IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize
Overview
The Annual IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize is awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding five calendar years. The prize committee is comprised of associate editors and members of the JAIR Advisory Board; their decision is based on both the significance of the paper and the quality of presentation. The recipient(s) of the award receives a prize of US$500 (to be split amongst the authors of a co-authored paper). Funding for this award was provided by the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.
2012
The 2012 Prize Committee selected the following paper that presents a new approach for solving problems of planning under uncertainty via their compilation into the classical planning framework. The compilation technique enables planners for problems featuring uncertainty to benefit from continual progress made in the area of classical planning. This idea has had much influence on recent work in this area and underlies current state-of-the-art planners.
The prize will be announced at the AAAI '12 awards ceremony on Tuesday morning, July 24, 2012.
2012 Prize: H. Palacios and H. Geffner (2009)
"Compiling Uncertainty Away in Conformant Planning Problems with Bounded Width", Volume 35, 623-675.
An Honorable Mention is given to the following paper which investigates nonmyopic value of information, which is a fundamental problem in many areas, including probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning. It provides a general treatment of the subject based on the encompassing concept of reward functions. It also provides hardness results for general graphical models, designs the first optimal and tractable algorithm for certain restricted models, and suggests new approximation techniques. 2012 Honorable Mention: A. Krause and C. Guestrin (2009)
"Optimal Value of Information in Graphical Models", Volume 35, 557-591. 2011 Prize: N. Nisan and A. Ronen (2007)
"Computationally Feasible VCG Mechanisms" Volume 29, 19-47. 2011 Honorable Mention: A. Fern, S. Yoon and R. Givan (2006)
"Approximate Policy Iteration with a Policy Language Bias: Solving Relational Markov Decision Processes", Volume 25, 75-118. 2010 Prize: L. Xu, F. Hutter, H. Hoos, and K. Leyton-Brown (2008)
"SATzilla: Portfolio-based Algorithm Selection for SAT", Volume 32, 565-606. 2010 Honorable Mention: S. Ponzetto and M. Strube (2007)
"Knowledge Derived From Wikipedia For Computing Semantic Relatedness", Volume 30, 181-212. 2009 Prize: C. Boutilier, R. Brafman, C. Domshlak, H. Hoos, and D. Poole (2004)
"CP-nets: A Tool for Representing and Reasoning with Conditional Ceteris Paribus Preference Statements", Volume 21, pages 135-191. 2009 Honorable Mention: M. Helmert (2006)
"The Fast Downward Planning System", Volume 26, pages 191-246. 2008 Prize: G. Gottlob, G. Greco and F. Scarcello (2005)
"Pure Nash Equilibria: Hard and Easy Games", Volume 24, pages 357-406. 2008 Honorable Mention: P. Beame, H. Kautz and A. Sabharwal (2004)
"Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Potential of Clause Learning", Volume 22, pages 319-351. 2007 Prize: Guestrin, C., Koller, D., Parr, R. and Venkataraman, S. (2003)
"Efficient Solution Algorithms for Factored MDPs", 19, 399 - 468. 2007 Honorable Mention:
Felner, A., Korf, R.E. and Hanan, S. (2004)
"Additive Pattern
Database Heuristics", 22, 279-318. 2006 Prize: Darwiche, A. and Marquis, P. (2002) "A Knowledge Compilation Map", 17, 229 - 264. 2006 Honorable Mention:
Ginsberg, M.L. (2001) "GIB: Imperfect Information in a Computationally Challenging Game", 14, 303-358. 2005 Prize: Hoffmann, J. and Nebel, B. (2001) "The FF Planning System: Fast Plan Generation Through Heuristic Search", 14, 253 - 302. 2005 Honorable Mention: Cheng, J. and Druzdzel, M.J. (2000) "AIS-BN: An Adaptive Importance Sampling Algorithm for Evidential Reasoning in Large Bayesian Networks", 13, 155-188. 2004 Prize: Ygge, F. and Akkermans, H. (1999) "Decentralized Markets versus Central Control: A Comparative Study", 11, 301-333. 2004 Honorable Mention: Fox, D., Burgard, W. and Thrun, S. (1999) "Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments", 11, 391-427. 2003 Prize: Dietterich, T.G. (2000) "Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with the MAXQ Value Function Decomposition", 13, 227-303. 2003 Honorable Mention: Littman, M.L., Goldsmith, J. and Mundhenk M. (1998) "The Computational Complexity of Probabilistic Planning", 9, 1-36.2011
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