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Tradeoff-Focused Contrastive Explanation for MDP Planning
Roykrong Sukkerd, Reid Simmons, David Garlan
End-users' trust in automated agents is important as automated decision-making and planning is increasingly used in many aspects of people's lives. In real-world applications of pl…
Expressing Ethnicity through Behaviors of a Robot Character
Maxim Makatchev, Reid Simmons, Majd Sakr +1
Achieving homophily, or association based on similarity, between a human user and a robot holds a promise of improved perception and task performance. However, no previous studies…
Heuristic Search Value Iteration for POMDPs
Trey Smith, Reid Simmons
We present a novel POMDP planning algorithm called heuristic search value iteration (HSVI).HSVI is an anytime algorithm that returns a policy and a provable bound on its regret wit…
Point-Based POMDP Algorithms: Improved Analysis and Implementation
Trey Smith, Reid Simmons
Existing complexity bounds for point-based POMDP value iteration algorithms focus either on the curse of dimensionality or the curse of history. We derive a new bound that relies o…
A Cross-cultural Corpus of Annotated Verbal and Nonverbal Behaviors in Receptionist Encounters
Maxim Makatchev, Reid Simmons, Majd Sakr
We present the first annotated corpus of nonverbal behaviors in receptionist interactions, and the first nonverbal corpus (excluding the original video and audio data) of service e…
VHPOP: Versatile Heuristic Partial Order Planner
R. G. Simmons, H. L. S. Younes
VHPOP is a partial order causal link (POCL) planner loosely based on UCPOP. It draws from the experience gained in the early to mid 1990's on flaw selection strategies for POCL pla…