I am
Principal Investigator and Project Leader
of the
Interactive Knowledge Capture research group
at
USC's
Information Sciences Institute (ISI).
My research focuses on intelligent interfaces for knowledge
capture, which is a central topic in
our projects concerning
knowledge-based planning and problem solving,
information analysis and assessment of trust,
semantic annotation tools,
agent and software choreography,
and community-wide development of knowledge bases.
A recent focus is assisting
scientists with large-scale applications throught
the design of workflows and their distributed execution.
I am the
Associate Division Director for Research of the
Intelligent Systems Division
at
ISI.
The division is home to more than one hundred AI researchers
and PhD students.
If you would like to visit us, learn more about
AI at ISI,
or join our research group, please contact me!
I am also
Research Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at
USC.
I advise students, teach courses on occasion, and
oversee PhD student recruiting and funding for the department.
I also serve in the Advisory Committee on
National and International Graduate Fellowships at USC.
Before coming to ISI in 1992,
I received my PhD in Computer Science
from
Carnegie Mellon University. My thesis focused
on the acquisition of planning knowledge through the
formulation of deliberate experiments with the environment.
Foaf,
short bio,
CV,
roster of awards and grants,
research projects,
publications.
Research Interests and Projects
You can find more details about my research in the web pages of the
Interactive Knowledge Capture research group.
There is also a
recent slide overview of all of our research on interactive
knowledge capture
that I prepared for an invited talk.
Very recent projects
also can be found at the
new awards roster.
Scientific Workflows
I have become very active in pushing a new area: the use of
AI techniques
to support large-scale scientific analysis.
There is a lot of good introductory information in the
Final Report of the
NSF Workshop on Challenges of Scientific Workflows
that I recently co-chaired, summarized in this article:
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Examining the Challenges of Scientific Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Mark Ellisman, Thomas Fahringer, Geoffrey Fox, Dennis Gannon,
Carole Goble, Miron Livny, Luc Moreau, and Jim Myers.
IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 24-32, December, 2007.
Another good introduction and overview of the area is:
There is a lot of information about our research
on scientific workflows in our
Wings and
Pegasus project sites,
this
overview presentation,
my publications
below, or this recent article:
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Wings for Pegasus: Creating Large-Scale Scientific Applications
Using Semantic Representations of Computational Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, and Jihie Kim.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI),
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
Slides from the presentation.
I gave a recent tutorial on
"Computational Workflows for Large-Scale AI Research",
at AAAI-08, ask me for the slides if you are interested.
Check out also a talk that I gave at the US National Science Foundation
titled
Artificial Intelligence and Cyberinfrastructure:
Workflow Planning and Beyond.
There is also material and slides from a panel I organized
at
IAAI-04
on
The Broader Role of Artificial Intelligence in Large-Scale Science Research.
I co-edited a special issue of
IEEE Intelligent Systems on e-science, together with
David DeRoure and Jim Hendler, in January 2004.
The Guest Editor's Introduction and Table of Contents are available on-line.
Also take a look at my presentations and other materials available
from a
Dagstuhl seminar on Semantic Grid held on July 2005.
Interactive Knowledge Capture
We have worked on a variety of topics and projects in this area.
You can see a
recent slide overview of all of our research on interactive
knowledge capture
that I prepared for an invited talk.
- Knowledge acquisition:
knowledge collection from volunteers,
knowledge acquisition dialogues, learning from being told,
learning from demonstration and from examples.
Projects in this area include
Workflow Design,
TellMe,
Learner,
CAT,
KANAL,
Maven,
SLICK,
and
EXPECT.
- Knowledge management and trust in the semantic web:
content trust in information sources,
structured discussion and argumentation,
provenance,
and knowledge and information management.
Projects include
TRELLIS,
MathTrust, and
Wings,
EXPECT.
- Interactive intelligent systems:
user-centered decision aids,
mixed-initiative tools,
knowledge-based systems.
Projects include
Beamer,
Wings,
CAT,
Temple,
and
EXPECT.
