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IJCAI-09 Conference Organization vii Conference Committee Conference Chair Hiroaki Kitano (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and The Systems Biology Institute, Japan) Program Chair Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto, Canada) Local Arrangements Chair Richard Doyle (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) IJCAI Secretary-Treasurer Ramasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation, USA) IJCAI Executive Secretary Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) AAAI Executive Director Carol M. Hamilton (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, USA) Conference Subcommittee Chairs Tutorial Chair Ronen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Workshop Chair Sylvie Thiebaux (The Australian National University, National ICT, Australia) AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium Chair and Cochair Scott Wallace (Washington State University Vancouver, USA) Christopher H. Brooks (University of San Francisco, USA) Poker Competition Chair John Hawkin (University of Alberta, Canada) Robot Competition and Exhibition Cochairs Odest Chadwicke Jenkins (Brown University, USA) Monica Anderson (University of Alabama, USA)

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Conference Committee

Conference ChairHiroaki Kitano (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. and The Systems Biology Institute, Japan)

Program ChairCraig Boutilier (University of Toronto, Canada)

Local Arrangements ChairRichard Doyle (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)

IJCAI Secretary-TreasurerRamasamy Uthurusamy (General Motors Corporation, USA)

IJCAI Executive SecretaryVesna Sabljakovic-Fritz (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

AAAI Executive DirectorCarol M. Hamilton (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, USA)

Conference Subcommittee Chairs

Tutorial ChairRonen Brafman (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

Workshop ChairSylvie Thiebaux (The Australian National University, National ICT, Australia)

AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium Chair and CochairScott Wallace (Washington State University Vancouver, USA)Christopher H. Brooks (University of San Francisco, USA)

Poker Competition ChairJohn Hawkin (University of Alberta, Canada)

Robot Competition and Exhibition CochairsOdest Chadwicke Jenkins (Brown University, USA)Monica Anderson (University of Alabama, USA)

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Video Competition CochairsDavid Aha (NRL, USA)Michael Bowling (University of Alberta, Canada)

Advisory CommitteeAna Bazzan (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)Gerhard Brewka (University of Leipzig, Germany)Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Corporation, USA)Larry Hunter (University of Colorado Denver, USA)Hideyuki Nakashima (Future University-Hakodate, Japan)Marie-Christine Rousset (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, France)Rajeev Sangal (IIITH, India)Carles Sierra (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)Wai K. Yeap (AUT University, New Zealand)

Local Arrangements CommitteeChairRichard Doyle (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

CommitteeCarol McKenna Hamilton (AAAI)Kirstie Bellman (Aerospace Corporation)Marjorie Burris (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Rina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)Michael Dyer (University of California, Los Angeles)Andrew Gordon (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)Jonathan Gratch (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)Mark Hanson (Northrop Grumman Space Technologies)Randall Hill (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)Richard Korf (University of California, Los Angeles)Richard Lathrop (University of California, Irvine)Kristina Lerman (USC Information Sciences Institute)Kathryn Little (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Rajiv Maheswaran (USC Information Sciences Institute)Anand Panangadan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Shen-Shyang Sho (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine)William Swartout (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)Lori Weiss (USC Institute for Creative Technologies)Max Welling (University of California, Irvine)Colin Williams (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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Program CommitteeProgram ChairCraig Boutilier (University of Toronto, Canada)

Area ChairsRina Dechter (University of California, Irvine)Frank Dellaert (Georgia Institute of Technology)Boi Faltings (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde)Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra)Carlos Guestrin (Carnegie Mellon University)Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen University)Jérôme Lang (LAMSADE, CNRS - Université Paris Dauphine)Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)Maurizio Lenzerini (Sapienza Università di Roma)Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)Sheila McIlraith (University of Toronto)Dan Roth (University of Illinois)Sunita Sarawagi (IIT Bombay)Dale Schuurmans (University of Alberta)Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin)Toby Walsh (NICTA and UNSW)Daniel S. Weld (University of Washington)Michael Wooldridge (University of Liverpool)Makoto Yokoo (Kyushu University)

Senior Program CommitteeThomas Agotnes (Bergen University College)José Luis Ambite (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute)Franz Baader (TU Dresden)Trevor Bench-Capon (University of Liverpool)Christian Bessiere (University of Montpellier, CNRS)Mikhail Bilenko (Microsoft Research)Yngvi Bjornsson (Reykjavik University)Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)Blai Bonet (Universidad Simon Bolivar)Michael Bowling (University of Alberta)Gerhard Brewka (Leipzig University)Wolfram Burgard (University of Freiburg)Vinay K. Chaudhri (SRI International)Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)Berthe Y. Choueiry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)Koby Crammer (University of Pennsylvania)Adnan Darwiche (University of California, Los Angeles)Carmel Domshlak (Technion, Israel)Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology)Edith Elkind (University of Southampton and Nanyang Technological University)Tim Finin (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

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Ken Forbus (Northwestern University)Dieter Fox (University of Washington)Paolo Frasconi (University of Firenze)Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard University and Microsoft Research)Lise Getoor (University of Maryland, College Park)Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute)Russ Greiner (University of Alberta)Eric Hansen (Mississippi State University)Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)Joerg Hoffmann (SAP Research)Robert Holte (University of Alberta)Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford)Takayuki Ito (Nagoya Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology)David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University)Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)Kurt Konolige (Willow Garage and Stanford University)Pedro Larranaga (Polytechnic University of Madrid)Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia)Dekang Lin (Google)Derek Long (University of Strathclyde)Carsten Lutz (University of Bremen)Sridhar Mahadevan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)Robert Mateescu (California Institute of Technology)Chris Meek (Microsoft)Pedro Meseguer (IIIA CSIC)John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University)Karen Myers (SRI International)Roberto Navigli (University of Rome "La Sapienza")Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover)Ilkka Niemelä (Helsinki University of Technology - TKK)Barry O’Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)Joelle Pineau (McGill University)David Poole (University of British Columbia)Pascal Poupart (University of Waterloo)Jussi Rintanen (NICTA)Riccardo Rosati (University of Rome "La Sapienza")Jeffrey S. Rosenschein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)Marie-Christine Rousset (University of Grenoble)Nicholas Roy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Wheeler Ruml (University of New Hampshire)Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)Sebastian Sardina (RMIT University)Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester)Tobias Scheffer (University of Potsdam)Thomas Schiex (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)Jude Shavlik (University of Wisconsin)Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)Satinder Singh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University)David E. Smith (NASA Ames Research Center)Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)Peter Struss (Technical University of Munich)

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Erik Sudderth (Brown University)Milind Tambe (University of Southern California)Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania)Moshe Tennenholtz (Microsoft Israel R&D Center)Yee-Whye Teh (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)Michael Thielscher (Dresden University of Technology)Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky)Michael Wellman (University of Michigan)Chris Welty (IBM Research)Shimon Whiteson (University of Amsterdam)Brian Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Nic Wilson (Cork Constraint Computation Centre)Scott Wen-tau Yih (Microsoft Research)Richard Zemel (University of Toronto)Nevin Zhang (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Program CommitteeEneko AgirreNoa AgmonMotilal AgrawalEdoardo AiroldiNatasha AlechinaMartin AllenFadi AloulAlon AltmanAna Karla Alves

de MedeirosEyal AmirJürgen AngeleCarlos AnsoteguiItai AshlagiKevin AshleyRuth AylettMoshe BabaioffAntonio BahamondeMatteo BaldoniJie BaoKen BarkerPietro BaroniRoman BartakSugato BasuSumit BasuPeter BaumgartnerNahla BenAmorSalem BenferhatAlexander BergMatt BerlinPiergiorgio BertoliIndrajit BhattacharyaBozhena BidyukConcha BielzaArmin BiereJeffrey BighamWalter BinderStefano Bistarelli

