COMP364 Research paper presentation

The research paper presentation will summarize a state-of-the-art research paper in the field of artificial intelligence. Each student or team of students will pick a different paper from the conference AAAI 2011, read the paper and any necessary background literature, and present a summary of the paper. The list of papers to choose from is available in the online AAAI proceedings. (Note: The "AAAI / SIGART Doctoral Consortium," "Student Abstracts and Posters," and the "Robotics Program" at the end of the page are not eligible for selection.)

In choosing a paper, note that you are not necessarily required to understand all the mathematical details of the paper. In your final presentation, you must be able to clearly explain:

What is the problem the authors are trying to solve?
What is the basic idea behind the authors' solution to this problem?
How well does the idea work in practice?

Here is a list of paper titles from the link above that may be suitable for this project (however, you are free to choose any other paper presented at the conference, and don't hesitate to ask the instructor if you are unsure about whether a paper is a suitable):

Optimal Graph Search with Iterated Graph Cuts
Heuristic Search for Large Problems With Real Costs
Euclidean Heuristic Optimization
Block A*: Database-Driven Search with Applications in Any-Angle Path-Planning
Deriving a Web-Scale Common Sense Fact Database
Unsupervised Learning of Human Behaviours
Strategic Information Disclosure to People with Multiple Alternatives
Mechanism Design for Federated Sponsored Search Auctions
Optimal Envy-Free Cake Cutting
The Influence of Emotion Expression on Perceptions of Trustworthiness in Negotiation
Co-Evolution of Selection and Influence in Social Networks
Finding Answers and Generating Explanations for Complex Biomedical Queries
Composite Social Network for Predicting Mobile Apps Installation
Leveraging Wikipedia Characteristics for Search and Candidate Generation in Question Answering
WikiSimple: Automatic Simplification of Wikipedia Articles
The Inter-League Extension of the Traveling Tournament Problem and its Application to Sports Scheduling
When to Stop? That Is the Question
Optimal Route Planning for Electric Vehicles in Large Networks
Detecting Multilingual and Multi-Regional Query Intent in Web Search
Artificial Intelligence for Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Identifying Missing Node Information in Social Networks
Trust Transitivity in Complex Social Networks
Predicting Author Blog Channels with High Value Future Posts for Monitoring
Learning to Suggest Questions in Online Forums
Green Driver: AI in a Microcosm
Dynamic Resource Allocation in Conservation Planning
A Large-Scale Study on Predicting and Contextualizing Building Energy Usage
Modeling and Monitoring Crop Disease in Developing Countries
Efficient Energy-Optimal Routing for Electric Vehicles
Decentralised Control of Micro-Storage in the Smart Grid
Understanding Natural Language Commands for Robotic Navigation and Mobile Manipulation
Self-Aware Traffic Route Planning

There are two milestones related to the presentation, labelled PP0 and PP2. (PP1 has been eliminated, which explains the strange numbering system. Sorry!) These milestones are described below.

PP0 (ungraded)

Notify the instructor of the paper you have chosen. Notification is by email to the instructor. Papers are selected on a first-come first-served basis. A list of the papers chosen so far is available.
Please also inform the instructor whether you will be working alone or with someone else, and if so, the name of your partner.
The PP0 milestone is ungraded.

PP2

The PP2 milestone is the presentation itself. A detailed rubric for grading of the presentation is provided. You may use any combination of data projector slides (via PowerPoint, Keynote, or any other presentation software), whiteboard, and speaking; use whichever combination of media is most effective for delivering your message. The most important points to observe are:

Presentations are limited to 12 minutes, plus 3 minutes for questions.
The objective of the presentation is to communicate the main interesting idea of the paper to your classmates. You will need to present sufficient background or explanatory information for your classmates to understand the research, without wasting time on unnecessary details. As already stated above, the presentation must explain the main problem addressed by the paper, explain the basic idea behind the solution, and report on the effectiveness of the solution.