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The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence has promoted theoretical and applied AI research as well as intellectual interchange among researchers and practitioners. As can be seen in these proceedings, AI's scope and influence continue to grow. The technical papers presented at the twenty-seventh meeting of this conference feature substantial, original research and practices. Volume two of the proceedings features papers grouped into the following categories: game playing and interactive entertainment, game theory and economic paradigms, heuristic search and optimization, human-computation and crowd sourcing, humans and AI, integrated systems, and knowledge representation and reasoning.