Gautam BiswasJohn BlitzerLiad BlumrosenAlexander BochmanMark BoddyGuido BoellaBranimir BoguraevPiero BonattiEdwin BonillaRichard BoothRafael BordiniKarsten BorgwardtDaniel BorrajoAdi BoteaPaolo BouquetBruno BouzyGary BradskiFelix BrandtSebastian BrandtCynthia BreazealBert BredewegDerek BridgeMenkes van den BrielOliver BrockJan BroersenKen BrownMatthew BrownEmma BrunskillDaniel BryceJoanna BrysonFrancesco BuccafurriHung BuiVadim BulitkoRazvan BunescuDiego CalvaneseHadrien CambazardSon Cao TranPeter Carbonetto

Giuseppe CareniniXavier CarrerasVitor CarvalhoNick CassimatisRuggiero CavalloTristan CazenaveBrahim Chaib-draaGeorgios ChalkiadakisYee Seng ChanMark ChaviraGal ChechikHsin-Hsi ChenHubie ChenYiling ChenYixin ChenColin CherryCarlos ChesnevarWilliam Kwok-Wai CheungYann ChevaleyreMax ChickeringSachin ChittaArthur ChoiTanzeem ChoudhurySeung ChungPhilipp CimianoPeter E. ClarkJames ClarkeMichael CoenAmanda ColesAndrew ColesMarie-Odile CordierGabriella CortellessaTimothee CourAaron CourvilleFabio CozmanJacob CrandallIsabel CruzBernardo Cuenca Grau

Aron CulottaJames CussensCarlos Viegas DamásioMehdi DastaniHal Daume IIIJesse DavisJos de BruijnNando de FreitasGiuseppe De GiacomoSimon de GivryJohan de KleerLuc De RaedtRodrigo de Salvo BrazMathijs de WeerdtRichard DeardenStefan DeckerThomas Degris-DardJames DelgrandeMarc DeneckerM. Bernardine DiasBistra DilkinaFrank DiMaioYannis DimopoulosLi DingYing DingHans van DitmarschCarlos DiukJürgen DixMinh B. DoDmitri DolgovFrancesco DoniniPrashant DoshiDoug DowneyMark DredzeOskar DresslerKurt DriessensMarek J. DruzdzelTom Duckett

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Jennifer DyStefan EdelkampGal ElidanCharles ElkanYagil EngelEsra ErdemDamien ErnstJérôme EuzenatWolfgang FaberJames FanShaheen FatimaMichal FeldmanAriel FelnerRob FergusAlan FernJuan Fernández-OlivaresMichael FinkAchille FokoueMary Ellen FosterCharless FowlkesEnrico FranconiEibe FrankJeremy FrankGerhard FriedrichChristian FritzAlex FukunagaDavid FurcyJohannes FürnkranzAlfredo GabaldonBrian GallagherKuzman GanchevAldo GangemiAntonio GarridoThomas GärtnerBiswas GautamChristopher GeibClaudio GentileEnrico GerdingAlfonso E. GereviniBrian GerkeyPierre GeurtsLee GilesAndrew GilpinMaria GiniChristophe

Giraud-CarrierRoxana GirjuEnrico GiunchigliaBob GivanBirte GlimmFrancois GoasdoueVibhav GogateJennifer GolbeckClaudia GoldmanRobert P. GoldmanSharon GoldwaterCarla GomesAsuncion Gomez-Perez

Michael A. GoodrichValentin GorankoGuido GovernatoriMark GreavesGianluigi GrecoPaul GrothNicola GuarinoAlon HalevyJoe HalpernYoussef HamadiTracy HammondDavid HardoonPaul HarrensteinPatrik HaslumHiromitsu HattoriMilos HauskrechtXuming HeEmmanuel HebrardJeff HeflinMalte HelmertEdith HemaspaandraLane A. HemaspaandraMark HeppleIstván HernádvölgyiNatalia Hernandez-

