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Publications

Books

We have completed a technical book for Springer-Verlag, entitled Robots, Reasoning, and Reification.

Robots, Reasoning, and Reification focuses on a critical obstacle that is preventing the development of intelligent, autonomous robots: the gap between the ability to reason about the world and the ability to sense the world and translate that sensory data into a symbolic model.

This ability is what enables living systems to look at the world and perceive the things in it. In addition, intelligent living systems can extrapolate from their mental models and predict the effects of their actions in the real world. The authors call this bi-directional mapping of sensor data to symbols and symbolic manipulation onto real world effects reification. After exploring the gulf between bottom-up and top-down approaches to autonomous robotics, the book develops the concepts of reification from biologically based premises, and follows the development into the necessary components and structures that can be used to provide equivalent capabilities for intelligent robots. It continues by demonstrating how the reification engine supports both learning from experience and creating new behaviors and representations of the world.

The book was published in November 2008.

Book Chapters

• Brown, D. E. and L. F. Gunderson, "Using Data Mining to Discover the Preferences of Computer Criminals," Advances in Computers: Volume 56, 2002 Ed. M. Zelkowitz, Academic Press.

ARCHIVAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Brown, D. E. and L. F. Gunderson, "Using Clustering to Discover the Preferences of Computer Criminals," IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 31, No 4, July 2001.


• Gunderson J. P. and Martin, W. N., "Effects of Uncertainty on Plan Success in a Simulated Maintenance Robot Domain," Journal of Experimental and Theoretic Artificial Intelligence Special Issue: Autonomy Control Software, 12(2) April-June 2000, p153-164.


• Brown, D. E., L. F. Gunderson, and M. H. Evans "Interactive Analysis of Computer Crimes," Computer, Vol.33, No 8, August 2000.

CONFERENCES AND PROCEEDINGS

• Gunderson, L. F. and Gunderson, J. P. , "Reliability Testing for Embodied Autonomous Systems" IROS 2007 Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking for Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, Nov 02, 2007.


• Gunderson J. P. and Gunderson, L. F., "Autonomy (What's it Good for?)", Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, August 28 - 30, 2007.


• Gunderson, J. P. and Gunderson, L. F., "Reification: What is it and Why Should I Care?", Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, August 21 - 23, 2006.


• Gunderson, L. F., Kilgore T., and Gunderson, J. P., "Living with a Personal Disk Jockey - the Start of the Journey", AAAI Spring Symposium, Palo Alto, CA, March, 2005.


• Gunderson, L.F. and Gunderson, J. P., "Ground Truthing Models of Social Behavior: Two Real World Examples", North American Association for Computational Social and Organizational Science Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 27 - 29, 2004.


• Gunderson, L.F. and J. P. Gunderson, J.P. "Using Data-Mining to Allow Robots to Discover the Preferences of Humans," IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems, KIMAS '03, Cambridge, MA, September 30 - October 4, 2003.


• Gunderson, L.F., "Using Data Mining and Judgment Analysis to Construct a Predictive Model of Crime," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hamammet, Tunisia, October, 2002.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown, "Using Cluster Specific Salience Weighting to Determine the Preferences of Agents for Multi-Agent Simulations," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Tucson, Arizona, October, 2001.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown "Using Data-Mining to Predict the Targets of a Computer Based Attack," Applied Telecommunication Symposium, 2001 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, Seattle, Washington, April 22-26, 2001.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown, "Using a Multi-Agent Model to Predict Both Physical and Cyber Criminal Activity," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, Tennessee, October, 2000.


• Gunderson, L.F. and R. Krzysztofowicz, "Interface for Displaying Probabilistic River Forecasts to Decision Makers," 14th Conference on Hydrology, Dallas, Texas, 10-15 January, 1999.


• Gunderson, J. P. and L. F. Gunderson, "Coupling Geographic Information Systems and Computer Simulations to Model Spatially Non-homogeneous Domains," Conference Proceedings: Geographic Information Systems in Environmental Resources Management 1996.

SYMPOSIA AND WORKSHOPS

• Gunderson, L.F., Sigman, J. and Weiss, S., "Testing the Fundamental Hypothesis of Pairs Trading on a Large Number of Stocks." INFORMS 2004 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October 24 - 27, 2004.


• Gunderson, J. P. and Gunderson, L. F., "Intelligence ? Autonomy ? Capability", Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, August 24 - 26, 2004.


• Gunderson, J.P. and L. F. Gunderson, "Mom! The Vacuum Cleaner is Chasing the Dog Again!" Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, September 16-18, 2003.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown, "Teaching Robots How to Discover What Humans Want," AAAI Spring Symposia, Palo Alto, CA, March 23 - 27, 2003.


• Gunderson, J.P. and L. F. Gunderson, "Integrating Effective Planning Horizons into an Intelligent Systems Architecture," Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, August 13-15 2002.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown, "Using Derived Preferences to Predict the Targets of Computer Crime," 17th Annual Meeting of the Brunswik Society, Orlando, FL, November 2001.


• Gunderson, L. F. and D. E. Brown, "Using Derived Preferences to Predict the Targets of Computer Crime," 2nd Annual IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Information Assurance Workshop, 5-6 June 2001.


• Brown, D. E. and L. F. Gunderson, "Crime Mapping for Computer Crimes," 1st Annual IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Information Assurance Workshop, 5-6 June 2000.


• Gunderson, J. P. and L.F. Gunderson, "Applying Possibility Theory and Unsupervised Classification to Remotely Sensed Images that Contain Multimodal Signatures," International Institute of General Systems Studies 2nd Workshop Proceedings 1997.