February 2017 - Planning-inf - mailman.kcl.ac.uk

Weekly Planning Update (Please Read Topic)
by Fares Alaboud 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hi everyone, We have a couple of additional external speakers this term joining us to speak at the planning meetings later in April (thank you Dan for inviting them!), and you can find the details below in the schedule. Here's this week's planning meeting, which as usual takes place on Thursday from 2-3pm: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Amanda Coles *Topic: *Amanda will be doing a live demo of how to run planners using scripts, how to use gnuplot to display results, and generally about how to do evaluation for papers on planning. As this will be an interactive session people should bring with them, a laptop preferably running linux (install a VM using VirtualBox if necessary), or failing that a laptop from which they can ssh (e.g. a MAC would be fine, or as a last resort windows with either cygwin or putty installed). For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or visit me at my desk (it's the one with a blue rubber duck just opposite S6.11). *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th *Cancelled* *due* *to* *IJCAI* *deadline** (**good* *luck**!)* February 23rd *S**6.06* Emre Savas *March** 2**nd* *Amanda* *Coles* March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder April 6th *TBC* *TBC* April 13th *TBC* *TBC* April 20th *TBC* Andrea Micheli (from Cimatti) April 27th *TBC* Morteza Lahijanian (from Uni of Oxford) See you on Thursday! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me -- Regards, Fares Alaboud

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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi everyone, To all those who submitted to IJCAI, best of luck! Please find this week's planning meeting information below: *Room: *S6.06 *Speaker:* Emre Savas *Topic: "*The complexity of planning with infinite domain action parameters is undecidable. State-of-the-art heuristic approaches are only concerned with action parameters that takes their values from finite domains. There is relatively little work exploring the problem of planning with infinite domain action parameters. We recently explored the problem, using an extension of the TRPG heuristic to guide search in a space of partially developed plans, in which the values of these action parameters (which we call control parameters) are managed by accumulating constraints. In this work, we observe that these parameters cause helpful action distortion when there are producer-consumer behaviours affecting resource transfer with control parameters. It is possible to address the problem in search (for linear relations), relying on the solution of multiple linear programs (LPs), but this is highly costly. In this work, we examine the problem in detail and introduce a generalised RPG heuristic to tackle it. We introduce an alternative reachability analysis method to avoid helpful action distortion and propose an extension of the temporal relaxed planning graph (TRPG) heuristic to preserve its existing sophistication." For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or visit me at my desk (it's the one with a blue rubber duck just opposite S6.11). *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles February 16th *Cancelled due to IJCAI deadline (good luck!)* *February 23rd* *S6.06* *Emre Savas* March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder See you on Thursday! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student @ Informatics Planning Group faresalaboud.me

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Weekly Planning Update
by Fares Alaboud 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi everyone, As we discussed in the planning meeting two weeks ago, it's a better idea to send updates every Tuesday instead of Friday. This is partially why I did not send updates last week, my apologies for that. *Please note, there is no meeting this week due to the IJCAI deadline on the 19th. Good luck! * For reference, please find the schedule for this term below. *Please note, if your name is on the list, I will email you two weeks before your turn to remind you, and to get a topic from you.* If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me an email or visit me at my desk (it's the one with a blue rubber duck just opposite S6.11). *Schedule for This Term* *Date* *Room* *Speaker* January 26th S6.06 Daniele Magazzeni (cancelled) February 2nd Fares Alaboud February 9th S3.39 Andrew Coles *February 16th* *Cancelled due to IJCAI deadline (good luck!)* February 23rd S6.06 Emre Savas March 2nd Amanda Coles March 9th Wiktor Piotrowski March 16th Liana Marinescu March 23rd Tanja Daub March 30th Bram Ridder See you next week! *Regards,* *Fares Alaboud* PhD Student in Artificial Intelligence faresalaboud.me Fares Alaboud -- Regards, Fares Alaboud

