Planning, Agent Modelling, and Robotics

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The people working in this section and their research interests.
Recent publications:
1993
1994
1995
All publications with a research note number (e.g., RN/94/32) can be ordered by quoting the relevant number in this order form. A full listing of the departmental research notes and publications of this section prior to 1993 are listed here. This includes a searchable index.

Please note that all research notes for 1995 and onwards and some from 1994 will soon be available directly through the web. This service is under construction.

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Planning, Agent Modelling, and Robotics: People (alphabetical order)

Rafael Heitor Bordini <R.Bordini@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Now at the Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Multi-Agent Systems: adaptation of an agent to unfamiliar societies.
Alex Coddington <A.Coddington@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Now at the Mobile Robots Research Group, Salford Engineering Department
Planning in uncertain environments.
Maria Fox <Maria.Fox@durham.ac.uk >
Now at the Department of Computer Science, University of Durham
Hierarchical planning.
Planning in uncertain environments.
Knowledge representation and symbol acquisition in autonomous agents.
David Lee <david@robots.ox.ac.uk>
Now at the Robotics Research Group, University of Oxford
Quantitative evaluation of exploration strategies for a mobile robot.
Derek Long <D.P.Long@durham.ac.uk>
Now at the Department of Computer Science, University of Durham
Hierarchical planning.
Reasoning by analogy and causality.
Motivating autonomous planning agents.
Planning autonomous communication.
Mike Luck <Mike.Luck@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
Now at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Motivated inductive discovery
Formalising agency and autonomy
Tim Norman <T.J.Norman@qmw.ac.uk>
Now at the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Unit, QMW, University of London
Heuristics for goal generation in autonomous agents.
Motivating autonomous planning agents
Miles Pebody <Miles.Pebody@soc.soton.ac.uk>
Now at the Ocean Technology Division, Southampton Oceanography Centre
Learning and adaptive control in autonomous agents.
Industrial applications of learning and adaptive control.
Chris Reed <C.Reed@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Planning autonomous communication
Using belief modelling to synthesise argumentative discourse
Stephanie Warrick <S.Warrick@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Perceptual development and concept formation in autonomous agents.
Knowledge representation and symbol acquisition in autonomous agents.

Planning, Agent Modelling, and Robotics: Publications (1993)

  1. Fox, M. (1993a). A Formal Basis for Hierarchical Planning. In Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. An updated version of this paper (1995), entitled Hierarchical Planning by Careful Refinement is available in compressed postscript.

  2. Fox, M. (1993b). Truth Criteria for Hierarchical Refinement Planners. [RN/93/33].

  3. Fox, M. & Long, D. (1993a). A Note on Chapman's Modal Truth Criterion. In Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 6th Portuguese Conference on AI, volume 727 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. (pp. 307-311). Springer-Verlag. [RN/93/15].

  4. Fox, M. & Long, D. (1993b). Identifying White Knights in Partial Plans. [RN/93/31].

  5. Fox, M. & Long, D. (1993c). Identifying White Knights Efficiently," May 1993 [RN/93/32].

  6. Luck, M.M. (1993a). Motivated inductive discovery. Doctoral thesis, University College London.

  7. Luck, M.M. (1993b). Evaluating Evidence for Motivated Discovery. In Progress in Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of the 6th Portuguese Conference on AI, volume 727 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. (pp. 324-339). Springer-Verlag.

  8. Pebody, M. (1993). How do you choose your agents? How do you distribute your processes? [RN/93/64].

Planning, Agent Modelling, and Robotics: Publications (1994)

  1. Lee, D. & Recce, M. (1994a). Quantitative evaluation of the exploration strategy of a mobile robot. In Working Notes: AISB workshop series, Models or Behaviours-Which Way Forward for Robotics?

  2. Lee, D. & Recce, M. (1994b). Quantitative evaluation of the exploration strategies of a mobile robot. AAAI-94 Student Abstracts, [RN/94/82].

  3. Lee, D. & Recce, M. (1994c). Quantitative evaluation of the exploration strategies of an intelligent vehicle. IEEE Symposium: Intelligent Vehicles, [RN/94/83].

  4. Long, D. & Fox, M. (1994). Architectures for Self-motivated Autonomous Systems. In Working Notes: AISB workshop series, Models or Behaviours-Which Way Forward for Robotics?

  5. Long, D. & Garigliano, R. (1994). Reasoning by analogy and causality: A model and application. Ellis Horwood, series in Artificial Intelligence.

  6. Norman, T.J. (1994). Motivated Goal and Action Selection. In Working Notes: AISB workshop, Models or Behaviours-Which Way Forward for Robotics? [RN/94/18]. (PostScript and HTML.)

  7. Pebody, M. (1994a). Robots Have Only One Frame of Reference: The Real World. In Working Notes: AISB workshop series, Models or Behaviours-Which Way Forward for Robotics? [RN/94/35].

  8. Pebody, M. (1994b). Acting to Sense: The Lowest Levels of a Subsumption Architecture. In Proceedings of PerAc'94 From Perception to Action. [RN/94/36].

  9. Warrick, S. & Fox, M. (1994). Symbol Acquisition in an Adaptive Agent Architecture. In Working Notes: AISB workshop, Models or Behaviours-Which Way Forward for Robotics? [RN/94/13].

Planning, Agent Modelling, and Robotics: Publications (1995)

  1. Long D.P. & Fox M. (1995). A Hybrid Architecture for Rational Agents, In S. Torrance & C. Thornton (Eds.), Hybrid Models of Cognition. AISB.

  2. Norman, T.J. & Long, D.P. (1995a). Goal creation in motivated agents. In M.J. Wooldridge & N.R. Jennings (Eds.), Intelligent agents, (pp. 277-290). Volume 890 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag. (PostScript and HTML.)

  3. Norman, T.J. & Long, D.P. (1995b). Alarms: Heuristics for the control of reasoning attention. In Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Pittsburgh. July 1995. [RN/95/6]. (PostScrpit and HTML.)

  4. Norman, T.J. & Long, D.P. (1995c). Alarms: An implementation of motivated agency. To be presented at Second workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages. Montreal. August 1995. [RN/95/24].

  5. Pebody, M. (1995a). Learning and adaptivity: Enhancing reactive behaviour architectures in real-world interaction systems. In Third European Conference on Artificial Life. [RN/95/].

  6. Bordini, Rafael H. & Campbell, John A. Towards an Anthropological Approach to Agent Adaptation. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Decentralized Intelligent and Multi-Agent Systems , (DIMAS'95). Krakow, Poland, 22-24 November, 1995. [RN/95/78].
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