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Papers

Design, Integration, and Flight Test Results for an Autonomous Surveillance Helicopter
Whalley, M., Freed, M., Harris, R., Takahashi, M., Schulein, G., and Howlett, J. 2005. The AHS International Specialists' Meeting on Unmanned Rotorcraft. Mesa, AZ.

An architecture for intelligent management of aerial observation missions
Freed, M., P. Bonasso, K.M. Dalal, W. Fitzgerald and R. Harris. 2005. Proceedings of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics "Infotech@Aerospace" Technical Conference, September 26-28, Arlington, Virginia.

Quasi-monotonic segmentation of state variable behavior for reactive control
Fitzgerald, W., D. Lemire and M. Brooks. 2005. Proceedings of The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intellgence, July 9-13, Pittsburgh.

Using delayed streams to discern changing conditions in complex environments: Monitors in Apex 3.0
Fitzgerald, W. and M. Freed. 2005. Proceedings of The International Lisp Conference, June 19-22, Stanford University.

Intelligent Autonomous Surveillance of Many Targets with Few UAVs
Freed, M., W. Fitzgerald and R. Harris. 2005. Proceedings of The Research and Development Partnering Conference, Department of Homeland Security, April 27-28, Boston.

Complex Event Pattern Recognition for Long-Term System Monitoring
Fitzgerald, W., R. James Firby, A. Phillips and J. Kairys. 2004. Proceedings of The Workshop on Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation, at the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Trusted Autonomy for Spaceflight Systems
Freed, M., Bonasso, P., Ingham, M., Kortenkamp, D., Pell, B., and Penix, J. 2004. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Human vs. Autonomous Control of UAV Surveillance
Freed, M., Harris, R., and Shafto, M. 2004. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Human-interaction challenges in UAV-based autonomous surveillance
Freed, M., Harris, R., and Shafto, M. 2004. Proceedings of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium. Stanford, CA.

Using Apex / CPM-GOMS to Develop Human-Like Software Agents
Remington, R., Matessa, M., Freed, M., and Lee, S. 2003. Proceedings of the 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Melbourne, Australia.

The NASA / Army Autonomous Rotocraft Project
Whalley, M., Takahashi, M., Schulein, G., Freed, M., Christian, D., Patterson-Hine, A., and Harris, R. 2003. Proceedings of the American Helicopter Society 59th Annual Forum. Phoenix, AZ.

How Apex Automates CPM-GOMS
Freed, M., Matessa, M., Remington, R., and Vera, A. 2003. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Bamberg, Germany.

Multimodal Event Parsing for Intelligent User Interfaces
Fitzgerald, W., R. James Firby, and Michael Hannemann. 2003. Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’03), January 12-15, Miami, Florida.

Dialogue-based human-computer interfaces and active language understanding
Fitzgerald, W. and R. James Firby. 2002. International Journal of Cognition & Technology 1:2 pp. 273–284. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dialog as task execution
Fitzgerald, W. and R. James Firby. 2000. Proceedings of The Workshop on Natural Dialogues with Practical Robotic Devices at the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Automating CPM-GOMS
John, B. E., Vera, A. H., Matessa, M., Freed, M., and Remington, R. 2002. Proceedings of CHI 2002: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM. New York.

Reusable Templates in Human Performance Modeling
Matessa, M., Vera, A., John, B., Remington, R., and Freed, M. 2002. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, VA.

Reactive Prioritization
Freed, M. 2000. Proceedings of the 2nd NASA International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space. San Francisco, CA.

GOMS, GOMS+ and PDL
Freed, M. and Remington, R. 2000. Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Simulating Human Agents. Falmouth, MA.

Making Human-Machine System Simulation a Practical Engineering Tool: An APEX Overview
Freed, M. and Remington, R. 2000. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. Groningen, Holland.

Simulating Human Performance in Complex, Dynamic Environments
Freed, M. 1998. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University.

Managing Multiple Tasks in Complex, Dynamic Environments
Freed, M. 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Madison, WI.

A Conceptual Framework for Predicting Errors in Complex Human-Machine Environments
Freed, M. and Remington, R. 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 Meeting of The Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI.

Using Simulation to Evaluate Designs: The APEX Approach
Freed, M., Shafto, M., and Remington, R. 1998. Chatty, S. and Dewan, P., editors, In Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, Chapter 12. Kluwer Academic.

Managing Decision Resources in Plan Execution
Freed, M. and Remington, R. 1997. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Nagoya, Japan.

Human System Modeling: Some Principles and a Pragmatic Approach
Freed, M. and Shafto, M. 1997. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on the Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems. Granada, Spain.

Using the RAP System to Simulate Human Error
Freed, M. 1996. Proceedings of the 1996 AAAI Fall Symposium on Plan Execution: Problems and Issues. Cambridge, MA.

Item descriptions add value to plans
Fitzgerald, W. and R. James Firby. 1996. Proceedings of The Workshop on Plan Execution: Problems and Issues of the AAAI Fall Symposium, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Presentations

Apex Project Overview
Freed, M., Bonasso, P., Dalal, M., Drascher, E., Fitzgerald, W., Fitzpatrick, D., Harris, R., and Jew, R. 2005.

Mission-Level Autonomy: Autonomous Rotorcraft Project
Freed, M. ARP Five Year Demonstration. 2006.

Design, Integration, and Flight Test Results for an Autonomous Surveillance Helicopter
Whalley, M., Freed, M., Harris, R., Takahashi, M., Schulein, G., and Howlett, J. 2005. The AHS International Specialists' Meeting on Unmanned Rotorcraft. Mesa, AZ.

Enabling Science Missions with Advanced Autonomy
Frost, C., Sullivan, D., Freed, M., Harris, R. 2005. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 5-9, 2005. San Francisco, CA.

Intelligent Autonomous Surveillance of Many Targets with Few UAVs
Freed, M., W. Fitzgerald and R. Harris. 2005. Proceedings of The Research and Development Partnering Conference, Department of Homeland Security, April 27-28, Boston.

Human-Directed vs. Autonomous UAV-Based Surveillance
Freed, M., Shafto, M., Whalley, M., Takahashi, M., Patterson-Hine, A., Schulein, G., Harris, R., Howlett, J., and Frost, C. 2004.

Trusted Autonomy for Spaceflight Systems
Freed, M., Bonasso, P., Ingham, M., Kortenkamp, D., Pell, B., and Penix, J. 2004.

Toward Rapidly Reconfigurable human Simulation Architectures
Freed, M. 2003.

How Apex Automates CPM-GOMS
Freed, M., Matessa, M., Remington, R., and Vera, A. 2003.

Multitasking Under Time-Pressure and Uncertainty
Freed, M. 2002. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Cognitive Architecture Usability
Freed, M., Dahlman, E., Dalal, M., Harris, R., John, B., Matessa, M., Remington, R., Vera, A., et. al. 2002.

Multitasking Under Time-Pressure and Uncertainty
Freed, M. 2002.

Cognitive Science Tutorial: Apex, An Architecture for Modeling Human Performance in Applied HCI Domains
Dalal, M., Freed, M., Harris, R., Matessa, M., Rehling, J., Remington, R., and Vera, A. 2001. Cognitive Science 2001. Edinburgh, Scotland.

NASA Approaches to Preventing and Mitigating Human Error
Freed, M. 2000.