The 17th North American Soar Workshop¶
June 27th - June 29th, 1997
Columbus, OH
Archived contents provided by Rick Lewis.
Original URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rick/Soar17/
Schedule¶
Friday, June 27th¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900—1915 | 15 | Rick Lewis | Introductions & announcements |
| 1915—1925 | 10 | Collect transparencies | |
| 1925 | Travel to Johnson's home for cookout |
Saturday, June 28th¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0830—0900 | 30 | Breakfast | ||
| Agents and I/O | ||||
| 0900—0915 | 15 | John Laird | Update on TacAir-Soar | slides |
| 0915—0930 | 15 | Paul Rosenbloom | RWA update | slides |
| 0930—0945 | 15 | Randy Hill | RWA/IFOR perception | slides |
| 0945—1000 | 15 | John Laird | Building agents quickly | slides |
| 1000—1015 | 15 | Michael van Lent | Learning hierarchical operators from observation | slides |
| 1015—1035 | 20 | Break | ||
| 1035—1050 | 15 | Michael van Lent | Creating a Soar agent to play Descent | slides |
| 1050—1115 | 25 | Bob Wray | Designing I/O with Soar: Possibilities, Guidelines and Interactions | slides |
| 1115—1140 | 25 | John Laird | Group discussion: I/O | |
| Community and System Updates I | ||||
| 1140—1155 | 15 | Tom Head | Soar 7.0.4+ Distribution Update | |
| 1155—1200 | 5 | Clare Congdon | Soar manual update | slides |
| 1200—1305 | 65 | Lunch | ||
| Human Cognition and Behavior I | ||||
| 1305—1310 | 5 | Bonnie John | HI-Soar | |
| 1310—1325 | 15 | Hongbin Wang | Hybrid Soar/Echo model of tactical decision making | slides |
| 1325—1340 | 15 | Ron Chong | Epic-Soar | slides |
| 1340—1355 | 15 | Yannick Lallement | ATC-Epic/Soar | slides |
| 1355—1410 | 15 | Break | ||
| Architecture | ||||
| 1410—1505 | 55 | Bob Wray | Operand2 | slides |
| 1505—1520 | 15 | Wray/Laird | Group discussion: Operand2 | |
| 1520—1545 | 25 | Break | ||
| Subgroup sessions (see below for sugroup reports) |
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| 1545—1550 | 5 | Organization of subgroups | ||
| 1550—1655 | 65 | Subgroup sessions | ||
| 1655—1710 | 15 | Break | ||
| Architecture and system update | ||||
| 1710—1740 | 30 | K. Coulter & Randy Jones | Soar 7.1 | slides |
| 1740—1755 | 15 | Randy Jones | Tcl/Tk Soar Interface | slides |
| 1815—2000 | Dinner at Taj Palace | |||
| Demos at CIS Department | ||||
| 2000 | Travel to CIS Department | |||
| 2015—2200 | 105 | Demos | ||
| 2200 | Return to Ramada |
Sunday, June 29th¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0830 | 30 | Breakfast | ||
| Human Cognition and Behavior II | ||||
| 0900—0915 | 15 | Tony Kalus | Intelligent decision support system | slides |
| 0915—0930 | 15 | Todd Johnson | Memory and Learning in Act-R/Soar | slides |
| 0930—0950 | 20 | Rick Lewis | A new theory of working memory in sentence processing | slides |
| 0950—1005 | 15 | Paul Rosenbloom | Emotion | slides |
| 1005—1020 | 15 | Randy Jones | Constraints on the design of a high level model of cognition | slides |
| 1020-1045 | 25 | Break | ||
| Agents | ||||
| 1045—1100 | 15 | Jonathan Gratch | Planning, replanning and execution | |
| 1100—1115 | 15 | Lewis Johnson | Update on pedagogical agents | slides |
| 1115—1120 | 5 | Clare Congdon | AAAI tutorial | slides |
| 1120—1135 | 15 | Sayan Bhattacharyya | Capability analysis | |
| Community and System Updates II | ||||
| 1135—1140 | 5 | Mazin As-Sanie | Introduction | slides |
| 1140—1145 | 5 | Patrick Kenny | Introduction | |
| 1145—1150 | 5 | Uluc Saranli | Introduction | |
| 1150—1200 | 10 | Tony Kalus | Soar usage in Europe | slides |
| 1200—1205 | 5 | Karen Coulter | Soar email addresses | |
| 1205—1305 | 60 | Lunch | ||
| Subgroup reports | ||||
| 1305—1320 | 15 | Jill Lehman | Cognitive modelling and psychological theory | |
| Paul Nielsen | Commercialization of Soar | slides | ||
| Bob Wray | Operand2 | slides | ||
| Natural Language | ||||
| 1320—1335 | 15 | Deryle Lonsdale | Generation in NL-Soar | slides |
| 1335—1350 | 15 | Julie Van Dyke | Second language acquisition | slides |
| Human Cognition and Behavior III | ||||
| 1350—1405 | 15 | Erik Altmann | Individual differences in attention microstrategies | slides |
| 1405—1420 | 15 | Break | ||
| 1420—1435 | 15 | Todd Johnson | Frequency learning using SCA | slides |
| Community and System Updates III | ||||
| 1435—1450 | 15 | Karl Schwamb (ERS) | The ERS Soar Kernel API | slides |
| 1450—1505 | 15 | Karl Schwamb (ERS) | KB Agent, A Commercial Version of Soar: Plans and Status | slides |
| 1505—1535 | 30 | Jill Lehman | Wrap-up |