An important category of knowledge underlying many kinds
intelligent user interfaces is knowledge about the patterns of action which
achieve (or are likely to achieve) particular goal states. The purpose of
this workshop is to bring together researchers with experience in representing
and using this kind of "plan" knowledge in interactive systems, in
order to consolidate our understanding of current techniques and to identify the
key research problems to be solved to enable future progress.
Examples of using plans in intelligent user interfaces
include:
* advice giving,
* intelligent assistance,
* intelligent tutoring,
* presentation planning,
* adaptable interfaces, and
* collaborative interface agents.
Generally speaking, plan knowledge adds a deeper dimension
of context to all of these kinds of applications.
The topic of this workshop obviously overlaps with much
research on planning in general. We will attempt to focus, however, on
issues specifically related to the types of goals and plans that naturally
arise in intelligent user interfaces. Among other things, this includes
the requirement that a human being is "in the loop."
Examples of technical issues related to using plans in
intelligent user interfaces include:
* plan recognition,
* incremental plan generation,
* collaborative planning,
* interleaving plan generation and execution,
* communicating about plans and goals, and
* the role of intended actions in discourse interpretation and
generation.
* acquiring plan knowledge (Note: a separate workshop focusing on plan
acquisition is being organized for the AAAI Fall 2000 Symposium Series.
Contact rich@merl.com for more
information.)
WORKSHOP FORMAT: Due to room size and in order to
facilitate in-depth technical discussion, attendance at the workshop will be by
invitation only and will be restricted to approximately 20 attendees
Furthermore, rather than just having a
"mini-conference" in which every attendee delivers a presentation, we
will organize the day into a small number of panel sessions, each focused on a
key topic area. Each panel session
will be actively moderated by a member of the organizing committee and will have
lots of time for open discussion. The goal of each session will be to generate a
consensus about the important future research directions in that area.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: If you are interested in
participating, please submit a maximum three-page position statement for review
by the organizing committee by Wednesday, December 1.
To submit, please visit http://www.quickplace.com/iuiplanworkshop
and follow the instructions found there.
Position statements should describe the researcher's
experience and interests relevant to the workshop topic, such as:
* theoretical contributions
* an implemented system
* empirical contributions
* statement of a research problem
Copies of all attendees' position statements as
originally submitted will be distributed at the workshop, so bibliographic
(including web) reference information would be particularly useful.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Wednesday, December 1, 1999.
INVITATION NOTIFICATION DATE: Monday, December 13, 1999
WORKSHOP
CHAIRS:
Charles
Rich (rich@merl.com), MERL--A Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab., USA
Candace Sidner (csidner@lotus.com),
Lotus Development Corp., USA
WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
Mathias
Bauer (bauer@dfki.de), DFKI, Germany
Robin Cohen (rcohen@uwaterloo.ca), U. Waterloo, Canada
Phil Cohen (pcohen@cse.ogi.edu), Oregon Graduate Inst., USA
Barbara Grosz (grosz@das.harvard.edu), Harvard U., USA
Eric Horvitz (horvitz@microsoft.com), Microsoft Research,
USA
Craig Knoblock (knoblock@isi.edu), USC/ISI, USA
Tessa Lau (tlau@cs.washington.edu), U. Washington, USA
Neal Lesh (lesh@merl.com), MERL--A Mitsubishi Electric Res. Lab., USA
James Lester (lester@csc.ncsu.edu), N. Carolina State U., USA
Henry Lieberman (lieber@media.mit.edu), MIT, USA
Johanna Moore (J.Moore@ed.ac.uk), U. Edinburgh , UK
Jeff Rickel (rickel@isi.edu), USC/ISI, USA
Robert St. Amant (stamant@csc.ncsu.edu),
N. Carolina State U., USA
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