Yigal Arens, Ph. D.

W o r k : University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Phone: +1 310 448-8766 Fax: +1 310 822-0751 Email: arens@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/people/arens/about

H o m e : 849 S. Broadway, Apt 612 Los Angeles, CA 90014 Phone: +1 323 683-7122 Email: yarens@me.com

R e s e a r c h I n t e r e s t s Computational infrastructure for biomedical applications, digital government, “Unexpected events”, intelligent access to multiple heterogeneous information sources, human-computer interfaces, multimedia interfaces, natural language understanding and generation, representation of knowledge.

E d u c a t i o n Hebrew University 1974 Jerusalem, Israel

B.A., Mathematics, Cum Laude

University of California at Berkeley 1977 Berkeley, California

M.A., Mathematics

University of California at Berkeley 1986 Berkeley, California

Ph.D., Mathematics Dissertation title: CLUSTER: An Approach to Contextual Language Understanding.

W o r k e x p e r i e n c e University of Southern California 2017 - Current Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Senior Director for Administrative Affairs.

University of Southern California 2002 - Current Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Los Angeles, California

Research Professor.

University of Southern California 2018 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Acting Director, Artificial Intelligence Division.

University of Southern California 2010 - 2017 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Deputy Director.

University of Southern California 1999 - 2017 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Director, Intelligent Systems Division.

University of Southern California 2005 - 2013 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Director, USC Digital Government Research Center (DGRC).

University of Southern California 2002 - 2003 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Director, Center for Research on Unexpected Events (CRUE).

University of Southern California 1998 - 2005 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Co-Director, USC–Columbia University Digital Government Research Center (DGRC).

University of Southern California 1997 - 1999 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Deputy Director, Intelligent Systems Division.

University of Southern California 1989 - 1999 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Project Leader, SIMS: Single Interface to Multiple Sources group of projects.

University of Southern California 1987 - 1989 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Project Member and later Project Leader, II: Integrated Interfaces project.

University of Southern California 1983 - 1989 (on leave 1987 - 1989) Computer Science Department Los Angeles, California

Assistant Professor

University of Southern California 1985 - 1987 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

Consultant to the Penman natural language generation project.

University of California at Berkeley 1979 - 1983 Computer Science Division Berkeley, California

Research Assistant.

E d i t o r i a l b o a r d s Transforming Government: People, Process & Policy (2008 – 2012) International Journal of Electronic Government Research (2008 – 2012)

H o n o r s AAAI Senior Member (2019) Digital Government Society Distinguished Service Award (2017)

M a j o r R e s e a r c h F u n d i n g Award Title Source Period of Performance Amount NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetics Studies of Mental Disorders

NIH (via Rutgers University)

9/1/2018 – 5/31/2020 $1,500,000

NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetics Studies of Mental Disorders

NIH (via Rutgers University)

6/1/2013 – 8/31/2018 $4,000,000 + $195,000

Information Explorer: a Suite of Tools for Cross-study Genetic Loci Discovery-Part 2 (co-PI at UNC)

NIH 9/24/2013 – 9/23/2014 $500,000

Information Explorer: a Suite of Tools for Cross-study Genetic Loci Discovery-Part 1 (co-PI at UNC)

NIH 7/19/2011 – 5/31/2013 $820,000

NIMH Center for Collaborative Genetics Studies of Mental Disorders

NIH (via Rutgers University)

10/1/2008 – 5/31/2013 $4,482,930

Securing the Future of the Digital Government Research Community

NSF 3/1/2005 – 8/1/2010 $650,000

Digital Government Community Building and Outreach

NSF 2/1/2004 – 1/1/2006 $319,224

Responding to Unexpected Events, Workshops & Report (co-PI Paul Rosenbloom)

NSF 2001 – 2002 $230,000

DGO2 NSF 2002 – 2003 $450,000 EDC-ML (co-PI Eduard Hovy) NSF 2001 – 2004 $300,000 DGO (with supplement) NSF 2000 – 2003 $890,000 The Energy Data Collection (EDC) NSF 1999 – 2002 $1,649,000 SIMS-ACME DARPA (via ISX) 1997 – 1998 $65,000 ISI Support for DMIF Development Effort

US Army TEC (via Raytheon E-Systems)

