Welcome to the 6th Goal Reasoning Workshop at IJCAI/FAIM-2018 in Stockholm, Sweden!
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.
Please note the room location is K24 for the Goal Reasoning Workshop
*Special Joint Panel with Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS-2018)
This year we will feature a joint-panel with the Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) Workshop on the topic of Requirements and Goals for Agent-based Systems: From Specification and Design to Runtime Representation and Reasoning. We encourage all goal reasoning participants to join for what will likely be an exciting discussion and excellent opportunity to interact with the EMAS community.
Panellists: Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Michael T. Cox, Hector Munoz-Avila, Michael Winikoff
Panel will take place Saturday, July 14th 14:00 to 15:00 in Room K12
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical models of goal reasoning
- The role of goals in self-motivated systems
- The role of implicit goals or goal rewards in intelligent system design
- Goal reasoning in hybrid systems
- Interactive goal reasoning
- Goal reasoning in humans
- Goal management
- Goal formulation
- Goal prioritization
- Conversational or narrative reasoning about goals
- Belief-Desire-Intention
- Goal-driven autonomy
- Explanation and diagnosis of notable objects and events that impact goals
- Goal achievement through planning and scheduling
- Metareasoning about goals
- Resolving goals online (e.g., plan repair, replanning, goal deferment, re-goaling)
- Multi-agent and distributed goal management
- Learning for goal reasoning
- Comparisons of goal reasoning with other models of autonomy
- Evaluation/analyses of goal reasoning
- Demonstrations or applications of goal reasoning systems
- Relationship between Goals and Reward/Value Functions
We welcome existing publications from other venues that are appropriate for discussion at this workshop.
Organizers
| Name | Affiliation | Website | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matthew Molineaux | Wright State Research Institute, USA | matthew.molineaux AT wright.edu | URL |
| Dustin Dannenhauer | NRC Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, USA | dustin.dannenhauer.ctr AT nrl.navy.mil | URL |
| Mark 'Mak' Roberts | Naval Research Laboratory, USA | mark.roberts AT nrl.navy.mil | URL |
Program Committee
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| David Aha | Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
| Ron Alford | MITRE Corporation, USA |
| Hayley Borck | Adventium Labs, USA |
| Daniel Borrajo | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
| Michael Cox | Wright State University, USA |
| Michael Floyd | Knexus Research Corporation |
| Nick Hawes | U. Birmingham, UK |
| Matthew Klenk | PARC, USA |
| Hector Munoz-Avila | Lehigh University, USA |
| Vikas Shivashankar | Amazon Robotics, USA |
| Swaroop Vattam | MIT Lincoln Labs, USA |
Important Dates
Paper Submission - 23 April 2018 - deadline extended to 30 April 2018
Author Notification - 16 May 2018
IJCAI Early registration deadline - 31 May 2018
Final Version - 11 June 2018 - Please submit your final version to EasyChair. To submit your final version, go to your submission page on easy chair and click "Update File" in the menu at the upper left.
Workshop held - 13 July 2018 in Room K24
Submissions
Submissions should follow the IJCAI formatting requirements except (1) the submissions should contain the author names (reviewing will *not* be anonymous) and (2) the page limit is 8 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=grw18
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Related Previous Workshops
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
Schedule
A preliminary schedule is now available:| Start-End | Title | Link to Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30-8:45 | Introduction | |
| 8:45-9:45 | Invited Talk by Wheeler Ruml: Goal Reasoning as Multilevel Planning | |
| 9:45-10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 1: Novel Goal Selection Methods | ||
| 10:30-10:50 | Non-Traditional Objective Functions for MDPs Sven Koenig, Christian Muise and Scott Sanner | |
| 10:50-11:10 | The Ideal Rebellion James Boggs, Dustin Dannenhauer, Michael W. Floyd and David Aha | |
| 11:10-11:30 | Counterplanning in Real-Time Strategy Games through Goal Recognition Alberto Pozanco, Alejandro Blanco, Yolanda E-MartÃn, Susana Fernandez and Daniel Borrajo | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Explaining Rebel Behavior in Goal Reasoning Agents Dustin Dannenhauer, Michael Floyd, Daniele Magazzeni and David Aha | |
| 11:50-12:10 | A Computationally Grounded Model for Goal Processing in BDI Agents Sam Leask, Natasha Alechina and Brian Logan | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Panel | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2: Preferences | ||
| 14:00-14:20 | Dynamic Goal Decomposition and Planning in MAS for Highly Changing Environments Stefania Costantini and Giovanni De Gasperis | |
| 14:20-14:40 | Hybrid Goal Selection and Planning in a Goal Reasoning Agent Using Partially Specified Preferences Michael Floyd, Mark Roberts and David Aha | |
| 14:40-15:00 | Generating Plans for Qualitative Goal Preferences Cory Siler and Michael Cox | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Panel | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session 3: Monitoring | ||
| 16:00-16:20 | A New Metric and Method for Goal Identification Control Kai Xu, Quanjun Yin and Qi Zhang | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Goal Reasoning with Goldilocks and Regression Expectations in Nondeterministic Domains Noah Reifsnyder and Hector Munoz-Avila | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Investigation Planning in Data Analysis Ilbin Lee, Shirin Sohrabi, Anton Riabov and Octavian Udrea | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Toward Problem Recognition, Explanation and Goal Formulation Sravya Kondrakunta, Venkatsampath Raja Gogineni, Matthew Molineaux, Hector Munoz-Avila, Martin Oxenham and Michael Cox | |
| 17:20-17:40 | Panel | |
| 17:40-18:00 | Wrapup | |
*14 July 2018, 2pm-3pm: Special Joint Panel with EMAS
This year we will feature a joint-panel with the Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS) Workshop on the topic of Requirements and Goals for Agent-based Systems: From Specification and Design to Runtime Representation and Reasoning. We encourage all goal reasoning participants to join for what will likely be an exciting discussion and excellent opportunity to interact with the EMAS community.
Panellists: Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Michael T. Cox, Hector Munoz-Avila, Michael Winikoff
Invited Talk
Wheeler Ruml -- Goal Reasoning as Multilevel Planning
Abstract: Goal reasoning is an essential ability for many autonomous agents. Some agent architectures go so far as to include a dedicated goal reasoning module. In this talk, I'll present an alternative. Much of the behavior we see as goal reasoning can arise from what I would call planning. I'll provide an example of how a modern planner can handle dynamic partially-observable stochastic adversarial domains without an explicit goal reasoning module. Then I'll sketch some ideas about how some aspects of goal reasoning might be seen as interactions between planners operating at different levels.
