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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2011-05-10 12:37 pm

Couple of Paper Acceptances while I was Away

It is our pleasure to inform you that your abstract entitled "Agent
Control of Cooperating Satellites" submitted to the AI in Space:
Intelligence beyond planet earth, has been accepted for an oral
presentation.


The exciting thing about this paper is that we only had to submit an abstract, but are now required to produce a full paper by the 1st July - I forsee much frantic scribbling in the next month or so. The paper describes the current case study we are working on which is the exploration of asteroid clusters using multiple satellites.

Thank you very much for submitting a paper to CLIMA XII. We are delighted to let
you know that your paper is accepted for presentation and inclusion in the
Springer LNAI Proceedings.


This paper is "A Formal Semantics for Brahms" and is really the baby of my PhD Student (using the phrase "my PhD Student" here to refer to someone for whom I'm tenuously 3rd supervisor in a vague "the university admin can't cope with RA's supervising PhD students" kind of way). I did do a little polishing on the paper so I'm not too embarrased by the author credit. Brahms is an agent programming language used by NASA to model human-robot interaction. We want to do some model checking (verification) of these models but that means we needed a semantics for the language first which said PhD student had been diligently working on for about a year now.

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[identity profile] whuffle.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! That's seriously hot stuff. I'd actually be interested in seeing the Semantics for Brahms one. I suspect it'd be a very fascinating read.
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[identity profile] whuffle.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Work in academia in the sciences, edit and vet things for work all the time, and have an older sibling who's a professional translator, so I get linguistics and semantics at the dinner table.

I will definitely set a calendar reminder for this one!
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[identity profile] whuffle.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
*makes grabby hands*

I'll sit down and read it over at home tonight!
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[personal profile] fredbassett 2011-05-10 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Has everyone accepted the point that all good satellites need lasers yet?

[identity profile] lukadreaming.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Great news! I'm sighing enviously at the fact you get the chance to do all these conference papers. I know I'm doing the wretched books, but it's 18 months since I gave a paper . . .

And I did a double-take at Brahms and wondered if you were branching out again from AI to film studies to music!

[identity profile] lukadreaming.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I do need to see if I can start pulling some conference papers out of my PhD. But that's a whole new field. My supervisor seems fairly proactive and keen for me to do it . . .

A holiday in Spain would be a very cunning plan.

[identity profile] bigtitch.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations.

Any update on what the new date for Skynet achieving consciousness yet? ;)

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Well done!

[identity profile] reggietate.livejournal.com 2011-05-10 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations :-)