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Papers by Andrew Csinger

2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC)

Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The histor... more Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The history of hydro, nuclear and coal offer little to guide contemporary photovoltaics infrastructure deployment. Putting gigawatts of solar panels on the cheapest available real estate will have lasting negative consequences: new approaches are needed to avoid unnecessary, undesirable and both predictable and unpredictable environmental, social and economic side effects.Rather than taking over productive farmers’ fields with gigawatt scale solar plantations that unbalance grids and introduce new transmission needs, the many sunny surfaces proximal to load should be pressed into dual-use: efficient pavement integrated photovoltaics (PIPV) avoid misappropriation of real-estate, do not affect current use or aesthetics of surfaces and require no transmission lines. We call this dual-use of high value real estate surface solar, and demonstrate the opportunity for superior IRR over traditional deployment.

Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed excl... more Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed exclusively by humans. New computer-based techniques have added horsepower rather than intelligence to traditional approaches, and have not addressed their principal limitations, chief of which is the inability to tailor presentations to individual users at run-time. We believe

Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed excl... more Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed exclusively by humans. New computer-based techniques have added horsepower rather than intelligence to traditional approaches, and have not addressed their principal limitations, chief of which is the inability to tailor presentations to individual users at run-time. We believe a model of the user is needed to support this kind of run-time determination of form and content. We describe our approach to the acquisition, representation and exploitation of user models: the most plausible user model is the result of an abductive recognition process and it incorporates assumptions about the user which are then used to constrain the design by abduction of the best presentation. Both recognition and design processes are performed at run-time. We describe a prototypical implementation designed to demonstrate these ideas in the domain of video authoring. Our approach to authoring is intended to apply ...

The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with difficulties and limitations, foremost of whic... more The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with difficulties and limitations, foremost of which is the compile-time binding of form and content of a document. By contrast, the intent-based authoring paradigm allows the form and content of a document to be determined at run-time, which is achieved through the decoupling of content and intent. A prototypical distributed multimedia platform (Valhalla) is introduced. Agents inhabiting the Valhalla framework are members of one of three classes: client applications, media servers, and other service providers (such as an artificial intelligence based reasoning engine to support intent-based authoring). Implementations of members of these classes are introduced through the description of a departmental hyperbrochure application. 1 Introduction A traditional video author is faced with a number of well-identified but seemingly unavoidable obstacles. The author must first acquire, log, and annotate a database of raw footage, from which must...

Un appareil d'autorisation de transaction comprend un processeur en communication avec une in... more Un appareil d'autorisation de transaction comprend un processeur en communication avec une interface de communication. Le processeur est configure pour recevoir une demande concernant une transaction demandee par un utilisateur avec lequel une pluralite de dispositifs utilisateurs est associee, pour obtenir des mesures respectives de transaction a partir d'au moins certains dispositifs disponibles parmi la pluralite de dispositifs utilisateurs, et pour confirmer l'approbation de la demande concernant la transaction en reponse a la confirmation selon laquelle les mesures de transaction satisfont une politique d'autorisation multi-dispositifs associee a la transaction.

2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2020

Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The histor... more Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The history of hydro, nuclear and coal offer little to guide contemporary photovoltaics infrastructure deployment. Putting gigawatts of solar panels on the cheapest available real estate will have lasting negative consequences: new approaches are needed to avoid unnecessary, undesirable and both predictable and unpredictable environmental, social and economic side effects.Rather than taking over productive farmers’ fields with gigawatt scale solar plantations that unbalance grids and introduce new transmission needs, the many sunny surfaces proximal to load should be pressed into dual-use: efficient pavement integrated photovoltaics (PIPV) avoid misappropriation of real-estate, do not affect current use or aesthetics of surfaces and require no transmission lines. We call this dual-use of high value real estate surface solar, and demonstrate the opportunity for superior IRR over traditional deploym...

The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with diiculties and limitations, foremost of which ... more The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with diiculties and limitations, foremost of which is the compile-time binding of form and content of a document. By contrast, the intent-based authoring paradigm allows the form and content of a document to be determined at run-time, which is achieved through the decoupling of content and intent. A prototypical distributed multimedia platform (Valhalla) is introduced. Agents inhabiting the Val-halla framework are members of one of three classes: client applications, media servers, and other service providers (such as an artiicial intelligence based reasoning engine to support intent-based authoring). Implementations of members of these classes are introduced through the description of a departmental hyper-brochure application.

The inability to meet individual user expectation at run-time is the chief limitation of traditio... more The inability to meet individual user expectation at run-time is the chief limitation of traditional approaches to presentation design, and militates against the automatic design of presentations required for effective multimedia interfaces. Whereas most computer-based approaches add horsepower to traditional technique, we investigate user modelling strategies for intelligent multimedia interfaces. A model of the user is needed to support this kind of runtime determination of form and content. We describe our approach to the acquisition, representation and exploitation of user models: the most plausible user model is the result of an abductive recognition process and incorporates assumptions about the user which are used to constrain the design by abduction of the best presentation. Probabilistic and cost-based Horn-abduction reasoning techniques are combined with an interaction paradigm we call scrutability, that permits users to critique the user model in pursuit of better present...

