Mixed Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants

Papers from the 2005 AAAI Fall Symposium

David W. Aha and Gheorghe Tecuci, Program Cochairs

Technical Report FS-05-07
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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Sample Citation

Jones, Gareth F. 2005. Integrated Intelligent Knowledge Management. In Mixed Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants: Papers from the 2005 Fall Symposium, ed. G David W. Aha and Gheorghe Tecuci. Technical Report FS-05-07. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California.

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Contents

Preface / vii
David W. Aha and Gheorghe Tecuci

A Mixed-Initiative Approach to Rule Refinement for Knowledge-Based Agents / 1
Cristina Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, and Mihai Boicu

Mixed-Initiative Assistant for Modeling Expert’s Reasoning / 7
Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, and Dorin Marcu

The Role of Mixed-Initiative Agent Interfaces in Intelligence Analysis: Extended Abstract / 13
L. Karl Branting

Providing Information for Mixed Initiative Interaction via Interoperable User Modeling / 16
David Brokenshire, Vive Kumar, and Jurika Shakya

A Mixed-Initiative Call Center Application for Appliance Diagnostics / 22
William Cheetham

Why Bother about Bother: Is It Worth It to Ask the User? / 26
Robin Cohen, Michael Y.K. Cheng, and Michael W. Fleming

Towards a Reliable Evaluation of Mixed-Initiative Systems / 32
Gabriella Cortellessa and Amedeo Cesta

Adaptive Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants to Support Collaborative Work in Flexible Organizations / 40
Sylvie Delprat

Mixed-Initiative in Computer Games: Algorithmic Content Creation in Open-ended Worlds / 46
Liam Doherty, Max Whitney, Jurika Shakya, Mayo Jordanov, Patrick Lougheed, David Brokenshire, Shilpi Rao, Samir Menon, and Vive Kumar

Recognizing Opportunities for Mixed-Initiative Interactions in Novice Programming / 51
Liam Doherty, Patrick Lougheed, David Brokenshire, Mayo Jordanov, Shilpi Rao, Jurika Shakya, and Vive Kumar

Mixed-Initiative Dialogue Systems for Collaborative Problem-Solving / 57
George Ferguson and James Allen

A Mixed-Initiative System for Building Mixed-Initiative Systems / 63
Craig A. Knoblock, Pedro Szekely, and Rattapoom Tuchinda

Man-Machine Cooperation in Retrieving Knowledge from Technical Texts / 69
Yves Kodratoff, Adrian Dimulescu, and Ahmed Amrani

Learning through Interactive Behavior Specifications / 75
Tolga Könik, Douglas J. Pearson, and John E. Laird

Towards a Theoretical Framework for the Integration of Dialogue Models into Human-Agent Interaction / 81
John R. Lee and Andrew B. Williams

Applications of Mixed-Initiative Interfaces and Intelligence to Electronic Portfolios / 86
Patrick Lougheed, David Brokenshire, Brittney Bogyo, Mayo Jordanov, and Vive Kumar

Do Humans Adapt Their Emails So that Agents Can Understand? / 89
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Kerry Hannan, and Manuela Veloso

A Cognitive Framework for Delegation to an Assistive User Agent / 94
Karen Myers and Neil Yorke-Smith

The Importance of Contexts in Mixed-Initiative Interactions for Online Help / 100
Shilpi Rao, Samir Menon, Jurika Shakya, Mayo Jordanov, Liam Doherty, and Vive Kumar

Collagen: Middleware for Building Mixed-Initiative Problem Solving Assistants / 106
Charles Rich and Candace L. Sidner

Learning Teleoreactive Logic Programs by Observation / 112
Brian Salomaki, Dongkyu Choi, Negin Nejati, and Pat Langley

Recognizing Opportunities for Mixed-Initiative Interactions Based on the Principles of Self-Regulated Learning / 117
Jurika Shakya, Samir Menon, Liam Doherty, Mayo Jordanov, and Vive Kumar

The Design and Implementation of an Intelligent Online Recommender System / 123
Rosario Sotomayor, Joe Carthy, and John Dunnion

Stimulating Preference Expression Using Suggestions / 128
Paolo Viappiani, Boi Faltings, Vincent Schickel Zuber, and Pearl Pu

Conversational Case-Based Reasoning Support for Business Process Management / 134
Barbara Weber and Werner Wild

Multi-Agent Architectures that Facilitate Apprenticeship Learning for Real-Time Decision Making: Minerva and Gerona / 140
David C. Wilkins and David Fried