1997 – 2001 $1,540,000

BADDInfo DARPA 1997 – 1999 $780,000 SIMSPort DARPA 1997 – 1999 $913,000 Dealmaker (Arens share) DARPA/DLA 1996 – 2000 $925,000 Noah’s Ark–Logistics Anchor Desk DARPA 1995 – 1995 $150,000 MEDHCI (co-PI Eduard Hovy) DARPA 1994 – 1997 $1,000,000 TCIMS TRP (Arens share) DARPA 1994 – 1995 $600,000 SIMS-II (with supplement) DARPA 1994 – 1997 $1,300,000 SIMS2 DARPA 1991 – 1995 $1,600,000 Single Interface to Multiple Systems (SIMS)

DARPA 1990 – 1991 $300,000

T e a c h i n g e x p e r i e n c e University of Southern California 2016 - Informatics Program Los Angeles, California

INF 510: Principles of Programming for Data Science.

University of Southern California 1990 - 1992 Information Sciences Institute Los Angeles, California

M.S. project supervision, multimedia interface theses.

University of Southern California 1983 - 1987 Computer Science Department Los Angeles, California

M.S. project supervision. Artificial intelligence projects.

University of Southern California 1983 - 1987 Computer Science Department Los Angeles, California

Course instruction, graduate and undergraduate. Primarily artificial intelligence.

University of California at Berkeley 1976 - 1979 Mathematics Department Berkeley, California

Teaching associate, undergraduate mathematics classes.

P r o f e s s i o n a l O r g a n i z a t i o n s Digital Government Society of N. America (DGSNA) 2012 - 2013

Board Member

Digital Government Society of N. America (DGSNA) 2006 - 2011 Treasurer

Voting Systems Preference Rating (VSPR) 2005 - 2008 Founding Member and At-Large Council Member

U n i v e r s i t y S e r v i c e Viterbi School of Engineering 2016 - 2021 Appointment, Promotion and Tenure Committee USC

Committee Member

University Libraries Committee 2016 - 2019 USC

Committee Member

School of Engineering Blue Ribbon 2013 - 2013 Committee on NTT Faculty Senate Representation USC

Committee Member

Academic Senate 2009 - 2011 Committee on Non Tenure Track Faculty Affairs USC

Committee Member

O t h e r S e r v i c e Center for American Progress 2009 - 2010 Smart Government Advisory Board Washington, DC

Member of the Advisory Board

CSTB/NAS Committee on Using Information 2005 - 2007 Technology to Enhance Disaster Management Washington, DC

Member of the Committee

P r o g r a m c o m m i t t e e s , p a n e l s & i n v i t e d w o r k s h o p s dg.o2014-dg.o2018 International Conferences on 2014-2018 Digital Government Research Multiple locations

Co-Chair: Smart Cities Track

IEEE/ACM ASONAM Workshop on Intelligence 2015-2016 and Security Informatics (ISI-ASONAM) (Previously IEEE ICDM Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics) Multiple locations

Member of the program committee

dg.o2000-dg.o2016 International Conferences on 2000-2016 Digital Government Research Multiple locations around the world

Member of the program committee

International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH) 2013-2015 Multiple locations

Member of the program committee

dg.o2000-dg.o2011 International Conferences on 2000-2011 Digital Government Research Multiple locations in North America

Finance Chair

DEXA/EGOV European Conferences on 2005-2012 e-Government Multiple locations in Europe

Member of the program committee

ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and 2009-2012 Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD) Multiple locations around the world

Member of the program committee

NSF/NIJ Symposia on Intelligence and Security 2003-2009 Informatics Multiple locations in the U.S.

Member of the program committee

2008 Kangnam e-Gov Conference 2008 Kangnam District, Seoul, South Korea

Invited keynote speaker

First US-China Workshop on Infectious Disease 2008 Informatics and BioSurveillance (IDB 2008) Beijing, China

Invited participant

3rd European Ministerial eGovernment Conference: 2005 “Transforming Public Services” Manchester, U.K.

