January 1, 2005

Barney Pell's Research on Agents and Autonomy

• Integrated Planning and Execution for Satellite Tele-Communications. Christian Plaunt, Kanna Rajan, Barney Pell and Nicola Muscettola. Submitted to AAAI 1998 Fall Symposium. Abstract is here.
• Automating Mission Scheduling for Space-Based Observatories. Nicola Muscettola, Barney Pell, Othar Hansson, and Sunil Mohan. In G.W. Henry and J.A. Eaton, eds, Robotic Telescopes: Current Capabilities, Present Developments, and Future Prospects for Automated Astronomy. Provo, UT: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ASP Conference Series number 79, 1995. Abstract is here.
• A Remote Agent Prototype for Spacecraft Autonomy. Barney Pell, Douglas E. Bernard, Steven A. Chien, Erann Gat, Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Michael D. Wagner, and Brian C. Williams. In Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation , 1996. Abstract is here . This is the original paper on the Remote Agent architecture used in Newmaap.
• An Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype. Barney Pell, Douglas E. Bernard, Steven A. Chien, Erann Gat, Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Michael D. Wagner, and Brian C. Williams. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Marina del Rey, CA 1997. Abstract is here. PDF Version is here. This is an updated version of the NMRA architecture paper, with less details of the spacecraft domain.
• An Autonomous Spacecraft Agent Prototype. Barney Pell, Douglas E. Bernard, Steven A. Chien, Erann Gat, Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Michael D. Wagner, and Brian C. Williams. Autonomous Robots 5(1), March, 1998. Abstract is here. This is the full-length journal article on the prototype NMRA architecture.
• Plan Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft. Barney Pell, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Nicola Muscettola, and Ben Smith. Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Plan Execution, Cambridge, MA, 1996. Abstract is here.
• Robust Periodic Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft. Barney Pell, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Nicola Muscettola, and Ben Smith. Proceedings of IJCAI-97. Abstract is here.
• Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before. Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell, and Brian Williams. Artificial Intelligence (To appear). Abstract is here. This is a journal article based on an Invited Talk presented at IJCAI-97 in Nayoga, Japan.
• Designed for Autonomy: Remote Agent for the New Millennium Program. Douglas E. Bernard and Barney Pell. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation for Space (i-SAIRAS), 1997. Abstract is here.
• A Hybrid Procedural/Deductive Executive For Autonomous Spacecraft. Barney Pell, Ed Gamble, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Jim Kurien, Bill Millar, P. Pandurang Nayak, Christain Plaunt, and Brian Williams. Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Model-Directed Autonomous Systems, Cambridge, MA, 1997. Abstract is here.
• A Hybrid Procedural/Deductive Executive For Autonomous Spacecraft. Barney Pell, Ed Gamble, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Jim Kurien, Bill Millar, P. Pandurang Nayak, Christain Plaunt, and Brian Williams. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Minneapolis, MI 1998, to appear. Abstract is here. This is a much revised version of the fall symposium paper above.
• Issues in Temporal Reasoning for Autonomous Control Systems. Nicola Muscettola, Paul Morris, Barney Pell, and Ben Smith. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Minneapolis, MI 1998, to appear. Abstract is here.
• The Remote Agent Executive: Capabilities to Support Integrated Robotic Agents. Barney Pell, Gregory A. Dorais, Christian Plaunt and Richard Washington. Appears in the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated Robotic Architectures, Stanford, CA, 1998. Abstract is here.
• Abstract Resource Management in an Unconstrained Plan Execution System. Erann Gat and Barney Pell. In Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, Snomass, CO, 1998.
• The Remote Agent Executive: Capabilities to Support Integrated Robotic Agents. Barney Pell, Gregory A. Dorais, Christian Plaunt and Richard Washington. Submitted to Autonomous Robotics Journal, for publication in 1999. This is an expanded version of the 1998 Spring Symposium paper with the same title.
• Adjustable Autonomy for Human-Centered Autonomous Systems on Mars. Gregory A. Dorais, R. Peter Bonasso, David Kortenkamp, Barney Pell, and Debra Schreckenghost. In Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Mars Society, Aug/98. To appear.
• Autonomous Rovers for Human Exploration of Mars. John Bresina, Gregory A. Dorais, Keith Golden, David E. Smith, Richard Washington. In Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Mars Society, Aug/98. To appear.

