An Adaptive Agent Architecture
Speaker: Prof John Lloys, Computer Sciences Laboratory, The Australian National University
When: 2004-05-06 15:00:00
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Central Theatre Building, Griffith University, Nathan Campus
Host: Prof Abdul Sattar
Abstract:In this talk, I will show how symbolic learning techniques can be
used to build user agents that are adaptive in the sense that they
perform well in a changing environment and also personalise their
behaviour according to the interests and preferences of their
user. The main intended application domain is to agents that help
users interact with the Web. The symbolic learning system employed,
called Alkemy, exploits a sophisticated knowledge representation
language based on higher-order logic. I will briefly describe
Alkemy,the adaptive agent architecture, and some Web applications.
Biography:John Lloyd is Professor and Head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory
at The Australian National University. His research interests are in
computational logic, including symbolic machine learning, agents, an
declarative programming languages. He is the author of "Foundations
of Logic Programming", the main reference on theoretical issues in
logic programming, and is co-designer of the Goedel programming
language. More recently, he has written a book entitled "Logic for
Learning" that investigates the application of higher-order logic to
learning.
Type: Colloquium Series
Contact:Prof Abdul Sattar, seminar host (R.Tucker@griffith.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)