Radar/Space-Time

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RADAR/Space-Time AssistantCrisis Allocation of
Rooms
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Purpose

• Automated allocation of rooms and
• related resources, in both crisis and
• routine situations.

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Year 1 Initial results

• A prototype system for automated
• allocation of offices.

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Year 1 Initial results

• A prototype system for automated
• allocation of offices.

• Processing of natural-language requests
• Effective allocation of office resources
• Interface for a human administrator

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Year 1 Architecture
RADAR/Space
Allocationof officesand relatedresources
Processing of e-mail messages
Knowledgebase
Generationof e-mailreplies
Administratorinterface
Users
Administrator
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Year 2 Motivating task

• Scheduling of talks at a conference,
• and related allocation of rooms and
• equipment, in a crisis situation.

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Year 2 Automated reasoning

• Uncertainty tolerance
• Temporal reasoning
• Preference elicitation
• Collaboration with ahuman administrator
• High-level planning
• Dealing with multiplehypothetical scenarios

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Year 2 Architecture
RADAR/Space-Time
Router
Top-level control
Opti-mizer
Info elicitor
Knowledgebase
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Year 2 Learning

• Integrated learning of new
• knowledge and strategies.

• From experience
• From observation
• From instruction