AAAI 2008 MetaReasoning Workshop Tentative Schedule

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Workshop Photos

Time

 Presentation

8:30 - 8:35

 Opening remarks

 Anita Raja

8:35 -8:50

Metareasoning: A Manifesto [pdf]

Michael Cox and Anita Raja

Theme 1:

 Meta-level Control

8:50 - 9:15

Using Introspective Reasoning to Improve CBR System Performance [pdf]

Josep Lluis Arcos, Oguz Mulayim and David Leake

9:15- 9:40

The Role of MetaCognition in Robust AI Systems [pdf]

Matt Schmill, Tim Oates, Mike Anderson, Darsana Joysula, Don Perlis, Shomir Wilson and Scott Fults

9:40- 10:05

Metacognition and the Process of Switching between Reasoning Frames

James Eilbert

10:05- 10:30

Learning Expertise with Bounded Rationality and Self-awareness

Susan Epstein and Smiljana Petrovic

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00- 11:25

Metareasoning and Bounded Rationality

Shlomo Zilberstein

11:25 - 11:45

 Panel Discussion on Meta-Level Control (Lead Discussant : David Ostrowski)

11:45- 12:45

Invited Talk: There's No "Me" in "Meta" - or Is There?

Don Perlis

12:45-14:15

 Lunch

Theme 2:

 Introspective Monitoring

14:15 - 14:40

Argumentation vs Meta-argumentation for the Assessment of Multi-agent

Conflict [pdf]

Boris Galitsky, Sergei Kuznetsov and Boris Kovalerchuk,

 14:40 - 15:05

Question Asking to Inform Procedure Learning [pdf]

Melinda Gervasio and Karen Myers

15:05 - 15:30

Retrospective Self-Adaptation of an Agent’s Domain Knowledge:

Perceptually-Grounded Semantics for Structural Credit Assignment  [pdf]

Josh Jones and Ashok Goel

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:25

Meta-Reasoning for Multi-Spectral Satellite Image Interpretation [pdf]

Paul Robertson and Robert Laddaga

16:25 - 16:45

Panel Discussion on Introspective Monitoring

 (Lead Discussant: David Leake)

16:45 - 17:15

Open Working Session Topic: Boundaries for Meta-Reasoning

 

 

 Monday, July 14, 2008

Time

 Presentation

8:30 - 8:40

 Opening remarks

8:40 -9:40

Invited Talk: Varieties of Meta-cognition in Natural and Artificial

Systems [pdf]

Aaron Sloman

Theme 3:

 Multiagent Metareasoning

9:40 - 10:05

Weighted Prediction Divergence for Metareasoning

Brett Borghetti and Maria Gini

10:05- 10:30

Beyond Minimax: Nonzero-Sum Game Tree Search with Knowledge Oriented Players [pdf]

Tian Sang and Jiun-Hung Chen

10:30 - 11:00

 Coffee Break

11:00- 11:25

Distributed Meta-Management for Self-Protection and Self-Explanation [pdf]

Catriona Kennedy

11:25- 11:50

Coordinating Agents' Meta-Level Control [pdf]

Anita Raja and Victor Lesser

11:50 - 12:10

 Panel Discussion on Multiagent Metareasoning

 (Lead Discussant: Catriona Kennedy)

12:10 - 12:30

 Open Working Session (Topic TBD)

12:30-14:15

 Lunch

Theme 2:

 Models of Self

14:15 - 14:40

A Multi-layer Framework for Evolving and Learning Agents [pdf]

Stefania Costantini, Pierangelo Dell'Acqua and Luis Moniz Pereira

 14:40 - 15:05

Anthropomorphic Self-Models for Metareasoning Agents

Andrew Gordon, Jerry Hobbs and Michael T. Cox

15:05 - 15:30

Developing a Meta-Level Problem Solver for Integrated Learners [pdf]

Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil

15:30 - 16:00

 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:25

Metareasoning as an Integral Part of Commonsense and Autocognitive Reasoning [pdf]

Fabrizio Morbini and Lenhart Schubert,

16:25 - 16:50

Metareasoning as a Formal Computational Problem  [pdf]

Vincent Conitzer

16:50 - 17:15

Panel Discussion on Models of Self  [pdf]

(Lead Discussants : Alexei Samsonovich)

Concluding Remarks

Each paper has 25 minutes for both presentation and discussion. We recommend saving the last five minutes of the slot for questions and discussion (20 min presentation, 5 min questions).