Invited participant

Information Technologies and Public 2005 Administration (ITAPA), 4th International Congress Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Invited keynote address

NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security 2005 Informatics Atlanta, GA

Member of the program committee

The First International Workshop on Digital 2004 Government: Systems and Technologies (DGOV2004) Shanghai, China

Member of the program committee

EU-US Bilateral Meeting on e-Government Research 2004 Zaragoza, Spain

Invited participant

CSTB/NAS Planning Meeting on Information 2004 Technology and the States Washington, DC

Invited participant

US-EU Digital Government/E-Government 2004 Research Bilateral Meeting Seattle, WA

Invited participant

4th International Workshop on Research Issues 2004 on Data Engineering: Digital Government Services (RIDE-DGS '04) Boston, MA

Member of the program committee

NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for 2003 Engineering Research and Education Arlington, VA

Invited participant

dg.o2001, 2002, 2003 National Conferences on 2001-2003 Digital Government Research Los Angeles, CA & Boston, MA

Conference chair

NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure Research 2003 for Homeland Security San Diego, CA

Member of the organizing committee

The First IEEE Workshop on Disaster Recovery 2002 Networks, DIREN ‘02 Panel on Government Needs for Disaster Response Networks New York, NY

Invited panel speaker

The Council for Excellence in Government 2002 Forum on “Technology Tools for a New Era” Washington, DC

Invited panel speaker

Cal-IT2 Workshop for Crisis Response 2002 UC Irvine, CA

Invited panel speaker

NSF Workshop, “Responding to the Unexpected” 2002 New York, NY

Workshop co-organizer

NSF Workshop: dg.o2000 Digital Government 2000 PI Workshop Los Angeles, CA

Workshop chair & Chair of the program committee

NSF Workshop: Designing the Digital 1998 Government of the 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Workshop Washington, DC

Invited participant

GSA Digital Government Initiative Roundtable 1998 Washington, DC

Invited participant

NSF Information and Data Management 1998 Workshop: Research Agenda for the 21st Century Washington, DC

Invited participant

5th International Conference on Foundations 1998 of Data Organization and Algorithms (FODO '98) Kobe, Japan

Member of the program committee

CIKM '98 Workshop on Web Information and 1998 Data Management (WIDM '98) Washington, DC

Member of the program committee

NSF Digital Libraries Initiative 1996 Stanford, California

Member of site review panel

FLAIRS-96 Track on Information Interchange 1996 Key West, Florida

Member of the organizing committee

National Research Council 1995 Computer Science and Telecommunication Board Workshop on HPCC Research and Application Needs Washington, DC

Workshop participant

CIKM Workshops on Intelligent Information 1994-1995 Agents NIST, Gaithersberg, Maryland

Member of the program committee

Third International Conference on 1994 Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘94) NIST, Gaithersberg, Maryland

Member of the program committee

NSF Digital Libraries Initiative 1994 Washington, DC

Member of the review panel

IJCAI-89 Workshop: 1989 A New Generation of Intelligent Interfaces Detroit, Michigan

Member of the organizing committee

P u b l i c a t i o n s

2019 1. Rajiv Mayani, Karan Vahi, Jose Luis Ambite, Shefali Sharma, Marco Azaro, Sherri Wilson, Brittany Ruocco, Gillian Davis, Matthew Romanella, Linda Brzustowicz, Ewa Deelman, Yigal Arens. Automated processing of phenotypic data submissions. In 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Houston, TX, October 15-19, 2019. Abstract + Poster.

2. Ruocco BG, Mayani R, Sharma S, Wilson S, Vahi K, Voinea S, Davis G, Valentine-Cooper W, Valentine-Cooper J, Mathew J, Romanella M, Arens Y, Deelman E, Azaro MA, Vieland VJ, Ambite JL, Brzustowicz LM. Enhancing Access to Data at the NIMH Repository and Genomics Resource. The annual meeting of the American PsychoPathological Association, New York, NY, March 7-9, 2019. Abstract.

2018 3. Soon Ae Chun, Sehl Mellouli and Yigal Arens, Eds. Special Issue on Models and Strategies Toward Planning and Developing Smart Cities. International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), Volume 7, Issue 2, April–June 2018. https://www.igi-global.com/journals/abstract-announcement/185328

2013 4. José Luis Ambite, Leslie Lange, Shefali Sharma, Serban Voinea, Chun-Nan Hsu, Yigal Arens. PhenoExplorer: A tool to help researchers identify relevant studies and phenotypic variables in dbGaP. In 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), Boston, MA, October 21-26, 2013. Abstract + Poster.

2012 5. Yigal Arens, José Luis Ambite, Chun-Nan Hsu, Leslie Lange, Shefali Sharma, and Serban Voinea. Phenotype mapping using information explorer. In 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), San Francisco, CA, 2012. Abstract + Poster.

