craig Boutilier	"Dynamic Preferences in Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning" (Natarajan & Tadepalli 2005) "Multi-criteria Reinforcement Learning" (Gabor et al. 1998)	paper1 paper2
April 24th, 2006	Bowen Hui	Decision-Theoretic Human Computer Interaction	paper
April 27th, 2006	Nathanael Hyafil*	Regret-based Incremental Partial Revelation Mechanisms	paper
May 01st, 2006	n/a	cancelled	n/a
May 08th, 2006	Joe Halpern*	Distributed Computing Meets Game Theory: Robus Mechanisms for Rational Secret Sharing and Multiparty Computation	abstract

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
September 19th, 2005	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
September 26th, 2005	Jesse Hoey	"Location-Based Activity Recognition using Relational Markov Networks" (Liao, Fox, & Kautx 2005), "Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines" (Liao, Fox & Kautz 2004) (review from last year)	paper1, paper2
October 03rd, 2005	Jesse Hoey	"Activity recognition and abnormality detectiong with the switching hidden semi-Markov model" (Duong, Bui, Phung, & Vekatesh 2005) "Learning and detecting activities from movement trajectories using the hierarchical hidden Markov model" (Nguyen, Phung, Venkatesh, & Bui 2005)	paper 1, paper 2
October 10th, 2005	n/a	cancelled due to (Canadian) Thanksgivings	n/a
October 11th, 2005	Stuart Russell*	Uncertainty in an unknown world	abstract
October 11th, 2005	Stuart Russell*	Reinforcement learning with partial programs	abstract
October 17th, 2005	Scott Sanner, Mike Pavlin, Georgios Chalkiadakis	"Solving Transition Independent Decentralized Markov Decision Processes" (Becker, Zilberstein, Lesser, & Goldman 2004)	paper
October 24th, 2005	Darius Braziunas, Scott Sanner	"Bounded Policy Iteration for Decentralized POMDPs" (Bernstein, Hansen, & Zilberstein 2005)	paper
October 31st, 2005	Georgios Chalkiadakis, Mike Pavlin	"Near-Optimal Nonmyopic Value of Information in Graphical Models" (Krause & Guestrin 2005) "Optimal Nonmyopic Value of Information in Graphical Models Efficient Algorithms and Theoretical Limits" (Krause & Guestrin 2005)	paper1, paper2
November 07th, 2005	Nathanael Hyafil	"Intelligent Light Control using Sensor Networks" (Singhvi, Krause, Guestrin, Garrett, Matthews 2005)	background, paper
November 14th, 2005	Mike Pavlin	"Charging and rate control for elastic traffic" (Kelly 1997), "Congestion Pricing and User Adaptation" (Ganesh et al 2001)	paper1, paper2
November 15th, 2005	Peter Norvig*	AI in the Middle: Mediating between Author and Reader	abstract
November 21st, 2005	Mike Pavlin and Nathanael Hyafil	"Specification Faithfulness in Networks with Rational Nodes" (Shneidman & Parkes 2004)	paper
November 29th, 2006	Michael Kearns*	Behavioural Graph Colouring	abstract

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
May 02nd, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
May 09th, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
May 16th, 2005	Scott Sanner	"Linear program approximations for factored continuous-state Markov Decision Processes" (Hauskrecht & Kveton 2003) "Solving Factored MDPs with Continuous and Discrete Variables" (Guestrin, Hauskrecht, & Kveton 2004)	paper1, paper2
May 23rd, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
May 30th, 2005	Mike Pavlin	Ad Hoc Networks	paper1, paper2
June 06th, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a

*** on hiatus for the rest of the summer until further notice.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
January 17th, 2005	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
January 24th, 2005	Nathanael Hyafil	"Approximately Efficient Online Mechanism Design" (Parkes, Singh & Yanovsky 2004)	paper
January 31st, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
February 7th, 2005	Relu Patrascu	"Optimal Learning: Computational Procedures for Bayes-Adaptive Markov Decision Processes" (Duff 2002)	chapters 1,2,3
February 14th, 2005	Relu Patrascu	"Markovian Decision Processes with Uncertain Transition Probabilities" (Satia & Lave 1973)	(hardcopy)
February 21st, 2005	Relu Patrascu	"Bayesian Q-Learning" (Dearden, Friedman & Russell 1998)	paper
February 28th, 2005	Relu Patrascu	"Optimal Learning: Computational Procedures for Bayes-Adaptive Markov Decision Processes" (Duff 2002)	chapter 4
March 07th, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 14th, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 21st, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 28th, 2005	Relu Patrascu	New Approaches to Optimization and Utility Elicitation in Autonomic Computing (Patrascu et al. submitted)	paper
April 04th, 2005	Jesse Hoey	"Solving POMDPs with Continuous or Large Discrete Observation Spaces" (Hoey & Poupart 2005)	paper
April 11th, 2005	n/a	cancelled	n/a
April 18th, 2005	Scott Sanner	"Approximate Linear Programming for First-order MDPs" (Sanner & Boutilier submitted)	paper
April 21st, 2005	Nathanael Hyafil*	Computational Mechanism Design	paper
April 25th, 2005	Darius Braziunas	"Local Utility Elicitation in GAI Models" (Braziunas & Boutilier submitted)	paper

