Recent Announcements
Thanks
AI Access Foundation manages JAIR largely through the efforts of volunteers throughout the world. However, we occasionally have some small, but important, operating and infrastructure costs. We wanted to thank David Smith for his generous financial contributions to the organization, as well as Fetch Technologies, UCLA, CMU, and the University of Michigan for their ongoing support for JAIR's infrastructure. These gifts make it possible for JAIR to continue operating a freely-available journal.
2007 Annual Report
We are pleased to present the annual report on the status of JAIR. The report covers the activities of the journal from 1st January 2006 to 1st Oct 2007, as well as historical data on previous years.
Best Paper Prize Announcement
The IJCAII-JAIR Best Paper Prize is awarded to an outstanding paper published in JAIR in the preceding five calendar years. The 2007 Prize Committee selected the following paper as an outstanding and lasting contribution to the area of decision-theoretic planning, marking an important milestone in the development of techniques that exploit structure in factored Markov decision processes to produce large computational savings. The prize and accompanying cheque will be presented at AAAI-07 in Vancouver.
2007 Prize: Guestrin, C., Koller, D., Parr, R. and Venkataraman, S. (2003) "Efficient Solution Algorithms for Factored MDPs", 19, 399 - 468.
An Honorable Mention is given to the following paper which is an elegant contribution to the area of heuristic search that enhances the rich body of work on pattern database heuristics.
2007 Honorable Mention: Felner, A., Korf, R.E. and Hanan, S. (2004) "Additive Pattern Database Heuristics", 22, 279-318.
