IJCAI-ECAI 2018 Distinguished PC and SPC Members

Distinguished PC and SPC members were selected following this
procedure:

• Senior Program Committee (SPC) members were invited to judge reviews (and related discussions) by program committee (PC) members on individual papers.
• Area Chairs (AC) were invited to judge reviews (and related discussions) by SPC and PC members on individual papers.
• There were 2700 judgments, which means that slightly less than 20% of all reviews have received an evaluation.
• A reviewer normally becomes distinguished as soon as one of the following conditions is satisfied: one evaluation 9, or two evaluations >= 8, or three evaluations >= 7, after a quick check from my side. In case there was a negative evaluation (> 4), or in case the condition was nearly satisfied (typically : three evaluations 8-7-6), I checked more carefully the reviews and discussions. In borderline cases, the number of reviews written also played a role: more reviews was of course a positive sign (of course, delegated reviews do not count!). In the SPC case,  discussion leadership played an important role.
• A distinguished reviewer normally becomes level-2 distinguished as soon as one of the following conditions is satisfied: two evaluations 9 by two different evaluators, or three evaluations >= 8 by at least two different evaluators, or four evaluations >= 7 and at least two >= 8, by at least three different evaluators, or three evaluations 9, or four evaluations >= 8 and two 9. In all cases, I checked all reviews and discussions. A evaluation < 5 is normally a veto to the level-2 distinguished status. Again, in borderline cases, the number of reviews and the activity in discussions played a role.
• Two level-2 distinguished PC members had four evaluations 9, or three 9 and two 8, by at least four different evaluators. They got the level-3 distinguished status. No SPC got a level-3 distinguished status.
• There are inevitable biases:
  
  • Because more than 80% of the reviews received no evaluation,
    there certainly are outstanding PC and SPC members who were
    unfortunate enough so that almost none of their reviews was
    evaluated, and therefore do not figure on the list below. This
    bias is stronger in some areas.  If you don’t find your
    name on the list, it may just mean that you did not receive
    enough evaluations, possibly no evaluation at all. That’s
    life.
  • The criteria I used imply that PC and SPC members with more
    papers assigned have more chance to be distinguished or
    super-distinguished. Is it fair? Partly yes (more papers 
    means more work), and partly no, because in some areas the
    average number of papers per PC/SPC was small (however, even
    in these areas, PC/SPC who made more bids got more papers). In
    any case, 
  • For SPC, the quality of the discussions played a major role
    in the evaluation (whether they were long, active, reactive,
    etc.). Sometimes none of the assigned papers was worth a long
    discussion: that’s life. But (again) longer discussions also
    means more work.

Legend: ** = level 2; *** = level 3

Distinguished Program Committee Members

Alessandro Farinelli
Alexander Bochman
Alexander Borgida
Alexandre Niveau ***
Alexandros Voudouris
Alice Toniolo **
Alvaro Torralba **
Ana Ozaki
Anastasia Paparrizou
Andre Platzer
Andrea Cohen **
Andrey Kolobov
Annalisa Appice
Antonio Lieto
Aris Filos-Ratsikas ***
Aristidis Likas
Arjen Hommersom
Avinash Sharma
Axel Polleres
Bart Bogaerts
Bart de Keijzer
Battista Biggio
Ben Hachey
Bikramit Banerjee
Brendan Lucier
Brent Harrison
Brian O’Neill
Bruno Bouzy
Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo **
Carmino Rodriguez-Vela
Carlos Ansotegui
Carmine Ventre
Chang-Tien Lu **
Chao Gao
Chaokun Wang
Chenghao Liu
Chiara Ghidini
Christian Muise
Christine Sinoquet
Christoph Schwering
Chuan Chen **
Claudia Schulz
Clément Carbonnel
Costas Outras
Christian Molinaro **
Cristina Feier
Cyril Terrioux
Daniel Kotke
Daniele Porello
David Carral **
David Lo
Denis Maua
Derek Doran
Diane Bouchacourt
Diderik Roijers
Dietmar Jannach
Dimitris Fotakis
Dinesh Manocha
Dr. Mansi Charma
Egor Kostylev
Emil Weydert **
Enrique Miranda
Eva Onaindia
Fabio Pierazzi
Fabrice Popineau
Federico Cerutti
Florence Dupin de St-Cyr
Florent Capelli
Florent Techteil-Koenigsbuch
Florian Pommerening
François Durand
Gabriele Röger
Gabriella Cortelessa
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
Gary Doran
Georgios Amanatidis
Gerson Zaverucha
Gian Luca Pozzato
Giovanni Amendola
Gregory Bonnet
Grigorios Tsoumakas
Guigang Ding
Hao-Chuan Wang
Harold Soh
Hau Chan
Hendrik Baier
Hongteng Xu
Ievgen Redko
Ilias Sakelariou
Ingo Pill
Ingrid Nunes
Iris Hendrickx
Ismail Ilkan Ceylan
Javier Morales
Jean-Marie Lagniez
Jeffrey Chan
Jens Lehmann
Jeremy Frank **
Jérôme Mengin
Jian Liang
Jiehua Chen **
Joanna Drummond
Joao Vinagre
Jonathan Scholz
Joost Vennekens
Jorge Fandiño
Jorge Lobo
Julian Padget
Julien Lesca
Junming Shao
Kai Pulomäki
Katie Genter
Katsuhiko Ishiguro
Ke Gao
Ken Brown
Kim Batselier
Kiran Lakkaraju
Konstantinos Sechidis
Kristjonas Cyras **
Kuang-Jui Hsu **
Kuldeep Meel
Kurt Driessens
Laura Barbulescu
Laurent Kneip
Leandro Minku
Leonard Poon
Leopoldo Bertossi
Levi Lelis
Logan Yliniemi
Lutz Schröder
Magdalena Ortiz
Malte Helmert
Marcello d’Agostino
Marcello Errecalde
Marco Maratea
Marco Montali
Marco Rospocher
Marek Cygan
Marjin Heule
Marek Kaminski **
Markus Brill
Markus Rabe
Martin Gebser
Massimiliano Giacomin
Matti Järvisalo
Mauro Vallati
Meinolf Sellmann
Melinda Gervasio **
Michael Albert
Michael Floyd
Michael Perrot
Michael Rovatsos
Michael Thomazo
Michelangelo Ceci
Mingkui Tan
Nadin Kokciyan
Nghia Hoang **
Nicholas Mattei
Nico Görmitz **
Nico Potyka **
Nicolas Troquard **
Nikos Karanikolas
Noam Hazon
Ofra Amir
Oren Sar Shalom
Ozgur Kafalı
Pascal Lentzner
Pascale Sébillot **
Paul Dunne
Pedro Sequeira
Philippe Balbiani
Pieter Libin
Ram Ramanujam
Ramon Pino-Perez
Régis Sabbadin
Reshef Meir **
Ricardo Gonçalves
Rob Miller
Robert Bredereck
Robert Goldman
Robert Peharz
Roberto Iglesias Rodriguez
Roman Kontchakov
Ronald de Haan
Roser Morante
Rui Abreu
Rupert Freeman **
Sasha Rubin **
Shigeo Matsubara
Shoushan Li
Silvan Sievers
Simon Miles
Snehalkumar ‘Neil’ Gaikwad
Stanislav Kikot
Stefan Borgwardt
Steffen Michels
Sunil Gupta
Takeshi Kurashima
Thomas Keller **
Thomas Ploetz **
Thomas Walsh
Tiep Le
Tinghuai Wang
Tomas Werner
Tsuyoshi Ide **
Ulrich Junker
Umberto Grandi **
Valentin Goranko
Vasilis Gkatzelis **
Vernon Asuncion
Vincent Thomas
Vivek Srikumar **
Wannes Meert
Warut Suksompong
Weijan Yu
William Jarrold
William Klement **
Xiangnan He
Xiaofeng Zhang
Xiaohui Bei
Yang Liu
Yannis Dimopoulos
Yashaswi Verma **
Yi Wang
Yuanfang Guo
Yuguang Yan
Yuting Zhang
Zhao Kang
Zhao-Rong Lai
Zhichun Wang
Zied Elouedi
Zinovi Rabinovich

