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Update [12/2012]

I successfully defended my PhD thesis on 12/12/2012 and officially became Dr. Liu !


Education


(2012) PhD degree in Computer Science to be officially conferred in Spring 2013 Ceremony

(2012) PhD Computer Science, University of Rochester
September 2006 – December 2012
Thesis:
Combining Self-Motivation with Planning and Inference in a Self-Motivated Cognitive Agent Framework
Advisor: Prof. Lenhart Schubert

(2008) MSc Computer Science, University of Rochester

(2006) MSc Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Thesis: A Consistency-Based System for Knowledge Base Merging
Advisor: Prof. James Delgrande

(2005) Bsc Honors Computing Science, Simon Fraser University


Research Interests

Artificial intelligence, planning, knowledge representation and reasoning




Publications and Articles Submitted for Publication

Daphne H. Liu. Combining Self-Motivation with Planning and Inference in a Self-Motivated Cognitive Agent Framework. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, December 2012.

Daphne H. Liu and Lenhart Schubert. An Infrastructure for Self-Motivated, Continually Planning Agents in Virtual Worlds. Technical Report TR-2012-985, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, December 2012.

Daphne Liu and Lenhart Schubert. Towards Self-Motivated, Cognitive, Continually Planning Agents. Journal manuscript submitted in February 2012 (currently under review).

Daphne Liu and Lenhart Schubert. Combining Self-Motivation with Logical Planning and Inference in a Reward-Seeking Agent. Paper for poster, in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), vol. 2 (INSTICC Press), Valencia, Spain, January 22-24, 2010, pp. 257-263.

Daphne Liu and Lenhart Schubert. Incorporating Planning and Reasoning into a Self-Motivated, Communicative Agent. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2009), Arlington, VA, March 6-9, 2009, pp. 108-113.

Daphne Hao Liu. A Survey of Planning in Intelligent Agents: from Externally Motivated to Internally Motivated Systems. Technical Report TR-2008-936, Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, June 2008.

Daphne Hao Liu. A consistency-based system for knowledge base merging. Master of Science Thesis, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, August 2006.

J. Delgrande, D. H. Liu, T. Schaub, and S. Thiele. COBA 2.0: A consistency-based belief change system. In J. Dix and A. Hunter, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR 2006), pages 267 - 273, 2006.

James Delgrande, Daphne H. Liu, Torsten Schaub, and Sven Thiele. COBA 2.0: A consistency-based belief change system. Technical Report TR 2005-17, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, November 2005.



Last Updated 12/2012