Dr Pauline M Berry*

Biography and Interests

Dr. Pauline M. Berry is a Computer Scientist at the AI Center, SRI International. Areas of experience include process control, scheduling, constraint-based search, distributed and multiagent problem-solving and AI approaches to the management of information. She has applied her work to problems in the military domain, manufacturing industry and to problems involving the distribution of information, manpower and services in the service industries. Dr. Berry has led advanced research projects in the USA, UK, and Switzerland. She was Principal Investigator on the project "Intelligent Workflow for Collection Management" under the DARPA-AIM program. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Strathclyde, UK. Her Ph.D. dissertation was in the area of knowledge-based reasoning for resource management and was titled "A predictive Model for Satisfying Conflicting Objectives in Scheduling Problems".

Current Projects

Neptune A user-centric, integrated planning and scheduling system that assists the user in exploring the rich space of plans and associated resource assignment options in complex, real-world domains. Each component of the system (user, planner, and scheduler) reacts to the actions of the other, resolving conflicts, and iteratively refining the solution until acceptable.

Past Projects

	Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Personalized Assistant that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).
	Distributed Continual Planning and Execution for Autonomous Air Vehicles This goal of this project is to develop a new software capability for the reprogrammable, coordinated command and control of teams of autonomous unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).
	ENDSTATE The objectives of the ENDSTATE initiative aim to provide new and innovative tools to aid in understanding and exploiting the vulnerabilities created by increasingly interconnected and interdependent physical network infrastructures. The vision was to bring together different but consistent model structures and analysis technologies so as to provide an insight into the vulnerabilities of the infrastructure. The insight could be used to derive the appropriate course of action, given desired effect
	Explaining and Recovering from Computer Break-Ins A system for forensic analysis of computer break-ins.
	Intelligent Workflow for Collection Management The objective of this project was to develop a revolutionary approach to workflow management within the Intelligence Survaillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) domain. The SWIM system was developed and demonstrated advanced workflow management techniques and intelligent reactive control. Research was conducted in the following areas. Information flow control, reasoning about agent capabilities and delegation, and algorithms necessary for dynamic process creation, adaptation and load balancing.
	Multiagent Planning Architecture MPA is an open planning architecture that facilitates incorporation of new plan-related technologies, capitalizing on the benefits of distributed computing for efficiency and robustness. MPA provides protocols to support the sharing of knowledge and capabilities among agents involved in cooperative problem solving. MPA has been demonstrated in the air campaign planning domain, and was used as the infrastructure for the flagship demonstration of the DARPA Planning Initiative.
	Task Management for Dynamic Tactical Targeting Provide task refinement, management and reasoning capabilities to support the Dynamic Sensor Management system being developed by Alphatech
	TEAMBOTICA: A Robotic framework for integrated teaming, tasking, networking and control Teambotica is a research initiative to develop the computational framework necessary for intelligent, autonomous teams of robots to operate in hostile environments.
	The Link Analysis Workbench The goal of this project is to develop the Link Analysis Workbench (LAW), a Web-accessible tool where analysts and machines collaboratively perform link analysis by defining hierarchical and temporal patterns, that include uncertain and qualitative elements, and by defining search strategies for pattern application, through a graphical user interface that supports direct graphical browsing and editing of patterns, search strategies, and summaries and details of resulting matches.

Software

PAL Framework PAL (Personalized Assistant that Learns) Framework website.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Berry, P. M. and Gervasio, M. and Peintner, B. and Yorke-Smith, N. PTIME: Personalized assistance for calendaring. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 40:1-40:22, July 2011.  [PDF, Details]

• Berry, P. and Donneau-Golencer, T. and Duong, K. and Gervasio, M. and Peintner, B. and Yorke-Smith, N. Evaluating User-Adaptive Systems: Lessons from Experiences with a Personalized Meeting Scheduling Assistant, in Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI’09), AAAI Press, July 2009.  [PDF, Details]

• Berry, P. and Donneau-Golencer, T. and Duong, K. and Gervasio, M. and Peintner, B. and Yorke-Smith, N. Mixed-Initiative Negotiation: Facilitating Useful Interaction Between Agent/Owner Pairs, in Proceedings of AAMAS'09 Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Multiagent Systems, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.  [Details]

• Berry, P., Donneau-Golencer, T., Duong, K., Gervasio, M., Peintner, B., and Yorke-Smith, N. Emma: An Event Management Assistant, in Proceedings of ICAPS’08 System Demonstrations, Sydney, Australia, Sep 2008.  [PDF, Details]

• Berry, P. and Bulka, B. and Peintner, B. and Roberts, M. and Yorke-Smith, N. Neptune: A Mixed-Initiative Environment for Planning and Scheduling, in Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS’08), Coconut Grove, FL, May 2008.  [PDF, Details]