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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• 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]

• Yorke-Smith, N. and Saadati, S. and Myers, K. and Morley, D. The Design of a Proactive Personal Agent for Task Management. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2012.  [Details]

• Pauline M. Berry and Melinda Gervasio and Bart Peintner and Neil Yorke-Smith . 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]

• Refanidis, I. and Alexiadis, A. and Yorke-Smith, N. Beyond Calendar Mashups: Intelligent Calendaring, in Proceedings of ICAPS'11 System Demonstrations, Freiburg, Germany, June 2011.  [Details]

• Refanidis, I. and Yorke-Smith, N. A Constraint Based Approach to Scheduling an Individual’s Activities. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 12:1-12:32, November 2010.  [PDF, Details]