Dr David N Morley*

Current Projects

Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes As part of DARPA’s Perceptive Agent that Learns (PAL) program, SRI and team members are working on developing a next-generation "Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes" (CALO).

Past Projects

Taskable Reactive Agent Communities (TRAC) The TRAC project developed mixed-initiative technology that enables flexible tasking and direction of agents by a user. Within TRAC, a user assigns tasks to agents along with guidance that imposes boundaries on agent behavior. During execution, the user manages agent activities in accord with a level of involvement that suits his individual needs. In essence, our work can be viewed as providing a form of process management technology that enables ready human control of agent communities.

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

SPARK: SRI Procedural Agent Realization Kit SPARK is a Belief-Desire-Intention style agent framework grounded in a model of procedural reasoning.

Publications

The following are in reverse chronological order of publication.
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• Yorke-Smith, N., Saadati, S., Myers, K. and Morley, D. Like an Intuitive and Courteous Butler: A Proactive Personal Agent for Task Management, in Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS’09), Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.  [Details]

• Bui, H. H., Cesari, F., Elenius, D., House, N., Morley, D., Myers, K. M., Natarajan, S., Saadati, S., Yeh, E. and Yorke-Smith, N. CALO Workflow Recognition and Proactive Assistance, in AAAI-08 AI Video Competition, Chicago, IL, Jul 2008.  [Details]

• Thangarajah, J. and Harland, J. and Morley, D. and Yorke-Smith, N. Suspending and Resuming Tasks in BDI Agents, in Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS’08), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.  [PDF, Details]

• Harland, J. and Morley, D. and Thangarajah, J. and Yorke-Smith, N. Aborting Tasks in BDI Agents, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS’07), Honolulu, HI, pp. 8–15, May 2007.  [PDF, Details]

• Myers, K. and Berry, P. and Blythe, J. and Conley, K. and Gervasio, M. and McGuinness, D. and Morley, D. and Pfeffer, A. and Pollack, M. and Tambe, M. An Intelligent Personal Assistant for Task and Time Management. AI Magazine, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 47-61, Summer 2007.  [PDF, Details]