32nd Soar Workshop¶
June 18th-22nd, 2012
3270 Beyster Building, North Campus, University of Michigan
Room 1670
Schedule¶
Wednesday, June 20th¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | 30 | Registration, Bagels, Juice, and Coffee | ||
| 9:00-10:15 | 75 | |||
| 15 | Introductions | |||
| 20 | John Laird | Selection Space | pdf, ppt | |
| 20 | John Laird | Using Background Knowledge in RL | pdf, ppt | |
| 20 | Mitchell Bloch | Tie Impasses for Numeric Preferences | ||
| 10:15-10:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:00 | 75 | |||
| 20 | Nate Derbinsky | Competence-Preserving Retention of Learned Knowledge in Soar Memories | pdf, ppt | |
| 20 | Nate Derbinsky | Multi-Domain Evaluation of Scaling in Soar's Episodic Memory | pdf, ppt | |
| 20 | Justin Li | Functional Interactions between Memory and Recognition Judgments | ||
| 15 | Nate Derbinsky | Next Steps in Memory Research | pdf, ppt | |
| 12:00-1:30 | 90 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3:05 | 95 | |||
| 15 | Joseph Xu | Soar 9.3.2 and Changes to the Soar Compilation Process | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | Johnicholas Hines | Delimited Continuations in Soar | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | Joseph Xu | How to use the new Soar Visual System (SVS) | pdf, ppt | |
| 20 | Keegan Kinkade | Soar Robot Unleashed | ||
| 30 | Joseph Xu | Learning Relational and Continuous Action Models | pdf, ppt | |
| 3:05-3:35 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:35-4:30 | 55 | |||
| 15 | Mike van Lent | SoarTech Overview | slides missing | |
| 10 | Mike van Lent | Soar in DARPA's SSIM program | slides missing | |
| 10 | Mike van Lent | Would you trust a Soar agent with your life? | slides missing | |
| 30 | Discussion | |||
| 6:30-8:30 | 120 | Pizza House, 618 Church Street |
Thursday, June 21st¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | 30 | Bagels, Juice, and Coffee | ||
| 9:00-10:20 | 80 | |||
| 15 | John Laird | Overview of BOLT (Grounded Language Acquisition) | ||
| 15 | Robert Goeddel | "Kinecting" the Dots: How Bolt Sees the World | ||
| 20 | Sam Wintermute | Leveraging Cognitive Context for Language Processing in Soar | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | Shiwali Mohan | Mixed Initiative Interaction for Learning | ||
| 15 | Aaron Mininger | Learning Nouns and Adjectives in Bolt | ||
| 10:20-10:50 | 30 | Break | ||
| 10:50-12:00 | 70 | |||
| 15 | James Kirk | Learning Prepositions for Spatial Relations in BOLT | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | Shiwali Mohan | Situated Comprehension of Verb Commands | ||
| 15 | Shiwali Mohan | Learning new Actions with Retrospective Projection | ||
| 25 | Discussion | |||
| 12:00-1:30 | 90 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3:00 | 90 | |||
| 15 | Deryle Lonsdale | XNL-Soar: Where we are and where we're headed | pdf, ppt | |
| 5 | Nathan Glenn | Japanese and Optimality Theory | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | John Hale | Rational Parsing | ||
| 20 | Rick Lewis | Language Processing as Bounded Optimal Control of Memory, Perception | ||
| 15 | Glenn Taylor | Natural Human-Robot Interaction | slides missing | |
| 20 | Discussion | |||
| 3:00-3:30 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:30-4:30 | 60 | |||
| 15 | Randy Jones | Interpreted Declarative Representations of Task Knowledge | pdf, ppt | |
| 15 | Randy Jones | Achieving parsimony between NGS and the Michigan approach | pdf, ppt | |
| 30 | Discussion | |||
| 7:30-9:00 | 150 | Demos | Soar Technology, Green Road |