[mod.ai] Seminar - Planning and Plan Recognition in Office Systems

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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.