GardiolAaron HertzmannAndreas HerzigKoen HindriksPascal HitzlerBrahim HnichWiebe van der HoekJesse HoeyMichael HofbaurAlan HollandChristopher HomanHolger HoosAdele HoweJohn HsuJinbo HuangJane HunterUllrich HustadtGiovambattista IanniSamuel IeongAlexander IhlerLuca IocchiShahid JabbarManfred JaegerAnthony JamesonTomi JanhunenWilliam JarroldPhilippe JegouOdest JenkinsPatric JensfeltHeng JiAlbert Xin JiangZhi JinThorsten Joachims

Nicholas JongCatholijn JonkerAnders JonssonAri JonssonAudun JøsangUlrich JunkerTommi JunttilaRadu JurcaLalana KagalMeir KalechAshish KapoorKalev KaskGeorge KatsirelosDaniel KayserYevgeny KazakovGabriele Kern-IsbernerKristian KerstingRoni KhardonChristopher KiekintveldJihie KimKee-Eung KimIrwin KingSergey KirshnerAkihiro KishimotoZeynep KiziltanRobert KleinbergAleksander KolczTom KollarGeorge KonidarisSebastien KoniecznyRichard KorfAnna KorhonenDavid KortenkampWalter KostersSarit KrausAndreas KrauseMarkus KrötzschAlex KuleszaGiridhar KumaranOren KurlandRalf KüstersUgur KuterOliver KutzBranislav KvetonSimon Lacoste-JulienSebastien LahaieNiels LandwehrHan La PoutreJavier LarrosaKate LarsonTessa LauGeorg LausenNeil LawrenceAlessandro LazaricChristophe LecoutreJimmy LeeJoohyung LeeLillian Lee

Wee Sun LeeDomenico LemboNicola LeoneTze Yun LeongKristina LermanJames LesterChuMin LiLin LiaoPaolo LiberatoreMaxim LikhachevAchim LilienthalCarlos Linares LopezWeiru LiuYang LiuYongmei LiuDan LizotteAlessio LomuscioBrian LovellJose A. LozanoZhiyong LuThomas LukasiewiczInes LynceOmid MadaniRajiv MaheswaranVikash MansinghkaFelip ManyaJanusz MareckiVictor MarekRadu MarinescuShaul MarkovitchBenjamin MarlinLluís MàrquezJoao Marques-SilvaPierre MarquisStacy MarsellaShigeo MatsubaraTokuro MatsuoNicolas MaudetMausamPrem MelvillePaola MerloThomas MeyerIan MiguelMichela MilanoBrian MilchPeter Bro MiltersenEinat MinkovSteve MintonDavid MitchellPrasenjit MitraRalf MoellerEric MonfroyGreg MoriPaul MorrisRobert MorrisBoris MotikAbdel-Illah MouaddibMartin Mueller

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Stephen MuggletonMarie-Laure MugnierKasia MuldnerPetri MyllymakiDaniele NardiSriraam NatarajanJose NeiraJennifer NevillePaul NewmanVincent NgClaudia NiedereeSiegfried NijssenWilliam Stafford NobleItsuki NodaNatasha NoyLeo ObrstManabu OkumuraNuria OliverEdwin OlsonEva OnaindiaPeter OrbanzSarah OsentoskiEric PacuitJulian PadgetMaurice PagnuccoHector PalaciosLuigi PalopoliJeff PanJunfeng PanCaroline PantofaruBijan ParsiaSimon ParsonsPraveen ParuchuriAndrea PasseriniPeter Patel-SchneiderAdrian PearceDavid PearceTed PedersenBart PeintnerJose M. PeñaJose-Maria PeñaDavid PennockPavlos PeppasClaudia PerlichPatrice PernyGilles PesantJan PetersJean-Marc PetitRon PetrickKaren PetrieMarek PetrikBernhard PfahringerAvi PfefferMatthai PhiliposeRoland PhilippsenChristine PiatkoMarco PistoreChristian Plagemann

