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Rick Freedman's Publications

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2019

 Freedman, Richard G.; Fung, Yi Ren; Ganchin, Roman; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Responsive Planning and Recognition for Closed-Loop Interaction." The 2019 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p.1-5, 2019. [peer-reviewed pdf on arXiv (extended version of the ICAPS 2019 Demo Abstract)]

Freedman, Richard G.; Fung, Yi Ren; Ganchin, Roman; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Responsive Planning and Recognition for Closed-Loop Interaction." Demonstration Program for the Twenty-Ninth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, p.1-2, 2019. [pdf]

Editor, Managing; Adler, Aaron; Dasgupta, Prithviraj; DePalma, Nick; Eslami, Mohammed; Freedman, Richard G.; Laird, John E.; Lebiere, Christian; Lohan, Katrin; Mead, Ross; Roberts, Mark; Rosenbloom, Paul S.; Senft, Emmanuel; Stein, Frank; Williams, Tom; Wray, Kyle Hollins; Yaman, Fusun; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Reports on the 2018 AAAI Fall Symposium Series." AI Magazine, Vol. 40, No. 2, p. 66-72 2019. [AI Magazine (subscription needed, sorry)]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "A Unifying Perspective of Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition." Proceedings of the Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, p.1-8, 2019. [pdf]

Dwaraki, Abhishek; Freedman, Richard G.; Zilberstein, Shlomo; and Wolf, Tilman. "Using Natural Language Constructs and Concepts to Aid Network Management." The 2019 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, p.802-808, 2019. [IEEE Xplore]

2018

 Freedman, Richard G.; Chakraborti, Tathagata; Talamadupula, Kartik; Magazzeni, Daniele; and Frank, Jeremy D.. "User Interfaces and Scheduling and Planning: Workshop Summary and Proposed Challenges." The 2018 AAAI Spring Symposium Series: The Design of the User Experience for Artificial Intelligence, p.373-377, 2018. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G.; Fung, Yi Ren; Ganchin, Roman; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Towards Quicker Probabilistic Recognition with Multiple Goal Heuristic Search." Proceedings of the Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, p.1-6, 2018. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Roles that Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition with Planning Can Play in Games." Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Extraction from Games, p.1-4, 2018. [pdf] [talk]

2017

 Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Does the Human's Representation Matter for Unsupervised Activity Recognition?" The 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p. 94-98, 2017. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "A PDDL Representation for Contradance Composition." Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, p. 10-17, 2017. [pdf]

Alves-Oliveira, Patricia; Freedman, Richard G.; Grollman, Dan; Herlant, Laura; Humphrey, Laura; Liu, Fei; Mead, Ross; Stein, Frank; Williams, Tom; and Wilson, Shomir. "Reports on the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series." AI Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 2, p. 86-90 2017. [AI Magazine (subscription needed, sorry)]

Eaton, Eric; Koenig, Sven; Schulz, Claudia; Maurelli, Francesco; Lee, John; Eckroth, Joshua; Crowley, Mark; Freedman, Richard G.; Cardona-Rivera, Rogelio E.; Machado, Tiago; and Williams, Tom. "Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI 2017 New and Future Educator Program." AI Matters, Vol. 3, Issue 4, p.23-31, 2017. Contributed the subarticle titled "Making AI Concepts More Accessible." [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Integration of Planning with Recognition for Responsive Interaction Using Classical Planners." Proceedings of the Thirty-first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p.4581-4588, 2017. [pdf]

2016

 Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Safety in AI-HRI: Challenges Complementing User Experience Quality." The AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, p. 42-45, 2016. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Using Metadata to Automate Interpretations of Unsupervised Learning-Derived Clusters." Proceedings of the First Workshop on Human is More Than a Labeler, 2016. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G.. "Integrating Planning and Recognition to Close the Interaction Loop." Doctoral Consortium for the Twenty-Sixth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2016. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G.. "Integrating Planning and Recognition to Close the Interaction Loop." Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016. (Extended Abstract for Doctoral Consortium) [pdf]

2015

 Freedman, Richard G. and Fukunaga, Alex. "Integration of Planning with Plan Recognition Using Classical Planners (Extended Abstract)." Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, p. 48-50, 2015. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G.; Jung, Hee-Tae; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Temporal and Object Relations in Unsupervised Plan and Activity Recognition." Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, p. 51-59, 2015. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Automated Interpretations of Unsupervised Learning-Derived Clusters for Activity Recognition." Workshop on Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration, 2015. [pdf] (updated version presented at the BeyondLabeler 2016 Workshop paper)

