The Constable Project at ISI


Constable: helping users to examine and modify constraints

Description

Constable is a constraint editing tool that we have developed under the Temple program. Constable can be used to view the results of checking a plan with a number of constraints, and can also be used to modify those constraints to suit the particular circumstances under which the plan is being developed. It is a powerful tool to help developing plans and also illustrates our work with constraints, which can be used in a number of related tools and shared between them.

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Status

The Constable system has been delivered and can be run under windows using Java 1.3 or higher.

This project ended in April 03.

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Research

We have worked on several areas within Constable, including knowledge acquisition wizards based on problem-solving methods, modifying procedural information through automatically generated text, encapsulating external information sources, such as web-based data, for their integration in constraint checking systems and the visual exploration of alternatives with incremental utility elicitation. For more details, see the publications related to Constable.

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Publications

"Visual Exploration and Incremental Utility Elicitation", Jim Blythe. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02) 526-532

"An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition", Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Surya Ramachandran, Yolanda Gil. In Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2001), Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2001. Recipient of the Best Paper Award

"Integrating Expectations from Different Sources to Help End Users Acquire Procedural Knowledge", Jim Blythe. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) 943-952

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Group Members:

DARPA Active Templates (AcT)