*: Alternate meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
August 23rd, 2004	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
September 13th, 2004	Jesse Hoey	"The use of artificial intelligence in the design of an intelligent cognitive orthosis for people with dementia" (Mihailidis et al. 2001), "A decision-theoretic approach to task assistance for persons with dementia" (Hoey et al. 2004)	paper1, paper2
September 20th, 2004	Jesse Hoey	"Autominder: An Intelligent Cognitive Orthotic System for People with Memory Impairment" (Pollack et al. 2003), "Adaptive Cognitive Orthotics: Combining Reinforcement Learning and Constraint-Based Temporal Reasoning" (Rudary, Singh & Pollack 2004)	paper1, paper2
September 27th, 2004	Jesse Hoey	"An Overview of the Assisted Cognition Project" (Kautz, Fox, Etzioni, Borriello & Arnstein 2002), "Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines" (Liao, Fox & Kautz 2004)	paper1, paper2
October 04th, 2004	Nathanael Hyafil	Chapter 23 of "Microeconomic Theory" by Colell, Whinston, & Green, titled "Incentives and Mechanism Design"	n/a
October 11th, 2004	n/a	cancelled due to (Canadian) Thanksgivings	n/a
October 18th, 2004	Scott Sanner	Affine Algebraic Decision Diagrams (AADDs) and their Application to Structured Probabilistic Inference	abstract
October 25th, 2004	Nathanael Hyafil	continue from October 04th	n/a
October 26th, 2004	Adnan Darwiche*	A Perspective on Knowledge Compilation and its Role in Modern Propositional Inference	abstract
October 27th, 2004	Adnan Darwiche*	Sensitivity Analysis in Bayesian Networks	abstract
November 01st, 2004	Nathanael Hyafil	"Computational Criticisms of the Revelation Principle" (Conitzer & Sandholm 2003)	paper
November 08th, 2004	Nathanael Hyafil	"Auction Design with Costly Preference Elicitation" (Parkes 2004)	paper
November 15th, 2004	Scott Sanner	"Decomposable Negation Normal Form" (Darwiche 2001), "A Compiler for Deterministic Decomposable Negation Normal Form" (Darwiche 2002)	paper1, paper2
November 16th, 2004	John Lafferty*	Data, Structure, and Geometry in Statistical Learning	abstract
November 22nd, 2004	n/a	cancelled	n/a
November 23rd, 2004	Jonathan Schaeffer*	Raising the Stakes	abstract
November 29th, 2004	Relu Patrascu	"Predictive State Representations: A New Theory for Modeling Dynamical Systems" (Singh, James, & Rudary 2004) "Learning Predictive State Representations" (Littman, Jong, Pardoe, & Stone 2003)	paper1 paper2
December 06th, 2004	Darius Braziunas	"Multiattribute Utilities in Expected Utility Theory" (Fishburn 1977, in "Conflicting Objectives in Decisions" (ed. Bell, Keeney, & Raiffa 1977)), "Graphical models for preference and utility" (Bacchus & Grove 1995)	paper2
December 13th, 2004	Darius Braziunas	"Reasoning With Conditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements" (Boutilier, Brafman, Hoos, & Poole 1999), "UCP-Networks: A Directed Graphical Representation of Conditional Utilities" (Boutilier, Bacchus, & Brafman 2001)	paper1, paper1 (long), paper2

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
May 5th, 2004	n/a	cancelled	n/a
May 12th, 2004	Scott Sanner	``Synthesis of Hierarchical Finite-State Controllers for POMDPs'', (Eric Hansen & Rong Zhou 2003)	paper
May 19th, 2004	Relu Patrascu and Pascal Poupart	Repository for sharing code and data structures	notes1, notes2
May 26th, 2004	Alex Kress	``The Communication Requirements of Efficient Allocations and Supporting Lindahl Prices'' (Nisan & Segal 2003)	paper
June 02nd, 2004	Nathanael Hyafil	Regret Minimizing Equilibria and Mechanisms for Games with Strict Type Uncertainty	paper
June 09th, 2004	n/a	cancelled	n/a
June 16th, 2004	Bowen Hui	Probablistic and decision-theoretic user modeling in the context of software customization	paper
July 19th, 2004	Darius Braziunas*	Stochastic Local Search for POMDP Controllers	abstract, paper