Links to articles on the Remote Agent

• Intell igent craft takes tedium out of space flight By Kristi Coale (Wired).
• NASA has big plans for Remote Agent technology By Kristi Coale (Wired).
• A Spacecraft with a Mind of Its Own By Kristi Coale (Wired).
• PRESS RELEASE: SOFTWARE FOR FIRST NEW MILLENNIUM MISSION CLOSEST YET TO "HAL 9000" by John Bluck and Douglas Isbell.
• New NASA Software "Closest Yet" to HAL 9000 (Spaceviews)
• Happy Birthday HAL By David L. Chandler, Boston Globe, 01/12/97.
• NASA takes lesson from sci-fi tale By Vimla Sriram.
• DS1 Software Resembles HAL Innovation, Volume 5, Number 2, March/April 1997.
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON DEEP SPACE ONE High-Tech Shower International, 3/5/97.

Last updated Jan 21, 1997. Direct feedback to Barney Pell (pell@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)

- Barney D. P ell <pell@barney.arc.nasa.go v>, 11/4/96

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January 1, 1996

Barney Pell's Research on Computer Game Playing

Below are my publications on computer game playing.

My love of games started when my grandfather taught me to play chess at the age of 5 and continues through this day. While I have studied chess and go as a tournament player, I also like the challenge of learning new games. Part of the fun for me is playing with the rules to discover the strategies that follow from them. This is part of the fascination that led to my research on computer game-playing for specific games (e.g. chess, go, bridge) and ultimately to my thesis work on general game playing.

Publications

• Gamb"ack, B.; Rayner, M.; and Pell, B. 1991. An Architecture for a Sophisticated Mechanical Bridge Player.In Levy, D., and Beal, D., eds., Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 2 - The Second Computer Olympiad. Ellis Horwood.
• Pell, B. 1991b. Exploratory Learning in the Game of GO. In Levy, D., and Beal, D., eds., Heuristic programming in Artificial Intelligence 2 - The Second Computer Olympiad. Ellis Horwood.
• Pell, B. 1992a. Metagame: A New Challenge for Games and Learning.In van den Herik, H., and Allis, L., eds., Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 3 - The Third Computer Olympiad. Ellis Horwood.
• Pell, B. 1992b. Metagame in Symmetric, Chess-Like Games.In van den Herik, H., and Allis, L., eds., Heuristic Programming in Artificial Intelligence 3 - The Third Computer Olympiad. Ellis Horwood.
• Pell, B. 1992c. Logic Programming for General Game Playing.University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 302.
• Pell, B. 1993. Strategy Generation and Evaluation for Meta-Game Playing.Ph.D. Dissertation, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Also appears as University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 315.
• Pell, B. 1994. A Strategic Metagame Player for General Chess-Like Games. In Procs. of AAAI-94 (1994), 1378-1385.
• Pell, B. 1993. A Strategic Metagame Player for General Chess-Like Games. In Procs. of AAAI Fall Symposium on Games: Learning and Planning.
• Matsubara, H., and Pell, B. 1994. Applying metagamer to shogi. In Game Programming Workshop in Japan'94. Kanagawa, Japan: Japanese Computer Shogi Association.
• Pell, B. 1996. A Strategic Metagame Player for General Chess-Like Games.Computational Intelligence 12(1).
• Pell, B.; Epstein, S. L.; and Levinson, R. 1996. Introduction to the special issue on games: Structure and learning.Computational Intelligence 12(1).

Other Links

Related work on Metagame and General Game Playing Programs:

• Danny Cron's Metagame Page
• Jay Scott's Metagame Page
• Stanford General Game Player Project.

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January 1, 1995

Barney Pell's Research on Information Retrieval

This page contains a set of papers based on research with Catherine Baudin, Smadar Kedar, and Barney Pell, on Learning and Information Retrieval.

• Using Induction to Refine Information Retrieval Strategies. Catherine Baudin, Barney Pell, and Smadar Kedar. Appears in the Proceedings of AAAI-94, Seattle, 1994. Abstract is here.
• Incremental Acquisition of Conceptual Indices for Multimedia Design Documentation. Appears in Proceedings of the AAAI-94 Workshop on Indexing and Reuse in Multimedia Systems, Seattle, 1994. Abstract is here.
• Increasing Levels of Assistance in Refinement of Knowledge-Based Retrieval Systems. Catherine Baudin, Smadar Kedar, and Barney Pell. In the Knowledge Acquisition Journal, 1994. Abstract is here.
• Increasing Levels of Assistance in Refinement of Knowledge-Based Retrieval Systems. Catherine Baudin, Smadar Kedar, and Barney Pell. In G. Tecuci and Y. Kodratoff (eds), Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition: Integrated Approaches, Academic Press, 1995. Abstract is here. (This is a slightly longer (more tutorial) version of the Knowledge Acquisition Journal article by the same title.)

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