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Robert Michael Young
Postdoctoral Fellow

No longer a member of RI.

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Research interests

Research Interests

• Task-related communication, understanding and generating descriptions of complex activities and using communication to coordinate activity between conversational participants (both people and computational agents).
• Representing and reasoning about plans and the planning process, particularly in the context of agents communicating about joint activity.
• Software tools for the design, creation and control of liquid narrative: computer-mediated collaboration structured and dynamically controlled as an unfolding storyline. Also the creation of artificial characters capable of believable, dramatic interaction in these environments.
• Communication in computer-mediated environments like MUDs and MOOs.

Research interest keywords

case-based reasoning, human-computer interaction, and planning

Past Projects

Collaborative Agents - Cooperative robotics	Cooperative Information Agents
Middle Agents for the Internet	Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Pleiades - A project aimed at developing methods for automating negotiation among agents and implementing effective machine learning techniques.	WARREN - The WARREN system is a multi-agent application that is designed to help users monitor and manage their financial portfolio.
WebMate - A personal agent for World-Wide Web browsing that enhances searches and learns user interests.

Recent publications [View all 11 publications]

• Less is more: Using Grice's maxim of quantity to generate instructional text
  R.M. Young
  Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October, 1997.

• Computer Support for Collaborative Dramatic Art
  R.M. Young
  Workshop on Use and Design of MUDs for Serious Purposes, November, 1996.

• Using Plan Reasoning in the Generation of Plan Descriptions
  R.M. Young
  Proceedings of the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, August, 1996.

• Discourse Plans, Intended Effects and the Generation of Implicatures
  R.M. Young
  Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Implicature, 1996.

• Exploiting Plan Reasoning to Generate Effective Task Descriptions
  R.M. Young
  Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Embodied Language and Action, October, 1995.

• Exploiting Plan Reasoning to Describe Plans
  R.M. Young
  tech. report, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1995.

• Decomposition and Causality in Partial-Order Planning
  R.M. Young, M.E. Pollack, and J.D. Moore
  The Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Planning Systems, 1994.

• Does Discourse Planning Require a Special Purpose Planner?
  R.M. Young and J.D. Moore
  AAAI Workshop on Planning for Inter-Agent Communication, 1994.

• DPOCL: A Principled Approach to Discourse Planning
  R.M. Young and J.D. Moore
  Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Text Generation, 1994.

• Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans
  R.M. Young, J.D. Moore, and M.E. Pollack
  the Sixteenth Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1994.