{"id":336044,"date":"2016-12-14T22:35:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T06:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=336044"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:58:49","slug":"aaai-fall-symposium-flexible-computation","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/aaai-fall-symposium-flexible-computation\/","title":{"rendered":"AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flexible Computation in Intelligent Systems: Results, Issues, and Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flexible computation refers to procedures that allow a graceful trade-off to be made between the quality of results and allocations of costly resources, such as time, memory, or information. Systems employing flexible computation gain the ability to adapt the quality of their response to dynamic changes in requirements for precision, and to uncertainty or variation in the cost of computational commodities. Recent examples of flexible computation techniques include memory-bounded search, anytime algorithms, approximate query processing, and a variety of imprecise computation techniques. Flexible computation has been applied to combinatorial optimization, planning, probabilistic inference, decision making, and theorem proving. Our goal was to explore results, critical problems, and opportunities via invited talks, presentation papers, and panel discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Fall and Spring Symposia are sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">AAAI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>Flexcomp Program Committee<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Louis Hoebel,\u00a0Rome Laboratory<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Horvitz<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.sinica.edu.tw\/pages\/janeliu\/vita_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0University of Illinois<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/web.cs.sunyit.edu\/~mike\/mike.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pittarelli<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0SUNY Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/anytime.cs.umass.edu\/~shlomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shlomo Zilberstein<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0University of Massachusetts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The program for the Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation included invited talks, short research talks (15 minutes including questions), panels, and working groups.<\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, November 9th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session I<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Welcome and Introduction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Invited Talk: Resource Tradeoffs in Planning, Reasoning, and Search<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bart Selman<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Directions in Flexible Computation<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Issues in Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Alan Garvey and Victor Lesser<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Models of Continual Computation in Automated Problem Solving<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session II<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexibility in Planning and Search<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">State-Space Reduction for Flexible and Approximate Computation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Weixiong Zhang<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Anytime heuristic search: Preliminary Report<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:30\u201311:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Composing and Monitoring Non-Deterministic Design-to-Time Methods<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet and Anne Boyer<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:45\u201312:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">The Tradeoff Between Speed and Optimality in Hierarchical Search<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Robert Holte, Maria Perez, Robert Zimmer, and Alan MacDonald<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Designing High Quality Anytime Algorithms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Guiyou Qiu<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session III<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel Discussion:\u00a0Frontiers in Utility-Directed Search<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications I<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Systems for Digital Signal Processing<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joseph Winograd, Jeffrey Ludwig, S. Hamid Nawab, Alan Oppenheim, and Anantha Chandrakasan<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:00\u20133:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Gathering Information Based on its Value<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joshua Grass and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Operating System Support for Imprecise Computation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">David Hull, Wu Feng, and Jane W. S. Liu<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session IV<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20134:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What unifying principles of flexible computation provide value across applications?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation in Decision Making<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:30\u20134:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Some Experiments with Real-Time Decision Algorithms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bruce D&#8217;Ambrosio and Scott Burgess<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:45\u20135:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Michael Horsch and David Poole<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:00\u20135:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Model Selection under Time Constraints<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Geoffrey Rutledge<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:15\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Evidence-directed belief network simplification<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Daphne Koller<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sunday, November 10th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session V<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Overview of Second Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Invited Talk: Approximate Computation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Victor Lesser<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Learning Strategies<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Anytime Solution to Inductively Learn Decision Trees<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Richard Jensen and Jeffrey Schlimmer<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Supporting Flexibility: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Igor Jurisica<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VI<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications II<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Performing Concurrent Robot Path Execution and Computation in Real-Time<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">John Zelek<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computation for 3D Graphics Under Varying Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Jed Lengyel<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Handling Tradeoffs between Precision and Robustness for Visual Tracking<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Kentaro Toyama<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Admission Control Paradigm for Value-cognizant Real-Time Databases<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VII<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What have we learned from applications of flexible computation?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Cognition<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computations Underlying Cognitive Plasticity<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Itiel Dror and Michael Young<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">3:00\u20133:15<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Problem-Solving under Insufficient Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Pei Wang<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VIII<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Division into Focus Groups<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Monday, November 11th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>AAAI Joint Session: Fall Symposium Invited Speaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">10:30\u201311:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">11:00\u201312:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Focus Group Reports and Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What are the key open research challenges in flexible computation?