KSBT 14 - Schedule

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Full paper talks are 25 minutes long, with 5 minutes for questions, while extended abstract talks are allocated 15 minutes, of which 10-12 for the talk and the rest for questions. There will be plenty of time for discussion during breaks and at the poster session on Saturday. Bring a poster!

November 13

09:00 ‒ Welcome
09:15 ‒ Invited Talk: Peter Stone


10:30 - 11:00 ‒ Coffee Break


11:00 ‒ Stéphane Doncieux. Knowledge Extraction from Learning Traces in Continuous Domains
11:30 ‒ Bruce Johnson, Hairong Qi and Jason Isaacs. Computing a Heuristic Solution to the Watchman Route Problem by Means of Photon Mapping Within a 3D Virtual Environment Testbed
12:00 ‒ Tesca Fitzgerald, Ashok Goel and Andrea Thomaz. Representing Skill Demonstrations for Adaptation and Transfer
12:15 ‒ Milad S. Malekzadeh, Sylvain Calinon, Danilo Bruno and Darwin G. Caldwell. A Skill Transfer Approach for Continuum Robots - Imitation of Octopus Reaching Motion with the STIFF-FLOP Robot


12:30 - 14:00 ‒ Lunch


14:30 ‒ Sachithra Hemachandra, Mattew Walter and Seth Teller. Information Theoretic Question Asking to Improve Spatial Semantic Representations
15:00 ‒ Gabriel Ferrer. Towards Human-Induced Vision-Guided Robot Behavior


15:30 - 16:00 ‒ Coffee Break


16:00 - 17:15 ‒ Invited Talk: Maja Mataric


18:00 - 19:00 ‒ Reception


November 14

09:00 ‒ Invited Talk: Yiannis Demiris


10:15 - 11:00 ‒ Coffee Break


11:00 ‒ Gabriel Barth-Maron, David Abel, James MacGlashan and Stefanie Tellex. Affordances as Transferable Knowledge for Planning Agents
11:30 ‒ Benjamin Rosman. Behavioural Domain Knowledge Transfer for Autonomous Agents
12:00 ‒ George Konidaris and Finale Doshi-Velez. Hidden Parameter Markov Decision Processes: An Emerging Paradigm for Modeling Families of Related Tasks
12:15 ‒ Marie desJardins, Tenji Tembo, Nicholay Topin, Michael Bishoff, Shawn Squire, James MacGlashan, Rose Carignan and Nicholas Haltmeyer. Discovering Subgoals in Complex Domains


12:30 - 14:00 ‒ Lunch


14:00 - 15:15 ‒ Invited Talk: Manuela Veloso


15:15 - 16:00 ‒ Coffee Break


16:00 - 17:15 ‒ Invited Talk: Nathan Ratliff (on behalf of Stephan Schaal)


18:00 - 19:00 ‒ Plenary Session


November 15

09:00 - 10:15 ‒ Invited Talk: Andrea Thomaz


10:00 - 12:15 ‒ Poster Session


12:15 - 12:30 ‒ Farewell, End of Symposium.