6. Chun-Nan Hsu, José Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Leslie Lange, Shefali Sharma, and Serban Voinea. Active learning for phenotype mapping. In 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), San Francisco, CA, 2012. Abstract + Poster.

7. Yi-Hung Huang, John Rice , Scott F. Saccone, José Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Jay A. Tischfield, Chun-Nan Hsu. A ν-support vector regression based approach for predicting imputation quality. BMC Bioinformatics 6 (Suppl 7):S3 2012.

8. Shefali Sharma, Leslie Lange, Jose Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens and Chun-Nan Hsu. Exploring Label Dependency in Active Learning for Phenotype Mapping, Proceedings of BioNLP 2012, the Eleventh Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, held at NAACL 2012 under the auspices of SIGBIOMED. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2012. Pp. 146–154. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-2418

9. Chun-Nan Hsu, Yigal Arens, Jose Luis Ambite, Shefali Sharma, Serban Voinea, Leslie Lange. Information Explorer: A Suite of Tools for Cross-study Phenotype Mapping. Poster presented at the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Long Beach, CA, July 15–17, 2012.

10. Chun-Nan Hsu, Yigal Arens, Jose Luis Ambite, Shefali Sharma, Leslie Lange, Serban Voinea. Active Learning to Associate Semantically-related Phenotypes Across Genetic Epidemiologic Studies. Poster presented at the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Long Beach, CA, July 15–17, 2012.

2011 11. Soon Ae Chun, Rodrigo Sandoval and Yigal Arens, Eds. Public Engagement and Government Collaboration: Theories, Strategies and Case Studies; Special Issue of Information Polity, IOS Press. V. 16, No. 3, 2011.

2010 12. J. L. Ambite, S. Sharma, C. N. Hsu, Y. Arens. Improving Access to Clinical and Genetic Data on Mental Disorders. Abstract and poster presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Washington, DC, November 2–6, 2010.

13. J. L. Ambite, S. Sharma, C. N. Hsu, Y. Arens. An Integrated Data Explorer for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders. Poster presented at the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Boston, MA, July 11–13, 2010.

2007 14. Ramesh Rao et al., Editors. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. National Research Council of the National Academies. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C. 2007.

2003 15. Arens et al, Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Government, White paper submitted to the National Science Foundation, 2003. http://macaroni.isi.edu/~arens/CIandDG.pdf

16. Yigal Arens and Paul S. Rosenbloom: Responding to the unexpected. Viewpoint in Communications of the ACM 46(9): 33-35 (2003)

2002 17. Yigal Arens and Paul Rosenbloom (Eds). Responding to the Unexpected. Report of the NSF-sponsored Feb. 27–March 1, 2002, workshop in New York City. October 2002.

18. Ambite, J.L., Y. Arens, W. Bourne, S. Feiner, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, A. Philpot, S. Popper, S. Stolfo. A Portal for Access to Complex Heterogeneous Information about energy. Proceedings of the dg.o 2002 Conference. Los Angeles, CA. May 2002.

19. J.L. Ambite, Y. Arens, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, A. Philpot, U. Ramachandran, K. Ross, J. Sandhaus, D. Sarioz, A. Singla, and B. Whitman. Data Integration and Access: The Digital Government Research Center’s Energy Data Collection (EDC) Project. In William J. McIver, Jr. and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (eds), Advances in Digital Government: Technology, Human Factors, and Policy. Boston: Kluwer. 2002.

2001 20. J.L. Ambite, Y .Arens, S. Feiner, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, and A. Philpot. Scalable Access and Integration of Statistical Data for Digital Government. Proceedings of the AFCEA Colloquium. San Diego, CA. November 2001.

21. Hovy, E.H., A. Philpot, J.-L. Ambite, Y. Arens, J.L. Klavans, W. Bourne, and D. Saros. 2001. Data Acquisition and Integration in the DGRC’s Energy Data Collection Project. Proceedings of the dg.o 2001 Conference. Los Angeles, CA. May 2001.

22. José Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Luis Gravano, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Judith Klavans. Simplifying Data Access: The Energy Data Collection Project. IEEE Computer, V. 34, No. 2. February 2001.

