Program and Registration—2025

Welcome to AAAI-MAKE 2025. On this page, you will find the program and the respective starting times—participation is only possible after prior registration.

The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held at San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, CA. USA.

Last update: 2025-04-01

Table of Contents

Monday, March 31

Opening
9:00 am – 9:10 am
Andreas Martin, AAAI-MAKE chair

Keynote 1
9:10 am – 10:10 am
Chair: Yen-Ling Kuo
Alessandro Oltramari, President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute (College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) and Senior Research Scientist at the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Pittsburgh

Session 1
10:10 am – 10:30 pm
Chair: Yen-Ling Kuo

Yuanxi Fu and Jodi Schneider: Engineering the Reproducible Literature Review Section for Scholarly Publications and Grant Applications (20 min, position paper)

Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am

Session 2
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Chair: Jane Yung-jen Hsu

Giacomo Zamprogno, Ilaria Tiddi and Bart Verhej: Autonomous Research Assistants for Hybrid Intelligence: Landscape and Challenges (45 min, full paper)

Justin Brody: Neurosymbolic Visual Reasoning for Ambiguity Resolution (45 min, full paper)

Lunch
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Keynote 2
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Chair: Hans-Georg Fill
Pradeep Ravikumar, Professor in the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University

Session 3
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Chair: Hans-Georg Fill

Paulo Shakarian, Gerardo Simari and Nathaniel Bastian: Probabilistic Foundations for Metacognition via Hybrid-AI (30 min, short paper)

Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Session 4
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Chair: Yen-Ling Kuo

Karan Taneja and Ashok Goel: MuDoC: An Interactive Multimodal Document-grounded Conversational AI System (30 min, short paper)

Neale Ratzlaff, Man Luo, Xin Su, Vasudev Lal and Phillip Howard: Training-Free Mitigation of Language Reasoning Degradation After Multimodal Instruction Tuning (30 min, short paper)

Reception
6.00 pm – 7:00 pm

Tuesday, April 1

Keynote 3
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Chair: Thomas Schmid
Leilani H. Gilpin, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Affiliate of the Science & Justice Research Center

Session 5
10:00 am – 10:30 am
Chair: Thomas Schmid

Cheng-En Tsai, Fanfan Chen and Jane Yung-Jen Hsu: A Narrative Agent for the “Family Story Hoard”: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interactive Storytelling (30 min, short paper)

Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am

Session 6
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Chair: Paulo Shakarian

Balahari Vignesh Balu, Florian Geissler, Francesco Carella, Joao-Vitor Zacchi, Josef Jiru, Núria Mata, Reinhard Stolle: Towards Automated Safety Requirements Derivation Using Agent-based RAG (45 min, full paper)

Sanaz Saki Norouzi and Pascal Hitzler: Knowledge-Enhanced Geospatial QA: Integrating Wikidata Fact Verification with LLMs (45 min, full paper)

Lunch
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Keynote 4
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Chair: Reinhard Stolle
Andrei Barbu, Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM)

Session 7
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Chair: Reinhard Stolle

Anthony Marchiafava and Atriya Sen: Towards Determining How Deep Neural Models Learn to Reason (30 min, short paper)

Break
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Session 8
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Chair: Thomas Schmid

Noel Ngu, Aditya Taparia, Gerardo Simari, Mario Leiva, Ransalu Senanayake, Paulo Shakarian, Nathaniel Bastian and John Corcoran: Multiple Distribution Shift – Aerial (MDS-A): Challenge Dataset for Understanding Model Performance and Baselines with Hybrid AI Error Detection (30 min, short paper)

Fabian Muff and Hans-Georg Fill: Creating Augmented Reality Applications Using Large Language Models: Experiments with the CMAG Framework and ARWFMM (30 min, short paper)

Plenary Session
6.00 pm – 7:30 pm
Thomas Schmid, representing AAAI-MAKE

Wednesday, April 2

Session 9
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Chair: Hans-Georg Fill

Siyu Wu, Alessandro Oltramari, Jonathan Francis, Lee Giles and Frank Ritter: LLM-ACTR: from Cognitive Models to LLMs in Manufacturing Solutions (45 min, full paper)

Samatha Ereshi Akkamahadevi, Abhilekha Dalal and Pascal Hitzler: Evaluation of Concept Induction in Explainable AI using Multiple Datasets (45 min, full paper)

Break
10:30 am – 11:00 am

Session 10
11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Chair: Jane Yung-jen Hsu

Muhammad Furquan Hassan, Faiza Khan Khattak and Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari: Dialectic Preference Bias in Language Models (30 min, short paper)

Parijat Kar: Convergence of Personalities Using Reinforcement Learning and Text Generation (45 min, full paper)

Closing
12:15 pm – 12:30 pm
Andreas Martin, AAAI-MAKE chair

End of the Symposium
12:30 pm

Presentation Format

Symposium contributors will present their paper in a presentation, including a 5 to 10-minute discussion.

Papers

DO NOT cite, link to, redistribute, or republish AAAI-endorsed preprints. The papers on this website are not the final versions. The final versions will be published later and should be the version used for citations and links. The preprints have been made available for symposia attendees only.

Virtual Attendance

The AAAI is allowing virtual attendance, but all presenters need to be in person. Virtual presentations are not permitted. All virtual attendees must be registered; there is no reduced rate for virtual attendance. The AAAI will provide links directly to all registered attendees before the start of the program.

Registration*

Accepted authors, invited speakers, symposium participants, and other invited attendees must register to participate in the symposia. Please register via the online registration form.

* The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is responsible for the overall organization of all the Spring Symposium Series. For any inquiries related to registration, please contact the AAAI at sss@aaai.org or consult the AAAI’s website (https://aaai.org/conference/spring-symposia/sss25/).