Jung, Hee-Tae; Freedman, Richard G.; Takahashi, Takeshi; Wong, Jay Ming; Zilberstein, Shlomo; Grupen, Roderic A.; and Choe, Yu-Kyong. "Adaptive Therapy Strategies: Efficacy and Learning Framework." Proceedings of the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, p.950-955, 2015. [pdf]

Jung, Hee-Tae; Freedman, Richard G.; Foster, Tammie; Choe, Yu-Kyong; Zilberstein, Shlomo; and Grupen, Roderic A. "Learning Therapy Strategies from Demonstration Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation." Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, p. 432-436, 2015. [pdf]

2014

 Freedman, Richard G.; Jung, Hee-Tae; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Temporal and Object Relations in Plan and Activity Recognition for Robots Using Topic Models." Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium (Technical Report FS-14-01), p. 70-72, 2014. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G.; Jung, Hee-Tae; Grupen, Roderic A.; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "How Robots Can Recognize Activities and Plans Using Topic Models." Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (AIRob): Papers Presented at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Technical Report WS-14-01), p. 22-28, 2014. [pdf (extended version of the ICAPS 2014 Paper)]

Freedman, Richard G.; Jung, Hee-Tae; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Plan and Activity Recognition from a Topic Modeling Perspective." Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Conference of Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), p. 360-364, 2014. [pdf] [talk]

2013

 Freedman, Richard G. and Robinson, Stephen B. "A Restatement of the Collatz Conjecture with Insights into Its Orbits Using a New Discrete Dynamical System." To be published in Pi Mu Epsilon Journal. [pdf coming soon!]

Freedman, Richard G.; Guo, Jingyi; Turkett, William H.; Pauca, V. Paúl. "Hierarchical Modeling to Facilitate Personalized Word Prediction for Dialogue." Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition: Papers from the AAAI 2013 Workshop, p.2-9, 2013. [pdf with fixed figures (some edges were missing in the models)]

2012

 Freedman, Richard G.; de Salvo Braz, Rodrigo; Bui, Hung; Natarajan, Sriraam. "Initial Empirical Evaluation of Anytime Lifted Belief Propagation." International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI, 2012. [pdf]

Lipkowitz, M.S.; Freedman, BI; Langefeld, CD; Comeau, ME; Bowden, DW; Kao, WHL; Astor, BC; Bottinger, EP; Iyengar, SK; Klotman, PE; Freedman, RG; Zhang, W; Parekh, RS; Choi, MJ; Nelson, GW; Winkler, CA; Kopp, JB, and the AASK Investigators. "APOL1 and MYH9 Variants Associate with Hypertension-Associated Nephropathy and Loss of Kidney Function in the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension." Kidney International. Vol. 83, Issue 1, p. 114-120. 2012. doi: 10.1038/ki.2012.263 ; published online 25 July 2012. [pdf]

2009

 Lipkowitz, M.S.; Iyengar, SK; Molineros, J; Langefeld, CD; Comeau, ME; Klotman, PE; Bowden, DW; Freedman, RG; Khitrov, G; Zhang, W; Kao, WHL; Parekh, RS; Choi, MJ; Kopp, JB; Winkler, CA; Nelson, GW; Freedman, BI; Bottinger, EP; and the AASK Investigators. "Association Analysis of the Non-muscle Myocin Heavy Chain 9 Gene (MYH9) in Hypertensive Nephropathy: African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK)." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Vol. 20, p. 56A, Nov. 2009: F-FC233. (Abstract)

Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis Papers (Unpublished)

Freedman, Richard G. Improving Error Correction in Compilers Using Natural Language Processing Techniques. Presented for honors in Computer Science on May 3, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Todd Torgersen [pdf unavailable at the moment, sorry]

Freedman, Richard G. On Variations of the SRB Entropy of the Expanding Map on the Circle. Presented for honors in Mathematics on May 3, 2012. Advisor: Dr. Miaohua Jiang [pdf]

Rick Freedman's Presentations

These are presentations NOT associated with a conference or workshop publication mentioned above. If a poster or set of slides is available for download, then a link will be provided at the end of the citation.
Go to year: 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

2018
+Interactive Robotics Group Seminar at Massachusetts Institue of Technology, MA (January 18, 2018)
- Freedman, Richard G.. "Integrating Recognition and Decision Making for Autonomous Systems to Close the Interaction Loop." [abstract]

2017
+New England Regional Developers (NERD) Summit 2017 at the University of Massachusetts Amhest, MA (March 18-19, 2017)
- Freedman, Richard G.. "A Hands-On Experience with Artificial Intelligence."