- Mixed-Initiative Planning:
plan evaluation and critiquing,
human-in-the-loop planning,
plan ontologies and representations,
planning with incomplete information.
Projects include
CAT,
KANAL,
EXPECT,
PLANET,
INSPECT,
and
PRODIGY.
Distributed Problem Solving
- Computational workflows:
workflow representation,
interactive workflow composition,
automated workflow generation.
Projects include
Workflow Design,
Wings,
Pegasus, and
CAT.
- Provenance and trust:
Problem solving and workflow provenance,
knowledge provenance,
content trust.
Projects include
Wings,
TRELLIS, and
MathTrust.
- Distributed problem solving and grid computing:
workflow management for distributed problem solving,
intelligent middleware for Grid computing.
Projects include
Pegasus,
Cognitive Grids,
and
SCEC-CME.
- Agent-Based Systems:
agent communication,
agentizing people,
agent environments to support
human organizations.
Projects include
Beamer,
PHOSPHORUS,
ROSETTA,
and
Electric Elves.
You can find more details about my group's projects in the web pages of the
Interactive Knowledge Capture research group. Very recent projects
also can be found at the
new awards roster.
Our most recent projects include:
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Workflow Design-
Principles for the design of complex software applications as workflows.
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Wings-
automatic validation and generation of scientific workflows.
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MathTrust-
mathematical models of how users trust information content on the web.
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Beamer-
interpretation of user to-do lists and automation by software agents.
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Pegasus-
workflow generation and execution for distributed
grid computing.
Application Areas
I am very interested in applying Artificial Intelligence
techniques to practical problems.
I have worked on several
challenging areas including
scientific data analysis and simulation,
process planning,
configuration design,
air campaign planning,
logistics,
and
course of action development.
Some of the new areas that I am working on
include
intelligence analysis,
special operations,
and
grid computing.
Professional Activities
Conferences and Meetings
I am chairing the
Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'09).
It will be held in Redondo Beach,
on a beach front hotel overlooking the marina.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline for technical papers: April 15, 2009
- Workshop and tutorial proposals due: February 16, 2009
- Submission deadline for poster papers: June 15, 2009
- Conference: September 1-4, 2009
I chair the
AAAI Conference Committee.
Please drop me a note if you have suggestions or ideas about
future conferences. New programs at
AAAI-08 included:
In 2009 there is no AAAI conference, as we are holding
IJCAI in Pasadena.
I was program co-chair of
AAAI-06.
We developed an
extensive and innovative Call for Papers,
many of the new submission tracks continue in the 2007 conference.
I regularly review for
AAAI,
IAAI,
IUI (I was program chair in 2002),
ISWC (I was program co-chair in 2005), and
EKAW.
I have also been in the program committee, though less frequently, for
ICAPS,
ICML (I was area chair in 2002),
and
KR.
There are two excellent papers that I strongly recommend to reviewers of conferences:
"The health of research conferences and the dearth of big idea papers", by David Patterson
and
"Reviewing the reviewers", by Ken Church.
Journals
I am
Associate Editor of
Cognitive Science,
and Editorial Board member of
Journal of Web Semantics,
Applied Ontology,
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
and
The Knowledge Engineering Review.
National Science Foundation (NSF)
I serve in the
Advisory Committee of the
NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Directorate.
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
I was elected
in 2003 by AAAI members to a three year term in the
AAAI council. If you have suggestions or comments
about activities that AAAI should consider being involved with, please
drop us a note.
I remain in the council as Chair of the
AAAI Conference Committee.
Academic Activities
I chaired the Graduate Student Assistance Committee (GSAC)
of the Computer Science Department at USC for more than a decade.
In coordination with the Admissions Committee,
we work on organizing the recruiting and funding of
incoming PhD graduate students.
The Computer Science Department received an increased
number of fellowships over the years.
Look
here
for useful pointers for students about
applying to a CS PhD program,
surviving as a PhD student,
doing research, etc.
I serve regularly in the Advisory Committee on
National and International Graduate Fellowships at USC.
I taught CS541 on "Artificial Intelligence Planning" on several semesters.
