The Temple Project at ISI


Template Enhancement through Knowledge Acquisition

Description

Under the Temple project, we are developing tools to guide users in adding planning constraints and preferences, including wizards and smart editors.

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Status

We have developed the Constable system for checking and modifying constraints on plans as they are being developed. Constable has been demonstrated in the context of planning a SEAL beach landing. We are now integrating Constable with Data Agent so that users can view and modify constraints over the same live data sources that Data Agent uses.

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Research

Constraints are used to check that a plan in development is feasible. Typically, a plan is checked with many different constraints, that check different aspects of the plan and use different information. Users need to be able to modify constraints because the particular objectives and rules to follow are often unique to the current situation. We are developing Constable, a tool that helps users to modify the constraints that they are using to check a plan. We provide a uniform interface to different data sources that also allows users to integrate these sources within the constraints that are applied.

This work involves research in the areas of knowledge aquisition scripts, dependency analysis, intelligent user interfaces and integrating information sources.

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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)