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016

2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC)

Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The histor... more Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The history of hydro, nuclear and coal offer little to guide contemporary photovoltaics infrastructure deployment. Putting gigawatts of solar panels on the cheapest available real estate will have lasting negative consequences: new approaches are needed to avoid unnecessary, undesirable and both predictable and unpredictable environmental, social and economic side effects.Rather than taking over productive farmers’ fields with gigawatt scale solar plantations that unbalance grids and introduce new transmission needs, the many sunny surfaces proximal to load should be pressed into dual-use: efficient pavement integrated photovoltaics (PIPV) avoid misappropriation of real-estate, do not affect current use or aesthetics of surfaces and require no transmission lines. We call this dual-use of high value real estate surface solar, and demonstrate the opportunity for superior IRR over traditional deployment.

Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed excl... more Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed exclusively by humans. New computer-based techniques have added horsepower rather than intelligence to traditional approaches, and have not addressed their principal limitations, chief of which is the inability to tailor presentations to individual users at run-time. We believe

Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed excl... more Authoring is a complex, knowledge-intensive activity which until recently has been performed exclusively by humans. New computer-based techniques have added horsepower rather than intelligence to traditional approaches, and have not addressed their principal limitations, chief of which is the inability to tailor presentations to individual users at run-time. We believe a model of the user is needed to support this kind of run-time determination of form and content. We describe our approach to the acquisition, representation and exploitation of user models: the most plausible user model is the result of an abductive recognition process and it incorporates assumptions about the user which are then used to constrain the design by abduction of the best presentation. Both recognition and design processes are performed at run-time. We describe a prototypical implementation designed to demonstrate these ideas in the domain of video authoring. Our approach to authoring is intended to apply ...

The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with difficulties and limitations, foremost of whic... more The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with difficulties and limitations, foremost of which is the compile-time binding of form and content of a document. By contrast, the intent-based authoring paradigm allows the form and content of a document to be determined at run-time, which is achieved through the decoupling of content and intent. A prototypical distributed multimedia platform (Valhalla) is introduced. Agents inhabiting the Valhalla framework are members of one of three classes: client applications, media servers, and other service providers (such as an artificial intelligence based reasoning engine to support intent-based authoring). Implementations of members of these classes are introduced through the description of a departmental hyperbrochure application. 1 Introduction A traditional video author is faced with a number of well-identified but seemingly unavoidable obstacles. The author must first acquire, log, and annotate a database of raw footage, from which must...

Un appareil d'autorisation de transaction comprend un processeur en communication avec une in... more Un appareil d'autorisation de transaction comprend un processeur en communication avec une interface de communication. Le processeur est configure pour recevoir une demande concernant une transaction demandee par un utilisateur avec lequel une pluralite de dispositifs utilisateurs est associee, pour obtenir des mesures respectives de transaction a partir d'au moins certains dispositifs disponibles parmi la pluralite de dispositifs utilisateurs, et pour confirmer l'approbation de la demande concernant la transaction en reponse a la confirmation selon laquelle les mesures de transaction satisfont une politique d'autorisation multi-dispositifs associee a la transaction.

2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2020

Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The histor... more Legacy approaches to energy management and distribution are ill suited to solar power. The history of hydro, nuclear and coal offer little to guide contemporary photovoltaics infrastructure deployment. Putting gigawatts of solar panels on the cheapest available real estate will have lasting negative consequences: new approaches are needed to avoid unnecessary, undesirable and both predictable and unpredictable environmental, social and economic side effects.Rather than taking over productive farmers’ fields with gigawatt scale solar plantations that unbalance grids and introduce new transmission needs, the many sunny surfaces proximal to load should be pressed into dual-use: efficient pavement integrated photovoltaics (PIPV) avoid misappropriation of real-estate, do not affect current use or aesthetics of surfaces and require no transmission lines. We call this dual-use of high value real estate surface solar, and demonstrate the opportunity for superior IRR over traditional deploym...

The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with diiculties and limitations, foremost of which ... more The traditional authoring paradigm is fraught with diiculties and limitations, foremost of which is the compile-time binding of form and content of a document. By contrast, the intent-based authoring paradigm allows the form and content of a document to be determined at run-time, which is achieved through the decoupling of content and intent. A prototypical distributed multimedia platform (Valhalla) is introduced. Agents inhabiting the Val-halla framework are members of one of three classes: client applications, media servers, and other service providers (such as an artiicial intelligence based reasoning engine to support intent-based authoring). Implementations of members of these classes are introduced through the description of a departmental hyper-brochure application.

The inability to meet individual user expectation at run-time is the chief limitation of traditio... more The inability to meet individual user expectation at run-time is the chief limitation of traditional approaches to presentation design, and militates against the automatic design of presentations required for effective multimedia interfaces. Whereas most computer-based approaches add horsepower to traditional technique, we investigate user modelling strategies for intelligent multimedia interfaces. A model of the user is needed to support this kind of runtime determination of form and content. We describe our approach to the acquisition, representation and exploitation of user models: the most plausible user model is the result of an abductive recognition process and incorporates assumptions about the user which are used to constrain the design by abduction of the best presentation. Probabilistic and cost-based Horn-abduction reasoning techniques are combined with an interaction paradigm we call scrutability, that permits users to critique the user model in pursuit of better present...

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016