27th Soar Workshop¶
May 21-25, 2007
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Schedule¶
Tuesday, May 22¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:30pm | 120 | SoarTech | Pizza House |
Wednesday, May 23¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | 60 | Registration and Bagels | ||
| 9:00-10:15 | 75 | Cognitive Architecture | ||
| 15 | John Laird | Introductions | ||
| 10 | Keith Knudsen | Survey Introduction and Distribution | slides | |
| 30 | John Laird | Soar Nuggets | slides | |
| 20 | Robert Wray | Metrics for Evaluating Cognitive Achitecture | slides | |
| 10:15-10:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:00 | 75 | Cognitive Architecture | ||
| 15 | Jacob Crossman | Aspects and Soar: A Behavior Development Model | slides | |
| 20 | Randolph Jones | A Comparison of Modeling Idioms in ACT-R and Soar | slides | |
| 30 | Jacob Crossman | Performance of Goal Management Techniques | slides | |
| 10 | Discussion | |||
| 12:00-1:15 | 75 | Lunch | ||
| 1:15-2:55 | 100 | Extensions & Applications | ||
| 20 | Sam Wintermute | The SRS Spatial Reasoning System | slides | |
| 20 | Unmesh Kurup | Modeling Memories of Large-scale Space | slides | |
| 20 | Scott Lathrop | Visual Imagery | slides | |
| 20 | Brian Stensrud | Automated Air Traffic Control | slides | |
| 20 | Nicholas Gorski | Transfer Learning Experiments with Soar & the UCT | slides | |
| 2:55-3:25 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:25-5:00 | 95 | Stories and Serious Games | ||
| 20 | Ben Medler | Scribe: A Tool for Authoring Story-Level Goals | slides | |
| 15 | Brian Stensrud | ISAT (Intelligent Story Architecture for Training) | slides | |
| 60 | Michael van Lent | Serious Game AI vs. Game AI | slides |
Thursday, May 24¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00-10:15 | 75 | Soar Kernel and Tools | ||
| 10 | Doug Pearson | Removing gSKI from kernel | slides | |
| 45 | Keith Knudsen | Soar IDE | slides | |
| 5 | Jon Voigt | New Experimental Environment | slides | |
| 15 | Kate Harding | Soar Tech Update | slides | |
| 10:15-10:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:00 | 75 | Alternative Architectures | ||
| 20 | Doug Pearson | STORM Framework | slides | |
| 20 | Nicholas Gorski | An Example Architecture Using the Storm Framework | slides | |
| 30 | Bob Marinier | SESAME & Soar: A Comparison | slides | |
| 5 | Discussion | |||
| 12:00-1:15 | 75 | Lunch | ||
| 1:15-2:45 | 90 | Learning | ||
| 20 | Andrew Nuxoll | Episodic Memory and Cognitive Capabilities | slides | |
| 20 | Yongjia Wang | Action History in Decision Making and RL | slides | |
| 15 | Yongjia Wang | Hierarchical Clustering and Reinforcement learning | slides | |
| 15 | Joseph Xu | Transfer Learning using Soar | slides | |
| 20 | Bill Kennedy | Cognitive Science and Long-term Symbolic Learning | slides | |
| 2:45-3:15 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:15-5:00 | 105 | Cognitive Modeling | ||
| 20 | Bob Marinier | Feeling as Intrinsic Reward | slides | |
| 30 | Michael Quist | Toward a Hybrid Cultural Cognitive Architecture | slides | |
| 10 | Deryle Lonsdale | Update on NL-Soar and XNL-Soar | slides | |
| 15 | Keith Knudsen | Survey Results | ||
| 30 | John Laird | Cognitive Architecture Challenge Problems | slides | |
| 6:30-9:00 | Dinner |