BORGIDA@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (11/17/86)
Computer Science Department Colloquium Date: Thursday November 20 Speaker: Professor Bruce Croft Title: Planning and Plan Recognition in Office Systems Affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Time: 10:00 a.m. [NOTE UNUSUAL TIME!!!] Place: Hill 705 Note: Refreshments will be served at 9:50 a.m. The office environment provides an ideal testbed for systems that attempt to represent and support complex, semi-structured and cooperative activities. It is typical to find a variety of constraints at different levels of abstraction on activities, objects manipulated by activities, and people that carry out the activities. In this talk, we will discuss the use of planning and plan recognition techniques to support an intelligent interface for an office system. In particular, we emphasise the use of object-based models, and the relationship between planning and plan execution. The types of exceptions that can occur with underconstrained plans will be described and some suggestions made about techniques for handling them.