SIRLE 2018: AAAI 2018 Spring Symposium on Integrating Representation, Reasoning, Learning, and Execution for Goal Directed Autonomy Stanford University Palo Alto, CA, United States, March 26-28, 2018 |
Conference website | http://siddharthsrivastava.net/sirle18/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirle2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | November 7, 2017 |
Submission deadline | November 7, 2017 |
AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2018
Symposium on Integrating
Representation, Reasoning, Learning, and Execution
for Goal Directed Autonomy
March 26th – 28th, 2018
Stanford University
Overview
Recent advances in AI and robotics have led to a resurgence of interest in the objective of producing intelligent agents that help us in our daily lives. Such agents must be able to rapidly adapt to the changing goals of their users, and the changing environments in which they operate.
These requirements lead to a balancing act that most current systems have difficulty contending with: on the one hand, human interaction and computational scalability favor the use of abstracted models of problems and environments domains; on the other hand, generating goal directed behavior in the real world typically requires accurate models that are difficult to obtain and computationally hard to reason with.
This symposium addresses the core research gaps that arise in designing autonomous systems that execute their actions in complex environments using imprecise models. The sources of imprecision may range from computational pragmatism to imperfect knowledge of the actual problem domain. Some of the research directions that this symposium aims to highlight are:
- hierarchical approaches for goal directed autonomy in physically manifested intelligent systems (e.g., robotics)
- formalizations for knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty for real-world systems and their simulations, including those based on logic as well as on probability theory
- tradeoffs between model verisimilitude, scalability, and executability in sequential decision making
- bridging the gaps between abstract models and reality in sequential decision making
- online model learning and model improvement during execution
- identifying modeling errors during plan execution
- integrated approaches for learning representations and execution policies
- analysis and use of abstractions in autonomous reasoning and execution
Paper Submission
We invite paper submissions on relevant topics, which include, but are not limited to:
- Hierarchical representation, reasoning, and planning
- Behavior synthesis and execution in robotics
- Planning and reasoning with abstract models while ensuring executability
- Abstraction from controls to logic
- Execution monitoring of autonomous systems
- Performance evaluation of executable autonomous systems
- Integrated task and motion planning
- Reasoning in the presence of abstraction
- Online model learning and model improvement
- Detecting model errors during execution
- Integrated representation and policy learning
We invite submissions of full papers (6-8 pages) and short/position papers (2-4 pages). We also solicit system demonstrations which highlight how some of the challenges of interest to this symposium were handled.
We welcome dual submissions and resubmissions of particularly relevant work. Technically, symposium papers are not considered archival, and a transfer of copyright to AAAI is not required. Symposium authors are therefore free to submit their work to other venues, but they should always check with that venue to be sure they have no problem with it.
Organizing Committee
Siddharth Srivastava | Arizona State University |
Shiqi Zhang | Cleveland State University |
Nick Hawes | University of Oxford |
Erez Karpas | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
George Konidaris | Brown University |
Matteo Leonetti | University of Leeds |
Mohan Sridharan | The University of Auckland |
Jeremy Wyatt | University of Birmingham |
Venue
March 26th – 28th, 2018
Stanford University
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to one of the organizers