Barnabas PoczosAxel PolleresMaria PolukarovSimone Paolo PonzettoFred PopowichHenry PrakkenCédric PraletPartha Pratim TalukdarDoina PrecupPhilippe PreuxBob PriceAriel ProcacciaGregory ProvanVasin PunyakanokDavid PynadathClaude-Guy QuimperZinovi RabinovichFilip RadlinskiIyad RahwanDeva RamananFabio RamosLouiqa RaschidNathan RatliffSoumya RayChris ReedDaniel ReevesIoannis RefanidisJean-Charles RéginXiaofeng RenMatthew RichardsonM. Birna van RiemsdijkValentin RobuBenjamin RodeJuan Rodriguez-AguilarAlex RogersEmma RollonDavid RossFrancesca RossiMaayan RothJoerg RotheMichael RovatsosDaniel RoyMichel RueherAshish SabharwalMartin SachenbacherLakhdar SaisChiaki SakamaYuko SakuraiRuslan SalakhutdinovDjamila Sam-HaroudHorst SamulowitzTed SandlerScott SannerVitor Santos CostaBenjamin SappDavid SarnePaul ScerriTorsten Schaub

Bruno ScherrerStephan SchiffelRenate SchmidtThomas SchneiderAlan SchultzDirk SchulzStephen ScottLaura SebastiaSatoshi SekineMeinolf SellmannSandip SenIvan SerinaGuy ShaniRita SharmaPaul ShawOnn ShehoryChristian SheltonCarles SierraLeonid SigalMarius SilaghiRicardo SilvaDavid SilverOzgur SimsekTomas SingliarNoam SlonimTrey SmithFinnegan SoutheyMatthijs SpaanAaron SpauldingPieter SpronckMohan SridharanBiplav SrivastavaKenneth StanleyKonstantinos StergiouDavid SternUmberto StracciaGerd StummeNathan SturtevantMasashi SugiyamaCharles SuttonStefan SzeiderPedro SzekelyIstván SzitaStan SzpakowiczPrasad TadepalliValentina TammaMatthew TaylorCyril TerriouxSergio TessarisGeorgios TheocharousSylvie ThiebauxJin TianDavid TomanHans TompitsPietro TorassoLeon Van Der TorrePaolo TorroniMarc Toussaint

Kristina ToutanovaLouise Travé-MassuyèsGilles TrombettoniAnni-Yasmin TurhanLyle UngarRaquel UrtasunPeter van BeekMarc van DongenPradeep VarakanthamWamberto VasconcelosPaola VelardiBrent VenableRineke VerbruggeGérard VerfaillieBart VerheijVandi VermaLoannis VetsikasEvelyne ViegasS. V. N. VishwanathanJirka VomlelYevgeniy VorobeychikArild WaalerKewen WangJean-Paul WatsonBonnie WebberGrant WeddellDavid WeirGerhard WidmerEric WiewioraJason D. WilliamsOliver WilliamsMark WinandsMichael WinikoffAlicia WolfeFrank WolterStefan WoltranWeng-Keen WongYuk Wah WongJenn WortmanYang XiangQiang YangRoland Yap Hock ChuanPinar YolumSungwook YoonNeil Yorke-SmithHaakan YounesKai YuShipeng YuChanghe YuanMichael ZakharyaschevChenqqi ZhangDongmo ZhangLei ZhangMinjie ZhangWeixiong ZhangYan ZhangAlice ZhengRong Zhou

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Yi ZhouBrian ZiebartSandra ZillesTerry ZimmermanMartin ZinkevichRoie ZivanAviv Zohar

