Neil Yorke-Smith

Current Projects

Automated User-Centered Reasoning and Acquisition System The goal of this project is to build a generic knowledge acquisition capability for Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Using the system, the scientists will be able to formulate their knowledge in the three science domains, and the high school students will be able to pose Advanced-Placement style questions and get user appropriate explanations.

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).
	Integrated Battle Command Rolling Start DARPA’s Integrated Battle Command program (IBC) aims to support the commander’s intuition, judgment, and creativity using flexible, intelligent decision aids. Unlike some previous efforts, IBC will focus on interactive methods that enable humans to guide the search for solutions.
	RADAR RADAR helps relieve email overload by identifying and helping to carry out tasks implied by received messages.

Software

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

Publications

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• Guo, G. and Zhang, J. and Yorke-Smith, N. A Novel Bayesian Similarity Measure for Recommender Systems, in Proceedings of 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'13), Beijing, China, August 2013.  [Details]

• Yorke-Smith, N. and Heymans, S. and Chaudhri, V. Responding to Hypothetical Questions in an Intelligent Tutoring Agent, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'13), St Paul, MN, May 2013.  [Details]

• Kwong, H. and Yorke-Smith, N. Detection of Imperative and Declarative Question-Answer Pairs in Email Conversations. AI Communications, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 271-283, September 2012.  [Details]

• Chaudhri, V. K. and Heymans, S. and Yorke-Smith, N. Proces Interruption Reasoning, in Proceedings of the 2nd Deep Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Challenge Workshop, Playa Vista, CA, July 2012.  [PDF, Details]

• Dastani, M. and van der Torre, L. and Yorke-Smith, N. Monitoring Commitments in an Organisational Environment, in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'12), Valencia, Spain, June 2012.  [Details]