Selected Publications
(Organized by topic in project pages)
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HPC and Grid Computing for Integrative Biomedical Research.
Tahsin Kurc, Shannon Hastings, Vijay Kumar, Stephen Langella, Ashish
Sharma, Tony Pan, Scott Oster, David Ervin, Justin Permar,
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Mary Hall, Joel Saltz.
To appear in Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 2009.
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Leveraging Social Networking Sites to Acquire Rich Task Structure.
Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth and Varun Ratnakar.
To appear in
IJCAI 2009 Workshop on User-Contributed Knowledge and Artificial
Intelligence:
An Evolving Synergy (WikiAI09), held in conjunction with the
Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-09), Pasadena, CA, July 13, 2009.
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Analyzing the Gap Between Workflows and their Natural Language Descriptions.
Paul Groth and Yolanda Gil.
To appear in
IEEE Third International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF),
Los Angeles, CA, July 10, 2009.
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An Integrated Framework for Parameter-Based Optimization of Scientific
Workflows.
Vijay S. Kumar, P. Sadayappan, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman,
Varun Ratnakar, Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, Mary Hall, Tahsin Kurc, and
Joel Saltz.
To appear in
Proceedings of the International Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing (HPDC),
Munich, Germany, June 11-13, 2009.
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From Data to Knowledge to Discoveries: Scientific Workflows and Artificial Intelligence.
Yolanda Gil.
To appear in Scientific Programming, 2009.
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Principles for Interactive Acquisition and Validation of Workflows.
Yolanda Gil, Jihie Kim, and Marc Spraragen.
To appear in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 2009.
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Scaffolding Instructions to Learn Procedures from Users.
Paul Groth and Yolanda Gil.
To appear in
AAAI Spring Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers,
Stanford, CA, March 23-25, 2009.
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A Scientific Workflow Construction Command Line.
Paul Groth and Yolanda Gil.
To appear in
2009 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI),
Sanibel, FL, February 8-11, 2009.
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Automating To-Do Lists for Users: Interpretation of To-Dos for Selecting and Tasking Agents.
Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference of
the Association for the Advancement of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008.
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Scientific Software as Workflows: From Discovery to Distribution.
David Woollard, Nenad Medvidovic, Yolanda Gil, and Chris Mattmann. IEEE Software, Special Issue on Developing Scientific Software, July/August 2008.
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Provenance Trails in the Wings/Pegasus Workflow System,
Jihie Kim, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Gaurang Mehta, Varun Ratnakar.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,
Special Issue on the First Provenance Challenge, Vol 20, Issue 5, April 2008.
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"Designing and Parameterizing a Workflow for Optimization:
A Case Study in Biomedical Imaging."
Vijay Kumar, Mary Hall, Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, Tahsin Kurc, Ewa Deelman and
Joel Saltz. Proceedings of NSF Workshop on Next Generation Software,
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Processing (IPDPS-08), Miami, FL, April 2008.
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Self-Configuring Applications for Heterogeneous Systems: Program Composition and
Optimization Using Cognitive Techniques. Mary Hall, Yolanda Gil, and Robert Lucas.
Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Cutting-Edge Computing: Using New Commodity Architectures, Volume 96, Issue 5, May 2008.
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Towards Intelligent Assistance for To-Do Lists,
Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the
2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI-2008), Canary Islands, Spain, January 2008.
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Examining the Challenges of Scientific Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Mark Ellisman, Thomas Fahringer, Geoffrey Fox, Dennis Gannon,
Carole Goble, Miron Livny, Luc Moreau, and Jim Myers.
IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 24-32, December, 2007.
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Towards Content Trust of Web Resources,
Yolanda Gil and Donovan Artz.
Journal of Web Semantics, 5(4), 2007.
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Privacy Enforcement in Data Analysis Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, William K. Cheung, Varun Ratnakar, and Kai-kin Chan.
2007 Workshop on Privacy Enforcement and Accountability with Semantics
(PEAS'07),
held in conjunction with the Sixth International Semantic Web Conference
(ISWC'07) and the Second Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC'07),
Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007.