2000 23. David V. Pynadath, Milind Tambe, Yigal Arens, Hans Chalupsky, Yolanda Gil, Craig Knoblock, Haeyoung Lee, Kristina Lerman, Jean Oh, Surya Ramachandran, Paul S. Rosenbloom, Thomas Russ. Electric Elves: Immersing an agent organization in a human organization. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Socially Intelligent Agents – The Human in the Loop. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, November 3–5, 2000.

24. Ambite, J.-L., Y. Arens, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, A. Philpot, U. Ramachandran, J. Sandhaus, A. Singla, and B. Whitman. Building Ontologies and Integrating Data from Multiple Agencies: A Case Study Using Gasoline. Paper 1941, 2000 Joint Statistical Meetings. Indianapolis, August 2000.

25. Ambite, J.-L., Y. Arens, L. Gravano, V. Hatzivassiloglou, E.H. Hovy, J.L. Klavans, and A. Philpot. 2000. The EDC Project. Report of the First NSF Conference on Digital Government. Los Angeles, May 2000.

1999 26. Wei-Min Shen, Wayne Zhang, X. Wang and Yigal Arens. Model Construction with Key Identification. In Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery – Theory, Tools, and Technology. Orlando, Florida, April 5-9, 1999.

27. Yigal Arens, Jon Dukes-Schlossberg, Yongwon Lee, Marc Zev and Weixiong Zhang. Warfighter’s Information Packager. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-98). Madison, Wisconsin, July 27-29, 1998. Pp. 1095-1100.

1998 28. Marc Zev, Yigal Arens, Wayne Zhang, Yongwon Lee and Jon Dukes-Scholossberg. Warfighter’s Information Packaging as an Information Analysis Tool. Abstract. In Proceedings of AIPA-98: Advanced Information Processing and Analysis 1998 Symposium, “Information Analysis in a Networked Community. Tysons Corner, VA. March 17-18, 1998.

1997 29. Yigal Arens. SIMS: Integrating Heterogeneous, Distributed Information Sources. Proceedings of the 1997 ONDCP/CTAC International Technology Symposium. Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President. Chicago, IL. August 18-21, 1997.

1996 30. Yigal Arens. SIMS: Addressing the Problem of Heterogeneity in Databases. Proceedings of SPIE–The International Society of Optical Engineering Symposium: Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence Systems for Law Enforcement. SPIE Proceeding Series Vol. 2938. Edward M. Carapezza and Donald Spector, Chairs/Editors. Boston, MA. November 19-21, 1996.

31. Eduard H. Hovy and Yigal Arens. Virtual Devices: An Approach to Standardizing Multimedia System Components. Proceedings of ECAI-96 Workshop: Towards a Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Budapest, Hungary, August 1996.

32. Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock and Chunnan Hsu. Query Processing in the SIMS Information Mediator. In Advanced Planning Technology, edited by Austin Tate. The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. May 1996, ISBN 0-929280-98-9.

33. Yigal Arens, Craig A. Knoblock, and Wei-Min Shen. Query Reformulation for Dynamic Information Integration. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Information Integration. Vol. 6, No. 2/3, 1996, ISBN 0925-9902, pp. 99-130.

1995 34. José-Luis Ambite, Yigal Arens, Naveen Ashish, Chin Y. Chee, Chun-Nan Hsu, Craig A. Knoblock, Wei-Min Shen, and Sheila Tejada. The SIMS Manual, Version 1.0. USC/Information Sciences Institute Technical Manual No. ISI/TM-95-428. July 1995.

35. Yigal Arens and Eduard Hovy. The Design of a Model-Based Multimedia Interaction Manager. In Artificial Intelligence Review. 9(2-3). Special Issue on Integration of Natural Language and Vision. Guest Editor: Paul McKevitt. June 1995. Pp. 167–188.

1994 36. Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock. Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-94). NIST, Gaithersberg, MD, November 29–December 1, 1994.

37. Craig A. Knoblock, Yigal Arens and Chun-Nan Hsu. Cooperating Agents for Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-94). Toronto, Canada, May 17–20, 1994.

38. Contributed to R&D for the NII: Technical Challenges, report of a symposium held in cooperation with the Technology Policy Working Group of the US Government's Information Infrastructure Task Force Committee on Applications and Technology, and with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Edited by M.K. Vernon, E.D. Lazowska, and S.D. Personick. February 28–March 1, 1994.

