{"51696":{"#nid":"51696","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Faculty Win NSF Science Of Design Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(August 23, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Associate Professor Ashok Goel (PI) and Senior Research Scientist Spencer Rugaber (Co-PI) have recently won a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)\u00a0Science of Design Program. Their\u00a0proposal titled \u0022Telelogical Reasoning in Adaptive Software Design\u0022 is awarded $640,000 over four years, and will enable fundamental contributions toward the design of intelligent software agents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoel and Rugaber will explore core issues as to how software artifacts evolve, and how a software agent adapts itself as its environment changes. Based on Goel\u0027s earlier work in artificial intelligence, their central hypothesis is that a representation of its own teleology may enable an agent to diagnose, repair, and correct itself to meet incremental changes in its environment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGoel and Rugaber will investigate these issues in the context of game-playing software agents that include: strategy games (Freeciv and C-evo), real-time games (Unreal Tournament and HalfLife 2), and role-playing games (NeverWinter Nights). The net results will be a general knowledge representation language for capturing an agent\u0027s teleological self-model; a general automated reasoning technique for the agent\u0027s self-adaptation; and a mixed-initiative, interactive environment for enabling better and faster changes to the designs of game-playing software agents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about the NSF Science of Design Program, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/pubs\/2005\/nsf05620\/nsf05620.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Associate Professor Ashok Goel and Senior Research Scientist Spencer Rugaber will receive a $640,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:08","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-08-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}