Randall W. Hill, Jr.

Publications

Hill, R., Douglas, J., Gordon, A., Pighin, F., & van Velsen, M. (2003). Guided Conversations about Leadership: Mentoring with Movies and Interactive Characters. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Aug 12-14, Acapulco, Mexico, AAAI Press. [pdf]

Hill, R., Gratch, J., Marsella, S., Rickel, J., Swartout, W., & Traum, D. (2003). Virtual Humans in the Mission Rehearsal Exercise System. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI Journal). Special issue on Embodied Conversational Agents.

Swartout, W., Gratch, J., Hill, R., Hovy, E., Lindheim, R., Marsella, S., Rickel, J., & Traum, D, (to appear). Simulation meets Hollywood: Integrating Graphics,Sound, Story and Character for Immersive Simulation. Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation, Oliviero Stock and Massimo Zancanaro Eds., Kluwer.

Rickel, J., Marsella, S., Gratch, J., Hill, R., Traum, D., & Swartout, W. (2002). Towards a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences.  IEEE Intelligent Systems, July/August 2002, pp. 32-38. [pdf]

Hill, R., Han, C., & van Lent, M. (2002). Perceptually Driven Cognitive Mapping in a Virtual Urban Environment. AI Magazine, 23(4), 69-79. [pdf]

Hill, R., Han, C., & van Lent, M. (2001). Applying Perceptually Driven Cognitive Mapping to Virtual Urban Environments.  Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 30-31. AAAI Press: Palo Alto, CA. [pdf] (IAAI-2002 Award Winning Paper)

Hill, R., Kim, Y., & van Lent, M. (2002).  Anticipating Where to Look: Predicting the Movements of Mobile Agents in Complex Terrain.  Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July, 2002. [pdf]

Hill, R., Han, C., & van Lent, M. (2002).  Perceptually Driven Cognitive Mapping of Urban Environments. Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Bologna, Italy, July, 2002. [pdf]

Swartout, W., Hill, R., Gratch, J., Johnson, W.L., Kyriakakis, C., Labore, K., Lindheim, R., Marsella, S., Miraglia, D., Moore, B., Morie, J., Rickel, J., Thiebaux, M., Tuch, L., & Whitney R. (2001).  Toward the Holodeck: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Character and Story. Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, Canada. [pdf] (FIPA Software Prototype Award at Agents 2001).

Hill, R., Gratch, J., & Rosenbloom, P. (2000). Flexible Group Behavior: Virtual Commanders for Synthetic Battlespaces. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, June 5-7, 2000, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Zhang, W., & Hill, R (2000). A Template-Based and Pattern-Driven Approach to Situation Awareness and Assessment in Virtual Humans. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, June 5-7, 2000, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Hill, R., Gratch, J., Rosenbloom, P., & Whitney, R. (2000). Flexible Group Behavior: Lessons Learned about Creating Autonomous Commanders. Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, May 16-18, 2000. [pdf]

Kim, Y., Hill, R., & Gratch, J. (2000). How Long Can An Agent Look Away From A Target? Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, May 16-18, 2000, Orlando, FL.

Zhang, W., & Hill, R. (2000). Situation Awareness and Assessment: Issues and Computational Approaches. Proceedings of the 9th Computer Generated Forces & Behavioral Representation, Orlando, Florida, May 16-18, 2000.

Hill, R. (1999). Modeling Perceptual Attention in Virtual Humans. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, May 1999. [pdf] (Best Paper Award)

Hill, R. (1999). Perceptual Grouping and Attention in a Multi-Agent World. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Seattle, WA, May 1999. [pdf]

Gratch, J., & Hill, R. (1999). Continuous Planning and Collaboration for Command and Control in Joint Synthetic Battlespaces. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, May 1999. [pdf]

Gratch, J., Marsella, S., Hill, R., & Stone, G. (1999). Deriving Priority Intelligence Requirements for Synthetic Command Entities. Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, Orlando, FL, May 1999. [pdf]

Hill, R., Chien, S., & Fayyad K. (1998). Goal-driven Automation of a Deep Space Communications Station: A Case Study in Knowledge Engineering for Plan Generation and Execution. Expert Systems, 15(3), November 1998, pp. 141-156.

