Tractability
Practical Approaches to Hard Problems

Editors

Lucas Bordeaux, Microsoft Research
Lucas Bordeaux is a Senior Research Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, where he works on the design and applications of algorithms to solve hard inference problems.

Youssef Hamadi, Microsoft Research
Youssef Hamadi is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. His work involves the practical resolution of large-scale real life problems set at the intersection of Optimization and Artificial Intelligence. His current research considers the design of complex systems based on multiple formalisms fed by different information channels which plan ahead and perform smart decisions. His current focus is on Autonomous Search, Parallel Search, and Propositional Satisfiability, with applications to Environmental Intelligence, Business Intelligence, and Software Verification.

Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research
Pushmeet Kohli is a Research Scientist in the Machine Learning and Perception group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. His research interests span the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Discrete Optimization, Game Theory, and Human-Computer Interaction with the overall aim of 'teaching' computers to understand the behaviour and intent of human users, and to correctly interpret (or 'See') objects and scenes depicted in colour/depth images or videos. In the context of tractability and optimization, Pushmeet has worked on developing adaptive combinatorial and message passing-based optimization algorithms that exploit the structure of problems to achieve improved performance.

Contributors

Lucas Bordeaux, Youssef Hamadi, Pushmeet Kohli, Georg Gottlob, Gianluigi Greco, Francesco Scarcello, Tony Jebara, Andreas Krause, Daniel Golovin, Peter G. Jeavons, Stanislav Živný, Adnan Darwiche, Vladimir Kolmogorov, Suvrit Sra, Mohit Singh, Kunal Talwar, Fedor V. Fomin, Saket Saurabh, Lara Dolecek, Joao Marques-Silva, Ines Lynce, Nikolaj Bjørner, Leonardo de Moura