Distinguished Senior Program Committee
Members

Alban Grastien **
Alessio Lomuscio **
Amaury Habrard
Ana Bazzan **
Andre Tettamanzi
Armin Biere **
Arthur Choi
Avi Rosenfeld
Barry Smyth
Brian Ziebart
Bruno Castro da Silva **
Bruno Zanuttini **
Chris Amato
Churn-Jung Liau
Colin de la Higuera
Daniele Magazzeni
Daniele Nardi
Davide Grossi
Diego Calvanese
Eric Eaton
Erin Ntoutsi **
Emiliano Lorini
Emily Mower Provost
Emmanuel Hébrard
Felip Manya
Felix Brandt
Francisco Melo **
François Yvon
Frans Oliehoek
Friedrich Slivovsky
Geoff Holmes
George Konidaris **
Gerard de Melo
Gerhard Neumann
Hannu Toivonen
Hendrik Blockeel
Horacio Saggion
Ian Davidson
Ichiro Takeuchi
Irwin King
James Bailey
James Delgrande
James Lester
Jerzy Stefanowski **
Jiajun Zhang
Jianfeng Gao
Joao Leite
Jochen Renz
Jörg Muller
Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar
Kagan Tumer
Katie Atkinson
Katsumi Inoue
Ke Tang **
Ken-Ichi Kawarabayashi
Kota Yamaguchi
Laurent Simon
Lei Wang
Leila Amgoud
Linli Xu
Lluis Godo **
Luis Lamb
Marie-Laure Mugnier
Marina Meila
Mark Riedl
Maxim Likhachev **
Meghyn Bienvenu
Mikko Koivisto **
Ming Li
Ming-Ming Cheng
Minglie Huang
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Nathan Sturtevant
Neil Yorke-Smith
Nic Wilson
Ole Mengshoel
Olivier Spanjaard
Pascal Denis
Paul Harrenstein **
Peter Grunwald **
Peter van Beek **
Philippe Laborie
Philippe Muller
Philippe Preux **
Pierre Zweigenbaum
Preslav Nakov
Richard Booth
Rolf Niedermeier **
Rui Yan **
Sanmay Das
Santiago Ontañon
Scott Wen-tau Yih
Sébastien Konieczny
Serena Villata **
Simon Parsons **
Sinno Jialin Pan
Stefan Szeider
Steven Schockaert
Sujian Li  
Sylvain Bouveret
Thierry Petit
Thomas Meyer
Thomas Schiex
Vangelis Markakis
Wei Gao **
William Yeoh **
Wray Buntine
Xiaotong Yuan
Xin Geng
Xu Sun
Xuanjing Huang
Yiping Ke
Yu Zhang
Yue Zhang
Yuko Sakurai

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Jérôme Lang