| 8:30am | Registration and Check-In | |
| 9:00am | Opening Remarks | Christopher J. MacLellan |
| 9:30am | Tackling the Pretty Hard Problem: Could Robots Have Human-Like Consciousness?
| Lenhart Schubert |
| 10:00am | Toward an Architecture for Robots in the Era of Foundation Models
| Mohan Sridharan |
| 10:30am | Coffee and Snack Break | |
| 11:00am | The STAR Cognitive Cycle in Context: A Comparative Analysis of 44 Cognitive Architectures
| Iuliia Kotseruba & John Tsotsos |
| 11:30am | Explaining Robustness to Catastrophic Forgetting Through Incremental Concept Formation
| Nicki Barari, Christopher J. MacLellan, & Edward Kim |
| Noon |
Catered Lunch @ GLC Atrium
| |
| 1:30pm | Integrating Symbolic Natural Language Understanding and Language Models for Word Sense Disambiguation
| Kexin Zhao & Kenneth Forbus |
| 2:00pm | Hierarchical Semantic Retrieval with Cobweb
| Anant Gupta, Karthik Singaravadivelan, & Zekun Wang |
| 2:30pm | Automated Formalization of William Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis Using Large Language Models
| Andrew Gordon |
| 3:00pm | Coffee and Snack Break | |
| 3:30pm | Invited Talk: Task Analysis by Problem Solving (TAPS): A Method to Identify What Cognitive Systems (and Humans) Need to Know | Richard Catrambone |
| 4:00pm | Understanding Written Procedures
| Gary Borchardt, Sue Felshin, Boris Katz, & Pat Langley |
| 4:30pm | LLM-Augmented Incremental Language Parsing for Robotic Agents
| Mitchell Abrams, Thies Oelerich, & Matthias Scheutz |
| 5:00pm | Walk to Poster Session @ Technology Square Research Building (TSRB) first floor event space | |
| 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
Posters |
|
| R-HTN: Rebellious Online HTN Planning for Safety and Game AI
|
Hector Munoz-Avila, David W. Aha, & Paola Rizzo |
| Do as I Say, Not as I Do: The Role of LLMs in Open World Agents
|
William Ferguson, Marshall Brinn, Allyson Beach, & Aaron Adler |
| Generative Example-Driven Error Mining
|
Constantine Nakos, Walker Demel, & Kenneth Forbus |
| Classical AI vs. LLMs for Decision-Maker Alignment in Health Insurance Choices
|
Mallika Mainali, Harsha Sureshbabu, Anik Sen, Christopher B Rauch, John Meyer, JT Turner, Michael W. Floyd, Matthew Molineaux, & Rosina Weber |
| Inference of Abstraction for Grounded Predicate Logic
|
Hiroyuki Kido |
| A Data-Transparent Probabilistic Model of Temporal Propositional Abstraction
|
Hiroyuki Kido |
| Basic Categories in Vision Language Models: Expert Prompting Doesn't Grant Expertise
|
Hunter Sawyer, Jesse Roberts, & Kyle Moore |
| Frame Semantics for Human-Robot Interaction
|
Mitchell Abrams, Chris Bao, & Matthias Scheutz |
| Frame-Based Scene Understanding: Structured Representations for Introspective Perception in Autonomous Driving
|
Li Liu, Leilani H. Gilpin |
| A View of the Restaurant Script Through the Lens of Hierarchical Planning
|
Jamie Macbeth, Mak Roberts, Boming Zhang, Sharmin Badhan, Molly Neu, Tanush Garg, Mackie Zhou, Yining Hua, & Manushaqe Muco |
| Deliberate Planning in Language Models with Symbolic Representation
|
Siheng Xiong, Zhangding Liu, Jieyu Zhou, & Yusen Su |
| Modeling the Viewpoint Theory of Mental Rotation
|
Yeon Tae Chung, Vijay Marupudi, Siddhartha Krishna Vemuri, Athanassios Economou, & Sashank Varma |
| LLM-Augmented Symbolic NLU System for More Reliable Continuous Causal Statement Interpretation
|
Xin Lian & Kenneth Forbus |
| Mindless Dialogue? A Critical Note on ToM and Communicative Generative Agents
|
Effat Farhana |
| Building Trustworthy AI by Addressing its 16+2 Desiderata with Goal-Directed Commonsense Reasoning
|
Alexis R. Tudor, Yankai Zeng, Huaduo Wang, Joaquín Arias, & Gopal Gupta |
| Toward Representing Emotions in the TalaMind Architecture
|
Philip C. Jackson Jr. |
| Designing Nigiwai with Clauses: Embodiment via Tangible Communication on Three-Dimensional Cognitive Structures
|
Kaira Sekiguchi, Yukio Ohsawa, & Sae Kondo |
| Follow My Lead: Logical Fallacy Classification with Knowledge-Augmented LLMs
|
Peiyu Wang, Tashvi Bansal, Ryan Bai, Emily M. Chui, & Leilani H. Gilpin |
| Do LLMs Suppress Naïve Theories? Investigating Scientific Reasoning and Development in GPT-4o
|
Sneh Gupta, Raj Shah, & Sashank Varma |
