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May All Your Plans Succeed! (Or Have a High Expected Utility)
Speaker: Professor Dana S. Nau Department of Computer Science University of Maryland Title: "May All Your Plans Succeed! (Or Have a High Expected Utility)" Date: Monday, 19 March 2007 Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre F (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26) HKUST Abstract: Automated planning technology has become mature enough to be useful in applications that range from game-playing to control of space vehicles. In this talk, Dr. Nau will discuss where automated-planning research has been, where it is likely to go, some directions to aspire to, and some major challenges. The presentation is an updated version of Dr. Nau's invited talk at AAAI-05. ******************** Biography: Dr. Nau is an AAAI Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and director of the university's Laboratory for Computational Cultural Dynamics. He co-authored the automated-planning algorithms that enabled Bridge Baron to win the 1997 world computer bridge championship. His SHOP2 planning system won an award in the 2002 International Planning Competition, and has been used in hundreds of projects worldwide. He has more than 300 publications, and is co-author (along with Malik Ghallab and Paolo Traverso) of the first comprehensive textbook on automated planning.