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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is an annual conference on promote research in artificial intelligence. AAAI incorporates a diverse technical track, student abstracts, poster sessions, tutorials, workshops and competition programs. It is ranked as one of the top conferences in the field of Artificial Intelligence by Google Scholar. AAAI 2017 was held in San Francisco from February 4-9, 2017.

Comparison of top contributors at AAAI 2016 and 2017 by number of paper accepts

A total of 638 papers out 2,590 papers were accepted in AAAI 2017. US tops the chart and has been the top research contributor with the highest number of accepts. China has a significant increase in its accepts from 2016, whereas the figures for UK, Canada and India dropped, with lesser number of accepts in 2017.

Table 1: Statistics of accepted papers from corporations and institutions for 2016 and 2017
Corporations
Publications in 2017
Publications in 2016
IBM Research, India
0
4
Microsoft, Bangalore
1
1
Microsoft, Hyderabad
1
0
Visa Inc., India
0
1
Xerox Research Centre, India
3
1
Institutions
Publications in 2017
Publications in 2016
Goa University
0
1
Guindy Anna University
1
0
HIT Hyderabad
0
2
IIEST
2
1
IIIT AP
1
0
IIIT Delhi
1
3
IIIT Hyderabad
2
1
IISc Bangalore
4
3
IIT Bombay
3
7
IIT Delhi
0
1
IIT Gandhinagar
0
3
IIT Hyderabad
0
1
IIT Kanpur
4
0
IIT Kharagpur
1
0
IIT Madras
1
5
ISI Kolkata
0
1
M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology
0
1
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
1
0
University of Kalyani
1
0
Table 2: Contributions from corporates and institutions in 2016 and 2017
Year
Corporations
Institutions
Publications in 2016
7
30
Publications in 2017
5
22
Table 3: Indian contributions at AAAI 2017
S.No
Author
Title
Affiliation
1. Oak S. Depression detection and analysis
Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Bhavans Campus, Andheri West, Mumbai, India
2. Bhattacharyya M. In search of health doubles
Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India
3. Chatterjee S., Mukhopadhyay A., Bhattacharyya M. Smart city planning with constrained crowd judgment analysis
Department of CSE, University of Kalyani, Nadia, India; Department of IT, IIEST, Shibpur, Howrah, India
4. Rai P. Non-negative inductive matrix completion for discrete dyadic data
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
5. Ghosh A., Bhattacharya B., Chowdhury S.B.R. Handwriting profiling using generative adversarial networks
Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
6. Bhattacharya S., Rajan V., Shrivastava H. ICU mortality prediction: A classification algorithm for imbalanced datasets
Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore, India
7. Chaudhuri A.R., Kalyanakrishnan S. PAC identification of a bandit arm relative to a reward quantile
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
8. Dey P. Query complexity of tournament solutions
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
9. Gupta R., Pal S., Kanade A., Shevade S. DeepFix: Fixing Common C language errors by deep learning
Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
10. Lakshminarayanan A.S., Sharma S., Ravindran B. Dynamic action repetition for deep reinforcement learning
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
11. Kumar S., Rengarajan P., Annie A.X. Wikitop: Using wikipedia category network to generate topic trees
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy Anna University, Sardar Patel Road, Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
12. Aswani R., Munnangi S.K., Paruchuri P. Improving surveillance using cooperative target observation
Machine Learning Lab, Kohli Center on Intelligent Systems, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
13. Ghosh A., Kumar H., Sastry P.S. Robust loss functions under label noise for deep neural networks
Microsoft, Bangalore, India; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
14. Fatma N., Chinnakotla M.K., Shrivastava M. The unusual suspects: Deep learning based mining of interesting entity trivia from knowledge graphs
LTRC, IIIT-H, Hyderabad, India; Microsoft, Hyderabad, India
15. Joshi A., Kanojia D., Bhattacharyya P., Carman M. Sarcasm suite: A browser-based engine for sarcasm detection and generation
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; Monash University, Australia; IITB-Monash Research Academy, India
16. Aggarwal A., Ghoshal S., Ankith M.S., Sinha S., Ramakrishnan G., Kar P., Jain P. Scalable optimization of multivariate performance measures in multi-instance multi-label learning
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India; Microsoft Research, China
17. Ghosh A., Chowdhury S.R., Gopalan A. Misspecified linear bandits
University of California, Berkeley, California, United States; Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
18. Gopalan A., Prashanth L.A., Fu M., Marcus S. Weighted bandits or: How bandits learn distorted values that are not expected
Indian Institute of Science, India; University of Maryland, United States
19. Batra N., Wang H., Singh A., Whitehouse K. Matrix factorisation for scalable energy breakdown
IIIT Delhi, India; University of Virginia, United States
20. Niranjan U.N., Rajkumar A. Inductive pairwise ranking: Going beyond the n log(n) barrier
Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, United States; Data Analytics Lab., Xerox Research Centre, India
21. Maheshwari T., Reganti A.N., Kumar U., Chakraborty T., Das A. Semantic interpretation of social network communities
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, AP, India; University of Maryland, College Park, United States
22. Kulharia V., Ghosh A., Mukerjee A., Namboodiri V., Bansal M. Contextual RNN-GANs for abstract reasoning diagram generation
IIT, Kanpur, India; UNC, Chapel Hill, United States
23. Simon S., Wojtczak D. Constrained pure nash equilibria in polymatrix games
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India; University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom