Benjamin Johnston - Publications and Research

Publications and Research

Research

In my PhD dissertation, Practical Artificial Commonsense, I created a new approach to giving software and robots the same kind of everyday commonsense that people possess. I call this project Comirit.

I am currently conducting my research within the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory as co-director of the Smarter Living Studio.

My research activities include:

Member of the UTS-USTC RoboCup team WrightEagleUnleashed!
Advisory board of Commonsense Symposia
Chair of NRAC 2009
Chair of PCAR 2008 and 2010
Program committee of Artificial General Intelligence, IJCAI and PRIMA
Reviewer for many conferences, workshops and journals

Grants

I am/was a chief investigator on the following grants:

ARC Linkage Grant 2012-2014, A framework for physical and social collaboration: towards the smarter planet vision
NSW TechVouchers 2011, Analysis of Time-Based Social Media User Trends
UTS Communities of Practice 2009, Collaborative Smart Mobile Innovation
UTS Gender Equity Fund 2009, Leadership in Innovation (as a mentor)

Publications

Some of my publications follow:

Benjamin Johnston, The Collection of Physical Knowledge and its Application in Intelligent Systems, International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2011
Rony Novianto, Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, Attention in the ASMO Cognitive Architecture, International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2010
Mary-Anne Williams, Peter Gärdenfors, Benjamin Johnston, Glenn Wightwick, Anticipation as a Strategy: A Design Paradigm for Robotics, International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management 2010
Benjamin Johnston, Practical Artificial Commonsense, PhD thesis 2009/2010
Benjamin Johnston, The Toy Box Problem (and a Preliminary Solution), International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2010
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, Conservative and Reward-driven Behavior Selection in a Commonsense Reasoning Framework, AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-Representational Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence 2009
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, A Formal Framework for the Symbol Grounding Problem, International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2009
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, Autonomous Learning of Commonsense Simulations, International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning 2009
Muh. Anshar, Benjamin Johnston, Ronny Novianto, Christopher Stanton, Xun Wang, Mary-Anne Williams, The Bear Project: A Cognitive Approach to Robotics (System Demo), International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 2008
Benjamin Johnston, Fangkai Yang, Rogan Mendoza, Xiaoping Chen, Mary-Anne Williams, Ontology Based Object Categorization for Robots, International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management 2008
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, Comirit: Commonsense Reasoning by Integrating Simulation and Logic, International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence 2008
Rogan Mendoza, Benjamin Johnston, Fangkai Yang, Zhisheng Huang, Xiaoping Chen, Mary-Anne Williams, OBOC: Ontology Based Object Categorisation for Robots, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2007
Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams, A Generic Framework for Approximate Simulation in Commonsense Reasoning Systems, International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning 2007
Benjamin Johnston, Guido Governatori, An Algorithm for the Induction of Defeasible Logic Theories from Databases, Australian Database Conference 2003
Benjamin Johnston, Guido Governatori, Induction of Defeasible Logic Theories in the Legal Domain, International Conference on AI and Law 2003
Benjamin Johnston, Predicting Outcomes and Identifying Patterns in Law, Honours Thesis (1st Class) 2002

Created in 2011 by Benjamin Johnston. Comments or questions? Email hello@benjaminjohnston.com.au.