1. www.radar.cs.cmu.edu Automated Assistant for Crisis Management Reflective Agent with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning RADAR

2. , but also under crisis conditions Help not only in routine situations Purpose Automation of office-management tasks, such as scheduling, e-mail handling, and resource allocation

3. Outline Overview of RADAR Resource allocation Future challenges More information See www.radar.cs.cmu.edu Talk with RADAR researchers

4. Outline Overview of RADAR Resource allocation Future challenges

5. PAL video Three-minute video: Military-setting motivation for RADAR (Carnegie Mellon) and CALO ( SRI ).

6. Project size Largest research project in CMU ’s School of Computer Science. Five departments Language Technologies ( LTI ) Computer Science Department ( CSD ) Institute for Software Research International ( ISRI ) Human-Computer Interaction Institute ( HCII ) Center for Automated Learning and Discovery ( CALD ) Eighty people Thirty faculty members Thirty graduate students Twenty others Five years (2003–2008)

7. Project size Largest research project in CMU ’s School of Computer Science. Advantages Multiple research areas Collaboration opportunities Potential of a major impact Drawbacks Coordination challenges Frequent deliverables

8. Challenges Intelligent performance of office-management tasks Collaboration with users Continuous learning of new knowledge and strategies

9. Research areas Artificial intelligence Machine learning Natural-language processing Human-computer interaction

10. Main components Planning and co-ordination of the system’s high-level actions.

11. Main components Web Master Helps create and maintain web sites.

12. Main components Web Master E-Mail Organizer Helps filter, sort, and prioritize messages.

13. Main components Web Master E-Mail Organizer Calendar Manager Helps keep track of appointments and negotiate meeting times among multiple users.

14. Main components Web Master E-Mail Organizer Calendar Manager Briefing Assistant Helps compile reports based on multiple data sources.

15. Web Master E-Mail Organizer Calendar Manager Briefing Assistant Main components Resource Allocation

16. Outline Overview of RADAR Resource allocation Future challenges

17. Purpose Automated allocation of rooms and related resources, in both routine and crisis situations. Assignment of offices Reservation of conference rooms Allocation of furniture, computers, and other office equipment

18. Year 1: Office allocation A prototype system for automated allocation of offices. Satisfying work-related needs of individual users and groups Maximizing user satisfaction

19. Year 1: Office allocation A prototype system for automated allocation of offices. Processing of natural-language requests Effective allocation of office resources Interface for a human administrator

20. Year 1: Office allocation Six-minute video Automated assignment of offices.

21. Year 2: Conference planning Scheduling of talks at a conference, and related allocation of rooms and equipment, in a crisis situation. Initial allocation plan Unexpected major change in space availability; for example, closing of a building Continuous stream of minor changes; for example, schedule changes and unforeseen equipment needs

22. Year 2: Conference planning Scheduling of talks at a conference, and related allocation of rooms and equipment, in a crisis situation. Temporal reasoning Uncertainty tolerance Information elicitation Collaboration with a human administrator

23. Year 2: Conference planning Demo: Semi-automated scheduling of conference events.

24. Outline Overview of RADAR Resource allocation Future challenges

25. Learning Integrated learning of new knowledge and strategies. From experience From observation From instruction

26. Integration Users RADAR Calendar Manager RADAR E-Mail Organizer RADAR Web Master Integrated RADAR Task manager RADAR Resource Allocation RADAR Briefing Assistant High-level planning Integrated learning

27. Integration Users Integrated RADAR High-level planning Integrated learning RADAR Resource Allocation Knowledge base and inferences RADAR Calendar Manager RADAR E-Mail Organizer RADAR Web Master RADAR Briefing Assistant User dialog manager Natural language processing Resource allocation group

28. Tasks and skills Development of AI, learning, and natural-language algorithms Solving open-ended problems Implementation and integration