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        11th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2010)
                 Brescia (Italy), December 1-3, 2010
                  Web: http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/

                    Program of the Plenary Session

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The AIIA-2010 Plenary Session will be held on December 2, 2010, at the
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Brescia, via Branze 38,
Brescia and consists of:

* Five invited talks with the following general theme

   "Natural Language, Cognitive Vision, Knowledge and Reasoning in AI:
    Recent Projects, Prospects and Challenges"

* Posters by Italian PhD students and presentations of awarded theses
* The AI*IA Community Meeting
* The AIIA-2010 Banquet

More information about AIIA-2010, including the six workshops that will
be help on Dec 1 and 3 are available in the symposium website:
http://aixia10.ing.unibs.it/


Detailed Program of the Plenary Session
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08:50 - 09:00 Welcome and Introduction
              Alfonso Gerevini, University of Brescia               

Invited Talks: Planning, Reasoning and Graphical Models
Chair: [to be announced]

09:00 - 09:55 "The Model-based Approach to Autonomous Behavior:
               Prospects and Challenges",
               Hector Geffner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

09:55 - 10:15 Coffee break

10:15 - 11:10 "AND/OR Search and Sampling over Probabilistic and
               Deterministic Graphical Models",
               Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine, USA

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Student session I
Chair: [to be announced]

11:10 - 12:25 Poster session Italian PhD students (Doctoral Consortium)

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12:25 - 13:50 Lunch Break
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Invited Talks: Cognitive Vision, Knowledge and Data Management
Chair: [to be announced]

13:50 - 14:45 "Learning about Activities and Objects from Video"
               Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds, UK

14:45 - 15:40 "Ontology-based Data Management: Principles and Challenges"
               Maurizio Lenzerini, Universita' La Sapienza, Roma Italy

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15:40 - 16:00 Coffee break
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Invited Talk: Natural Language Understanding
Chair: [to be announced]

16:00 - 16:40 "Deep Natural Language Understanding" (videoconferencing)
               James Allen, University of Rochester, USA

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Student Session II
Chair: [to be announced]

16:40 - 17:30 Awarded Italian Theses

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17:30 - 18:45 AI*IA Community Meeting

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19:20   Departure to AIIA-2010 Banquet (travel by bus; 30 minutes)

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