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Incorporating Tutoring Principles into Interactive Knowledge Acquisition,
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, (65)10, October 2007.
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A Survey of Trust in Computer Science and the Semantic Web,
Donovan Artz and Yolanda Gil.
Journal of Web Semantics, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2007.
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Wings for Pegasus: Creating Large-Scale Scientific Applications
Using Semantic Representations of Computational Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, and Jihie Kim.
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI),
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
Slides from the presentation.
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Towards Privacy Aware Data Analysis Workflows for e-Science,
William Cheung and Yolanda Gil.
2007 Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS2007),
held in conjunction with the Twenty-Second Conference of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 22-26, 2007.
Slides from the presentation.
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On the Black Art of Designing Computational Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero, Ewa Deelman.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Workflows in
Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS'07), in conjunction with the
IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Monterrey, CA, June 2007.
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"Intelligent Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Applications."
Bhupesh Bansal, Umit V. Catalyurek, Jacqueline Chame, Chun Chen,
Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Mary W. Hall, Vijay Kumar,
Tahsin M. Kurk, Kristina Lerman, Aiichiro Nakano, Yoon-Ju Lee Nelson,
Joel H. Saltz, Ashish Sharma, Priya Vashishta.
Proceedings of NSF Workshop on Next Generation Software,
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel
and Distributed Processing (IPDPS-07), Long Beach, CA, March 2007.
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Enhancing Interaction with To-Do Lists Using Artificial Assistants,
Yolanda Gil and Timothy Chklovski.
AAAI Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Artificial Assistants,
Stanford, CA, March 26-28 2007.
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Final Report
of the
NSF Workshop
on Challenges of Scientific Workflows,
Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil (Co-Chairs),
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA,
December, 2006.
Also available from the
NSF IIS site and the
NSF OCI web site.
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Managing Large-Scale Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments:
Experiences and Challenges,
Ewa Deelman and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the
Workshop on Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science,
The Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 4-6, 2006.
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Wings for Pegasus:
A Semantic Approach to Creating Very Large Scientific Workflows,
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, Ewa Deelman, Marc Spraragen, and
Jihie Kim.
Proceedings of the
OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006 (OWLED-06), Athens, GA, November 10-11, 2006.
Slides from the presentation.
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Semantic Metadata Generation for Large Scientific Workflows,
Jihie Kim, Yolanda Gil, and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the
Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), Athens, GA, November 5-9, 2006.
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Workflow Composition,
Yolanda Gil.
In Workflows for e-Science, D. Gannon, E. Deelman, M. Shields, I. Taylor (Eds), Springer Verlag, 2006.
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On Agents and Grids: Creating the Fabric of a New Generation
of Distributed Intelligent Systems,
Yolanda Gil.
Journal of Web Semantics, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2006.
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Towards Content Trust of Web Resources,
Yolanda Gil and Donovan Artz.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference,
(WWW-06),
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 23-26, 2006.
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Metadata Catalogs
with Semantic Representations
,
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, and Ewa Deelman.
International Provenance Annotation Workshop (IPAW-06),
Chicago, IL, May 3-5 2006.
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"Organizing Argumentation Statements to Support Intelligence Analysis."
Tim Chklovski, Jihie Kim, and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of IUI Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence
Analysis, Sydney, Australia, January 2006.
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Virtual Metadata Catalogs: Augmenting Metadata Catalogs
with Semantic Representations
,
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, and Ewa Deelman.
Proceedings of the
Fourth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-05), short paper. Galway, Ireland, November 7-10, 2005.
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Improving the Design of Intelligent Acquisition Interfaces for Collecting World Knowledge from Web Contributors
,
Tim Chklovski and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge
Capture (KCAP-05), Banff, Alberta, October 2-5, 2005.
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Simplifying Construction of Complex Workflows for Non-Expert Users of the
Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modelling Environment,
P. Maechling, H. Chalupsky, M. Dougherty, E. Deelman, Y. Gil,
S. Gullapalli, V. Gupta, C. Kesselman, J. Kim, G. Mehta, B. Mendenhall,
T. Russ, G. Singh, M. Spraragen, G. Staples, and K. Vahi.
ACM SIGMOD Record, special issue on Scientific Workflows,
Vol 34 (3), September 2005.
