MAPLE Research Overview
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MAPLE Research Overview Marie desJardins (mariedj@cs.umbc.edu) First Annual MAPLE Research Colloquium 31 May 2002
MAPLE • MAPLE = Multi-Agent Planning and Learning • Themes: • Integrated AI: Planning, learning, and interaction with other agents (human and machine) • Mixed-initiative (interactive) AI systems • Incorporating and modeling different types of knowledge • Abstractions, qualitative models, background knowledge… • Lifelong systems, embedded in real-world environments
Multi-agent systems • Communication: Responsiveness and sensitivity to the nature and availability of communication within agent teams • Dynamic organization: Effects of different organizational structures on MAS performance; methods for finding good structures (Sowmya) Sohel Matt (Nitin)
Planning • User interaction: Reasoning about user interactions; visualizing plans; interactive planning methods • Incremental, interactive scheduling: Modeling costs of user interactions • Hybrid architectures: Integrating deliberative and reactive methods through the user of abstract representations; learning at multiple abstraction levels Chad Suryakant Priyang Mithun (Csaba) (Tim Oates)
Learning • Clustering applied to image processing and information retrieval • Visualizing learned models • Adaptation in information retrieval and web searching • Interactive and lifelong learning: Incorporating background knowledge, learning new concepts and abstractions Xuanxuan (Charles Nicholas) (Penny Rheingans) Qianjun (Akshay) Lise Getoor (UMCP)
Future directions • Robot learning • Incorporating qualitative models in learning • Adaptive abstraction methods • Bioinformatics?? • Visualization and user interfaces for understanding large constraint problems?? • Intelligent user interfaces?? • Or…????