Hill, R., Chen, J., Gratch, J., Rosenbloom, P., & Tambe, M. (1998). Soar-RWA: Planning, Teamwork, and Intelligent Behavior for Synthetic Rotary Wing Aircraft. Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Computer Generated Forces & Behavioral Representation, May 12-14, 1998, Orlando, FL. [pdf]

Hill, R., Chen, J., Gratch, J., Rosenbloom, P., & Tambe, M. (1997). Intelligent Agents for the Synthetic Battlefield: A Company of Rotary Wing Aircraft. Proceedings of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-97), Providence, RI, July 1997. [pdf]

Chien, S., Govindjee, A., Estlin, T., Wang, X., & Hill, R. (1997). Using Artificial Intelligence Planning Techniques to Automate Generation of Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas. Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Innovative Application of Artificial Intelligence, Providence, RI, July 1997. [pdf]

Chien, S., Hill, R., Govindjee, A., Wang, X., Estlin, T., Griesel, M., Lam, R., & Fayyad K. (1997). A Hierarchical Architecture for Resource Allocation, Plan Execution, and Revision for Operation of a Network of Communications Antennas. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, April 1997, v,4, pp. 3340-3347. [pdf]

Chien, S., Govindjee, A., Estlin, T., Wang, X., & Hill, R. (1997). Automated Generation of Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Aspen, CO, February, 1997, v. 1, pp. 343-359.

Chien, S., Estlin, T.,Wang, X., Govindjee, A., & Hill, R. (1997). Automated Generation of Antenna Operations Procedures: A Knowledge-based Approach. Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Reports 42-130, April-June 1997. [pdf]

Chien, S., Govindjee, A., Estlin, T., Wang, X., Hill, R., & Fisher, F. (1997). Using Artificial Intelligence Planning Techniques to Automate Generation of Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas. NASA Tech Brief, 21(8), p. 70, August 1997.

Chien, S., Govindjee, A., Estlin, T., Wang, X., & Hill, R. (1996). Integrating Hierarchical Task Network and Operator-based Planning Techniques to Automate Operations of Communications Antennas. IEEE Expert, December 1996.

Chien, S., Hill, R., Wang, X., Estlin, T., Fayyad, K., & Mortenson, H. (1996). Why Real-world Planning is Difficult: A Tale of Two Applications. New Directions in AI Planning, M. Ghallab and A. Milani, eds., IOS Press, Washington, D.C., 1996, pp. 287-298. [pdf]

Hill, R., Chien, S., & Fayyad, K. (1996). Automating operations for a network of communications antennas. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, and Neural Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, August, 1996. [pdf]

Hill, R., Chien, S., Fayyad, K., Smyth, C., Santos, T., Chen, R., & Bevan, R. (1995). Sequence of Events driven automation of the Deep Space Network. Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report, 42-124, Oct-Dec, 1995. [pdf]

Hill, R., & Johnson, W.L. (1995). Situated plan attribution. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 6(1). [pdf]

Hill, R., & Johnson, W.L. (1994). Situated plan attribution for intelligent tutoring. Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 31-August 4, 1994, Seattle, WA. [pdf]

Hill, R., Sturdevant, K., & Johnson, W.L. (1993). Toward an embedded training tool for Deep Space Network Operations. Proceedings of AIAA Computing in Aerospace Conference, October 19-21, 1993, San Diego, CA.

Hill, R. (1994). Impasse-driven tutoring for reactive skill acquisition. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California, 1993. Also appears as JPL Publication 94-9, April 1994.

Hill, R., & Johnson, W.L. (1993). Impasse-driven tutoring for reactive skill acquisition. Proceedings of the 1993 Conference on Intelligent Computer-Aided Training and Virtual Environment Technology (ICAT-VET-93), NASA/Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, May 5-7, 1993. [pdf]

Hill, R., & Johnson, W.L. (1993). Designing an intelligent tutoring system based on a reactive model of skill acquisition. Proceedings of the World Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED 93), Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993. [pdf]

Hill, R. (1990). Integrating knowledge and control into hypermedia-based training environments: Experiments with HyperCLIPS. Proceedings of the SEPEC Conference on Hypermedia and Information Reconstruction '90: Aerospace Applications and Research Directions. Houston, Texas, Dec 3-5, 1990.

Hill, R., & Pickering, W.B. (1990). Intelligent tutoring with HyperCLIPS. Proceedings of the First CLIPS Users Conference. Houston: Johnson Space Center, 1990.