Auxiliary ReviewersCarole AdamAlessandro AdamouRon AdanyAmr AhmedMai AjspurHidehisa AkiyamaAli AlanjawiMario AlvianoEyal AmirMirela AndronescuFabrizio AngiulliFlavio Palandri AntonelliIgnacio ArayaJosep ArgelichNick Armstrong-CrewsErik AurellZafer AydinJean-François BagetOlivier BailleuxSander BakkesCristina BaroglioIyad BatalDorothea BaumeisterSihem BelabbesFrancesco BelardinelliAlexandros BelesiotisAssaf Ben-DavidBrandon BennettDominik BenzPauline BerryAurelie BeynierMehul BhattJeffrey BighamMaria Jose BlesaMichelle BlomEva BlomqvistManuel BodirskySimon BoivinStephen BondEdwin BonillaLucas BordeauxMarco BottalicoYacine BoufkhadAbdelbaki BouguerraAbdeslam Boularias

Christopher BourkeMaroua BouzidSebastian BrandAnnamaria BriaMarkus BrillKatarina BritzNathan BrixiusJoost BroekensAntonio BucchiaroneHung BuiAndrei BulatovAndriy BurkovJohannes BusseFrancesco CalimeriMartin CaminadaGianluca CaminitiPaola CampliBin CaoOndrej CepekJesus CerquidesAmedeo CestaMuthukumaran

ChandrasekharanArchie ChapmanMinmin ChenXiaoyu ChenKenik C.K. ChengFederico ChesaniYann ChevaleyreJaesik ChoiGeorge ChristelisGrzegorz CielniakJean-François CondottaStéphane CoulondreBroderick CrawfordMadalina CroitoruPeng DaiSujatha DasFeras DayoubBoris DefournySteven de JongOier Lopez de LacalleFabien De MarchiHongbo DengJilles DibangoyePatrick DickinsonEmanuele Di RosaPaul DoranConrad DrescherShaddin DughmiAdam EckFolke EisterlehnerGabor ErdelyiMichael ErdmannRedouane EzzahirMarco FaellaPiotr FaliszewskiAlessandro Farinelli

Fabio FassettiChris FawcettCesar FernandezFrancesco FigariFelix FischerFrédéric FlouvatJérôme FortinChristian FritzGemma GarrigaAlfredo GarroJonathan GaudreaultMarco GavanelliMartin GebserValerio GenoveseIan GentMelinda GervasioRigel GjomemoAlexandre GoldsztejnGiorgio GostiLaurent GranvillierGiovanni GrassoAlban GrastienAndy GraylandBenjamin GrosofDavide GrossiYunsong GuoFrank GurskiBernd GutmannDjamal HabetHannaneh HajishirziNoam HazonAaron HertzmannKoen HindriksAidan HoganJoana HoisMatthew HorridgeLothar HotzDerek Hao HuRuoyun HuangJens HumrichFrank HutterTsuyoshi IdeAlexander IhlerSalvatore IiritanoKatsumi InoueShamsi IqbalBill JarroldPeter JeavonsChristopher JeffersonE. Gil JonesCatholijn JonkerMatti KaariainenRajesh KalyanamRoland KaminskiBalajee KannanTsuyoshi KatoJoost-Pieter KatoenKonstantinos

KatsikopoulosRaman KazhamiakinRyan KellyPeter KissmannPavel KlinovMatthias KnorrAndrey KolobovAchim KönigsBeata KonikowskaLars KotthoffBeate KrauseThomas KrekelerThomas KrennwallnerBradley C. LackeyArnaud LallouetTobias LangGiel van LankveldFrederic LardeuxYat-Chiu LawGianluca LaxYahia LebbahMichel LeclèreDarrin LewisOlivier LhommeGang LiJiye LiLei LiNa LiSanjiang LiGerard LigozatChavalit LikitvivatanavongYuanqing LinClaudia LindnerAlberto Lluch-LafuenteBrian LoganMichele LombardiEmiliano LoriniDominik LückeHao MaJianbing MaMatt MacMahonRichard MacMillanArnaud MalapertEnrico MaliziaElitza ManevaMarco MannaMarco MarateaAnnapaola MarconiRaphaël MaréeElisa MarengoPaolo MarinCarles MateuLuke MathiesonRobert MattmüllerBertrand MazureDiana McCarthyPaola Mello

