SASO-09 Workshop on Metareasoning in Self Adaptive Systems

http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~anraja/SASOMeta09

September 15, 2009, Colocated with SASO 2009, San Francisco, CA

Call for Papers

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Organizing Committee

Program Committee

Dates

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Accepted Papers

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CFP in pdf

MetaReasoning Links

Call for Papers

The 21st century is experiencing a renewed interest in an old idea within artificial intelligence that goes to the heart of what it means to be both human and intelligent. This idea is that much can be gained by thinking of one's own thinking. Metareasoning is the process of reasoning about reasoning itself. As shown below, it is composed of both meta-level control of computational activities and the introspective monitoring of reasoning to evaluate and to explain computation. Meta-level control is the ability of an agent to efficiently trade off its resources between object level actions (computations) and ground level actions to maximize the quality of its decisions. Introspective monitoring is necessary to gather sufficient information with which to make effective meta-level control decisions or to explain failed object-level reasoning. This workshop will explore the implications of this model by examining the various aspects of metareasoning and models of self and their role in single-agent and multiagent applications.

This one-day workshop will focus on techniques and benefits of metareasoning and introspection in self adaptive systems. It will include a number of short paper presentations, thematically organized discussion sessions, and a keynote address by Dr. Mike Cox, DARPA. We also will include panel discussions so that the audience can ask follow up questions that compare and contrast related positions.

 

• Theoretical models of metareasoning
• The integration of meta-level control and monitoring
• Multiagent coordinated metareasoning
• Meta-explanation and self-explanation
• Self-adaptive systems and autonomic computing
• Centralized versus distributed meta-level control
• Human metacognition and metamemory
• The role of state abstraction in metareasoning
• Computational models of self and consciousness
• Logical introspection and reflective logic programming
• Bounded rationality
• Learning agents and metareasoning
• Evaluation of metareasoning systems
 

Michael L. Anderson, Assistant Professor. Franklin & Marshall College.
Howard Shrobe, Principal Research Scientist, MIT.
Shlomo Zilberstein, Professor, University of Massachusetts.
 

Important Dates:

Submission Instructions:

We encourage the submission of high quality, original papers that are not submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions should be 10 pages formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. Document templates for submissions can be downloaded here. Short position statements are also accepted. Submissions should be emailed to both chairs (rladdaga@bbn.com and anraja@uncc.edu) by the deadline period.

Accepted Papers:
Metacognition for Self-Regulated Learning in a Dynamic Environment, 
Darsana P. Josyula, Franklin C. Hughes, Harish Vadali, Bette J. Donahue, Fassil Molla, Michelle Snowden, Jalissa Miles, Ahmed Kamara and Chinomnso Maduka

Funk2: A Distributed Processing Language for Reflective Tracing of a Large Critic-Selector Cognitive Architecture
Bo Morgan

Metareasoning-based Self Adaptive Tracking
Paul Robertson and Robert Laddaga

Priority-based Meta-Control within Hierarchical Task Network Planning
Robert Goldman and David Musliner

Influencing Massive Multi-agent Systems via Viral Trait Spreading
Brian Mclaughlan and Henry Hexmoor

Metareasoning-based Learning for Classification Hierarchies
Joshua Jones & Ashok Goel

Learning from Observing: Vision and POIROT Using Metareasoning for Self Adaptation
Mark Burstein, Robert Bobrow, William Ferguson, Robert Laddaga, Paul Robertson
 

Position Papers:

Prediction and Metacognition
James L Eilbert

The Logical Road to Human Level AI Leads to a Dead End Compassionate Intelligence and Affective Inference
Cindy Mason
 

Workshop Program:

Tentative Schedule

Links:

• AAAI 2008:  Workshop on Metareasoning: Thinking about thinking

• ITS 2008: The 3rd Workshop on Meta-Cognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Educational Technologies, June 23-27, 2008. Montreal

• Third Biennial Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Metacognition of the European Association of Research on Learning and Instruction, May 8-10, 2008 Ioannina, Greece.

• AIED 2007: Workshop on Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, July 10, 2007. Marina Del Rey, CA.

• AAMAS 2007 First International Workshop on Meta-Reasoning In Agent-Based Systems

• ICML 2005 Meta-learning Workshop

• AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium on Metacognition in Computation

• DARPA 2004 Workshop on Self-Aware Computer Systems

• AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium on Representing Mental States and Mechanisms

• Anderson's MetaCognition In Computation Page

• The International Association for MetaCognition (IAM)

• Cox's Introspection Page