20th North American Soar Workshop¶
May 11th-14th, 2000
Los Angeles, CA
Schedule¶
Thursday, May 11th¶
Tutorials/Introduction to Soar
Friday, May 12th¶
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Soar 8 for Soarers | ||
| Creating a Simulation Environment | ||
| 7:00pm | Dinner from Abbot's Pizza Co. | |
| Introductions and Collect Speaker Materials | ||
| 8:00pm | ISD Demos | |
| Frank Ritter | Eye and Hand in Soar | |
| Andrew Scholer | Learning in STEVE | |
| Randy Hill | Immersadesk Helicopter | |
| Lewis Johnson | CARTE | |
| Jonathan Gratch | Creepy Emotive Faces |
Saturday, May 13th¶
| Time | Presenter | Topic | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Registration & Breakfast | ||
| ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT | |||
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Jonathan Gratch | Soar Goes Hollywood | slides |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Jeff Rickel | ICT Mission Rehearsal | slides |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | John Laird | Lessons Learned from the Computer Game Industry | slides |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Mike Van Lent | Report from the AAI Spring Symposium on AI & Interactive Entertainment | slides |
| NATURAL LANGUAGE | |||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Deryle Lonsdale | Integrating Wordnet with NL-Soar | slides |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Anton Rytting | Using Worldnet to Build Semantic Representation | slides |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Barry Brian Werger Young Jun Kim |
Integrating Soar with Physical Robots & Behavior-Based Control | slides |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | ||
| COGNITIVE MODELING & BELIEVABILITY | |||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Mazin Assaine | Integrating Direction in Soar Believable Synthetic Characters | slides |
| 11:15 - 11:20 | Brian Magerko | An Introduction to a Grad Student | slides |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Jonathan Gratch | Modeling Bad TV Actors in Soar | slides |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | John Laird | Anticipation in the Soar Quakebot | slides |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | John Laird | The Humanity of the Soar Quakebot | slides |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| SOAR DEVELOPMENT | |||
| 1:00 - 1:10 | Karen Coulter | Soar Update | slides |
| 1:10 - 1:20 | Mazin Assanie | New Debugging Tools in TSI 3.0 | slides |
| 1:20 - 1:30 | Glenn Taylor | SDB: A Soar Debugger | slides |
| 1:30 - 1:40 | Mazin Assanie | The Soar Blank Environment: A Skeletal System for Building Tcl-based Soar Environments | slides |
| 1:40 - 1:55 | Mike van Lent | Application Interface Development | slides |
| 1:55 - 2:10 | Bradley Jones | Visual Soar | slides |
| 2:10 - 2:25 | Break | ||
| SOAR COMMUNITY | |||
| 2:25 - 2:35 | Jim Rosbe | Life in the "Real World" | slides |
| 2:35 - 2:45 | Tony Kalus | The Soar FAQ & DERA Report | slides |
| SENSING & INTERPRETATION | |||
| 2:50 - 3:05 | Frank Ritter | SOAR/TcL-PM: Including a Widely Applicable Eye & Hand in Soar | slides |
| 3:05 - 3:20 | Ernst Bovenkamp | Vision-Soar: Multi-Agent Image Interpretation of Medical Images | slides |
| 3:20 - 3:35 | Wayne Zhang Randy Hill |
A Template-Based & Pattern-Driven Approach to Situtaion Awareness & Assessment | slides |
| 3:35 - 3:45 | Randy Jones | Interactive Visualization of Situational Awareness | slides |
| 3:45 - 4:00 | Break | ||
| 4:00 - 5:15 | Break-out Sessions Possible topics:
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| 5:15 - 5:45 | Discussions Summary | ||
| 6:00 | 7241 W. Manchester Avenue, (310) 641-7600 | Dinner at Siam |
Sunday, May 14th¶
| Time | Presenter | Topic | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Breakfast | ||
| Machine Learning | |||
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Mike van Lent | Learning Task Performance Knowledge by Observation | slides |
| Soar Architecture | |||
| 9:15 - 9:25 | Ronald Chong | Using Working Memory in Decay in an EPIC-Soar Model of En Route Air Traffic Controller Behavior | |
| 9:25 - 9:55 | Ronald Chong | Forgetting in Soar: An Architectural Implementation of Working Memory Decay | |
| 9:55 - 10:10 | Scott Wallace | Soar Lite: Designed for Speed | slides |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Scott Wallace | AI Architecture: Evaluation & the Soar Lite Project | slides |
| 10:25 - 10:35 | Sayan Bhattacharyya | Comparing Soar & UM-PRS at the Symbol and Knowledge Levels | slides |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Randy Jones | TacAir-Soar at Sea: Deployment in BFTT | slides |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | David Pynadath Milind Tambe |
Electronic Elves | slides |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Hyuckchul Jung | Collaborative Negotiation Through Argumentation | slides |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Closing Remarks | ||
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 | Go Play |