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CMU

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Oregon State

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Stanford

Title: Decision Theoretic Planning for Air Traffic Applications
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Every large aircraft in the world is equipped with a collision avoidance system that alerts pilots to potential conflict with other aircraft and recommends maneuvers to avoid collision. Due to the potentially catastrophic consequences of error in their operation, the complex decision making rules underlying the system have received considerable scrutiny over the past few decades. Recently, the international safety community has been working to standardize a new system for worldwide deployment that is derived from a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) formulation. This talk will discuss the process taken for developing the system and building confidence in its safe operation. In addition, several other applications of POMDPs to air traffic problems will be outlined.

USC

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Microsoft Research

Title: Decision-theoretic control in dialog systems: recent progress and opportunities for research
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Dialog systems interact with a person using natural language to help them achieve some goal. Dialog systems are now a part of daily life, with commercial systems including Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri, Amazon Echo, Google Now, Facebook M, in-car systems, and many others. Because dialog is a sequential process, and because computers' ability to understand human language is error-prone, it has long been an important application for sequential decision making under uncertainty. In this talk, I will first present the dialog system problem through the lens of decision making under uncertainty. I'll then survey recent work which has tailored methods for state tracking and action selection from the general machine learning literature to the dialog problem. Finally, I'll discuss open problems and current opportunities for research.

UMass Amherst

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