Pickering, W.B., & Hill, R. (1990). HyperCLIPS: A HyperCard interface to CLIPS. Proceedings of the First CLIPS Users Conference. Houston: Johnson Space Center, 1990.

Gasser, L., & Hill, R. (1990). Engineering coordinated problem solvers. Annual Review of Computer Science. Palo Alto: Annual Reviews, Inc.

Gasser, L., Rouquette, N., Hill, R., & Lieb, J. (1989). Representing and using organizational knowledge in DAI systems. In L. Gasser and M.N. Huhns, editors, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Volume II. London: Pitman and Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 55-78.

INVITED PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA

Rickel, J., Gratch, J., Hill, R., Marsella, S., & Swartout, W. (2001). Steve Goes to Bosnia: Towards a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Entertainment, Stanford University, CA. [pdf]

Hill, R. (2000). Perceptual Attention in Virtual Humans: Towards Realistic and Believable Gaze Behaviors. Workshop on Achieving Human-Like Behavior in Interactive Animated Agents, in conjunction with The Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, June 3, 2000, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]

Hill, R. (2000). Perceptual Attention in Virtual Humans: Towards Realistic and Believable Gaze Behaviors. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium 2000 on Simulating Human Agents, Cape Cod, MA. [pdf]

Hill, R. (1999). Soar: An Architecture for Human Behavior Representation. Invited Panel Member and Presentation at the Workshop on Human Behaioral Representation, Conference on Modeling and Simulation, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), August 9-11, 1999, Portland, Oregon.

Chien, S., Govindjee, A., Estlin, T., Wang, X., Fisher, F., & Hill, R. (1997). Using Artificial Intelligence Planning Techniques to Automate Generation of Tracking Plans for a Network of Communications Antennas. International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space Exploration and Science, Oxnard, CA, October 1997.

Chien, S., Hill, R., Govindjee, A., Wang, X., Estlin, T., Griesel, M.A., Lam, R., & Fayyad, K. (1996). Robust, Multi-layered Plan Execution and Revision for a Network of Communications Antennas. Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium on Plan Execution, Cambridge, MA, November 1996.

Hill, R., Chien, S., Smyth, C., Fayyad, K., & Santos, P. (1995). Planning for Deep Space Network Operations. Proceedings of the 1995 AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrated Planning Applications, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. pp. 51-56.

Chien, S., Hill, R., & Fayyad, K. (1994). Why real-world planning is difficult. In Working Notes of AAAI-94 Fall Symposium Series, Planning and Learning: On to Real Applications, New Orleans, LA.

Hill, R., Fayyad, K., Santos, P., & Sturdevant, K. (1994). Knowledge acquisition and reactive planning for the Deep Space Network. In Working Notes of AAAI-94 Fall Symposium Series, Planning and Learning: On to Real Applications, New Orleans, LA., AAAI Press.

Hill, R., & Cooper, L. (1993). Link Monitor and Control Operator Assistant: A case study in electronic performance support. Invited talk for the Government Help Desk and Training Conference, 8-11 June 1993, Washington, D.C.

Hill, R., & Lee, L. (1992). Situation management in the Link Monitor and Control Operator Assistant. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Ground Data Systems for Space Mission Operations, SPACEOPS-92. Pasadena, CA, November 16-20, 1992.

Lee, L., & Hill, R. (1992). Process control and recovery in the Link Monitor and Control Operator Assistant. Proceedings of the SOAR Symposium. Houston, Texas: NASA Johnson Space Center, 1992.

Hill, R. (1991).  Embedded training as a factor in composite systems. Working Notes of the AAAI-91 Spring Symposium: Integrated Planning Applications, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 1991.

Hill, R. (1988). The Knowledge Workbench: An AI rapid prototype testbed. Proceedings of the 1988 Tri-Service Data Fusion Symposium. Johns Hopkins University.

UNPUBLISHED TECHNICAL REPORTS

Hill, R. (1991). The student performance evaluation tool. JPL Technical Note. 26 September 1991.

Hill, R., & Pickering, B. (1990). A knowledge-based approach to student performance evaluation. JPL Technical Note, 21 December 1990.

Hill, R., & Gasser, L. (1989). Modeling the behavior of coordinated problem solvers. . USC Distributed Artificial Intelligence Group Research Note, 21 July 1989.

Hill, R. (1986). Prospective reasoning about liaisons between agents. USC Distributed Artificial Intelligence Group Research Note 22, 17 December 1986.