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"Pegasus: A Framework for Mappign Complex Scientific Workflows onto Distributed Systems"
E. Deelman, G. Singh, M. Su, J. Blythe, Y. Gil, C. Kesselman,
J. Kim, G. Mehta, K. Vahi, G. B. Berriman, J. Good, A. Laity, J. C. Jacob, D. S. Katz. Scientific Programming, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2005.
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An Analysis of Knowledge Collected from Volunteer Contributors,
Tim Chklovski and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-05), Pittsburgh, PA, July 9-13, 2005.
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Description Logics and Planning,
Yolanda Gil.
AI Magazine, Summer 2005.
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"Task Scheduling Strategies for Workflow-Based Applications in Grids",
Jim Blythe, Sonal Jain, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Karan Vahi, Anirban Mandal, and Ken Kennedy.
Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), Cardiff, UK, May 2005.
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Towards Managing Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors,
Tim Chklovski and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the
2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors
(KCVC), Stanford, CA, March 2005.
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User Interfaces with Semi-Formal Representations: A Study of Designing Argumentation Structures,
Tim Chklovski, Varun Ratnakar, and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the
2005 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI-2005), San Diego, CA, January 2005.
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A Short Study on the Success of the Gene Ontology,
Michael Bada, Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, Yolanda Gil, Michael Ashburner, Judith A. Blake, J. Michael Cherry, Midori Harris, and Suzanna Lewis.
Journal of Web Semantics,
Vol 1 (2), 2004.
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"Pegasus: Mapping Scientific Workflows onto the Grid",
Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Gaurang Mehta, Sonal Patil, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi, and Miron Livny.
Across Grids Conference,
Nicosia, Cyprus, 2004.
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"Automatically Composed Workflows for Grid Environments",
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, and Yolanda Gil.
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
July/August, 2004.
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Artemis: Integrating Scientific Data on the Grid,
Rattapoom Tuchinda, Snehal Thakkar, Yolanda Gil, and Ewa Deelman.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI),
San Jose, CA, July 25-29, 2004.
(
Slides from the presentation)
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Incremental Formalization of Document Annotations through
Ontology-Based Paraphrasing,
Jim Blythe and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference,
(WWW),
New York, NY, May 17-22, 2004.
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Guest Editor's Introduction to the Special Issue on e-Science,
David DeRoure, Yolanda Gil, and Jim Hendler (Eds).
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
January 2004.
The Table of Contents is also available on-line.
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Artificial Intelligence and Grids: Workflow Planning and Beyond,
Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Carl Kesselman, and Hongsuda
Tangmurarunkit.
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
January 2004.
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An Intelligent Assistant for Interactive Workflow Composition,
Jihie Kim, Marc Spraragen, and Yolanda Gil.
In proceedings of the
2004 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI), Madeira Islands, Portugal, January 2004.
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"Pegasus and the Pulsar Search: From Metadata to Execution on the Grid",
Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Scott Koranda, Albert Lazzarini, Gaurang Mehta, Maria Alessandra Papa, and Karan Vahi.
PPAM Applications Grid Workshop (AGW), Czestochowa, Poland, 2003.
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"TRELLIS: Supporting Decision Making via Argumentation in the Semantic Web."
Timothy Chklovski, Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar, and John Lee.
Proceedings of 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-03),
short paper. Sanibel Island, FL, October 2003.
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"Workflow Management in GriPhyN",
Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, and Carl Kesselman.
In Grid Resource Management, J. Nabryski, J. Schopf, and J. Weglarz (Eds), Kluwer 2003.
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Mapping Abstract Workflows onto Grid Environments,
Ewa Deelman, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman,
Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi, Kent Blackburn, Albert Lazzarini,
Adam Arbree, Richard Cavanaugh, and Scott Koranda.
Journal of Grid Computing,
Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003.