39. Yigal Arens, Chin Y. Chee, Chun-Nan Hsu, Hoh In and Craig A. Knoblock. Query Processing in an Information Mediator. In Proceedings of the ARPA/RL Knowledge-Based Planning and Scheduling Initiative Workshop. Tucson, AZ, February 21–24, 1994.

40. Craig A. Knoblock and Yigal Arens. Cooperating Agents for Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Software Agents. Stanford, CA, 1994.

1993 41. Yigal Arens Chin Y. Chee, Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock. Retrieving and Integrating Data from Multiple Information Sources. International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. Vol. 2, No. 2, 1993. Pp. 127–158.

42. Eduard Hovy and Yigal Arens. The Planning Paradigm Required for Automated Multimedia Presentation Planning. In Human-Computer Collaboration: Reconciling Theory, Synthesizing Practice. Papers from the 1993 Fall Symposium Series, AAAI Technical Report FS-93-05, 1993.

43. Yigal Arens, Eduard H. Hovy and Mira Vossers. On the Knowledge Underlying Multimedia Presentations. In Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. Mark Maybury, editor. AAAI Press/The MIT Press, pp. 280–306, 1993. Republished with introduction in Maybury, M. T. and Wahlster, W. editors. Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Press. 1998. ISBN: 1-55860-444-8.

44. Yigal Arens, Eduard H. Hovy and Susanna van Mulken. A Tree-Traversing Prototype that Allocates Presentation Media. In IJCAI-93: Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Chambéry, Savoie, France, August 29–September 3, 1993.

45. Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock. SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources. Demonstration system description in Proceedings of SIGMOD-93. Washington, DC, May 26–28, 1993.

1992 46. Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock. Planning and Reformulating Queries for Semantically-Modeled Multidatabase Systems. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-92). Baltimore, MD, November 8–11, 1992. Pp. 92–101.

47. Yigal Arens. Multimedia Presentation Planning as an Extension of Text Planning. Statement for panel on “Extending Language Generation to Multiple Media”. In Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation. Edited by R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner and O. Stock. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence No. 587: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Trento, Italy, April, 1992.

48. Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock. SIMS: Services and Information Management for decision Support (slides). In Proceedings of Joint RL/AFOSR Workshop on Intelligent Information Systems. Eds. Raymond A. Liuzzi and Abraham Waxman. In-House Report RL-TR-92-57, Rome Laboratory, AFSC, Griffiss AFB, NY, pp. G-1–G-21, April 1992.

1991 49. Yigal Arens, Steve Feiner, Jim Foley, Eduard Hovy, Bonnie John, Robert Neches, Randy Pausch, Herbert Schorr and William Swartout. Intelligent User Interfaces. USC/ISI Research Report No. ISI/RR-91-288, September 30, 1991.

50. Eduard Hovy and Yigal Arens. Automatic Generation of Formatted Text. In AAAI-91: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Anaheim, CA, pp. 92–97, July 14–19, 1991. Republished with introduction in Maybury, M. T. and Wahlster, W. editors. Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Press. 1998. ISBN: 1-55860-444-8.

51. Yigal Arens, Eduard Hovy and Mira Vossers. Categorizing the Knowledge Used in Multimedia Presentations. In AAAI-91 Workshop on intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. Anaheim, CA, July 14–19, 1991.

52. Yigal Arens, Larry Miller and Norm K. Sondheimer. Presentation Design Using an Integrated Knowledge Base. In Intelligent User Interfaces. Edited by Joseph W. Sullivan and Sherman W. Tyler. ACM Press, pp. 241–258, 1991. Republished with introduction in Maybury, M. T. and Wahlster, W. editors. Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Morgan Kaufmann Press. 1998. ISBN: 1-55860-444-8.

53. Yigal Arens, Eduard Hovy and Mira Vossers. Organizing the Knowledge Needed for Multimedia Communication. (Presentation to panel — Multimedia in AI: Challenges and Opportunities.) In CAIA-91: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications; Volume II: Visuals. Miami Beach, FL, February 24–28, 1991.

1990 54. Yigal Arens and Eduard Hovy. Text Layout as a Problem of Modality Selection. In KBSA-5: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Knowledge-Based Software Assistant Conference. Syracuse, New York, September 24–28, 1990.