2016
+REU Weekly Data Science Talks at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (June 23, 2016)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Planning and Activity Recognition: Exploring the Research Process."
+Center for Data Science Research Symposium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (April 22, 2016)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Planning and Recognition to Close the Interaction Loop."
+Data Science Tea at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (April 19, 2016)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Using Metadata to Automate Interpretations of Topic Models."
+Workshop for Graduate Women in STEM (GWIS) Professional Development (March 1, 2016)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Writing Scientific Documents in LaTeX."

2015
+New England Regional Developers (NERD) Summit 2015 at the University of Massachusetts Amhest, MA (September 11-13, 2015)
- Freedman, Richard G. and Jones, Marvin C. "Graphics Programming with Processing." [code examples] [video]
+Guest Talk for The Autonomy and Mechatronics Departments at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Advanced Technology R&D Center, Hyogo, Japan (August 26, 2015)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Artificial Intelligence Plan and Activity Recognition for Interactive Applications."
+Guest Talk for Igarashi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (August 21, 2015)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Artificial Intelligence Planning and Recognition for Interactive Applications."
+Guest Talk for Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (January 16, 2015)
- Freedman, Richard G. "A Topic Modeling Tutorial: What, When, Why, and How."

2014
+Machine Learning and Friends Lunch (MLFL) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (March 6, 2014)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Getting the Big Idea: Recognizing Plans and Activities by Reading People Like a Book." [abstract]

2013
+REUMass Amherst Workshop at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (June 27, 2013)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Statistics in CS Research."

2012
+Wake@Hanes Google CS4HS Teacher Workshop 2012 at Wake Forest University, NC (August 9-10, 2012)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Higher/Lower Guessing Game: Winning via Efficient Searching." [slides]
- Freedman, Richard G. "Creative Writing with a Fork in the Road." [lesson plan] [Scrath demo]
+The Mathematical and Cultural Perspectives of Origami Event at Wake Forest University, NC (February 28, 2012)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Can We Actually Fold That? Origami Proving Power with the Huzita-Hatori Axioms."

2011
+Wake Forest University's 5th Annual Research Day at Wake Forest University, NC (September 16, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G.; Robinson, Stephen B.; Rouse, Jeremy A. "Novel Approaches for Solving the Collatz Conjecture Using A New Coding Process." (Poster)
- Black, Rachel A.; Freedman, Richard G.; Cañas, Daniel A. "Cardio View: Equipment Use in the Miller Center." (Poster)
+Pi Mu Epsilon National Meeting at MAA MathFest 2011 in Lexington, KY (August 3-6, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G.; Robinson, Stephen B.; Rouse, Jeremy A. "Novel Approaches for Solving the Collatz Conjecture Using Fractional Set Positions."
+WFU Math Club Pi Day Celebration at Wake Forest University, NC (March 14, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Math & Magic."
+WFU Math Club Talk at Wake Forest University, NC (March 2, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Math & Music."
+2011 Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, LA (January 6-9, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G. and Fulp, Errin W. "Weighted and Unweighted Random Walks of Multiple Entities on a Torus-Shaped World." [abstract]
- Freedman, Richard G. and Robinson, Stephen B. "Understanding Hailstone Sequences Using a New Coding Process." (Poster)

2010
+Pi Mu Epsilon National Meeting at MAA MathFest 2010 in Pittsburgh, PA (August 5-7, 2011)
- Freedman, Richard G. and Robinson, Stephen B. "Understanding Hailstone Sequences Using a New Coding Process."
+Wake Forest University Summer Brown Bag Talks at Wake Forest University, NC (July 6, 2010)
- Freedman, Richard G. "The Hailstone Sequence."
+Southeastern MAA Conference 2010 at Elon University, NC (March 26-27, 2010)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Understanding How the Hailstone Falls Using a New Coding Process."

2009
+Wake Forest University Summer Brown Bag Talks at Wake Forest University, NC (August 4, 2009)
- Freedman, Richard G. "The Hailstone Sequence."

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