registration brochure 2010 aaai fall symposium series

Registration Brochure

2010 AAAI Fall Symposium Series �

November 11–13, 2010 � The Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence� 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, California 94025 � 650-328-3123 � 650-321-4457 (fax) � [email protected] � www.aaai.org/fss10.php

The Association for the Advancement of Arti-ficial Intelligence is pleased to present its

2010 Fall Symposium Series, to be held Thursdaythrough Saturday, November 11–13 at the West-in Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia, ad-jacent to Washington, DC. The titles of the eightsymposia in the 2010 Fall Symposia Series are asfollows:� Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational

Systems� Commonsense Knowledge� Complex Adaptive Systems: Resilience, Ro-

bustness, and Evolvability� Computational Models of Narrative� Dialog with Robots� Manifold Learning and Its Applications� Proactive Assistant Agents� Quantum Informatics for Cognitive, Social,

and Semantic Processes

The highlights of each symposium will be pre-sented at a special plenary session. Notes will beprepared and distributed to participants in eachsymposium, but will not otherwise be availableunless published as an AAAI technical report oredited collection.

Each symposium will have limited attendance.Participants will be expected to attend a singlesymposium throughout the symposium series. Inaddition to participants selected by the programcommittee of the symposia, a limited number ofother interested parties will be allowed to registerin each symposium on a first-come, first-servedbasis. To register, please fill out the registrationform, and send it along with payment to:

2010 Fall Symposium SeriesAAAI445 Burgess DriveMenlo Park, CA 94025-3442Telephone: (650) 328-3123*Fax: (650) 321-4457*Email: [email protected]*

*Credit card orders only, please. Please note thatthere are security issues involved with the trans-mittal of credit card information over the inter-net. AAAI will not be held liable for any misuse ofyour credit card information during its transmit-tal to AAAI.

Online registration is also available at www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss10.php, along with this doc-ument.

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Tentative Program Schedule

(subject to change)

Thursday, November 11

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM: Symposia sessions

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Reception

Friday, November 12


9:00 AM – 5:00 PM: Snacks and videos

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM: Plenary session

Saturday, November 13


Registration will be located in the Ballroom Foyer on the Second Level.

Photo courtesy Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau

The Cognitive and Metacognitive EducationalSystems (MCES) symposium for 2010 follows

the successful MCES 2009 Fall Symposium.MCES 2010 aims to create an intellectual forumfor researchers from various interdisciplinaryfields to present, discuss, and debate various is-sues related to the cognitive and metacognitiveeducational systems.

The symposium raises debate regarding new fun-damental questions of paramount importanceMeta Cognition in Education:

� What are the theoretical pillars standardCBLEs must adopt to be characterized asMCESs?

� Is it possible to develop a unified frameworkfor all metacognitive educational systems?

� To what extent does the educational systemitself have to exhibit metacognitive behav-ior(s), and how are these behaviors organizedto support learning?

� What are the main aspects in metacognition,self-regulation skills, and emotions that influ-ence the learning process?

� What does it mean to be metacognitive, andhow can one learn to be metacognitive? Canmeta-cognitive skills actually arise from theinteraction with MCESs?

� How can a MCES be autonomous and in-crease its knowledge to match the learner’sevolving skills and knowledge?

� What about agent-based systems? MCES maynot be embodied, but does it help if they actas social agents?

Topics

� Ontologies� Knowledge management� Knowledge acquisition� Reasoning� Intelligent agents� Cognitive architectures� Cognitive models applied to the learning do-

main� Metacognition and self-regulated learning

(SRL) models and their implementation inlearning environments

� Paradigms and systems for “conscious” edu-cational systems

� Metacognitive monitoring and control� Contextual constraints� Scaffolding SRL processes� Agency and goal-driven learning� Training and acquisition of SRL skills� Tutoring of SRL skills� Methodological and analytical techniques for

studying learning with MCESs

� NLP techniques for assessment� Dialogue management� Pragmatics and argumentation� Conversational and pedagogical agents� Adaptive interfaces� Information visualization� User profiling and modeling� Interaction with embodied MCES� Detection, classification, and interpretation

of affect� Methodologies and analyses of affect� Emotion regulation� Software architectures for MCES� Web 2.0 and semantic web technologies� Agent-based systems

Speakers

Prospective key speakers and panelists includeJanet Kolodner, Philip Winne, Patricia Manson,and Marcel Veenman.