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><em>Symposium Wrap-up<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation in Intelligent Systems: Results, Issues, and Opportunities was held at MIT from November 9-11, 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"1996-11-09","msr_enddate":"1996-11-11","msr_location":"Cambridge, MA, USA","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":true,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-region":[197900],"msr-event-type":[197947],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-336044","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-region-north-america","msr-event-type-universities","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"AAAI Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\"} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Home\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Massachusetts Institute of Technology<span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flexible Computation in Intelligent Systems: Results, Issues, and Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flexible computation refers to procedures that allow a graceful trade-off to be made between the quality of results and allocations of costly resources, such as time, memory, or information. Systems employing flexible computation gain the ability to adapt the quality of their response to dynamic changes in requirements for precision, and to uncertainty or variation in the cost of computational commodities. Recent examples of flexible computation techniques include memory-bounded search, anytime algorithms, approximate query processing, and a variety of imprecise computation techniques. Flexible computation has been applied to combinatorial optimization, planning, probabilistic inference, decision making, and theorem proving. Our goal was to explore results, critical problems, and opportunities via invited talks, presentation papers, and panel discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Fall and Spring Symposia are sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">AAAI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<h2>Flexcomp Program Committee<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Louis Hoebel,\u00a0Rome Laboratory<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Horvitz<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.sinica.edu.tw\/pages\/janeliu\/vita_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0University of Illinois<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/web.cs.sunyit.edu\/~mike\/mike.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pittarelli<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0SUNY Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/anytime.cs.umass.edu\/~shlomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shlomo Zilberstein<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0University of Massachusetts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Program\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p>The program for the Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation included invited talks, short research talks (15 minutes including questions), panels, and working groups.<\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, November 9th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session I<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Welcome and Introduction<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Invited Talk: Resource Tradeoffs in Planning, Reasoning, and Search<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bart Selman<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Directions in Flexible Computation<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Issues in Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Alan Garvey and Victor Lesser<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Models of Continual Computation in Automated Problem Solving<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session II<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexibility in Planning and Search<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">State-Space Reduction for Flexible and Approximate Computation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Weixiong Zhang<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Anytime heuristic search: Preliminary Report<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:30\u201311:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Composing and Monitoring Non-Deterministic Design-to-Time Methods<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet and Anne Boyer<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:45\u201312:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">The Tradeoff Between Speed and Optimality in Hierarchical Search<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Robert Holte, Maria Perez, Robert Zimmer, and Alan MacDonald<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Designing High Quality Anytime Algorithms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Guiyou Qiu<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session III<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel Discussion:\u00a0Frontiers in Utility-Directed Search<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications I<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Systems for Digital Signal Processing<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joseph Winograd, Jeffrey Ludwig, S. Hamid Nawab, Alan Oppenheim, and Anantha Chandrakasan<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:00\u20133:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Gathering Information Based on its Value<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joshua Grass and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Operating System Support for Imprecise Computation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">David Hull, Wu Feng, and Jane W. S. Liu<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session IV<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20134:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What unifying principles of flexible computation provide value across applications?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation in Decision Making<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:30\u20134:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Some Experiments with Real-Time Decision Algorithms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bruce D&#8217;Ambrosio and Scott Burgess<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:45\u20135:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Michael Horsch and David Poole<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:00\u20135:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Model Selection under Time Constraints<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Geoffrey Rutledge<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:15\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Evidence-directed belief network simplification<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Daphne Koller<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sunday, November 10th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session V<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Overview of Second Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Invited Talk: Approximate Computation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Victor Lesser<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Learning Strategies<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Anytime Solution to Inductively Learn Decision Trees<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Richard Jensen and Jeffrey Schlimmer<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Supporting Flexibility: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Igor Jurisica<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VI<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications II<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Performing Concurrent Robot Path Execution and Computation in Real-Time<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">John Zelek<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computation for 3D Graphics Under Varying Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Jed Lengyel<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Handling Tradeoffs between Precision and Robustness for Visual Tracking<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Kentaro Toyama<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Admission Control Paradigm for Value-cognizant Real-Time Databases<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VII<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What have we learned from applications of flexible computation?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Cognition<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computations Underlying Cognitive Plasticity<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Itiel Dror and Michael Young<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">3:00\u20133:15<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Problem-Solving under Insufficient Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Pei Wang<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VIII<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Division into Focus Groups<\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Monday, November 11th<\/h2>\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\n<thead class=\"thead\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>AAAI Joint Session: Fall Symposium Invited Speaker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">10:30\u201311:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p>Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:30<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><strong>Session IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">11:00\u201312:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Focus Group Reports and Discussion<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:30<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What are the key open research challenges in flexible computation?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"tr\">\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\n<p><em>Symposium Wrap-up<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"Home","content":"<strong>Flexible Computation in Intelligent Systems: Results, Issues, and Opportunities<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFlexible computation refers to procedures that allow a graceful trade-off to be made between the quality of results and allocations of costly resources, such as time, memory, or information. Systems employing flexible computation gain the ability to adapt the quality of their response to dynamic changes in requirements for precision, and to uncertainty or variation in the cost of computational commodities. Recent examples of flexible computation techniques include memory-bounded search, anytime algorithms, approximate query processing, and a variety of imprecise computation techniques. Flexible computation has been applied to combinatorial optimization, planning, probabilistic inference, decision making, and theorem proving. Our goal was to explore results, critical problems, and opportunities via invited talks, presentation papers, and panel discussions.