The program for the Fall Symposium on Flexible Computation included invited talks, short research talks (15 minutes including questions), panels, and working groups.
Saturday, November 9th
| Time | Session | Speaker | |
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9:00–10:30
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Session I |
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| 9:00–9:05 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein | |
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9:05–9:50
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Invited Talk: Resource Tradeoffs in Planning, Reasoning, and Search |
Bart Selman | |
| Directions in Flexible Computation | |||
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9:50–10:05 |
Issues in Design-to-time Real-Time Scheduling | Alan Garvey and Victor Lesser | |
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10:05–10:20
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Models of Continual Computation in Automated Problem Solving |
Eric Horvitz | |
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10:20–10:30
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Discussants and Open Discussion | ||
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10:30–11:00
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Break |
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11:00–12:45 |
Session II | ||
| Flexibility in Planning and Search | |||
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11:00–11:15 |
State-Space Reduction for Flexible and Approximate Computation | Weixiong Zhang | |
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11:15–11:30 |
Anytime heuristic search: Preliminary Report | Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein | |
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11:30–11:45 |
Composing and Monitoring Non-Deterministic Design-to-Time Methods | François Charpillet and Anne Boyer | |
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11:45–12:00 |
The Tradeoff Between Speed and Optimality in Hierarchical Search | Robert Holte, Maria Perez, Robert Zimmer, and Alan MacDonald | |
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12:00–12:15 |
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Designing High Quality Anytime Algorithms | Guiyou Qiu | |
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12:15–12:30 |
Discussants and Open Discussion | ||
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12:30–2:00 |
Lunch | ||
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2:00–3:30 |
Session III | ||
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2:00–2:45 |
Panel Discussion: Frontiers in Utility-Directed Search | ||
| Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications I | |||
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2:45–3:00 |
Flexible Systems for Digital Signal Processing | Joseph Winograd, Jeffrey Ludwig, S. Hamid Nawab, Alan Oppenheim, and Anantha Chandrakasan | |
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3:00–3:15 |
Gathering Information Based on its Value | Joshua Grass and Shlomo Zilberstein | |
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3:15–3:30 |
Operating System Support for Imprecise Computation | David Hull, Wu Feng, and Jane W. S. Liu | |
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3:30–4:00 |
Break | ||
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4:00–5:30 |
Session IV | ||
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4:00–4:30 |
Panel: What unifying principles of flexible computation provide value across applications? | ||
| Flexible Computation in Decision Making | |||
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4:30–4:45 |
Some Experiments with Real-Time Decision Algorithms | Bruce D’Ambrosio and Scott Burgess | |
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4:45–5:00 |
Flexible Policy Construction by Information Refinement | Michael Horsch and David Poole | |
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5:00–5:15 |
Model Selection under Time Constraints | Geoffrey Rutledge | |
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5:15–5:30 |
Evidence-directed belief network simplification | Daphne Koller |
Sunday, November 10th
| Time | Session | Speaker | |
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9:00–10:30
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Session V |
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| 9:00–9:05 |
Overview of Second Day |
Eric Horvitz and Shlomo Zilberstein | |
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9:05–9:50
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Invited Talk: Approximate Computation |
Victor Lesser | |
| Flexible Computation and Learning Strategies | |||
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9:50–10:05 |
An Anytime Solution to Inductively Learn Decision Trees | Richard Jensen and Jeffrey Schlimmer | |
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10:05–10:20
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Supporting Flexibility: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach |
Igor Jurisica | |
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10:20–10:30
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Discussants and Open Discussion | ||
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10:30–11:00
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Break |
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11:00–12:30 |
Session VI | ||
| Exploring Flexible Computation in Applications II | |||
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11:00–11:15 |
Performing Concurrent Robot Path Execution and Computation in Real-Time | John Zelek | |
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11:15–11:30 |
Flexible Computation for 3D Graphics Under Varying Resources | Eric Horvitz and Jed Lengyel | |
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12:00–12:15 |
Handling Tradeoffs between Precision and Robustness for Visual Tracking | Kentaro Toyama | |
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12:15–12:30 |
An Admission Control Paradigm for Value-cognizant Real-Time Databases | Azer Bestavros and Sue Nagy | |
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12:30–2:00 |
Lunch | ||
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2:00–3:30 |
Session VII | ||
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2:00–2:45 |
Panel: What have we learned from applications of flexible computation? | ||
| Flexible Computation and Cognition | |||
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2:45–3:00 |
Flexible Computations Underlying Cognitive Plasticity | Itiel Dror and Michael Young | |
| 3:00–3:15 | Problem-Solving under Insufficient Resources | Pei Wang | |
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3:15–3:30 |
Discussants and Open Discussion | ||
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3:30–4:00 |
Break | ||
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4:00–5:30 |
Session VIII | ||
| Division into Focus Groups |
Monday, November 11th
| Time | Session | Speaker | |
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9:00–10:30
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AAAI Joint Session: Fall Symposium Invited Speaker |
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| 10:30–11:00 |
Break |
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11:00–12:30
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Session IX |
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| 11:00–12:00 | Focus Group Reports and Discussion | ||
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12:00–12:30 |
Panel: What are the key open research challenges in flexible computation? | ||
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Symposium Wrap-up |