Format

The symposium format is a one-track session in-cluding several discussion panels. Notification ofthe intent to participate with name, affiliation, ad-dress, phone and fax sent by email to [email protected] or via the symposium websiteis strongly encouraged.

Symposium Chairs

Roberto Pirrone (University of Palermo, Italy),Roger Azevedo (Mc Gill University), GautamBiswas (Vanderbilt University).

Program Committee

Philip Winne (Simon Fraser University), JamesLester (North Carolina State University), SusanneLajoie (McGill University), Valerie Shute (FloridaState University), Amy Baylor (Florida State Uni-versity), Cristina Conati (University of British Co-lumbia), Kurt VanLhen (Arizona State Universi-ty), Vincent Aleven (Carnegie Mellon University).

For More Information

For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site (chi-lab.dinfo.unipa.it/mces2010).

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During the symposium, we plan to focus on dis-cussion, panels, tutorials, and demos in additionto talks. We also plan to try an experimental ses-sion for part of the symposium, where sessionswill be defined by course of discussions and con-tent from the previous part of the symposium. Wewill have invited talks from leaders in the field aswell as panels discussing various topics. Anotherimportant aspect of the symposium is the tutori-al sessions. As a community, common sense re-searchers build tools, representations, and corpo-ra that would be useful to others in the commu-nity.

Armed with the results of these discussions andpresentations, participants will design the lasthalf-day of the symposium following the princi-ples of an unconference. Participants will collab-oratively determine the agenda and schedule, de-signing both large and small breakout groupswhich will focus on issues that arose during thestructured portion of the symposium. Come withideas of what you want to discuss at the sympo-sium.

Organizing Committee

Catherine Havasi (MIT Media Laboratory), DougLenat (Cycorp, Inc.), Ben Van Durme (JohnsHopkins University)


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site (csk.me-dia.mit.edu/).

When we are confronted with unexpect-ed situations, we deal with them byfalling back on our general knowledge

or making analogies to other things we know.When software applications fail, on the otherhand, they often do so in brittle and unfriendlyways. The sheer amount of commonsense knowl-edge one would need to represent makes it chal-lenging to acquire, to represent, to reason effi-ciently with, and to harness in applications.

This is, ultimately, the bottleneck to strong AI,and so it has remained one of the central topics ofresearch interest for 50 years, from McCarthy,Hayes, and colleagues grappling with representa-tion and reasoning, to Lenat, Singh, and Schubertconducting large scale engineering projects toconstruct collections of background knowledgeand special-purpose reasoners to support gener-al inference. Recent advances in text mining,crowdsourcing, and professional knowledge en-gineering efforts have finally led to commonsenseknowledge bases of sufficient breadth and depthfor practical applications.

The Commonsense Knowledge Symposium willbring together the diverse elements of this com-munity whose work benefits from or contributesto general inference about the world. The aim isto bring together researchers who focus directlyon building systems for acquiring or reasoningwith commonsense knowledge, with those whowish to use these resources to help tackle taskswithin their industry or within AI itself.

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Companies, societies, markets, and humansrarely stay in a stable, predictable state forlong. Yet all these systems are character-

ized by the notable persistence of some key at-tributes which maintain their identities, even astheir constituent parts change and adapt to newenvironments. What is it about these systems thatdefine their identity? How do we characterizethem? What are the forces that allow a system topersist, even in the face of a radically new envi-ronment?

Complex adaptive systems (CAS) and relatedtechnologies have proven to be powerful tools forexploring these and other related phenomena. Wecharacterize a general CAS model as having a sig-nificant number of self-similar agents that utilizeone or more levels of feedback, exhibit emergentproperties and self-organization, and producenonlinear dynamic behavior.

