Best papers and theses in sister conferences track
Papers
Twitter-based User Modeling for News Recommendations (UMAP 2011)
Fabian Abel, Qi Gao, Geert-Jan Houben and Ke Tao

Language-based Games (Extended Abstract) (TARK 2013)
Adam Bjorndahl, Joseph Halpern and Rafael Pass

An Improved Separation of Regular Resolution from Pool Resolution and Clause Learning (SAT 2012)
Maria Luisa Bonet and Sam Buss

The complexity of one-agent refinement modal logic (JELIA 2012)
Laura Bozzelli, Hans van Ditmarsch and Sophie Pinchinat

An Introduction to String Re-Writing Kernel (ACL 2012)
Fan Bu, Hang Li and Xiaoyan Zhu

Optimal Valve Placement in Water Distribution Networks with CLP(FD) (ICLP 2011)
Massimiliano Cattafi, Marco Gavanelli, Maddalena Nonato, Stefano Alvisi and Marco Franchini

Bayesian Probabilities for Constraint-based Causal Discovery (UAI 2012)
Tom Claassen and Tom Heskes

Satisfiability Modulo Constraint Handling Rules (ICLP 2012)
Gregory Duck

Case Adaptation with Qualitative Algebras (ICCBR 2012)
Valmi Dufour-Lussier, Florence Le Ber, Jean Lieber and Laura Martin

Improving the Effectiveness of Time-Based Display Advertising (EC 2012)
Dan Goldstein, Preston McAfee and Siddharth Suri

Preference-based CBR: General Ideas and Basic Principles (ICCBR 2011)
Eyke Huellermeier and Weiwei Cheng

A Sound and Complete Backward Chaining Algorithm for Existential Rules (RR 2012)
Melanie Konig, Michel Leclere, Marie-Laure Mugnier and Michael Thomazo

Collaborative Filtering on Ordinal User Feedback (RecSys 2011)
Yehuda Koren and Joseph Sill

Three Semantics for the Core of the Distributed Ontology Language (FOIS 2012)
Till Mossakowski, Christoph Lange and Oliver Kutz

Discovering Alignments in Ontologies of Linked Data (ISWC 2012)
Rahul Parundekar, Craig Knoblock and José Luis Ambite

A new trajectory deformation algorithm based on affine transformations (RSS 2012)
Quang-Cuong Pham and Yoshihiko Nakamura

A Case-Based Solution to the Cold-Start Problem in Group Recommenders (ICCBR 2012)
Lara Quijano-Sanchez, Derek Bridge, Belen Diaz-Agudo and Juan Recio-Garcia

Data Mining a Trillion Time Series Subsequences Under Dynamic Time Warping (KDD 2012)
Thanawin Rakthanmanon, Eamonn Keogh, Gustavo Batista, Bilson Campana, Abdullah Mueen, Brandon Westover, Qiang Zhu and Jesin Zakaria

On Stochastic Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning by Approximate Inference (RSS 2012)
Konrad Rawlik, Marc Toussaint and Sethu Vijayakumar

At Home with Agents: Exploring Attitudes Towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures (CHI 2013)
Tom A. Rodden, Joel E. Fischer, Nadia Pantidi, Khaled Bachour and Stuart Moran

Decision Generalisation from Game Logs in No Limit Texas Hold'em (ICCBR 2011)
Jonathan Rubin and Ian Watson

Finding Your Friends and Following Them to Where You Are (WSDM 2012)
Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz and Jeffrey Bigham

Active Evaluation of Ranking Functions based on Graded Relevance (ECML 2012)
Christoph Sawade, Steffen Bickel, Timo von Oertzen, Tobias Scheffer and Niels Landwehr

CLiMF: Collaborative Less-is-More Filtering (RecSys 2012)
Yue Shi, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Linas Baltrunas, Martha Larson, Nuria Oliver and Alan Hanjalic

Statistical Parsing with Probabilistic Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars (ACL 2012)
Hiroyuki Shindo, Yusuke Miyao, Akinori Fujino and Masaaki Nagata

Exact Recovery of Sparsely-Used Dictionaries (COLT 2012)
Daniel Spielman, Huan Wang and John Wright

The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (ICRA 2012)
Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz

Socioscope: Spatio-Temporal Signal Recovery from Social Media (PKDD 2012)
Jun-Ming Xu, Aniruddha Bhargava, Robert Nowak and Xiaojin Zhu

Using Strategic Logics to Reason about Agent Programs (JELIA 2012)
Nitin Yadav and Sebastian Sardina

User-Centered Programming by Demonstration: Stylistic Elements of Behavior (IUI 2012)
James Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi and Ehud Sharlin

Theses
Scalable Dynamic Nonparametric Bayesian Models of Content and Users
KDD Dissertation Award (2012)
Amr Ahmed and Eric Xing

Improving Combinatorial Optimization - Thesis Summary
ACP Doctoral Research Award (2012)
Geoffrey Chu

Cultural Diversity for Virtual Characters
IFAAMAS-12 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award (2012)
Birgit Endrass

Landmark-Based Heuristics and Search Control for Automated Planning
ICAPS Best Dissertation Award (2012)
Silvia Richter

Learning Probabilistic Models for Mobile Manipulation Robots
ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award (2011)
Jürgen Sturm and Wolfram Burgard

Social Norms for Self-policing Multi-agent Systems and Virtual Societies
IFAAMAS-11 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award (2012)
Daniel Villatoro