Welcome to the 7th Goal Reasoning Workshop at ACS 2019 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology!
Goals are a unifying structure across the variety of intelligent systems, and reasoning about goals takes many forms. In the most encompassing view, intelligent systems can use goal structures (or goal rewards) to manage long-term behavior, anticipate the future, select among priorities, commit to action, generate expectations, assess tradeoffs, resolve the impact of notable events, or learn from experience. As a result, the broad topic of goal reasoning is studied in diverse subfields of AI such as motivated systems, cognitive science, automated planning, and agent-oriented programming to name but a few. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from sometimes distinct subfields to encourage cross-disciplinary discussion on goal reasoning.
Room Location: 32-155, first floor, Stata Center
Here's a PDF map of the location
Topics include, but are not limited to:
Foundations
- Theoretical models of goal reasoning or comparisons to other models of autonomy
- Studies of implicit goals or goal reward/value functions
- Goal management: including formulation, selection, or optimization
- Integrating planning or metareasoning with goal management
- Online goal resolution (e.g., plan repair, replanning, goal deferment, re-goaling)
- Learning, evaluation, or analysis of goal reasoning systems
Systems
- Goals in self-motivated systems, hybrid systems, Belief-Desire-Intention systems, or Goal-Driven Autonomy
- Multi-agent or distributed goal management
- Demonstrations or applications of goal reasoning systems
Human Interaction
- Interactive goal reasoning, human-machine goal reasoning
- Conversational or narrative reasoning about goals
- Explanation and diagnosis of notable objects or events impacting goals
We welcome existing publications from other venues that are appropriate for discussion at this workshop.
Organizers
| Name | Affiliation | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Dannenhauer | Navatek LLC, USA | ddannenhauer AT navatekltd.com | URL |
| Mark 'Mak' Roberts | Naval Research Laboratory, USA | mark.roberts AT nrl.navy.mil | URL |
| Brian Logan | University of Nottingham, UK | brian.logan AT nottingham.ac.uk | URL |
| Daniel Borrajo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain | dborrajo AT ia.uc3m.es | URL |
Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| David Aha | Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
| Ron Alford | MITRE Corporation, USA |
| Hayley Borck | Honeywell, USA |
| Martin Oxenham | DSTG, Australia |
| Rafael Bordini | PUCRS, Brazil |
| Mark Burstein | SIFT, USA |
| Mehdi Dastani | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Michael Cox | Wright State University, USA |
| Matthew Klenk | Palo Alto Research Center, USA |
| Hector Munoz-Avila | Lehigh University, USA |
| John-Jules Meyer | Utrecht University, The Netherlands |
| Neil Yorke-Smith | TU Delft, The Netherlands |
| Vikas Shivashankar | Amazon Robotics, USA |
| Michael Floyd | Knexus Research Corporation |
| Ugur Kuter | SIFT, USA |
Important Dates
Paper Submission - 20 June 2019 3 July 2019
Author Notification - 30 June 2019 12 July 2019
Notifications may be provided earlier than July 12th if needed, please email the organizers to request early notification.
Camera Ready - 24 July 2019 31 July 2019
Workshop held - 2 August 2019
Submissions
Submissions should follow the ACS formatting requirements except (1) the submissions should contain the
author names (reviewing will *not* be anonymous) and (2) the page limit is 8 pages 12 pages plus one page for
references so authors have space to address reviewer comments as needed. Formatting style files are
found here.
Submissions will be accepted through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grw19
Camera Ready: To submit your final version, go to your submission page on easy chair and click "Update File" in the menu at the upper left.
Related Previous Workshops
2018 6th Workshop on Goal Reasoning at FAIM-IJCAI 2018 with 12 submissions
2017 5th Workshop on Goal Reasoning at IJCAI 2017 with 15 submissions
2016 4th Workshop on Goal Reasoning at IJCAI 2016 with 14 submissions
2015 Workshop on Goal Reasoning at Advances in Cognitive Systems with 14 submissions
2013 Workshop on Goal Reasoning at Advances in Cognitive Systems with 11 submissions
2010 Workshop on Goal Directed Autonomy at AAAI 2010 with 11 submissions
Tentative Schedule
| Start-End | Title | Link to Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Introduction: Dustin Dannenhauer | |
| Session 1: | ||
| 9:15-10:15 | Invited Talk: Goal Reasoning for Collaboration Mark Burstein | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:10 | The Problem with Problems Michael T. Cox | |
| 11:10-11:35 | The Game of Fluxx: A Benchmark for Goal Reasoning Ben Wright, Michael Floyd, Dustin Dannenhauer and David W. Aha | |
| 11:35- 12:00 | Explanation-based Goal Monitors for Autonomous Agents Zohreh Dannenhauer, Matthew Molineaux and Michael Cox | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 2: | ||
| 1:30-2:30 | Invited Talk: Introspection as a Basis for Advanced Autonomy Matthias Scheutz | |
| 2:30-2:55 | Anticipatory Thinking: A Metacognitive Capability Adam Amos-Binks and Dustin Dannenhauer | |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30-3:55 | LTL and Beyond: Formal Languages for Reward Function Specification in Reinforcement Learning Alberto Camacho, Rodrigo Toro Icarte, Toryn Q. Klassen, Richard Valenzano and Sheila A. McIlraith | |
| 3:55-4:20 | Towards using transparency mechanisms to build better mental models Preeti Ramaraj, Saurav Sahay, Shachi H. Kumar, Walter S. Lasecki, and John E. Laird | |
| 4:20-5:00 | Panel on Goal Lifecycle and the MIDCA Cognitive Architecture Michael T. Cox and Mark "Mak" Roberts | |
| 5:00-5:15 | Closing | |
Invited Talks
Mark Burstein (SIFT LLC)
Title: Goal Reasoning for Collaboration
Matthias Scheutz (Tufts University)
More details forthcoming...