Advances in modeling and computing technolo-gy, including CAS, have led to a deeper under-standing of complex systems in many fields in thenatural, physical, and social sciences. These de-velopments have raised the possibility that simi-lar fundamental principles may be at work acrossthese systems, even though the underlying prin-ciples may manifest themselves in different ways.

For some practitioners in the field, the terms “re-silience” and “robustness” may seems largely re-dundant. Indeed, there are many other termsfrom various domains that overlap as well: from“basins of attractions” (physics, mathematics), to“homeostasis” (biology), to “sustainability” (ecol-ogy). This is precisely the point: different disci-plines often have their own language, even as theyare describing identical or similar phenomena.We therefore invite participation from re-searchers across a wide range of disciplines, in thebelief that a deep understanding in one domainmay lead to greater insight into others.

Format

Our symposium will have invited talks from lead-ers in the field, as well as paper presentations onboth completed and speculative work. Due to thenature and the novelty of the theme, it is essentialto allow ample time for both open-ended and tar-geted discussions; as such, we will hold panel dis-cussions, round-table talks, and smaller break-out groups to allow for a spirited interactionamong participants.

Organizing and Program Committee

Mirsad Hadzikadic, chair (UNC Charlotte), TedCarmichael, cochair (UNC Charlotte), JohnHummel (Argonne National Laboratory), AlfredHübler (University of Illinois, U-C), Russ Abbott(California State University), Patrick Grim(SUNY Stony Brook), Bill Rand (University ofMaryland), Bob Reynolds (Wayne State Univer-sity), Tony Beavers (University of Evansville),Molly Rorick (Yale University), Tina Yu (Memo-rial University of Newfoundland), DeborahStrumsky (UNC Charlotte), Sarah Sheard (GWUand Stevens Institute of Technology).


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site (sites.google.com/site/complexadaptivesystems2010).

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Format

The symposium will be single-track, with medi-um-length presentations of research papers andshort presentations of positions papers, inter-spersed with significant panel discussions. Partieswho do not have an accepted paper may still at-tend, and are encouraged to contact the organiz-ers for potential inclusion on a discussion panel.The last morning of the workshop will be devot-ed entirely to discussion of important topicsraised during the symposium. Accepted paperswill be published in the proceedings of the sym-posium, which will be released as a AAAI FallSymposium technical report.


Mark Finlayson, chair (MIT), Pablo Gervas (Uni-versidad Complutense de Madrid), Erik Mueller(IBM), Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley),Patrick Winston (MIT)


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site (narra-tive.csail.mit.edu/fs10) or email [email protected]

Narratives are ubiquitous. We use them toeducate, communicate, convince, ex-plain, and entertain. As far as we know,

every society has narratives, which suggests theyare deeply rooted and serve an important cogni-tive function. It is clear that, to fully explain hu-man intelligence, beliefs, and behaviors, we willhave to understand and explain narrative.

Topics

Despite a revival of interest in the computationalunderstanding of narrative, there is still great un-certainty regarding fundamental questions. Whatdoes narrative do for us? What exactly is narra-tive? What representations are required to modelnarrative? This symposium will address funda-mental topics and questions regarding the com-putational modeling and scientific understandingof narrative. Topics of interest include the follow-ing:

� What makes narrative different from a list ofevents or facts? What is special about the dis-course that makes something a narrative,rather than something else?

� What is the relationship between narrativeand common sense? Does understandingnarrative first require we understand com-mon sense reasoning?

� How are narratives indexed and retrieved? Isthere a universal scheme for encoding narra-tives?

� What impact does the purpose, function, andgenre of a narrative have on its form and con-tent?

� Are there systematic differences in the formalproperties of narratives from different cul-tures?

� What comprises the set of possible narrativearcs? Is there such a set? Is there a recipe forgenerating narratives?

� What are the appropriate representations forthe computational modeling of narrative?What representations underlie the extractionof narrative schemas from experience?

� How can we evaluate computational modelsof narrative?

The symposium will bring together researcherswith a wide variety of perspectives to share whatis known about the fundamentals of the compu-tational modeling of narrative and to explore theforefront of that knowledge.

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The 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialogwith Robots will bring together re-searchers from human-robot interaction

(HRI), spoken dialog systems, intelligent virtualagents, and other related disciplines to identifyand discuss the core scientific research challengesof situated, open-world spoken language interac-tion with robots. Researchers in the HRI com-munity have addressed challenges at the intersec-tion of robotics and cognitive psychology, humanfactors, and AI. At the same time, concepts andmethods for human-computer dialog have beenmaturing within the spoken dialog community,with the development of fundamental theories,formalisms, and computational models. Howev-er, spoken dialog efforts to date have focused al-most exclusively on applications within restrictedcommunication contexts, such as telephone- andPC-based information access. This symposiumwill seek to bridge the historical separation be-tween spoken dialog research and HRI with thegoals of sharing ideas and directions, bringingnew perspectives on these challenging problems,and catalyzing new research on dialog with ro-bots.

Topics

Example relevant topics include, but are not lim-ited to the following:

� Human-robot dialog and physical contextmultimodal conversational scene analysis, in-cluding situated language understanding andgeneration; dialog models for open-world,multi-participant interaction; and embodi-ment and communication affordances

� Nonverbal human-robot communication, in-cluding gaze, gestures, posture, proxemics;and cognitive architectures for integratingverbal and nonverbal interaction

� Social aspects of human-robot dialog, includ-ing models of affect and emotion, and build-ing engagement, rapport, and trust

� Integration of communication and action inhuman-robot interaction, including behav-ior-recognition, intention-recognition, andplan-recognition; and spoken output and ac-tion planning

� Adaptation and learning in human-robot di-alog, including (life-long) learning and per-sonalization, and learning through interac-tion and by demonstration

Format

The symposium will combine a variety of activi-ties intended to facilitate interaction among par-ticipants from different communities and discus-sion of key challenges in bridging research in di-alog and HRI. These activities will include, butare not limited to: keynote speeches that will re-view the state-of-the-art in these areas and high-light novel directions for research; individualtechnical presentations; open panel discussionson several identified core challenges; breakoutdiscussion sessions focused on developing aroadmap to facilitate crosscutting research in di-alog and HRI.


Dan Bohus (Microsoft Research), Eric Horvitz(Microsoft Research), Takayuki Kanda (ATR),Bilge Mutlu (University of Wisconsin-Madison),Antoine Raux (Honda Research Institute)


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site(www.cs.wisc.edu/hci/aaai10).

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Richard G. Baraniuk (Rice University), LawrenceCarin (Duke University), Ronald Coifman (YaleUniversity), Robert Ghrist (University of Penn-sylvania), Michael I. Jordan (University of Cali-fornia, Berkeley), Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia Na-tional Laboratories), Oluwasanmi Koyejo (Uni-versity of Texas at Austin), Neil Lawrence (Uni-versity of Manchester), Gilad Lerman (Universityof Minesota), Francois Meyer (University of Col-orado at Boulder), Robert Pless (WashingtonUniversity), Guillermo Sapiro (University ofMinnesota), Fei Sha (University of Southern Cal-ifornia), Vikas Sindhwani (IBM T.J. Watson Re-search Center), Richard Souvenir (University ofNorth Carolina at Charlotte), Rene Vidal (JohnsHopkins University).


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site(odin.uncc.edu/aaai-manifold/).

Researchers in many fields such as machinelearning, computer vision, bio-informaticsand robotics often observe that high di-

mensional data samples have low degrees of free-dom in local neighborhoods, but a more compli-cated global structure. In many cases, there isenough structure in the data so the degrees offreedom can be described by a lower dimension-al object such as a manifold. The goal of manifoldlearning research is to discover techniques thatexploit local structure in data to learn better mod-els, learn better input-output relationships and re-duce the computational complexity of learning.

This symposium will involve research presenta-tions on recent work in harmonic analysis, topo-logical approaches to manifold learning, parame-terizations and embeddings, lie groups, compres-sive sensing, Bayesian models and other statisticaltechniques. The symposium will also include re-search presentations of several novel applicationsof manifold learning to reinforcement learning,image processing, sensor networks and modelingof human behavior and health.

