Papers

Please email me at louisep@aisb.ed.ac.uk if you would like copies of these papers. See my personal page for other interesting information. Some abstracts are available online.

1996

Planning for contingencies: A decision-based approach

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 4 (1996) 287-339.
Abstract

Opportunity recognition in complex environments

Louise Pryor
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1147-1152, Portland, OR, AAAI.
Abstract

A heuristic approach to deciding what to do next

Louise Pryor
Submitted to the 15th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group
Abstract

Opportunism without deliberation?

Louise Pryor, 1996
Working notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Plan Execution: Problems and Issues

A note on processes for plan-execution and powerdomains for plan-comparison

David Pym, Louise Pryor and David Murphy.
Technical Report No. 719, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Abstract

Planning with Observations and Knowledge

Robert Goldman, Mark Boddy and Louise Pryor
Working Notes of the AAAI-96 workshop on Theories of Action, Planning and Control: Bridging the Gap. Portland, Oregon, AAAI.

On Competence and Meta-knowledge

Gerhard Wickler and Louise Pryor
Working Notes of the AAAI-96 workshop on Agent Modeling. Portland, Oregon, AAAI.

Actuaries and Artificial Intelligence

Louise Pryor
The Actuary, Vol 7 No 1 (September 1996), Staple Inn Actuarial Society, pp29-30.

AI tools for Actuaries

Louise Pryor
To appear in The Actuary, Vol 7 No 2 (October 1996), Staple Inn Actuarial Society, pp??-??.

1995

Actions as processes: a position on planning.

David Pym, Louise Pryor and David Murphy.
In the Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Extending theories of action: formal theory and practical applications, 1995.
Also available as Technical Report No. 696, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Decisions, decisions: Knowledge goals in planning.

Louise Pryor.
In Hybrid problems, hybrid solutions, J Hallam (Ed), pp. 181-192. IOS Press.
(Proceedings of AISB-95)
Winner of Best Paper award at AISB-95
Abstract

Processes for plan-execution.

Louise Pryor, David Pym and David Murphy.
Papers of the 14th workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group, (S. Steel, Ed), Technical Report 255, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, November 1995.
Also available as Technical Report No. 718, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
Abstract

Planning under uncertainty: Some key issues.

Gregg Collins and Louise Pryor.
In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1567-1573, Montreal, IJCAI.
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A review of Expert Systems in Business and Finance: Issues and Applications. Edited by Paul R Wilkins and Lance B Eliot. John Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Louise Pryor
British Actuarial Journal, Volume 1, part IV, October 1995.

1994

Opportunities: A unifying framework for planning and execution.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins. 1994.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems, Chicago, IL: AAAI.

Opportunities and planning in an unpredictable world.

Louise Pryor, 1994.
Technical Report No. 53, Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University.

Perceptual and functional representations: Bridging the gap.

Louise Pryor, 1994.
Notes of the AISB Workshop on Computational Models of Cognition and Cognitive Functions, Leeds, AISB.
Abstract

1993

The misuse of filter conditions: A critical analysis.

Gregg Collins and Louise Pryor. 1993.
Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Planning and Scheduling, Vadstena, Sweden, EWSP'93: IOS Press.

What are filter conditions for?

Gregg Collins and Louise Pryor, 1993.
Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Foundations of Automatic Planning: The Classical Approach and Beyond.

Cassandra: Planning with contingencies.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins, 1993.
Technical Report No. 41, Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

1992

Reference Features as guides to reasoning about opportunities.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins, 1992.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Bloomington, IN: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Achieving the functionality of filter conditions in a partial order planner.

Gregg Collins and Louise Pryor, 1992.
Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, CA: AAAI.

Information-Gathering as a Planning Task: A Position Paper.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins, 1992.
Working Notes of the AAAI workshop on Knowledge-Based Construction of Probabilistic and Decision Models.

Representation and Performance in a Partial Order Planner.

Gregg Collins and Louise Pryor, 1992.
Technical Report No. 35, Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Planning to perceive: A utilitarian approach.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins, 1992.
Working Notes of the AAAI 1992 Spring Symposium on Control of Selective Perception. Also in Ram, A., and D. Leake (Eds) Goal-driven learning, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

1991

Information gathering as a planning task.

Louise Pryor and Gregg Collins, 1991.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

A model-based approach to the construction of adaptive case-based planning systems.

L. Birnbaum, G. Collins, M. Brand, M. Freed, B. Krulwich and L. Pryor, 1991.
Proceedings of the Case-Based Reasoning Workshop, Washington DC: DARPA.

1990

A content theory of memory indexing.

R. C. Schank, R. Osgood, M. Brand, R. Burke, E. Domeshek, D. Edelson, W. Ferguson, M. Freed, K. Jona, B. Krulwich, E. Ohmaye and L. Pryor, 1990.
Technical Report No. 2, Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

Towards a General Content Theory of Indices.

R. C. Schank, M. Brand, R. Burke, E. Domeshek, D. Edelson, W. Ferguson, M. Freed, K. Jona, B. Krulwich, E. Ohmaye, R. Osgood and L. Pryor, 1990.
Working Notes of the AAAI spring symposium, Palo Alto, CA.