Probabilistic Plan Recognition for Proactive Assistant Agents

Jean Oh, Felipe Meneguzzi, Katia Sycara

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Abstract

Human users dealing with multiple objectives in a complex environment (e.g., military planners or emergency response operators) are subject to a high level of cognitive workload. When this load becomes an overload, it can severely impair the quality of the plans created. To address these issues, intelligent assistant systems have been rigorously studied in both the artificial intelligence (AI) and the intelligent systems research communities. This chapter discusses proactive assistant systems, which predict future user activities that can be facilitated by the assistant. We focus on problems in which a user is solving a complex problem with uncertainty, and thus on plan-recognition algorithms suitable for the target problem domain. Specifically, we discuss a generative model of plan recognition that represents user activities as an integrated planning and execution problem. We describe a proactive assistant agent architecture and its applications in practical problems including emergency response and military peacekeeping operations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPlan, Activity, and Intent Recognition
Subtitle of host publicationTheory and Practice
PublisherElsevier Science
Chapter11
Pages275-288
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)978-0123985323
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgment
The research for this chapter was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-09-2-0053. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Laboratory or the U.S. government. The U.S. government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.

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