Focus

A major focus of the symposium is on bridgingthe gap between theory and applications; with theaim of applying new theoretical advances to realworld problems, and driving new theoretical re-search to solve current applied problems. To thisend, we encourage active participant discussionson the current state of the field, and ideas for fu-ture research on the theory and applications ofmanifold learning through panel discussions andopen discussions. The keynote addresses will al-so focus on challenges in manifold learning andrelated areas; both in new theoretical advancesand novel applications.

Vision

Manifold learning is truly cross-disciplinary, in-volving researchers from such varied fields astopology, geometry, machine learning, statistics,computer vision, robotics and many others. Forthis reason, our organizing committee consists ofrecognized leaders in these fields and our partic-ipants span the broad range of related fields andinterests. Our vision of the symposium is as avenue to promote and discuss new research de-velopments in manifold learning, research on re-lated approaches and applications to novel prob-lems.

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The general aim of this symposium is to bea venue for the debate and exchange ofideas on the challenges of creating agents

that help human users to operate in complex dy-namic environments where they face challengesdue to cognitive overload in planning and re-planning. In these circumstances, users must per-form multiple concurrent tasks including: col-lecting coherent information about the currentsituation, reasoning about constraints and poli-cies, and dealing with uncertainty to achievetimely decision making. People have limitationsin the amount of information that can be mean-ingfully processed at the same time; consequent-ly, the agent must make sure that the amount ofhelp provided is compatible with the user’s abili-ty to cope with it. In order to help the users tocope with cognitive overload in such an environ-ment, proactive agents can offer context-sensitiveassistance by: anticipating the users’ needs; au-tonomously planning assistive actions; and offer-ing assistance in an appropriate format at a righttime.

Topics

Areas of interest include, but are not limited tothe following:

� Plan and goal recognition� User modeling� Information gathering and filtering� Information adaptation and presentation� Cognitive load assessment� Applications of information assistants� Proactive assistance for human teamsThe symposium will consist of a mixture of pre-sentations and discussions, with a focus on the di-rect discussion of specific topics motivated by thepresented papers. Authors of accepted papers willgive a short 10-minute presentation followed byvigorous discussions in smaller groups.


Felipe Meneguzzi (Carnegie Mellon University,USA), Jean Oh (Carnegie Mellon University,USA), Martin Kollingbaum (University of Ab-erdeen, UK), Gita Reese Sukthankar (Universityof Central Florida, USA), Katia Sycara (CarnegieMellon University, USA), Neil Yorke-Smith(American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Program Committee

Marcelo Armentano (UNICEN, Argentina),Amedeo Cesta (National Research Council ofItaly, Italy), Yolanda Gil (University of SouthernCalifornia, USA), Jihie Kim (University of South-ern California, USA), Michael Luck (King’s Col-lege London, UK), Nir Oren (King’s College Lon-don, UK), Simon Parsons (City University of NewYork, USA), Federico Pecora (Arebro University,Sweden), David Pynadath (University of South-ern California, USA), Wamberto Vasconcelos(University of Aberdeen, UK)


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site(www.cs.cmu.edu/paa-2010/).

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The symposium will feature invited presentationsfrom noted researchers in the area of semanticprocessing and quantum information. Partici-pants are welcome, including interdisciplinaryscientists and graduate students.


Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technolo-gy, Australia; [email protected]), William Law-less (Paine College; [email protected]), C.J.van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow; [email protected]), Donald Sofge (Naval Research La -b or atory; [email protected]), DominicWiddows (Google; [email protected])


For more information about the symposium seethe supplementary symposium web site(sites.google.com/site/qiscience/).

Quantum informatics (QI) is an emergingbranch of quantum information science,and has recently been applied to chal-

lenging computational and modeling problems inartificial intelligence. The application areas ofthese techniques often operate at a macroscopicscale, with far more wide-ranging consequencesthan the microscopic variations normally de-scribed as “quantum effects”.