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Yunsong MengOle MengshoelPedro MeseguerLoizos MichaelJames MichaelisMartin MichalowskiL. D. MillerG. Ayorkor Mills-TetteySteve MintonOlana MissuraTakeshi MitaCarsten MoldenhauerMarco MontaliNeil MoorePavlos MoraitisCarroll MorganDavid MorleyEnrique Munoz de CoteAniello MuranoLihi NaamaniHootan NakhostNathan Nan LiuNina NarodytskaVivi NastaseBertrand NeveuJacques NicolasPeter NightingaleImmanuel NormannJohannes OetschAlbert OliverasJasmin OpitzYinon OshratNardine OsmanMartijn van OtterloNikunj OzaRavi PallaChi-Chun PanJunfeng PanRong PanSinno Jialin PanLionel ParisTerry PayneYannick PencoléPatrice PernyAdrian Perreau

de PinnickJan PetersJohann PetrakGabriella PigozziHou PingKnot PipatsrisawatNicola PolicellaEnrico PontelliMarc PoulyValentina PresuttiLaurette PretoriusJörg PührerGuilin Qi

Talal RahwanHeorhi RaikDeepak RamachandranSarvapali RamchurnIgor RazgonMajid RazmaraAubrey J. RembertAndrea RendlJochen RenzSheila ReynoldsFrancesco RiccaMark RichardsJuan Antonio RodríguezGabriele RögerTimo RöhlingMagnus RoosTeemu RoosDomenico RosaciAvi RosenfeldAaron RothMaxim RoyJordi SabaterRegis SabbadinAlessandro SaettiJahn-Takeshi SaitoAndrás SalamonMarko SamerFrancesco SantiniFrederic SaubionLuigi SauroFrancesco ScarcelloMaarten SchaddJosef ScharingerMarkus SchedlFalk ScholerRolf SchwitterDaniel Villatoro SeguraMartina SeidlOliver SerangMathieu SerrurierBaris SertkayaSven SeukenSimon ShamounYogeshwer SharmaShohei ShimizuAfsaneh ShiraziShai ShlomaiTammar ShrotMantas SimkusKai SimonGeneviève SimonetYaron SingerSaurabh Singh KatariaAdina SirbuEvgeny SkvortsovAleksandrs SlivkinsStephen SmithTroels Soerensen

Chattrakul SombattheeraAitor SoroaHolger SpakowskiAaron SpauldingJohn StellRoni SternBas SteunebrinkHannes StrassPeter StuckeyDamian SulewskiSiddharth SuriPavel SurynekTaiji SuzukiLeila TakayamaGuglielmo TamburriniTami TamirBrian TannerW. T. Luke TeacyDan TecuciLa Xuan ThangSven ThieleRallou ThomopoulosDavid ThompsonIngo ThonDavid ThueMilan TofiloskiRyota TomiokaGianluca TortaYiorgos TrimponiasTomasz TruderungTran The TruyenMax TuengerthalPaolo TurriniDmytro TykhonovMichal ValkoIvan José VarzinczakPhilippe VeberShankar VembuJoost VennekensTim VerwaartThierry VidalSerena VillataWietske VisserFabio VitaleAdam VogelAndreas VogtSebastian VoigtMarta VomlelovaIain WallaceKimberly Ferguson

WalterHuayan WangShijun WangLouis WehenkelMartin WehrleEmil WeydertMatthew WhitakerRyan Williams

Michael WolfJames WrightJia-Hong WuEvan Wei XiangLin XuYou XuZenglin XuKeiji YanaiKazuki YoshizoeJiye YuUzi ZahaviAlessandro ZanariniYifeng ZengHuaifeng ZhangShichao ZhangXiao ZhangYingqian ZhangYuanlin ZhangVincent Wenchen ZhengLei ZhuVittorio Amos ZiparoInon ZuckermanMichael Zuckerman