55. Yigal Arens and Eduard Hovy. How to Describe What? Towards a Theory of Modality Utilization. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 25–28, 1990.

56. Yigal Arens. Services and Information Management for Decision Support. In AISIG-90: Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference. George Washington University, Washington, DC, May 7–11, 1990.

57. Yigal Arens. A Knowledge-Based Multi-Modal Interface. In AISIG-90: Proceedings of the Annual AI Systems in Government Conference. George Washington University, Washington, DC, May 7–11, 1990.

58. Eduard Hovy and Yigal Arens. Allocating Modalities In Multimedia Communication. In Working Notes: AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge-Based Human-Computer Communication. Stanford University, California. March 27–29, 1990.

1989 59. Yigal Arens, Chin Y. Chee and Paul Raveling. Development of Automatic User Interface Technology: Architecture and Software Engineering Issues. In The Third Annual X Technical Conference. MIT, Cambridge, Mass. January, 1989.

1988 60. Yigal Arens, Larry Miller, Stu C. Shapiro and Norm K. Sondheimer. Automatic Construction of User-Interface Displays. In AAAI-88: The Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. St. Paul, Minnesota. August, 1988. (Also available as ISI Research Report No. ISI/RR-88-218.)

61. Yigal Arens, Larry Miller and Norm K. Sondheimer. Presentation Planning Using an Integrated Knowledge Base. In Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop on Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces: Elements and Prototypes. Monterey, California. March 1988.

62. Larry Miller, Yigal Arens and Norm K. Sondheimer. Presentation Planning Using an Integrated Knowledge Base. In USICON '88: Proceedings of the Third Annual User-System Interface Conference. Austin, Texas. February, 1988. (Also appeared in SOAR 88: The Second Annual Workshop on Space Operations Automation and Robotics, NASA Conference Publication 3019. Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, July 20–23, 1988, pp. 205--218.)

1987 63. Yigal Arens. Understanding Language within the Context Model. Communication and Cognition — AI, special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Discourse Analysis, Vol. 4, nos. 2/3, 1987, pp. 171–187.

64. John J. Granacki, Alice C. Parker and Yigal Arens. Understanding System Specifications Written in Natural Language. In IJCAI-87: Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Milan, Italy, August 1987, pp. 688–691.

65. Yigal Arens, John J. Granacki and Alice C. Parker. Phrasal Analysis of Long Noun Sequences. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Stanford, California, July 1987.

66. Les Gasser, Yigal Arens, George Bekey and Ram Nevatia. Teaching Artificial Intelligence Courses Using Personal Computers. In Proceedings of the IBM Academic Information Systems (ACIS) Conference. Boston, MA, June 1987.

1986 67. Yigal Arens. Modeling an Interlocutor's Perception of Context. In Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Atlanta, Georgia, October 1986.

68. Yigal Arens. The Need for Self-Knowledgeable Natural Language Interfaces. In AAAI-86 Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces. Philadelphia, PA, August 14, 1986.

69. Yigal Arens. CLUSTER: An Approach to Modeling Context. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amherst, Massachusetts, August 1986.

70. Yigal Arens. CLUSTER: An Approach to Contextual Language Understanding. Ph.D. Thesis. Report No. UCB/CSD 86/293, Computer Science Division (EECS), University of California, Berkeley, California, April 1986. (Also available as Technical Report No. TR-86-225, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.)

1985 71. Yigal Arens. Constructing the Context for Language Understanding. In AI-85, First Annual Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computer Technology Conference. Long Beach, California, May 1985.

1984 72. Robert Wilensky, Yigal Arens and David Chin. Talking to UNIX in English: An Overview of UC. Communications of the ACM. June 1984, pp. 574–593. (Part of this paper was reprinted in AI Handobokku (AI Handbook), Ed. Association of Artificial Intelligence Japan.)

1982 73. Yigal Arens. The Context Model. In Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1982.

1981 74. Yigal Arens. Using Language and Context in the Analysis of Text. In IJCAI-81: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1981.

1980 75. Robert Wilensky and Yigal Arens. PHRAN — A Knowledge-Based Approach to Natural Language Analysis. Berkeley Electronic Research Laboratory Memorandum No. UCB/ERL/M80/34. August, 1980.

76. Robert Wilensky and Yigal Arens. PHRAN — A Phrasal Natural Language Understander. In ACL 80: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1980, pp. 117–121.