*: Note irregular meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
January 8th, 2004	Ronen Brafman*	Efficient Learning in Stochastic Games	abstract
January 21th, 2004	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
January 22th, 2004	Jesse Hoey*	Learning POMDPs for Gesture and Facial Display Understanding	abstract, slides
January 28th, 2004	Yilan Gu	"Enveloped-based Planning in Relational MDPs", (Natalia H. Gardiol & Leslie Pack Kaelbling 2004)	paper
February 4th, 2004	Relu Patrascu	"Max-Margin Markov Networks", (Taskar, Guestrin, & Koller 2004)	paper
February 11th, 2004	Georgios Chalkiadakis	Bayesian Reinforcement Learning for Coalition Formation under Uncertainty	paper
February 12th, 2004	Pascal Poupart*	New Compression and Policy Search Techniques for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes	abstract
February 18th, 2004	Relu Patrascu	Sequential Resource Allocation in Autonomic Systems with the Minimax Regret Decision Criterion	paper
February 25th, 2004	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 3rd, 2004	Bowen Hui	Decision-Theoretic User Modeling: Word Prediction as a Test-Bed	slides
March 10th, 2004	n/a	cancelled	n/a
March 17th, 2004	Alex Kress	A Study of Limited-Precision, Incremental Elicitation in Auctions	paper
March 24th, 2004	Jesse Hoey	SPUDD	abstract
March 31st, 2004	Craig Boutilier	Eliciting Bid Taker Non-price Preferences in (Combinatorial) Auctions (joint with Tuomas Sandholm and Rob Shields)	abstract, paper
April 1st, 2004	Peter Marbach*	Cooperation in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Market-Based Approach	abstract
April 7th, 2004	Yilan Gu	...waiting...	...waiting...
April 14th, 2004	Relu Patrascu	Efficient constraint-based optimization and preference elicitation with the minimax regret decision criterion	abstract
April 21th, 2004	Georgios Chalkiadakis	Using (Bayesian) Reinforcement Learning in Non-cooperative and Cooperative Game Theory	paper
April 28th, 2004	Scott Sanner	Relational and First-Order Decision-Theoretic Planning Foundations and Future Directions	paper

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
September 3th, 2003	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
September 10th, 2003	Relu Patrascu	Structured MDP Approximations using an Expanding Set of Basis Functions	...waiting...
September 17th, 2003	Craig Boutilier	Cooperative Negotiation in Autonomic Systems using Incremental Utility Elicitation	paper
September 24th, 2003	Fahiem Bacchus	Value Elimination: Bayesian Inference via Backtracking Search	paper
October 01st, 2003	Pascal Poupart, Yilan Gu, Scott Sanner	"Generalizing Plans to New Environments in Relational MDPs" (Guestrin, Koller, Gearhart & Kanodia, 2003)	paper
October 08th, 2003	Scott Sanner	A Representation and Algorithm for Efficient Operations on First-Order Algebraic Decision Diagrams	paper
October 15th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	"First-order probabilistic inference" (Poole 2003)	paper
October 22nd, 2003	Relu Patrascu	"A Natural Policy Gradient" (Kakade 2002), "Covariant Policy Search" (Bagnell, Schneider 2003), "Policy Search by Dynamic Programming" (Bagnell, Kakade, Ng, Schneider 2003)	paper, paper, paper
October 29th, 2003	Scott Sanner	"Relational Markov Models and Their Application to Adaptive Web Navigation" (Anderson, Domingos, & Weld 2002)	paper
November 05th, 2003	Craig Boutilier	"SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces" (Gajos & Weld, submitted 2004) "Automatically Personalizing User Interfaces" (Weld, Anderson, Domingos, Etzioni, Gajos, Lau, & Welfman 2003)	paper, paper
November 12th, 2003	Alex Kress and Nathanael Hyafil	"Automated Mechanism Design: A New Application Area for Search Algorithms" (Sandholm 2003), "Complexity of Mechanism Design" (Conitzer & Sandholm 2002)	paper, paper
November 19th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	Bounded Finite State Controllers	paper
November 26th, 2003	Georgios Chalkiadakis	"Transition-Independent Decentrailized MDPs" (Becker, Zilberstein, Lesser, & Goldman 2003)	paper

