Groups
The following sub-groups in the Knowledge Representation Group
exist. These are in no way disjoint, nor are they meant to be.
CogRob:
The Cognitive Robotics Group (regular invited talks and internal presentations)
The Cognitive Robotics Group is concerned with endowing
robotic or software agents with higher level cognitive functions
that involve reasoning, for example, about goals, perception,
actions, the mental states of other agents, collaborative task
execution, etc. To do this, it is necessary to describe, in a
language suitable for automated reasoning, enough of the
properties of the robot, its abilities, and its environment, to
permit it to make high-level decisions about how to act. The
group has developed effective methods for representing and
reasoning about the prerequisites and effects of actions,
perception and other knowledge-producing actions, and natural
events and actions by other agents. These methods have been
incorporated into a logic programming language for agents called
GOLOG (alGOl in LOGic). A prototype implementation of the
language has been developed. Experiments have been conducted in
using the language to build a high-level robot controller, some
software agent applications (e.g. meeting scheduling), and more
recently business process modeling tools.
COGS:
Craig's Graduate Students
SheRead:
Sheila's Reading Group
Sheila's reading group meets for various purposes but mainly to
discuss papers that are of common interest to the group and for
Sheila's students to present the research they are currently
pursuing. While research that is ready for publication is
generally presented in practice talks in CogRob, in SheRead we
also discuss less mature research endeavors aiming to elicit
feedback and trigger discussion about the merits and limitations
of our current effords.
When meeting to discuss papers, the selection of the later is
done democratically but guided by our current research interests.
That said, the overall objective in the selection is rather to
broaden our perspective than to deepen our knowledge about a
particular sub-area of knowledge representation.
Everybody who is interested and willing to participate is welcome
at our meetings.
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