clarke@utcsri.UUCP (02/03/87)
A.I. SEMINAR, Tuesday, February 10, 3 pm, GB120 ("GB" = Galbraith Building, on St George north of College) Professor James Allen University of Rochester ``Planning Simultaneous Actions in Temporally Rich Worlds" This talk describes work done with Richard Pelavin over the last few years. We have developed a formal logic of action that allows us to represent knowledge and reason about the interaction between events that occur simultaneously or overlap in time. This includes interactions between two (or more) actions that a single agent might perform simultane- ously, as well as interactions between an agent's actions and events occur- ing in the external world. The logic is built upon an interval-based tem- poral logic extended with modal operators similar to temporal necessity and a counterfactual operator. Using this formalism, we can represent a wide range of possible ways in which actions may interact. -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke
clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) (02/04/87)
Both Armin Haken and I posted items about this seminar. While (I presume) it will be an excellent talk, it seems unnecessary to mention it twice, and we're trying to keep ourselves from doing this kind of thing. Sorry about that. -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke