Persistent Assistants: Living and Working with AI

Contents

• Valuations of Possible States (VPS): A Quantitative Framework for Analysis of Privacy Loss Among Collaborative Personal Assistant Agents

  Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Jonathan P. Pearce, Pradeep Varakantham, Emma Bowring, and Milind Tambe

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• Autonomous Agents as Adaptive Perceptual Interfaces

  Sattiraju Prabhakar

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• Urban Warfare in 2015: The Role of Persistent Assistants in Achieving Capabilities for Small Unit Precision Combat

  Richard H. Van Atta

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• Living with a Personal Disk Jockey — The Start of the Journey

  L. F. Gunderson, T. Kilgore, and J. P. Gunderson

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• Contents

  Daniel Shapiro, Pauline Berry, John Gersh, Nathan Schurr

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• Organizing Committee

  Daniel Shapiro, Pauline Berry, John Gersh, Nathan Schurr

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• “And You Did That Why?”—Using an Abstraction Hierarchy to Design Interaction with Autonomous Spacecraft

  John Gersh, Kevin Cropper, William Fitzpatrick, Priscilla McKerracher, Jaime Montemayor, and Daniel Ossing

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• Managing and Instructing Information Assistants

  Jane T. Malin, Arthur Molin, and Carroll Thronesbery

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• Calendar Assistants that Learn Preferences

  Jean Oh and Stephen F. Smith

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• SOLO: A Cognitive Orthosis

  Richard Simpson, Edmund LoPresti, Debra Schreckenghost, Ned Kirsch, and Steve Hayashi

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• A Context-Sensitive and User-Centric Approach to Developing Personal Assistants

  Marie desJardins, Eric Eaton, and Kiri Wagstaff

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• Bumping Strategies for the Private Incremental Multiagent Agreement Problem

  Pragnesh Jay Modi and Manuela Veloso

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• A Personalized Assistant for Customer Complaints Management Systems

  Boris Galitsky

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• Optimize My Schedule but Keep It Flexible: Distributed Multi-Criteria Coordination for Personal Assistants

  Emma Bowring, Milind Tambe, and Makoto Yokoo

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• Conversational Assistant for In-car Task Management

  Joseph Reisinger, Mahesh Viswanathan, and Liam Comerford

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• Practical POMDPs for Personal Assistant Domains

  Pradeep Varakantham, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, and Milind Tambe

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• Preface

  Daniel Shapiro, Pauline Berry, John Gersh, Nathan Schurr

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• Ontology-Based Discourse Understanding for a Persistent Meeting Assistant

  John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, John Dowding, and Stanley Peters

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• Teams of Engineers and Agents for Managing the Recovery of Water

  Debra Schreckenghost, R. Peter Bonasso, Mary Beth Hudson, Cheryl Martin, Tod Milam, and Carroll Thronesbery

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• A Personalized Time Management Assistant: Research Directions

  Pauline M. Berry, Melinda T. Gervasio, Tomás E. Uribe, Martha E. Pollack, and Michael E. Moffitt

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• Narratives: Composing and Controlling Persistent Assistants to Communicate, Integrate, and Automate Multidisciplinary Design and Analysis

  John Haymaker, Ben Suter, John Kunz, and Martin Fischer

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• Building a Testbed for Studying Service

  Wayne Iba and Nicholas Burwell

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