As a graduate student at WSU, I’ve been fortunate to work with some great professors in interesting fields. You’ll find listed here some of the areas of interest and some work that I’ve done in the past two years.
Adjustable Autonomy
Soar agents can benefit from an adjustable autonomy (AA) scheme which defines constraints on behavior. Here’s a description of how we implement AA within the Soar architecture.
Agents with AA capabilities contribute to their overall safety and robustness. We can also eliminate some of the potential bugs that creep in during deployment. Here’s a draft of the paper we submitted to the FLAIRS 2008 conference in Florida:
Towards a Generic Infrastructure to Adjust the Autonomy of Soar Agents Along the same lines, here’s a brief slideshow describing the project in its nascent phase:
External Constraints for Soar Agents
Security Constraints
In addition, I’m working with another graduate student, Filaret Ilas, to produce program execution traces which we can then plug back into our agents in the form of behavior constraints. Here’s a presentation that describes the tool that Filaret has developed for tracing this execution during runtime:
Checking Secure Constraints in Software
Personal Information Management
In addition, I’m interested in Personal Information (data) Management and utilizing agents to assist with document tagging. I’m excited to work with Dr. George Fletcher and my advisor, Dr. Scott Wallace in a joint effort to realize a small piece of the Personal Information Management problem.
And before all this…
My undergraduate senior thesis was an argument for banishing equal-temperament as a style of tuning. Since tonal music is by its nature asymmetric, there is no need to perform it on a symmetric scale.
An Argument Against the Use of Equal-Temperament for Tonal Music