2018 AAAI Integrating Representation, Reasoning, Learning and Execution for Goal Directed Autonomy
<p>Mar 25, 2018 08:25 PM see Presentation schedule</p>
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David AHAm Emma Brunskill, Jeremy Frank...</p>
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Recent advances in AI and robotics have led to a resurgence of interest in the objective of producing intelligent agents that help us in our daily lives. Such agents must be able to rapidly adapt to the changing goals of their users, and the changing environments in which they operate.
These requirements lead to a balancing act that most current systems have difficulty contending with: on the one hand, human interaction and computational scalability favor the use of abstracted models of problems and environments domains; on the other hand, generating goal directed behavior in the real world typically requires accurate models that are difficult to obtain and computationally hard to reason with.
This symposium addresses the core research gaps that arise in designing autonomous systems that execute their actions in complex environments using imprecise models. The sources of imprecision may range from computational pragmatism to imperfect knowledge of the actual problem domain. Some of the research directions that this symposium aims to highlight are: <br />
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<li >hierarchical approaches for goal directed autonomy in physically manifested intelligent systems (e.g., robotics)</li>
<li >formalizations for knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty for real-world systems and their simulations, including those based on logic as well as on probability theory</li>
<li >tradeoffs between model verisimilitude, scalability, and executability in sequential decision making</li>
<li >bridging the gaps between abstract models and reality in sequential decision making</li>
<li >online model learning and model improvement during execution</li>
<li >identifying modeling errors during plan execution</li>
<li >integrated approaches for learning representations and execution policies</li>
<li >analysis and use of abstractions in autonomous reasoning and execution</li>
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Wednesday<b> 11AM Emma Brunskill.</b>.... to noon....</p>
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Tuesday 6PM Plenary Session...</p>
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