Stanford Spring Symposium Workshop on Persistent Assistants

Schedule

Monday, March 21, 2005

9:00-10:30 Invited Talk

Learning in the Wild: Experiences Assembling and Living With CALO

Adam Cheyer, SRI International

Preceded by Unavoidable Opening Remarks

Dan Shapiro

11:00-12:30 Learning User Preferences

A Personalized Time Management Assistant

Pauline M. Berry, Melinda Gervasio, Tomás E. Uribe,

Martha Pollack and Michael Moffitt

Calendar Assistants that Learn Preferences

Jean Oh and Stephen F. Smith

Briefing Assistant: Learning Human Summarization Behavior over Time

Nikesh Garera and Alexander I. Rudnicky

2:00-3:30 Communicating with Persistent Assistants

“And you did that why?’ – Using an Abstraction Hierarchy to Design Interaction with Autonomous Spacecraft

John R. Gersh

Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant

John Niekrasz and Matthew Purver and Stanley Peters

Co-adaptation in Long-Term Interaction Between Humans and Intelligent Systems.

L. F. Gunderson, J. P. Gunderson, and T. Kilgore

4:00-5:30 Interactions among Assistants

Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant Domains

Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe

Bumping Strategies for Scheduling in Incremental and Limited Information

Exchange Domains

Pragnesh Jay Modi and Manuela Veloso

Building a Testbed for Studying Service

Wayne Iba & Nick Burwell

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

9:00-10:30 Invited Talk

Human-Robot Collaboration: Physical Persistent Agents

Professor Illah Nourbakhsh, CMU and NASA-AMES Research

11:00-12:30 Delegation and Control

Valuations of Possible Worlds (VPW): A Quantitative Framework for Analysis of Privacy Loss Among Collaborative Personal Assistant Agents

Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Jonathan P. Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham,

Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe

Optimize My Schedule But Keep It Flexible: Distributed Multi-Criteria

Negotiation for Personal Assistants

Emma Bowring and Milind Tambe

Autonomous Agents as Adaptive Perceptual Interfaces

Sattiraju Prabhakar

2:00-3:30 User Modeling & Task Modeling

A Personalized Assistant for Customer Complaints Management Systems

Boris Galitsky

Narratives: Composing and Controlling Persistent Assistants to Coordinate and Automate Multidisciplinary Design And Analysis

John Haymaker, Ben Suter, John Kunz, Martin Fischer

A Context-Sensitive and User-Centric Approach to Developing Personal Assistants

Marie desJardins, Eric Eaton and KiriWagstaff

4:00-5:30 Architectures and Applications

Teams of Engineers and Agents for Managing the Recovery of Water

D. Schreckenghost, P. Bonasso, M.B. Hudson, C. Martin, T. Milam, and C. Thronesbery

Managing and Instructing Information Assistants

Jane Malin, Arthur Molin, and Carroll Thronesbery

SOLO: A Cognitive Orthosis

Richard Simpson, Edmund LoPresti, Debra Schreckenghost, Ned Kirsch, Steve Hayashi

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

9:00-10:30 Task Analyses and Brainstorming

Challenges in Small Unit Precision Combat

Richard Van Atta

Conversational Assistant for In-car Task Management

Joseph Reisinger, Mahesh Viswanathan and Liam Comerford

11:00-12:30 Panel: How to and How NOT to Build a Persistent Assistant