33rd Soar Workshop


 

Time

Length

Presenter

Title

Wednesday
June 3

1670 BBB

8:30-9:00

30

Registration, Bagels, Juice, and Coffee

9:00-10:15

75

5

Introductions

20

Justin Li

Prospective Memory as a Computational Problem

15

Justin Li

Preemptive Strategies for Overcoming the Forgetting of Goals

20

Steven Furtwangler

Integrated Episodic and Semantic Memory in Robotics

15

Aaron Mininger

Methods of Partitioning a Parallel Episodic Memory

10:15-10:45

30

Break

10:45-12:00

75

15

Ryan Kaulakis

Strategic Approximation of Human Algorithms: A Request for Comments on a Thesis

20

Nate Derbinsky

The Three‐Weight Algorithm: A Flexible Platform for Integrating Knowledge and Optimization

20

Brian Magerko

Gestural Constraints in an AI‐based Interactive Installation

5

Justin Permar

Leaving the Script: A Blending Approach to the Generation of Pretend Play Activities

15

Michael van Lent

SoarTech Company Update

12:00-1:30

90

Lunch

1:30-3:00

90

10

Sven Brueckner

Soar Agents & Emergence: Lessons Learned from Dealing with Large‐Scale Agent Systems

15

Scott Hastings

Real‐time IO‐oriented Soar Agent for Base Station‐Mobile Control

15

Jim Thomas

Using Soar to Teach Probabilistic Reasoning

15

Isiah Hines

Modeling with Graph-Based Version Spaces in Soar

20

Michael van Lent

Explaining the Benefits of Soar to non-Soar Experts

15

 

Discussion

 

 

 

 

3:00-3:30

30

Break

3:30-5:00

90

60

Christian Lebiere

Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Generalization

30

Discussion

6:30-8:30

120

Welcome Dinner

Arbor Brewing Company, 114 E Washington St. Sponsored by Soar Tech

Thursday
June 4

1670 BBB

8:30-9:00

30

Bagels, Juice, and Coffee

9:00-10:15

75

15

Tory S. Anderson

Syntax Stories: Episodic Memory for Language Processing

15

Peter Lindes

OntoSoar: Soar Finds Facts in Text

15

Deryle Lonsdale

Installing and Running XNL-Soar

 

15

Shiwali Mohan

Resolving References using Situated Contexts

15

Shiwali Mohan

Learning to Ground Verbs in Actions

10:15-10:40

25

Break

10:40-12:00

80

20

James Kirk

Learning Game Formulations in a Physically Instantiated Environment

15

Scott Hanford

Using Soar for Mobile Robots

30

Joseph Xu

Learning Integrated Symbolic and Continuous Action Models

15

John Laird

Unification of Activation in Soar

12:00-1:30

90

Lunch

1:30-3:00

90

20

Bob Marinier

JSoar Update

35

Mazin Assanie

More Expressive and Knowledgeable Chunking

15

Mazin Assanie

Soar 9.4

5

Mitchell Bloch

Soar‐RL Trace

15

Joseph Xu

SVS Beta Release

3:00-3:30

30

Break

3:30-5:00

90

20

Alex Turner

Soar and StarCraft

10

Aaron Mininger

Improving the Soar Debugger

20

Mitchell Bloch

Online Value Function Improvement

5

Mazin Assanie

Memory Consolidation: Some Initial Exploration

15

Jon Voigt

SimRadio

15

Braden Phillips

Soar on a Chip

5

Discussion

 

Attendees:

 

Name

Institution

Miguel

Adan

 

Tory S.

Anderson

Brigham Young University

Mazin

Assanie

University of Michigan

Ben

Bachelor

Soar Technology, Inc.

Mitchell

Bloch

University of Michigan

Sven

Brueckner

Soar Technology, Inc.

Jacob

Crossman

Soar Technology, Inc.

Henry

Culver

Colorado Technical University

David

Daniel

L-3 Communications

Nate

Derbinsky

Disney Research

Steven

Furtwangler

Soar Technology, Inc.

Osama

Haddadin

L-3 Communications

Scott

Hanford

Applied Research Lab/ Penn State

Scott

Hastings

L-3 Communications

Isaiah

Hines

University of Michigan

Marc

Huber

Soar Technology, Inc.

Steven

Jones

University of Michigan

Ryan

Kaulakis

Penn State Applied Cognitive Science Lab

Christopher

Kawatsu

Soar Technology, Inc.

James

Kirk

University of Michigan

John

Laird

University of Michigan

Matthew

Lanting

Soar Technology, Inc.

Christian

Lebiere

Carnegie Mellon University

Justin

Li

University of Michigan

Peter

Lindes

Brigham Young University

Deryle

Lonsdale

Brigham Young University

Brian

Magerko

Georgia Tech

Bob

Marinier

Soar Technology, Inc.

Aaron

Mininger

University of Michigan

Shiwali

Mohan

University of Michigan

Alex

Nickels

Soar Technology, Inc.

Van

Parunak

Soar Technology, Inc.

Justin

Permar

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ben

Purman

Soar Technology, Inc.

Brian

Stensrud

Soar Technology, Inc.

Glenn

Taylor

Soar Technology, Inc.

Jim

Thomas

Soar Technology, Inc.

Bob

Touchton

Applied Research Lab - Penn State

Alex

Turner

University of Michigan

Mike

van Lent

Soar Technology, Inc.

Jonathan

Voigt

Soar Technology, Inc.

Joseph

Xu

University of Michigan

Jonathan

Yedidia

Disney Research Boston

Fumin

Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology