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CIC AAAI Paper on what agents need to resolve open-world, dynamic conflicts
The CIC is excited to share that a CIC paper, "Requirements for Aligned, Dynamic Resolution of Conflicts in Operational Constraints," has been accepted for oral presentation at AAAI26 (Alignment track). The authors are Steven Jones, Bob Wray, and John Laird (full...
Applying Cognitive Design Patterns to General LLM Agents
Wray, R. E., Kirk, J. R., & Laird, J. E. (2025). Applying Cognitive Design Patterns to General LLM Agents. Proceedings of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Conference. Artificial General Intelligence, Reykjavik. (preprint version of conference paper:...
Requirements for Recognition and Rapid Response to Unfamiliar Events Outside of Agent Design Scope
Wray, R. E., Jones, S. J., & Laird, J. E. (2025). Requirements for Recognition and Rapid Response to Unfamiliar Events Outside of Agent Design Scope. Proceedings of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Conference. Artificial General Intelligence, Reykjavik....
2025 Soar Workshop
The 45th Soar Workshop will be on 5 May. The meeting will be hybrid with on-site at the University of Michigan Beyster Building, North Campus, in Ann Arbor, MI, and remote on Zoom. The workshop will run from 9am to 5pm Eastern Time. See the full agenda below (sorry,...
Eliciting Problem Specifications via Large Language Models
Wray, R. E., Kirk, J. R., & Laird, J. E. (2024). Eliciting Problem Specifications via Large Language Models. Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference. Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference, Palermo. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12147
Toward Constraint Compliant Goal Formulation and Planning
Jones, S. J., & Wray, R. E. (2024). Toward Constraint Compliant Goal Formulation and Planning. Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference. Advances in Cognitive Systems Conference, Palermo. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12862
2024 Soar Workshop (29 May)
This year’s Soar workshop will be held on May 29th, 2024, at the University of Michigan’s Beyster Building on North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. It will be a hybrid workshop, and as in the past, it is free. Please considering participating! The opportunity to present a...
Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Task Learning through Agent Analysis
Kirk, James R., Wray, R. E., Lindes, P., Laird, J. E. (2024). Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Task Learning through Agent Analysis. Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver. Conference paper with additional...
Nathan Glenn joins the CIC!
The Center for Integrated Cognition is pleased to announce that Nathan Glenn has joined the CIC as a software engineer. Nathan's expertise in AI, computational linguistics, and Soar will be a tremendous asset to the CIC going forward. Welcome, Nathan!
2023 Soar Workshop (14-15 Jun)
The 2023 Soar workshop will be held on June 14 & 15. The workshop will be hosted in a hybrid in-person/virtual format from the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. Guest speakers for the Soar Workshop are: Dr. Melanie Mitchell...