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FW: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition
by Magazzeni, Daniele 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi all, Please see below for an interesting CoRe seminar tomorrow. PS. This week I'm at a Dgastuhl workshop on Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and people are loving planning!!! :-) Dan From: Sklar, Elizabeth Sent: 13 February 2017 21:34 To: Miles, Simon <simon.miles(a)kcl.ac.uk>; Magazzeni, Daniele <daniele.magazzeni(a)kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition The CoRe seminar this week, "Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition", by Prof Daniel Polani (Hertfordshire) may be of interest to AIS and Planning groups. Please share with your group mailing lists! /** dr elizabeth sklar reader in computer science head of centre for robotics research (core) director of data science msc programme dept of informatics and centre for robotics research, king's college london elizabeth.sklar(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elizabeth.sklar@kcl.ac.uk> http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/elizabeth.sklar/ **/ ________________________________ From: core-seminars-bounces(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk> <core-seminars-bounces(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk>> on behalf of Matthew Howard <matthew.j.howard(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:matthew.j.howard@kcl.ac.uk>> Sent: 13 February 2017 19:07 Cc: LondonRoboticsNetwork(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:LondonRoboticsNetwork@googlegroups.com>; core-seminars Mailman List Subject: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand Dear all, This is to announce the next CORE seminar on Wednesday. Please see details of the talk below. Time: 15th February 2017, 1pm Place: K6.63, Strand Campus Speaker: Prof Daniel Polani Title: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition Abstract: While Artificial Intelligence is widely pursued in the way as to achieve certain "intelligent" behaviours in various contexts, there is increasing evidence that it can profit significantly from being considered under the perspective of understanding what the fundamental laws of cognition are. The success of biological organisms under strong constraints on consumption of energy and resources as compared to artificially engineered intelligent systems which are quite generous in the available resources indicate that there is a gap in understanding that awaits to be closed. A key in this appears to be the judicious use of embodiment and of informational resources. Especially the formalism of Shannon information has increasingly crystallized as an immensely powerful concept. Under this perspective, cognition, it turns out, is governed by mathematical laws, invariants and principles which constrain the decision-making of organisms and agents and which can be elegantly expressed in informational terms. This opens a fresh route to analyse, understand and synthesize principles of cognitive systems and their evolution. The talk will present principles, and applications to understanding the origins and evolution of cognition, consequences for cognitive organization and observations, clarify the role of embodiment in cognitive processing, and finally show some examples how these principles can be used for the generation and even discovery of new principles of autonomous behaviour in agents. Biography: Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hertfordshire. Interested in the principles behind cognition for the purpose of understanding biological and Artificial Intelligence, his main efforts concentrate on using - especially - information-theoretic principles for studying (multi-)agent and robotic systems, constructing methods for generating behaviour intrinsically and "naturally emerging" mechanisms which produce plausibly "intelligent" behaviour in artificial agents with limited sets of prior assumptions. One of his domains of particular inspiration is provided by the complexity of the RoboCup domain. He is PI in the Horizon 2020 consortia socSMCs on studying social sensorimotor contingencies in a principled way, and WiMUST, responsible for mission planning in swarms of autonomous robotic geosurveillance submarines. He is currently president-elect of the RoboCup Federation, and associate editor in a number of journals, including JAAMAS, Advances in Complex Systems, Frontiers in Computational Intelligence. The schedule for future talks can be found here: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a… Subscribe to the CORE seminars Google calendar to have events appear directly in your calendar app: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog…; The Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences at King's College London has a Code of Conduct which we expect participants at our events to abide by. This is intended to ensure an inclusive and productive environment and can be read here: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.a… Thanks, Matthew -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.a…

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Draft paper from today's talk
by Andrew Coles 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Hi all, A few of you have requested the paper from my talk - see attached. This isn't the camera-ready copy of the paper, accounting for the reviewers' comments, but the idea and results are there. Cheers, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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