In this talk, I will briefly review the major features of one model of collaborative planning, SharedPlans (Grosz and Kraus, 1996,1999), and will describe efforts to develop collaborative planning agents and systems for human-computer communication based on this model. The model also provides a framework in which to raise and address fundamental questions about collaboration and the construction of collaboration-capable agents. In this context, I will discuss recent approaches to commitment management and group decision-making.

Speaker Bio:

Barbara J. Grosz is Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Science of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Professor Grosz is known for her seminal contributions to the fields of natural-language processing and multi-agent systems. She developed some of the earliest and most influential computer dialogue systems and established the research field of computational modeling of discourse. Her work on models of collaboration helped establish that field of inquiry and provides the framework for several collaborative multi-agent systems and human-computer interface systems. She has been elected to the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the ACM, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, recipient of the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumna Award and of awards for distinguished service from major AI societies. She is also widely respected for her contributions to the advancement of women in science.

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