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Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach,
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI),
August 12-14, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico.
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"A Knowlede Acquisition Tool for Course of Action Analysis",
K. Barker, J. Blythe, G. Borchardt, V. Chaudhri, P. Clark, P. Cohen,
J. Fitzgerald, K. Forbus, Y. Gil, B. Katz, J. Kim, G. King, S. Mishra,
K. Murray, C. Otstott, B. Porter, R. Schrag, T. Uribe, J. Usher,
P. Yeh.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference
on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI),
August 12-14, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico.
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Proactive Acquisition from Tutoring and Learning Principles.
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference
on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AI-ED),
July 20-24, 2003, Sydney, Australia.
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The Role of Planning in Grid Computing,
Jim Blythe, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Carl Kesselman, Amit Agarwal, Gaurang Mehta, Karan Vahi.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS),
June 9-13, 2003, Trento, Italy.
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"Knowledge Mobility: Semantics for the Web as a White Knight for
Knowledge-Based Systems". Yolanda Gil. In Spinning the Semantic Web,
D. Fensel, J. Hendler, H. Lieberman, and W. Whalster (Eds),
MIT Press, 2003.
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IKRAFT: Interactive Knowledge Representation and Acquisition
from Text,
Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management,
Siguenza, Spain, October 1-4, 2002.
(
Slides from the presentation)
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TRELLIS: An Interactive Tool for Capturing Information Analysis
and Decision Making,
Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference
on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management,
Siguenza, Spain, October 1-4, 2002.
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Interactive Knowledge Acquisition Tools: A Tutoring Perspective,
Yolanda Gil and Jihie Kim.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci),
Fairfax, VA, August 8-10, 2002.
(
Slides from the presentation)
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Agent Technology to Support Human Organizations,
H. Chalupsky, Y. Gil, C. A. Knoblock, K. Lerman, J. Oh,
D. V. Pynadath, T. A. Russ, and M. Tambe.
AI Magazine, Vol 23, No 2, Summer 2002.
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Trusting Information Sources One Citizen at a Time,
Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar.
Proceedings of the First
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC),
Sardinia, Italy, June 2002.
(
Slides from the presentation).
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Deriving Acquisition Principles from Tutoring Principles,
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Intelligent
Tutoring Systems Conference (ITS),
Biarritz, France, June 2002.
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A Comparison of (Semantic) Markup Languages,
Varun Ratnakar and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference,
Special Track on Semantic Web,
Pensacola, FL, May 2002.
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User Studies of Knowledge
Acquisition Tools: Methodology and Lessons Learned.
Marcelo Tallis and Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
In Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI,
Vol 13, pp 359-378, 2001.
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Knowledge Entry as Graphical Assembly of Components,
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Ken Barker, Bruce Porter, Vinay Chaudhi,
Andres Rodriguez, Jerome Thomere, Sunil Mishra,
Yolanda Gil, Pat Hayes, and Thomas Reichherzer.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge
Capture (K-CAP'01), Victoria, BC, October 2001.
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Knowledge Analysis on Process Models,
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil,
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IJCAI-2001), Seattle, WA, August 2001.
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Electric Elves:
Applying Agent Technology to Support Human Organizations,
H. Chalupsky, Y. Gil, C. A. Knoblock, K. Lerman, J. Oh,
D. V. Pynadath, T. A. Russ, and M. Tambe.
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference
of Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
(IAAI-2001), Seattle, WA, August 2001.
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PHOSPHORUS: A Task-Based Agent Matchmaker,
Yolanda Gil and Surya Ramachandran.
Proceedings of the
Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents
(Agents'01), short paper track.
Montreal, Canada, May 28-June 1, 2001.
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"An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition."
Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Surya Ramachandran, and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the
2001 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI-2001), Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2001.
Recipient of the Best Paper Award.
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Acquiring Problem-Solving Knowledge from End Users: Putting
Interdependency Models to the Test.
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Austin, TX, July 30-August 3, 2000.
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"PLANET: A Shareable and Reusable Ontology for
Representing Plans."
