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.


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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.