However, they share many key properties withtraditional quantum mechanical systems, includ-ing the following:

� Measurement Problem: when an observationof one of two operators increases uncertaintyin observing the second

� Nondeterminism� Collapse: of several potential states, only one

is observed and assumes a privileged “actual”status

� Nonseparability and entanglement: systemsare not simply the composition of their parts

� Contextuality� Use of symbolic calculus and linear algebra, in

particular linear matrix operators, state vec-tors, and projections

� Harmonic oscillations

Aims and Scope

This symposium will bring together researchersinterested in how quantum informatics relates toAI, solves traditional AI problems more effective-ly, and addresses previously unsolved problems,in particular with respect to cognitive, social, andsemantic processes. The following broad contentareas are being addressed:

� Semantic representation and processing� Cognition and Brain (memory, cognitive

processes, neural networks, consciousness)� Logic, planning, agents and multi-agent sys-

tems� Information processing and retrieval� Decision theory (political, psychological, cul-

tural, organizational, social, and so on.)� Biological or complex systems� Social Interaction� Finance, economics, and social structures

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ALL ATTENDEES MUST PREREGISTER.Each symposium has a limited atten-dance, with priority given to invited at-

tendees. All accepted authors, symposium partic-ipants, and other invited attendees must registerby September 17, 2010. After that period, regis-tration will be opened up to the general member-ship of AAAI and other interested parties. Allregistrations must be postmarked by October 15,2010.

The conference registration fee includes admis-sion to one symposium, one copy of the technicalreport for the symposium, coffee breaks, and theopening reception.

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If you are paying by credit card, you may emailthe form to [email protected] or fax it to (650) 321-4457. Registration forms are also available onAAAI’s web page: www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss10.php

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Registration hours will be as follows:

� Thursday, November 118:00 AM – 5:00 PM

� Friday, November 128:30 AM – 5:00 PM

� Saturday, November 138:30 AM – 11:00 AM

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For your convenience, AAAI has reserved a blockof rooms at the Westin Arlington Gateway. One ofthe newest hotels in the Washington D.C. area,the Westin Arlington Gateway is located in theBallston area of Arlington. It is a short walk fromthe Ballston Metro Station, which allows guests toeasily explore Arlington, downtown Washington,DC, Alexandria, or Georgetown. Reagan Nation-al Airport is easily accessible via the WashingtonMetro rapid transit.

The conference room rate per night is $189.00(single/double).

Rates do not include applicable state and localtaxes (approximately 10.25%), or hotel fees in ef-fect at the time of the meeting. Symposium atten-dees must contact the Westin Arlington Gatewaydirectly. Please request the group rate for the Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelli-gence (AAAI) when reserving your room. The cut-off date for reservations is October 10, 2010.Reservations after this date will be accepted basedon availability at the hotelís prevailing rate. Allreservations must be secured by one night’s de-posit per room, via credit card or check. Reserva-tions may be cancelled with no penalty up to 6:00pm, 72 hours prior to the date of arrival. Afterthat time, a penalty of one night’s room and taxwill be incurred. Upon check-in, date of depar-ture must be confirmed. Early departure will re-sult in a fee equal to one nightís guest room rate.

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Reagan National Airport: $14.00 for a sharedride one wayDulles International: $29.00 for a shared vanone wayBaltimore-Washington: $48.00 for a sharedride one way

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Method of Payment All e-mail and fax registrations must be accompanied by credit card information. Checks (drawn on a US bank) should be made payable to AAAI. Prepayment is required. No purchase orders will be accepted. (Please circle one)

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Credit card number___________________________________Verification No.* ___________ Expiration _____________

Name (as it appears on card) _______________________________________ Signature_____________________________

Credit Card Billing Address _______________________________________ Business Name ________________________

Please mail your check to AAAI FSS-10 Symposium Series • 445 Burgess Drive • Menlo Park, CA 94025 or fax with credit card information to 650-321-4457. Please Note: Requests for refunds must be received in writing by October 22, 2010. No refunds will be granted after this date.A $75.00 processing fee will be levied on all refunds granted.

*The card verification number on Visaand Mastercard is a 3-digit number print-ed on the back of your card. It appears af-ter and to the right of your card number.On American Express cards, the verifica-tion number is a 4-digit number printedon the front of your card. It appears afterand to the right of your card number.

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