Chair: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern CaliforniaVice-Chair: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Treasurer: Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University

ACM SIGART 2012 Review

SIGART Organization

Elections held in 2009: two new officers, one continuing Chair: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California Vice-Chair: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science

and Technology Treasurer: Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University Past Chair: Maria Gini (University of Minnesota)

Established an Advisory Board (includes current president of IJCAI and immediate past-president of AAAI) Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University) Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic University) Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University) Eric Horovitz (Microsoft Research) Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California)

Established Liaisons for Educational Activities Mehran Sahami (Stanford University) Peter Norvig (Google Labs)

Finances and Membership

Very healthy fund balance: $745K DL revenue stable Membership

Around 1,000 members Retention

1st year retention around 40% 2nd year retention around 80%

Discussing investments of funds that would allow SIGART to gain and retain members

Member Benefits

Member benefits: Reduced registration at the conferences sponsored by

SIGART: Conference proceedings from AAMAS, HRI, and IUI (all on

CD-ROM). Reduced registration at many conferences held "in

cooperation" with SIGART Access to the following contents in the ACM Digital Library:

Proceedings of all the SIGART sponsored conferences and some in-cooperation (doubled articles in 2010, maintained in 2011)

Community Benefits Provided by SIGART: Sponsorship and support of conferences relevant to the AI

community. Autonomous Agents Research Award. Travel support for students to SIGART sponsored

conferences. Support for AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. SIGART Web site (14K unique visitors, 2K repeat visitors)

(2.5K visits/month)

SIGART Conferences

Sponsored Conferences: ASE: Automated Software Engineering, Sept. HRI: Human Robot Interaction, Mar. IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User

Interfaces, Jan. K-CAP: Knowledge Capture, Oct. (odd years) WI/IAT: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent

Technology, Oct. Special agreement with AAMAS

Many in-cooperation conferences Cooperation with AAAI on Doctoral

Consortium

SIGART GOALS (I)

Continue to support conferences, strong organization committees, many volunteers, high quality papers Major issues this period

Negotiated a renewed agreement with AAMAS now indefinitely

IUI governance and continuity Worked with SIGCHI to resolve it

Set up an Oversight Committee chaired by Alain Chesnais

Autonomous Agents Research Awards annually M. Veloso (2009), J. Gratch & S. Marsella (2010),

J. Halpern (2011), M. Tennenholtz (2012)

SIGART GOALS (II)

Outreach to the community New web site with advertisement of conferences

and other community events Article to reach out to Chinese Computer Federation

Student support AAAI/SIGART Doctorial Consortium Travel grants for conference attendance $25K/year

Education Involved with the IEEE/ACM CS2013 Curriculum

Initiative Educational Activities Liaisons

Currently discussing new activities focused on recent graduates and early career researchers