Eugene's RADAR/Space-Time work

Introduction

RADAR project was a large research project in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The purpose was to build an intelligent system that helps a human administrator to perform office-management tasks, including allocation of rooms, scheduling of meetings, processing of e-mail, and maintenance of web pages. The system had to perform these tasks not only in everyday life, but also in crisis situations, such as emergency re-planning of conference presentations due to last-minute changes in the availability of rooms and speakers. The RADAR project has its own web page, which includes a lot of information about the related work.

RADAR/Space-Time was the component responsible for automated allocation of offices, conference rooms, and other space resources. The related research areas include representation of uncertain knowledge about available resources, optimization based on uncertain knowledge, elicitation of user preferences, negotiations for office space, planning of high-level actions, learning of user behavior, and adaptation to new types of space-allocation tasks.

Installation

Documentation

Main Space-Time Program

Detailed Descriptions: Tools:

Researchers

Faculty Students and staff
  • Ulas Bardak
  • Alexander Carpentier
  • Daniel Cheng
  • Chia-chi Chuang
  • Albert Chung
  • Steve Gardiner
  • Franklin Ho
  • Blaze Iliev
  • Peter Jansen
  • Colin Jarvis
  • Matt Jennings
  • Greg Jorstad
  • Francis Keith
  • Jason Knichel
  • Keunpyo Lee
  • Mark Levine
  • Chris Martens
  • Sung-joo Lim
  • Vijay Prakash
  • Brandon Rothrock
  • Konstantin Salomatin
  • Ankur Sarin
  • Merhbod Sharifi
  • Nisheeth Sharma
  • Peter Smatana
  • Chris Solidum
  • Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt
  • Sonny Uppal
  • Thuc Vu
  • Andrew Yeager

Publications

Eugene Fink, Ulas Bardak, Brandon Rothrock, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Collaboration with the user. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 11-17, 2006. See PostScript, PDF, abstract, or conference talk.

Eugene Fink, P. Matthew Jennings, Ulas Bardak, Jean Oh, Stephen F. Smith, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Search for a near-optimal solution. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 137-144, 2006. See PostScript, PDF, abstract, or conference talk.

Ulas Bardak, Eugene Fink, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Representation and utility function. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 1486-1492, 2006. See PostScript, PDF, abstract, or conference talk.

Ulas Bardak, Eugene Fink, Chris R. Martens, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Elicitation of additional data. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 1493-1498, 2006. See PostScript, PDF, abstract, or conference talk.

Ulas Bardak. Information elicitation in scheduling problems. Ph.D. Thesis, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. See PostScript, PDF, abstract, or defense talk.

Alexander Carpentier, Mehrbod Sharifi, Eugene Fink, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Learning to ask the right questions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 2543-2547, 2008. See PDF or abstract.

Steven Gardiner, Eugene Fink, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Learning to make reasonable assumptions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pages 2554-2559, 2008. See PDF or abstract.

Talks

Scheduling with uncertain resources (50 minutes). Invited talk in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida, May 30, 2006.

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