Yolanda Gil and Jim Blythe.
In AAAI 2000 Workshop on Representational Issues for
Real-world Planning Systems.
Austin, TX, July 31, 2000.
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"How Can a Structured Representation of Capabilities
Help in Planning?"
Yolanda Gil and Jim Blythe.
In AAAI 2000 Workshop on Representational Issues for
Real-world Planning Systems.
Austin, TX, July 31, 2000.
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"User Studies of an Interdependency-Based Interface for Acquiring
Problem-Solving Knowledge."
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
(IUI-2000), New Orleans, LA, January 9-12, 2000.
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Deriving Expectations to Guide Knowledge Base Creation.
Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-99), Orlando, FL, July 19-22, 1999.
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Designing Scripts to Guide Users in Modifying Knowledge-Based Systems.
Marcelo Tallis and Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-99), Orlando, FL, July 19-22, 1999.
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"On the Role of
Humans in Enterprise Control Systems: the Experience of INSPECT."
Andre Valente, Jim Blythe, Yolanda Gil, and William Swartout.
In First DARPA-JFACC Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control,
San Diego, CA, November 1999.
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A Script-Based Approach to Modifying Knowledge Bases.
Yolanda Gil and Marcelo Tallis.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-97), Providence, RI, July 27-31, 1997.
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Explicit Representations of Problem-Solving Strategies
to Support Knowledge Acquisition.
Yolanda Gil and Eric Melz.
Proceedings of the Thirteen National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, OR, August 4-8, 1996.
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"Planning Experiments: Resolving Interactions between Two Planning Spaces."
Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96),
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 29-31, 1996.
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"Subsumption-Based Matching:
Bringing Semantics to Goals."
Yolanda Gil and Pedro A. Gonzalez.
In 1996 International Workshop on Description
Logics (DL-96), Boston, MA, November 2-4, 1996.
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"EXPECT: A User-Centered Environment for the Development
and Adaptation of Knowledge-Based Planning Aids."
William R. Swartout and Yolanda Gil.
In Advanced Planning Technology: Technological Achievements
of the ARPA/Rome Laboratory Planning Initiative,
Austin Tate (Ed), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 1996.
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"Planning and Learning in PRODIGY: Overview of an Integrated Architecture."
Jaime Carbonell,
Oren Etzioni,
Yolanda Gil,
Robert Joseph,
Craig Knoblock,
Steven Minton,
and Manuela Veloso.
In Goal-Driven Learning , Aswin Ram and David Leake (Eds.),
MIT Press, Boston, MA, 1995.
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"Towards Method-Independent Knowledge Acquisition."
Yolanda Gil and Cecile Paris.
Knowledge Acquisition,
Volume 6, Number 2, June 1994.
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"Knowledge Refinement in a Reflective Architecture."
Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, WA, August 1994.
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"Learning by Experimentation:
Incremental Refinement of Incomplete Planning Domains."
Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-94), Rutgers, NJ, July 10-13, 1994.
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"Efficient Domain-Independent Experimentation."
Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Tenth International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-93),
Amherst, MA, June 1993.
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"PRODIGY: an integrated architecture for planning and learning."
Jaime Carbonell, Oren Etzioni, Yolanda Gil, Robert Joseph,
Craig Knoblock, Steve Minton, Manuela Veloso.
ACM SIGART Bulletin, Volume 2 Issue 4, July 1991.
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"A Domain-Independent Framework for Effective Experimentation in Planning."
Yolanda Gil.
Proceedings of the Eight International
Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-91),
Evanston, IL, June 1991.
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"Learning by Experimentation:
The Operator Refinement Method."
Jaime Carbonell and Yolanda Gil.
Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence
Approach, Volume III , Michalski, R. S. and Kodratoff, Y. (Eds.),
Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1990.
- "Explanation-Based Learning: A Problem-Solving Perspective."
Steven Minton,
Jaime Carbonell,
Craig Knoblock,
Dan Kuokka,
Oren Etzioni,
and Yolanda Gil.
Artificial Intelligence, Volume 40, Number 1/3, September 1989.
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