Andrew S. Gordon is Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Interactive Narrative Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. His research advances technologies for automatically analyzing and generating narrative interpretations of experiences. A central aim of his research is the large-scale formalization of commonsense knowledge, and reasoning with these formalizations using logical abduction. He is the author of the 2004 book, Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge.
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Part I. Commonsense Psychology: 1. Commonsense psychology and psychology 2. Commonsense psychology and computers 3. Formalizing commonsense psychology 4. Commonsense psychology and language Part II. Background Theories: 5. Eventualities and their structure 6. Traditional set theory 7. Substitution, typical elements, and instances 8. Logic reified 9. Functions and sequences 10. Composite entities 11. Defeasibility 12. Scales 13. Arithmetic 14. Change of state 15. Causality 16. Time 17. Event structure 18. Space 19. Persons 20. Modality Part III. Commonsense Psychology Theories: 21. Knowledge management 22. Similarity comparisons 23. Memory 24. Envisioning 25. Explanation 26. Managing expectations 27. Other agent reasoning 28. Goals 29. Goal themes 30. Threats and threat detection 31. Plans 32. Goal management 33. Execution envisionment 34. Causes of failure 35. Plan elements 36. Planning modalities 37. Planning goals 38. Plan construction 39. Plan adaptation 40. Design 41. Decisions 42. Scheduling 43. Monitoring 44. Execution modalities 45. Execution control 46. Repetitive execution 47. Mind-body interaction 48. Observation of plan executions 49. Emotions.
