From suthers+@pitt.edu Tue Dec 21 17:47:18 EST 1993 Article: 19988 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:19988 Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!pitt.edu!suthers From: suthers+@pitt.edu (Daniel D Suthers) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: AAAI94 Workshop: Planning for Inter-agent Communication Summary: AAAI94 Workshop: Planning for Inter-agent Communication Keywords: aaai94, workshop, planning, communication, nlp, dai Message-ID: <10209@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 17 Dec 93 17:27:37 GMT Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 107 =========================================================================== Planning for Inter-agent Communication =========================================================================== Description of Workshop: Planning for inter-agent communication, whether in some natural or artificial language, requires real-time planning of resource-bounded communicative acts that change other agents' knowledge (and consequently, perhaps their actions). Communication planning is a promising domain for "scale-up" of planning techniques because a planner must handle larger numbers of interacting constraints than are normally attempted, apply these constraints to a larger number of choices in the development and realization of a plan, and deal with inherent uncertainties about the effects of a communicative action on a recipient. Communication planning has received some attention in (at least) the discourse planning, theories of action, robotics, and distributed AI communities. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together representatives of these communities, with the specific objectives of: 1. identifying characteristic functional requirements of the communication planning problem, supported with examples, 2. identifying planning formalisms or models of natural language discourse that can provide these required functionalities, or identifying functionalities that have not been modeled, and 3. proposing future research that would facilitate progress in at least two of the relevant research communities. The workshop will be organized towards the goal of consensus on a union of these observations, i.e., a list of functional requirements paired with either identified planning formalisms or discourse models or proposals for further research. Topics: Potential topics include how planning formalisms or discourse models can (when appropriate): * generate communicative goals and select those worth pursuing, * respect limitations of the recipient's working memory, * rely on the recipient's inferences to achieve communicative goals, * prevent unintentional effects not limited to the negation of explicit goals, * deliberately overload communicative acts to achieve multiple goals, * address a single communicative goal in multiple ways to increase the likelyhood of success, * deliberately violate normally-respected "conversational rules" to achieve a communicative effect, * plan to communicate the goal-structure of the communication itself, * plan to evaluate the success of communicative acts, * be sensitive to prior plans and communications, and to their failures, and * initiate concurrent execution after a temporal resource bound. Format of Workshop: The workshop will take place over a day and a half. The first day will be divided equally between selected presentations grouped by the issues they address and discussion of those issues. A working committee will synthesize the day's discussion in the evening, and the second morning will be devoted to presentation and discussion of a summary of conclusions and issues for further research. Attendance: The workshop will be limited to 40 participants, with invitations based on submitted position papers. Submission requirements: Potential participants should submit a short (2000 words or less) position paper, preferably via email in plain text, or in postscript if figures are required. If electronic submission is not possible, submit 4 printed copies. Invited authors will have the option of including revised versions of their papers in a citable AAAI Press Technical Report to be based on the workshop. Submit to: Dan Suthers Learning Research & Development Center University of Pittsburgh 3939 O'Hara Street Pittsburgh, PA 15260 suthers+@pitt.edu (412) 624-7036 office (412) 624-9149 fax Workshop Chair: Dan Suthers Workshop Committee: Ed Durfee EECS Dept., University of Michigan durfee@caen.engin.umich.edu Jim Hendler Computer Science Dept., University of Maryland hendler@cs.umd.edu Johanna Moore Learning Research & Development Center, University of Pittsburgh jmoore@cs.pitt.edu -- -------------------------------------------------- Dan Suthers | LRDC, room 505A suthers+@pitt.edu | 3939 O'Hara Street (412) 624-7036 office | University of Pittsburgh