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What and Who
Planning and Acting Together: Getting Computer Systems to Function as Team Players
Barbara Grosz
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Harvard University
Computerlinguistisches Kolloquium
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4
Expert Audience
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Date, Time and Location
Thursday, 17 January 2002
16:15
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17.3 - Computerlinguistik
Seminar Room
Saarbrücken
Abstract
As a result of the ubiquity of computer networks, computer systems are
increasingly acting as elements in a complex, distributed community of
people and systems, rather than operating as solitary devices employed
by a single person. Individuals in such communities may interact in
various ways---competing, coordinating, collaborating. This talk will
focus on those multi-agent scenarios and applications in which groups
of agents work together to accomplish a joint activity or to achieve a
common goal, that is, on situations in which agents collaborate.
Plans for such collaborative activities must be formed with others,
not in isolation. Many applications require such collaborative
endeavors, and a major challenge for computer science is to determine
ways to construct computer systems that are able to act effectively as
collaborative team members.
Teams may consist solely of computer agents, but often include both
systems and people. They may persist over long periods of time, form
spontaneously for a single group activity, or come together
repeatedly. In this talk, I will briefly review the major features of
one model of collaborative planning, SharedPlans (Grosz and Kraus,
1996, 1999) and will describe efforts to develop collaborative
planning agents and systems for human-computer communication based on
this model. The model also provides a framework in which to raise and
address fundamental questions about collaboration and the construction
of collaboration-capable agents. I will discuss recent approaches to
three plan management processes---assessment of alternatives,
commitment management, and group decision-making for recipe selection
and task allocation---and will raise several challenges for future
research.
If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact:
Hans Uszkoreit
This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the European Post-Graduate
College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.
A current version of the program for this term can be found at:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/
increasingly acting as elements in a complex, distributed community of
people and systems, rather than operating as solitary devices employed
by a single person. Individuals in such communities may interact in
various ways---competing, coordinating, collaborating. This talk will
focus on those multi-agent scenarios and applications in which groups
of agents work together to accomplish a joint activity or to achieve a
common goal, that is, on situations in which agents collaborate.
Plans for such collaborative activities must be formed with others,
not in isolation. Many applications require such collaborative
endeavors, and a major challenge for computer science is to determine
ways to construct computer systems that are able to act effectively as
collaborative team members.
Teams may consist solely of computer agents, but often include both
systems and people. They may persist over long periods of time, form
spontaneously for a single group activity, or come together
repeatedly. In this talk, I will briefly review the major features of
one model of collaborative planning, SharedPlans (Grosz and Kraus,
1996, 1999) and will describe efforts to develop collaborative
planning agents and systems for human-computer communication based on
this model. The model also provides a framework in which to raise and
address fundamental questions about collaboration and the construction
of collaboration-capable agents. I will discuss recent approaches to
three plan management processes---assessment of alternatives,
commitment management, and group decision-making for recipe selection
and task allocation---and will raise several challenges for future
research.
If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact:
Hans Uszkoreit
This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the European Post-Graduate
College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.
A current version of the program for this term can be found at:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/
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