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Rick Freedman's Publications

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2023

 Freedman, Richard G. and Miller, Christopher A. "Out of Sight, But for How Long Out of Mind? Responsible Neglect Tolerance for Independent Living with Autonomous Robots" The 2023 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p.1-4, 2023. [pdf coming soon]

Nguyen, Viet Dung; Nguyen, Quan H.; and Freedman, Richard G. "Predicting Perceived Music Emotions with Respect to Instrument Combinations." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 16078-16086, 2023. [pdf]

2022

 Freedman, Richard G. "AI-HRI Brings New Dimensions to Human-Aware Design for Human-Aware AI." The 2022 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p.1-6, 2022. [peer-reviewed pdf on arXiv]

Freedman, Richard G.; Mueller, Joseph B.; Ladwig, Jack; Johnston, Steven; McDonald, David; Wauck, Helen; Wheelock, Ruta; and Borck, Hayley. "A Symbolic Representation of Human Posture for Interpretable Learning and Reasoning." The 2022 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p.1-11, 2022. [peer-reviewed pdf on arXiv]

Borck, Hayley; Ladwig, Jack; Mueller, Joseph B.; Johnston, Steven; Wauck, Helen; Wheelock, Ruta; and Freedman, Richard G. "Activity Recognition and Explanations for Cancer Health Awareness." Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on XCBR: Case-Based Reasoning for the Explanattion of Intelligent Systems, p.1-12, 2022. [pdf]

Miller, Christopher A.; Shively, Jay; Brandt, Summer; Wauck, Helen; Sarathy, Vasanth; and Freedman, Richard G. "Human As Automation Failsafe: Concept, Implications, Guidelines and Innovations." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 66, Issue 1, p.100-104, 2022. [pdf]

Freedman, Richard G. and Kuter, Ugur. "An On-Line, Statistical Relational Metareasoning Framework for Decentralized Agents with Unreliable Communication." Proceedings of The 2022 AAAI Spring Symposium Series: 'Can We Talk?' How to Design Multi-Agent Systems In the Absence of Reliable Communications, p.1-8, 2022. [peer-reviewed pdf on Proceedings' Google Drive]

Budijono, Nathaniel; Goldman, Phoebe; Maloney, Jack; Mueller, Joseph B.; Walker, Phillip; Ladwig, Jack; and Freedman, Richard G. "Ludus: An Optimization Framework to Balance Auto Battler Cards." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 35, Issue 11, p.12727-12734, 2022. [pdf on AAAI Proceedings]

Freedman, Richard G. "2023 EAAI Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge: Human-Aware AI in Sound and Music." AI Matters, Vol. 7, Issue 3, p.21-28, 2022. [pdf]

2021

 Musliner, David J.; Pelican, Michael J. S.; McLure, Matthew; Johnston, Steven; Freedman, Richard G.; and Knutson, Corey. "OpenMIND: Planning and Adapting in Domains with Novelty." Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, p.1-20, 2021. [pdf]

Goldman, Phoebe; Knutson, Corey R.; Mahtab, Ryan; Maloney, Jack; Mueller, Joseph B.; and Freedman, Richard G. "Evaluating Gin Rummy Hands Using Opponent Modeling and Myopic Meld Distance." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Volume 35, Number 17, p.15510-15517, 2021. [pdf on AAAI Proceedings]

2020

 Freedman, Richard G.; Levine, Steven J.; Williams, Brian C.; and Zilberstein, Shlomo. "Helpfulness as a Key Metric of Human-Robot Collaboration." The 2020 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, p.1-9, 2020. [pdf]

Goldman, Robert P.; Kuter, Ugur; and Freedman, Richard G. "Stable Plan Repair for State-Space HTN Planning." Proceedings of the Third ICAPS Workshop on Hierarchical Planning, p.27-35, 2020. [pdf]

Friedman, Scott E.; Goldman, Robert P.; Freedman, Richard G.; Kuter, Ugur; Geib, Christopher; and Rye, Jeffrey. "Provenance-Based Assessment of Plans in Context." Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Explainable AI Planning, p.1-9, 2020. [peer-reviewed pdf on arXiv]

Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Recognition and Decision Making to Close the Interaction Loop for Autonomous Systems." Doctoral Dissertations., 2020. https://doi.org/10.7275/jvms-nd30 [pdf on Scholarworks @ UMass Amherst]

Freedman, Richard G.; Friedman, Scott E.; Musliner, David J.; and Pelican, Michael J.S. "Creative Problem Solving Through Automated Planning and Analogy." The 2020 AAAI Workshop on Generalization in Planning, p.1-8, 2020. [pdf]

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)

Ph.D. Dissertation

Freedman, Richard G. "Integrating Recognition and Decision Making to Close the Interaction Loop for Autonomous Systems." Doctoral Dissertations., 2020. https://doi.org/10.7275/jvms-nd30 [pdf on Scholarworks @ UMass Amherst]

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, 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.
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2023
+Guest Talks at University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (March 24 and 28, 2023)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Towards Closed-Loop Interactive Systems: Understanding People and their Impacts on Decision Making."
- Freedman, Richard G. "What Goes into Game Design?"
+Guest Talks at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK (March 21-23, 2023)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Towards Closed-Loop Interactive Systems: Understanding People and their Impacts on Decision Making."
- Freedman, Richard G. "What Goes into Game Design?"
- Freedman, Richard G. "2024 EAAI Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge: AI for Accessibility in Communication."
+Guest Talk at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK (March 15, 2023)
- Freedman, Richard G. "Towards Closed-Loop Interactive Systems: Understanding People and their Impacts on Decision Making."

2020
+Office of Professional Development at University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA (January 29, 2020)
- Freedman, Richard G. "There's Some Industry in My Academia." [abstract no longer available on-line]

2018
+Interactive Robotics Group Seminar at Massachusetts Institute 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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