Symposium Schedule
Friday, November 4, 2011
| Time | Presenters | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Pat Langley | Opening Remarks / The Cognitive Systems Paradigm |
| 9:30 AM | Patrick Winston | The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Dynamic Commonsense Hypothesis |
| 10:00 AM | Randolph Jones | Evaluating Integrated, Knowledge-Rich Cognitive Systems |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | James Allen, William de Beaumont, Nate Blaylock, George Ferguson, Jansen Orfan, Mary Swift | Acquiring Commonsense Knowledge for a Cognitive Agent |
| 11:30 AM | Scott Friedman, Kenneth D. Forbus, Bruce Sherin | Constructing and Revising Commonsense Science Explanations: A Metareasoning Approach |
| 12:00 PM | Dongkyu Choi, Stellan Ohlsson | Interoperating Learning Mechanisms in a Cognitive Architecture |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Claude Sammut, Solly Brown | Tool Use Learning in Robots |
| 2:30 PM | Nan Li, David J. Stracuzzi, Pat Langley | Improving Acquisition of Teleoreactive Logic Programs through Representation Change |
| 3:00 PM | John Laird, Nate Derbinsky, Miller Tinkerhess | A Case Study in Integrating Probabilistic Reasoning and Learning in a Symbolic Cognitive Architecture: Soar Plays Dice |
| 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | Poster Presentations | |
| 5:30 PM | First Day Ends | |
Saturday, November 5, 2011
| Time | Presenters | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Susan Epstein, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Joshua Gordon, Tiziana Ligorio | The Role of Knowledge and Certainty in Understanding for Dialogue |
| 9:30 AM | Pat Langley, Nishant Trivedi, Paul Schermerhorn, Matthias Scheutz | Communicating, Interpreting, and Executing High-Level Instructions for Human-Robot Interaction |
| 10:00 AM | George Ferguson, James Allen | A Cognitive Model for Collaborative Agents |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | Nick Cassimatis, Kenneth Forbus, John Laird, and Paul Rosenbloom | Foundational Issues for Cognitive Systems |
| 12:30 PM | Break | |
| Joint Session with Symposium on Common Ground | ||
| 2:00 PM | Yorick Wilks | Protocols for Reference Sharing in a Belief Ascription Model of Communication |
| 2:30 PM | Alex Djalali | Modeling Expert Effects and Common Ground Using Questions Under Discussion |
| 3:00PM | Will Bridewell, Alistair Isaac | Recognizing Deception: A Model of Dynamic Belief Attribution |
| 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 4:00 PM | J. R. Scally, Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Hiroyuki Uchida | Worlds as a Unifying Element of Knowledge Representation |
| 4:30 PM | Scott Fahlman | Using Scone's Multiple-Context Mechanism to Emulate Human-Like Reasoning |
| 5:00 PM | Open discussion | |
| 5:30 PM | Second Day Ends | |
Sunday, November 6, 2011
| Time | Presenters | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Jerry Ball | Explorations in ACT-R Based Cognitive Modeling — Chunks, Inheritance, Production Matching and Working Memory |
| 9:30 AM | Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale | Reference-Related Memory Management in Intelligent Agents Emulating Humans |
| 10:00 AM | Nate Derbinsky, John E. Laird | Effective and Efficient Management of Soar's Working Memory via Base-Level Activation |
| 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 AM | Nick Hawes, Matthew Klenk, Kate Lockwood | Representing and Reasoning About Spatial Regions Defined by Context |
| 11:30 AM | Lenhart Schubert, Jonathan Gordon, Karl Stratos, Adina Rubinoff | Towards Adequate Knowledge and Natural Inference |
| 12:00 PM | Closing Discussion | |
| 12:30 PM | Symposium Ends | |