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
May 07th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	Symbolic structured computation for probabilistic and decision theoretic models	abstract , slides (.ps)
May 14th, 2003	John Boadway	"Preference Elicitation in Proxied Multiattribute Auctions" (Sunderam & Parkes, 2002)	paper (.pdf), slides (.ps)
May 21st, 2003	Georgios Chalkiadakis	On Coalition Formation	abstract
May 28th, 2003	Joe Halpern*	Great Expectations: On the Universality of Expected Utility	abstract
June 04th, 2003	Nathanael Hyafil and Scott Sanner	Puterman's MDP book, Chapter 6	n/a
June 25th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	"Approximate Policy Iteration with a Policy Language Bias" (Fern, Yoon & Givan, submitted 2003)	link to paper
July 02th, 2003	Georgios Chalkiadakis	"Coordination in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: A Bayesian Approach"	abstract, paper (.pdf)

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
January 8th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	Value-Directed Compression of POMDPs	abstract
January 15th, 2003	Alex Kress	Introduction to Auctions	slides (.pdf)
January 21st, 2003	Mike Jordan*	Machine Learning and the Integration of Multiple Data Sources	abstract
January 22nd, 2003	Darius Braziunas	POMDP Finite Policy Graphs	slides (.pdf)
January 28th, 2003	Daphne Koller*	Probabilistic Models of Relational Data	abstract
January 29th, 2003	Craig Boutilier	Language for Combinatorial Auctions	...waiting...
February 5th, 2003	Bob Price	Accelerating Reinforcement Learning with Imitation	slides (.pdf)
February 12th, 2003	Tuomas Sandholm*	Roundtable discussion	homepage
February 13th, 2003	Tuomas Sandholm*	Select issues in computing in games	abstract
February 19th, 2003	Dale Schuurmans*	Monte Carlo inference via greedy importance sampling	abstract
February 26th, 2003	Georgios Chalkiadakis	Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Stochastic Games With Multiple Learning Players	abstract, paper (.ps)
March 5th, 2003	Bowen Hui	Some User Models	slides (.pdf)
March 12th, 2003	n/a	TAC update	n/a
March 19th, 2003	Scott Sanner	An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamic Programming for First-Order MDP's	slides (.pdf)
March 19th, 2003	Bob Price	The PhD Experience (meet at O'Gradys at 4:30pm!)	n/a
March 26th, 2003	John Boadway and Yilan Gu	Auctions with severely bounded communication, by Blumrosen and Nisan (*postponed*)	paper
April 2th, 2003	Yilan Gu and John Boadway	Auctions with severely bounded communication, by Blumrosen and Nisan	slides I (.ps), slides II (.ps)
April 9th, 2003	n/a	april break	n/a
April 16th, 2003	Tianhan Wang	Incremental Utility Elicitation with the Minimax Regret Decision Criterion	slides (.pdf)
April 23rd, 2003	Bowen Hui	"Learning an Agent's Utility Function by Observing Behavior" (Chajewska, Koller, Ormoneit. ICML 2001)	paper (.ps), slides (.pdf)
April 23rd, 2003	Bob Price	Farewell Party (meet at O'Gradys at 2:30pm!)	n/a
April 29th, 2003	Yoav Shoham*	It's Not Your Father's Mechanism Design	abstract
April 30th, 2003	Pascal Poupart	Bayesian learning in sequential decision processes	abstract

*: External speakers. Also note different meeting day and location.

Date	Speaker	Title	Downloads
September 12th, 2002	n/a	Organizational meeting	n/a
September 18th, 2002	n/a	Lab reconstruction meeting	n/a
September 25th, 2002	Pascal Poupart	Introduction to POMDPs	slides (.ppt)
October 2nd, 2002	Craig Boutilier	Brain Dump	slides (.pdf)
October 9th, 2002	Pascal Poupart	POMDPs: Part II	(updated) slides (.ppt)
October 16th, 2002	Darius Braziunas	Introduction to TAC	slides (.html)
October 23th, 2002	Bowen Hui	Defining and Formalizing Software Customization	slides (.ppt)
October 30th, 2002	Tianhan Wang	Elicitation with the Minimax Regret Model	slides (.pdf)
November 6th, 2002	Scott Sanner	The Joy of Description Logics	slides (redirect)
November 13th, 2002	Georgios Chalkiadakis	Coordination in Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: A Bayesian Approach	abstract, slides (.ppt)
November 20th, 2002	John Boadway	RL in Continuous Double Auctions	abstract
November 27th, 2002	Yilan Gu	Handling Uncertainty Systems in the Situation Calculus with Macro-actions	abstract
December 4th, 2002	Nathanael Hyafil	Conformant Probabilistic Planning via CSPs	abstract, paper (.ps)
December 7th, 2002	n/a	Holiday *Eggnog* Party~~	n/a
December 11th, 2002	n/a	Computer purchases	n/a