Meta Planning & Covert Attention

People in the field

Artificial Intelligence:

• Mark Boddy
• Breese
• Conitzer
• Cox
• Thomas Dean
• Doyle
• Oren Etzioni
• Fehling
• Handerson
• Eric A. Hansen
• Hansson
• Heckerson
• Eric Horvitz
• Jimison
• Kadane
• Kate Larson
• Lipman
• Mayer
• Judeas Pearl
• Stuart Russell
• Sandholm
• Simon
• Eric Wefald
• Shlomo Zilberstein

Cognitive science

• Woleridge

Relevant Events

• First International Full-day Workshop on Metareasoning in Agent-Based Systems
• AAAI-10 Workshop on Metacognition for Robust Social Systems
• SASO Metareasoning Workshop 2009

Links

• MetaReasoning - LarKC Wiki

Related fields

Keywords

• computational resorce allocation
• bounded reasoning
• algorithm portfolio
• metacognition
• metaplanning
• metareasoning
• bounded cognition
• bounded rationality
• Bounded resources
• bounded optimality
• asympotic bounded optimality
• anytime algorithm
• optimal stopping problem
• computation value
• flexible computation
• time-cost
• deliberation control
• time-dependent planning problems
• sub-tree independence
• deliberation scheduling
• continual planning

Problems:

Task usually used for benchmarking

• planning in a maze with limited perception
  • zilberstein 1996
• controlling a problem solving algorithm like travelsalesman
  • hansend & zilberstein 2001
• realtime mail dispatch
• Vehicle Routing Problem
  • Larson & Sandholm 2001
• Single Manchine Manufacturing Scheduling
  • Larson & Sandholm 2001
• robot courier
  • Boddy & Dean 1991
• shooting gallery
  • Boddy & Dean 1991

Application field

• control of probabilistic inference in medical decision making
• browser precaching
• smart compilers
• real time autonomous agents
• control of search (Russell&Wefald,1991)