Festivus

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Festivus
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Best of Festivus Seinfeld http//youtube.com/wat
ch?veaeQz5HwfoI
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Raos Gripe

• Festivus 1 Recap
• A couple of things I want to say

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Our Best Feat so far..
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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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And this is the guy who seemed to believe that
only plan graphs should relax..
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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding?

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Balance sheet from the First Festivus

• Lets increase the general levity in the
  community (Rao)
• Done (have you seen Jorges talks lately. The guy
  is a regular Seinfeld now?)
• Lets have double-blind reviewing (Martha)
• Done
• Let there be kindness light in reviewing (Dave)
• Working on it.
• Let 100 birds sing (Amedeo)
• Done (although they are singing in Italian and we
  cant make out what they are singing about..)
• Lets stop accepting Raos poster papers (Craig)
• Done (we are accepting them all as presentations)
• Lets work on real world applications (Dan
  Adele)
• You kidding? We are too busy specializing blocks
  world

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Where have all our hard problems gone?

• We have too many smart humans in the field
• May be we should look for the really hard
  problems in each track
• Toughnuts
• Required concurrency
• Probabilistically interesting

.but then I wonder
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Can Dark Glasses help the Drunk find his lost
keys?
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(Gently) Questioning the Assumption
The way to get more applications is to tackle
more and more expressive domains

• There are many scenarios where domain modeling is
  the biggest obstacle
• Web Service Composition
• Most services have very little formal models
  attached
• Workflow management
• Most workflows are provided with little
  information about underlying causal models
• Learning to plan from demonstrations
• We will have to contend with incomplete and
  evolving domain models..
• ..but our techniques assume complete and correct
  models..

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Model-Lite Planning is Planning with incomplete
models
http//rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/model-lite
From Any Time to Any Model Planning

• ..incomplete ? not enough domain knowledge to
  verify correctness/optimality
• How incomplete is incomplete?

• Missing a couple of preconditions/effects or user
  preferences?

• Knowing no more than I/O types?

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Challenges in Realizing Model-Lite Planning

1. Planning support for shallow domain models
2. Plan creation with approximate domain models
3. Learning to improve completeness of domain models

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Challenges in Realizing Model-Lite Planning

1. Planning support for shallow domain models ICAC
   2005
2. Plan creation with approximate domain models
   IJCAI 2007, ICAPS Wkshp 2007
3. Learning to improve completeness of domain models
   ICAPS Wkshp 2007

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Summary
From Any Time to Any Model Planning
http//rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/model-lite

• While model-intensive planning continues to have
  a place (e.g. NASA), we should also look at
  model-lite planning
• Applications include workflows, web services,
  desktop automation, collaborative
  learning/planning
• The aim is to reduce modeling burden.
• Either by reducing planning support (shallow
  domain models)
• or by increasing the plan creation cost
  (approximate domain models)
• The challenges in each are different..
• Learning goes hand-in-hand with planning in
  model-lite planning scenarios.

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Dark Glasses wont help the Drunk find his lost
keys