Papers

This page has most of my publications. You can also go to automatically generated lists of papers on these topics:

Here is a slightly longer list.

An Analysis of Task Learning by Instruction
Jim Blythe
National Conference on Artificial Intellience (AAAI), 2005

Task Learning by Instruction in Tailor
Jim Blythe
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2005

Task Scheduling Strategies for Workflow-based Applications in Grids
Jim Blythe, Sonal Jain, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Karan Vahi, Anirban Mandal and Ken Kennedy
IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and Grid (CCGrid), 2005

Incremental Formalization of Document Annotations through Ontology-based Paraphrasing
Jim Blythe and Yolanda Gil
Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2004

Automatically composed workflows for Grid environments
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil
IEEE Intelligent Systems, July/August 2004
(an earlier version appeared in the AAAI Spring symposium on semantic web services, 2004)

The effects of motion and hierarchical layout on viewers' perceptions of graph structure
Cathleen McGrath and Jim Blythe
Journal of Social Structure, vol 5, number 2, 2004

Artificial Intelligence and Grids: Workflow Planning and Beyond
Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Carl Kesselman and Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit
IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on E-Science, 2004

Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) 2003

The Role of Planning in Grid Computing
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Amit Agarwal, Gaurang Mehta and Karan Vahi
International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) 2003

Planning for workflow construction and maintenance on the grid
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil
ICAPS 03 workshop on web services composition

Mapping Abstract Complex Workflows onto Grid Environments
Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, Albert Lazzarini, Adam Arbree, Richard Cavanaugh, Scott Koranda
Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 9--23, 2003

Evaluating SME-Authored COA Critiquing Knowledge
Mike Pool, Ken Murray, Julie Fitzgerald, Mala Mehrotra, Robert Schrag, Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Hans Chalupsky, Pierluigi Miraglia, Thomas Russ, Dave Schneider
To appear, Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), 2003

A Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Course of Action Analysis
Ken Barker, Jim Blythe, Gary Borchardt, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Peter E. Clark, Paul Cohen, Julie Fitzgerald, Ken Forbus, Yolanda Gil, Boris Katz, Jihie Kim, Gary King, Sunil Mishra, Ken Murray, Charley Otstott, Bruce Porter, Robert C. Schrag, Tomás Uribe, Jeff Usher, Peter Z. Yeh
Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) 2003

Supporting Plan Authoring and Analysis
Jihie Kim and Jim Blythe, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2003

Visual Exploration and Incremental Utility Elicitation
Jim Blythe, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2002

Finding plans and defining plan constraints simultaneously
Jim Blythe, KCAP 01 Workshop on Interactive Tools for Knowledge Capture

Integrating expectations to support end users to acquire procedural knowledge
Jim Blythe, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2001

An integrated environment for knowledge acquisition
Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Surya Ramachandran and Yolanda Gil, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2001

Acquiring procedural knowledge in EXPECT
Yolanda Gil, Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim and Surya Ramachandran, AAAI Fall symposium, 2000

Extending the role-limiting approach: supporting end users to acquire problem-solving knowledge
Jim Blythe, In Proceedings of the ECAI workshop on Applications of ontologies and problem-solving methods, Berlin 2000.

PLANET: a shareable and reusable ontology for representing plans
Yolanda Gil and Jim Blythe, In Proceedings of the AAAI workshop on representational issues for real-world planning systems, Austin, 2000

How can a structured representation of capabilities help in planning?
Yolanda Gil and Jim Blythe, In Proceedings of the AAAI workshop on representational issues for real-world planning systems, Austin, 2000

On the role of humans in enterprise control systems: the experience of INSPECT
Andre Valente, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, William Swartout
DARPA-JFACC Symposium on Advanced in Enterprise Control, 1999

A Problem-Solving Method for Plan Evaluation and Critiquing
Jim Blythe and Yolanda Gil, In Proceedings of KAW 99, the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, Banff, 1999.

Knowledge Acquisition using an English-based Method Editor
Jim Blythe and Surya Ramachandran, In Proceedings of KAW 99, the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, Banff, 1999.

Decision-Theoretic Planning,
Jim Blythe, AI Magazine, Summer 1999

Rasputin: A Complete Bidirectional Planner
Eugene Fink and Jim Blythe, in proceedings of the Fourth Conference on AI Planning Systems, Pittsburgh, 1998.

Planning under uncertainty in dynamic domains
my thesis, in gzipped postscript or pdf.

Analogical replay for efficient conditional planning
Jim Blythe and Manuela Veloso, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 1997

Learning to Improve Uncertainty Handling in a Hybrid Planning System
Jim Blythe and Manuela Veloso, in the AAAI Fall Symposium on Learning Complex Behaviors in Intelligent Adaptive Systems, 1996.

A Representation for Efficient Planning in Dynamic Domains with External Events. Jim Blythe, in the AAAI workshop on Theories of action, Planning and Control: Bridging the gap, 1996.

Event-based decompositions for reasoning about external change in planners. Jim Blythe, in proceedings of the Third Conference on AI Planning Systems, Edinburgh, 1996.

The effect of graph layout on inference from social network data
Jim Blythe, Cathleen McGrath and David Krackhardt, Proceedings of Graph Drawing 95.
(A longer version is to appear in the Journal of Social Networks .)

The footprint principle for heuristics for probabilistic planners
Jim Blythe, In the European Workshop on Planning, 1995.

Integrating Planning and Learning: The PRODIGY Architecture
Manuela Veloso, Jaime Carbonell, Alicia Perez, Daniel Borrajo, Eugene Fink and Jim Blythe
Journal of Theoretical and Experimental AI, 7(1), 1995.

AI planning in dynamic, uncertain domains, Jim Blythe,
In AAAI Spring Symposium on Extending Theories of Action, 1995.

Robust Planning Under Uncertainty, Jim Blythe.
This is my thesis proposal, presented 16th Jan 95.

Planning with external events, Jim Blythe,
in proceedings of the conference on Uncertainty in AI, 1994.

Decision-theoretic subgoaling for planning with external events,
Jim Blythe, In AAAI Spring Symposium on Decision-Theoretic Planning, 1994.

Linkability: Examining Causal Link Commitments in Partial-Order Planning ,
Manuela Veloso and Jim Blythe, In proceedings of the 2nd conference on AI Planning Systems, 1994.

The Need for Different Domain-Independent Heuristics,
Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso and Jim Blythe, In proceedings of the 2nd conference on AI Planning Systems, 1994.

Integrating Reactive and Deliberative Planning in a Household Robot,
Jim Blythe and W. Scott Reilly, AAAI Fall Symposium on Instantiating Real-World Agents, 1993.
PDF (saved from citeseer)
Here's the tech report of more or less the same name.

An Analysis of Search Techniques for a Totally-ordered Nonlinear Planner,
Jim Blythe and Manuela Veloso, in proceedings of the 1st conference on AI Planning Systems, 1992.

Object-Oriented System Modeling with OMT
Bernd Bruegge, Jim Blythe, Jeff Jackson and Jeff Shufelt,
Conference Proceedings OOPSLA 92 (Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications), ACMPress, pp. 359-376, October 1992.

On Becoming Reactive, Jim Blythe and Tom Mitchell
International Workshop on Machine Learning, 1989

Constraining Search in a Hierarchical, Discriminative Learning System
Jim Blythe
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988

Generalization and Noise
Yves Kodratoff, Michel Manago and Jim Blythe
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 1987

An experimental protocol for gathering examples for empirical learning
Jim Blythe, David Needham and Patrick Corsi
First European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, 1987

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