31st Soar Workshop¶

June 13th-17th, 2011

3270 Beyster Building, North Campus, University of Michigan

Schedule¶

Time	Duration	Presenter	Title	Links
8:30-9:00	30		Registration, Bagels, Juice, and Coffee
9:00-10:15	75		Semantic and Episodic Memory
	15		Introductions
	10	Nate Derbinsky	Introduction to Smem and Epmem	pdf, ppt
	20	Nate Derbinsky	Effective and Efficient Historical Memory Retrieval Bias in Smem	pdf, ppt
	15	Bob Marinier	Playing with Semantic Memory	pdf, ppt
	15	John Laird	Performance Evaluation of Soar's Declarative Memories	pdf, ppt
10:15-10:45	30		Break
10:45-12:00	75
	20	Justin Li	Do's and Don't's of Episodic Memory	link
	20	Justin Li	Supporting Delayed Intentions with Long-Term Memories	link
	35	Nate Derbinsky	Discussion of Soar Semantic and Episodic Memories
12:00-1:30	90		Lunch
1:30-3:00	90
	20	Nate Derbinsky	Efficient Activation-based Working Memory Forgetting	pdf, ppt
	20	John Laird	Impact of Working Memory Activation on Agent Design	pdf, ppt
	10		Discussion of Activation in Working Memory
	30	Paul Rosenbloom	Cognitive Architectures for Virtual Humans	pdf, ppt
	10		Discussion
3:00-3:30	30		Break
3:30-5:00	90
	60	Milind Tambe	Game Theory for Security: Lessons Learned from Deployed Applications	slides missing
	30		Questions and Discussion

Time	Duration	Presenter	Title	Links
8:30-9:00	30		Bagels, Juice, and Coffee
9:00-10:15	75
	10	Miller Tinkerhess	Dice Game Engine	pdf, odp
	20	John Laird	Playing with Dice in Soar	pdf, ppt
	20	Nate Derbinsky	Soaring to New Platforms: 2011 Update	pdf, ppt
	15	Bob Marinier	SoarUnit	pdf, ppt
	10	Margaux Lhommet	Enactivism and multiagent system	pdf
10:15-10:45	30		Break
10:45-12:00	75
	15	Randy Jones	Characterizing the Performance of Applied Intelligent Agents in Soar	pdf, ppt
	5	Jon Voigt	Soar Data Collection	pdf, ppt
	15	Miller Tinkerhess	A New Soar Editor	pdf, odp
	20	Nate Derbinsky	The State of Soar v9.3.1	pdf, ppt
	15	Nate Derbinsky	SoarQnA: Standardized Access to External Knowledge	pdf, ppt
12:00-1:30	90		Lunch
1:30-2:45	75
	20	Randy Jones	Achieving parsimony between NGS and the Michigan approach	pdf, ppt
	20	Randy Jones	Current Applied Soar Agent Development	pdf, ppt
	15	Deryle Lonsdale	Robust parsing and LGSoar	pdf, ppt
	15	Deryle Lonsdale	The XNL-Soar Sandbox	pdf, ppt
	5	Zarrin Chua	Modeling Astronaut Decision-Making during Lunar Landing	pdf, ppt
2:45-3:15	30		Break
3:15-5:00	105
	10	Nick Gorski	Introduction to Soar-RL	pdf, ppt
	20	Shiwali Mohan	Modular Reinforcement Learning in Soar	pdf
	20	Mitchell Bloch	Improving Off-Policy Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in Soar	pdf
	20	Nick Gorski	Learning to Use Memory	pdf, ppt
	35	Nick Gorski	Discussion of Soar-RL	pdf, ppt
6:30-9:00	150	John Laird	Dinner at 311 Windycrest Drive

Time	Duration	Presenter	Title	Links
8:30-9:00	30		Bagels, Juice, and Coffee
9:00-10:20	80
	15	Michael van Lent	SoarTech Update	slides missing
	25	Joseph Xu	Overview of SVS	pdf, ppt
	5	Miller Tinkerhess	Introduction to Robot Domain
	15	Miller Tinkerhess	A Simulated Environment for Instruction	pdf, odp
	20	Shiwali Mohan	An Architecture for Learning with Instruction	pdf
10:20-10:50	30		Break
10:50-12:00	70
	15	Keegan Kinkade	SLAM for Soar	pdf
	20	Joseph Xu	Integrating action modeling into SVS	pdf, ppt
	20	Glenn Taylor	Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction	slides missing
	15	Miller Tinkerhess	Robotics discussion	pdf, odp