IJCAI Organization

IJCAI-07 Conference Organization

Some Recollections about the Early Days of AAAI

After much preliminary discussion in the AI community about forming a national society, Raj Reddy took on the work of organizing people. In 1979 he was the general chair for IJCAI-79, and I was the program chair, so we were already working closely together and thinking about organization. We were not alone in being frustrated by the phoenix-like nature of IJCAI—springing to life before every bi...

A Report on the IJCAI-07 Program

We report on the main features of the IJCAI’07 program, including its theme, and its schedule and organization. In particular, we discuss an effective and novel presentation format at IJCAI in which oral and poster papers were presented in the same sessions categorized by topic area.

2013 Conference Organization

An Empirical Method that Provides a Basis for the Organization of Relaxation Labeling Processes for Vision

MRLR: Multi-level Representation Learning for Personalized Ranking in Recommendation

Representation learning (RL) has recently proven to be effective in capturing local item relationships by modeling item co-occurrence in individual user’s interaction record. However, the value of RL for recommendation has not reached the full potential due to two major drawbacks: 1) recommendation is modeled as a rating prediction problem but should essentially be a personalized ranking one; 2...