Accession Number:

ADA329931

Title:

The Design and Implementation of the TRAINS-96 System: A Prototype Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

ROCHESTER UNIV NY DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• Ferguson, George M.
• Allen, James F.
• Miller, Brad W.
• Ringger, Eric K.

Report Date:

1996-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

173.0

Abstract:

This document describes the design and implementation of TRAINS-96, a prototype mixed-initiative planning assistant system. The TRAINS-96 system helps a human manager solve routing problems in a simple transportation domain. It interacts with the human using spoken, typed, and graphical input and generates spoken output and graphical map displays. The key to TRAINS-96 is that it treats the interaction with the user as a dialogue in which each participant can do what they do best. The TRAINS-96 system is intended as both a demonstration of the feasibility of realistic mixed-initiative planning and as a platform for future research. This document describes both the design of the system and such features of its use as might be useful for further experimentation. Further references and a comprehensive set of manual pages are also provided.

Descriptors:

• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• *MAN COMPUTER INTERFACE
• DISTRIBUTED DATA PROCESSING
• COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS
• PROTOTYPES
• FEASIBILITY STUDIES
• SPEECH RECOGNITION
• SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
• DATA DISPLAYS
• INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS
• OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
• GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE