Thomas J. (Tom) Lee

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Thomas J. Lee
Senior Research Engineer    Email: tomlee@ai.sri.com
SRI International           Phone: 650-859-6079
333 Ravenswood Avenue         FAX: 650-859-3735
Menlo Park, CA 94025          SRI: 650-326-6200
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Current Projects and Software Systems

LAPDOG - Learning Assistant Procedures from Demonstration, Observation, and Generalization

LAPDOG is part of CALO, A Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (registration required). It is a task learning system that is currently under development.

Transport Inference Parser

The Transport Identification Parser is part of Pathway Tools. It performs analysis on protein annotations in a pathway/genome database, predicts which ones are transporters of compounds into, out of, or within a cell, and adds transport reactions for each to the database. Transporter complexes are formed from monomers when appropriate. It is run either in batch mode, or through a user interface permitting review and modification of inferences. (No publications)

BioSPICE Data Warehouse

  • BioWarehouse Home Page.
  • BioSPICE Community (registration required).
  • BioSPICE Developer page (private).

    Tree-Augmented Naive Bayes (TAN) Classifier

    Unfortunately at this time this project has no homepage. Look here in the future for more information about TAN and availability of TAN software.
    This work was done under the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Base project. It has subsequently been used in the CALO (registration required) project for TOQR.

    Previous Projects

    Automating Exception Handling

    See the Air Mobility Command Execution Assistant Homepage for further details.

    Coordinating Distributed Activities (CODA)

    See the CODA Homepage for details.

    Small-Unit Operations: Planning and Decision Aids (password-protected)

    Our task was to develop a planning and decision aid (PDA) for DARPA's Small Unit Operations (SUO) program, to show the feasibility of using advanced planning technologies in SUO. The SUO concept envisions small units of warfighters, separated and dispersed throughout a large battlespace, equipped with personal equipment providing robust geolocation, computing, and communications capabilities to allow units to effectively operate. The PDA supports the generation of machine-understandable plans, and the monitoring of their execution, using events as they are realistically reported in the battlespace. Another goal of this project was to produce a system that would successfully transition into the Phase III system of the SUO prime contractor.

    If commanders are flooded with more information than they can digest in a timely manner, the resulting confusion may result in making worse decisions. C2 software must understand the plan and situation in order to assist the commander in translating information superiority into superior decisions.

    We achieved our objective by showing the feasibility of using advanced planning technologies in SUO. In the opinion of subject matter experts, our representations modeled and monitored a SUO scenario with enough fidelity to provide value to decision-makers. Our PDA used a machine-understandable plan to generate appropriate alerts for the time and location constraints in the plan, as well as for some more global constraints such as fratricide risk. Alerts were generated in a timely manner without overwhelming the user with too many alerts. Our execution monitoring technology was able to easily monitor the volume of realistic data on the SUO network (a dozen or more reports every second), while not being specific to the plans used in our scenarios.

    For further details, see our JAIR paper.

    Air Campaign Planning Knowledge Base

    The Air Campaign Planning Knowledge Base (ACP KB) is a knowledge base written for the SIPE-2 generative planning system. It is used to generate air campaign plans for the air superiority portion of an air campaign plan. See the ACP Manual (PDF 123K) for a description of the knowledge base. The Air Campaign Planning Knowledge Base has been used in several projects, including the Continuous Planning and Execution Framework (CPEF) and a Technology Integration Experiment for the Multiagent Planning Architecture

    Scientific Discovery for Molecular Biology Databases

    Under this internally-funded project, we developed and applied machine learning tools and techniques to databases that describe physical and functional properties of proteins. The goal of the project was to learn classifiers that will predict the function of an enzyme from its structure. Our results were published in this paper.


    Publications


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