33rd Soar Workshop¶
June 3rd-6th, 2013
3270 Beyster Building, North Campus, University of Michigan
Room 1670
Schedule¶
Wednesday, June 3rd¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | 30 | Registration, Bagels, Juice, and Coffee | ||
| 9:00-10:15 | 75 | |||
| 5 | Introductions | |||
| 20 | Justin Li | Prospective Memory as a Computational Problem | slides | |
| 15 | Justin Li | Preemptive Strategies for Overcoming the Forgetting of Goals | slides | |
| 20 | Steven Furtwangler | Integrated Episodic and Semantic Memory in Robotics | slides | |
| 15 | Aaron Mininger | Methods of Partitioning a Parallel Episodic Memory | slides | |
| 10:15-10:45 | 30 | Break | ||
| 10:45-12:00 | 75 | |||
| 15 | Ryan Kaulakis | Strategic Approximation of Human Algorithms: A Request for Comments on a Thesis | slides | |
| 20 | Nate Derbinsky | The Three‐Weight Algorithm: A Flexible Platform for Integrating Knowledge and Optimization | slides | |
| 20 | Brian Magerko | Gestural Constraints in an AI‐based Interactive Installation | ||
| 5 | Justin Permar | Leaving the Script: A Blending Approach to the Generation of Pretend Play Activities | slides | |
| 15 | Michael van Lent | SoarTech Company Update | slides | |
| 12:00-1:30 | 90 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3:00 | 90 | |||
| 10 | Sven Brueckner | Soar Agents & Emergence: Lessons Learned from Dealing with Large‐Scale Agent Systems | slides | |
| 15 | Scott Hastings | Real‐time IO‐oriented Soar Agent for Base Station‐Mobile Control | slides | |
| 15 | Jim Thomas | Using Soar to Teach Probabilistic Reasoning | slides | |
| 15 | Isaiah Hines | Modeling with Graph-Based Version Spaces in Soar | slides | |
| 20 | Michael van Lent | Explaining the Benefits of Soar to non-Soar Experts | slides | |
| 15 | Discussion | |||
| 3:00-3:30 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:30-5:00 | 90 | |||
| 60 | Christian Lebiere | Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Generalization | ||
| 30 | Discussion | |||
| 6:30-8:30 | 120 | Welcome Dinner | Arbor Brewing Company, 114 E Washington St. Sponsored by Soar Tech |
Thursday, June 4th¶
| Time | Duration | Presenter | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | 30 | Bagels, Juice, and Coffee | ||
| 9:00-10:15 | 75 | |||
| 15 | Tory S. Anderson | Syntax Stories: Episodic Memory for Language Processing | slides | |
| 15 | Peter Lindes | OntoSoar: Soar Finds Facts in Text | slides | |
| 15 | Deryle Lonsdale | Installing and Running XNL-Soar | slides | |
| 15 | Shiwali Mohan | Resolving References using Situated Contexts | slides | |
| 15 | Shiwali Mohan | Learning to Ground Verbs in Actions | slides | |
| 10:15-10:40 | 25 | Break | ||
| 10:40-12:00 | 80 | |||
| 20 | James Kirk | Learning Game Formulations in a Physically Instantiated Environment | slides | |
| 15 | Scott Hanford | Using Soar for Mobile Robots | slides | |
| 30 | Joseph Xu | Learning Integrated Symbolic and Continuous Action Models | slides | |
| 15 | John Laird | Unification of Activation in Soar | slides | |
| 12:00-1:30 | 90 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30-3:00 | 90 | |||
| 20 | Bob Marinier | JSoar Update | slides | |
| 35 | Mazin Assanie | More Expressive and Knowledgeable Chunking | slides | |
| 15 | Mazin Assanie | Soar 9.4 | slides | |
| 5 | Mitchell Bloch | Soar‐RL Trace | slides | |
| 15 | Joseph Xu | SVS Beta Release | slides | |
| 3:00-3:30 | 30 | Break | ||
| 3:30-5:00 | 90 | |||
| 20 | Alex Turner | Soar and StarCraft | slides | |
| 10 | Aaron Mininger | Improving the Soar Debugger | slides | |
| 20 | Mitchell Bloch | Online Value Function Improvement | slides | |
| 5 | Mazin Assanie | Memory Consolidation: Some Initial Exploration | slides | |
| 15 | Jon Voigt | SimRadio | slides | |
| 15 | Braden Phillips | Soar on a Chip | slides | |
| 5 | Discussion |
Attendees¶
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Miguel Adan | |
| Tory S. Anderson | Brigham Young University |
| Mazin Assanie | University of Michigan |
| Ben Bachelor | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Mitchell Bloch | University of Michigan |
| Sven Brueckner | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Jacob Crossman | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Henry Culver | Colorado Technical University |
| David Daniel | L-3 Communications |
| Nate Derbinsky | Disney Research |
| Steven Furtwangler | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Osama Haddadin | L-3 Communications |
| Scott Hanford | Applied Research Lab/ Penn State |
| Scott Hastings | L-3 Communications |
| Isaiah Hines | University of Michigan |
| Marc Huber | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Steven Jones | University of Michigan |
| Ryan Kaulakis | Penn State Applied Cognitive Science Lab |
| Christopher Kawatsu | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| James Kirk | University of Michigan |
| John Laird | University of Michigan |
| Matthew Lanting | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Christian Lebiere | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Justin Li | University of Michigan |
| Peter Lindes | Brigham Young University |
| Deryle Lonsdale | Brigham Young University |
| Brian Magerko | Georgia Tech |
| Bob Marinier | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Aaron Mininger | University of Michigan |
| Shiwali Mohan | University of Michigan |
| Alex Nickels | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Van Parunak | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Justin Permar | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Ben Purman | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Brian Stensrud | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Glenn Taylor | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Jim Thomas | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Bob Touchton | Applied Research Lab - Penn State |
| Alex Turner | University of Michigan |
| Mike van Lent | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Jonathan Voigt | Soar Technology, Inc. |
| Joseph Xu | University of Michigan |
| Jonathan Yedidia | Disney Research Boston |
| Fumin Zhang | Georgia Institute of Technology |