Draft Agenda

The Workshop for Edinburgh Work on Rich Plan, Process
and Activity Representations and Their Uses

 Agenda 

    9am -  9:30am  Greetings, Agenda and Orientation (Austin) 

 9:30am -    10am  Austin Tate
                   Activity and Plan Ontologies - 
                   Emerging Consensus and Standards
                   Abstract

   10am - 10:30am  Ewan Klein 
                   Semantics and Knowledge in 
                   Spoken Dialogue Systems
                   Abstract

10:30am - 10:45am  Break

10:45am - 11:15am  Stuart Aitken
                   Process and Planning: Cyc and PSL
                   Abstract

11:15am - 11:45am  Jean Carletta 
                   (Planning as a Component of Dialogue Systems) 
11:45am - 12:15pm  Johan Bos 
                   Dialogue with Mobile Robots
                   Abstract

12:15pm - 1:15pm   Lunch (in Room E17a)
                   (sandwiches and drinks provided)

 1:15pm - 2:15pm   Open Forum Discussion Session One

 2:15pm - 2:30pm   Break 

 2:30pm - 3:30pm   Open Forum Discussion Session Two 

 3:30pm - 3:45pm   Break

 3:45pm - 4:15pm   Summary and Conclusion (Austin)


Possible Open Forum Discussion Topics: 


1. How can plan representation contribute to today's problems? How
   they have been used? Have they been successful? What are the
   deciding factors which make the use of plan representation
   a useful input for an application/research problem? We welcome both
   positive as well as "negative" research results - negative research
   results as when plan representation does not work.  

2. Has the internet technology together with the abundance means of
   human communication, i.e. via voice, data, images or a combination
   of them, provides new opportunities and challenges for plan
   representation? Can plan representation provides (some) solutions
   to them?  


Current list of participants:


Austin Tate, AIAI/IRR, speaker
Dave Robertson, IRR
John Levine, AIAI 
Stephen Potter, AIAI 
Jussi Stader, AIAI 
Stuart Aitken, AIAI, speaker 
Robert Rae, AIAI 
John Kingston, AIAI 
Ewan Klein, HCRC/ICCS, speaker
Katja Markert, HCRC/ICCS
Claire Grover, HCRC/ICCS
Jean Carletta, HCRC/ICCS, speaker 
Johan Bos, HCRC, speaker 
Chris Malcolm, IPAB Representative
Jessica Chen-Burger, AIAI/IRR

We look forward to seeing you all !!