\r\n\r\nFall and Spring Symposia are sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaai.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">AAAI<\/a>).\r\n<h2>Flexcomp Program Committee<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Louis Hoebel,\u00a0Rome Laboratory<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Horvitz<\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iis.sinica.edu.tw\/pages\/janeliu\/vita_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Liu<\/a>,\u00a0University of Illinois<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.cs.sunyit.edu\/~mike\/mike.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pittarelli<\/a>,\u00a0SUNY Institute of Technology<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anytime.cs.umass.edu\/~shlomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shlomo Zilberstein<\/a> (<i>Co-chair<\/i>),\u00a0University of Massachusetts<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"},{"id":1,"name":"Program","content":"The program for the Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation included invited talks, short research talks (15 minutes including questions), panels, and working groups.\r\n<h2>Saturday, November 9th<\/h2>\r\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\r\n<thead class=\"thead\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\n<strong>Session I<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nWelcome and Introduction\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nInvited Talk: Resource Tradeoffs in Planning, Reasoning, and Search\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bart Selman<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Directions in Flexible Computation<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Issues in Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Alan Garvey and Victor Lesser<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nModels of Continual Computation in Automated Problem Solving\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nBreak\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:45<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session II<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexibility in Planning and Search<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">State-Space Reduction for Flexible and Approximate Computation<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Weixiong Zhang<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Anytime heuristic search: Preliminary Report<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:30\u201311:45<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Composing and Monitoring Non-Deterministic Design-to-Time Methods<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Fran\u00e7ois Charpillet and Anne Boyer<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:45\u201312:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">The Tradeoff Between Speed and Optimality in Hierarchical Search<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Robert Holte, Maria Perez, Robert Zimmer, and Alan MacDonald<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Designing High Quality Anytime Algorithms<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Guiyou Qiu<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session III<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel Discussion:\u00a0Frontiers in Utility-Directed Search<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications I<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Systems for Digital Signal Processing<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joseph Winograd, Jeffrey Ludwig, S. Hamid Nawab, Alan Oppenheim, and Anantha Chandrakasan<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:00\u20133:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Gathering Information Based on its Value<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Joshua Grass and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Operating System Support for Imprecise Computation<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">David Hull, Wu Feng, and Jane W. S. Liu<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session IV<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20134:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What unifying principles of flexible computation provide value across applications?<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation in Decision Making<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:30\u20134:45<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Some Experiments with Real-Time Decision Algorithms<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Bruce D'Ambrosio and Scott Burgess<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:45\u20135:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Michael Horsch and David Poole<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:00\u20135:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Model Selection under Time Constraints<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Geoffrey Rutledge<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">5:15\u20135:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Evidence-directed belief network simplification<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Daphne Koller<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2>Sunday, November 10th<\/h2>\r\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\r\n<thead class=\"thead\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\n<strong>Session V<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">9:00\u20139:05<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nOverview of Second Day\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:05\u20139:50<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nInvited Talk: Approximate Computation\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Victor Lesser<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Learning Strategies<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:50\u201310:05<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Anytime Solution to Inductively Learn Decision Trees<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Richard Jensen and Jeffrey Schlimmer<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:05\u201310:20<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nSupporting Flexibility: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Igor Jurisica<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:20\u201310:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">10:30\u201311:00<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nBreak\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201312:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VI<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications II<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:00\u201311:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Performing Concurrent Robot Path Execution and Computation in Real-Time<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">John Zelek<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">11:15\u201311:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computation for 3D Graphics Under Varying Resources<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Eric Horvitz and Jed Lengyel<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:00\u201312:15<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Handling Tradeoffs between Precision and Robustness for Visual Tracking<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Kentaro Toyama<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:15\u201312:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">An Admission Control Paradigm for Value-cognizant Real-Time Databases<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">12:30\u20132:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20133:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VII<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:00\u20132:45<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Panel:\u00a0What have we learned from applications of flexible computation?<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Flexible Computation and Cognition<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">2:45\u20133:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Flexible Computations Underlying Cognitive Plasticity<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Itiel Dror and Michael Young<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">3:00\u20133:15<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Problem-Solving under Insufficient Resources<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Pei Wang<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:15\u20133:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Discussants and Open Discussion<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">3:30\u20134:00<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Break<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<p class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">4:00\u20135:30<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><strong>Session VIII<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><em>Division into Focus Groups<\/em><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h2>Monday, November 11th<\/h2>\r\n<table class=\"msr-table-schedule\" style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse\">\r\n<thead class=\"thead\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Time<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Session<\/th>\r\n<th class=\"th\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">Speaker<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n<tbody class=\"tbody\">\r\n<tr class=\"tr\">\r\n<td class=\"td-1-4\" style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">9:00\u201310:30<\/div><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: inherit;border: inherit\">\r\n<div class=\"msr-table-schedule-cell\">\r\n\r\nAAAI Joint Session: Fall Symposium Invited 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